Comment by ben_w
11 hours ago
My experience moving to Germany from the UK in 2018 was only one step harder than that from bureaucracy — two appointments, one for social security and the other for an ID card. Not even that I had a much poorer grasp of the German language than I realised was a problem*, as the bureaucracy is mostly bilingual and when it isn't has interpreters.
The only actual hard part was just that the rental market in Berlin has vastly more demand than supply.
* hopefully next month I pass a B1 exam, which tells you how hard it has been for me to get fluent.
> The only actual hard part was just that the rental market in Berlin has vastly more demand than supply.
If you were in London, it's like you never left home!
One of Cambridge's commuter villages. Was a home owner, still am, very useful passive income.
I'm not sure about how London compares, but Berlin has rent controls so the queues for open house viewings around here can go all the way down the apartment staircase and along the street.