I just thought the Dutch would welcome an educated person who could contribute to society. Did I mention her boyfriend is Dutch, but they will live in Sweden? In the colder weather they will stay with the boyfriends parents in the Netherlands.
I’ll assume you’re being factious. That’s sorta like saying that you can take an English word, add an “o” and voila, you speak Spanish. Besides, even if you get the word right (after mashing the 4 English words together to get the word in Dutch), the word order will kill you. 
While there are plenty of Dutch hotties, Tim Cahill is Australian.
FM…this has nothing to do with your daughter’s level of education…at all.
If your daughter wanted her boyfriend to come here…he would have similar issues. And it wouldn’t matter if he were an Oxford grad. The INS, and the immigration guidelines are the same for folks from prestigious universities as for those who never graduated from High School.
Bet it’s the same in Sweden and the Netherlands.
I feel like I tripped over something and am missing some parts of my brain. Weren’t we talking about the custom of registering for gifts??
But you have to agree that it was one of the most impressive thread redirects in the history of CC.
And the redirect was actually done by the OP!
“I just thought the Dutch would welcome an educated person who could contribute to society.”
As opposed to, what, a state school grad or something?
They have universities over there, you know. It’s not like the Dutch are sitting there going “OMG, a Harvard grad! We’d better get our hands on that, pronto! We have nothing like that over here in Europe!”
Also, not every Harvard/elite college graduate is a net positive contributor to society.
Ted Kaczynski is just one of 9 following examples:
http://contests.thephoenix.com/student-survival-guide/criminals-who-went-to-harvard
They would probably be more interested in someone’s degree (profession) than where they went to university.
@skieurope You are correct. Meant to attach a Van Persie photo. The tats should have been a giveaway.
Wow. How did we go from pressure cookers to the Unabomber?
“I never had to learn Dutch. But what is the big deal? You just take an English word, add the letter “j” in couple of places, et voila…”
I’ll assume you’re being facetious"
Yes, that would be a better assumption than assuming the poster was deadly serious.
Let your daughter and her bf figure out the registry and the residency.
My daughter had a long thread sometime back, and many people remember her, as well as my Prison Son, who had a lot of iinterest then. He seems to be staying out of trouble, but as he is across the country, we don’t see each other as much as I would like.
I think HEMA is a big department store in the Netherlands.
I never had to learn Dutch. But what is the big deal? You just take an English word, add the letter “j” in couple of places, et voila… daughter loved that. What I find tricky are all the words with “oomlauts” or the double dot letters.
As long as we are bouncing around on topics, why are the Dutch fascinated with poop? I wanted to buy a book called, something like" Who Pooped on My Head? " A book for young children. A dog poops on a mole’s head, and the mole goes to many different animals saying," Did you poop on my head?" Americans don’t really talk about poop. Yes, I saw the Japanese book, “Everybody Poops”.