Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Amid all the excitement we should not forget that Al Bundy scored four touchdowns in a game in 1966, leading the Polk High School Panthers to the city championship!

AND.....

... meanwhile, construction prices keep rising... ;)

The T-shirt is still in my closet :-)

I think this is a saying that mainly originated shortly after the reunification, when old quasi-collective farms, run-down GDR industrial halls and the extensive open-cast mining areas still shaped the landscape. Much has changed after 30 years.
Spreewald, Lusatian Lakeland (which also extends into Saxony), Werder, Beelitz, Scharmützelsee have all been significantly spruced up with a view to tourism.
I also believe that a lot has been renaturalized in the Oderbruch, etc.

And besides, to be fair to Brandenburg, there is still Saxony-Anhalt ;)

Brandenburg is beautiful ….. only the people there are utterly ugly …. -duckundweg-

People, don’t complain about prices of land being too high, instead buy in the ugly and cheap areas and make them beautiful!

Say what you want, the most beautiful federal state is called Sleepy Wooden Leg. And we also have the most beautiful somewhat old women.

I understand things like ugly federal states and don't find it bad if someone says something like that. You only live there, you don't own the federal state, just a few square meters if you own property.

My parents came from the Sudetenland, mountains, hills, forest, lots of snow, etc. And after the war they were expelled and stupidly took a wrong turn, completely against my mother’s will. And they ended up in .... Köthen, Saxony-Anhalt. My mother hated the land because it was flat, there was nothing, just fields as far as the eye could see. There was no forest where you could pick mushrooms or blueberries, nothing, nada, niente.

In Feb 1957 my parents fled with us via Berlin and through 3 refugee camps to Ludwigshafen, because her brother had previously worked there as a miller in the rolling mill, but at that time he had already emigrated to Canada.

The villages/suburbs around LU were anything but beautiful. The old houses stood and still stand precariously close to the street like terraced houses, no tree, no bush as far as the eye could see, often not even a sidewalk. Where my parents came from, the houses stood individually with gardens all around.

But there was forest with mushrooms and blueberries 35 km away ... But except for my brother, we never became "Palatines", my daughter went abroad as a teen, and I a few years later, forever as well.

So you always compare with what you have or know, that is what I do here too. I find it terrible that here you live like in LA, a sea of house roofs as far as the eye can see, no fields in between like in the Vorderpfalz, suburb next to suburb though with many landscaped green areas.

Land prices
Regarding those, I partly don’t understand the complaining. Where I live, in the greater Perth area, there are always plots like sand by the sea, and they cost not a cent less than what I read here, on the contrary. Closer to the city more expensive, further out cheaper. Income is probably about the same. When I moved here, mid-1997, my municipality had about 90,000 inhabitants, now 135,000. In about a year, the first 200 of the 900 plots around the corner from me will be ready for construction, just by the bay and golf course. In the picture north adjoining the houses.

For good bread, fish we drive about 40 km twice a month, but only because I come from DE and appreciate bread. The "natives" would not do such a thing. They are far less demanding.

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I understand things like ugly federal state and I don't find it bad if someone says something like that. You just live there, you don’t own the federal state, only a few square meters if you own property.

My parents came from the Sudetenland, mountains, hills, forest, lots of snow, etc. And after the war they were expelled and unfortunately took a wrong turn, completely against my mother’s will. And they ended up in .... Köthen, Saxony-Anhalt. My mother hated the land because it was flat, there was nothing, nothing but fields as far as the eye could see. There was no forest where one could pick mushrooms or blueberries, nothing, nada, niente.

In February 1957 my parents fled with us through Berlin and via 3 refugee camps to Ludwigshafen because her brother had previously worked there as a miller in the rolling mill but had already emigrated to Canada by that time.

The villages/suburbs around LU were anything but nice. The old houses stood and still stand precariously close to the street like terraced houses, no tree, no shrub for miles around, often not even a sidewalk. Where my parents came from, the houses stood alone with gardens all around.

But there was a forest 35 km away with mushrooms and blueberries ... But except for my brother, we were never "Palatines", my daughter went abroad as a teen, and I a few years later for good.

So you always compare with what you have or know, I do that here too. I find it terrible that here you live like in LA, a sea of house roofs as far as the eye can see, no fields in between like in the Vorderpfalz, suburb after suburb but with many landscaped green areas.

Land prices
as far as that goes, I partly don’t understand the whining. Where I live, in the greater Perth area, there are always lots of plots like sand on the sea, and they don’t cost a cent less than what I read here, on the contrary. Closer to the city more expensive, further out cheaper. Incomes should be about the same. When I moved here, mid-1997, about 90,000 people lived in my municipality, now 135,000. In about a year, the first 200 of the 900 plots around the corner from me will be ready to build, right on the bay and golf course. In the picture north adjacent to the houses.

For good bread, fish we drive about 40 km twice a month, but only because I come from Germany and appreciate bread. The "natives" wouldn’t do that. They are far less demanding.

I also didn’t understand why the opinion of one person unsettles and outrages people so much. After all, everyone has their own experiences and can better classify it. But no, we prefer to discuss it at length :) As my boss always said: "If you don’t know what to do anymore – start a working group" :cool: