Depends where you live and work. I'd totally pick Romania or even Bulgaria over Germany. Healthier and tastier food for one, and I'm not talking restaurants, but farmer's markets. Cities are probably worse, more cars parked eveywhere, more annoying drivers operating them, more pollution, more chaos. I've also met people from Moldova and Ukraine telling me food is way less expensive there. They also eat tastier and more healthy food: borsch, fish, salads but lack EU regulation for big agriculture, so grain, and industrially grown vegetables and meat is probably laced with chemicals banned or regulated in the EU. In Germany the traditional food is quite boring. I won't venture to say awful, because it's still eatable, but doesn't have much variety or taste, like South or East European food. Czech Republic and Poland were also very pleasant food wise: great pickles or cabbage based foods. Hingary? They're eating too much meat. But the goulash and sausages ate usually quite good.