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I am from Berlin working at some startup company. If I were you, I would go to Berlin, if you satisfy Blue Card requirements. Within 2-3 years you can learn how
by playing_colours 11y ago
I am from Berlin working at some startup company. If I were you, I would go to Berlin, if you satisfy Blue Card requirements. Within 2-3 years you can learn how startup market works in Berlin, find good connections. In 3 years afair you can apply for permanent residency. It means you don't need to work for some company, and you can start your business / consultancy. I guess you may have better opportunities here to find investors, hire people and grow your business than in Pakistan.
Berlin is a friendly city with a lot of foreigners from EU, Eastern Europe, Middle East, etc so you won't feel like a stranger here.
- haidrali 11y agothanks for your comment. Can you please tell about how much is living costs/per month for a single person
- atroyn 11y agoSingle dude in mid 20s who likes to party - not more than 1.5k/month. 1k if you're frugal. Cost of living in Berlin is rising but still way below other Western European capitals. Housing is the biggest issue but your company can help.
- playing_colours 11y agoA bit difficult to say about minimum costs as I moved with my wife, and we both work on senior engineering positions. I agree with atroyn - 1.5k would be enough. Remove about 40 percent from your brutto salary, and this is more or less what you ll have after the taxes.
- orless 11y agoAround 1000-1500 would give you a pretty good quality of life, but you can also go lower than that. If you're single an young, consider finding a "WG" - it's when several people live together in a big appartment with own rooms but shared kitchen. That's normally a student thing but that's quite cheap and can help integration. But that's also does not suit everybody.
- atroyn 11y agoHow long have you been in Berlin, out of curiosity?
- haidrali 11y agoI am in Lahore, Pakistan right and never have been in Berlin before ...
- playing_colours 11y agoI live in Berlin for more than 2 years. UPD: If I correctly understand the reason why you asked your question, you might think I am still in "honeymoon" with Berlin. I guess I am not anymore. As everywhere, there are pluses and minuses. People can be unfriendly, the winter is grey and rainy, but I didn't move here from the sunny South with friendly open people :) And I am pretty disillusioned about the startup scene - most companies are crappy, hipsterish and want to pay pennies, so one needs to look hard for a good place. But at the same time I met some good, interesting, and enthusiastic people here.
- atroyn 11y agoIt's one reason, another was in case you'd been there a long time and could comment on what's changed over the last 5-10 years. And I think that describes most startup ecosystems, just those also happen to be the conditions for really good companies to emerge too. For me Berlin is a place where people can really be whoever they want, even two or three people in the same day. After all, everyone's an electronica DJ after hours ;)