Tips to Live Study and Work in Germany
- bigyandixit
- Feb 24, 2019
- 4 min read
Best time to do shopping in Germany and Europe is after Christmas and New year, At this time the price of everything like clothes and shoes drops from First week of January to Middle February (7th Jan to 15th Feb). Hence Do your shopping at this time and buy your loved Clothes.
If you want to buy clothes. There are plenty of second hand store where you can buy good clothes for a little price you need to be ware of that. Resales is a second hand shop circuit around Germany.
If you need other daily items “Floh Market” or Flea Market are run every Saturday in every city you just need to google the dates and you might be able to find some really good items if you are lucky but be careful of these kind of market they are there to rip you off specially in big city like Berlin and other places. Hence bargain as much as possible.
If you wanna invest in stock the price get low before Christmas and then they start to grow slowly. Hence this tip is a bit shaky. Do at your own risk.
Netzclub is a free sim card, where you dont need to play a monthly fee and you get 100Mb of data free for every month. If you really want you can use your phone without any payment to Mobile service provider. You can use a Free Voip to make calls search the app in Android or IOS.
If you want to travel around Europe Flix Bus is a really cheap alternative to travel, Don’t forget to check the car sharing app like “Mitfahrgelegenheit” you pay a lot less but i think these days you need to be a member of such sites to use their services. And if you want to get cheap train tickets then book at least one to two months before. (Goeuro.com- is a good place to search and compare prices.)
Aldi and Penny are the cheapest stores in Germany and they have reduced prices for fruits and vegetables if you pay attention. In Aldi and Penny and LIDL there is a middle section where they bring seasonal goods and sell for bit lower price thats also a good place to look for goods that you need. Monday Morning is the best time to find fresh food and fresh deals. Saturday evening is the best day to find discount deals. Sunday the shops in Bahnhof or central station are opened.
If you want banking system you need to pay 5 euro per month if you are more than 30 and not a student. Solution can be to use online banking system, they dont have monthly charges and could be a good solution for many people. I did had some troubles making one of such account dont know the exact reason may be SCHUFA check.
There are lots of goods people leave outside of house and write zu Mitnahmen or “Zu Verschenken” simply means give away. Bit hard to find in big cities.
Many people pay a lot of money to apply to Germany and pay the sum to consultancy, but its very simple to apply to Germany and come here and study. Most of the German university have the site in English too hence you can benefit from that and try to correspond to a campus officer who is responsible for international relationships.
Finding a room or flat sharing in big city might be incredibly hard, and living with other people are always crazy to fulfill their needs. Best place to live would be the students hostel or apartment provided by the government. They are cheap and its fun to make a lot of friends.
Learning German would be pretty important to find a work. Hence i did found without much German too but was just luck.
German house have radiator based heating system and if those are not working properly buy a cheap fan with heater these would be helpful to circulate the air and warm the room too.
German beds are super soft and foamy be prepared to put something underneath other wise, people who don’t have experience sleeping in soft bed would have a lot of back problem.
Germany have long winter and if you are from a warm country be prepared for less sunlight and long winters that might affect your health hence alternative food that provide Vitamin D and pills might also work.
Europeans are generally “cheapskate” they don’t spend money easily hence you need to be aware of that. Depending upon people who have traveled a lot have more acceptance to foreigners.
Meetup and inter-nation and tinder might be helpful to find possible friends and connections you need to think about events to meet like minded peoples. This might apply to big city but in small city its more different and you feel someone cares for.
Big city life is like no one cares about no body and you are no one in the city. In small city everyone knows and is much more home feeling.
There are private insurance where you can save your money, Hensa merkur and there are few others please google. I think that’s the cheapest
You guys can add the tips below in the comment. I might have missed many 🙂
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