As a quasi-German (I’m Dutch by passport but have spent about as much of my younger life in Germany as in the Netherlands), I would not. Never considered it, which is why I left a couple of decades ago. To put it in a nutshell: rude, confrontational, self-righteous, xenophobic, anti-capitalist, in love with pie-in-the-sky but increasingly dysfunctional yet convinced of its superior ways. That’s Germany for me. This is of course a gross generalization. There are many good things I could also say about Germany, and not all Germans are alike. But that’s the summary of why I wouldn’t want to grow old there.

BTW, pissing on Germany is a Dutch national sport. Which I detest and never participated in while I was there (either side of the border). My opinion was formed through actually living in Germany, and came together slowly, over the years. My opinion of “my own” country is only oh-so-slightly better than that of Germany.