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Expat guide: Frankfurt
This expat guide offers information and advice if you are moving to Frankfurt. Click on the different tabs to find out about anything from tax rules and banking to education and cultural highlights.
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Frankfurt is an industrial and financial metropolis - the economic powerhouse of Germany and central Europe - and also a naturally beautiful and enchanting city, brimming with history and culture.
The commercial centre of the city is centred round Zeilstraße, on which the huge commercial centre the Zeilgalerie is located. The city of Frankfurt offers its residents superb shopping, marvellous museums, interesting historic sites, world-class opera and some charming neighbourhoods, such as Nordend and Bockenheim, which boast attractive parks, including the beautiful Palmengarten Floral Garden.
With excellent rail connections, river transport, the third busiest airport in Europe and its Autobahn system, Frankfurt is the natural hub for anyone wanting to explore the surrounding towns and is the gateway to the German countryside.
This cosmopolitan city boasts a low crime rate, low unemployment rate and, with its very central location, business trips to the surrounding cities in Europe are made easy. The 2007 Mercer quality of living survey ranked Frankfurt among the ten cities with the highest quality of living worldwide.
Shipping and removals
There are numerous companies offering removal services and shipping to Frankfurt. Costs vary according to the volume of goods, and specified length of time involved in shipping. Airfreight is fast but expensive.
The EU Pet Passport has existed since October 2004 and currently covers the movement of dogs, cats and ferrets only. No animal will be permitted access to Germany from another EU country without this Pet Passport. Other animals are subject to national legislation.
Animals entering Germany from outside the EU must be identifiable and accompanied by official documentation along the lines of the EU Pet Passport.
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