Chapter 6: Family and Friends
Chapter 6: Family and friends “We both love the Netherlands and want to build a career and start a family here” ‘The time you have together when you visit the family back home is just so much more valuable’
The decision to move away from your home country doesn’t just affect you, but your family – be they parents, siblings, spouses, children, extended family, or even friends who feel like family. Here is some insight on how moving to the Netherlands has changed some family dynamics, in happy and sometimes challenging ways.
How we feel – with partners My wife is terribly unhappy with the weird way things are handled. Too difficult, too brutal, too impolite towards foreigners. German-South African, three years in the Netherlands, aerospace industry
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