Building the return of rural exodus back to the home city or countryside land plot

At the salary levels, it is almost completely ruled out to get a comparably paid job in the public sector in rural areas until the end of one's professional life. That means commuting until retirement or looking for significantly lower-paid jobs IF something is to change...

One hour of commuting as a "regular time" is often much longer with delays, missed connections.

I myself currently commute for about 45 minutes exactly. The longest part of that is 17 minutes by train. The variety makes it more pleasant because it also includes car, walking, transfers, and walkways. Earlier, when it was over an hour of commuting, it was much worse as about 50 monotonous minutes were spent on the train. For me personally, it is now clear that in the case of children, despite "only" 45 minutes, I need to be closer to home and childcare with my work.

Well, a parent should always be close to the child when commuting. In our case, the mom who also went part-time. If a child has diarrhea, you should quickly pick up the child. Very bad with the train. Because of the money alone, only one parent should commute. Or build cheaply and calculate whether, as a civil servant, you earn less in the area and whether you want it. For me it would be 80k to 50k. Doesn't make sense, so the woman can stay at home.

How is it supposed to be possible to "earn less" as a civil servant? If the B3 is not exactly a political civil servant, i.e. BaZ, then no lower positions can be taken.

No idea how it works for you. When a lower-paid position is taken up here, then 1 pay group is okay. For 2–3, the salary is adjusted. Otherwise, you have unrest in the team regarding the salary structure.

ok, learned something new again. In our case, that's basically not possible, although I wouldn't bet my life on it for B2/B3. But great, I can immediately think of several people who could be given a new job with an "adjusted salary"

Hello,

thanks for the many responses. So changing jobs is out of the question. As I said, home office is definitely possible, no question about it, especially my wife also has the huge advantage of being very flexible with her working hours. She therefore does not have to commute during rush hours. It is similar for me. By car it would be – on free roads – about 45 minutes (the highway connection is practically on the other side of the hill where the property is located and can be reached in exactly three minutes; I already drove it). The question was raised as to what attracts us so much to city life. That is a good question, since we are not really the absolute bar-goers who want to visit a different place every weekend. Of course, it is nice to have the choice to also be able to go out for exotic African food etc. and not – like in the countryside – only have the choice between two pizzerias. Ultimately, the wide range of leisure activities in the city would be dispensable for us.

What we absolutely enjoy, of course, are the REWE, ALDI etc. reachable on foot, which are open until at least 10 pm. In addition, we have two bakeries within walking distance that also offer fresh baked goods on Sundays. You simply don’t have that kind of selection in the countryside.

What I’m really panicking about right now is no longer having the anonymity of the city. For me, it’s a nightmare if I’m standing at the butcher and the clerk knows who I am and what I’m about to order. That is an absolute horror scenario for me. Added to that is the usual social pressure in the countryside. You don’t have that in the city.

My wife and I simply both don’t know whether this “feeling of home,” which we think will set in with a move back, as a kind of “feeling of completeness” is just something we are talking ourselves into and suddenly everything will be different. Life there is indeed quite different from life in the city. We might like to try it out on a trial basis, but as I said, that’s a bit difficult because there is only an inadequate market for rental apartments.