Cost of living + finding rentals

@AussieRanga It depends a lot of the Region and German city are you moving to. For example Bavarian region is very expensive and the cost of living is not much different from London. It is not so common to find real estate agencies speaking in English and I had few experiences of Agencies putting the phone down after saying that I do no speak German.

There are some accommodation managed by Agencies more friendly with expat and short term contracts.

They often require a German account, but it is not easy to get one without a German address.

Compared to UK the internet network is quite slow in some areas and not very modern.

Do not expect a very modern country. I lived in London for a while and the main difference is the bureaucracy. There is lot of paper work in Germany, on line processes are not very efficient and lot of contracts still requires a wet link signature and docs to be sent via post.