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I live in the Netherlands, and I've never heard anything like that before. I live in The Hague, maybe it's a regional thing?

• sytse 8y ago
  I used to live in the Netherlands and I'm writing this from Utrecht. The valleys are regional: 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Valley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Valley in Wageningen 2. https://www.healthvalley.nl/ https://www.healthvalley.nl/ in Nijmegen 3. http://www.metalvalley.eu/nl/home http://www.metalvalley.eu/nl/home in Brabant 4. https://www.immunovalley.nl/ https://www.immunovalley.nl/ in Utrecht 5. https://legalvalleynederland.nl/ https://legalvalleynederland.nl/ in Arnhem 6. https://www.energyvalley.nl/ https://www.energyvalley.nl/ in the northern provinces If you like partying you can always go to: https://dancevalley.com/ https://dancevalley.com/
  • Aeolun 8y ago
    Coming back to the Netherlands from abroad it often feels like they’re pretty good at coming up with what I would consider fairly cringeworthy names.
    • skrebbel 8y ago
      Yep! I myself live and work in the area (Eindhoven) that willingly calls itself "Brainport". I hear the word almost daily for ten years and I still cringe.
  • skrebbel 8y ago
    The pattern is so overused that organizations that never even tried to amount to something adopted it. Eg I was once at an event organized by "DSP Valley", which was never more than someone behind a desk organizing a few (mediocre) networking events: https://www.hightechcampus.nl/bedrijven/dsp-valley https://www.hightechcampus.nl/bedrijven/dsp-valley.