Getting Settled
Claude Cowork Is a Game Changer for Expats
How an AI assistant that can see your browser and read your email turned Dutch freelance onboarding, contract review and buying a houseboat from a slog into a Saturday afternoon.
Lohfam
Getting Around
Driving in the Netherlands: What We Learned (So You Don't Have To)
Renting, insuring, buying, and parking a car in the Netherlands as an American, plus the 185-day license clock and what the Dutch driving test is really like.
Getting Around
Cycling in the Netherlands: The Biggest Lifestyle Upgrade for Our Family
Trading car-dependent US suburbia for Dutch bike lanes changed how our family lives—the bikes we bought and how we chose them.
Visas & DAFT
We did it! (And so can you)
How our family of four (plus a Leonberger) moved from the SF Bay Area to the Netherlands in five months—full timeline and the services we used.
Making the Decision
Our decision to "Go Dutch"
Why our Bay Area family of four chose to leave the US for the Netherlands—the pushes, the pulls, and how we made the call.