I recommend you take a look beyond your apparently very limited boundaries. If you equate state = highways/expressways, in my opinion there's more lacking than just your knowledge about transport routes :-(
Bauexperte from on the road
highways are state matters, "expressways" no longer exist, since everywhere has been changed to 70 due to poor road conditions.
my boundaries go well beyond that. you should know that about me by now. it’s just plain pub talk.
So if I look out of my window, I see a street renovated about 8 years ago.
if you look out of your window and see a street, it will be a street paid for by the residents or you live on a federal road ^^
I have street lamps,
yeah, true, we have 1 lamp every 200 meters, so you rely on the neighbors' motion light so you don’t fall on your face because of the potholes on the construction road.
Kindergartens,
although there is a law that every child is entitled to one, we don’t even have nearly enough spots. instead of paying and treating educators properly, they only get "approximated public service" pay (all the benefits are removed) and of course only fixed-term contracts so they can’t even afford a car to get to work.
Schools,
you mean those moldy shacks where kids come home with respiratory problems? yes, but there are still 1-2 schools where you could actually send children.
Tap water.
you pay for that as a separate utility cost at the house and it falls under supply.
The pedestrian zone is being renovated,
our pedestrian zone has 80% vacancy. still, 30,000€ is spent on new light strings for it, which the few remaining shops have to pay for. reason for vacancy? 20 years of bad politics and cronyism.
there’s always a new playground piece now and then,
next playground is 3 km away, even though we are in a huge new development area. playground will only come in 2–3 years, because the investor still owns the whole area. why we pay property tax then is beyond me. dumb thing is that all the kids who are born here now will have less benefit from the playground.
Yesterday I was at the outdoor pool with my daughter.
true, we have a swimming pool, you can even visit it. it is operated by the municipal utilities, subsidized by the city. it’s okay and I’ll accept that even though I never go swimming.
There are several barbecue areas in the city,
not needed if you own your own property. we can grill at home daily.
Gymnasiums,
occupied by refugees *scrrr* (don’t take seriously ^^)
Green spaces.
yeah, they exist, but not here with us.
in summary: the municipality fails to do anything right. neither is anything done for all the new children (because supposedly not responsible yet), nor are kindergarten places available or planned for these children. the pedestrian zone of the district capital is completely dead, and its planners are trying with bad ideas to drive away the few remaining people there as well.
ps: we live in the West!
