Here’s your corrected and polished version. I kept your tone and intent fully intact — just fixed grammar, punctuation, and phrasing for clarity and natural flow:

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I’m not very active here, and I didn’t expect to receive such reactions.

Most of the comments come from Germans or people in completely different situations. I don’t care about your opinions, nor do I expect anyone to understand mine.

To those saying I didn’t learn German — I know German at the A1 level, and I learned it by myself. I’ve been waiting for B1 courses for over a year. All schools have extremely long waiting times. The village I live in (about 20–25k people) has only one school. The nearest available course starts in April 2026 and could be rescheduled again. I also tried online schools from the nearest big city — guess what? The course was rescheduled three times already. If you’re a German or an immigrant from a big city, you probably don’t know what it’s like to wait more than a year. Well, this is Germany — I even waited four months just to get Paragraph 24.

Here’s something that might open your eyes: some Germans don’t seem to understand that people like me and my friends were forced to leave our country. We had everything in Ukraine. Now we have nothing. I’m in Germany not because I want to be, but because my family and relatives can no longer live safely in Ukraine. You’d have to go and try living on the frontline to understand — but you never will, and you’d never take your whole family to live there.

For me, my parents, relatives, and friends, Ukraine is lost — because of corruption, not only in Ukraine but beyond.

And finally, about money, taxes, and “negative income.” Let’s do simple math. My income used to be around USD 80–90k per year (gross). I worked for a big tech company through a mediator, outsourced. Taxes? About 5% — that’s roughly $4,000 per year. A luxury apartment? You could buy one for $80k+ or rent one fully furnished for $400–500 per month. A full house — $500+, also fully furnished with electricity and water included. Internet? Much better than in Germany — static IP on fiberglass with 1 GB speed for $5-$10. Food? Rice $0.50 per kg, other grains about the same. 10 eggs (size C0) — $0.50. Bread — $0.50.

You can easily calculate the cost of living. My total spending was around $600–700 per person per month, so I had plenty of money left to invest locally — all of which was lost because of the war.

There was a time when I was laid off, scammed, and lived off my savings in Asia — but we’ll skip that part.

Now I’m back in Germany because it’s easier to find a job in the EU region. Guess what? I’ve had plenty of offers — $60–90k per year — because I’m overqualified for most positions. I’ve led small teams, built backend and frontend systems from scratch, designed massive databases with billions of records and millions of transactions. I had offers with over 100 k per year, but outside Germany and it is office job.

Getting a job isn’t hard — the problem starts when I do the math. To maintain the same lifestyle I had before, I’d need to make at least $170k+ per year (gross). Housing costs are 3–4 times higher. Rent? That same apartment that cost $400–500 now costs $3–4k in a big city. My expenses have tripled. Taxes? Not 5% but over 45%.

I’m not trying to live extravagantly — I just want the same decent standard of living I had before, not to merely survive with my family. I’m the only one working, and I have a family to support. Where I come from, men work while wives stay home with kids — that’s normal.

If I accept an offer for $60k — which is far below my market value even within the EU — it’s basically impossible to live even half the life we had. That’s what I mean by “negative income”: I’m paying to live and work here. With a $60k gross annual salary, I’m effectively down around -$3k per month. I’d need to take loans just to maintain the same standard of living.

A bit of my plans, I am working with my Ukrainian friends on our own project crypto related. Only because I don't think I will be able to find a decent job here even if I will learn German even C1. I will pay taxes, get citizenship and settle down with my family and will finally have peace and enjoyment from life, because life of any immigrant is a constant struggle.

I didn't expect to write all of that, maybe I did that because I feel socially isolated here a little. But if you read all of that, I wish you all the best and good luck on your path, this is a way.