Indeed, my other German bank will promptly disown me if I stop living in Germany, but they at least are upfront about it. Leaving aside my annoyance at the fir

Indeed, my other German bank will promptly disown me if I stop living in Germany, but they at least are upfront about it. Leaving aside my annoyance at the first bank's behavior, it was a definite learning moment, in that I had assumed a "normal" bank could not just kick you out because they feel like it. In Germany, indeed they can!