@agturcz

I have a creative writing group I meet with every month that's 90% ex-pats and most of them didn't even realise I was Dutch (i.e. a local) until I'd been going there for two years.

Mostly because, for their benefit, I didn't switch from English even just to give my order to the (equally Dutch) waitstaff of the place where we meet.

So yeah, I'd say that's 100% accurate for the Netherlands.