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by mlent 10y ago
Thanks wheels! If you have any corrections for the guide, I'd love to get them -- I wrote it about 2 years after the process so it's possible I missed something for sure. I have seen the Blue Card website, but never knew how it w
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by mlent 10y ago
Yep -- Germany LOVES the degree (the fact that they love certifications and titles is so true). I have a colleague without a degree working as a software developer, but for me they required a photo copy of my diploma for whatever reason.
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by mlent 10y ago
For people interested in this topic, I've written a fair amount on the more nitty gritty aspects, as an American who relocated to Berlin, Germany. http://notanomadblog.com/how-to-emigrate-germany-startup-job... http:&
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by mlent 10y ago
Same as other commenter: Switzerland is SO expensive. Of course the salaries are higher, but damn. You can get away with spending very little in Germany, and saving a higher percentage of your salary. Of course, the best hack is to live in
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by mlent 10y ago
I have written a bit about working abroad, working remotely from abroad, and how to emigrate to germany and finding jobs in Berlin. Let me know if you find any of this information useful! http://notanomadblog.com/categories&
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by mlent 10y ago
Second this (as another non-EU citizen working in Berlin) -- you have to make at least 38k euros per year to work in Germany as a foreigner, which is enough to live comfortably in Berlin IMO. However, as you said, there are definitely plent
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by mlent 10y ago
Was recently at an angular conference -- they said they would continue to support it until the _majority_ of the community had made the switch. That's so far from happening, I imagine they'll be supporting it for years.
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by mlent 10y ago
Seconding this -- I use HTML inside hugo all the time. The problem hugo has is that you cannot include _partials_ in your markdown, like you can with Jekyll. And as parent5446 said, the shortcodes don't give you enough information in s
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by mlent 10y ago
I agree -- I have two blogs in Hugo, which I really liked, but have built the biggest site in Jekyll and the Liquid templating language is super powerful. However, Jekyll quickly got slow owing to the same powerful templating language. Alwa
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by mlent 10y ago
Agreed -- parent seems to have a very selective view of what is "ahead" here -- and even so, Berlin is catching up.
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by mlent 11y ago
The only caveat about the freelancer/entrepreneur route is that you have to prove that you have a bunch of money in the bank at all times. For example, over 10K euros or something like this. Because as a freelancer, they want to ensure
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by mlent 11y ago
I can't speak about Austria/Vienna, but if it's anything like Germany, you can basically just show up, sign a contract, present a number of documents (necessarily: an original university diploma) to the authorities, and they
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by mlent 11y ago
I'd agree -- as someone living in Europe, the idea of grocery shopping by car itself is already pretty luxurious. Worrying about the distance between car and fridge sounds silly when most of us are used to walking half to one kilometer
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by mlent 11y ago
"The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared" by Jonas Jonasson (Love it -- hilarious, witty, a pleasure to read) "Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami (Strange good -- but I'm not sure
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by mlent 11y ago
Not true at all in my experience. You don't need to know any German, but you do need a university degree, so this isn't an option for OP either way.
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by mlent 11y ago
I can tell you the steps I used to learn German -- it took about 6-8 months until my only remaining hurtles were sheer vocabulary. Granted, I have a background in Ancient languages, so learning an inflected language like German (or Russian)
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by mlent 11y ago
I would like to be able to build schedules. Not necessarily for a specific day (though that as well), but just "day plans". These should then of course have a corresponding map, as well as estimated distance between places with va
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by mlent 12y ago
SumUp - Berlin, Germany - Front-End Web Developer (m/f) ------------ Key responsibilities Expertise in Angular.js, our framework of choice, is a huge plus, but we're also interested in your history with other javascript frameworks
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by mlent 12y ago
SumUp - Berlin, Germany - Front-End Web Developer (m/f) ------------ Key responsibilities Expertise in Angular.js, our framework of choice, is a huge plus, but we're also interested in your history with other javascript frameworks
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by mlent 12y ago
Location: Leipzig, Germany Remote: Possibly Willing to relocate: Yes (especially to Berlin) Technologies: -- Languages: JavaScript (with and without jQuery), SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL), Python, HTML(5), CSS(3) -- Programs: Adobe Illustrator, P
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by mlent 12y ago
Location: Leipzig, Germany Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes (especially to Berlin) Technologies: -- Languages: JavaScript (with and without jQuery), SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL), Python, HTML(5), CSS(3) -- Programs: Adobe Illustrator, Photosh
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by mlent 12y ago
I'm going to third that. 1500 is definitely very low for a monthly salary as a software developer. A one bedroom in a nice part of Berlin is already more than half of that.
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by mlent 12y ago
I also work in IT -- to get my residency, I had to bring both copies and the original of my college diploma. Not sure how much they bend the rules on that. It was listed by the Ausländerbehörde as a required document. In general, Germany is
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by mlent 12y ago
I definitely can see the value in this. As it relates to one specific example on this list, I live in Leipzig, and in East Germany in general, it is nearly impossible to speak English on the phone in order to arrange these sorts of things,
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by mlent 12y ago
I'm from the US, born in California, and I definitely enjoy the comments :)
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by mlent 12y ago
If it's sensitive enough to detect breathing as movement, then it would make sense for the alarm to go off if there's absolutely no movement, yes?
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by mlent 12y ago
I will definitely look into this more when I'm back from holiday. Has anyone else found that getting good coffee in Germany is quite difficult? Or is it just that my city (Leipzig) is a bit of a coffee desert? Anyways. Best wishes, and
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by mlent 12y ago
This looks great. I was definitely engaged by the home page and found it fun to read -- maybe a number-of-edits tracker on the side so you don't have to keep re-counting how many errors you've corrected?
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by mlent 12y ago
When I moved to Germany, they simply asked why I was here. I said I was coming for a job -- no further questions.
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by mlent 13y ago
But wouldn't it cost other people more money who want to get in touch with you if you did decide to go with a "non-domestic" carrier? For instance, if I have a non-German phone number, while living in Germany, and expecting p

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