Asklemmy

I can't speak for the immigration, since I was too young to remember it, but I love the Netherlands and will probably never live anywhere else. I don't live in the Randstad (biggest cities in the South), so I can't speak for there.

Likely no better place on Earth to be queer than here. It's not perfect, but our rights against discrimination are protected in the first article of our Constitution. I don't yet have the courage to girlmode outside without multiple friends at my side, but I'm sure that I will get it further along in my transition. I have quite a few friends who do present outside and have never gotten too much shit for it, the worst I heard being staring and yelling about how confused that particular cis person was.

About the English part, you can definitely survive without being able to understand much Dutch, but you will often get stuck in awkward situation with the delivery man/handy man/supermarket employee trying to converse in cobbled together English, as the lower levels of education aren't taught it. University or white-collar job? You'll be just fine conversing with other people for whom English is just their second (or more) language. Only in the oldest groups can you still find Dutch people who just cannot speak English, as basically anywhere on the Internet that isn't explicitly Dutch is usually in English.

Hope this helped!