Picture this: you’re scrolling through job listings on LinkedIn. Product Manager at a tech company in Karlín. Sounds interesting. Good description, nice perks, hybrid work. And there at the bottom, where you’d normally see “competitive salary” or “based on experience” — you know, the corporate eq…
Here’s a question that comes up at roughly every third expat dinner party in Prague, usually somewhere between the second and third beer: “Do I even have a pension here?” It’s followed by a shrug, a vague mention of some deduction on the payslip, and then the conversation moves on to something mo…
Nobody moves to Prague dreaming about tax forms. You came for the architecture, the beer, the quality of life, maybe the tech scene. And then January rolls around and someone at work mentions that you need to file a “daňové přiznání” and suddenly you’re googling Czech tax vocabulary at midnight, …
There’s a moment in every expat’s life in Prague when the mental math shifts. You’re standing in your rented flat — the one where the landlord keeps raising the rent, the hot water takes four minutes to arrive, and the walls are that particular shade of “Czech beige” — and you think: what if I ju…
Last October, a friend of mine — let’s call her Marta — came home to her flat in Vinohrady after a long day at work and found a letter taped to her door. Not from the postman. From her landlord. The rent was going up by 6,000 CZK a month, effective next month. No discussion, no negotiation, just …
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