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started the journey of learn about german bureaucracy and already fascinated by the ways it differs from sweden's
does local government in germany just not even attempt to serve non-german speakers? is that why some have a hard time with it? (rip to them but i'm different)
that should have said “journey of learning”, but this sounds cooler, i'm gonna roll with it
wait so… do eu citizens moving to germany just show up at their local registration office and register themselves almost exactly like if they'd moved house within germany? it's not even a different form? they don't need special evidence of the basis of your right of residence???
i guess it's because germany is understandably afraid of the big state and therefore they don't make every aspect of life depend on being in one huge database of citizens, but rather they use many small ones, and therefore arbitrary hurdles to registration aren't necessary?
oh also because the way eu right of residence works is designed around the german model of private healthcare; sweden's public healthcare makes them afraid of letting anyone into the system who might not be able to support themselves (anyone in the system can use healthcare)
oh the big difference i'm noticing is not necessarily in how local government deals with non-german/swedish speakers, because i've no idea how well local government in sweden handles that. it's that the first interaction with the state is with local, not national bureaucracy
tfw the bundesrepublik really is bundes-
@hikari As far as I know you might be asked for some evidence after a while that you are a student/have a job/are actively looking for a job/..., since if you stay long-term you need that, but that doesn't need to be provided initially. But EU free movement means that your right to move is not reliant on obtaining any kind of permission beforehand.
@hikari You may want to generalize to "does local government even attempt to serve anybody including Germans?"