Currently the US, but formerly Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Germany and Canada.

I've never had to register my address anywhere unless I have a drivers license.

How can you live in Germany without registering an address? Were you just visiting?

Registering the address will get you the tax number, which is necessary to be paid.

The health insurance (also mandatory when working) would need a registered address.

I was there for over a year.

I did have a tax number, since I got paid and presumably paid taxes.

I never went anywhere just to register my address though. That sounds so insane to me.

Man, I wish I could "presumably" pay taxes like you... :)

I mean they were definitely paid. I never bothered filing a return or anything though, so I just never got any kind of refund assuming I would have.

My point being that you get a tax number after your first address registration ("Anmeldung einer Wohnung")

I don't think I had my apartment yet when I got my tax number, but OK.

Still a crappy system.

> Germany

You broke the law if you were a resident of Germany and didn't register yourself.

Well, that sucks. Then again, shitty laws don't deserve to be followed.

You think Europe would have learned a thing or two from WW2 and what was going down on the continent. I guess some behaviors are just too culturally ingrained.

> shitty laws don't deserve to be followed

You mean, you have to be ready to be punished for breaqking shitty laws just to point to their shittiness.

> You mean, you have to be ready to be punished for breaqking shitty laws just to point to their shittiness.

Sure, but in my case nothing happened, so, meh?