Sorry about the ramble:
My work is doing a mega reorganisation, joining with another major company, then splitting up into three other companies next year. Seems a lot of fuss and bother to me.
One off shoot of this they have decided that the Supply Chain in the "new company" I will be part of needs to be based in Terneuzen, which as many people in our company say is 'the arse end of Holland".
I have visited there quite a few times, and I am VERY underwhelmed at the prospect.
However looking at the map, Google etc, it should be more interesting than I have seen away from huge container ships and chemical plants.
Loads of water, sea, windswept beaches etc.
Most of the chat I have seen on here has been in more interesting locations like Amsterdam; but has anyone had experience of this area at all to live?
In my memory all I see are chemical works and massive tankers and container ships, and massive traffic jams getting around Antwerp to reach TNZ; but when I see those maps , there are a lot of camping places, tourist places, so something must be good there, please say something is good around there?
All the sites of NL expats living there are all of life oop north.
Back up option is to say "No" and hope the famed French worker protection, gives a very good severance package. But this is happening maybe a couple of years too early.
Possible positive points:
1. The sea - Strasbourg is far as possible away from the sea.
2. Close to getting over to the UK by ferry
3. Close to cities I like, like Bruges, Ghent, Rotterdam
4. A change is a good as a rest etc - getting a bit restless around the Alsace
5. Close to Belgium to watch some cyclo cross, the cobbled classics etc
6. Cycling in theory - huge network etc - but so fucking flat - even with the invisible mountains (North Sea wind.)
7. I quite like the dutch.
ermm run out......
I won't list the negatives as I fear the list will be far longer
My work is doing a mega reorganisation, joining with another major company, then splitting up into three other companies next year. Seems a lot of fuss and bother to me.
One off shoot of this they have decided that the Supply Chain in the "new company" I will be part of needs to be based in Terneuzen, which as many people in our company say is 'the arse end of Holland".
I have visited there quite a few times, and I am VERY underwhelmed at the prospect.
However looking at the map, Google etc, it should be more interesting than I have seen away from huge container ships and chemical plants.
Loads of water, sea, windswept beaches etc.
Most of the chat I have seen on here has been in more interesting locations like Amsterdam; but has anyone had experience of this area at all to live?
In my memory all I see are chemical works and massive tankers and container ships, and massive traffic jams getting around Antwerp to reach TNZ; but when I see those maps , there are a lot of camping places, tourist places, so something must be good there, please say something is good around there?
All the sites of NL expats living there are all of life oop north.
Back up option is to say "No" and hope the famed French worker protection, gives a very good severance package. But this is happening maybe a couple of years too early.
Possible positive points:
1. The sea - Strasbourg is far as possible away from the sea.
2. Close to getting over to the UK by ferry
3. Close to cities I like, like Bruges, Ghent, Rotterdam
4. A change is a good as a rest etc - getting a bit restless around the Alsace
5. Close to Belgium to watch some cyclo cross, the cobbled classics etc
6. Cycling in theory - huge network etc - but so fucking flat - even with the invisible mountains (North Sea wind.)
7. I quite like the dutch.
ermm run out......
I won't list the negatives as I fear the list will be far longer
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