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by elevanation 1476 days ago
Bavaria, for the following reasons, IMHO:

1. Family in a quality German rural setting: Over the long term, healthy and functional family relationships are meaningful source of fulfillment, and make everything else in your life just a little bit easier. In combination with the quality rural life in many areas of Germany, it is a healthy foundation for friends, family, and children.

2. A geographically independent career: Depending on your career choices, and if money is a priority for you, you can make great money while being geographically independent. There are many different ways to accomplish this depending on how much time/effort you wish you invest, and which options you would consider.

3. Quality of life: While I am generalizing here, IMHO, the quality of friendships, family, and social connections is better in Bavaria than California. Of course this depends on your exact situation, which street you are living on, where your family & friends live, the social infrastructure of the town, etc etc.

4. Better health and safety in Bavaria: as can be found in public statistics.

5. Social development for children in Germany: For the most part, I find the quality of the social upbringing and education system in Bavaria better than California (again, generalizing, as there are bad and good patches anywhere). Speak with a few high school graduates from California and from Bavaria, and note your observations. For example I observe: How mature are they as young adults? How well-adjusted are they? How grounded do they seem?

Background: I am a career mentor with long-term US and German experience.

1 comments

You forgot that Bavaria has still a travel warning advisory, due to incompatibilities with the German constitution and their police ordonances.

https://www.lawblog.de/archives/2017/07/20/bayern-endloshaft...

Rather move to one of the democratic german states, where the police cannot put you into prison forever, without trial.

Not trying to justify that law (and I'm not a fan of the Bavarian "one-party-state" either), but I want to mention that "the police" can't put you into prison forever - they need to get it reapproved every three months by a judge. Plus, if you're the kind of person this law targets (a suspected terrorist), you would be well advised not to move to the US either...
The persons affected by the law so far are normal citizens, certainly not terrorists.