Germany

• Rent an Apartment or Room 🏠 – How and where to rent an apartment or room in Germany
  • by Cities: Berlin, Hamburg, Munich
  • Cheap flats with a WBS – A Wohnberechtigungsschein (WBS) gives you access to subsidised cheap social housing
  • Schufa – When long-term renting a flat, you nearly always need a Schufa-Auskunft
• Get furniture & household goods 🪑
  • for free – Facebook groups and websites where people give things away for free
• Order utilities 🔌
  • Electricity – List of Energy suppliers and how to order them
  • Gas – same for gas providers
  • Internet – Overview of DSL & cable internet providers
• Mobile telephony 📱
  • Prepaid – List of SIM card offers without a contract
  • Data – List of offers with data plans
  • Free SIM cards – List of free SIM card offers
• Banking 💳 – Overview of German Banks & Banking Options
  • Current Accounts (Girokonto) – for individuals, to receive salary or spending
  • For Students – Special offers for students
  • Business Banks – For freelancers & companies
  • Credit cards (incl. free ones / without fees)
  • Savings Accounts – money market (Tagesgeld) & fixed-term deposit accounts (Festgeld)
  • Brokers – for shares, funds, ETFs
• Insurance
  • Health care – Overview of German Health insurance options (public + private)
• News 🗞 – News & expat info about Germany in different languages
• Shopping
  • Online pharmacies – List comparing prices & shipping costs
  • Open Shops on Sunday – which supermarkets are open even on Sundays
• Travel 🚆 – Travel options in Germany
  • 9-Euro-Ticket – public transport flat rate pass, until August 2022

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