The USA has no national requirement for paid holidays, vacation days or paid sick days. Meanwhile, in Germany, the legal minimum of paid vacation days for full-time employees is set at 20 days, making ...

American Vanessa Wachtmeister, 34, dropped her law school dreams for a life abroad. She now lives in Berlin on a six-figure salary with her German husband Marcus. They pay about $2,000/month for an 1, ...

The rising cost of living is again the top cause of distress for Germans, according to a long-running survey. But despite the ...

DW's Berlin Fresh and The Washington Post Universe's TikTok teams collaborate to explore the perks of living in Berlin and ...

Germans worry most about increasing living costs, 45% fear US president's policies will make the world more dangerous - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Stacker used Council for Community & Economic Research data from the second quarter of 2025 to find the cost of living by state and identify the 10 most expensive.

As many southern European cities grow tired of tourists, Berlin is pitching itself as an antidote to the crowds, blistering heatwaves and anti-tourism protests causing problems elsewhere.

Students living alone in Germany spend more than half of their income on housing costs, official data showed on Wednesday.

In the German capital, a coffee chain is booming on the promise of affordable prices. The success is generating as much ...

I'm a New Yorker who went to Berlin expecting a historical wonderland, but found an unexpected hub of lush parks and ...

The partners in Germany’s governing Christian Democrat-Social Democrat coalition have been sparring over the contents of a planned replacement of the Citizen’s Income social security benefit, with a ...

I'm originally from Los Angeles, but I've lived in many places: I've gone to school in London, where I got my master's degree, was an emergency aid worker in Turkey, and taught English in China, where ...