| > Once you are financially secure, living in Germany makes no sense.
> How so? A personal preference. The quality of life is not high, considering the bureaucratic hurdles you have to overcome on a daily basis - dealing with any Amt/Behörde(agency), Schools, Kindergarten, etc. And on top of that - you get penalized for working hard. There is this Goldschnitt situation(golden edge, breaking point), where the taxes get way too high and makes no sense to work above that level. > They are going to have to be extraordinarily shitty to be worse than what I have already in the UK. I spent a couple of years in the UK and the services in Germany are way worse. Banks are better in the UK, transportation is better in the UK, at least in major cities(options where you don't have to rely on your car), doing business is easier and cheaper in the UK. Maybe if we compare the NHS vs the german health system, Germany has a slight advantage, at least when it comes to waiting times. > the insane apartment situation in any major city Here again - bureaucracy and the car lobby, which gets in the way of any sort of public transport development/investment. So there is space, but people have to bundle around the well connected spots. For example: East Berlin is vast and empty, no transport connections developed for 30 years - only tram and the occasional buses. > Shitty weather
> To me, constant heat and sunshine is shitty weather. I prefer a temperate/boreal climate. I find it far more pleasant. It is 50/50 - I would not want to be in Spain in June, July, August and I don't want to be in Germany in January, February, March |