Is financing a single-family house feasible for us?

In Brandenburg and Berlin there are also more than enough leisure opportunities. However, it was more about being in the city/immediate proximity to the city with overpriced prices versus in the countryside at moderate prices, but possibly somewhat cut off in terms of infrastructure. But that is mostly a matter of taste and you can rationalize everything in the sense of dissonance theory. It remains that the prices in metropolises are simply beyond good and evil and you need a lot of income/wealth/reasons to put up with it. If you have enough of those (in whatever combination), then that's good.

Bavaria is just also beautiful and the economy is doing well. Besides, they are normal nice people and not chaotic like in Berlin, no one there would want to even hang dead over the fence anymore.

What SteLa means, however, is that it is extremely expensive in southern Bavaria even outside the metropolitan areas. We are about 60 km from Munich and it is still very expensive.

And leaving home is absolutely out of the question for us. First of all, we have the entire family in the city here, all our friends, clubs... Because it is always said the parents give only. We will take care of our parents as much as is at all possible. The relationship is very close in both directions. We actually see our parents daily and we love that.

I also understand the feeling of home. For us, it is the Ammersee instead of the Chiemsee. But we are almost every weekend in the mountains hiking or in winter skiing. I can’t imagine it without mountains. And of course everything is within a drivable distance. We can also drive to the sea in 6 hours. But that is done once a year. However, the few minutes towards the mountains are done often.

Study on Quality of Life in the German Districts

The Top Ten of the Study:

1. Munich (207 points)
2. Heidelberg (205)
3. Starnberg (204)
4. Potsdam (203)
5. Garmisch-Patenkirchen (201)
6. Munich (district, 200)
7. Miesbach (199)
8. Oberallgäu (199)
9. Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen (199)
10. Ulm (199)

Seven times southernmost Bavaria, twice BaWü, and only Potsdam in the north among the top ten.

So simply put, many people like living here

Study on Quality of Life in the German Districts

The Top Ten of the Study:

1. Munich (207 points)
2. Heidelberg (205)
3. Starnberg (204)
4. Potsdam (203)
5. Garmisch-Patenkirchen (201)
6. Munich (district, 200)
7. Miesbach (199)
8. Oberallgäu (199)
9. Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen (199)
10. Ulm (199)

7 times southernmost Bavaria, 2 times Baden-Württemberg and only Potsdam in the north among the top ten.

So many people simply like living here

If you now compare price-performance, you will get a completely different result....

We are about 60km from Munich and it is still very expensive.

Well, you can easily drive 60km within Berlin (30-45 km diameter) if you haven't optimized your place of residence and workplace. Admittedly, with an optimized choice, you can live fairly cheaply in Brandenburg and work in Berlin. But ultimately, it’s not about Berlin or Munich or Brandenburg. The thesis was that no one is really forced to accept these high prices. It mainly comes down to priorities and personal preferences. External constraints play a more or less additional role, but in the end, you decide freely for or against it.

I once had an interesting discussion with a colleague who just moved out from the city (right in the middle of Neukölln). He enjoyed the greenery etc. but then complained about the lack of public transport connections. We then discussed whether it is the state’s task to ensure that public transport runs at least twice an hour until late at night even in the last village in the woods. That is the flip side.