Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Oh man, that one can't just stay on topic for 5 posts in a row...

What do I see negatively? I am not prophesying the end of the world. ...

Here you see:

... Many still seem not to realize what awaits the location Germany in the coming decades. ...

So my bonus children are better off than me, my nieces and nephews are (in part significantly) better off than their parents, and it is quite foreseeable that my grandchildren will also be better off and the children of my nieces and nephews as well. What has happened in just 2-3 generations regarding living standards, education, earnings, and work performed is magnificent and astonishing at the same time. I see no reversal but certainly potential

Oh man, that one can’t just stay on topic for 5 posts in a row...

The problem is that the topic changes so quickly (sorry not sorry) Ok, once again construction costs: I recently had a garden landscaper (from England?!) here who gave me an immediate offer to pave the driveway with grass pavers (20mx3m). He wanted 10,000 EUR. I tried not to laugh and told him to leave me a flyer. Can that really be true?! Or did he expect me to negotiate? My neighbor now also wants to inquire about the driveway. We actually wanted to do it in EL, but we just never get around to it.

.. You may be right about IT, all the 9 to 5 office jobs are fought over by everyone

well, we also don’t have overstaffing, but start early with internships we offer and through training, etc.
Tax advisors apparently have by far the biggest problems finding employees, worse than in skilled trades (source: hearsay from our tax advisor)

... But in the field of worldwide special plant engineering? Gloomy, very gloomy regarding young talent.
That’s how we earn a large part of the money in Germany. You only buy plants here if we also install them at the customer’s site. If no one does that anymore... then you buy it from whoever does.

My sister works at a company that does special plant engineering (packaging machines). They currently have no major problems in this regard, rather management problems (from her point of view ;-) You just have to be really good to assert yourself, that's just how it is in "predatory capitalism"
And when considering the “TCO” with Eastern European employees employed, the 1/3 salary no longer looks good at all. Especially with half the work speed (nothing against Eastern Europeans, I didn’t make that claim ;-)

Ok once again construction costs: I recently had a garden landscaper (from England?!) here, who gave me an immediate offer to pave the driveway with grass pavers (20mx3m). Wanted 10,000 EUR. I tried not to laugh and said he should leave me a flyer. Can that really be true?! Or did he expect me to negotiate? My neighbor now also wants to inquire about the driveway. Actually, we wanted to do it in EL, but we just don’t get around to it.

Have you already laid gravel? Material for concrete, ~50m curbstones and 60sqm grass pavers shouldn’t cost more than 1500€, the rest would be labor. I would offer you that for 9990€ ;)

For the 2-3 trips to a soccer game/concert/New Year's Eve party/... you can buy a single ticket or day ticket. You probably pay less than the parking fee at the event location and can benefit from the existing infrastructure. Whoever uses it regularly gets a volume discount. Like so often in life.

I'm not really concerned about the comparison to driving a car, and it's not really about me personally. Sure, 16 trips a month don't break me. The "I" I wrote was meant representatively.
What about the single mother call center agent who barely managed to find a somewhat affordable apartment in the outskirts for herself and her two children and has to go to the office twice a week for her 25-hour job (she can do the rest of it working from home). For her, a monthly pass is not worth it and those 100 EUR really hit her hard at the end of the month. Then if a pediatrician or gynecologist or something else comes up (check-up appointment + follow-up), she’s out another 15-20 EUR extra. That’s what I mean.
You can get volume discounts on bulk goods, but for individual private transport, I see it economically a bit more nuanced and socially I don’t see it at all.
But enough about that topic.

I still have two questions:
1. Has anyone here on the forum recently experienced the problem that a certain advertisement (O2) completely redirects away from the forum? It only happens on my phone and I don’t know if it’s really the forum or my phone (malware?).
2. Construction costs: Does anyone have current paver prices per m² including material and substructure?

Have you already laid gravel?
Material for concrete, ~50m curbstones and 60sqm grass pavers shouldn’t be more expensive than 1500€, the rest would then be labor. I would offer it to you for 9990€.

Sort of, there is recycling material, but gravel is still missing and the recycling probably needs to be leveled again.
Yes, I also had to hold back my laughter because of the costs.
You still won’t get the contract. :P