Been in Germany for about 4 years now. For now, I don’t want to return to India for the following reasons:
The working hours are straightforward, 8am-5pm, that’s it. It’s pretty rare that I’m asked to work overtime. Even if asked I can refuse, without having to worry if I would lose my job. Added to that I get 20 days holiday in a year. Plus unlimited sick holidays. I don’t have to worry about losing my salary just because I ended up in hospital for a month.
I had a problem with my knee. The doctor suggested to get an MRI, gave me a slip with an appointment time. I got the MRI went back to doctor, the doctor prescribed a custom sole be made. Went to the pharmacy that made the sole, they took the scan of my leg. Handed me a 24€ Service fee bill. This was the first time I had to pay for the entire procedure.
To give you an idea about the medical expenses, the MRI by itself would have cost me 300€ out of my pocket. Not including doctors fee and service charges! Some of my friends have been in the hospital for 2–3 weeks, they paid nothing more than 80€ for bed charges!
Meanwhile, the healthcare insurance is not cheap, a person has to pay around 14,6% of salary towards healthcare. But knowing that you won’t go bankrupt when you get sick is calming.
I don’t mean, the standard of living, the standard of living is quite high for the majority of people in India. What I mean by quality of life is that what might be a luxury in India is easy to find here.
I was traveling back to my town after a ski trip. It was 11:30pm. The train was nearing the station, I got up to get down. To my surprise, I was the only person other than the driver in the entire train. And no, there was no Ticket Collector in train too.
I board a bus every morning to get to work, it takes 45 minutes to get there. I get in, now I have a choice to sit in the front side of the bus where AC is powerful in summer or sit in the back corner where it’s warm in winter.
I can walk on a zebra cross, without having to give a thought about approaching the car. It will stop. If the car doesn’t I will get a free medical checkup and may be enough remittance to buy myself an iPhone X.
Some of the other naive reasons are (I might get a lot of heat for this. I do not mean to despise India, I’m just stating what I believe are facts)
Security, if you lose your job in Germany, the government would pay you “Arbeitslos Geld” ie. Unemployment money, which includes rent of your apartment plus, certain payment for your expenses. This way you don’t end up without food on the table when you lose the job. However, it requires an individual to be employed full time for about 2 years before being eligible and is considered a dark spot in your resume if you opt for this.
Edit: by suggestions in a comment by Shammi.
Edit: by suggestion in the comment by Sanika Sathe
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