Would you consider moving to Berlin, Germany from the Bay Area for working at a start up?
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BNFy07
Dec 17, 2018
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What would be some factors to take into consideration?
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Make a research on who your coworkers will be. Germany is not an IT star and most probably you won't meet as talented/hard working people there as you meet in the Bay.
Their current immigration situation is bad, think of the impact of the amount of refugees on their economy and also on the quality of their every day life.
Anyway, I wish you good luck on your choices :)
Berlin is like a poorer, less international, less globally relevant, worse compensated, cheaper version of London with crappier architecture, less food variety and a language most can't speak. And it looks like a third world country in comparison to London, Zurich or Munich. Germany and France are also about 10-15 years behind the US in race relations and integrating immigrants.
I can say this because I'm German.
Actually, I like SF far better than anyplace in Europe. It seems that Blinders never venture outside of the grimy, homeless-infested neighborhoods of Downtown, SOMA, the Mission and the Tenderloin.