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Ask HN: Should I move to California or Germany as a SWE with 2 small kids?

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Re: Ask HN: Should I move to California or Germany as a SWE with 2 small kids?

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You forgot that Bavaria has still a travel warning advisory, due to incompatibilities with the German constitution and their police ordonances. https://www.lawblog.de/archives/2017/07/20/bayern-endloshaft... Rather move to one of the democratic german states, where the police cannot put you into prison forever, without trial.

Not trying to justify that law (and I'm not a fan of the Bavarian "one-party-state" either), but I want to mention that "the police" can't put you into prison forever - they need to get it reapproved every three months by a judge. Plus, if you're the kind of person this law targets (a suspected terrorist), you would be well advised not to move to the US either...

The persons affected by the law so far are normal citizens, certainly not terrorists.

Re: Ask HN: Should I move to California or Germany as a SWE with 2 small kids?

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30000* Germany. You get like an entire month paid vacation. Companies are incredibly thirsty for talent there and job security is high. The people are very nice and the job pay isn't worse enough to worry about being poor. Most large cities are within a few hours of whatever small town, so you don't have to be in the middle of a field somewhere if that isn't ideal. And for your kids the education system is waaaaaaay…

> You get like an entire month paid vacation. More like 1.5 months realistically. Four weeks is literally the legal minimum.

I'm on my way
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