It is not about the affordability of a house, but about the ongoing costs that some societies entail if you want to keep up and not be the "second choice on the expensive shelf." At least in Düsseldorf, the differentiation is quite clear. A “reasonable” children’s birthday party costs four figures (without gifts). It adds up.Could you explain the comment regarding the tight salary a bit?
Don’t know :) 10 € cold cooperative :) but you wouldn’t be living there among the nobility and high societyThanks for the many responses and I hear a lot of positive things which is reassuring.
That's all true. Fortunately, we already have some experience ourselves since we have lived and worked in several countries in our lives. Unfortunately, professionally I am restricted to only a few cities worldwide, and of those, Frankfurt happens to have one of the best qualities of life, and also good schools. Therefore very attractive!
Paying off the house would also be an option but actually I don't want or need two houses. I prefer to invest differently. However, I would of course keep the house short-term while I'm doing a trial stay. But I have no attachment to the house; something better will have to come soon anyway even if I were to stay here. Regarding the industry - there are now many remote jobs that you can do from all over the world, digitally and in English.
Sure, rent first. Doing otherwise would be difficult and also risky. Still good to test everything out in advance and calculate. An international environment would also be important to me since I didn’t grow up in Germany but internationally. I just feel more comfortable in an international environment.
Of course I would rent for a few months first. The job would be the same, just at a different location, so no worries. Buying and selling doesn't bother me; it's not my first time. In England, that's the national sport. Mustered to pay off someone else’s loan.
Good suggestion. Can you recommend a cooperative?
The more I look at real estate listings in the Taunus, the more I feel that 1.5m hardly suffices for a (nice, 250m2) single-family house.
There are quite a few offers for detached houses around Bad Homburg in the six-figure range. Düsseldorf is not just Kö either.
It’s not about the affordability of a house, but about the ongoing costs that some societies bring with them if you want to keep up and not be the "second choice on the expensive shelf." At least in Düsseldorf, the differentiation is quite clear here. An "appropriate" children's birthday party is four-figure (without gifts). It adds up.
whahahahaa, I'm cracking up. That's probably not true. But very funny. By the way, what I have heard from quite a few people who are now adults, former children of international and well-off parents, is that they found international school horrible. Not because the school is terrible, but because they only realized years later how uncomplicated other children (now adults) grew up. They had their neighborhood friends in the same class, they could interact much more in their free time. Meanwhile, the children in separate situations probably noticed that they were different and simply not part of the "normal" society. That can certainly be a burden. Not everything that glitters is gold, as they say. Maybe you should first redefine for yourselves what you actually want. It all reads rather immature and unrefined. Money, international flair, and international schools only help to a limited extent for a satisfying life..... live modestly and that will not change either.
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