Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

What kind of inhumane discussion is this here, actually?

that is the sad thing in this forum. A thread like this is allowed, but if someone looks at another f..., he/she is deleted. Bizarre ... I belong to the boomer generation (1950), my parents were displaced persons from the Sudetenland, we fled to the West before the Berlin Wall was built, so I was in 3 refugee camps. Nobody in the West wanted us, it was made quite clear to us. I was a single parent with one child, the father never lived in Germany and never paid (I didn’t want him to, I had a good income). My parents belonged to the group of people who never owned property, although they could have afforded it. Both were employed. As a single parent, I bought my first property at 33, my parents gave me DM15,000 for that. To pay for the place, I had a second job at home in the evenings for 11 years (drawing electrical plans, no not the horizontal trade). At 47, I had enough of how people treated me in Germany (I was only half a person without a husband) and goodbye. Question: what was so great about my BOOMER life that some have to hate me as a BOOMER? I didn’t take anything away from anyone; on the contrary, I was so foolish and brought a child into the world, which many others don’t want to do because they are too selfish, and they let their pensions be paid by other people’s children. Your government is so slow to change anything, why are the boomers the scapegoats? Öttinger: The former EU Commissioner complains about a lack of innovation ability and low willingness to reform compared internationally. “Germany is on the decline for me, it is a country in descent,” said the CDU politician at a congress of the media association of the free press in Berlin, the umbrella organization of magazine publishers in Germany. “Germany is a sick case, a case for restructuring.” In Germany you can’t even book doctor appointments online, prescriptions have to be picked up monthly, online doctor appointments (telehealth) do not exist either, and these are just a few examples of how inflexible Germany is. Our pharmacies are open 7 days a week, from 7 am to sometimes 10 pm. In my hometown in Germany the pharmacies take a 1.5-hour lunch break, close at 1 pm on Saturdays, and on Sundays there is nothing going on anyway. Like in the Middle Ages, what do they do in 1.5 hours? I wonder why your pharmacists are on strike. The young generation wants a life pronto, which I never lived. That starts with an expensive iPhone (I don’t have one), an SUV (I don’t have one), at least 2 vacations a year (I don’t do that), clothes to the point that they come out of their ears. For that I NEVER had debt, I had paid off my mortgage after 13 years, I live with another person in a 155m² house. And yes, my grandchildren will inherit a lot because the relatives on both sides have no children.

You can’t even book doctor’s appointments online in DE, you have to pick up prescriptions monthly, online doctor’s appointments (telehealth) don’t exist either,

As much as people love to cling to clichés, THAT simply isn’t true. “Here“ (on the outskirts of the Ruhr area) all of that works. Of course, it depends on the doctor and between us: video consultations with the doc are much more often rejected by patients. But my doctors (general, 2 specialists) do it. And the city administrations have now also reached the point where you can book online and don’t have to sit around for 2 hours with a ticket number at every appointment.

well, the state doesn’t step in here, we pay pension contributions our whole lives.

If the pension isn’t enough in Germany, you can top it up. That’s how I understood it for AUS as well. Basically at the level of H4/citizen’s allowance. Of course, only if you really need it. Anyone who still has a 200k house as assets will probably come up empty-handed. I think that’s good. If you really need help, you get help; those who, let’s say out of "sentimentality," don’t want to touch their assets, come up empty. Harsh but fair, why should the state help the wealthy avoid touching their assets? So their children can inherit nicely? That would be strange.

If the pension is not enough in DE, you can top it up. That’s how I understood it for AUS as well. Essentially at H4/Bürgergeld level. Of course, only if you really need it. Those who still have a 200k house as an asset will more likely come up empty-handed. I think that’s good. If you really need help, you get it; those who, I would say out of “sentimentality,” don’t want to touch their assets will come up empty. Hard but fair, why should the state help the wealthy avoid touching their assets? So the children can inherit something nice? That would be strange.

That is indeed a difficult topic. I agree with you on all points on the one hand. However, I find it equally problematic that masses of people from other countries are fully supported here without ever having paid a cent, while locals are told to first exhaust all their assets. I don’t know, I find this hard to justify!

It's just like with care – timely transferring is the key ;)

Or just look at various large families, they live in villas and at the same time receive Bürgergeld

The young generation wants a life pronto, which I have never lived. It starts with an expensive iPhone (I don't have one), an SUV (I don't have one), at least 2 vacations a year (I don't do that), clothes to the point they come out of their ears. For that, I NEVER had debts, I paid off my mortgage after 13 years, living as two people in a 155m2 house.

And yes, my grandchildren will inherit a lot, because the relatives on both sides have no children.

You wrote above that boomers are scapegoats. Honestly, it’s exactly the opposite. The young generation is insulted, told to work properly and not to make demands and to keep financing all this! I would completely shut down as a young generation too!

Regarding buying a house/property and what advantages the boomers had, I have already commented and it can still be read. The current conditions are just completely different than before, and not only in this point!

I don’t know what I should thank the boomers for. Everything I have, I have because I worked for it myself.

Why should we finance the pensions of the old, although we will not get our contributions back? I feel exploited!

And for your information: I am a millennial, I don’t go on vacation (only use the train), wear clothes I have had for 10 years (so I rarely buy new clothes/shoes), use an iPhone as long as it works (my current one is 4 years old), I eat vegan except for a few exceptions, and I don’t have a car (anymore). What other prejudices are there?

You write that you have to live two (!) people on 155m2(!). I think I’ll just leave it at that – it speaks for itself.