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Moving to Berlin

  1. How to move to Berlin
  2. How to get a residence permit
  3. How to find an apartment
  4. How to find a job
  5. How to learn German

Working in Germany

  1. How to find a job
  2. Salaries in Germany
  3. Taxes in Germany
  4. Health insurance for employees
  5. How to get a Blue Card
  6. How to get a work visa
  7. What is the probation period?
  8. How to take sick days
  9. How to take vacations
  10. How to take a sabbatical
  11. How educational leave works
  12. Changing or losing your job
  13. Job notice periods
  14. Unemployment benefits

Visiting Berlin

  1. Visiting Berlin
  2. How to use public transit
  3. How to tip in Germany
  4. Where to buy weed

Apartment life

  1. How to find an apartment
  2. Common housing scams
  3. How to register your address
  4. How to move into an apartment
  5. How to move out of an apartment
  6. How to change your address
  7. How apartment deposits work
  8. How to get a Schufa
  9. How the TV tax works
  10. How to get your packages
  11. What to do if you lose your keys
  12. How to get key doubles
  13. Review of Conny rent reduction

Starting a business

  1. How to start a business
  2. How to get a freelance visa
  3. How to go from employee to freelancer
  4. Health insurance for freelancers
  5. Freelance developer salaries
  6. How to join the KSK
  7. How VAT works
  8. Being a Klein­un­ter­neh­mer
  9. How the trade tax works
  10. Are you a Freiberufler or a Gewerbe?
  11. How to do the Ge­wer­be­an­mel­dung
  12. How to run a website
  13. Review of Kontist

The basics

  1. Public holidays in Berlin
  2. What is open on Sundays?
  3. Quiet hours and noise laws
  4. How to sort your trash
  5. How to return empty bottles
  6. How to tip in Germany
  7. How to exchange coins
  8. How to use public transit
  9. How to stream and torrent movies
  10. How to write a German address
  11. How to mail a letter
  12. How to dial German phone numbers
  13. Emergency phone numbers

Personal finance

  1. Cost of living in Berlin
  2. How to choose a bank
  3. Banking in Germany
  4. Taxes in Germany
  5. Types of insurance
  6. How to save money
  7. How to exchange coins
  8. How to get a Schufa
  9. English-speaking tax advisors
  10. English-speaking tax software
  11. Review of N26
  12. Review of Degiro
  13. Review of Kontist

Healthcare

  1. How to choose health insurance
  2. Health insurance for a German visa
  3. English-speaking doctors
  4. English-speaking dentists
  5. How to take sick days
  6. How to buy eyeglasses
  7. How to deal with hay fever
  8. How to get diagnosed with ADHD
  9. How to get tested for HIV and STIs
  10. How to become an organ donor
  11. Review of Techniker Krankenkasse
  12. Review of Ottonova

Insurance

  1. Types of insurance
  2. How to choose health insurance
  3. How to choose liability insurance
  4. Do you need legal insurance?
  5. How to choose car insurance

Where to find...

  1. Where to find help
  2. Where to buy what
  3. How to buy, sell and donate things
  4. Where to watch movies in English
  5. Where to find foreign ingredients
  6. English-speaking doctors
  7. English-speaking lawyers
  8. English-speaking dentists
  9. English-speaking GPs
  10. English-speaking tax advisors
  11. English-speaking gynecologists
  12. English-speaking psychiatrists
  13. English-speaking psy­cho­the­ra­pists
  14. English-speaking veterinarians
  15. English-speaking driving schools
  16. English-speaking hair salons
  17. 24-hour gyms
  18. Where to donate clothes
  19. Where to buy motorcycle gear
  20. Where to find lost things
  21. Where to get passport photos
  22. Where to play board games
  23. Where to find American pizza

Immigration

  1. How to get a residence permit
  2. How to get a Blue Card
  3. How to get a work visa
  4. How to get a freelance visa
  5. How to renew a freelance visa
  6. How to get permanent residence
  7. Health insurance for a German visa
  8. How the immigration office works
  9. Aus­län­der­be­hör­de wait times
  10. Citizenship wait times
  11. How to get a Fik­ti­ons­be­schei­ni­gung
  12. Where to get passport photos
  13. Relocation consultants in Berlin

Bureaucracy

  1. How to get a Bürgeramt appointment
  2. How the immigration office works
  3. Taxes in Germany
  4. Tax ID, tax number and VAT number
  5. Your So­zi­a­l­ver­si­che­rungs­num­mer
  6. How to get a Mel­de­be­schei­ni­gung
  7. Where to get passport photos

Legal matters

  1. English-speaking lawyers
  2. Do you need legal insurance?
  3. How to make a noise complaint
  4. Is cannabis legal?
  5. Photography laws
  6. Review of Conny rent reduction

Family and friends

  1. How to make friends
  2. How to get married
  3. How to find a Kita
  4. How to get a Kitagutschein

Dogs

  1. Having a dog in Berlin
  2. English-speaking veterinarians
  3. How to bury a dead animal

Leaving Germany

  1. How to move out of an apartment
  2. Changing or losing your job
  3. Abmeldung — How to deregister your address
  4. How to get a pension refund

Getting around

  1. How to buy and ride a bicycle
  2. How to buy a car
  3. How to use public transit
  4. How to buy a Deutschland Ticket
  5. How to pay a BVG fine
  6. How to cancel a BVG ticket subscription

Driving

  1. How to buy a car
  2. Cost of owning a car
  3. How to choose car insurance
  4. How to get a driving licence
  5. English-speaking driving schools
  6. How to convert a foreign driving licence
  7. Where to buy motorcycle gear
  8. Parking motorcycles on the sidewalk
  9. How to get an International Driving Permit

Bonus content

  1. Movies set in Berlin
  2. Two kinds of Netto
  3. Worms in trees
  4. What does "m/w/d" mean?
  5. Fonts used on German signs
  6. How to get rid of a Christmas tree

Newest guides

  1. Berlin citizenship wait times Citizenship wait times September 13, 2025

  2. German health insurance when unemployed Health insurance when unemployed June 2, 2025

  3. German health insurance for freelancers Health insurance for freelancers June 2, 2025

  4. German health insurance for students Health insurance for students June 2, 2025

  5. German health insurance for employees Health insurance for employees June 2, 2025

  6. German health insurance for Azubis Health insurance for Azubis June 2, 2025

  7. How to read your Zusatzblatt How to read your Zusatzblatt December 17, 2024

  8. How the Berlin immigration office works How the immigration office works December 17, 2024

  9. Berlin Aus­län­der­be­hör­de wait times Aus­län­der­be­hör­de wait times November 27, 2024

  10. How to get key doubles in Germany How to get key doubles November 2, 2024

Recent updates

  1. Review of Conny, the rent reduction service Review of Conny rent reduction November 6, 2025

  2. How to get a driving licence in Germany How to get a driving licence November 6, 2025

  3. How to buy a car in Germany How to buy a car November 6, 2025

  4. My review of Kontist: it's not worth it Review of Kontist November 6, 2025

  5. The Pfand system: how to return bottles in Germany How to return empty bottles November 6, 2025

  6. How to join the Künst­ler­so­zi­al­kas­se (KSK) How to join the KSK November 5, 2025

  7. How the German Fik­ti­ons­be­schei­ni­gung works How to get a Fik­ti­ons­be­schei­ni­gung November 5, 2025

  8. What is the best German bank for expats? How to choose a bank November 5, 2025

  9. German health insurance for freelancers Health insurance for freelancers November 5, 2025

  10. How to read your Zusatzblatt How to read your Zusatzblatt November 5, 2025

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