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‘I seem to be always reading about young people relocating to the Netherlands, but I feel like us over 60s are not around,’ a reader told DutchNews.nl earlier this year. ‘Does anyone relocate this late in life?’ we wondered, and decided to find out.
‘I feel like I’m a rare breed,’ Debbie Akkerdaas wrote in October. The 64-year-old moved to Zeeland from the US in 2014 to seek cancer treatment for her Dutch husband. She describes the Netherlands as ‘a very lovely country’ but still feels like an outsider here.
The couple, who run an American diner in the seaside resort of Domburg, meet plenty of tourists passing through, but Debbie is finding it hard to build connections with like-minded people. ‘Sometimes you just want somebody that is close to your own age that you can speak to,’ she says. ‘I just think: am I the only person who moved here when they’re older?’