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Indian living in Berlin. Can confirm. Finding a new apartment is almost impossible and the rents on unregulated apartments is now through the roof. An apartment that would cost ~800 EUR for rent is now atleast 1100-1200 (even for a good developer salary, this is insane).

Berlin is the SF of Europe at the moment. Unless you want to spend 6 months at a minimum hunting apartments I would avoid this city.

Once I get comfortable with German, I am thinking of moving to cheaper, smaller cities , probably in the south and working full time remote.



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