Is Germany attractive enough for qualified workers?

Germany is half-half.

Open to immigrants because a/ its economy is an electromagnet that needs foreign talent and b/ its post war doctrine makes it imagine itself as America but with better beer. Foolish but true.

Closed to immigrants because it is the clearest ethnostate in western Europe (I don't make this up, my political science professors taught that) and its culture is borderline neurotic.

In general, it's the last place where I imagine locals running after brown people with pitchforks because most Germans aren't apes. They are however quite particular and have other ways of making the piece that sticks out, feel unwelcome. Immigrants from Germany's closest neighbours have trouble integrating there. French, Scandinavians, Slavs, even the Dutch.

Just be aware.

> Perhaps she could move to Frankfurt am Main, one of the world's most important financial centers? No, James said. Germany is out of the question. To find a job, you need to learn the German language, which is difficult. "Aside from that, Germany is also rather strict with issuing visas. And I have heard that the Germans are quite harsh toward people with brown skin, and to immigrants in general."

I really don't know what Europe is going to do over the next century. These countries are homogenous in a way that's difficult for Americans to comprehend. Forget "white" versus "brown"--Germany is 86% ethnic German. It's one specific tribe of white people with a flag. It's been almost half a century since Germany began a family reunification program for Turkish immigrants, and the Turkish population still hasn't assimilated, much less reached parity with native Germans. (Meanwhile, in the same amount of time, multiple refugee groups, such as Cubans and Vietnamese, have achieved economic parity with whites in America.)

I love Germany and Germans. My wife is a fluent German speaker and lived there. We have had several German au pairs who are now family friends. I have family in Frankfurt who immigrated there from Bangladesh, and they seem to be doing okay. But personally I would never immigrate there.

I worked once with a Turkish guy who immigrated to the US. He's a great guy, smart, organized and well spoken. He started his own business in the US a few years after our joint work.

He confided in me once that as a college student in Turkey he had a gig job in Germany over a summer. He said he was treated in such a way that he would never go back.

I help people migrate to Germany. Germany is attractive. People would be happy to live there, and Germany would gladly earn taxes from them.

However the immigration system sends the opposite message. It's overloaded and unresponsive. This adds considerable stress to people moving here since they can't start working until they get their residence permit.

There's also the difficulty of making friends here. People often move here for economic reasons, and don't give culture its due consideration. If you're used to a tightly connected, informal society, the switch to a contract-based one where you don't know your neighbours is really difficult.

Still, once you're through most of that, Germany is a really attractive place. The legal protections the average citizen enjoys are fantastic, and the country is a good foundation in which a family can grow roots.

I'd move my family to Germany in a heartbeat for the right opportunity. Anybody want to employ a German-speaking American tech worker (remotely or in person?). I studied in Muenster years ago and have always wanted to return, but the timing personally and in the world economy has never worked out.

Germany is hostile to entrepreneurs, class mobility and is backward when it comes to how their taxation, pension and healthcare systems are structured.

Basically anyone who is not a typical cookie cutter employee will find it difficult in Germany.

Additionally employee salaries for tech jobs are quite low when compared to North America or Australia.

There are many reasons to migrate to Germany, though, if you can put up with these annoyances. Germanys migration policies, as criticised as they are, are still easier than most other western nations

So many horror stories. As a counter point I'd like to say as a brown person my stay in Germany was nothing but pleasant. Everyone was super friendly and tried their best to talk to me in English. I wish I learned some German. I lived there for about a year.

The article mentions both a banker and a electrician... What is qualified ? Bankers/Academics go to the UK and make twice the money. For a electrician, Germany is very attractive. However, don't try to setup your own firm because politics seems to actively work against entrepreneurship. Their business administration literally is like a guild system from the dark ages.

Germany is fantastic if you are white American or first world Westerner wanting to live in a place with good public transportation, good healthcare , good work practices and less hustle culture and good beer . For others especially brown folks I think the experience is a little more complex. You will never feel completely integrated or accepted even though it will never be all our hostility.It is becoming more multicultural but I suspect there is starting to be a backlash against Angela Merkel’s open immigration policies and I fear Germany may flip in their next elections.I have friends who are 2nd generation Turkish or Greek who still don’t fit in and want to move to the US at the first chance . The closest example I can find is living in Portland, Oregon. Great culture , good beer , sort of a socialist culture with good walkability and public transportation. But very homogenous and that fantastic living experience vastly changes with your ethnic and racial background . The intent is good and everything is good until it isn’t .

The answer is probably yes, based on there blue card data[1]. I see more and more Indians (and others) are moving to Germany.

Such a nice slap in the face of the erstwhile "Kinder statt Inder" campaign of CDU.

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2022/04...

No, salaries are not attractive enough for qualified workers.