How are Dutch people generally? Can I move to the Netherlands without being worried about the mentality?

Dutch people can be perceived as rude, but we generally aren't. We are direct, which is what people consider rude. Ask us our opinion and we will give a fair one.

Across the world the Dutch are known as one of the most tolerant people in the world. But we have limits, we dislike (not 'hate') immigrants that don't make an effort to fit in. People that come here and expect us to learn THEIR language, accept their customs without them accepting ours and make exceptions to our law for them are what irks us. We try, trust me have classes and schools and special things and whatnot, but some people are very vocal in their dislike of such people (Geert Wilders being a well known one).

But we won't just walk up to you and say 'go home'. If you try you'll find that everyone is very tolerant and open minded and will try their best to make you at ease. Making a friend is easy, even if you only speak English because we tend to flock to those people to 'show off' our own epic language skills.

The person saying that Dutch people are cold and not easygoing is making things up. I don't know which part of Rotterdam he visited but it wasn't the parts I've ever seen and I live near Rotterdam. People don't just walk up to you to sell you drugs on every corner of the street. And the whole 'no one on the street after 6' is untrue as well. 6 'o clock is merely the average time a Dutch family eats dinner, but that's all, you can see enough people on the street in the evening.

Jeroen Wijnands is right though, jobs are hard to find for uneducated foreigners. Depending on your education and language skills (some jobs won't mind you only speaking English) you'll have either an easy or a hard time finding one.

And my opinion, being Dutch myself, on you coming to 'my' country to work? Go ahead, working is good. Anyone that comes here to work is welcome and will be integrated quite decently, it are the people coming here for free houses and mooch off of our tax money that are (in my opinion) not always welcome. So, in my opinion, get a moving truck and settle in.

I hope this clears some things up.

Dutch Mentality

It depends on you..but Dutch people are generally very cold and not easy going..So it's not very easy for a foreigner first days to interact with dutch people..In Holland,just like usa,the people are from a lot of different cultures and countries like Chinese,Indonesian,Surinamese and Turkish and also Arab and Berberi Moroccans..So I mean those are mostly immgrants who are not very well loved by the indigenous dutch people..When I said they arent generally friendly I mean white poeple but when it comes to immigrants they are more friendly and easy going and as I experienced in Rotterdam and Amsterdam,,especially arabs ask you to give them some money or offer you to buy some illegal drugs like ecstacy or stuff like that...And If you speak english to them ,sure they would understand you because most of them speak it as well but they also realize you are a foreigner and that they act cold to you..They will like you more probably if you speak dutch and thus integrate into their society but in general dutch people are not very open--minded and they do simple and random things on a day,and at after like 6 pm you cant even see anybody on the street..I mean they live a simple and even a boring life..

Dutch are direct which can be interpreted as rude.

Theres hardly any jobs here at the moment, especially for poorly educated foreigners who don't speak the language (not saying you are that but we do get a lot of them here)

Like any other group Nederlanders are a varied lot.Try acting in a mature civil educated manner and odds are that You will be pleasantly surprised.Being French -German You will have totally no problem adjusting.Just don't act superior or fussy and your stay in Our country will be a totally pleasurable experience.Simply treat Us the way You would like Us to treat You .We have great Beer Food and Women what else do You need?