Looking on Airbnb but it is really expensive. Anyone have any other options or sites that Dutch people use? Need a place from May to July.
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Looking on Airbnb but it is really expensive. Anyone have any other options or sites that Dutch people use? Need a place from May to July.
Really, @levelsio? The second-most expensive city in Europe? Iโm curious as to where that data comes from. Maybe itโs because Iโm from a far more expensive city (Vancouver), but Iโll take Amsterdam prices over Oslo/Stockholm/Paris/Zurich/Geneva any day of the week 
Heโs sure right about housing, though, itโs not the easiest thing in the world to find something here because the housing stock is fairly limited (primarily driven by the large-but-dwindling proportion of very centrally located social and student housing properties and exponential levels of demand within the Ring [the A10 highway]). There are plenty of websites out there like HousingNet that target either reasonably-paid foreigners or their Dutch counterparts, but they tend to charge agent fees and usually arenโt for rental periods shorter than a year (itโs worth checking, though).
If youโre looking for something on the cheaper side, Iโd strongly recommend searching through the multitudes of Facebook groups on the subject if you canโt find any Airbnbโs to suit your needs. While lots of them are closed groups, they usually add new people pretty quickly. Some of the bigger groups that Iโve used and had success with in the past are:
If you want to get a quick sense of what property prices (which, in general, correspond with rent prices, but not always) are like in Amsterdam, the city government has a handy interactive map that shows these numbers for 2014. Thereโs a lot of neighbourhoods in that map that remain pretty affordable, especially in Amsterdam-Oost (more affordable neighbourhoods here include Indische Buurt, Watergraafsmeer, and the slightly-out-of-the-way Oostelijk Havengebied), Amsterdam-West (good neighbourhoods to look for here are De Baarsjes, Bos en Lommer, and Kolenkitbuurt), and Amsterdam-Noord (pretty much all of it, but youโd have to depend on the free 24-hour ferry between Amsterdam Centraal and the north).
If you want to live within a 20-minute train of Amsterdam, other options could be Haarlem, Amstelveen, Purmerend, or Diemen. Of those, though, only the first one is really any fun on its own.
Impossible 
Hereโs your options (Iโm from Amsterdam):
Why is locals cheaper? Well, Dutch are very insulated socially, so they have Dutch-speaking Facebook groups where they rent out places to others. They also like to sub rent houses โwithin friend groupsโ, e.g. when they go on a year of world travel. Itโs smart because renting to foreigners means more trouble to them (thatโs why expats are charged premium).
Amsterdam isnโt cheap anymore. Actually itโs next to London, the most expensive city in Europe. One of the most expensive in the world. Iโll be sub renting a 1-bedroom place from a friend for $1,250 and thatโs a pretty great deal. 6-people hostel dorms go for $60/night (!). Hotel rooms go for $200/night average.
The only people living in Amsterdam cheaply are the student kids whose wealthy parents bought a house for them or who got a mortgage themselves.
The only way to live cheap in Amsterdam is to live OUTSIDE Amsterdam, which means Amstelveen etc. And you donโt really wanna live there, trust me (although itโs GREAT compared to the rest of world, itโs boring af).
Why donโt you consider other cities? Rotterdam, Utrecht, Eindhoven are cheaper and also very interesting places.
Thanks for all the advice. If you need an idea for a new site or an addition to this site, I think there is a big niche for affordable short term furnished housing for digital nomads. Airbnb doesnโt really cater to it very well.
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