Nordlys
2019-05-15 21:50:11
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You are so right, it just doesn't work for private individuals.
Yes, I am complaining. I can certainly afford something, but for that, I now have to go into debt to the brink of existence here. Even for 130 sqm, I will have to put 500,000 on the table.
I was professionally flexible and left my home village. Isn’t that always expected of us young people??? I went where there were good jobs and where the shortage of skilled workers was and is high.
So I would now like to build something, regardless of size and equipment, that fits within a reasonable budget.
Since I couldn’t stay at home (there’s no work in my field there), unfortunately, I can’t benefit from the local bonus, and that annoys me! I would at least like to have a chance to apply in my preferred municipality. If I then had to wait longer than locals, that would be okay! But never having a chance in a more affordable location is just bitter. As far as I’m concerned, plots near the city don’t have to be cheaper either, but then I would like the opportunity to buy a plot elsewhere.
And just because I ask here about experiences regarding size, basement, etc., doesn’t mean I’m going to build something like that! I am very much a realist. Everyone here has dreams, myself included. What eventually stands on the plot is a completely different matter.
Ultimately, I will be able to build what is financially possible for me with my own work and family help. What and how big that will be in the end, no one knows today. And if I had the money, I would also build 200 sqm and still find the building and land prices too expensive because I believe politics has largely failed in economic and financial policy...
Wow, only a terraced house ... I really feel sorry for themDown there on the corner is where most of the money in the republic is concentrated. Anyone who goes there for work has to keep in mind that acquiring homeownership will become significantly harder than elsewhere, despite a good income. Friends of ours moved to Freiberg am Neckar (20 km north of Stuttgart), both have good jobs down there, but it was still "only" enough for a terraced house, and that was already before the real estate boom. You are not an isolated case.
If the situation really is such that the city is too expensive and the countryside doesn't want you, then I would simply turn my back on such a region. I know, it's easy to say, but I wouldn't want to feel like the fifth wheel for the rest of my life.