The good news is: no need to stick to expensive and crappy Dutch banks. Plenty of foreign options.
I've completed my transfer this year. I am waiting a few more months to close my Dutch bank account (with the parent company of ASN). Good riddance.
If Wero becomes the pan-european solution for online payments it is slated to become, then no European bank will be exempt from this. Given that as a European your government covers up to €100,000 placed at any European bank in case that bank goes tits-up, you are likely to end with a European bank in any case.
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What are you switching to?
you can't just open bank account in the country where you don't live