• moktor@lemmy.world
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      I tried. Even got a degree in German Language & Literature. Took additional language courses through the Goethe Institute in DE, etc.

      Though I’ve spent the last twenty years as a software developer (which is classified as an Engpassberuf), I was told that the regulations would only allow me to seek work based on the skills from that degree (Berufsqualifikation).

      “We already know how to speak German.”

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        You could check on the new requirements. There are some massive changes this year to the work visa programs. One such change is that you don’t have to work in your field of education anymore.

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      It’s VERY TRUE, but no body will take that invitation, job ads in Germany DEMAND that you speak fluent German to work here. I mean you are not even considered if you you tell them you will start learning the language. This happened to 3, highly qualified , experienced colleges of mine plus with me so multiple cases. I know at least 2 cases , where People who are living in Germany are afraid to change jobs within DE because they been rejected due to lack of German language.

      I agree one might need to local languages, but no talent from outside is coming pre learned German in droves. There will be change in this before Germany REALLY NEEDS people. Till then one must talk DE or work with junior/inexperienced person leading to inefficiencies ( see FOR EXAMPLE: DB and multiple of your companies)

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      Parts of Germany are very unfriendly to non white Christians that speak fluent German.

      Some friends and family left to Germany, they all got better life economics wise. They found friends, had good jobs, etc… but then most of them left Germany.

      They really like the public transport, functioning health system, food availability, access to nature and more.

      But they all had constant encounters with neu-nazis. It didn’t get to physical assault, they felt physically safe, but it did create highly hostile environments, either at work, the supermarket or the streets.

      There are countries in the EU that will allow you to enjoy the same benefits without suffering harrasment by neu-nazis.

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        Parts of Germany

        Sigh. Yeah that’s sadly true but I can’t Imagine there is any country without such shitheads.

        But at least our civil society is fighting these pricks.

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          And yet, they all found better life in other countries. In my opinion, and it very much a not very educated opinion, the German shame about the shitier parts of society makes it harder for foreigners to understand the level of shityness in different regions of Germany before setting living there.

          The general route of people that moved was find a jon from a far, move to the area of the job, handle 10 metric tons of paperwork, better their German just to understand more and more just how mistreated and undesirable they are.

          Some chose to stay anyway, some left, tried their luck in a different place and encountered less shitiness and some came back.