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• €4,100 in Göttingen leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €4,522 would in Berlin.

	12 wins Göttingen Lower Saxony · Open profile	3 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	130,521	3,913,644
People per km²	1,116	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	10	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	8.1%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€4,099	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	9%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	430%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Göttingen, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€2,897	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€12.02	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	-3.9%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€10	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€8.38	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	3.8%	2%
Owner-occupiers	24.2%	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	€202,790	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€20,928	€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	€2,659	€2,659
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€841	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€1,818	€1,594
Rent as a share of netlower is better	31.6%	40%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	7	13.5
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€4,100	€4,522