Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Don't take it personally, but the forest after 30m is also available for one less ;)

Are you sure you haven't forgotten some cliché in your list?

Don’t take it personally, but what does this have to do with desperation?

If you already have to drive 20 km to work every day in the countryside, you might as well stop by the bakery and such along the way.

For that, you basically just step out the balcony door, stand on a forest path after 30 meters where you can go jogging, take a walk, or start a bike tour, and the only thing staring at you are a few cows instead of possibly stupid neighbors because you’re packed tight like sardines on a postage-stamp-sized plot of land, seeing what the other person has on their plate at the barbecue.

But the main thing is to build a house for 3000 €/m2 with all sorts of gimmicks, where the flowers are automatically watered by an app, the fridge orders your groceries for you, and then you eat the original Argentine beef steak for €4.50 from the discount store on a Weber grill. Of course, the fridge ordered that for you after checking the bank account in real time to optimize the purchases according to the monthly rate for the house.

But hey, for the statistics and comparison you have a dump for 600k.

Priorities and tastes thankfully differ everywhere.

It’s not about the countryside. It’s about the countryside in connection with the price. We couldn’t afford it. We are currently building a bungalow on about 1,500 sqm of land in a forest community. 50 km from Berlin, 25 km from Potsdam. Price for upscale house standard + land 600k. At €910 / sqm the price would triple...

In our community at a similar distance from Munich, nothing three-digit per square meter for building land is possible anymore.

However, in the small villages around without any infrastructure, you can still get something significantly cheaper. At least according to the [Bodenrichtwert]...

In our community at a similar distance to Munich, nothing three-digit per square meter of building land is possible anymore. However, in the small villages around without any infrastructure, you can still get something significantly cheaper. At least according to the standard land value...

Standard land value means nothing. Here it is 100 € / sqm. It is being sold for 300-400 € / sqm.

Don't take it personally, but the forest after 30m is also available for one zero less ;) Are you sure you didn't forget some cliché in your list?

Oops sorry I actually misunderstood that, by now one (in this case me) has the feeling that "rural areas" are often demonized and considered inferior because not everything is right on the doorstep.

Baden-Württemberg no longer designates any building areas. Thanks to a Green state government, no development plans are being created either. Residential building land is drastically scarce. Nationwide. And then people wonder why construction prices are exploding.

For the still available existing plots, naturally prices are being demanded that only very few want or can pay. And you have to make decisions. You can go where there is cheap building land, but then worse jobs. Long commutes also make little sense. You shouldn't spend half your life on the highway.

Good jobs are everywhere. You just need a bit of courage. But that's always the case in life. The best years also pass quickly and you can't chase a dream forever.

The reality, however, is that especially southern Germany, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Rheinhessen, and many other regions are overpopulated. It starts with schools, daycares, etc. Everything is full. There is everything, but everything is unbearably crowded. Every evening, it takes hours of traffic jam for just a few kilometers. Where can you still find peace?

I didn't want to live like that anymore. I also moved to the countryside. At first with reservations, now all the happier. As I said, the baker stops at my door every day, the butcher comes twice a week, and the doctor too. The rest goes online and if not, I'm in the big city within half an hour.

To live well and happily, we need about 1000 euros a month. I have no mortgage on our house. I don't have any other costs either. Of course, we have an income of significantly more. But I don't need it.