Building a house with 300,000€ is possible

Of course, one must also ask the question, how do I define a village. Is it a place where there are more cows than inhabitants and only one street with 20 houses, or is everything under 100,000 inhabitants a village? Of course, I wouldn’t want to live somewhere where there isn’t even a baker, let alone supermarkets, gas stations, doctors, schools, etc. However, in larger communities or small towns (between 5,000 - 20,000) you usually have all that, and especially in the cities, living conditions vary greatly. In many areas, I wouldn’t tell my child to go outside and play a little. Otherwise, there are often young families in new development areas, so the children will certainly find friends. It’s simply two different mindsets, and that is probably also modeled by the parents. I don’t want to read everything again now, but I think I wrote that it takes me less than 15 minutes from home to the city limits and then at least another 15 minutes in the city, in extreme cases nearly 45 minutes in the city. All that by car. Therefore, from my point of view, the approximately 12 minutes to the city limits are negligible compared to the rest; driving through the city is the annoying part, and I would have that with the car even if I lived in the city, unless I move best to the industrial area next to the company and stay there forever. In case the colleagues who take longer in the city, I had based it on public transport and I think I wrote that as well. Here you walk a few minutes to the stop, then wait a few minutes or more if you miss the train or if it’s delayed, then ride, walk a few more minutes and quickly the same amount of time has passed. All that in wind and weather, while I don’t even have to set foot outside to get into the car. In addition, how often do strikes occur, cancellations due to snow, etc. BTW, especially newer houses are also already being sold here before they even appear in the newspaper or on the internet. Surely you don’t get a million for a detached house, but you also only paid half or less before. Conclusion: Everyone has to decide for themselves, only very few want to change the "fronts".

On the topic of city or countryside, my two cents: I think nowadays it’s hard to judge what the resale value will be in 10, 20, or 30 years. Until the 1990s, the house in the countryside was the hit; no one wanted to live in the city with their family. By the way, that is still the case in many Western countries today. It just changes. Who knows how cities will develop in the coming years and decades? What happens, for example, if crime continues to rise sharply in cities as it is now? What happens if remote work positions have established themselves more and more in 10 years and you no longer have to commute at all? Maybe then you’d rather sit on the terrace in the countryside to work instead of in the small apartment in the concrete desert, even if you have the theater around the corner that you don’t actually attend?

My opinion: We found a place about half an hour from Stuttgart city center, directly near the train station (30 minutes to Stuttgart main station) and 1 km away from the highway-like expressway, which brings you a bit closer to the Swabian metropolis if you want to see it. Everything you need for daily survival is within walking distance.

That’s also how I grew up and as a teenager, I didn’t find it bad at all, on the contrary. Even in the small town, as a teenager, you have fun, whether at parties on the forest edge/barbecue spots or on trips to the city.

Food for thought:

A few days ago, I listened to a very interesting lecture by a traffic researcher.
Content: If there are self-driving cars, there is no longer any reason to live in the city. The commute can be used for working, having breakfast, etc. Traffic jams are avoided through networking. And so on.

Then the "villages" and communities around larger cities could position themselves much better. Establishment of shops, etc., where previously there were none or only a few. So no rural exodus, but maybe an exodus from the city?

This vision – although still rather distant – I found fascinating. Who knows what will happen in the future.

Food for thought:

A few days ago I heard a very interesting lecture by a traffic researcher.
Content: When there are self-driving cars, there is no longer any reason to live in the city. The commute can be used for working, having breakfast, or similar. Traffic jams are avoided through networking. Etc.

Then the "villages" and communities around larger cities could position themselves much better. Establishment of shops, etc., where there were none or only a few before. So not rural exodus, but maybe an urban exodus?

This - though still a rather distant - vision I found exciting. Who knows what will happen in the future.

That is of course a really interesting thought and I hadn’t really had it on my "radar" before. But it sounds very logical to me. And autonomous vehicles are coming... it’s only a matter of time.

That is of course a really interesting thought and I hadn’t really had it on my "radar" before. But it sounds very logical to me. And autonomous vehicles are coming... it's only a matter of time.

They’re not coming, they are already here, there are already test tracks...
There are definitely arguments for both sides, also depending on the life phase.
I can only say, while I lived in Munich, I only went to a friendly match at the stadium once, you just didn’t do as much as you could have etc.
And on the topic of friends, living in the city is much more anonymous (which many want) than in smaller towns.
It always also depends on HOW and WHERE you live in the city. Sure, living in a posh district, on a large park-like, not easily visible plot of land, maybe even by a lake with a boat dock where the neighbors are called Phillip Lahm or Thomas Müller would be fine by me too. But hardly anyone can afford that.
I rather know people who absolutely wanted to live in the city and then preferred to buy a 50-year-old terraced middle house with 120m², spread over 3 floors and a 6m wide (25m long) little plot for the same price they would have gotten a detached 150m² new build on a 500m² plot 25km outside.
For them, it was very important to live in the city, how they lived there was almost irrelevant, because you simply cannot compare the houses.

It is possible, especially if you can do some of the work yourself.