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A home of your own? Here’s how to start!

If you’ve decided to stay put in the Netherlands, you are probably starting to think about buying a home of your own. Here’s a list of nine things to consider before you take the plunge and become part of the home-owning community.

Tackling the dual-career spectrum – ACCESS Training Network

The signs are imperceptible. But we see them. The employment market and opportunities for internationals looking for jobs in the Netherlands is growing … imperceptibly perhaps, but we see the trend. Here at ACCESS, there is a slightly higher turnover in our volunteers. From within...

How the Netherlands Became My Home

I stood in the bay window of an empty ‘fully furnished’ apartment in Hillegersberg, Rotterdam, and looked out at a lake shaded by old pine trees. It was August 2010 and Rotterdam, wishing to make a favourable first impression, had arranged itself beautifully. The water...