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• €4,200 in Oldenburg leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €4,711 would in Berlin.

	12 wins Oldenburg Lower Saxony · Open profile	3 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	177,055	3,913,644
People per km²	1,717	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	10	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	6.8%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€4,187	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	9%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	439%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Oldenburg, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€3,327	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€11.37	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	+4.8%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€10	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€7.79	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	2.8%	2%
Owner-occupiers	36.3%	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	€232,890	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€24,034	€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	€2,713	€2,713
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€796	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€1,917	€1,648
Rent as a share of netlower is better	29.3%	39.3%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	7.9	13.2
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€4,200	€4,711