10 Surprising Reasons Nobody Moves to Luxembourg

Why do people purposefully steer clear of Luxembourg?

The country ranks pretty high when talking about the standards of living. The quality of life is great, and a lot of the locals live there comfortably.

But, surprisingly, there are several reasons why many people simply don’t move to Luxembourg, and today, we’ll look at ten reasons why this happens.

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[BambinoAmericano]

The main reason for many is the unreasonable and unbalanced personal income tax rates for high earning singles. I started my second company in Luxembourg and it is difficult to attract senior talent for that reason. I will leave soon for the same reason even if in my view the cost of living is very reasonable. Housing is cheaper than London, Zurich and Paris and grocery much cheaper than most capitals. Luxembourg is the paradise for civil servants, it is not entrepreneurs-oriented. The healthcare system has a serious capacity issue - not practical in case of emergency. And again, they don’t want singles, come married, and even better with kids. The infrastructure for kids is amazing.

[Juliukas]

This information is just wrong. There are affordable places to rent, and co-shares. It is not that hard to find a job! You do not need to be "fluent" in Luxembourgish, and the residence period is 5 years, not 7. Luxembourg is much same as anywhere, it has communities, and as for the cost of living, transport is free of charge! The title of the video is clickbait as there is no "dark side" to Luxembourg, there are merely advantages and disadvantages as there are anywhere.

[Luga.]

I’m Luxembourgish and I agree with the fact that Luxembourg is really rainy and that cost of living is very high but about the citizenship your luxembourgish doesn’t have to be good or fluent. About the fun stuff to do there are many clubs in the capital as well as many parks, malls, e.c.t. You can visit the „Stausei“ or the „Vianden castle“ .

[christianajoe]

Everyone needs more than their salary to be financial stable. The best thing to do with your money is to invest it rightly, because money left for saving always end up used with no returns.

[Ismail_ibn_Ishaq]

I am a Dutch born with non-native parents. Recently my interest in Luxembourg grew and visited twice in the last couple of months. From my experience I want to say the following.

In the Netherlands and Belgium you have to learn multiple European languages. In high school we have to learn Dutch, English and French and in The Netherlands also German (French and German are mandatory for at least 2 years here.) This and considering all surrounding countries speak one of these or even both languages, makes hard to state that language in Luxembourg is an issue. Even French or German monolinguals will be fine over there. Their native language, Luxembourgish is basically a mix of the above mentioned languages, using Dutch/German sentence structure (oversimplifying it here). This makes it easy for us to learn.

If we mention climate, it seems exactly the same from the Southern UK spanning to northern France and the most of Germany. Can’t speak for Austria and Switzerland but I shouldn’t be too far off. So that argument is also not a valid one.

My last point, the disconnect between foreigners and locals seems like an overarching European issue. Most north-western Europeans in general are more on their own with their closed social circles. So you will find this “culture” being dominant in most north-western European countries. I even have to say that my experience was that people are as friendly as here in the Netherlands, maybe even a bit friendlier…

[svenpedersen]

I am danish but born and raised in Luxembourg. I don't understand your whining...for example if you are not born in the Uk, USA or many other countries in the world, you are not better of than in Luxembourg (don't you have to take test etc in the US ?).
Even your housing cost is off... it is way more than that hehe :).
And the seven years of living in Luxembourg to get you a permanent staying "permit" (for life) is quite good. And you can almost wote for every election if you just live in Luxembourg (no need for the seven years "permit").
Night life etc ? You are just a "no life" hehe !.
Yea, the Universities suck !
There are some park for the kids but ok not like in Germany, France or Belgium etc.
Wait, I can go to Paris in 4 hours. I can go to Europa park, Waliby, Disneyland etc easely with my high salary in no time... I can take the plane with a well deserved airport... if not, Charleroi or from an one hour bus to Germany.
I mean you are not telling everything wrong but you probably haven't lived here (or maybe you are just a hater).
I have a friend (a woman) who came here from Brazil and then becoming Portugese etc with her kids and she likes the security here.
I can, and it happened quite a few times with my older brother living in the flat on top of me, let my garage door open for the whole night (because of my dumb brother that forgets to close it) with valuables in it to everybody to see and we never got stolen

[michelebarile]

I'm not luxembourgish, I moved in from another EU nation and i affirm that Luxembourg is the best country in Europe.
However, there is an issue with the cost of renting or buying a property, I admit it.

[KennethJackson-dpsm]

I've lived in Luxembourg for the past 6 years and 7 months and can attest that almost all information in this video is incorrect.

[richardwashington]

Thanks for telling them the truth. Luxembourg 🇱🇺 is very expensive. How much an individual pays for his or her monthly rent is what determine the possibility of their monthly savings. Luxembourg expensive rentage is ruining and stressing people out. Something needs to be done about that. By those in charge.

[dawidblachowski]

Greetings from Luxembourg! We love it here with wife and kids 8, 6, 2.

[TheGamebreaker]

if you are not fluent in luxembourgish after living there for 7 years then you are intentionally trying not to learn the national language and dont deserve it either. on top of that the state does everything in its power to offer language courses left and right

[dws]

7:38 I don't know where you're getting your information but this is complete bullshit. Luxembourg has one of the easiest paths to citizenship for residents out of anywhere in Europe - they had to make it easy, otherwise foreigners would have outnumbered Luxembourgish citizens. Since 2017, the minimum residency time is 5 years, not 7. You have to pass a test of the Luxembourgish language at A2 level, which is very basic, and very easy to achieve quickly if you already speak German. You then just need to pass a civics test, which you can score well at just by reading the constitution and flipping through a history book.

[mistermatm]

I live in Luxembourg and I can confirm that this information could be much more accurate than it actually is.

[huguesvirely]

Such bashing is astounding. I've been living there for 11 years now and I can litterally disagree with nearly every single one of those points. In particular, presenting Luxembourg as not open is just outrageous giving it is the fastest population growth and most diverse population of Europe ..😅😅

[marcodipietro]

I moved here when I was 2, and I have loved it ever since I came here, even if not knowing the language fluently does make living here much harder

[Gigachad]

It is better to spend much money on housing rather than health insurance and being surrounded by guns 😂😂

[bakerstreet]

New York City still seems more expensive. And that's not stopping half the world from trying to migrate there illegally.

[UkuBxlUku]

I live in Luxembourg and some of these points are true, but would not agree with all of them.

[Vinavalues]

Thank you for this information about the other side of Luxembourg

[LucasAnzoategui]

EN: Proudly luxembourgish.
FR: Fièrement luxembourgeois.
SP: Orgullosamente luxemburgués.