The USA is underrated. So is Germany.
Discussion
How is Germany in reality ? All the issues it’s currently having. Is life for people harder? Are people worse off? Is the EU Regime getting worse ?
Life here is pretty good, but November and December are cold and cloudy and high incomes are heavily taxed.
What’s happening with the whole energy supply out there? Nuclear shut down, Russian gas no longer. Is it making your bills sky high ? Or are they coming to their senses re fossil fuels?
No, energy bills have come back down. Only slightly higher than before the Russian invasion, despite no subsidies and rising carbon taxes.
Energy supply is stable. European and NATO allies filled the gap, successfully.
Some big energy consumers have closed some factories, tho, like Thyssenkrupp and BASF.
It’s interesting to hear from someone in Germany. Is unemployment rising or is economy balancing itself fairly well right now?
All countries have plus and minus.
I have never been in USA so i don't know if it is underrated or overrated. All i know is that i have no desire to go there.
I have been to Germany. I liked some things surely, but didn't get impressed.
German citizenship has benefits that aren't obvious, at first, like a powerful passport and very humane court and prison system.
Also a place where young people are sought after and given real economic opportunity, even if they don't have a college degree and don't want one. Economic mobility is high.
There is no death penalty here, the fines are modest, the prisons are like low-budget hotel, and prison sentences are light.
The penalties that are humane will also be exploited by evil people who will find this penalties a joke and the justice system will need to be adjusted to protect everyday people
The likelihood of a super evil person coming out of Germany is so unlike… hmm, second thought.
He was an immigrant. Be very afraid of immigrants to Germany! Especially if they "go native" and ideological.
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You protect the citizenry best by having few laws, but prosecuting them reliably and relentlessly.
And you can't have a humane system without accepting that it will sometimes be abused. No freedom without risk. If you try to correct too much for that, you start looking up the innocent or risk political prosecutions.
My kids use to make all these plans to leave Germany, but they're now adults and actually looking around and are like nevermind.
Every place else is similar or worse, and they'd be foreigners there and away from their family.
Yes i agree to all of it. For example i had a dutch friend, there are many similarities in Holland and Germany, that she spent some time in prison for some activism. When she told me how it was in prison, i was like, what? Is this a hotel? 😃. I can tell you more good things that Germany has and maybe Germans don't appreciate as much as they should because they take them for granted. But Germany lacks other things.
So the conclusion is, where do you feel comfortable? Stay there if you can...
Also, where do you have friends and family? Where do you understand the culture and legal and tax system? Where are you a citizen?
That's often the best place. Home-court advantage is real.
I didn't read the whole thread but I do agree with your statement here my friend. What you knowand can work with is easier tonavigate than the unknown as an outsider
We actually have the problem of people coming here illegally and committing felonies, because they prefer German incarceration to deportation.