• blackberry28@sh.itjust.works
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    20 days ago

    People moving to germany thinking wages are great, until they realize their net pay is like only half of their gross pay. Add to that insane rents, and then everything doesn’t look so rosy anymore.

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      20 days ago

      I was told germany got the better protected price rent policy in all europe

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        19 days ago

        I don’t know about that, but the actual enforcement is anyway more important than whatever the law is on paper

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      19 days ago

      You think taxes and rent elsewhere are much lower, if lower at all? My real net here is more than twice what I’d make in France