Like someone said, Germany is a rich country of poor people.
Not sure what to do, I have a shit boring remote email marketing job for a US company. But with my small US salary, I live quite well here (own a big house w/ 1000 sqrt. m. garden in a nice small town, good car, no commute, kids go to private German school, good weather, ..).
Not sure if our quality of life in Berlin (me being a data scientist) will be better as our quality of life here in the third world (me doing monkey work but in a cheap country).
Feel free to ask me anything.
Will send you a PM if I have more questions :)
You would exchange living in a sunny country, where you own a house and your kids are able to go to a private school with cold and rainy weather (besides summer but summer is short), renting a much smaller apartment compared to your house and a shitty public educational system (because you probably couldn't afford a private school here) in which your kids would experience low educational standards.
Appearances are deceptive. Think twice.
Anyway, schooling systems are quite different between ARG and DEU, in Argentina private schools are quite common and the quality of these is quite bad when compared with German Gymnasiums. I know that private schools in Germany are quite uncommon. I attended a Gymnasium in Germany for some months when I was a teenager many many years ago (I'm nearing my 40s) and found the quality of german public schools way better when compared with Argentinian schools (private or public ones). At least Gymnasiums, not sure about Gesamtschules and Realshules.
You are right regarding weather and housing :)
I suspect something similar happens across the border in Switzerland. I visited the French part of it a couple of times about 3 years ago and I was surprised how crowded the second-hand clothes stores in downtown Lausanne were (and the fact that there were any SH stores in that area at all). Also, looking at the prices in there and unless there’s some hidden UBI system up and running of which I’m unaware of I can’t imagine how come a low-middle class Swiss family can afford to live there. I do understand that wages correlate somehow with the cost of living, but I imagine that if you happen to fall between the cracks (you’re unemployed or you have landed a bad-paying job) then things are not that easy.
As far as I'm aware the country with the biggest second-hand culture in clothing is Japan, and they're not nearly living in poverty.
Hardly any German person would claim to (or even lure) expats that Germany is the Promised land. The only reason I can think of any expat thinking about Germany as the Promised Land is self-delusion.
It happens a lot in Romania and I suspect in other Eastern-European countries too.
There's also a connection between why do Germans save so much and import so little.
How is this not institutional racism? Or something that leads to inequality because of one’s ethnicity? Imagine if a person of African or Asian descent, who tries to rise up in German society, and get one of these jobs. Is the response: “Well, tough luck buddy, you shouldn’t have come to Germany to begin with.”
Doesn’t Germany pride themselves on being equal opportunity and democratically elected?
Or is that all a facade, and the Germans never really believed in that bullshit anyways. And it was all about putting the Germans first, before all others.
