Amsterdam does not want you drive cars, they make been making it more expensive to have a car on purpose. Makes for a better city to live in. As for the take home pay, you are missing out a lot. Biking in amsterdam is usually the fastest way and its overall way healthier for you long term. But here are some other points:

• Usually around 21-25 days of vacation, you generally get 8% on top of your gross salary in May as your vacation pay.
• You will never get into medical debt like you can in the US. There is a mandatory insurance, but you are looking at like 125euro a month / 135 with dental
• If you have kids their university will be significantly cheaper while producing strong students.
• being multi-lingual gets you jobs for dutch companies, sure, but there are a lot of multi national companies here hiring like all the time. I’ve also worked for dutch companies without speaking dutch.
• if you are recruited into the NL there is the 30% ruling which is significant to increase your take home for 5 years. -while taxes are higher than in the states you will find that things generally work and arent crumbling, like 4 clicks to do your taxes (5 minutes of your life)
• dutch workplace directness is great once you understand it.

There is 1.5 bikes per person in NL versus the 0.3 in the states. Don’t you worry about it, because i got a sneaking suspicion you aren’t dutch.