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I did not have a UK licence when I hired the cars.  All I presented was the new(ish) German licence which had valid from dates that were both wrong and satisfactory for the car hire company.  I can't remember the dates on my surrendered UK license, but I know I had a full UK motorcycle license from 1964.  I also can't remember when I got a UK car licence, but I guess it was in the 1970s.  The German license shows motorcycle entitlement from 1975 and car entitlement from 1983.

I can support what Feierabend says.  I hired cars a couple of times on my then recently acquired German licence (converted from a UK Licence) without a problem.

Agreed.  However there are ways to disable auto updates in Windows 10 Home.  Here are links to two articles which show how: https://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-stop-a-windows-10-update and https://www.easeus.com/todo-backup-resource/how-to-stop-windows-10-from-automatically-update.html.

When I started coming to Germany frequently I remember a German/American  family telling me about this, and stressing that is was the law of the land.  This would have been in the mid to late 80s.  I remember posing questions about press photographer taking action shots of football matches and captions identifying the players and officials and what happened if spectators were identifiable.  I never received a clear answer..

Best wishes for a speedy recovery John.  Thinking of you.

I've just realised it was a spelling mistake (lethality).  I wasn't trying to be smart, I was just curious and now I've made myself look really dumb.

Hi jeba:  I don't know the word letality and it's not in my dictionary.  Any chance of an explanation? 

  Pretty much matches what the same office told me a few months back.  I should say that it's a pleasure to do business with people who seem to see it as their job to help!

My experience about integrating into the education system is so limited as to make any comment from me of doubtful value.    However I have considerable experience of how non German speaking aliens are readily accepted and integrated into one small community.  I can't speak for the whole of Germany but I have been welcomed with open arms and made to feel a local here in the Moselle valley.  This despite me continually reminding the locals about 30 July 1966 and my insistence that the ball did cross the line!  (As Ember is American she might not understand that, but it's not important).  When I arrived my German was close to zero (some of my German friends claim it's not much better now).  I have witnessed immigrants from Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal and Romania (probably also elsewhere) get similar welcomes.  Further, when the refugee influx was at its peak the community was unbelievably welcoming.   As far as children integrating socially, I had one ten year old English language pupil from Syria  When she arrived she spoke no German and just few words of English.  Within a few months she had many German friends and was certainly integrated much more quickly than her parents.   I must stress that my experience is limited to this one area of Germany and might not be typical.

If you want or need credit what's the problem in applying?  I don't know many British ex-pats here, but one I do know financed a car in July with no problem.   

Another satisfied N26 customer here.  My income is in GBP and I use a Bordeless Transferwise account to fund my N26 account.

  what the hell has Canada, or anywhere else, got to do with it?  This is a forum about living in Germany!

    Not quite sure what you mean by Scottish.  Scottish Gaelic, which some people describe as Scottish, is a language very distant from any form of English.  The Scottish dialect/accent of English varies from one part of Scotland to another.  Incidentally, if you want to wind a Scottish person up you can describe them, or almost anything else from Scotland, as "Scotch".

Getting back to the question posed in the title of this topic:  Yes, I love living in Germany.  There might be parts of Germany that I wouldn't like living in, so really I am saying that I love living in the Moselle.  For sure, there are inconveniences, annoyances and frustrations, but that's true of everywhere.   It always strikes me as strange when I hear the observation (or complaint) that "it's not like that where I come from".  That seems to indicate that the speaker is not suited to living outside their homeland.