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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by netsharc on Sunday June 04, 2017 @06:54PM (#14484136)
Look up "blue card scheme". If you have a university degree, and you interview somewhere and get the job, and your salary will be over 1.5x average national gross salary (In Germany this calculates to around 39KEUR/year), you will get a residence permit, none of this "is there an EU citizen qualified for the same job" check.

As for the salary, I can only say a German computer science graduate being offered a real programming job would probably laugh at anything below 45K, and is looking at around 50K. After tax this comes to around 30K/year (don't quote me on this number), which will be enough to live if you're single, for more costs of living you can check numbeo.com

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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by pmiller2 on Sunday June 04, 2017 @07:00PM (#14484175)
>If you have a university degree....

Um, the post I was responding to mentioned getting residency in Europe in order to take advantage of the university system, so....

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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by netsharc on Sunday June 04, 2017 @07:13PM (#14484248)
Ah.. you can see my response above about that. They have residency permits for the purposes of study, you have to show that you can finance yourself or have a sponsor (e.g. a parent).
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