[Baguette5242]

You mustn’t have moved from an EU country to another. Being an EU citizen, I drank the cool-aid about the freedom of move and work in any EU country, but the reality being that there are so many cultural, linguistic, administrative, legislative (and other) differences between a country to another that the overall experience is painful and except for very high incentives (big salary increase) the experience is not great.

I struggled less to relocate from France to China than I did to relocate from France to Germany.

Like everything in Europe, on paper it’s good, in reality, it’s often mediocre. Sad thing.

[VK538FY]

It sounds like you've had some interesting experiences!

We might want to throw in cross border workers (frontaliers/Grenzgänger). That's a bit different. It can be very interesting financially even on the lower end of salary or qualifications. But that possibility existed before the EU and won't disappear after the EU.

[scotty79]

I'm relocating this year from Poland to Germany. I hope it'll be simple enough.

From what I heard, I need to rent apartment, do anmeldung, set up bank account, buy health insurance, pay monthly tv fee, register for taxes and file them every year. Then I hope to live without worries.

[distances]

As another anecdote, I found relocating to Germany rather straightforward. There definitely was paperwork to be done, but it was well defined and easy enough to file (even if it was old-fashioned as Germany tends to be with bureaucracy).

[bdjsiqoocwk]

I've moved inside the EU twice and have no idea what you're talking about. I literally moved from one capital to another, rented a place, started looking for a job. Literally.