Quick bits I’m looking forward to my birthday/leaving picnic! Wild that these are my last weeks in Berlin. I saw a pretty website, and now I want to redesign my own site. Like I’ve got nothing else that is more urgent! When I arrived in Berlin about 13 years ago, I saw people having barbecues in the Hinterhöfe1 and I assumed that, because the party is happening in a semi-public space, that neighbors would be welcome to join too. But no, not in Germany — what a faux pas that was. It saddens me how closed-off people here are. Jano is available for work! Money bits I’ve been procrastinating on this, but I finally made my Freistellungsauftrag.2 A tax exemption of €1000 on capital gains is always neat. It’s a bit wild to me that this isn’t automatic; the argument that you could have different Freistellungsaufträge at separate banks doesn’t hold up to me because I think it could (should?) all be centralized and automated. So I’ve been sillily paying over 25% tax on interests on…
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