The Netherlands offers interesting career opportunities. The Netherlands is a liberal, internationally oriented, highly skilled country. The capital Amsterdam is well known for just that, but there are many other interesting cities such as Utrecht, Maastricht and Rotterdam.

The country is small with very easy access to all of Europe. It takes on average 5 hours to Paris, 4 to London, 2 to Belgium and Germany. Sailing, surfing, mountain biking, cycling and soccer are popular sports. There are lots of interesting cities, places to go out as well as museums.

For more background information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands

Many large organizations (such as KPN, KLM, ING, and ABN AMRO/Fortis) have their head quarter here from where most software development is done. There is an active IT and Java community as well. Dutch companies are using state of the art technology and have adopted open source for a quite some time now.

The Netherlands have a very low unemployment rate and there is a continuous demand for skilled IT personnel.