Fundamental question: Acquire land as a reserve?

As a freelancer in the artistic and creative field, I am extremely dependent on what other people think of me. Therefore, I have to consider everything I do or don't do from this perspective. People can decide every day whether to give me a job or not. And such aspects also play a role in that. But probably only freelancers can understand that...

Matthias

I'm now revisiting this passage in my evening reading: I haven't read this much nonsense in a long time. I was a freelancer myself, know some, but only professional image counts. It doesn't matter what the neighbor thinks of you. Not the car either. You can justify all that with solid or old or fashion. And you won't be that important that they run to the press to tell them what you have in your house garbage or how you live here: as a newcomer... You're somehow exchanging reality for wishful thinking on your part.

And: the jack of all trades who can do everything has never existed. For under €200 not even here in the affluent belt of cheap Hamburg. Your demands are very out of touch with reality and tend toward "I don't really want to, that's why I am looking for what doesn't exist."

First of all, thank you very much for the detailed answers. Maybe I am really overthinking things. But even if I leave out the women issue and the topic "What do others think of me?", it still remains that I have not felt comfortable here for a long time. It is simply terrible when you open the front door in the morning and are immediately overwhelmed by a wave of noise. And then comes the exhaust cloud. The morning traffic jam now reaches up to my door. These are probably all people who live out in the countryside (without noise and exhaust), but drive into Berlin by car every day.

Then there is the following: Yesterday the Berlin Senate Administration for Social Affairs published the current Social Structure Atlas. Our plots, on which only single-family houses stand, are assigned to a nearby large housing estate, even though there is even a green area in between. It would certainly be quite simple to shift the boundary to the neighboring planning area so that we belong to that block. There are only single-family houses there. Thus, our plots officially lie in a "problem neighborhood," i.e., a planning area with low social status, unfavorable prognosis, and increased monitoring needs. Even though the map material is not backed by a detailed street map, one can immediately recognize from our exposed location that we belong to this area. So if someone gets information from such (incorrect) public sources, it can have significant negative effects for me, especially if it really comes to a sale. Or if one decides to rent out and people inform themselves in advance.

If I had a plot somewhere else, that would at least be a first step towards escape for me. Then I would at least see a perspective on the horizon. But I do not want to go into debt for this and would only be willing to spend a certain part of the available capital. And for that, prices seem to be already too high throughout the Berlin area. And if a new property tax for undeveloped plots is really introduced, then costs will increase and there will be no income. Hence my idea to maybe find a nice plot with simple development somewhere where old people might live, to whom one pays a kind of pension. But to find something like that, I probably do not have enough time because I naturally have to focus primarily on my main job.

All difficult...

Matthias