A spouse of an economically active German citizen can easily settle in the EU; and maybe it's more easily done in/via Austria for economically active German citizen than in/via Germany for a German citizen. Some way or another, the 90/180 day limit can easily be lawfully gamed by a well-off EU citizen wanting their US spouse to move to the EU.
There is the Surinder Singh route and this
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/documen...rt=1&cid=85609 limitation to it for intra-Schengen cross-border re-settlement.
Originally Posted by
German Expat
Depends what you want and its not too expensive. You can start with 150 Euro per month (with 1500 deductible per year, 60% for dentist) with base insurance and from there it goes up dependent what you want (e.g. private room in hospital, low deductible etc.) to around 700 Euro. This is for private insurance, if you go with the state insurance it depends on your salary but the maximum is also around 700+ Euro. There a non working spouse and children would be included while in a private insurance it is not.
With his income I doubt health insurance is a big deal for him in Germany. Taxes is a different story. Also you have a really hard time to buy ETF's or other investments (basically you end up in a twilight zone because of US and EU regulations each locking you out of the others investments).
Indeed, it won't be health insurance costs that are a make or break for someone who seems to be making as much money as has been suggested in this thread.
He's probably going to keep most of his personal and business banking and investment activity US-based anyway. I don't know what kind of professional tax planning advice he has used and how much money is on the table for his blog business, but there are definitely some lawfully creative ways to make the tax burden mainly one due to Uncle Sam's levies even while paying Deutscher Michel his own due too. Whether or not paying for advice to get to such structures for tax management make sense financially, well, that's another matter.