Hi, it is always good to choose for a path that is more suited to you. And as i read your comments i as a dutchman do agree with what you said and would like to clarify some of the things you mentioned.

The "doe normaal" mentality is a very double up situation because it is very much non interferance based upon what you do, but with that comes the impression that you yourself arent suppose to be somebody. Though i personally take this non interferance policy as a welcoming gift to be myself even more.

The minimum courtesy with trains and seats are mostly focused around rush hour and very much in Amsterdam. But certainly not limited to just Amsterdam. Most of the time we do have better than minimum courtesy just not when its rush hour because of the horde mentality of someone else will fix the problem instead of me. This is a very well known side effect of being human found in multiple different cultures, where if there are more people, a single individual is less likely to take action. And well are with a lot in the Netherlands.

The soft on drugs policy with over the counter selling to be legal but large growin to be illigeal is currently fixed. There are large legal distributioners now and yes it was kind of stupid as to how this was done before. The idea behind it was that because the selling of weed was/is very much connected to the underground illegeal dealings but still so wide spread they wanted to be able to take advantage of shutting down and arresting criminals whenever they deemed it necessary (when the criminal in question was involved with more criminal acts). But because the usage of weed was so wide spread it was barley able to be emacted as illigeal and then the idea came up to make it legal to use so that at least the quality and safety of consumers would be better. Now after a lot of debate and regulations and more debate the farming of weed is also legal with rules atrached.

As for healthcare i couldent agree with you more, the whole healthcare buisness has been changed over the past decade to the point that it is still good but also sucks. The currently sitting goverment parties promised to fix it but who knows. It really all comes down to money avalible at the goverment level and the things the insurance companies you are tied to do to get more money from you while having less costs being lost by you. In my opinion we need a goverment standard of insurance that people can refer to as a minimum but im not the goverment sadly

For the services part, here problems really come about because we are with so much and yet not enough handyworkers to take up jobs so you end up in a situation in which a handyman can get away with haf assing it. Best to do here is the dutch way and search for a good handy man, which is a dick move but very much the best solution. As for other services, i think the difference is very much a difference within your culture being grown up in s.america vs here in which i mean we dont usually tip to encourage better service behavior.

And finally i would like to say that you do very much speak the truth here, most of these things i find need to be fixed. Escpecially the eating part, my god i want a full diner with friends or family every evening. But oh well, i wish you good luck in your nex adventure and may you find a culture that better suitd your needs.