Current building culture and energy-saving ordinance-compliant new development areas

One last comment before we get back to the topic....

I never claimed that everything is nice. There are also areas here (just like in every big city) that are simply dirty and run-down. But there are also really nice areas.
I am not a fan of this generalization. Berlin is not just Kreuzberg, Mitte, and Charlottenburg. There are many other beautiful districts and even in the less nice ones there are still great and special spots.

Calling Berlin completely a criminal dump is just wrong.

Here's an example



There is definitely no street cleaning here.

Those are just leaves! So I find that totally okay and it also looks nice and green there. Bad spots look like this:

Leaves? I meant the dog poop. I really appreciate the cleaning week.

Gotha:

Someone at least folded the roofs in an original way.

Schlimme Ecken sehen so aus:

And even there a staggered shed roof sneaks in

Marktschwaben:

It looks like they first wanted to create a village around a green but then preferred to place a handful of building plots in its center :-(

Die Neuzugezogenen aus BadenWürtemberg, Angeber mit Riesenhaus,

This is what happens when you reallocate a plot budget for a half-height location in Stuttgart and move to Holstein

It probably won't look any different for us than in the previous "scary pictures": 440 sqm and pretty much right in the middle. What can you do? Given scarce plots, massively increased price per square meter, and costly energy saving regulation measures, the question isn’t whether you like something like this or not. It’s only about ‘This - or nothing at all.’ And if you want a payment < 1,000 euros, don’t want a prefab house from Poland, and at least want to find a bit of infrastructure, well, then the cost calculation inevitably comes down to the size of the land.

We are familiar with this type of discussion and all the usual reservations from relatives and acquaintances more than enough. Mostly people who built ages ago (“Can you still actually get exempted from real estate transfer tax these days?”) or live out in the sticks (“It only cost 30 euros to develop here. Fast internet is supposed to come in 2022 as well.”) Every era leaves its traces, especially in architecture, and like everywhere, there are pros and cons. In any case, I am very confident that when I am old I won’t have to call my grandson every week to mow the lawn and pull weeds, like some widows today who have 1,200 sqm to maintain despite their arthritis.

What can you do? Given scarce plots, massively increased square meter prices, and costly energy saving ordinance measures, the question of whether you like something like this or not doesn’t even arise.

Faced with the alternative of a home where you shoot yourself (because the "standing height" in the tent-roof attic isn’t enough for hanging), I prefer to remain a tenant. Your own plot also has to have land around it. With a view of the prison wall and only the neighbor’s garage wall, you’d go crazy.