Winniefred
2023-06-02 08:56:46
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It always depends on where I live. So the 'region.'
Somewhere in or near metropolitan areas, life can become hell. Apart from the high prices. Personally, I find the quality of life here in the countryside clearly higher for us than in the city.
My commute is 20 km. But I have been driving for many years and have never had a traffic jam. My travel time is always 22 minutes.
Since our house was not that expensive, I only work from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. At 3:22 p.m., I am home on time.
Netto, Lidl, Edeka, and the pharmacy are on the way. The doctor comes to the village twice a week. In the neighboring town, there is a general practice where young doctors take turns specializing. They come from the city.
The hospital is 25 km away. But none of us want to go there voluntarily anyway.
Otherwise, due to the aging population, the structures here in the countryside are better for older people than in the city. Transport services, care services, medicine transport, etc.
Amazon even delivers here on Saturday at 8 p.m. Sometimes even same-day.
However, the most important point for me is the care of our child. Our child is a country child and does not want to go to the city.
The school in the small town 6 km away is very good, if not the best in the entire federal state.
Class sizes are 17 children and 2 teachers in the classroom. The school has its own swimming pool, medical service, new school building, new gymnasium, comprehensive supervision options. There are neither children who do not speak German nor dirty school toilets here.
The children have slippers inside the school building. By the 4th grade, all children in the class can read and write. Unlike most other schools.
I can also send my child to the playground alone. Cows frolic in the neighbor's garden. The ice cream truck comes to the front door on weekends as does the baker daily. A butcher and a beverage supplier also come.
The bus stop is 20 m away. Every 2 hours a bus goes to the train station with connections to Leipzig. If I want, I am in Leipzig at the market in 1 hour.
If I drive the 50 km to Erfurt by car, I am in less than 3 hours from my home to Munich city center. The ICE takes 2.14 hours. No problem to go shopping or for a beer in Munich sometimes.
I dare say, individual quality of life is now significantly higher in the countryside than in urban areas.
Yesterday I was in the greater Hannover area. Honestly, what do you want there? Traffic jams, traffic jams, traffic jams. Annoyed people everywhere. Dirt, concrete, and everything built over. There might still be some peace in the Lüneburg Heath, although even there the tanks are firing today and a large part is a military restricted area.
We live in a city of about 600,000, with classes of 18 and 21 children – all children in primary school also wear slippers, I don’t know it any other way. And children can read from the 1st grade, 2nd half of the year, all the children in my circle of acquaintances from Sweden to Baden-Württemberg... What kind of problematic schools do you have in mind? Relatives lived in Berlin-Neukölln, it really wasn’t so great there, especially with children, they left again. But that surely only applies to a few real problem districts in some cities. And what do you want to shop for in Munich? I was recently in downtown Erfurt and found it very appealing. Well, I was only there for 2 hours or so, but it was pleasantly surprising.