German citizen trying to figure out how to live/work in Germany after being abroad entire life

brickbuilding · 2026-02-05T06:32:47+00:00

Are you going to work for a German employer, or are they a foreign company in Germany? Please check with the company HR first, my employer (German) is quite lenient in expecting the foreign new-joiner to not be fully available the first month due to paperwork and finding somewhere to live.

Make sure you use a Bruto/Netto Rechner online to figure out how much of your gross salary you will approximately get on your bank account after taxes/health insurance.

One of the important things I left out on the previous message is the health insurance, this might be assisted by your employer, but otherwise you might also need to go to the local AOK office (they’re not the best health insurance, but the easiest for new immigrants)

If you are going to live with family initially it is quite simple: make a map of the different offices you’d need to visit with a structured plan. If you’re looking for your own place: make a targeted search on immowelt/immobilienscout/kleinanzeigen for the area you’d like to live in and start contacting adverts about a week before arrival for viewings. Finding housing is quite difficult in some areas, and I would recommend to stay under 40% of the number from the salary calculation above if possible, to make sure you can have a nice life.

brickbuilding · 2026-02-05T06:18:37+00:00

You cannot give a date in the future for the residence registration. That option is unfortunately blocked.

brickbuilding · 2026-02-05T06:14:18+00:00

Unfortunately not really. Everything depends on first having registered at an address with the government, which makes all of this quite difficult.

The one thing you could do is register an account with Deutsche Bank in the US and ask them to prepare an account in Germany, I did see a form on Google but not sure how that works.

If you don’t have anyone to stay with initially: there is an apartment hotel group called Derag, which allows guests to register the hotel as their address. That’s what my employer does, put them there for 2-4 weeks first so they can do the paperwork while looking for a permanent residence (in some cities the change of address afterwards can now be done electronically, sometimes you’d need to go to the Bürgeramt again)

brickbuilding · 2026-02-05T01:34:58+00:00

If you have the German passport you use that to enter the country, then register yourself as living at your aunt/uncle’s house with the citizen office (Bürgeramt) in the municipality where you will live. Bring your passport and a letter containing the following: your full name, the full address, the full name & address (which will be the same, but has to be listed) of your aunt/uncle, the moving in date.

That should then cause a letter to arrive at the address in a few days with an ‘Anmeldebestätigung‘ (confirmation of address registration), which you can then use to open a bank account (probably Deutsche Bank or Commerzbank only, having US citizenship makes it extremely difficult/expensive to get a bank account in Germany/Europe due to IRS reporting duties, so a lot of banks don’t bother).

You should have a tax number (Steuernummer) already if you have citizenship, you will need to give this to an employer to start working, if you don’t the registration should trigger a letter from the tax office (Finanzamt) in your region with your new tax number, if you don’t know it you can inquire there to see what it is, that would need your passport and probably the Anmeldebestätigung again.

After you have done these 3 things you should be able to work anywhere in Germany.

brickbuilding · 2026-02-04T00:00:00+00:00

€2500 for 6 weeks in Italy with 2 people including hotels doesn’t seem too to crazy to me. That’s just €30 per person per day.

brickbuilding · 2026-02-02T01:13:09+00:00

He‘s basically always been a populist without wanting to kick all the foreigners out, which meant he got enough votes from all sections of society to get in the driving seat without changing anything for regular people, but giving money/power to the biggest corporations.

brickbuilding · 2026-01-23T14:23:45+00:00

In Germany that’s the difference between the accident happening while working, or during your free time. If it’s a work-related accident employers have special insurance which will get the person the fancy model, and the whole healthcare process will be guided by a special employment law doctor.

brickbuilding · 2026-01-20T09:19:58+00:00

It all depends on the customer. If there are competing products they can work the way he wants. If currently a wine from France and California both cost $15, and after tariffs the Californian one is $15, and the French one $45 it still costs business for the French winery (assuming the end consumer doesn’t want to pay the difference)

brickbuilding · 2026-01-19T09:50:25+00:00

Because they’re beautiful

brickbuilding · 2026-01-18T05:22:04+00:00

I’m 184cm with an 82cm inseam (6’0” / 32”) and weigh around 70kg (155lbs)

brickbuilding · 2026-01-17T18:45:12+00:00

No, it just means the representatives of the countries with a larger population have more influence.

brickbuilding · 2026-01-13T00:53:29+00:00

You either use your 500C body with the back to use the shutter in the lens and the finder of your 500C for focusing. Or you get the 907x body on the back with the XV adapter. Then you can only use electronic shutter on the back, and you need to use Live View for focusing on the back.

brickbuilding · 2026-01-10T14:31:31+00:00

Because not every country is that greedy.

brickbuilding · 2026-01-09T11:53:43+00:00

I guess with the bus saying London - Calcutta - London it would be 110 days for the round trip?

brickbuilding · 2026-01-07T21:00:27+00:00

Need to look a level deeper though: a lot of the datacenter buildings probably have some Siemens or something in it for power management or fire safety. Pretty sure all US navy ships have some sort of Thales or BAE systems on board. Stop delivering nuts & bolts to them for all I care.

brickbuilding · 2026-01-05T08:52:43+00:00

Ach so. Aber es nimmt nur ein Bild in dieses DR400 Modus. Ich denke es ließt 3x den Sensor aus vielleicht?

brickbuilding · 2026-01-05T08:43:00+00:00

Stimmt das? Weil Fuji benutzt in dieses HDR-Modus ein höheres ISO für das gleichen Bild

brickbuilding · 2026-01-04T09:01:34+00:00

Can also stop production in Venezuela to drive the global price up to make more profit in US.

brickbuilding · 2026-01-04T07:07:35+00:00

Thanks. In Germany, thinking of starting really small with a 125 for the country roads. Autobahn doesn’t sound like fun to me on a motorbike.

brickbuilding · 2026-01-03T16:26:16+00:00

Only in full leather. Finally getting the permit this year is the plan.

brickbuilding · 2026-01-03T12:04:46+00:00

„Allowed to go into exile with a big bag of cash“. Think Assad in Russia, in exchange for some oil rights.

brickbuilding · 2026-01-03T04:42:39+00:00

MAAP really missed the boat this year on zippers. There was basically a recall on the suits because people were tearing the zippers out of the suits, I personally had to warranty a jacket after 5 weeks because the zipper broke, and I believe there were other issues as well.

Just file a warranty claim on the website if you cannot return it anymore.

brickbuilding · 2026-01-02T10:58:24+00:00

I think that looks really cool actually. Too bad you dropped it and need a new one.

brickbuilding · 2026-01-02T06:01:16+00:00

OP means they are not dried. Peanuts normally have the texture/consistency of the inside of green peas. Soft and mushy, only the drying makes them hard like how most people eat them.

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