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What is the point of working full time in Germany as foreigner? (even if your job is classified as high skilled job)
Poor wages, extremely high taxes, no career progression, no promotion at work regardless how hard you work, very dreadful social life, everything is getting more expensive year by year, housing is in crisis, bad public transportation (massive delays), quality of the food is questionable... The postive sides are likely beer and being able to travel inside EU (couple times per year) Seriously, I think non EU people do come here because migrating to Germany is relatively easier than migrating to UK, US etc. (including myself) When they reach their target (It could be financial target, getting citizenship etc) they use Germany as stepping stone to move better countries.
Germany does not deserve high skilled migration until they figure out how to make those people content. Germany currently sees high skilled migrants as taxpayers to keep their "social system" in tact.
Why does Germany provide master / phd studies in English but nobody speaks English at Ausländerbehörde?
What do they think? Why is It not possible for someone to come to Germany, complete the master / phd studies in English and move on to somewhere else? If they claim, It is not possible to live Germany without knowing German, why do state universities provide high level education in English?
On the other hand, they accept B1 level of German as the sufficient level of German when they grant citizenship(for example If you work in IT, you can work with English in Germany without major issues) but If you try searching jobs in German with B1 level of German, they will tell, you have to speak at least B2 level of German. How does this make any sense? To be honest, If you are fluent in English, you can reach B1 level of German in one year (at least on the paper)
I just did stop looking for any rationality in this country. I am focused on making the most out of Germany for myself and try to relocate somewhere else.
I have been living in this country for slightly over 8 years and this country made me a worse person emotionally. I envy of my friends who managed to move to other "really" developed countries. (We all came here for master studies) I hope, my turn will also come soon. I am scared of dying in this country so much without enjoying the life.
Lol Germans spend on average 70 minutes more per week shopping compared to Americans.
www.statista.com/statistics/521924/time-spent-household-shopping-countries/
But I was led to believe Germans were highly skeptical of capitalism, why are they spending so mich more time consoooooming?
Everything is a chore, a chore one must do 500 times. Just basic things in life are so hard to attain and do. This is clearly a system made by cretins.
F*****g weather its the F*****g weather i hate!!!!!
Gray, rainy, windy. And just gray all the freaking time. Plus the gray buildings, gray faces. Everything in this city is a pure reflection of itself(dull trash) everywhere.
www.tagesschau.de/inland/alkoholkonsum-jugendliche-101.html
LMAO what a shithole. Even if they have declined, these numbers are terrible an no reason to suck your own dick.
Germans know no shame, everything is a circle jerk and a reason to smash their penis on others.
LMAO just looked at my payslip and I pay more for health insurance than the average American pays and I am actually on the cheapest public insurance with no add-ons. How is this even possible?
It's freaking ridiculous second highest taxes in an OECD nation with absolutely no perks over any developed nation. Infrastructure is lacking, everything is expensive from transport to Housing, everything is subpar, and then we are taxed the poop out of and health insurance is such a scam here. No state healthcare, I dont consider this country to have state healthcare since it's just insurance company and acts like one with predatory pricing, un-affordable and kicks people out at a whim and doesn't cover those out of the system, such as the homeless. 400EUR from both your and your employers side go to it every month. This is separate from taxes which are already higher than countries that have health coverage incorporated into taxes. What a scam.
Do German's children ever go to school? Is it like two hours a day? How to they learn to read? To write? They seem to be literate, so I don't understand it.
I never understand it. Everytime I'm on the bus, anywhere in the city. It is swarming with school kids. I really don't get it. Usually there are set times from the places I've been and lived. But here there seems to be no structure. I see kids going home at 10am.
In my building, they seem to be up and shrieking by around 7 am, away until around 10 am then back and shrieking. Sometimes they seem to fornicate off again for an hour or two in the afternoon, but basically they seem to spend most of their days at home shrieking.
School is off this week but you're not wrong in general. They have like 4 hour days in Grundschule. It's just taxpayer paid babysitting anyway. Kids in German school don't learn anything. It's just basically teachers prodding all the nice blond Germans into higher ed prep while prodding all the foreigners into hauptschule. Even in HS you dont learn anything in German school - just how to pretend that school here is difficult. Good practice for when Germans go to college where exams are even easier.
Its time for intervention in the Ukraine war.
Discuss
If they'd stop supplying poop and start helping a discussion that would help. But clearly that's not going to happen.
Trust me, if you're talking about weapons to Ukraine, you have no idea whatsoever what the 'war' is really about.
It's all about oil/gas and reserve trading currency. Here's a very short course on how the world really works. Google these: Russia, Ukraine, China reserve currency. THEN Russia Ukraine NATO Broken Promises THEN Petro dollar system Saddam Gaddafi THEN Russia Ukraine about Russia Selling oil to China for Rubles Yuan.
Left Germany today. I can tell you this: LEAVE GERMANY AS SOON AS YOU CAN. The negative energy in that country is unbelievable. It is a total waste of your life being there with those joyless cretins.
Good luck to you! may you find everything you lost being in this shithole.
Currently on a train out of Germany. What a horrible, filthy , depressing country. Europe sucks but Germany is the WORST.
The story of Irmgard Furchner is creepy as hell. Sure OK whatever Germany, desperately search for 90 year olds to punish for the Holocaust (for whatever reason that is a priority now). But a secretary? What could she have possibly done? Reported that there was a concentration camp to the German government which was responsible for it? Why is my tax money being used for this and similar farces?
If she had been an officer or whatever then sure but come on dude. Just as bonkers as jailing the holocaust denying granny recently. Who the hell cares, if holocaust denial is a crazy conspiracy theory then just explain why with facts and publicly discredit these people - pretty sure all the leftover Stasis can provide excellent training.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock riled Moscow with comments at an event in Strasbourg on Tuesday, when, speaking in English, she said that “we are fighting a war against Russia”. Get it, this german Greens minster can hardly wait to go to war with Russia. "WE are FIGHTING a war AGAINST Russia". NOT, "Russia is fighting a war against us". B=Never trust a Greenie, especially in Germany.
Moscow have blasted such comments and even worse all across the board, even threatening the entire world with nuclear war. Annalena Bearbock's comment wasn't smart, but not a big deal either. This war could easily be stopped when the west would start to sanction Russua's allies. But they don't do anything like that, they do the opposite and sign trade agreements with them. Stupid.
I called a company this morning, they offer a Lebenslauf service. So I talked to this guy, his attitude sounded like I was asking him something truly ridiculous when I said that my CV is in English and that he doesn't speak English at all. I'm supposed to pay them 120 Euro, a potential lead, but talking to him he didn't even seem to care. I'm supposed to do abc123 and call back later to speak to my correct Ansprechpartner..
They are dumb as bricks, can't put themselves in your shoes. Autistic. Most of them get Burgergeld anyways so they slack onto the nanny state and services suffer.