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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Considering that the Dutch were below average before the second world war, I think your hypothesis is wrong. I think they were just compensating for being tiny during that time.

    On a more serious note, I just think the Dutch had zero scruples (inventors of modern capitalism and all).

    They just didn’t care how many people they screwed over aslong as they could get one more Gulden in their pocket.



  • Not that is nescessarily a problem if you know what you are getting into and willing too make the sacrifices to own such building.

    I just hear about a lot of people that buy a 17th or 18th century farm or house for example and find out the are not even allowed to change to double pane glass because of it’s classification as monument.


  • The reason they are “cheap” to buy is all the maintenance cost indeed.

    But not only that, they are also under what we call monumenten zorg in the netherlands, basically making it near impossible to make any big changes to the building. So for example you are not replace the original windows for ones with double glazing.

    Owning a castle or any really old building in Europe sound more appealing than it really is.