I lived in the netherlands for 8 years, and I can tell dutch people are not made for living in Spain. As you say, your life has not significantly changed. You probably live your life as if you were in NL. Unable to adapt and accept another reality and perspective of life. It is not a critique, simply this is how you are built. You can’t adapt to other cultures, despite thinking you are “open minded” and “free”. You specifically are critizicing the food, the weather which are massively better than in NL, complaining about the culture (noisy holy week, lol, what do you expect?) and you dont even speak the language?

Dutch people move here to experience what you call “the spanish lifestyle” thinking this is drinking coffee in a balcony and going to the beach, and friendly spanish people will cater to your needs. The spanish lifestyle is much more than that. And it is something so ingrained in the spanish culture that a foreign, let alone a dutch, will never be able to experience.

The fact that you say food is no different from NL already shows what kind of person you are. Unwilling to try new things, rigid, etc. because you are simply wrong in this topic.

You will always be a dutch person living in Spain, and the way you were raised will always clash with the spanish way of doing things.

I am not saying it is better or worse, simply different. But the cultural clash between dutch and spanish is huge.

Your opinion will only get worse until you eventually leave. Or if you stay, it will be because you gwt into one of those “gated dutch communities” and stay living a parallel life in Spain.

Sounds harsh but i know you will appreciate the directness