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The problem in the Netherlands is the insane housing prices. I still live with my parents as a 26yo. I wanted to move to Amsterdam, but renting there is like 1500 euros for a decent appartment. How is that allowed? Salaries are like 25000-3000 net. So you have 1500 after paying your rent. Then there's utilities, mandatory insurance, taxes for throwing your garbage away (wtf?) and what not. So in the end you are left with maybe 500 euros actually disposable income.

It's garbage. Some 50 years ago you could buy pic related on a single income. Now, only millionaires can live there. The Dutch dream is dead. The country is decaying faster then ever. Politicians are just lying scumbags. We have 10 YEARS of "liberal" politics and they are still artificially keeping up housing shortage so all the boomers (which is the majority of the eligibile votes) see an increase in their housing price. We have a shortage of 300.000 homes.

THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND. And instead of JUIST BUILDING SHIT they impose laws "no you can't build there, too much CO2 will enter the atmosphere". Meanwhile, we (TAX PAYERS) are fucking bailing out KLM, aviation being the most polluting industry. A company which should have been BANKRUPT because they can't compete and people don't want to pay 500€ for a ticket they can get for 50€. Muh heritage. Muh jobs. Fuck off.

This country is doomed.