People who have been there or live there, how is it? My grandpa says it’s bad due to immigration because he’s MAGA, but I wanna know what it’s really like from a non-MAGA perspective. Is immigration really a problem or does it just make the country better and more diverse?
What do you like to do in Germany? What do you have in your town? Etc.
I plan to go to Germany for a few weeks in either Berlin or Munich :)
Northrhine Westphalia here: I am no expert. My opinion I) Our birthtate is too low. We need people paying into the Rentenkasse (retirement funds) to carry us. II) Skilled immigrants aside we also need immigrants to do jobs most Germans don’t like III) New immigrants commit more crimes; while this is definitely true (relatively 3 times as much for certain crimes), I have yet to see a detailed enough statistic. The issue is that there are gangs traveling from country to country worsening the numbers for all regular immigrants. IV) Immigrants definitely make living more diverse. Especially citys that have more long term immigrants are more diverse. At least in the citys I have been, I didn’t notice the UK problem of separate cultures. They felt integrated.
Conclusion: Immigrants are not an issue. However, detailed statistics are necessary to evaluate immigrant crimes. I suspect that locking down on criminal gangs is important. Anyway, as an average German citizen you have no issues with crimes whatsoever as they are quite rare.
I like bouldering, visiting castles, museums and such.
Can’t tell you what exactly but the largest museum of it’s kind.
Neither. If you visit big citys, you are not visiting another country, but another shade of grey. Of those two, I would pick Munich however.