Report: Building a house as retirement provision? No way!

Diagonally opposite. Car license plate RW. Rottweil engineer. Now works from herebaus. Has a few more years. Children grown up. Built here with wife and dog. Why here? Longing for blue and sea.

That's true, mobile work is increasing

Craftsmen, especially construction workers, are used to working away from home. Whether that's Frankfurt, Munich, or Switzerland. The soft skills that the village can provide are more important there

Hopefully such times won't come again. Nobody needs war

Funny, haydee, that he still exists everywhere. Never rely on reason with people. We think differently. And whoever can love can also hate, otherwise they couldn’t love....

Zaba solche Zeiten kommen hoffentlich nicht mehr. Krieg braucht kein Mensch

Who would want that anyway, but unfortunately people forget very quickly. Around the 2000s, no one would have suspected how the political landscape worldwide would change in the current direction. A few more crazies than now and off we go.

Economic sectors cannot function on digital alone. Who knows what it will look like in 30-40 years. Maybe those in the city will have to grow potatoes on their towel-sized plots in the future if life is no longer sustainable because everything goes to the dogs. In times of war, the rural population lived best and those in the cities starved.

Of course, this will not be an option for everyone and everything. As a nurse, educator, or civil engineering worker, one can assume to still be needed on-site in 30 years. However, the larger the group of those who can work from home becomes, the broader the potential buyer base for real estate in the countryside. Vacancy primarily always has to do with the lack of well-paying jobs on-site. A city or a house can be as unattractive as it wants – with enough work on site, people will move there themselves or buy the ugliest house. And everything else (stores, cafés, doctors, etc.) will follow.

The shortage of skilled workers will intensify in the coming years, and companies will have to come up with even more ideas to meet the needs of their employees to keep them up to retirement age if possible. If I can save my top-qualified employee two hours of stress in rush hour daily and give her more time at home with her kids, then I have a clear advantage over the employer who maybe pays more but wants everyone under one roof promptly at 8 a.m. in the morning.