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Hello Budapest

After living in different cities in different countries and experiencing different cultures and environments eventually I moved to Budapest in Hungary, after a long marathon managed to get a work permit and now can focus on my dream job. There are some reasons that I chose this city, One of them is I have family here and also I traveled here before a lot and fell in love with the city, and while I was in the Hague and during the pandemic and living in a tiny room in a small flat shared with other flatmates and staring at the monitor for long hours, and panicking to go out because the virus, I decided it is better to live close to family members. So I moved to Budapest and I met lovely people and I am enjoying it. By looking at my journey in the past two years, I started it individually with a blog and I named it rezgamedev, now it calls REZGAMEDEV KFT, KFT stands for LLC, and at the moment we are making some prototypes that will announce later, but for now we started a clothing campaig...

Banking experience in the Netherlands

Having a bank account is one of the essentials for wherever the world you are living and it is the same in the Netherlands, but opening a bank account in the Netherlands if you just arrived is not easy. Here is what I experienced: First, when you arrive in the Netherlands you have to know that if you are not in Amsterdam, most of the shops do not accept MasterCards and Visa Cards, They just accept V Pay or Maestro cards. So, you have to go to the ATM all the time and do shopping in cash, which is so inconvenient. The Netherlands has some banks the most common ones are ING and ABN Ambro and Rabobank. I use ING, and to be honest it is so inconvenient especially for online shopping. For online shopping, you have to use IDEAL which is a third-party app that makes it possible to shop with your bank account, and mostly online shops inside the Netherlands have that, so if you want to shop from a platform outside of the Holland you would have a problem because most of them ...