Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Back to the topic... does anyone still remember how we discussed a year ago that a sack of cement costs 4€? Meanwhile, it is up to a whopping 5.29€...

Back to the topic...does anyone actually remember how we discussed a year ago that a sack of cement costs 4€? Meanwhile, it’s down to a mere 5.29€...

Regular 920? I bought it for 3.83 in April

Edit: Sorry misread ^^ Cement was 4.68

I have to ask critically again here. Which foreign country do you mean? Sweden? Norway? I spend a lot of time there and they are actually better off than us. Or they feel better, anyway. In France, people retire at the latest by 60, at the railway usually already in their mid-50s. In Italy, the weather is good and people get their new heating system 110% financed by the state. Ok, if we look at Senegal, then it gets sad. But the countries around us are not as bad as we like to tell ourselves here on our Prussian horse.

Quite a one-sided view. Especially in France, entire streets regularly burn because the retirement age is being raised. A professional soldier retires with us also in their mid-50s or even in their mid-40s (Air Force). If one wants to mention the exceptions. Italy has better weather? I think we can be glad that we don’t have weather like Italy, Spain, etc. Although we already gallop from heatwave to heatwave. Of course, we have problems (pension, migration, …) but so far it has always gone on. If everywhere is better, then just go and enjoy your life there.

Does my following post fit here? If not, please just rearrange it, thanks. :) As I saw yesterday, the house we sold about 3-4 years ago is back on the market. We sold it for 388,000, the current owner has listed it through an agent for 639,000. That surprised us.

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If it's better everywhere, then just go and enjoy your life there.

Oh, did I hurt the German soul because I dared to mention that not everyone outside of Germany lives in caves and gathers berries in the forest?

You could go to a food bank and ask the people standing in line there how great they find Germany.
Or ask someone who is currently fishing for deposit bottles in the dumpster.
Or ask your delivery driver when they ring your doorbell at 7:30 pm.