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[RocRizzo55]

64. Hello Folks

Hi,
I moved to the Netherlands in March of 2019. I have retired from my NY civil service job and met my wife back in 2013, when she was in the US. I am now here on a visa that allows me to have a small business, but hope to get a family visa, as the business has not done well at all since COVID.
I haven't been on DU in a while, but decided to check in here.
The folks here in the Netherlands are good folks. I live in the college town of Wageningen, where the number one agricultural university in the world is. Because of this, there are more nationalities of people here than there are in The Hague. It is quite interesting.
I have been trying to learn Dutch, but it is quite difficult, since about 90% of the people here also speak English. This makes it a bit difficult. I can read a good part of it, but speaking and hearing it is difficult. Whenever I respond to folks in Dutch, they answer back in English! The language is not too hard to read. It's something between German and English, with a lot of compound words. It keeps me busy.
It's a good place to be for me at this point in my life. I hope that I can stay here.