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by ChuckNorris89 2137 days ago
>Heck, there are a lot of properties in Germany (where there are actually jobs) that would require less than €200k

Do you have any examples? I could never find anything larger than a matchbox in a village for under $200k in Germany.

Anything decent I found in the outskirts of any big city was over 500k.
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ido 2137 days ago
The first thing is to look in places without good transit as germans (reasonably!) prefer those. The moment it requires owning a car anything outside Berlin (so in Brandenburg) will be affordable.

Here's a quick search for houses under €100k with at least 100m^2 and 3 rooms (2BR) in Brandenburg: https://www.immobilienscout24.de/Suche/de/brandenburg/guenst...

It returns 83 results & while not all of them are within 1 hour drive from Berlin, at least a bunch of them are.

Also if you're in the affluent south or west of the country (which I suspect is where you searched?) you will have far fewer options for cheap housing than in the depopulated former East-Germany around Berlin. You definitely can't repeat this "trick" outside of Munich.

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ChuckNorris89 2137 days ago
No offense, but those places are cheap because nobody wants to live there and for good reason. It looks much worse than Eastern Europe.

Nobody in their right mind would want their kids growing up there.

In family friendly places with jobs the properties are far from cheap.

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ido 2137 days ago
That's why I don't live there! But the topic we're attached to is "1-Euro Houses" and that's exactly the kind of places you'd find these in Italy or Spain as well - depressed rural/small-towns with no jobs and where all the young people moved to the cities.

Also not sure what counts as looking bad to you, a lot of these villages or small cities are actually quite nice looking (we often go to such places for a day trip) & if I was single/childless and wanted to live a quiet life without much disturbance I'd definitely check them out. They are mostly just not in easy commuting distance to jobs.

In fact some of the places in Berlin with the highest rents (like Kreuzberg) are often a lot uglier than sleepy Brandenburg villages & small towns.

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jacquesm 2137 days ago
Near the Dutch German border there are plenty of houses that are affordable, well under 200K. Don't cross that border though, then prices will skyrocket.
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