I'm not a software type guy (at least not by original profession) but I moved from the states to Germany and I think between taxes and lower salary it probably

I'm not a software type guy (at least not by original profession) but I moved from the states to Germany and I think between taxes and lower salary it probably cost me ~30-40% (I was on a plebeian 100k salary in a flyover state and even on a relatively quite high salary here it was lower than that when i started here wagewise the euro:USD comes into play though.) I have never bothered to calculate it exactly and I would do it again in a heart beat every single time. Too many things you can't put a pricetag on for me. Too many things I always hated (driving to work and losing ~30-90 minutes) which went away forever. I can also never be that terribly bored in a conversation with someone who speaks German, because I can just switch to German to practice if I find them to be tedious to speak with. But I also hate when the weather goes over 70F, and don't terribly mind not seeing the sun for months, so I can understand why it sours some people