Building land in the middle of nowhere with the house prices?!

I sometimes need an hour for routes in Berlin despite a lot of public transport, even throughout the night. The difference is, I could do almost everything by bike. If I live 30km away, you can't just do that quickly.

With your arguments, you can only shake your head. Just look at where the trend is going and where people are moving to, and not the retirees, but the families – exactly, out of the city, into the countryside.

That is also generalized. Sure, there are some families looking for peace and quiet. But one of the other main reasons is that it is simply not affordable in the city (see TE). There are also plenty of studies on that.

I also don’t know where it takes 50 minutes to get to the next high school. Is there such a thing?

Yes, here (see my posts further above) – at least almost. Friends live in a village (1000 inhabitants) about exactly 5 km from the city border. Depending on which of our 4 high schools it ends up being, it’s almost irrelevant. Morning travel times: 40, 42, 43, 39 minutes. The bus simply takes a few detours and changing buses also costs time.

And before anyone mentions biking: 8-12 km distance, 180 meters elevation gain. Yes, an e-bike certainly works from a certain age, but then that is again a mobility cost factor.

Perhaps we can agree that there are different experiences, instead of trying to convince others of the opposite of their own experiences. :) Just as there are villages where it is nice and there is a lot to offer, and villages where there is simply nothing going on. The same applies to the cities, about which very general judgments are made here.
There isn’t just "the" village and "the" city anyway, and there is also something in between. Medium-sized cities, commuter belts, etc.

For the OP, it would only be important to be honest with himself beforehand about where he and his family would feel more comfortable in the long term.

Maybe we can agree that there are different experiences, instead of trying to convince others of the opposite of their own experiences. :) Just as there are villages where it is nice and there is a lot on offer, and villages where it is simply dead. The same goes for the cities, which are also judged very generally here. There isn’t just "the" village and "the" city anyway, and there is also something in between. Medium-sized cities, commuter belts, etc. For the original poster it would only be important to be honest with himself beforehand about where he and his family would feel more comfortable in the long term.

That’s right. And it’s just no use when people talk about their great villages with 10 shops and 3 schools, when that is simply not the case in the village in question. The original poster wanted advice specifically for his situation and not to read about children in mud huts ;).

Besides the differences in the villages themselves, there are also differences in the priorities of the people and their motivations. We, among other reasons, moved back to the village because all the family our children have live scattered across the villages in this area. That was a very significant factor in the decision.

To connect this back to the original poster: As I see it, the driving force would simply be the affordable price of the land. We made a similar decision a few years ago, then built there, and (admittedly during Corona) felt like we were in a golden cage. We then reversed the decision within a short time.

I personally would not buy the property. Here are my reasons:

- long commuting to work is a very big burden in the long run
- costs due to commuting
- poor infrastructure on site (5 km to the supermarket)
- no family on site (keyword: child has to be picked up from [Kita] at short notice because of illness or cared for otherwise)

No matter how cheap the building plot is, the whole thing does not fit from my point of view at the moment.