s19779 wrote:Hello Everyone I have Tier1 visa for the UK and not moved in yet. Got this question when I was almost frustrated with job search in the UK, sitting in my home country.
Will Germany be a better place than UK in terms of :
1) Finding jobs
2) Employment offer process(If I apply from India/Uk)
3) Cost of living
4) Good life (I mean entertainment, stress free office environment, safe for immigrant, etc, etc.)
Looking forward for your interesting experiences.
Regards
1. Same as UK
2. harder, separate WP Process
3. Lower, but Taxes lot higher, if a single man u'll be lucky to see more that 50% net to gross...
4. I love Die Heimat, but Germany is like UK, the German race is as the English, even Hitler thought so. I've seen a lot of beloved in Germany so beware, it's normal there, for example they have a chocolate called 'negerkussen; ie negro's kiss, and it's ok! my gf when she was there had a friend from Mali, all her mates called him 'Der Affe' ie 'The Monkey' so much as I love it there, PC it is not so u need a much thicker skin than in UK.
German culture is to me very much like UK in seventies, ie office is 9-5 no exceptions, lunch hour is lunch hour no moving it....
But there is none of this UK/US thing we have now where ur weekend is ruined by work, weekend is shutdown in Germany, not so much saturday, but Sunday 'alles geschlossen' - ie all is closed, nothing is open...
Like I said I like it but only cos I want the seventies back!
Mulletts are still cool in DE....
An chéad stad eile Stáisiún Uí Chonghaile....