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Razvan Jucan, studied at Technical University of Cluj-NapocaAnswered Feb 11, 2017I come from Romania. Lived in Germany for the last 4 years. So here’s my list with the cheap stuff.Food - everybody needs to eat. So food is cheap, also partly because the VAT for food is 7%. The grocery stores offer a great variety of products for every pocket.Cosmetics - home of Nivea and many other beauty brands, they are cheap. There are also brands owned by the big german drugstores ( müller, dm, rossmann ) which are usually cheaper than the bigger brands and of good quality.Coffee - normal german coffee from Jakobs, Tchibo or Dallmayr can be found cheap especially on discount.Clothes - Good quality clothes which last years and are not especially cheap for everybody; i would consider them cheap, more like an investment. A good Jack Wolfskin jacket can be used for many years, although it might cost a couple of hundreds of euros.Rent in Berlin - it’s a known fact. Other than Berlin, the big cities like Munich, Frankfurt or Cologne have very high rent prices ( especially Munich )German courses - The Germans want you ( as foreigner ) to speak german. So there are courses organized usually in public schools for non-german speakers. These are pretty cheap.Loans - interest rates are pretty low. So debt is cheap :)Other than that, i find almost everything else expensive. Some of these:Internet - comparing to Romania it’s an expensive joke.Mobile telephony - extremely expensive.Car maintainance - the dealerships will charge at least 100€ per hour labor. And they usually overestimate the labor for regular stuff.Being dumb - The Germans are very serious people. And they require you to know how things work ( responsibilities, rights, obligations ). Make some mistakes ( out of stupidity, ignorance … ) and you pay big time.