Build new or wait for an affordable house to become available?

I don’t know how high the average market price is in the surrounding villages, although I somehow believe it can’t be that bad. It takes 50 minutes from here to Bonn, 1 hour 10 minutes to Cologne, 25 to the next medium-sized city, and the next smaller towns are reached within 15 minutes.

Completely lacking infrastructure? Daycare and primary school within walking distance? Workplace 15 minutes away? Next larger city (110,000 inhabitants) 25 minutes away?

Then I have to play dumb: Why does the sqm of building land cost 9€ then? Within the wider catchment area of a metropolis (Cologne), another big city (Bonn), as well as with basic infrastructure, according to everything I know, these prices shouldn’t exist. Of course, I don’t know everything. Is there a catch that I (and maybe you too?) don’t know?

If you are able and willing to secure yourself against the worse hardships of life through family cohesion and occupational disability insurance or disability insurance, you can build.

Personally, I would never burn that much money if I already knew about it beforehand, but here there are opposing opinions that show it can be seen differently.

Only a few rosy plush balls have to be defused before they wrap around your brain like cotton:

Lack of infrastructure probably even increases their demand.

Until there is no longer a sufficient mass of patients because they have died or moved away. The original poster is young and has to work 35-40 years. I repeat, such hamlets will very likely not grow, but slowly re-naturalize. Because on balance more people die/move away than are replenished by romantics like those active here.

I’m appalled that a tram connection can be more important to someone than proximity to a beloved person.

I’m appalled that people lack the imagination to understand the constraints of those who, due to obligations and their training, have to take a job that cannot be done without such a connection and proximity to the city. You don’t ride on grandma’s back to work, but you might be able to visit grandma by train? And there are supposedly people for whom 200-inhabitant villages give absolutely nothing, where family ties only help to a limited extent.

But that is different for the original poster.

How can anyone not understand that? I am appalled that a tram connection can be more important to someone than being close to a loved one.

To be honest, if I had two equivalent houses in equivalent locations and the only difference was that one was near the parents / parents-in-law, and the other at a healthy distance (100km+), I would immediately take the second one. I love my parents and at least as much my parents-in-law, but this sticking together is an absolute horror to me, I find it often leads to very strange behaviors / psychological effects. I prefer quality time together every few weeks, I think everyone benefits more from that. P.S. this is just my personal opinion, I also think it’s completely okay that other people see it very differently.

How many inhabitants does the town where your practice might be have?

Otherwise, you have said everything and described it in detail, one can feel your love for your homeland, equity and above all income are sufficiently available, 25 minutes to the next big city, ridiculous land prices (however, I consider the question of "why" that was raised here very legitimate), the awareness of worst cases in advance has been achieved... I think almost everything here speaks for a nice little house in the countryside!

And of course, the old lady's house is certainly in good condition and a bargain, but making it dependent on the lady's lifespan I find unnecessary and inappropriate... apart from the fact that the passing away can still take years to come and you might be sitting on hot coals.

Wishing you much success in your choice, and feel free to report further...

: Is that the 5-year-old post whose link you mentioned on YouTube?

Try entering Entvölkerung and Spiegeltv. This is about a market of 17k inhabitants. The gentlemen can't sell the place and would like a bungalow as a retirement home. But the financial background of the OP is different.

: Children nowadays also don’t really bind people anymore. The husband of an acquaintance (kind/nice and pleasant to look at) of my wife cheated through the community despite having a child until he was caught in his own house with his lover by the in-laws. They are building now as well , not the in-laws but the new couple. At once, 2 families with children "destroyed".

Additional question: The plot costs €9/sqm. How much do you still have to pay for development? At this price, it cannot be a developed plot; is it really that cheap in the end?

The husband of an acquaintance (kind/nice and easy on the eyes) of my wife screwed around through the whole community despite having a child until he was caught by the parents-in-law in his own house with his lover.

That doesn't mean you have to break up right away.

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If kindergarten and school are so close, I assume it’s not the absolute middle of nowhere.
Just for comparison, we don’t even have any store or public facility in the village – nothing at all. Still, in the last 2 years, 3 families with children have built new houses.

To my knowledge, the age pyramid will continue to shift in favor of retirees over the next 30 years. Just Google it – it’s expected that the surplus will only decrease around 2050. Everyone retiring now will remain a customer with the OP for another 30 years.

Of course, there are jobs where you’re glad to have a train connection. But the OP is in the fortunate position to be able to choose. I also enjoy this freedom – it’s great. I can only pity the train riders and those stuck in traffic jams.