I'm from the Netherlands and can recommend you to settle down in Amsterdam. There are a lot of tech startups/companies located there which have more interesting

I'm from the Netherlands and can recommend you to settle down in Amsterdam. There are a lot of tech startups/companies located there which have more interesting jobs than the local consultancy branches of big international corporations. If you can't find interesting jobs in Amsterdam there are various cities within a very reasonable distance such as Utrecht (25 min by train). Some companies offer opportunities to work from home for 1 day a week. Personally I'm a little bit jealous on the tech communities of other countries. They tend to have more interesting jobs and companies than over here. Search on crunchbase for some of the startups in Holland. Else you will most likely end up in some consultancy job or web design agency, which is fine, but it has to be your thing. For linux sys admins Amsterdam is also perfect since the majority of big hosting companies in Europe have servers in some datacenter in Amsterdam. There are some ruby meetups around Amsterdam too as far as I'm aware, you might want to search for amsterdam-rb.