[amelekhin]

Living in Bavaria I wonder what kinds of cuisine you can’t find here or how exactly the weather is treating you bad, given that the summer is long and warm and the winter is calm and mild.

> You don’t come here because it’s easy

Well, I can’t name another EU country with 5 (soon to be 3) years from entry to citizenship.

Also, this notorious bureaucracy - how often do you usually encounter it? In the period between applying for a Blue Card to changing a job I did it precisely 0 times. And it took me 2 days to switch jobs and pick up a new Zusatzblatt from Ausländerbehörde afterwards.

[nicbou]

Every 3 years when I need to justify my right to live here. For the freelance visa this means a lot of preparation, and a fight for nonexistent appointments so that I can fire my documents into the void.

I earn a living from documenting German bureaucracy and helping immigrants to settle here, so I have a right to be sour.

It's a lot worse for employees because switching jobs involves a 3-5 month bureaucratic lag during which they don't know what will happen to their family. You might be dealing with a much faster immigration office.