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> A lot of the stories I formed my opinion on were second hand, issues my friends were dealing with; such as the Kafkaesque situation of registering for residen
by madez 8y ago
> A lot of the stories I formed my opinion on were second hand, issues my friends were dealing with; such as the Kafkaesque situation of registering for residency in a city, but not being able to rent without residency paperwork, and not being able to get the paperwork without a fixed address.
This is the type of problems that come up. I don't understand, though. There are multiple ways to get an address in Germany without a residency permit. You can also rent places without a residency permit. Maybe the person that encountered the issue you describe wanted to rent one specific place which requires a residence permit, and didn't want to do any other (temporary) thing to get an address.
- reitzensteinm 8y agoRight, with patience, persistence and a little bit of Googling you can always work through the issues. But the issues don't exist in the first place in AU/NZ (and presumably UK/US though I can't speak first hand do that). Even if they did, they'd be solved in a much more straightforward manner. I guarantee a similar form here, even though it would never exist, would accept "address pending" as a valid answer. I'm not trying to say the German way is wrong, but you have to understand how crazy it seems to a foreigner.
- madez 8y agoI simply don't understand things to be crazy. Rent a place, have an address, file for residency permit, done. If a landowner wants a residency permit, which I've never seen, then maybe that was an ouvert way of saying no?
- reitzensteinm 8y agoI'm not sure if it's possible to explain the difference without living in both countries!