National move - long distance - how to find a moving company?

I also find it extremely silly to save the last cent on a move only to renovate the bathroom "cheaply" for a year, having sold the previous house for X k. No wonder the middle class is giving up: if even high earners are too stingy to properly pay for decent work. Honestly, what are 5000 or 8000 euros for so much work, knowledge, insurance, and vehicle fleet.
The whole thread reads like a student move and I find that first of all embarrassing and secondly also socially unpleasant.
If you have enough helpers in the family, that would be different. But to painstakingly gather friends and lots of manpower for something like that, I wouldn’t do it either as an organizer or as a helper.

Why do people who can afford it pay the labor costs that belong to the service so reluctantly? I don’t understand that. Work from which one can live okay is the glue of society. When that crumbles, society becomes uncomfortable.

So, maybe I was thinking too big, but I just wanted to get across that I basically find the thread embarrassing.

So, maybe I thought too big, but I just wanted to say that I basically find the thread shameful.

Silly. It’s perfectly legitimate to ask how to find good moving companies. Through this thread, I found a platform, and I am very grateful for that. We had 8 offers, all in the price range of 3.5-4k. If I choose a well-rated provider from the middle range, then I have nothing to blame myself for here. So I wonder why you accuse me of that? When hardly any offers come from local companies, and the few that do are at double the price, then I wonder why they are not economically competitive, or whether they might even be exploiting their position because there isn’t much choice regionally, and raising the price accordingly. That would also be a possibility. Arguing with the house sale is also a bit shortsighted. Sure, we could really splurge now, but we also want to own property again, and we have to deal with the increased costs at the new place. I can therefore understand in the bathroom renovation thread that some people say "I wouldn’t invest a thing there." In the temporary apartment, we will probably only buy materials and do what we can ourselves to keep costs within limits — but doing nothing is also out of the question; the transition phase of at least 1.5 years is just too long for that.

Why do people who can afford it pay the labor costs that belong to the service so unwillingly? I don't understand that.

When hardly any offers come from local companies, and the few are priced at twice the rate, then I wonder why they are not economically competitive, or whether they might even be exploiting their position because there is not much choice regionally, and tack that onto the price. That would also be a possibility.

So this is the answer to my question why labor costs are paid so unwillingly:

Let's put it this way, if you have furniture you are attached to, you should have it transported by freight companies whose packers are experienced and not exploited. Otherwise, furniture gets simply taped up with packing tape and not a single picture frame or mirror remains intact.

Let's say, if you have furniture that you’re attached to, then it’s better to have it transported by moving companies whose packers are experienced and not exploited. Otherwise, furniture just gets taped up with parcel tape and no picture frame or mirror stays intact.

My last move here was with a local company with over 10 years of experience. I hired them again because I had moved with them 10 years earlier and they were super fast and careful.
Unfortunately, experience and being a "local company" were no guarantee for a good move. This time we weren’t very satisfied at all and quite a bit was damaged because they apparently misjudged the job and consequently had to work rather sloppily and quickly.
And that even though the company had come here for an inspection beforehand.
Since then, to put it bluntly, I don’t give a damn about the great, local companies that come to inspect beforehand.

So this is the answer to my question why labor costs are paid so reluctantly:

Who says that I pay it reluctantly? You put that in my mouth.
I just won’t pay more than necessary.
If regional companies make me offers that are 2-4k € above the alternative from Berlin, even though they have higher travel costs, then those are not good offers. I don’t just have one supraregional offer with a dumping price, I have 8 supraregional offers that are cheaper. So I do doubt the pricing policy of the regional ones, whatever the reason may be.