Hallo, ich plane zu arbeiten und nach Deutschland zu ziehen, um dort als Krankenpflegerin zu arbeiten. Ich liebe die Natur, ich laufe herum, aber seitdem ich meine Karriere beginne, lerne ich die Sprache. Ich möchte wissen, in welcher Stadt die Lebenshaltungskosten am besten sind.
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Some absolute hole of a place in the east but you don’t want to move there.
Hamburg is nice
All of the cities have a cost of living and housing crisis going on. In general the smaller the city the cheaper it gets. Also the east (with a big exception for Berlin and everything within commute distance around it!) is usually cheaper than the West. The most expensive city is Munich, so you’ll also want to avoid that and everything around it.
If you want to minimise your cost of living you’ll likely want to look for a small or medium sized town, not a city (which by typical German definition is everything with 100k+ inhabitants).
I would say it is a combination of cost of living and salary. I live in Hanover, and the salary for a mechanical engineer is perhaps 5–7% less than what my friends in the south earn, but the living expenses here are 20% lower. The problem is that the landscape around me is mostly quite boring. On the other hand, it’s perfect for biking, and since it’s centrally located, you can reach nice and very different areas quickly.
Chemnitz has the cheapest rent in all of Germany for a city of its size and has plenty to offer as well.
Karlsruhe. Decent infrastructure for cycling and public transport. Affordable rent in most cases. Food is quite amazing. Overall a very friendly city.
If you don’t look too foreign somewhere in the east except for Berlin.
For nature look at villages/ places that have rehabilitation centers in mountain areas or at the sea.
For example Harz mountains or the Eifel are also not expensive.
From experience, I would say Dresden or Leipzig would qualify for this. Large cities by German standards (>500k people), quite international, decent job opportunities, good infrastructure in general, and enough things happening around the city. Cherry on the cake, they do not have a highly chaotic housing market yet, and a rather quick Foreigner’s office (Ausländerbehörde).
People don’t usually wanna hear it but the answer is Wuppertal.
Probably Zossen or something.
Yes, I need to use only 650 euros out of 934 from the student block account as a student living in lower saxony as I live in student dormitory. Don’t know about working people though.
Cheapest City to live would be something like Torgau or Eisenach or anything else in rural eastern germany.
But you dont want to live there, neither as a German nor as a foreigner.
You might consider not to move anywhere to eastern Germany since there is a lot of xenophobia and racism.
Rhineland-Palatine, quite low cost of living (if you are not in the big cities), really great nature, nice people. Try looking for hospitals in smaller towns.
We found that the very north of Bavaria is relatively cheap and has a nice nature. Just don’t try out the big German cities – look for smaller cities (< 100k pop) and what they offer (use tripadvisor eg).
However, I strongly recommend to avoid living in East Germany.
“Welcome to Germany! Our focus: West Germany.”
I would check out Kaiserslautern too. The city isn’t very big or nice but rent should be affordable and the forest around it is beautiful. Not too far from France either.
If you care about cost of living, just ignore cities above 200.000 inhabitants and you will be fine. Some exceptions exist for smaller cities close to popular large cities. But generally smaller cities are quite affordable.
East is generally more affordable but there are reasons why your power point doesn’t focus on the east.
In Niedersachsen there are many places with cheap flats. Like Rotenburg Wümme or around (there is a hospital). A lot of nature, but you will need a Car.
Avoid the following cities due to rental prices:
München, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Freiburg, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Potsdam, Mainz, Köln …
[Source](https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1885/umfrage/mietpreise-in-den-groessten-staedten-deutschlands/)
However, I would also avoid the cheapest cities, as they are often structurally weak and have other disadvantages.
The nice thing about Germany is that there are really many interesting medium-sized cities here.
Ruhr valley is cheap and surprisingly beautiful
I am foreigner, living in Neubrandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Rent is cheap (I am renting 3-room apartments here, when my friend rents 1-room for the same price in Baden-Württemberg). I have decent salary, not the biggest in my sphere, but definitely not the lowest in Germany. Prices for almost everything here is cheaper than in the West or South. And I didn’t really encounter much xenophobia or racism. Maybe because I am white male, but I am definitely not fluent-speaker. There were some incidents, but mostly from other migrants. Also for you, here is a lot of Pflegeheim for old people, they always need new personal (but application and language can take a lot of time)