Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

That's true, you can even notice the price gouging here among us country bumpkins. Bought from the municipality in 2019 for €26/m2. The current standard land value is somewhere around €35. Back then, the municipality still had 8 building plots plus a few privately owned ones; meanwhile, all from the municipality are gone. Only the private ones are partly still available, though they are already being offered between €60-100/m2.

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 being drastically restricted. Statewide. And then people wonder why construction prices are exploding.

Where do you know that from?

In my residential district and also my place of residence, the municipality is trying to create building land. However, a larger building area here failed because the municipality did not want to be blackmailed by the previous owners. Around here, about half – of course mostly the prime plots – remain in private hands, which are then sometimes not developed for ages because there is no building obligation. Of course, demand cannot be met this way.

You can go where there is cheap building land, but then worse jobs.

I would like to see a statistic on this correlation. And what does worse job mean? Whether I am a hospital controller (in my case) in Bavaria or Brandenburg doesn't matter. The job is the same. However, I definitely wouldn't earn two or three times as much.

The only thing that is true is the region. Brandenburg is one of the ugliest federal states in Germany. But if I want to visit other areas, I get in a car (preferably electric, charged with my own photovoltaic :cool: ) and drive away. As a homeowner, I can afford that more in Brandenburg than in Bavaria when I look at the land and house costs...

60 km from Munich and Augsburg. And that in a village without a supermarket, butcher, bakery, etc. The next town is 15 km away.

For us, Cologne is the nearest big city at a distance of 100 km. Fully developed for €90 per sqm.
No hard feelings, this is not meant to be a "penis contest" or anything like that. I just find it always interesting to see the nationwide comparison.

Because the users who are looking for land and read your €910/sqm will of course be quickly discouraged.
Depending on where you are in Germany, it can be SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper. Also the construction itself.
When I see the prices that users from southern Germany sometimes pay, I really get dark. The disparity seems to be very large.

The reality, however, is that especially southern Germany, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Rheinhessen, and many other areas are overcrowded.
It starts with school, daycare, etc. Everything is full. There is everything, but everything is unbearably overcrowded. Every evening, it takes hours in traffic jams for just a few kilometers. Where can you still find peace?
I no longer wanted to live like that. I also moved to the countryside. At first with reservations, now all the happier.
As I said, my baker stops every day in front of the house, the butcher comes twice a week, and the doctor too. The rest goes online, and if not, I am in the big city in half an hour.
To live well and happily, we need about 1000 euros a month. I have no mortgage on our house.
I also don’t have any more expenses. Of course, we have income from much more. But I just don’t need it.

That is a bit of a pessimistic and overly generalized picture for me.
That may apply to Stuttgart and the surrounding area or particularly popular regions. But I can name quite a few beautiful spots to you, for example, right in Baden-Württemberg/Pfalz/Hessen where you can still buy a building plot for very little money. Since I have lived there for over 50 years, I contradict this generalization.
If you work in the Heidelberg/Mannheim area, you can also live nicely in the Palatinate, but for many people, it’s just not cool enough there. Likewise, you can live between Heilbronn and Würzburg, or near Mosbach, Tauberbischofsheim, Eberbach, the Hessian Odenwald, etc., and still find something affordable. This recurring statement or description that living in this flat area is like living on the moon is simply not true. My boys went to school there; today they study/work elsewhere than where their parents live (fortunately for the children). In our small town with about 17,000 inhabitants (not even a district seat), there was a choice of specialists, a hospital, a top S-Bahn connection, all kinds of shops, markets, car dealerships, etc. Everything; it was never really necessary to go to the big city.
Supermarkets nowadays are everywhere anyway, in the countryside there are also farms, country markets, etc. In my former neighboring town with fewer than 30,000 inhabitants, there were 4 or 5 grammar schools as well as a dual university, the university 30 km away, by train 25 minutes at half-hour intervals, a hardware store, cinema, restaurants (even McDonald's and Burger King for gourmets), within 20 minutes you can find the huge AUDI plant, the headquarters of Kaufland/Lidl, Bechtle, and much more; in the other direction there are Würth and other companies.
Of course, that does not have to suit everyone, but this generalization simply does not apply; also (outside of Corona) the cultural offer in smaller towns has improved significantly, so I have to give some credit to infrastructure in the countryside, even though there may still be some exceptions.
Now we live absolutely in the countryside around Dresden, and sometimes people ask us how it works there... :eek:.
Explanation: In 6 km I am in a district town, in 17 km in the next. In 15–20 minutes I find 4 hardware stores, 2 hospitals, a whole range of schools and other educational institutions, lots of Kauflands, Lidls, Rewes and all their likes, farm shops, daycares, all kinds of doctors, and with the S-Bahn I am in 25 minutes at Dresden main station, if I ever miss hectic big-city air, also no problem by car. But I notice again and again how this generalized judgement has solidified, and then you have two or three extreme examples at hand to cement the negative image.
So: For other people, I live here absolutely in the sticks, but for me, it feels absolutely central and that would also be no problem with children; children and working parents live here, too. If you search carefully and are really open to it, you can still find opportunities today; I’m happy to help anyone who needs it to find something. But then I usually notice the searcher already has fixed and also generally disparaging ideas...

When you see the prices that users from southern Germany sometimes pay here, it really makes me feel faint. The disparity seems to be quite large.

As already mentioned, there is no general disparity here either, but especially for the usual suspects. Whoever opens their eyes wide will see more. This may be different in France or other countries, but in Germany there is a very good infrastructure compared to other countries (of course, there are also some negative examples). In such countries, you regularly have to travel to the big city or capital out of necessity; with us, you certainly don’t have to if you live in a city or its vicinity with 20,000 inhabitants.