amelekhin

Living in Bavaria I wonder what kinds of cuisine you can’t find here or how exactly the weather is treating you bad, given that the summer is long and warm and the winter is calm and mild.

> You don’t come here because it’s easy

Well, I can’t name another EU country with 5 (soon to be 3) years from entry to citizenship.

Also, this notorious bureaucracy - how often do you usually encounter it? In the period between applying for a Blue Card to changing a job I did it precisely 0 times. And it took me 2 days to switch jobs and pick up a new Zusatzblatt from Ausländerbehörde afterwards.

Not entirely true. In the end, you pay taxes from the yearly household income and the tax class does not change that. Tax class can only regulate how much of that you pay per month during the year. If you pay excess, you get it back with next year’s tax return. If you paid less than you had to, you’ll have to pay that difference. It makes zero sense to switch to 3/5 if you earn the same - literally zero benefit.