Situation in the real estate market... madness

It is nice where I am and not where you are - nyah nyah

Or: I have no chance because everything here is either terrible, criminal, or overpriced. Licking wounds also brings some fun.

Have you spent the last 20 years in a monastery? Duisburg police reports, every third report is robbery or stabbing. With 10,000 crimes per 100,000 inhabitants.

In Fürth i. Bavaria 4,800 per 100,000 inhabitants. Police reports: about every eighth report is robbery or stabbing. I find the difference dramatic.

Over 77,000 of nearly 500,000 people in Duisburg receive Hartz IV benefits. Statistically, every third child is affected by poverty. "Robbing" quickly becomes a popular pastime. According to police statements, at least 70 criminal clans with about 2,800 members.

Also google the Spiegel-TV report "schrottimmobilien in Duisburg".

Do you have children?

Have you ever experienced the bad area or the crime, or is your post only based on that one press report, which then every tabloid printed with you? What you write here is somehow 1:1 on the internet.
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The Duisburg area and 100 km surroundings are so ugly that nobody would ever want to live there voluntarily. Bavaria is simply the more attractive location, but whether it has to be Munich? I don’t think so.

Honestly, Bavaria is totally monotonous. I am

Somehow you are all balabala.
Very few have a free choice of their place of residence. Often it is where you grew up, have family, or find a job. And yes, also where you can build a little piece of home for yourself. The holiday area doesn’t matter at all!?! Hey, I live where others go on vacation...
Even an “ugly” area certainly has a few nice residential streets with infrastructure.
You just have to open your eyes and not always lick your wounds and look at the billionaires (as it was called here).

I live quite well near a big city where they beat each other up every night. Asylum seekers live out their group collar, and some clan members also live near us.
Yesterday I took the S-Bahn in Hamburg. I felt like a minority. Only one person scared me, who looked German and was quite drunk. Nevertheless, I realized once again that such an S-Bahn is really practical. I have to have an expensive car.

Nevertheless, our area is nice to live in because I live in it, make the best of it, and know it. It is my neighborhood with infrastructure, work, hobby, and friends/acquaintances. It is everyday life, and that is made nice at home.

Very few have free choice regarding their place of residence.

Most people set their limits in their own minds.
When everyone says "that’s not possible," suddenly someone comes along who doesn’t know that and just does it.

Even an "ugly" neighborhood certainly has a few nice residential streets with infrastructure.

I'll put it this way: streets with a high Daimler density are not really "better" areas in terms of divorce rates (with or without domestic violence) or neighbor disputes, but of course that doesn’t make big headlines in the tabloid.

And in that sense, "everyone is the architect of their own fortune," because every neighbor community decides for itself whether to collectively raise the street cleaning and green care standard or whether to instead chirp into their walkie-talkie about whether to call the "right" police for backup when they spot an unidentified possibly Muslim youth.

My parents also supported me – just the additional costs of the purchase alone are a huge chunk, especially if there’s an agent involved. I find it quite degrading to write as if none of it matters just because the family is helping.

But there are also people who decline this support out of their own volition because they don’t want anything given to them. I, for example, belong to this species. Either I manage it with my own two hands or I don’t. My parents also didn’t receive anything as a gift, so they should treat themselves to a bit of luxury from their hard-earned and saved money.

Of course, everyone can and should do as they please.

Of course, everyone can and should do as they wish

No one has to be ashamed to accept gifts.
Those who like to give do not feel appreciated when the gift is not accepted.
If you don’t want to, even though you can, you end up making both unhappy.

...and it is better anyway if one gives with a warm hand. If there is something to give.