Does the real estate market increasingly force more families to build?

Was the question rhetorical? Low earners don't earn so little because they perform so poorly or are so unintelligent, but because society simply no longer pays for these services. As if we could do without them... and as if everyone could take care of children, the elderly, or the sick, but is intelligent enough to program (or drive away the garbage, etc.).

Low wages for irreplaceable tasks combined with society’s retreat from housing construction. The nurse just can’t afford to live there. How rude or nice, or smart or naive she is plays no role in this.

Sounds like American conditions, but one must not forget that we still have an existing middle class. Here, no one has to earn €150k gross or more (except in Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt) to afford a home "around" a metropolitan area (up to 30 km).

but one must not forget that we still have an existing middle class.

You did emphasize that still nicely.

I don't think the middle class is disappearing. It is precisely they who are currently buying the expensive properties. And they can afford it. You just can't recognize the middle class as easily anymore, since typical professions like civil servants, for example, are not so well paid today.

I don't think the middle class is disappearing. It's precisely the middle class that is currently buying the expensive properties. And they can afford it.

You just can't recognize the middle class as easily anymore, because typical professions in the past, such as civil servants, are no longer as well off today.

I completely agree. A few posts above, it was mentioned that a hairdresser in the city cannot afford an apartment. I once saw a documentary that a master hairdresser with her own shop earns barely €1400 gross after deducting all expenses with a 50-hour week.

I don't want to be unfair now, but you really have to start thinking early about what you want to do, earn, and have later on.

There are simply professions where you live hand to mouth with a salary. If you decide on that, then you shouldn't complain afterward.

That's just how it is, and I assume some here will agree with me. If you don't have personnel responsibility and move beyond the level of a clerk, none of us will really overwork ourselves (in a large company), right? Is that fair? Certainly not, but in our society, it's not performance that is paid but experience and decision-making authority.

Whether that's nice is another question.

[QUOTE="Zaba12, post: 317568, member: 29788"]...Here no one has to earn €150k gross upwards (except for Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt) in order to afford a home "around" a metropolitan area (up to 30km).[ /QUOTE] For the purchase of real estate, however, an income must be available that is significantly above the median. Otherwise, it won't work. If you now check where the median is, you will realize how many people are simply not able to afford something of their own. This affects more than 65% of all households, so it is hardly worth mentioning.

I once saw a documentary that a master hairdresser with her own shop earns only about €1400 gross after deducting all costs working a 50-hour week.

Well, from what I’ve heard. Over the weekend there was a fairly large article in the daily newspaper: a hairdressing chain had to close 3 branches last year because they couldn’t find people, even though they offer €2300 gross for a 40-hour week + €20-30 tip per day – that’s about €2000 net. I know quite a few higher-qualified people who don’t earn that much...