Yeah, people go ballistic when I mention costs from rural northern Germany. Average software developer salary is 5000€ net per month. Renting a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom house is about 1000€ per month. If both adults work, that means the family home is about 10% of the income. 20 minutes by car/bus to the next city center, though.
> Average software developer salary is 5000€ net per month
Huh? That is far above the average developer salary. Even in a big city this would only be plausible in a highly demanded specialty and high experience level. Far from average.
Sounds like an outlier to me, unless you can provide some statistics.
All good jobs are limited and you'll need a certain amount of skill and competitiveness to get them.
But remote work in software development is pretty widely accepted in Germany, too.
That said, especially in the countryside, there are a lot of companies actually building or producing stuff. And they need IT services, too. Any food batch that's not properly accounted for in your warehousing software is effectively unsellable and, thus, a pure loss.
