Would you mind telling us what kind of skills/ experience allow you to find a job in NL without citizenship/PR? Where do you get your bachelor’s degree? STEM field?
Some background about myself: I’m graduating this year with BEng degree (not CS) from a HK uni, have been seriously considering studying masters in Germany and learning German (a long way to go in reaching B2-C1

). It seems NL is a good place for tech guy to go too, found some great schools near Delft & Eindhoven. So comparing NL with Germany I’m not sure which is better
Some pros/cons I can think of:
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Good

:
-Basically Free tuition if you can reach german proficiency, a few english program also free/low cost
- More good tech Unis and programs
- Larger, multi-faceted economy (hence jobs, I guess)
- Lower living cost
Bad

:
- Your life will be very hard without conversational German (B2-C1)
- long neutralisation process to get PR/citizenship
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Good

:
- Dutch speed very good english, can live and find jobs more easily without speaking dutch
- Liberal people, good government (recent years, compared to german’s merkel govt.

)
- Shorter time to get PR/citizenship
Bad

:
- Paid tuition, much more expensive for non-EU students
- Smaller economy, inclined to a few sectors like semiconductors
- Relatively high cost of living
I’m planning to go next year, any suggestions and comments are highly appreciated. Thanks!
