Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

The AfD is a good option. They do excellent opposition work and should be given government responsibility.

Yes, the AfD cries out for responsibility and asks the right questions. *Irony off*
Headline today: “Saxon AfD MP wants to uncover the secret behind possible chemtrails”

Switzerland has a really lousy home ownership rate, this developing country…

The standard of living is not measured by retirement age, home ownership rate, etc. You can also go into poverty pension at 50 and own a tin shack.

- Crime rates
- Access to education and culture
- Raising the very young and caring for the very old
- Quality of the capital stock -> better to rent a good apartment than to own a lousy one!?
- Unemployment rate
- Minimum wage level
- Treatment of minorities (both protective and demanding)
- Handling of the environment ([Kläranlagen, Naturschutzgebiete], etc. pp.)
- etc. pp., etc. pp. etc. pp. …

The list of things that make up the "standard of living" of a society, without being immediately material, fits on a full roll of toilet paper.

The truth is also that no one is as good at putting Germany down as its own residents. That runs very deep. In fact, we start at such a high level that even in decline we would still be above 2/3 of the world. No one here sees that. And the "great decline" coming is far from being as certain as it is made out to be here.

Although to me, that is too simplified. The original nuclear phase-out was under Schröder with Trittin as the responsible minister.

Strictly speaking, the exit process already started in the mid-90s under Kohl within the framework of the energy consensus talks. The phase-out at that time was not consensual, but the path was paved. Fischer and Trittin then took up the thread from 1998 and initially brought the process to an end, your "weather vane" was Schröder. The CDU wanted nothing to do with the phase-out then, because they wanted/had to distance themselves from Kohl and, as the opposition, generally had to be against it.

In the end, it doesn't really matter and would be less of a problem if one didn't want to phase out coal in 7 (!) years and at the same time save gas, because the previous main supplier has completely unexpectedly turned out to be a wannabe GröFaZ. And at the same time significantly increase demand through electrification. Each of the projects is already a challenge on its own, doing everything at the same time is hardly realistic.

This forum is quite snobbish. Germany is not doing well, many people aren’t either. The numbers tell a clear story; in terms of competition, we are mostly only in the lower mid-field. Italians, Spaniards, etc. are all significantly richer than us, retire earlier, etc.

Since Angela Merkel decided in 2015 to copy the Greens' policies, the decline began. Currently, it is accelerating enormously due to incompetents like Habeck and Baerbock.

Urgent reforms are missing everywhere. Right now, there is only one solution in Germany; other countries have shown it, we must vote right-wing. The AfD is an option here. They do great opposition work and should be given government responsibility. Höcke is a strange character, but compared to him, the Greens have even more radical figures.

You simply can’t let such nonsense stand. It’s all completely twisted. Italians and Spaniards are definitely not richer than us. Spaniards come to Germany to work as cleaners. We have full employment in Germany. Italy has a much higher pension level, but only about half the median income compared to Germany.

If Angela Merkel had copied the Greens' policies, she would have at some point expanded photovoltaics and wind energy much more, but above all, she wouldn’t have increased dependence on Russian gas.

I don’t want to deny that there are economically prospering and conversely disadvantaged regions in Germany, but overall, these statements belong to the usual AfD and Springer nonsense.

I throw some current prices (net) into the ring on the topic of painting work:

Filling concrete joints Q2: €9/lfm
Pre-sanding filigree ceiling: €2.80/sqm
Applying glass fleece to ceiling: €17/sqm
Coating with silicate paint: €6 per coat and sqm

This would bring us to ~ €18k gross for the interior painting of 3 full floors and the garage - all with dispersion silicate paint.