I'm not sure about Berlin, but I am visiting Paris for a few months and I found that it is just riddled with bureaucracy. For example, there was an article rec

I'm not sure about Berlin, but I am visiting Paris for a few months and I found that it is just riddled with bureaucracy. For example, there was an article recently about why there are so many 49-employee people companies in France: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3953145 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3953145 I would imagine things like this get in the way of actually developing product and providing value to your customers.