Despite the diversity, the best thing about Velsen-Noord is a…
In Velsen-Noord there is resistance to the arrival of an accommodation building with 96 double rooms for foreign employees. A private investor has decided to place this property on the Grote Hout business park in the scarce piece of greenery that is left in Velsen-Noord.
Both Wijkplatform Velsen-Noord and the Velsen city council are not involved in the plans. Plans that were reported to the municipality last December, but contained only last week, the municipal council announced that it was sympathetic to them. It is logical that the above developments continue in my native village. But according to the newspaper article, a Facebook reaction to this plan is the question of ‘we are indeed Velsen’s drain’. Even wait. I think you should turn it around. What would Velsen be without Velsen-North? I think Velsen would have a lot fewer nationalities then. The surfing beach of the Netherlands would not be in Velsen. After all, the beach at the Noordpier is the Velsen-North beach area. And many factories of Tata Steel IJmuiden will have to find a new location, because they are now located in the factory village. We are not a drain; we are the steel port where employment flows in. And yes, that also attracts migrant workers. And indeed, dumping chicken in Velsen-Noord is an easy solution. So resistance and resistance are justified. But find yourself pathetic? We’ve never done that. The best thing about Velsen-Noord is that, despite the diversity of culture, everyone speaks the same language of hard work. It’s just about the fact that a concentration of people with the same background in one pen carries out risks. Especially if those are people who are purely here to get and not to kill. Which you must exist near. Two of my closest comrades live within three hundred yards of where this ‘Poland Hotel’ is supposed to be. A Dutchman and a Pole. Migrant workers who may come to live near them may squeeze their hands if they can say neighbor to them. In fact; where do I register?
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