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Rotterdam's two partly state-funded international schools have three buildings within 600 m of each other near Centraal, where 21 to 23% of households have children. The family neighbourhoods are in the north, around the private Nord Anglia school in Hillegersberg.

The Dutch rate their lives 7.6 out of 10, above the EU average, and unemployment is among the lowest in Europe. But prices are high and more people report crime nearby than in almost any other EU country. The official figures, measure by measure.

Leiden's two international schools are both primary schools, about 609 m apart in a student town where 19% of nearby households have children. Secondary schools and the family neighbourhoods are in Oegstgeest, Leiderdorp and Voorschoten.

Amsterdam registered 16.0 safety crimes per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 9.5 nationally. Yet about a third of Amsterdammers live in a neighbourhood below the national rate; the peaks are around the Leidseplein and the shopping centres.

Five of Amsterdam's six international schools sit in one strip across the south, but their surroundings differ: 3% houses around the British School, 66% around Amstelland in Amstelveen, and homes at half the price around the Zuidoost campus.

Prices in the Netherlands were about 20% above the EU average in 2025, but the US and the UK were about 19% and 6% more expensive again. Housing is the expensive part; groceries are cheaper than in Germany or Belgium.