I'd take that job in a heartbeat. Working on cars? Check. Nice European country? Check. Work-life balance? Double-check. What's not to like?
Maybe it's because I'm looking for fresh graduate jobs, and 70000€ looks very attractive to me, even with a 35% tax.
The pay & the taxes, mainly. It is more fun owning one of those German cars than helping write their software.
> Maybe it's because I'm looking for fresh graduate jobs...
If you are just starting out, observe that the point of a job is to make money. Give serious thought to finding a job that pays well. Most people you see are working solely because that makes them money, although optimising $/hr is usually not something people regret.
The grass is always greener on the other side. :)
If you don’t like the idea of living in San Francisco or Chicago, you’ll hate it at most of the large European cities.
Small towns are a different manner.
Make no mistakes, I don't have any illusions about cultural differences and am perfectly aware of grass-greener-on-other-side syndrome. I just don't want to be stuck in a 700 km^2 island all my life.