I&#x27;m really dubious of the claim that labor in .de is super expensive. I know that most software devs there make way less thank 100K euro&#x27;s&#x2F;year. That&#x27;s much, much lower compared to the US. Housing costs (buy&#x2F;rent) in .DE are much lower compared to the US as well.<p>I have coworkers in Berlin who are pitching me to move over there because it&#x27;s so easy to live well there.<p>Edit: I think the problem with &quot;high labor costs&quot; is not monetary, but bureaucratic. It&#x27;s damn near impossible to get people to work near 40 hours a week. It&#x27;s hard to get them to do on-call shift work. It&#x27;s also really difficult to fire people in .de