I've been pretty satisfied with the Netherlands as an American who moved here a couple years ago from Texas. Especially local government, things get done on tim

I've been pretty satisfied with the Netherlands as an American who moved here a couple years ago from Texas. Especially local government, things get done on time, when they say they are going to. I filed my taxes super early (by Dutch standards) and got my finalized copies in a couple of months. New IDs take days to process if you're already in the system. In all my interactions with the government to immigrate, everything was on time and efficient. My only gripe is that you have to go to some larger cities for some services which requires travel or potentially taking time off, but that's not really a problem when your entire country is accessible by rail/car in less than 3 hours. And these are specific expat services, not every day stuff.