Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

And what are they supposed to say within a 20 km radius of the airports and flight paths (F/S/B…)? :rolleyes:

That usually, when the original owners have passed away, the airport was there first? ;-)

I recently talked to a couple who moved up here. They bought a house right by the Schleibrücke. We just said that it would probably be too loud or too hectic for us in the summer because of the traffic. She just laughed and told us that they had previously lived in the flight path of Frankfurt/Main....here it is now like paradise for them.

At least it should be clear that the fine new housing estates with their floor-to-ceiling windows and inviting lighting, along with the image of the burning fireplace, will be the first places to be visited by marauding, starving, freezing, and completely impoverished people.

My grandmother used to advise me that when times are hard, you should always have half a loaf of bread lying next to the front door, even if it is a bit old. If you can't give anything to the hungry, they might beat you to death.

So a little tip for the floor plan: have a small compartment installed next to the front door for something like that.

But what am I telling a spoiled city dweller. Sure, while others are building their houses, he’d rather go on vacation. Otherwise, he might actually get dirty.

When were places in Germany ever visited by marauding, starving, freezing, and completely impoverished people? Was it during the First World War when about 800,000 Germans starved to death? Or in the famine winter of 1946/1947?
When were "wealthy" people plundered and beaten to death en masse?
With the communists/socialists, you can certainly find a few good examples.

(See just the arguments like "But our landscape will be disfigured!!")

I can agree with you on many things, but I think aesthetics is an important aspect. The damage caused by ugliness in the surroundings and in people’s (also residential) environment, to the affected persons, is enormously underestimated in my opinion. I think it is wrong if we are supposed to put up with more and more ugliness (in almost every respect, but that is not the topic here), because ugliness, from my point of view, has an enormous influence on the human psyche and can affect the behavior, attitudes, values, etc. of people. For me, among other things, wind turbines in natural landscapes are (unfortunately) always a sign of an approaching dystopia; I cannot associate them positively. I also cannot only see the events in the Ahr valley from a human perspective and only negatively; sometimes nature just takes back a piece of what we have taken from it. We know that and can prepare or live elsewhere. People were also relocated in mining areas, so why not in flood-prone areas? There are tree species (not here in Germany) that need regular forest fires for their seed capsules to open, and much more...

Couldn’t one build a kind of tethered helium-balloon-powered power plant? At such a great height there is always wind.

From my point of view, one of the problems is that too few people study or train in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, etc., but prefer "something with media." ;-) We could develop and offer better solutions if more people made an effort for better technical solutions.

Oh, and the other countries from which we want to get energy are of course clean and fair ...

Difficult, the matter with morality... in Qatar stoning is permitted. I don’t know what I find worse, especially since the victims of stoning are absolutely defenseless.

It is not easy to live in a kakistocracy.

New word learned, thanks for that. :)

When were places in Germany ever visited by marauding, starving, freezing, and completely impoverished people? Was it during the First World War when about 800,000 Germans starved to death? Or in the hunger winter of 1946/1947? When were "wealthy" people systematically looted and beaten to death? But with the communists/socialists, you can certainly find a few good examples.

Someone simply watched too much Walking Dead.

Difficult, the matter of morality ... stoning is allowed in Qatar. I don’t know what I find worse, especially since the victims of stoning are absolutely defenseless.

Can people on the electric chair or at the lethal injection defend themselves? That is precisely the point of the death penalty that the "victim" cannot defend themselves.