Amsterdam: the city of perfection?

I moved to Amsterdam last summer, a few months ago, to pursue my first bachelor’s degree in Communication Science, faculty that — as you may know — in Italy is much undervalued (as in many other south-European states). This seems not to occur in the Netherlands, where big marketing and communication companies are currently based, thus giving prestige to this University course, which is now ranked 1st in the World (2023). I’m originally from Germany but we can say that I almost entirely grew up in Italy, in a small city in Piedmont known as the “Nutella city”, where the famous hazelnut cream was originally born and made. In Amsterdam, I was taken aback by how the people and their mentality were so different from what I was used to. The variety of ethnicities is huger, and the opportunities are more. What astonished me, more than everything else, is the existence, in the Dutch city’s life routine, of several combinations of aspects that I would have never expected in an Italian city. I’ll explain. <a href="https://medium.com/@pavesi.giulio/amsterdam-the-city-of-perfection-9e099a07980f">Read More</a>