Construction site: high noise level and flood area

I have considered moving there and thought about how I could deal with the disadvantage of quite certainly having water on the ground floor again and again.

I don't have personal experience with flooding in a house, but does it only have disadvantages? Could it be seen as a regular prompt to redesign the ground floor, considering that the insurance or the government might partially cover the costs(?)? Or build a house on stilts? Then flooding, for people who are not familiar with it, would each time be an "amazing natural event"? You could then also step directly from the house into a boat and take small trips with guests by boat?

I don't have personal experience with flooding in a house, but is it only disadvantageous? Could it be seen as a regular nudge to redesign the ground floor, considering that the insurance or the government partially covers the costs (?)? Or build a house on stilts? Then flooding, for people who don't know it, would be an "amazing natural event" every time? You could also get into a boat directly from the house and take small trips with guests by boat?

Is that even insurable? And who is happy when keepsakes are irretrievably lost? I don't imagine it that romantically.

It's not that simple ... Within a radius of 12 km, there is exactly ONE property on Immoscout for me. In an area of 450 sq km!

And now you can gladly tell me that of course there are many more properties and they just aren't listed on Immoscout ...

Certainly not many more. But in our area, there are indeed undeveloped plots. Probably all a matter of price. In the end, we decided to go for the renovation and want to start next year.

It's not that simple ... Within a radius of 12km, there is exactly ONE property on Immoscout for me. On an area of 450 sq km!

Nobody says that finding the dream property is easy. A bit of creativity and building a network of contacts help. Those who search only online have a harder time finding their luck. Failing to meet the standard is just as unfortunate as making a compromise that one later is not satisfied with. Everyone has their own balancing act – and look: for some, this is quite easy, and then the overall situation is no longer so difficult.

I am personally a railway fan. A bit of train noise would not bother me at all, but a highway next door would be totally unacceptable... To me, the property doesn't sound so bad :)

It always depends on what runs there. My brother had the tracks of the Hessencourier light railway behind his apartment before he bought the house. The sound of the puffing old steam locomotive was kind of romantic, cozy, hardly disturbing. But it only passed by every few hours. Three kilometers further on is the freight yard where numerous freight trains brake every day. Hardly anyone can stand living in the apartment buildings nearby for long.

Whether rail or highway: logistics and individual traffic are booming and will rather increase than decrease in the future. Even if you stand on the property today and still find the noise level tolerable, that doesn’t say anything about how it will be there in 10 years. The authorities are not exactly generous with noise protection measures and only do what they absolutely have to. If you move to an existing line and it only gets louder afterward, it’s regularly said: bad luck. I personally can imagine better things than leading a years-long legal battle against windmills in a citizens' initiative, measuring decibels daily, and keeping noise logs. Unless you are currently threatened by homelessness: better stay away and keep looking.

I have often thought about living in places WITH water and consequently with flood risk.

My decision was to live in a way that I can see the water, but be high enough not to have to worry (the Werra flows in such a way that I could see it if it were not so overgrown :confused:)

But the imagination is stimulated when you think about how to live safely in places with floods and how to even enhance the joy of the place where you live. For example, through an open place covered by the house that can be pleasantly used in times of low water.

If a larger river is the water "source," it becomes more difficult because you have to expect that some objects will float through the water that can cause damage. But depending on effort and money, you can of course prepare for everything.

I would find it "fun," but I am glad that I do not have to face the surprises that can come with it.

In any case, I would rather expect more water than less in the future. It may rain less than before, but if it does, everything might come all at once...