I live nearby Rotterdam, its something like 80 kilometers to Amsterdam. With the train it takes around one hour, and with the car something like 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Yes , although if I want to go from here to Groningen ( In the North) I think it takes almost 3 hours. But I dont need to go there so everything were I want to go is about 1,2 hours away. Its one of the positive points of living in a small country.
Yeah, it's lovely where I live on the west coast in the summer. And there are some amazing mountains up north, you can find many different landscapes here.
I think that I could take pictures that many on this forum would consider amazing by just taking my camera and walk 500 metres down to the sea. The archipelago is quite nice