Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Well, the fine dust thing didn't work during the lockdown and curfews in, for example, Stuttgart. Maybe cars aren't so bad after all?! And now people are discussing driving bans for electric cars in city centers. Due to the higher weight and more power, there is on average more tire wear and fine dust. Whoever wants to go to the big city should do so. If you can't afford it, you just have to stay a bit outside. I would never want to live in a big city. A few days/weeks on site is okay, but not to live. Here I am immediately in the green. I have great routes for motorcycling, etc. I am on the highway in 5 minutes.

It is the same with us and I find it optimal this way. In the past, there was still an argument about the commute, better internet, or pharmacy.

I do home office as often as I want on the terrace, internet thanks to the new development area fiber optic, and pharmacy for cost reasons anyway only with online orders. If it is urgent, you can get there by car in 15 minutes, but in the big city, there is everything anyway.

I don’t miss anything in the countryside, on the contrary. The messed-up politics of recent years can best be experienced in the big city, I’m always glad when I get out of there again. The clientele there are often not good companions.

If you're in a hurry, you can get there by car in 15 minutes, but in the big city, there is everything.

But that is not countryside, rather suburb. It will be like that here too, however, the suburb belongs to a different municipality than the big city.

That is then not countryside but rather suburb. It is the same with us, however, the suburb belongs to a different municipality than the big city.

Yes, it depends, but here there are more pigs than people living and everything around is forest. For me, this is countryside....

oh yeah... but that's not really what we're talking about here. "Big city is too expensive/noisy/antisocial for me. So I'll just move 15 minutes further out into the countryside." I think that's exactly what everyone would want today who wants to get away from the big city hustle.

Realistically, it has to be more like today "I want/need to get out of the big city. I'm moving 1 hour further out into the countryside."

I have been commuting about 150 kilometers for many years, not because I have to, but because it doesn't bother me. For this, I am always laughed at. It is interesting that this model, surely unattractive for many, now has to become the norm so that one can afford a house.