Berlin is in the rare position of being large, cheap and having good institutions. Usually you only get two of those. Moving further east has its own set of pro

Berlin is in the rare position of being large, cheap and having good institutions. Usually you only get two of those. Moving further east has its own set of problems. The baltics have good institutions (particularly Estonia), but Tallinn has 500k residents. Germany ranks 15th in the Ease of Doing Business ranking, but Poland ranks 25th (it's on a strong upward trend, to its credit). To give you an idea of how many intra-EU differences there are regarding business: Greece ranks below Jamaica and far below Kazakhstan in the Ease of Doing Business ranking.