xetifafa

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by xetifafa 11d ago
I haven't used it extensively, but I've heard cryptpad is good.
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by xetifafa 3y ago
Yep that's definitely true. Just comes down to what's important to you. You can fall hard and fast in the states but that's a lot less likely to happen in Germany. The 4k extra take home is more significant if you move to a L
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by xetifafa 3y ago
Thanks for your feedback. The goal was to compare MCOL cities. Maybe Leipzig wasn't the right one for that, but Munich is one of the most expensive cities in Germany. Munich vs SF, Seattle or NY might be a fairer comparison. Switzerlan
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by xetifafa 3y ago
I don't know enough about US health insurance to make a good comparison. In Germamy co-pays for doctor visits arent a thing and co-pays for meds are capped at 5-10 EUR. Also if I go to the hospital and get a surgery or something I don&
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by xetifafa 3y ago
Not as bad as Berlin, Munich or Hamburg. I split around 1k€ (warm) for a newly remodeled/renovated 60m2 apartment in a very hip area close to the city center.
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by xetifafa 3y ago
According to levels.fyi (if we assume its unbiased) a median dev income is around $82k in Germany vs $168k in the United States. Let's assume the mean is near that as I can't find any stats on median CoL. Also Let's compare t
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by xetifafa 3y ago
Yes, but my employer can fire me (in some cases) if I am sick for more than 30 days in a year. https://www.wirtschaftsforum.de/tipps/welche-anzahl-an-krank...
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by xetifafa 3y ago
Don't want to give too many details but it's in NRW close to Cologne.
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by xetifafa 3y ago
If anyone is interested in an anecdote from a US American mid level dev living in Germany: I get 30 paid vacation days, 10 ish public holidays and my employer has to pay up to 6 weeks of sick leave a year (after that the public health insur