Fundamental question: Acquire land as a reserve?

In the Berlin surrounding area, prices will only continue to rise in the future, there will be no way back. And at some point, I will need a new plot of land, I am quite sure of that. And then I will regret not having done it back then (that is, today). I am currently thinking in the direction of Werder or towards Königs Wusterhausen. That really can't be a mistake. The most important location factor in my opinion is the walkable accessibility of a Regional Express stop and a reasonably attractive neighboring development.

Matthias

Think like this. First, you need a plot of land without building obligation. Find it. Then acquire it. Offer it to the neighbors to use for a small fee, then someone will mow it. Win-win. Or buy land that could quite likely become building land. Small meadows close to the town sign, for example, are suitable for this. You have time. And 1000 sqm of grassland aren't that expensive. Or fixate on a wreck property. A rather run-down house that can still be made available to the welfare office for a while. When you need it, demolish and rebuild. As long as it lasts, it brings in something. There must be something like that where you are too. A good tip is the websites of the local courts. Foreclosures. Karsten

Yes, I was already thinking along those lines. It could also be a small simple house where old people without descendants live, to whom you pay a kind of pension.

I just can’t definitively estimate what it means for designing one’s own life if you move from Berlin to the nearby surrounding area. In Berlin, you have a very good infrastructure; everything is always immediately available. But I think it’s still manageable if you stay within the Berlin Ring and make sure to be very close to an RE stop.

However, I can’t estimate how it will be perceived by others if you move from an outer district of Berlin to the surrounding area. People in Prenzlauer Berg, Friedrichshain, or Kreuzberg don’t take someone from Zehlendorf or Spandau seriously anyway. Would you then be considered a loser because you move even further out? Or a winner because it’s much nicer out in the countryside than in Berlin, where traffic is increasing, it’s getting louder, and the problematic clientele is also constantly increasing?

In my opinion, only an area that is generally positively perceived comes into question. For example, Werder, because the town has the image of a thriving green town just outside Potsdam. You’d just have to be careful not to take anything between the train station and the island so you’re not negatively affected every year by the drunk visitors of the Tree Blossom Festival. Caputh would actually also be great, is associated with Einstein’s summer residence, but has the disadvantage of no direct train connection to Berlin. Königs Wusterhausen might even offer the best chance to find something there, but I don’t sense the "Genius Loci" of Werder or Caputh there. I would generally exclude the north or northeast because I often have to get on the A2 or A9 and all travel times get even longer if I have to drive all around Berlin first.

Werder would actually be ideal. Fast to Berlin by train, fast on the highway by car. I’ll have a look around there.

Matthias

Well, hopefully the possible quarters won't change in the next few years in a direction that goes against your snobbery and expectations. ;-)

However, I cannot estimate how it appears to others when someone moves from a Berlin outer district to the surrounding area. People in Prenzlauer Berg, Friedrichshain, or Kreuzberg don’t take someone from Zehlendorf or Spandau seriously anyway. Does that make you a loser because you move even further out?

At first, I also found the topic interesting, but since this part it probably... you’d be better off in another forum. Or with my grandma. She also constantly said "was denked au dia Leit" ... (the Swabians will understand)

Personally, I just find that kind of thing stupid ;)

I am, after all, as a freelancer in the artistic-creative field, extremely dependent on what other people think of me. Therefore, I have to consider everything I do or do not do from this perspective. People can decide every day whether to give me a contract or not. And such aspects definitely play a role in that. But probably only freelancers can understand that...

Matthias