Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

I partly agree with you, but regarding the 5k inhabitants towns and their connections, I unfortunately cannot agree based on experience. For example, here even from the small town (somewhere between 10 and 15k inhabitants) to the somewhat larger town, where many have to go to vocational school (not a big city), there is only one train every hour, and the surrounding villages, some of which have 2-3k inhabitants, often only have a bus connection to the train station every 2 hours. In fact, the connections are so bad that a 5-person day ticket for regional transport (no idea if that still exists) was valid on the mentioned route before the actual start time of the ticket in the morning, so that it was even usable here. I think the schools adjusted that so that for day trips with classes, at least sometimes public transport could be used without parents going up in arms about the prices. Unfortunately, it is always double-edged... In the city, you pay a lot for housing and have much more "right on your doorstep" or easily accessible, and in rural areas, you pay less for housing but have to take the car frequently.

That’s true. I can also partly see that the towns in the vicinity of the next big city (even with only 2-3k inhabitants) are well connected (the bus comes to the station every half hour). But if you are more than 30 km away, it looks pretty bleak right beyond the major transport associations. Then you don’t have a ticket for 100€ but have to pay 200€ or more per month. A 49€ ticket would help there if, as you rightly criticize, the bus also ran more often (even once every hour would be enough). Because there, county seats have buses that only run regularly during school hours. There is definitely room for improvement. But that’s a vicious circle. If more infrastructure (buses etc.) is available, prices have to stay high to finance it. But then nobody rides, and the offers get discontinued. But if you offer a ticket that is too cheap, you cannot expand the offer, and if you do, the buses/trains are bursting at the seams and nobody rides them. Politics is called upon here to understand public transport as a non-profit public service. But you cannot provide unlimited money for a too small group of people. That’s a difficult challenge to solve in the near future.

So sorry but the main reason I need a car is that you are constantly transporting things. Anyone who says a small or medium-sized city is manageable without a car as a homeowner is simply out of touch with reality. It's called prosperity. Out the door, whenever I want, into the car and done. The rest is ideology

I don't think anyone expects that from the rural population either. It would simply be enough if politics, including in the green spectrum, accepted that a larger part of the population has routes that cannot simply be covered by bus or bicycle. And instead of a campaign against the car, then address the second part of the problem. In the countryside, many routes could basically be covered by bike, with an e-bike it is enough. Unfortunately, bike paths are designed for tourists, if at all. Often you are simply sent onto the country road where cars come roaring up from behind. And if you look for a safe route through the forest yourself, then you just have dirt in the rain and nobody clears it in winter. With little effort, much could be improved there.

I completely agree with you, this idea that a large part can leave their car standing and use public transport is unaffordable for the majority of people in Germany, who live in rural areas. You have to get creative and install demand-responsive buses. A good thing, so that people without cars can be mobile in the village. And the bike paths are already well developed in the city, but in the countryside, as you say, there is definitely a need for improvement. Road repairs also cost a bit, but surely more people would use the bike. Unfortunately, our politics often only have the Berlin-Mitte faction in mind, who ride through the big city without a car on their rented bike. For them, often one-third of a busy street is expanded as a bike path. Politics should of course step out of this big city bubble and especially keep the rural areas in mind.

Dial-a-bus? Are you serious? We are not in a developing country.

Yes, of course you need a car as a homeowner. But the idea is to cleverly replace car trips with train rides. If this even gets you to work faster and more relaxed. This can be achieved through expansion and fairer prices. A car for private shopping at the hardware store and leisure time is essential as a homeowner. And on the topic of [Anrufbus]. Why not? Dismissing it like that does not do justice to the seriousness of the situation. Retirees without a car thus have the only affordable way to get from A to B, thanks to the voluntary commitment of the drivers.

So in the flat states it's clearly there. And in Berlin it was also there for the large districts in the East. It then wasn't worth it and is now being relaunched under a new name. I have conducted passenger counts and surveys in Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt and have also driven in call buses there. The counting was very relaxed there. And from the surveys often very interesting conversations arose.