Why you shouldn’t romanticise your perfect dutch home in Amsterdam

By Augusta Arron, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands

As many know navigating the housing market as a student in Amsterdam right now is a little stressful to say the least. While everyone I know from Manchester has faced no problem with it at all, getting a place through UvA’s limited accommodation lottery system, I made a very silly mistake in the process which in sum left me basically homeless. In this blog I’ll run you through how this happened and offer some tips you don’t follow in my mindless footsteps.

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