r/SipsTea • u/Pretty-Slik • 1d ago

Feels good man In the Netherlands, students live rent-free in a nursing home — they just have to spend 30 hours a month having tea with the residents

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u/CalligrapherFun7140 1d ago

I live in the Netherlands and have never heard of this...

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u/Ok-Astronaut2976 1d ago

It’s a common Reddit thing.

There may be one Nursing Home in the Netherlands that has a a unique in house program of some kind.
This is then presented as if it is a universal national institution throughout the nation.

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u/mammalmaker 1d ago

It literally states "a nursing home" in the title and makes no claim or normality.

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u/Ok-Astronaut2976 1d ago

Fair.

I’m kinda sleepy.

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u/Few_Move_4594 1d ago

It's probably something like social work majors too.

I'd have enjoyed it. Love old people and their lack of filters.

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u/MeridianNL 1d ago

I found this but I am not sure how real it is: https://www.studiekeuzelab.nl/kies/bente-helpt-in-zorgcentrum

Edit: It's project "De Woonstudent" with Humanitas Deventer.

https://kro-ncrv.nl/zin-in-morgen-studenten-wonen-tussen-ouderen

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u/Pitiful_Control 1d ago

There was one in Hilversum doing this. It was cheap but not free. One of my students took a room there but it turned out the home was bring closed so the organisation said they'd find other tasks for her to cover the lower rent. Turned out that a lot of that was doing stuff with a church they were affiliated with, which was not what she had signed up for.

I'm aware of students living in a nursing home in Haarlem as well. The home is being closed and they are basically similar to antikraakers, but in this case more keeping the building occupied while the residents are slowly moved out.

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u/AgentKenji8 1d ago

Humanitas Retirement home in Deventer Netherlands. Apparently. Please don't shoot the messenger. I'm just relaying what I found.

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u/CoconutCrabWithAids 1d ago

There's one in Rosmalen too.

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u/mediocrebastard 1d ago

Came here to say the same.

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u/Twannyman 1d ago

My sister did this in Enschede, so its not only Deventer from what I can tell.

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u/mammalmaker 1d ago

I mean it's one nursing home. Are you well versed on the policies of each nursing home in your country?

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u/CalligrapherFun7140 1d ago

Wel no ofcourse not but the post presents it like its a comon thing

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u/mammalmaker 1d ago

How does the post present it like it's a common thing? It says "a nursing home" in the title, not "nursing homes"

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u/CalligrapherFun7140 1d ago

Maybe i just interpreted it that way... you are right that it does not say this.

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u/162016201620 1d ago

Read it again.

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u/EngrishTeach 1d ago

Yes. They are American so they are all super expensive and terribly run.

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u/DermisCronJob 1d ago

Moet je vaker naar buiten gaan of onder de mensen zijn pik want dit bestaat al jaren en is zelfs populair aan het worden

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u/CalligrapherFun7140 1d ago

Dat jij nou al je tijd besteed in bejaardentehuizen betekent niet dat de rest van ons ook op bejaarden valt.

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u/TTT83 1d ago

😂😂😂

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u/luytengamma 1d ago

Everything I hear about the Netherlands are things I've never seen here lmao

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u/Filthiest_Tleilaxu 1d ago

AI news said it’s true so it must be.

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u/Justieflustie 1d ago

Neither have i. But i moved to another country last year

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u/RickityNL 1d ago

I have. It's mostly in Amsterdam

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u/CalligrapherFun7140 1d ago

I highly doubt that

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u/Chaprito 1d ago

Couldn't do this in the states. People would be jacking old people's meds

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u/Inoutngone 1d ago

I'm trying to imagine the U.S. kids from Reddit who spend a few hours reading and contributing to all the Boomers Suck! posts then going to have tea with those boomers.

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u/luytengamma 1d ago

I'd be jacking some of those ribbon candies

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u/Swimming_Put1506 1d ago

I read this totally wrong. Worth it.

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u/imaragingtransfemlez 1d ago

Probably better than jacking old people

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u/MeltedChocolateOk 19h ago

The people working at the nursing homes already jacking stuff from old people. Always something going missing.

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u/nostromo180286_ 1d ago

Backed up by AI picture.

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u/kapitankrunch 1d ago

AI slop pic to go with this post? definitely makes it more believable

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u/GrimPieter 1d ago

Apperantly, there is a nursing home in Deventer that has been doing this since 2012

There are just 5 students living there and they must spend a minimum of 30 hours per month engaging with the elderly. 

https://www.humanitasdeventer.nl/pages/woonstudenten

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u/Adventurous_Ant_5569 21h ago

Just having tea and chat only. No more than that, boys and girls.

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u/JustMyTwoCopper 20h ago

There's a nursing home with rooms to spare?

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u/ImprovementTrick9492 1d ago

Why don’t they tell you any details? Great idea, but which town? Which nursing home? Has this model really been successful? Who on earth can afford to pay for all these students to live for FREE in the facility?? Who pays for all their expenses, utilities food, taxes, liability insurance, etc…?!

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u/DublinLegend42 20h ago

Rent free does not mean paying insurances, food, taxes lmao. Where are you getting that

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u/ImprovementTrick9492 13h ago

I was just wondering. Someone else sent a link so that explains it better

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u/GeneralKosmosa 1d ago

AI garbage ffs

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u/chrixz333 1d ago

Brilliant if true

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u/LitterBoxServant 1d ago

This is the equivalent of spending 75% of your income on housing

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u/_Mando_88 1d ago

Literally sipping tea 🍵

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u/0utriderZero 1d ago

I like tea. But I’m at the other end of the table. Do I have to suffer the students?

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u/Sensitive-Club-6427 1d ago

What a great idea!

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u/sovietarmyfan 1d ago

Some student is gonna read this and think: "Wow! The netherlands is a great place to study! I'll go there!" Then they come here to find, this is not a common thing.

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u/PianoAdventurous7858 1d ago

It should be an organized programme in all EU states, awesome idea!

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u/doggierescue2021 1d ago

Wonderful idea

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u/kiritoonis 15h ago

I'd honestly rather work a part time job. 30hours is a lot especially while still "going to school/ uni".

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u/JiuJitsuBoxer 12h ago

Boomers eating their young #9284

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u/-Maiq_the_Iiar- 10h ago

I'd rather pay rent.

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u/mobileJay77 5h ago

I'll have to visit my mother in her home tomorrow. There is a certain smell... No, I am glad my student days are long gone this time.

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u/Low_Bullfrog1803 1d ago

Dutch guy here. Never heard of this. If this was a common thing, every single student would have done this and we wouldn't have the housing crisis

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u/F4113n54v102 1d ago

I’d live in a box I don’t i look like old ppl

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u/Panorabifle 1d ago

Great idea ! Now show a real picture , not ai slop

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u/ODTESP 1d ago

Thirty hours is a loooong time

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u/bluboomR 20h ago

an hour/day ffs

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u/External-Pace-1822 1d ago

This seems like a genuine good idea. Free might be a stretch but I bet they could do something for like reduced rates etc. Shared housing opportunity like this are already going to be cheaper.

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u/cpupro 1d ago

That's how old cheeks get clapped. Rent's due sonny...pulls out her teeth... Dude, I still have 29 more hours left after this...

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u/90_oi 1d ago

If this was tried in the U.S, you'd get ridiculed and made fun of nonstop by everyone who wasn't a part of it (which would be most people). Everybody would think it's weird and cringey over here

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u/Altruistic_Tea_1593 1d ago

Wait till their third world immigrant population explodes. They’ll use their social liberalism to destroy their social services.

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u/luytengamma 1d ago

It's funny you say ''till'' we're already there

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u/Kill_4209 1d ago

Not worth it

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u/ManuelTzetzes 1d ago

100% certain they'll have issues with "romances". 😂

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u/Puzzled_Pop_6845 1d ago

What I know about the Netherlands is that crappy integration experiment where students where forced to live in the same dorm with asylum seekers and they were scared of staying in public areas or being alone in corridors; especially women. The dutch government dismissed their concern and still hasn't moved the immigrants from the dorm.

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u/pocketdrums 1d ago

That's the only thing you know about the Netherlands? You should learn more.