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If you are a high value person it is easy to get a work permit. Then you can ask for permanent residency after 3 years. And they like B1 German level. (End of grade school, about) Five is the normal time. If you aren't a high value employee or retired it gets difficult. My wife came here with a job. I came on here coattails so to speak. But I do have an advanced degree. My daughter is having troubles. Not a college grad so she is at the bottom of the heap for jobs. So getting her in has been a struggle we aren't quite done with yet.
If you have parents or grandparents who had to escape Hitler you can apply for citizenship. That gives you the whole EU to choose from for living.