Originally Posted by pornlaw

As Tasty1 said, Holland is fucked. There's a huge housing shortage. But if you are in the upper echelon of rent, it gets a lot easier... sometimes.

I looked at an apartment in the center of Amsterdam. The owner who I met personally, wanted a years rent in advance... almost 45.000 euros because I was an expat... and then she Googled me and decided not to rent to me - obviously because of the porn background.

Yet, when I met her she couldnt stop bragging about how she could trace her ancestors back to the VOC 400 years ago. She was bragging about her ancestors being slave traders...WTF

But I ended up finding a place in the center of The Hague very easily through an introduction to the agent by a mutual friend. We even talked about porn and he couldn't care less...

Now I am trying to rent a 2nd apartment in Southern Italy as a summer get away place... 550 a month for 1300 sq feet with a huge balcony and views of the ocean and Mt Vesuvius...

But the agent won't rent to me because I'm not an Italian citizen and according to her in order to get utilities I need to be an Italian citizen... lol

Im just going to offer to pay a year in advance and see how she reacts...