Gentle reminder that the Netherlands has lots of very smart software engineers that prefer to stay there, especially if there were more interesting software companies active there.
And that's before we even start talking about what kind of life that country and salary affords you, i.e. the thing that people actually care about, and not just materialistically but also culturally.
[1] https://thetax.nl/?income=85000&startFrom=Year&selectedYear=...
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>>that prefer to stay there
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>>Dubai an interesting alternative to Amsterdam.
The inherent problem with your last sentence is that Dubai is not in the Netherlands.