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I think this is a false dichotomy. In reality if your employer can afford to pay you this salary while you live in Germany, they should be able to pay you the s

I think this is a false dichotomy. In reality if your employer can afford to pay you this salary while you live in Germany, they should be able to pay you the same salary in Sweden (before taxes). So in reality without location based pay you can have all that without taking a paycut. Another way to look at it, if these social changes were to happen in Germany, would you expect salaries to go down as a result?

anticristi 6y ago
If Germany started handing out 480 days of parental leave per child and virtually unlimited "stay at home with sick child", plus a culture where everyone contributes equally to parenting, then I would definitely expect the overall German (net) salary to go down.