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Gene93 Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

I am now settled/I have settled in ....

Hello,
Which sentence sounds better to you?
- I am now settled in Amsterdam.
- I have settled in Amsterdam. (assuming that the speaker moved to Amsterdam a few months ago).

I think they are different. The first is similar to "settle down". After a lot of moving around/traveling s/he finally settled in Amsterdam.
The second suggests to me that the speaker has lived there for a few month and s/he feels comfortable living in Amsterdam.

What do you think?
  

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Gene93 - I am now settled in Amsterdam. This suggests to me that the speaker has lived there for a few months and has their living arrangements sorted out.

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  • Gene93 - I am now settled in Amsterdam.
  • This suggests to me that the speaker has lived there for a few months and has their living arrangements sorted out.
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Gene93- I am now settled in Amsterdam.
This suggests to me that the speaker has lived there for a few months and has their living arrangements sorted out.
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So I assume it is different from "settle down" then. However, people settle down after moving around or after a lot of travelling, don't they? I don't want to say that it involves getting married. That would sound very old-fashioned and ways of life have changed a lot.
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Here are some different sentences with "settle down." Most are taken from fraze.it.

Often they get married, have some kids and settle down to raise their families.
When the winds settle down the fish will start to nibble at the bait.
At one point, the football players were attempting to settle down their furious coach.
We settle down at the table, 10 or 12 of us all together,
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