A data-driven tool to compare towns across the Netherlands (and beyond) with where you live in the United States, down to town-level granularity, powered by AI and smart caching.
When my family was weighing a move to the Netherlands, every "where should we live?" tool gave me the same useless answer. Amsterdam vs. Rotterdam vs. Utrecht. City-level averages. Fine if you're picking from a postcard. Useless if you're trying to decide between Haarlem and a town you've never heard of in Noord-Brabant.
I built Town Comparison because I wanted town-level answers. Not "the Netherlands is nice." How does this specific Dutch town compare to the suburb I live in now?
Most relocation sites stop at metro areas. Town Comparison goes smaller. Point it at a town in the Netherlands and a town in the United States (or elsewhere), and you get side-by-side data on the stuff you actually argue about at the kitchen table. Cost of living feel. Schools. Commute patterns. That vague "would we like it here?" question nobody admits they're Googling at midnight.
Under the hood it's AI plus aggressive caching. A full town comparison is expensive to generate from scratch every time, so we cache the heavy lifting and only regenerate when something actually changes.
You can compare towns side by side instead of cities on a map. You can build a moving checklist if you're past daydreaming and into "okay, what do we actually have to do?" And you can save your work with a code, come back later, or send the link to your spouse who is still skeptical.
I'm biased because I built it. It's also the tool I wished existed when we were doing this research ourselves.