Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

The construction industry as such has enough to do even without single-family homes, thanks to public contracts and companies. What is much more exciting is what happens when orders collapse in commercial and multi-family housing construction.

Public contracts disappear very quickly when the economy dives. That’s where the municipalities’ income comes from. Are you of the opinion that the large real estate corporations are currently booming? Or continuing to invest at bubble prices?

Well, then take a look at education, healthcare, social security, size of living space, working hours and conditions…

We are not among the countries with the highest life expectancy in Europe.

Topic education: "Germany is one of the six EU countries with the highest proportion of young adults with a low qualification."
And it doesn't seem to be getting better. "While the rate improved overall in the EU, the proportion of early school leavers in Germany has increased."

And since you, as I assume, are a woman. Regarding sexual assaults, "the figures in Germany deviate significantly from those of the European partners: they are 60 percent above the average."

I personally think we live here in Germany the way the majority of voters want; I just want appropriately low taxes, contributions, fees, etc. then ;-)

As bitter as it is. I find it fair. In most federal states, the real estate transfer tax is 5 or 6%.

....or at 6.5% here with us in Schleswig Holstein....

The departure.

It's just stupid when you need more than a wheelbarrow full, and less than a whole one

As bitter as it is. I think it's fair. In most federal states, the real estate transfer tax is 5 or 6%.

In Bavaria, it is, as was customary everywhere before, 3.5%. That is fair. Unfair are the 5 or even 6% elsewhere!

We are not among the countries with the highest life expectancy in Europe.

Topic education: "Germany is one of the six EU countries with the highest proportion of young adults with a low qualification."
And it doesn't seem to be getting better. "While the rate improved overall in the EU, the proportion of early school leavers in Germany has increased."

And since you, as I assume, are a woman. Regarding sexual assaults, "the numbers in Germany differ significantly from those of the European partners: they are 60 percent above the average."

I personally think we live here in Germany the way the majority of voters want; I then just want appropriately low taxes, charges, fees, etc. ;-)

And worse healthcare than in, for example, England. Or fewer social benefits as is the case in, for example, Poland? You can’t expect to pay less while receiving the same services. Try that with a construction company and see what they say :cool:

It's right that you put "richer" in quotation marks. There is little that annoys me, but the claim that we are a "rich" country annoys me. Lower home ownership rate, lower pension level, but at the same time among the highest lifetime working hours. The highest household electricity prices in Europe.
Price level index is fairly okay. The EU is indicated with a value of 100%, we are at 108.2%.

GDP in the EU 2021 (in billion €)

Germany 3,570.62€
Great Britain 2,523.62€
France 2,473.62€
Italy 1,775.44€
Spain 1,205.06€
...

So "poor" really looks different. The treasury is continuously well filled.
The question is rather how this flow of money is distributed and how we deal with expenses.