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• €4,500 in Braunschweig leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €5,206 would in Berlin.

	14 wins Braunschweig Lower Saxony · Open profile	1 win Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	252,811	3,913,644
People per km²	1,312	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	10	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	6.7%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€4,508	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	9%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	450%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Braunschweig, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€2,960	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€10.01	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	+3.9%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€9	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€7.27	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	3.6%	2%
Owner-occupiers	30.5%	16.4%
Paid price per m², resold flatslower is better	–	€6,450
Paid price per m², new flatslower is better	–	€8,108
A 70 m² flat, to buylower is better	€207,200	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€21,383	€43,851
With this salaryBetween cities the net changes only through the state: church tax (8% in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, 9% elsewhere, members only) and Saxony's higher employee share of care insurance. Wage tax and the other contributions are federal, so what differs here is mostly the rent.
Net payhigher is better	€2,871	€2,871
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€701	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€2,170	€1,806
Rent as a share of netlower is better	24.4%	37.1%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	6.6	12.5
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€4,500	€5,206