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Currently the US, but formerly Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Germany and Canada. I've never had to register my address anywhere unless I have a drivers license
by PrimeMcFly 3y ago
Currently the US, but formerly Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Germany and Canada.
I've never had to register my address anywhere unless I have a drivers license.
- mrunkel 3y ago> Germany You broke the law if you were a resident of Germany and didn't register yourself.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoWell, that sucks. Then again, shitty laws don't deserve to be followed. You think Europe would have learned a thing or two from WW2 and what was going down on the continent. I guess some behaviors are just too culturally ingrained.
- SergeAx 3y ago> shitty laws don't deserve to be followed You mean, you have to be ready to be punished for breaqking shitty laws just to point to their shittiness.
- PrimeMcFly 3y ago> You mean, you have to be ready to be punished for breaqking shitty laws just to point to their shittiness. Sure, but in my case nothing happened, so, meh?
- pallas_athena 3y agoHow can you live in Germany without registering an address? Were you just visiting? Registering the address will get you the tax number, which is necessary to be paid. The health insurance (also mandatory when working) would need a registered address.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoI was there for over a year. I did have a tax number, since I got paid and presumably paid taxes. I never went anywhere just to register my address though. That sounds so insane to me.
- someplaceguy 3y agoMan, I wish I could "presumably" pay taxes like you... :)
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoI mean they were definitely paid. I never bothered filing a return or anything though, so I just never got any kind of refund assuming I would have.
- pallas_athena 3y agoMy point being that you get a tax number after your first address registration ("Anmeldung einer Wohnung")
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoI don't think I had my apartment yet when I got my tax number, but OK. Still a crappy system.