@Gina
"The beaches are shit, the food is flavorless, everything looks the same. It's grey and bland every day"
The beaches aren't that bad, cook your own food and summers ar getting pretty hot:-) But the winter here is quite depressing!
Do you have the option of buying/renting a place in southern Europe? So you can spend the summers here in The Netherlands and move there in the winter?
Also so the cats don't have to move too much as they don't like that in my exper