City or countryside, new construction or renovation – the agony of choice!?

30min: that was me. But 30min including the 5+5 minutes walking and tram 15-20 min. Can also take the S-Bahn in 8 minutes. Or cycle 20 min. And I’m talking about the city center. Most things I have less than 10 min away from my door (walking minutes!). Not 30 min by car or first by bike or car to the station. For me a big difference.

But, that just wasn’t possible without constantly driving off again. Because it was a plumbing project and unplanned problems kept occurring, for which you needed parts that only a big hardware store or specialist trade have.

And I don’t want thawed rolls, I want fresh ones!

I have already lived in two small towns and our holiday property (we are not owners, it belongs to the family) is located in the Mecklenburg countryside. I have been there all my life. I can definitely draw well-founded comparisons in long-term testing and would always choose what we have, namely the outskirts of a big city.

We have almost everything in the village. I might go to the district town about once a month. Village is not just village.

The time indications were Garage - city center parking garage not hardware store next to the highway

mecklenburg countryside

.......is of course something completely different from a small town/village in BaWü/Bavaria etc. Living in the center of Berlin is just as incomparable to living in the center of Freiburg; therefore, it always depends on the respective details and whether the three sons prefer to become members of the rodeo club or the three little girls want to become ballerinas. It always stands or falls with the individual requirements and wishes, so all of this is just as wrong as it is right, and for every position, there are suitable extreme examples ready that make it seem impossible.

.......is of course something completely different than a small town/village in BaWü/Bavaria etc.
Living in the center of Berlin is just as incomparable to the center of Freiburg; therefore, it always depends on the respective details here as well and whether the three sons prefer to become members of the rodeo club or the three little girls want to become ballerinas.
It always stands and falls with the individual requirements and wishes, therefore all of that is just as wrong as it is right and for every position there are suitable extreme examples that make it appear impossible.

I did not write anything different in my first post. The second post then only addressed further aspects.

Long live the bacon rind! Geographically as well as culinarily always hearty!