closest German city to Enschede/Twente

Old Apr 18th, 2015, 06:47 AM
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closest German city to Enschede/Twente

What is the closest German city to the University of Twente in Enschede?

My little sister has a job at the University of Twente in Enschede, but she would like to live in Germany and commute, so that she can keep her car (German registration & number plate) without getting tangled up in Dutch Customs Vehicle importation technicalities, taxes, etc...

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Old Apr 18th, 2015, 07:30 AM
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Josh...looks like Gronau, just over the border, is a good sized town. Would seem practical for sis. There is a spa town called Bad Bentheim not too far away. I visited Enshede in 1987 while driving The Netherlands.
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According to this article, Gronau has a population of 45.000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gronau,...ine-Westphalia
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My husband worked in Hengelo, just next door to Enschede for manyyears. Some of his colleagues lived in Bad Bentheim, some in Gronau, some in smaller villages around the border. Most of course lived on the Dutch side of the border.

She needs to look into tax and insurance (health care) regulations for cross border living/working.
If she can read German here is the Dutch tax authorities German site: http://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wc...rivatpersonen/
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Old Apr 18th, 2015, 08:02 AM
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Many thanks everyone for your helpful comments. So, she will have to understand the contents of the link about tax regulations for cross-border living. If any more official issues to consider occurred to you (that she should be mindful of or conform to) please kindly let me know. I will get her started by sending her the links you have shared...
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this is the part of the website above that seems to apply to your sis's situation: it applies to people living in Germany but working in the Netherlands.

http://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wc...n_niederlanden

However, the rest of the guidance is only in Dutch - so she may need some help with that.

in any event, if she is serious she should probably take some professional advice. The university may well have someone who can help - it obviously isn't a rare occurrence.
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