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Where would they go? Germany? They don't give any tax breaks for migrant workers there. Actually nobody else in the EU does, it's only a Netherlands feature. Switzerland? It's even more difficult to get work visas there. US? Same and you need to pay even higher wages. Belgium? UK? Luxemburg?

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From reporting in Dutch newspapers the government thinks ASML might be considering France.

Dubai, Israel, Singapore. Why do you think only Europe can do this?

Companies are made of people and people have lives.

Yeah not everyone from Netherlands will find Dubai or Israel enticing. No offense to those living in those places.

aren't salaries in all these higher on avg for tech workers compared to NL/EU in general? Imo in this case more likely Spain which is much friendlier with immigrant visas now

Spain does it, Portugal does it. Sweden does it.

Does what?

Canada, our government's happy to have companies bring in underpaid foreign labour instead of hiring locals. Sad that hasn't really gotten is anywhere in terms of attracting business investment.

I think maybe we should see through the corporate nonsense and stop pandering to these companies and their demands. There's more to being investment friendly than just offering low taxes and a surplus of cheap foreign labour.

canada still mostly pays higher than eu

Are you serious - if that's the case EU is in serious trouble

Col in canada is higher too, weather usually worse, car dependency, so it's not like you'll live much better as a person, it depends on priorities. I was referring more to the fact that it's more expensive for a company to hire there while not getting benefits out of it. You can hire for much cheaper very good devs in poland/romania/spain/italy and somewhat cheaper in western countries like nl, de, fr, dk, norway, etc

The US pays around 5x NL and has lower taxes

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