Well, you have to be fair. The job selection in the Stuttgart area is top, the salaries are quite a bit higher (I originally come from Nuremberg) but you make up for that in the "living" costs again ;-) Even though it didn’t become Fellbach, I’m happy with our plot. But €400,000 just for the plot was simply not feasible. Fellbach is actually no longer really a suburb of Stuttgart. It borders directly on the Stuttgart city limits in some places.
Well, we don’t have much garden, but everything else is simply priceless. My parents still have 1200 m2, I have to be satisfied with 1/3, which I do :) The largest building plot in our development was 450 m2. That says it all actually.