I’ve lived in San Diego and thought finding housing there was hard but it’s a cakewalk compared to the hell that is finding an apartment in Amsterdam. I’ve considered leaving the city at times because finding somewhere decent here that’s also affordable seems close to impossible.
Pay a maakelar to help you search. They cost about one months rent of where you get plus VAT but will help make things happen. I can refer the one we used, but either way we all searched together and she helped do the paperwork, set us up with utilities and rental insurance. For us, having kids and trying to search was almost impossible.
Would love the referral - pm me
Sure no problem. Funny thing is we moved from San Diego (oceanside ) to essentially Haarlem so similar paths.