Family Lifestyle & School-Stage Fit
Parent dashboard: catalog lifestyle scores, school portal summary, OECD family budget, and neighborhood fit links.
Planning only — not legal, tax, or immigration advice. Confirm on official portals.
Family Lifestyle & School-Stage Fit is a free SetTern planning tool. Parent dashboard: catalog lifestyle scores, school portal summary, OECD family budget, and neighborhood fit links. Orchestrates catalog scores and school links — not a school admissions engine. Sources are cited on the page — confirm details on the official portals linked.
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Family planning dashboard from the SetTern city catalog — school portals, OECD budget scale, and neighborhood fit links. Not scraped school league tables.
$5,461/mo
Berlin · OECD ×2.1 (2 adults + 2 children)
Berlin
Safety 80 · Cost 70 · Housing 50 · Healthcare 80
School finder summary
KMK school directory (state systems) · 4 curated international school(s) in catalog
Public schools are tuition-free; search Schulform (Grundschule, Gymnasium) via your Bundesland portal.
Official portal · School finder · Family budget scaler · Neighborhood budget fit
- safety: 80 — Catalog editorial safety score (0–100).
- schools: 70 — Schools proxy = average of healthcare, housing, safety catalog scores — use school-finder for portals.
- Berlin: Europe's startup capital — brilliant opportunity, brutal paperwork
- Catalog highlights: Tech workers; Startup founders; Artists.
- Catalog cautions: Those needing fast bureaucracy; Non-German speakers in conservative industries.
- Child ages entered: 7, 10 — use school-finder for stage/portal lookup (no scraped league tables here).
Planning only — not legal, tax, or immigration advice. Confirm on official portals.
Verified official sources
- SetTern methodologysettern.io — How we cite costs, visas, and tool limits — not legal advice.
- SetTern editorial policysettern.io — E-E-A-T, fact verification, and update cadence.
- SetTern school findersettern.io — International school planning bands and ministry links.
- SetTern city guidessettern.io — Safety, cost, and lifestyle catalog scores.
Common questions
- Is Family Lifestyle & School-Stage Fit legal or immigration advice?
- No. SetTern tools screen cited government and catalog data for planning only. Confirm eligibility, fees, and deadlines on the official portals linked on this page.
- Does this recommend specific schools?
- It surfaces city scores and links the school finder — not an admissions match.
- Where do safety and cost scores come from?
- SetTern city catalog editorial scores with methodology on /methodology.