Home financing ever possible? Probably not!

Middle, upper middle, and higher service.
I don't mean that the private sector always pays better, but that certainly varies in different regions and industries.
From my point of view, the strongest argument for becoming a civil servant is job security if you are a civil servant for life.

Is A1 or A2 middle service? Seriously?

Because it is anchored in the Basic Law. To abolish the civil service, the Basic Law would have to be changed.

In the Basic Law: "The law governing the public service shall be regulated and further developed taking into account the traditional principles of the professional civil service." The word "further developed" allows a lot of leeway even without changing the Basic Law. Although I personally find it nonsensical, a further development could be that teachers are no longer appointed as civil servants. Just like the postmen back then. That is just a food for thought, without wanting to attack teachers now. Instead of teachers, one could also take other civil servant professions as an example. Even the police have been supplemented cost-effectively with the regulatory office. It is the task of politics to carry out exactly such changes, instead of always maintaining the status quo, because otherwise one could just abolish politics as well.

A1 or A2 is middle service? Seriously?

No, but they practically no longer exist.

Intermediate, elevated and senior service.
I don't mean that the private sector always pays better, but that certainly varies in different regions and industries.
From my point of view, the strongest argument for becoming a civil servant is the job security if you are a civil servant for life.

However, within the federal state you can be transferred. Bavaria uses this method to deliberately relocate authorities and central management areas to economically weaker regions in order to develop weak regions. Or to save money in the long term. Nice if you have paid off your little house in Munich and suddenly find yourself near Nuremberg or Würzburg again.

I think a lot of positive things come in on the emotional side as well. I lived almost 10 years in a detached single-family house with a garden as a tenant. I believe in that one full year in my own house I worked more in the garden, planted more, and made it nice for us than in the 10 years of renting combined. There was always the connotation of "I can't take this with me," every plant I would have put in there would have belonged to the landlord afterwards. My motivation was simply not high back then, even though I would have liked it to be nicer. In my own home, I was fully motivated to make it nice for myself.

I can agree with this post 100% because it speaks to my soul

The contributions in the private health insurance (PKV) are fixed amounts completely independent of the salary level. But you only have to insure yourself for 50%, the other 50% are covered by the allowance, which corresponds to the employer's share for employees.

Was that a radio repetition now?

Anyway, the contributions are fixed for the current contract year and increase in the next year. Basically, the PKV only knows one direction and that points upwards.