Comments on: Schiphol plane crash – news and green views http://louisebolotin.com/2009/02/25/schiphol-plane-crash/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: louise http://louisebolotin.com/2009/02/25/schiphol-plane-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-79 louise Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:00:45 +0000 http://louisebolotin.com/?p=57#comment-79 I lived just near to Hoofddorp for 7 years after quitting the capital. Unusually, my home was in a white spot that wasn't directly under a flight path but in summer the noise would increase a lot and you set a watch by the frequency of landings and take-offs!. The Bijlmer crash happened several years before I arrived in NL but was still very fresh in people's memories. By the time I took a job in the area, everything was long since rebuilt and the centre of the neighbourhood now has a huge and bustling shopping centre, surrounded by financial and tech companies plus the Arena stadium. Despite going so apparently upmarket, many of the residents are still poor immigrants dumped in run-down council housing. But I digress... Thanks for sharing your story! I lived just near to Hoofddorp for 7 years after quitting the capital. Unusually, my home was in a white spot that wasn’t directly under a flight path but in summer the noise would increase a lot and you set a watch by the frequency of landings and take-offs!.

The Bijlmer crash happened several years before I arrived in NL but was still very fresh in people’s memories. By the time I took a job in the area, everything was long since rebuilt and the centre of the neighbourhood now has a huge and bustling shopping centre, surrounded by financial and tech companies plus the Arena stadium. Despite going so apparently upmarket, many of the residents are still poor immigrants dumped in run-down council housing. But I digress…

Thanks for sharing your story!

]]> By: Kristine http://louisebolotin.com/2009/02/25/schiphol-plane-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-78 Kristine Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:18:19 +0000 http://louisebolotin.com/?p=57#comment-78 Good points. The crash was a bit of a shock, and I shared your worries re the commuter towns. When I lived in Amstelveen in 2000 - and I should perhaps say stayed as it was only for a couple of months - we used to lie in bed, or rather on the bedroom mattrasses on the floor, and watch thru the window as the airplanes soared towards the sky, we'd stare right up on the underbellies of the planes - a lovely sight though the noise that went with it was a bit of nuisance:-) And I heard many tales of the crasch in Bijlmermeer, think I might have done an article on the aftermath of that crash when I was at City as I stayed in Holland in the months leading up to joining City and commuted to Amstelveen for half a year before my then boyfriend joined me in London. Bijlmermeer is/was a strange place though - I felt rather insecure there, it felt like a country within a country when I visited. Good points. The crash was a bit of a shock, and I shared your worries re the commuter towns. When I lived in Amstelveen in 2000 – and I should perhaps say stayed as it was only for a couple of months – we used to lie in bed, or rather on the bedroom mattrasses on the floor, and watch thru the window as the airplanes soared towards the sky, we’d stare right up on the underbellies of the planes – a lovely sight though the noise that went with it was a bit of nuisance:-) And I heard many tales of the crasch in Bijlmermeer, think I might have done an article on the aftermath of that crash when I was at City as I stayed in Holland in the months leading up to joining City and commuted to Amstelveen for half a year before my then boyfriend joined me in London. Bijlmermeer is/was a strange place though – I felt rather insecure there, it felt like a country within a country when I visited.

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