Oh, and for anyone considering it: the dutch have a special tax break for foreign skill: you get a tax credit worth 50% of your pay. So if you earn 4k EUR / mo

Oh, and for anyone considering it: the dutch have a special tax break for foreign skill: you get a tax credit worth 50% of your pay. So if you earn 4k EUR / month you will actually pocket 4k after tax. Compared to a dutch native who pockets ~2.5k. You can rent a nice place in or close to Amsterdam for 1.5k / month. Your employer must arrange this (mine refused too so I never benefited from this) and then it lasts for ~5 years. It's a nice place to live (lots of pretty girls for the guys, lots of tall blond guys for the girls). People in the Valley could probably walk into Uber or Message Bird and get a job in Amsterdam for a few years, they both have a big presence there (and work on interesting problems, I guess).