This came up in the news yesterday (Welt, the newspaper).
What the statistical people say is that since 2010 (nine years now).....around 1.8 million Germans have packed up and left Germany. Remember, the total population is around 82-million (today in 2019).
So it's a fair sized number of Germans.
Here's the curious about this number....near half of them had some type of technical background or university degree, and they left more for the money, than over frustration with the government or the crime business, or safety, or migration into Germany. If you did ask them....some might agree that they were heavily taxed, and maybe the new country didn't tax them at the same level.
Back in 2015, it's reported that almost 138,000 Germans packed up in one single year and left.
In the past, the top five countries getting Germans? Well, Switzerland, the US, Austria, the UK, and Turkey. (From the Local)
Does the safety and migration factor fall into play? I would suggest less so. You might find people fed up with the crime factor (maybe they've been robbed a time or two). You might find some older Germans who admit the cost of living in Germany is now ridiculous, and you could live a better lifestyle with the same money.....in Greece or Slovakia. I might even agree that somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 older Germans pack up and move to Florida, to take advantageous of retirement and warm weather (something that Germans tend to desire).
Germans, unlike Americans....are less likely to take some serious idea up like this, and transplant themselves into a whole new country. Just asking a German to uproot themselves and move from Hamburg to Stuttgart....would take an enormous amount of consideration and courage, which most would just grin and say 'no way'.
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