I live in Antwerp, Belgium's second largest city. There are basically only three cities worthy of the name in Belgium. Antwerp kind of hits the sweet spot betw

I live in Antwerp, Belgium's second largest city. There are basically only three cities worthy of the name in Belgium. Antwerp kind of hits the sweet spot between big enough to have everything you need, and yet small enough to be liveable. There isn't much in the way of a tech scene. The Belgian tax man makes startups pretty much non-starters. Wages are taxed to death, so there isn't much in the way of competition for engineers. The vast majority of software engineers are working for the government in one way or another (Belgium has so many governments that this isn't an exaggeration). As for how I decided where to live: I didn't consciously do so. I basically looked for jobs, found one over here, and moved here.