Do they? That's interesting. I have a short list of countries to flee to if the U.S. gets too objectionable ("objectionable" deliberately unspecified) for me, but requiring English as a ubiquitous language is a serious limitation. Adding to that list is nice.

It depends a bit where you go in Germany. If you want to spend your time in small towns German might be more important.

I live in Berlin and I know a bunch of people who live here that speak English but no German. They do quite well without German.