I moved to Germany three years ago from Romania, for the future of my daughter. I wanted her to start school here.
I too am in the mobile app business. I started a freelance account here with the Finanzamt. Everything is pretty straight forward, and taxes are transparent af so you know exactly what your finances will look like.
As per politics, we’re not sure it’s the country we want to grow old in, but at the moment, I personally feel it’s the best place for us to be in.
I feel for us Germany was the least culture shock move. From what I know, it might be for you as well.
The language is hard, but interesting and fun to learn. The people are very polite, even if they don’t like you.
See I’m in Germany but I’m looking into getting out of here, I don’t know what will happen to Germany when the empire collapses but looking at Ukraine I wouldn’t be surprised if they blitzkrieg’d europe after Kanadas Anschluss. And their largest bases are here…
Quick rundown of being a gender diverse person in Germany:
transphobia is an issue, but i wouldn’t say it seems worse than in other places. How difficult day to day life is depends a lot on how well one passes and fits into the gender binary, but younger people are a lot more accepting if they aren’t chuds, especially in urban areas.
large and thriving trans and nonbinary communities exist in Berlin and the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area. This includes a decent coverage of support groups for queer minors. Both are good places to live if you care about things like culture, nightlife and leftist organizing (for the latter, stick to Anti-Imps, keep a healthy distance from Antideutsche). Other major population centers like Hamburg are also ok, more conservative places like Bavaria can be sketchy outside of cities like Munich. Rural areas especially in the eastern states can have a serious nazi problem, but that’s not where the jobs for mobile software engineering typically are.
Immigration will almost certainly hinge on a job visa, and you should get fluent in the language if you want to get naturalized, which both will take a lot of time. You’ll get by with English fairly easily in places like Berlin, especially in your field, but there’s generally a strong pressure towards immigrants to learn our grammatic clusterfuck of a language.
getting nonbinary gender recognized legally is possible even for minors if the parents are on board, and is atm rather uncomplicated if you have to change documents. If that has already been done, existing papers will be accepted. There can still be complications in day to day life, but in theory all government offices and corporations have to offer gender-neutral means of adressing your child (German is a very strongly gendered language, and the attempts to make it more gender inclusive are unfortunately key culture war issues).
if gender affirming care ever becomes relevant for your kid, they should connect to local trans communities by all means before talking to a doctor. It’s not too hard to get by when you know how, but it will require experienced support to go smoothly. This especially holds true for nonbinary people. Also if you ever get German health insurance by all means reject the ePA (electronic patient files), that’s just one big leak of sensitive data waiting to happen.
I moved to Germany three years ago from Romania, for the future of my daughter. I wanted her to start school here.
I too am in the mobile app business. I started a freelance account here with the Finanzamt. Everything is pretty straight forward, and taxes are transparent af so you know exactly what your finances will look like.
As per politics, we’re not sure it’s the country we want to grow old in, but at the moment, I personally feel it’s the best place for us to be in.
I feel for us Germany was the least culture shock move. From what I know, it might be for you as well.
The language is hard, but interesting and fun to learn. The people are very polite, even if they don’t like you.
Let me know if I can help with anything.
See I’m in Germany but I’m looking into getting out of here, I don’t know what will happen to Germany when the empire collapses but looking at Ukraine I wouldn’t be surprised if they blitzkrieg’d europe after Kanadas Anschluss. And their largest bases are here…
I lived in Germany for a couple years, not a bad idea.
Quick rundown of being a gender diverse person in Germany:
transphobia is an issue, but i wouldn’t say it seems worse than in other places. How difficult day to day life is depends a lot on how well one passes and fits into the gender binary, but younger people are a lot more accepting if they aren’t chuds, especially in urban areas.
large and thriving trans and nonbinary communities exist in Berlin and the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area. This includes a decent coverage of support groups for queer minors. Both are good places to live if you care about things like culture, nightlife and leftist organizing (for the latter, stick to Anti-Imps, keep a healthy distance from Antideutsche). Other major population centers like Hamburg are also ok, more conservative places like Bavaria can be sketchy outside of cities like Munich. Rural areas especially in the eastern states can have a serious nazi problem, but that’s not where the jobs for mobile software engineering typically are.
Immigration will almost certainly hinge on a job visa, and you should get fluent in the language if you want to get naturalized, which both will take a lot of time. You’ll get by with English fairly easily in places like Berlin, especially in your field, but there’s generally a strong pressure towards immigrants to learn our grammatic clusterfuck of a language.
getting nonbinary gender recognized legally is possible even for minors if the parents are on board, and is atm rather uncomplicated if you have to change documents. If that has already been done, existing papers will be accepted. There can still be complications in day to day life, but in theory all government offices and corporations have to offer gender-neutral means of adressing your child (German is a very strongly gendered language, and the attempts to make it more gender inclusive are unfortunately key culture war issues).
if gender affirming care ever becomes relevant for your kid, they should connect to local trans communities by all means before talking to a doctor. It’s not too hard to get by when you know how, but it will require experienced support to go smoothly. This especially holds true for nonbinary people. Also if you ever get German health insurance by all means reject the ePA (electronic patient files), that’s just one big leak of sensitive data waiting to happen.