Can an average family afford a single-family house at all?

when you look out the window and see a street, it will be a street that the residents paid for or you live on a federal highway ^^

yeah, that's actually true, we have 1 lamp every 200 meters, so you have to rely on the neighbors' motion lights so you don't fall on your face because of the potholes on the construction road.

although there is a law that every child is entitled to a place, we are by far not sufficient. instead of properly paying and treating the educators, they only get "approximately public service" pay (all benefits are cut) and of course only temporary contracts, so they can't even finance a car to get to work.

you mean these moldy shacks where the kids come home with respiratory problems? yes, but there are still 1-2 schools where you could actually send the kids.

you pay for this with another additional cost item on the house and it falls under the supply.

our pedestrian zone has 80% vacancy. nevertheless, new light chains worth €30,000 are bought for it, which the remaining few shops then have to pay for. reason for vacancy? 20 years of mismanagement and nepotism.

the next playground is 3 km away, although we are in a huge new development area. the playground will only come in 2-3 years, because currently the investor still owns the whole thing. why we then pay property tax is beyond me. the only problem is that all the children being born here now will benefit less from the playground.

true, we have a swimming pool, you can actually visit it. it's run by the municipal utility company, subsidized by the city. it's okay, and I'll allow that, although I never go swimming.

you don't need that as the owner of your own property. we can grill at home every day.

occupied by refugees *scrrr* (not to be taken seriously ^^)

yeah, they exist, but not here with us.

in conclusion: the municipality can't manage to do anything right. nothing is being done for all the new kids (because supposedly not responsible yet), nor are kindergarten places available or planned for these children. the pedestrian zone of the district town is completely dead, the planners try with bad ideas to somehow drive away the remaining people as well.

ps: we live in the West!

As a resident in BaWü, I do not pay an extra contribution for the renewal of a street in the residential area. The secondary school was only recently renovated. It may be that in the "rich" South everything is a bit different, but if your municipality manages its finances so poorly, then you have to get into the local or municipal council or whatever. Does your municipality also buy thorn bushes to roll them through the streets? That really sounds like a distressed area....

But it's interesting to hear that. All the more I appreciate my place of residence, even if not everything here is golden that glitters.

In BaWü, as a resident, I do not pay an extra charge for the renewal of a street in a residential area. The secondary school was just renovated. It may be that in the "rich" south everything is a bit different, but if your municipality manages its finances so poorly, then you have to go to the local council/municipal council or whatever. Does your municipality also buy thorn bushes to roll them through the streets? That sounds very much like a distressed area....

But it is interesting to hear that. All the more I appreciate my place of residence, even if not everything that glitters here is gold.

my limits go clearly far beyond that. you should slowly know that about me. it's pure barroom talk.

Before you start complaining here, in my opinion you should use your energy, for example, to engage in politics in your local chapter; actively participate in the events. Complaining from the outside is easy; wanting to change something is a whole different caliber!

That is why our retirees in the neighborhood are giving up their lavish houses in the deepest Westerwald and moving to our city.