Ask HN: Next european hub Berlin?
I&#x27;ve been living in Berlin since 3 years ( doing freelance web-development &amp; my own &quot;entrepreneurship&quot; adventures ).<p>IMHO Berlin might sound cool as a startup hub, but there is a huge lack of talent. Companies are struggling to find a decent dev&#x2F;design team, probably because the payment is way too low than average. It&#x27;s true that Berlin is cheaper than London ( and overall Germany ), but definitely is not so cheap to attract good IT people to join your journey with those numbers.<p>On top of that, giving stock-options here is a bit hard ( legally ), so companies are struggling to offer some &quot;virtual shares&quot; of an employee pool as a compensation, which will never make you as rich as if you are one of the first employees of a unicorn.<p>Everything else from offices, meet ups, parties, nice food, international city is here and I think is much better than overcrowded and expensive London ( That&#x27;s why I&#x27;m still here :) ).