15 Ways To Tell You’re Living in Amsterdam, Not Missouri.

1. Your dryer is broken, so the landlord orders a new one…..from Italy.
2. To do laundry, you load your clothes into reusable bags from the grocery store, strap them to your bicycle, and ride several blocks to a laundromat.
3. Finding a good taco means taking a 45 minute journey to the other side of the city.
4. Your internet is way faster, and much cheaper.
5. Topless women on TV or the F word on billboards no longer shocks you.
6. Your cable subscription includes Playboy TV as part of the “basic package”.
7. In order to buy Stove Top Stuffing, you take a bus, then a tram, and then walk another few blocks to find a tiny store where “rumor has it”, they carry it.
8. Said store also carries Trix and Fruit Loops Cereal…for 10 Euros each (about $13)
9. You know your bus stop, but can’t pronounce it (Cruquiusweg).
10. There are sail boats floating 20 feet from your apartment building front door.
11. There’s a local bar located inside a windmill…..wait, bad example.
12. You’ve only lived here 6 weeks, and say things like “Well, the problem is the tourists….”
13. Customer service is generally pretty good, unless you’re in a grocery store, where if the workers only look like they want to injure you as opposed to actively trying to injure you, you’re having a good day.
14. You see a Foot Locker and get excited because it’s a store you know.
15. It’s late September, and wearing 3 layers of clothing plus a jacket, while still being cold, is considered “normal.”