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I’m a foreigner, and I was like… why do I have to work so hard — to support people who apparently never worked in Germany, has never contributed to anything, but still get social benefits to maintain an easy life? All of my visa processes were difficult because I needed to continuously demonstrate both my integration and the value of my work to society. Now, I’m literally afraid to go out or be around big crowds. Half of my salary goes to rent because it’s almost impossible to find something affordable, and changing jobs doesn’t improve the situation — it can even get worse. I’m starting to question my future in Germany.

Germany, France, the UK; all major European powers are getting hit the same. This is not just a coincidence....

I’m a Vietnamese professional in my 20s, currently working as a financial controller in Germany.
To be honest, living here hasn’t turned out quite the way I expected.
I’m planning to return to Vietnam, where life feels safer, more affordable, and filled with a stronger sense of community and shared joy and less of individualism.

I came here from Greece six years ago, like so many others. I live near Stuttgart now. I did everything right, I learned the language while working full-time, just to be able to pay my tuition, my insurance, my rent, and my food. Out of respect for the country where I was starting a new life, I have paid my taxes since the day I arrived.

I worked my ass off through the whole Corona madness, I even felt bad when I had to accept unemployment support from the state for three months. Then I found a better job, earned more money, paid more taxes, and later got fired because of the energy crisis.

Over the years, I started to see the real Germany more clearly. Growing up in a bankrupt country and having experienced poverty and uncertainty, I could recognize the signs of a system that is starting to crack, and an economy that is slowly declining. When I tried to explain this to my German friends, they did not take it seriously, or they simply did not want to see it.

Now, every fifth person I know tells me they are on Kurzarbeit, and once again I see uncertainty all around me, and I feel it myself too.

So, should I stay here, in a country that seems to be heading toward one of the biggest socio-economic crises in its modern history, perhaps the most serious one since the fall of the Berlin Wall, or should I go back to a country that is already bankrupt, but where at least I have my family, and the sun?

I honestly do not see things getting better for Germany anytime soon, and that truly makes me sad.

I am Hungarian and studied in Germany in the late 90's. Back then everything worked in Germany, the country was prosperous, great infrastructure, everything was clean and safe and the general price level was low, even compared to Hungary. After 25 years I now spent a week in Germany and didn't recognise the country. Prices have gone up massively, trains are consistently massively late, elevators are often out of order, most public areas are dirty and run down and the list goes on. Once the economic powerhouse of Europe, Germany is now fast declining and it's increasingly looking like a "developing" country. The symptoms are the same across the west. The ruling class has betrayed the populace and thus it must be replaced.

I’m from Austria. Same happening here. It really looks like the system is slowly collapsing.

Germany is good if you are poor and need the government to help you. If you are smart, hard working and skilled, you will be paying for the poor.

You’re describing the UK with every word. It’s all coordinated.

As an IT professional who moved to Germany two years ago, my wife joined an integration course as my dependent. She was the only one paying tuition and childcare fees for our 3-year-old daughter during class hours. The rest of the students, including Ukrainians, were asylum seekers. And they don't need pay anything for both tution and child care. When the B1 exam results came out, only my wife and two others passed. The rest, who were actually good at German, only got A1, which was surprising. At first, my wife thought she was just smarter than them. But later she realized they had failed on purpose. They didn’t want to work and preferred to keep getting government support. For them, failing and staying on benefits was more financially beneficial than passing and working.

I just got back from two weeks in Germany, and it was amazing to see how many working-age immigrant men were just hanging around all day rather than working.  A lot of cities looked more like the Middle East rather than the Germany I remember.

Europe is broken. Leaders do not care about their people. So sad to see.

I'm a Bulgarian who has been living in Germany for eight years, and I'm seriously considering leaving the country. Every year, the situation seems to get worse. I bought a house, I have a stable job, but the government has completely lost its mind.

This year, some Christmas markets will not even be allowed to open - for "security reasons." The state is now openly admitting that it cannot guarantee my safety, not even for a few days during the most cherished Christian holiday.

Germany is so desperate to prove it has nothing in common with the Germany of World War II that it's becoming absurd. The tension keeps growing, the cycle is repeating, and history is about to repeat itself - but I won't be here when it does.

I won't even start on the "green" policies, the inflation, or the looming conflict with Russia.

I truly hope the people wake up and say "enough."
Be like Poland!

Same here in the UK. I'm retired, have moved to a remote part of the UK to enjoy a few more years in relative peace. But I fear for my son's future in the UK where half his salary is used to rent a very basic room.

I am from Vienna. I work in Germany. This Country is done.

I'm from Spain, working in Bremen, and moving to Germany was my worst decision. I'm moving back to Spain as well.

There’s only *one German company* among the world’s top 100 most valuable firms — and it ranks around 48th or 49th.That fact alone says everything. I moved from Turkey to Germany two years ago.
I’m a mathematician with a pedagogical formation. I worked as a mathematics teacher in the private sector in Turkey for 12 years and wrote three mathematics textbooks. I have B2-level German and B2-level English.
I also studied civil engineering but had to drop out in my final year because of the pandemic. Still, I have transcripts in physics, computer science, and engineering.

When I came to Germany, I applied for teacher qualification recognition (Anerkennung) because there’s a huge shortage of math teachers here — it’s actually at the top of the list. Guess what happened?

They made me run around for a whole year: “We need this document, we need that paper,” and eventually, the officer in charge accidentally deleted my application. Anyway, I completed all the requirements and kept waiting. And the result? A series of new obstacles. For example, they told me I had to do two-year internship to adapt to the German education system. I said, “Fine, I’ll do it.” But then they added, “You’ll only receive half a salary during that period.” I accepted that too.
Later they said, “You can’t do it in your current federal state; it has to be in another one.”
Okay, I accepted that as well.

Then they told me, “Since you graduated from a Faculty of Science and not from a Faculty of Education, you must complete Master of Education , which takes another two years.” I said, “Alright, I’ll do it.” But during that time, there’s no salary at all. Still, I said okay.

Then came another condition: universities require at least C1-level German That means I need to attend a six-month language course. I agreed again. But then I got stuck on other university-specific admission requirements. So I roughly calculated everything. Even if I applied in April 2025, I would only be able to start teaching by April 2030 — five years later!

Then they suggested I work as a substitute teacher instead — meaning I’d be paid only for the lessons I actually teach. In Berlin, the hourly rate is around 15–20 euros gross. If I teach about 20 hours a week, that’s roughly 1,400 euros gross per month. But since there are no classes during school holidays, you only work about seven months a year. 7 × 1,400 = 9,800 euros gross per year. Divided by 12, that’s around 800–850 euros gross per month , which is about  650 euros net.

Just think about it: As a substitute math teacher in Berlin, earning only  650 euros net per month , how am I supposed to teach German kids with a clear, focused mind?

In one word: The system is rotten. If I were unqualified, I could understand. But this is the subject Germany needs the most — mathematics — and yet, the process is full of obstacles and contradictions. It’s simply not sustainable.

Spaniard here. We never recovered from the 2007 crisis and things have only gone downhill since then. I spent 6 years in the UK and I came back only to revisit the same movie.

We are heavily taxed, the job market is dry, salaries are appalling and we're going through a massive housing crisis partly due to the mass migration.

Yes, we do have ☀️ and people might be nicer but we're scrapping by as a country.

If you can work remotely that's a whole different story. But we are far from being a country where anyone can thrive.

Good luck to all my fellow europeans out there...

I moved back to Spain, 3 years ago, after having expended 13 in Germany. The country has changed a lot, for worse…

Germany is supposed to be the economic engine of Europe, imagine that. The EU is in for a very rude awakening.