Buy now or wait a little longer?

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You can also become unhappy in the countryside. The mentality is special and yet similar everywhere. And you have to be able to handle that or hope for gentrification through real estate price flight ;-)
All the best again!

No. What only classic city dwellers don’t understand... you can’t move to the village and then live there by the big city motto "I want peace and quiet, I don’t want to get involved and get to know and live the village community, I definitely don’t want that..."
That’s why such a small village wouldn’t be anything for me either...

You are absolutely right, in real villages! We live in a locality that is just still a town by population. Fortunately, it is not quite so rural here. However, you can notice differences between newcomers and those who have lived here for a long time. Some Hamburgers even pride themselves on their "native status" (for 3 generations, etc.) And this local patriotism is something special; personally, I find it somewhat lacking in wit. But we digress... :-)

I found the comparison with the first love polemical but amusing :-)

For us, it’s exactly the opposite. We live in a “Kids only” residential neighborhood with a large courtyard including a playground and so on. Dinner is eaten in a large kids’ group each time at some family’s place, and after dinner, they then go back to their own families. The children, of course, love living here wall to wall with their best friends. We are all friends here and, naturally, also tolerant of noise.
The children therefore don’t want to move at all.
However, they also can’t yet imagine that someday they might not want to sleep in the same bed anymore / that they might need their own room sometime. Just as little as they can imagine that their parents might someday no longer be their heroes.

Then the time when they can imagine that is also the right time for a move: namely the transition to secondary school. Until then, stay where you are; one shouldn’t want to escape a paradise. Apples are not as great as the snake said, dear Eva.

You can also be unhappy in the countryside. The mentality is special yet similar everywhere. And you have to be able to deal with that or hope for gentrification through real estate price flight ;-)

No. What only classic city dwellers don’t understand… you can’t move to the village and then live there by the big-city motto “I want peace and quiet, I don’t want to get involved and get to know and live the village community, I certainly don’t want that…” That’s why such a small village wouldn’t be anything for me…

The countryside is not only Büttenwarder, Küblach, Kaltenthal, Lansing or Schexing. But “countryside” is definitely (which does not necessarily have to mean explicit boondocks) something for people who have not forgotten the primary sector of the economy (and “village” for those who appreciate community). Either the population participates in the fire department or the village can already be completely burned down by the time the full-time fire brigade from the district town arrives. And salon communists as the intellectual variant of Ballermann tourists are not wanted there; accordingly, one does not sell land to the condescending. Realtors hit a dead end there. In a desired place, it is best to move in first as a tenant and leave making contacts for the real estate market to the dog.

To save our honor, we contribute socially and culturally, but not to the volunteer fire brigade. Nor to the growing community of salon communists! An acquaintance has transformed into a mission-conscious salon communist through her new building in a small town next to us. It is frightening. Thank you for this wonderful term. There is a professional fire brigade here and a tiny police station.

I found the comparison with first love polemical, but amusing :)

Unfortunately, it is much more common than one believes that people waste their lives hoping that something will turn out in their favor if they just sit there and wait relaxed...