10-16-2025, 02:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-16-2025, 02:54 PM by danbrotherston.)
(10-16-2025, 02:08 PM)bravado Wrote: It seems like a lot of our problems come from the fact that it’s politically valuable to hide the subsidies that people get when those people are electorally powerful. If people had the truth about the actual costs of housing and transportation types, we might make different choices in the macro.
Ironically our current city of residence, Amersfoort is having a full on tantrum about the fact the municipal government has started charging for parking permits city wide (most people don't have parking on their property, and rely on street parking).
Or I should say, they were having that tantrum, but now everyone is freaking out that there is a new asylum centre planned...and also being utterly shocked and surprised that there are already two in the city that nobody knew about because it's not a big deal.
Netherlands cities are very different, but the people are the same. People here ask about culture shock and I'm like...uhh...didn't really notice any.