I don't want to sound like I wish to keep the meeting in NL because that's where I live, but I find many of these suggestions a little bit silly. I've been holding off posting since this all just seemed...odd, and it discouraged me from wishing to reply, but I can't help myself now.

To get a meeting working, it needs to be feasible, and it is useful to have people in the know that live nearby the meeting location. This is how US meetings are done. They are planned in a somewhat central place accessible to everyone, and local people help with organising, arranging hotels, etc. To suggest that the meeting should be in a place and country that nobody knows or where nobody just seems to make the idea of a meeting occurring more unlikely. Not everyone is rich either, so organising a meeting in some far-away country where nobody lives might be a cool idea, but it will only make the meeting not work.

Additionally, the thought that after having been there for one time you "know" a country and it is boring is odd. As is that organising the meeting in your home country makes it feel like showing people your home city. I've been involved in organising five meetings in the Netherlands, and I've never felt like I was showing anyone my home city. There is mor than one city in a country. Only meeting Link was sort of like it, but it still felt new to me to visit some places.

Brussels sounds at least somewhat more sane than some other suggested locations, since it's not insanely non-central and would have some likelyhood of working, unlike countries like Italy.