Re: Should I move to Amsterdam?

2005-08-26 Thread Wouter van Ooijen (www.voti.nl)
True. Unless you have two proper locks. In that case your bike will last a very long time. Nope. You will probably retrieve your two locks from the fencing you attached them to (if you did!), with your bike gone. Wouter van Ooijen -- http://www.voti.nl

Re: Should I move to Amsterdam?

2005-08-26 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Wouter van Ooijen (www.voti.nl) enlightened us with: True. Unless you have two proper locks. In that case your bike will last a very long time. Nope. You will probably retrieve your two locks from the fencing you attached them to (if you did!), with your bike gone. That's not my experience,

Re: Should I move to Amsterdam?

2005-08-26 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Sybren Stuvel wrote: Martin P. Hellwig enlightened us with: Personal transportation sucks in the Netherlands, if you live in the Randstad (the area of the above mentioned cities) and you have to travel across the Randstad, you go with the bike and/or bus/tram/metro/train because that is the

Re: Should I move to Amsterdam?

2005-08-26 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Martin P. Hellwig enlightened us with: Yes it is, and it sucks too In Amsterdam, it's the best way to go. or do you find it amusing to ride 15 clicks through rain and wind to get to your clients? Makes a man out of you ;-) Of course, rain sucks, but as long as it's not raining too hard it's

Re: Should I move to Amsterdam?

2005-08-26 Thread Reinout van Schouwen
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Wade wrote: Nice little series by Seth Stevenson for Americans daydreaming about emigration. Somewhere, anywhere ... maybe Amsterdam? For a Python newsgroup, I'm surprised no one has mentioned yet that Guido van Rossum developed Python at the CWI in Amsterdam (called

Re: Should I move to Amsterdam?

2005-08-25 Thread Adriaan Renting
Thank you for your praise of my little country, but depending on your definition, the Netherlands might not be as civil as you assume. A lot of my foreign collegues commplain about how rude the dutch can be. Countries like sweden or japan seem to have much better manners. As to which countries

Re: Should I move to Amsterdam?

2005-08-25 Thread Paul Dale
But yes, the Netherlands is a highly civilised country - up there with Denmark and Canada, and above the UK, France or Germany, IMNERHO. I'm not going to bother comparing it to the US! How strange that you put Canada so high on your list. --

Re: Should I move to Amsterdam?

2005-08-25 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Martin P. Hellwig enlightened us with: Personal transportation sucks in the Netherlands, if you live in the Randstad (the area of the above mentioned cities) and you have to travel across the Randstad, you go with the bike and/or bus/tram/metro/train because that is the fastest way of

Re: Should I move to Amsterdam?

2005-08-25 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Adriaan Renting enlightened us with: A lot of my foreign collegues commplain about how rude the dutch can be. Countries like sweden or japan seem to have much better manners. I also think the Dutch aren't all that communicative. I was queueing in a store when they announced to have the new CD

Re: Should I move to Amsterdam?

2005-08-25 Thread Piet van Oostrum
Martin P. Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MPH) wrote: MPH Of course this is all done with public transport and/or bike, not without MPH reason. MPH Personal transportation sucks in the Netherlands, if you live in the MPH Randstad (the area of the above mentioned cities) and you have to travel MPH

Re: Should I move to Amsterdam?

2005-08-25 Thread dimitri pater
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be acapital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa Geef mij wat vloerbedekking onder deze vette zwevende sofa sorry, very off-topic,

Re: Should I move to Amsterdam?

2005-08-25 Thread Steve Holden
Sybren Stuvel wrote: Martin P. Hellwig enlightened us with: [...] On the way back, we used the ICE (intercity express) through Germany. It got delayed, so we missed our train to Amsterdam by 15 minutes. The delay was in Köln, because the pope paid a visit - well known to the Deutsche

Should I move to Amsterdam?

2005-08-24 Thread Wade
http://www.slate.com/id/2124561/entry/2124562/ Nice little series by Seth Stevenson for Americans daydreaming about emigration. Somewhere, anywhere ... maybe Amsterdam? I've never been to the Netherlands myself, but it sounds very civilized. Extra Python connection, besides the obvious one: Is

Re: Should I move to Amsterdam?

2005-08-24 Thread Adriaan Renting
Well, I'm not sure if Amsterdam is nice, but the Netherlands is o.k., except for the weather. I'd like to descripbe it as 49 weeks of autumn, 1 week of spring, 1 week of summer, 1 week of winter. Currently my employer only has an opening for a Microwave Antenna designer though, sorry no Python

Re: Should I move to Amsterdam?

2005-08-24 Thread Wouter van Ooijen (www.voti.nl)
Nice little series by Seth Stevenson for Americans daydreaming about emigration. Somewhere, anywhere ... maybe Amsterdam? I've never been to the Netherlands myself, but it sounds very civilized. It used to be, until some lunatic (alledged to be a left-winger) killed an (alledged right-wing)

Re: Should I move to Amsterdam?

2005-08-24 Thread Armin Steinhoff
Adriaan Renting wrote: Well, I'm not sure if Amsterdam is nice, but the Netherlands is o.k., except for the weather. I'd like to descripbe it as 49 weeks of autumn, 1 week of spring, 1 week of summer, 1 week of winter. Currently my employer only has an opening for a Microwave Antenna

Re: Should I move to Amsterdam?

2005-08-24 Thread Tom Anderson
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Armin Steinhoff wrote: Adriaan Renting wrote: Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/24/05 2:31 pm http://www.slate.com/id/2124561/entry/2124562/ Nice little series by Seth Stevenson for Americans daydreaming about emigration. Somewhere, anywhere ... maybe Amsterdam? I've

Re: Should I move to Amsterdam?

2005-08-24 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Wade wrote: http://www.slate.com/id/2124561/entry/2124562/ Nice little series by Seth Stevenson for Americans daydreaming about emigration. Somewhere, anywhere ... maybe Amsterdam? I've never been to the Netherlands myself, but it sounds very civilized. Extra Python connection, besides