About SettledIn

What this is

SettledIn is a practical settlement guide for people moving to European Union cities. It exists because the official rule and the lived reality of moving somewhere new are often two different things, and most guides only give you one of them.

Coverage starts with Munich, focused on families with children, and is expanding city by city and topic by topic from there.

How a guide gets written

Every guide is built from two layers of research: official sources (government agencies, municipal offices, consumer protection bodies, the actual text of the relevant law where it matters) and real community experience (forum threads, expat guides, people who have actually gone through the process). Each concrete claim, a deadline, a fee, a document requirement, is tied back to where it came from, listed in the Sources section at the bottom of every guide.

Before a guide is published, it goes through an independent fact-check pass against its own sources, and a review for whether internal links, structured data, and search-friendliness are actually in place, not just claimed.

What SettledIn is not

SettledIn is not a government service, a law firm, or a substitute for official advice. Rules change, and the exact figures or deadlines on any page can shift after publication. Every guide says so explicitly, and links to the official source so you can check the current version yourself before relying on it for something that matters.

How this stays free to read

Some guides link to relevant third-party services (insurance comparison, translation, tutoring, and similar). Where that relationship is a paid partnership, it is labeled as such. Reading and using the guides costs nothing.