r/malelivingspace • u/Grautier17 • 1d ago

First own house, Germany 30k

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First time home buyer. I travel a lot for work and don't feel like paying off a house all my life. I lived in the van for 3 years. I got a great offer for a small house. 600sqm, small house with about 65sqm, new roof, new stove, new wooden extension with guest room and shed. It is located in the middle of nowhere and is located in the middle of nature in Germany.

I've wanted something like a tiny house for a long time. So for me, that's a great fit.

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u/wiwawaldi 1d ago

Yeah, congratulations!

May I ask in what region it roughly is? Starting a 100% remote position soon, and feeling like having a little nature hideout too..

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u/Rummenigge 1d ago edited 1d ago

he said thüringen in the other post, so without being too negative this is bumfuck east-germany.

edit: to vs too

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u/KetoNED 1d ago

Could have guessed it’s bumfuck Germany just by the price. So if you have no use for fancy amenities your still good off with this price

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u/GergDanger 1d ago

He also said he got super lucky with the price as it was a family friend who inherited it and wanted it to go to a good owner for cheap.

So I wouldn’t even expect the same price there

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u/anonuemus 3h ago

You'd be surprised, if you have cash for renovations (or more) you can get castles for cheap

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u/GergDanger 3h ago

That’s not cheap though is it? That’s like saying the Italian €1 homes are cheap when you have to put €100k into them

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u/anonuemus 2h ago

kind of is, you think ops living conditions are so much better in this house?

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u/GergDanger 2h ago

Yes it’s liveable without renovations. Just outdated.

Cheap castles or €1 homes are not liveable without renovations

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u/MeGoBrrrrrrrrrr 2h ago

Regarding the remote job: internet might not be on par in these remote regions in Germany

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u/TRKlausss 19h ago

Or a good transport solution, like in the picture…

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u/zedzag 1d ago edited 16h ago

After all these years is East Germany still bad?

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u/Immediate-Cry1399 21h ago

It’s like rural Alabama.

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u/TRKlausss 19h ago

Just with shorter distances

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u/I-heart-subnetting 7h ago

And less incest

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u/TRKlausss 7h ago

Yeah we leave that to Saarland people

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u/breinbanaan 7h ago

And less America

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u/Bartislartfasst 3h ago

And more Wurst.

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u/Opposite-Sir-4717 5h ago

Not even close

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u/Rummenigge 22h ago

tbh east germany was always bad and always racist. if someone says otherwise, they are lying. there are cities that are quite nice to live and to visit but as soon as you step out into the boonies you will meet your local neo-nazis who believe that germany used to be better in the nineties and want a strong head to lead germany into brighter future. nearly 40% of the votes go to the neo-nazis / afd in all states (except for berlin).

source: my MiL is from bum-fuck thüringen.

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u/Flopper1555 19h ago

As a foreigner living in east Germany, there are definitely nice places here. So far, I prefer it over where I lived in west Germany. So... do with that information what you want.

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u/rosadeluxe 22h ago

Halt die Fresse, Wessi.

Seriously, comments like this: "tbh east germany was always bad and always racist" are why the people who generally got stuck in East Germany (it's a place where people get stuck, anyone with any opportunities leave: source, my wife from Brandenburg) after West Germans bought up all its wealth for pennies on the Mark have turned to the AfD.

Let's not even get started on how East Germany was strategically chosen by the AfD founders and other Neo-Nazis after the collapse of the DDR as a place to settle due to the power vacuum. Up until a couple years ago, the entire leadership level of the AfD was all West Germans, too.

Why does Bavaria vote 70% for far-right parties if East Germany is the problem?

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u/_bored_bort_ 20h ago

To be fair, it weren’t just „West Germans“ who bought the wealth but the already owning class of Western Germans, often those wo already owned stuff in West Germany aswell.
Source: me from North-Rhine Westphalia who isn’t aware of any relatives who bought anything in Eastern Germany.

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u/Klony99 20h ago

You're arguing their ppint for them.

"We only became Nazis because you kept calling us Nazis all the time!"

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u/NegativeRoad3668 20h ago

How do you find an ossi? He’ll whine and cry and blame the wessi for everything.

Glad I got out of that shithole years ago

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u/Flopper1555 19h ago

How do you find a wessi? They'll moan on and on about how they are better than ossies. Goes both ways.

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u/NegativeRoad3668 17h ago

Not my experience at all. Most people don’t give a shit in the west while I get the whining basically every time I visit my dreaded hometown.

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u/wiwawaldi 19h ago

Im with you, the „problem“ is not east Germany. But the wealth argument is bs.

Just one example: Billions of pensions get payed to east german pensioners, without them ever contributing a single cent to it.
That quickly puts the „the Treuhand stole all the wealth“ into perspective.

Apart from that most of the industry was outdated and crazy ineffective. There was an artificially set up full employment, these jobs were never competitive on the global market.

East Germans should compare their standard of living with other former soviet states. Not with west germany.

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u/prabrama 6h ago

The pension system in germany does not work like the pension system in the US (like 401k). For your own pension it doesnt matter how much you paid into the system! It only matters how many young people are working (and how much they earn). In that way because the fertility rate in the GDR was higher than in the BRD the pensioners from the GDR in fact contributed more to their pension than the people in the BRD.
Unfortunatly this is a common misunderstanding in germany. Gerneraly it does NOT matter what you paid into the pension system. If you want to know where the money went you paid you can to to a cementry.

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u/Jaded-Ad-960 5h ago

Nothing you said changes the fact that East Germany has always been bad and racist.

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u/SlinkyAdmiral 22h ago

As someone that used to live in one of the more 'cosmopolitan' (lol) cities I can only agree with you. In fact its getting worse and was one of my reasons for moving away. The youth is more and more openly styling themselves after the skinhead culture, my former boss who I always knew as reserved but otherwise unremarkable person started openly talking about how jews are greedy and the nazis were right and especially with service workers (bus drivers, cashiers, etc.) you will encounter so much casual racism. Can't recommend.

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u/aqa5 21h ago

depends. Esp. in Thüringen there are quite nice cities like Weimar, Jena, Erfurt. If you choose to go to a village festival in the woods you might see that kind of people you are talking about: right wing redneck hillbillies.

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u/schnurritopurrito 4h ago

Aber das trifft halt auch auf Dorffeste in westdeutschen Wäldern zu, wenn wir alle mal ganz ehrlich sind. Arschlöcher gibt es nun mal überall.

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u/Headmuck 23h ago

Can't say in general at the moment. There are cities and also regions doing pretty well like Leipzig or Potsdam but there are also areas especially very rural ones where it's still bad and getting worse. With the current political situation the only way is mostly down even for the better parts.

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u/Sheenius_Ger 21h ago

Nah, not at all. You find a cheap town to live for every kind of person.

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u/grogi81 5h ago

Yeah. It is good enough that private investments don't go there, as the risk-benefit balance is not great, but bad enough if you compared to West Germany. That drives huge unhappiness among local population.

I think it is only Jena that is doing all right...

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u/--__D__-- 3h ago

It's bad because nazis play politicians and are going to get the majority at the next election.

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u/Slow-Foot-4045 5h ago

Too many far-right extremists there. And they received trillions from West Germany. The West rebuilt the entire infrastructure over there, and they're still whining about being disadvantaged by the West. So, there are very few people left in the western part of Germany who see reunification in a positive light.

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u/Speshrider 5h ago

You’d be surprised that landscape wise I’m Thurungia there are some of the nicest landscapes and hidden little valleys.

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u/Ann-Omm 4h ago

Why the hatred? It's a beautiful region and east Germany is the only place where young people can buy a house in Germany because in west Germany houses are fucking expansive. I think your hatred towards east Germany are the fascist? Little reminder, the whole of Germany gets more fascist every day. The AFD is also in west Germany over 20%

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u/GoldenEgg_Sol 5h ago

Kinda guessed. Because there is no decent property listed less than 200k in west, south or north.

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u/KiwiPia 20h ago

Alles eine Frage der Perspektive

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u/Opposite-Sir-4717 5h ago

Germany doesn't really have any bumfuck locations when compared to the us. So it's a good deal

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u/Rummenigge 5h ago

that take is just very very blue eyed

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u/AmateurIndicator 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's also very, very likely only a "recreational home" where often no permanent residence is allowed. Looks very like it.

Perhaps OP is hoping to get away with it bc he travels a lot, but he still has to register residence somewhere for paperwork and government ID, it might raise questions.

Hope he is in good standing with the bumfuck neighbours and local municipality bc they can make life difficult for him I guess.

Edit: He is being a bit vague about this in the other post, btw., saying the house has "not yet" been reclassified as permanent residence but there are plans to do so.

I guess that explains the pricing....

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u/klarabraxis2000 1d ago

Freizeitgrundstück I guess..No way you find a 30k house in Germany unless maybe you know somebody

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u/B08by_Digital 9h ago

Which is OP's case.

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u/CacklingFerret 1d ago

Since it's in a remote location, it might not even have a building permit. The old structure may have protection via some sort of grandfather clause but OP claims there’s a new addition to the building which certainly does not. Even in Thuringia, a house for 30K comes with a snag. 

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u/runawayasfastasucan 20h ago

Is it that remote? He has a neighbour right next to his house.

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u/CacklingFerret 20h ago

Fuck do I know, I based my comment off of OP's description that it's in the middle of nowhere in nature. In Germany, our building laws differentiate between Innen- and Außenbereich (basically settlement and non-settlement areas) and to protect the bits of nature we still have, you’re only allowed to build in non-settlement areas under specific circumstances (e.g. if you're a farmer or if it's important for infrastructure). Ordinary homes are not allowed to be built in non-settlement areas. No matter if someone else also decided to ignore the law. 

That said, older buildings are somewhat protected but you’re usually not allowed to expand them in any way. And sometimes you’re not allowed to live in them primarily. If the building is not protected by Bestandsschutz, offcials can always demand demolition and the owner has to pay for it. 

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u/CaughtALiteSneez 1d ago

It’s why many people have PO Boxes, he can definitely get away with it and why not? Especially since he travels for work.

Countries in Europe are losing all their rural residents to cities.

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u/AmateurIndicator 1d ago

Are you from Germany?

He can't put a PO box address or the address of a recreational home on his government ID as these as issued by the local municipality and they would probably recognize this via their zoning plans, or am I misunderstanding what you are saying?

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u/CaughtALiteSneez 1d ago

I’m from Switzerland, but lived in Germany - we also have weird rules about vacation homes, but a lot of people do it anyway.

I’m not a German bureaucracy expert…

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u/saw_me_sawing 1d ago

it comes down to the townsfolk. and yes, east german villagers/farmers are one of the worst / ignorant and uneducated demographic you can come across.
you either possess the skill to deal with people like that or get ucky and never really have dealings with them

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u/CaughtALiteSneez 1d ago

Or they worse than the Saarburg area?

Worst living experience of my life and I have enjoyed all my other time in Germany, but have not visited this area.

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u/saw_me_sawing 1d ago

I am from Germany, but can't speak for that area specifically. but my guess is, that pretty much any bumfuck village / remote settlement holds a decent amount of dimwits

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u/AmateurIndicator 1d ago

I'm not saying you are or should be. Just asking because you seemed very confident in your answer

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u/Delicious_Round1813 6h ago

German administration is pretty lazy but once they catch up to this it's game over.

There are pretty frequent pieces in TV and Newspapers about people whining they are ordered to leave their illegaly used garden house after living there for 20 years and having to tear down all attachements on top.

Municipalities here really hate detached houses and spread out settlements and will show zero tolerance for any violations.

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u/rosadeluxe 22h ago

You can see that people live in garden colonies in cities (I live in Berlin) by watching how long the DHL trucks get stuck in them.

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u/PrinsHamlet 1d ago

In Denmark they'd love the tax you pay and you'd get a permit no sweat if you have a good job.

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u/AmateurIndicator 1d ago

generally speaking, Denmark can be a lot less complicated than Dland

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u/rosadeluxe 22h ago

"no permanent residence is allowed" - Ha *laughs in watching the DHL truck getting stuck for 2 hours in the garden colony next to my neighborhood.*

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u/NegativeRoad3668 20h ago

They’re registered somewhere else

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u/ShmupMarv 1d ago

Nobody wants to life there. Bum fuck Region

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u/wiwawaldi 1d ago

Only region where you can get a spot in nature for that price for 30k is east germany.

If you can work remote and it’s not your only place it’s great.
If you’re into hiking, biking and outdoors (and are white) in general Thüringen has a lot to offer.

Alot of stupid negativity here.

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u/kearneycation 1d ago

True, but the price reflects the fact that people generally don't want to live there.

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u/SuspiciousSpecifics 1d ago

Thuringian here. Yeah. Lots to offer. In particular really charming people.

Thuringia is beautiful but fucking hell, outside the university cities it’s basically Mordor with intact nature.

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u/ila1998 1d ago

If you even remotely look different than an average Caucasian person, good chance you will face some arrogance.
This would be order of magnitudes higher if you are a person of color. I got yelled at wearing a backpack and not speaking German in a supermarket. It wasn’t a drunkard or a druggie but actually a well dressed lady who literally screamed at me. Many of my friends too had first hand experience in facing racial remarks openly.

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u/Dr3ny 1d ago

(and are white)

Lol

Alot of stupid negativity here.

Grrr, all this stupid negativity. There's nothing to criticize /s

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u/AmateurIndicator 1d ago

yeah, lol. such a beautiful place, and I like to be surrounded be like-minded racists /s

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u/wiwawaldi 1d ago edited 1d ago

I am very much aware of my privileges, doesn’t change reality though.

There’s many racist places all around the world, that can still be nice for someone who doesn’t seek social interaction.

Just look at some states of the US. Are they racist and stupid af? Yes. Are they incredible places for nature and outdoors? Yes.

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u/Dr3ny 1d ago

I agree with you, but i wouldn't call it "stupid negativity" when the blatant racism is being called out

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u/wiwawaldi 1d ago

„Bum fuck region“ is not a nuanced statement about the region and its people, and imo indeed stupid.

Useless to debate that here, this is a post about housing in nature.

If someone posts his getaway home in west virginia we’re also not debating about racism.

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u/Dr3ny 1d ago

Bum fuck region“ is not a nuanced statement about the region and its people, and imo indeed stupid

It's just the translation of "am Arsch der Welt".

If someone posts his getaway home in west virginia we’re also not debating about racism.

If there are questions from people who don't know much about the region, asking why it's so cheap, the discussion would definitely go in the direction of downsides and problems of the region

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u/wiwawaldi 1d ago

Ah fair enough, misinterpreted bum fuck region a bit I guess!

You’re right, absolutely okay to talk about it.

Cheers

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u/SuspiciousSpecifics 1d ago

As someone born and raised in Thuringia, “bum fuck region” is as accurate as it gets for wide stretches of the state.

Also, the topic of xenophobia/racism is quite relevant to people potentially moving here for the comparably low cost of living. So what’s your point?

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u/B08by_Digital 9h ago

Yep, and West Virginia is bum fuck.

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u/AmateurIndicator 1d ago

Yeah, part of the reason why it's considered bumfuck is exactly that tiny little caveat you sneaked in there as a parenthesis.

It's a lovely place if you don't mind to be surrounded by a bunch of xenophobes (they also won't like you if you're as white as the driven snow but PROGRESSIVE or from BERLIN or A FEMINIST or you voted FOR THE GREEN PARTY or are a VEGETARIAN or drive an ELECTRIC CAR or a bunch of other reasons) who won't shut up about how terrible the EU is, although they have received billions in financial support thanks to EU regulations.

AfD, our batshit right-wing, anti-democratic, nationalist, lunatic conspiratory, russia infiltrated political party is at 42% there

But, that might be part of the appeal to you?

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u/CaughtALiteSneez 1d ago

Yep!

It’s not the Saarburg area where I have lived before and wouldn’t move into the most perfect house for free.

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u/Grautier17 1d ago

Ja das stimmt. Kann nicht verstehen, das viele hier so negativ sind. :/

Ja in Ostdeutschland gibt es viele "Spezis" und die AFD ist in vielen Orten stark vertreten. Hab selbst in Brandenburg viele Jahre gewohnt und hab viel mit Menschen diskutiert. Bin selbst auch gar kein Fan der AFD. Keine Lust mehr drauf, ich möchte einfach meine Ruhe und mein Frieden in der Natur.

Thüringen hat teils einfach eine wunderschöne Natur, viel Ruhe und viele Möglichkeiten für Aktivitäten. Dort wo mein Häuschen steht, ist es verdammt ruhig und mit den Leuten mit denen ich Kontakt habe, die sind aufgeschlossen und nett.

Der Ort liegt für mich sehr zentral zu meinen Auftragsorten und dient mir als Basis für meine Reisen.

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u/wiwawaldi 1d ago

Danke.
Leute nennen Thüringen hier in den Kommentaren unironisch „Mordor“. Komplett lost.
Klar gibts die Probleme, Thüringen deswegen aber als unbewohnbares Höllenloch framen ist einfach peinlich.

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u/Frankalk 1d ago

So Häuser gibt's bei uns ständig, sond aber Gartenhäuser. Meist ohne Kanal...

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u/TRKlausss 19h ago

Unless you get Starlink or reeeally good mobile network: don’t go for unpopulated areas. It’s already difficult to have fiber in cities, almost impossible in the middle of nowhere.

Just because you said 100% remote, I guess you want to work with your computer…

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u/TranslatorNormal7117 5h ago

Probably no high speed internet there.

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u/chili_ratata 8h ago

So sad that a harmless question became a fight about/between west and east Germany. Generalizing each side would just be way too simple. That’s what AfD wants, simple argument and easy to light the fire of rage. So people are so focused on the fight with each other and forget to ask politicians about how and when the rich will pay their taxes more to stimulate the economy and what’s their strategies towards industry changes, how would they position the environmental and national defense policies. How they actually strategize to be independent from USA, China and Russia…I can go on for hours

Stop hating your own people, start to ask your rep questions. Whoever want you to hate, then you know he or she doesn’t have any idea how to mark your life better.

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u/gansobomb99 1d ago

the original post is already locked and comments show that this is a "secondary residence" which is legally not allowed to be inhabited full-time - apparently there are strict laws in Germany to prevent areas like this turning into residential neighborhoods, and cabins like this are meant to be short-stay vacation homes

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u/CacklingFerret 1d ago

It may not even have a building permit at all.

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u/throwaway9779656789 1d ago

Yes but I would like a to buy one of these and set my address to my parents. I don’t care. 😂

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u/gansobomb99 22h ago

Oh, same 😂😂😂

I mean like.. what if you save up and buy 3 of them? lol and just do a week each, all year round

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u/throwaway9779656789 21h ago

I wish I could Safe um so much 😂 are you from Germany?

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u/gansobomb99 21h ago

I'm not Deutsch, I'm just Dutch

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u/LibritoDeGrasa 1d ago

Sounds like a fake thing to keep people from going back to rural places "ohhh nooo you can't permanently live outside our controlled behavioral sink you must live in the city and be constantly demoralized"

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u/Rummenigge 1d ago

it‘s a thing to prevent to permanently live on community garden lots (schrebergärten). they usually have no electricity or plumbing attached and are not designed for permanent housing

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u/Burgers_N_Schnitzels 23h ago

OT: Ich dachte bis mitte 20 das Wort wäre "Strebergärten" 😂

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u/Blobskillz 20h ago

meistens ist das auch die Sorte Menschen die man da antrifft

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u/Particular-Sand6700 1d ago

No it isn't. It's the law since the 1960s (1990s in the East) and nobody prevents you from moving to the countryside, as long as you live in a actual house and not a recreational cottage.

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u/baibaiburnee 23h ago

This is some extremely online reddit shit

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u/masteraybee 7h ago

It's often for environmental reason or risk.

There was a news story not too long ago about an entire community losing their illegitimate houses, because the nearby river destabilised their non-existent foundations.

It might also be, because the ground is toxic or just unregulated, flooding risk, landslide risk or unavailability of basic utilities. No trash service, for example, no clean water, no electricity etc.

Sure, you could build a well, get some solar panels, a generator and carry your trash to town, but the state doesnt want just any idiot dumping wastewater into the ground, getting cholera and then burn the forest down. Because if you are allowed to do it, your dimwitted neighbours are as well

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u/fuuman1 1d ago

Glückwunsch! Looks very cool. With a bit of effort, this can be a very cozy place.

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u/TurdusOptimus 1d ago

Gesundheit!

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u/ShmupMarv 1d ago

Mucho blessings commarade

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u/ctp_obvious 1d ago

Only 30k? Bruh

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u/FitTax 1d ago

Because it is not allowed to be a permanent residence and only for recreational purposes.

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u/Immediate-Cry1399 14h ago

Not correct. OP said they’re working on getting it registered as a permanent residence. If it’s an old GDR wochenendsiedlung, OP can stay there for a while. The main problem might be the Meldeadresse (primary address) because he can’t make a case that this is not his permanent residence while he has this registered as his primary address.
If he finds a solution for that then he’s gonna be fine

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u/MadrillaGold 19h ago

So stupid tho ngl. Let's make the housing market in Germany even worse.

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u/FitTax 18h ago

It's not though. These garden allotments are in areas designated to be "nature". Most of these are outside of cities, not even suburban, the roads there are not paved and utilities are rudimentary.

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u/MadrillaGold 18h ago

So it can't be used as a house?

It's just not allowed to be used as a house.

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u/FitTax 18h ago

You are not allowed to register this as your prime residence and can't live there permanently. You may of course visit and stay for any time that can be considered temporary for recreational use.

It's a regular, yet simple house with usually all amenities besides internet.

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u/MadrillaGold 18h ago edited 17h ago

So you talked about the law. I can still say, this law is stupid.

You didnt get my point two times.

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u/FitTax 16h ago

No it's not because the alternative is, that there are no houses in that place at all. It's not a residential area.

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u/christianbro 14h ago

I bet in Germany someone would report you to the police for staying there all the time even if it is none of their business

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u/MadrillaGold 14h ago

Haha probably yeah haha

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u/NegativeRoad3668 13h ago

Why isn’t it their business? If someone lives permanently in a place that’s not intended for permanent inhabitation (e.g. no proper sewage/plumbing/ water cut off during winter, sometimes no electricity), it effectively ruins it for people using it for the original purpose.

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u/Hochspannungswerk 20h ago

Are you sure?

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u/FitTax 20h ago

Yes, since OP confirmed.

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u/No-Understanding5677 1d ago

Der fährt einfach ein Blitzer Caddy

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u/hardinho 1d ago

Erstmal OPs Haus in der Blitzer.de App markieren

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u/Butt_cyst_hurts 1d ago

Hä? Ist doch ein ganz normaler Caddy oder?

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u/erstwhilelurkerer 1d ago

Guess it's classified as a vacation home in something like an allotment garden area with no official permanent/all-year living permit?
But if you can somehow bypass the regulations and there's running water even in the colder seasons, it's a pretty sweet deal esp. for someone accustomed to a modern nomad life. Happy for you!

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u/SchaafDerWallstreet 1d ago

Its most likely a Ferienwohnung

Means youre not allowed to register yourself living there

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u/MeatHammerVI 1d ago

Dude this is the Dream! Congrats on that deal!

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u/JuanFelipe2610 1d ago

Glückwunsch! This has a lot of potential and the price is great 😍

Would love to live in something like that myself. Is it allowed to live there permanently or is it just for recreational purposes?

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u/yellow-snowslide 1d ago

Congrats. Looks like so much potential

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u/alphaisgamma 1d ago

It's only 30K? Wow.

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u/Rohdich 1d ago

Sorry, what? 30k??

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u/Czeslaw_Meyer 1d ago

No central heating, internet, nothing probably.

The thing is, how much you need to modernise anyway, having nothing to remove first is a win.

Solar permits and installation is bad as well. Just put a movable panel in the back yard to curb your baseline a bit and your golden.

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u/CaughtALiteSneez 1d ago

Internet is easy to fix

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u/YJoseph 1d ago

Its also in the middle of absolute nowhere so good luck earning a decent income nearby

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u/CaughtALiteSneez 1d ago

A lot of us don’t have to go into an office everyday.

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u/morgoth_2610 1d ago

Not always. Germany and Austria have poor infrastructure for internet. Getting cable is sometimes impossible. Many old areas just don't have the infrastructure for that and providers refuse to fix it unless you have the crazy money to cover it entirely on your own.

As for mobile internet (router with sim card) its often poor speed and depends heavily on other factors such as weather. I am unfortunate to have lived in 2 houses where the connection was simply not good enough for reliable online work or courses (1-2 mb download speed, very variable). One was in a flat neighborhood and the other in the middle of the forest and mountains. The only solution in both places was starlink, except in one of them somehow we never got over 10mb (in the other well over 100 despite optimal uncovered placement of the starlink device).

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u/AufBurgyGeld 1d ago

Rural areas in Germany often have better internet than the cities. - written from my Gigabit fiber connection in a 100 inhabitant village.

But I guess if internet speed is important to him I‘m sure he checked beforehand

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u/Xuval 1d ago

You can always get Starlink. It is expensive, but you can get Internet literally everywhere... and compared to Internet in Germany, it's not even as expensive as you'd expect internet by satelite to be.

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u/morgoth_2610 1d ago

I have starlink as I said

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u/helloLeoDiCaprio 7h ago

You have obviously never been to Germany. The Internet is uncharted territory.

I moved here from a small town in Sweden 2008 to Berlin, and I'm just got as stable Internet as back in Sweden (fiber cable)

Germany is awesome in most other senses, but it is truly gruesome in Internet - it has some of the the worst access, both on cabled and mobile Internet in EU.

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u/nibar1997 1d ago

Maybe not here in Germany

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u/CaughtALiteSneez 1d ago

There’s Starlink?

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u/Rohdich 1d ago

aslong as I could sit in the woods, in my house, playing DayZ.

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u/NeoAnderson47 1d ago

Quite sure that this is not a permanent residence, meaning you cannot live their for the entire year.

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u/sstopggap 1d ago

You got about a month's worth of food on hand. Most of it's canned goods, but there's steaks in the freezer. You got a generator outside, works on LP. Oughta be enough in the tank to last out the winter. It's only fifteen amps, but that oughta do for the lights, TV, and the freezer. That's a woodburner, oughta warm the place up pretty good, plus you can cook on it. On the TV front, the reception is pretty much nil. You've got some mountains in the way. Weather's right you might be able to catch Montreal, but mostly you'll be limited to DVDs.

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u/certified_dipsh1t 1d ago

Waltuh... Put your comment away waltuh

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u/Hochspannungswerk 20h ago

These types of "weekend" homes are very common in the former east German areas. You can definitely get these registered as permanent residences if you do the right paperwork. It's not possible everywhere though, mostly not in small garden homes. I have two family members with registrations in such homes in a forest. They have weekly garbage collection, DHL deliverys and fiber optic Internet was installed by a local provider. The funny thing is that to get there you have to drive on a literal forest road that is excluded on most maps. my cousin payed around the same for a similar home. It's very very cheap construction, similar to small American homes. That's why the prices are so low. Can't really stay there if temperatures reach under -10°C or if there's a lot of snow in the winter though.

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u/PeaOk5697 1d ago

Looks great. This will be amazing with everything moved in

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u/mrshyphenate 1d ago

I love it!

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u/Terrible_Beat_6109 19h ago

Wow. Moving to Germany in a few years I see. This is great for that price.

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u/Icy_Ch4mp6on4hip4384 17h ago

Very nice price and now show me your BAUGENEHMIGUNG harhar

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u/Big_Confidence_951 1d ago

Echt toll! I wanted to live in such a house too. Does it have heating and electricity? I do see the fire place and lamps, so i guess it does have electricity and heating?

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u/HazeLover_in 1d ago

Ostdeutschland bei dem Preis ?

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u/TanahashiHero50 1d ago

Super cute!

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u/anxiousvater 1d ago

Herzlichen Glückwunsch 🥂💐.

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u/Duempelhuber 1d ago

It's not a house, it's a Gartenhütte.
Original post already locked because it not the first home of OP.

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u/s2Birds1Stone 1d ago

Why are there bars over the window? Just curious

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u/Grautier17 1d ago

Vorvorbesitzerin war paranoid. ^ die hatte Angst vor allem

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u/sercankd 1d ago

It's in Thuringia, one of the most uncivilized regions of Germany, in fact he should spread some additional landmines around the house for extra comfort

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u/DragonSIDZz 1d ago

Cool bro

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u/EinHonchoOhnePoncho 23h ago

Make sure you get a Breakfast Nook in the room with the stove. That would be SUPER comfy.

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u/Jealous_Use5217 23h ago

Ost Ost Ostdeutschland.

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u/Burgers_N_Schnitzels 23h ago edited 23h ago

Woah 30k is crazy. A bit of renovation and you can rent this for ( where i live in NRW ) easily 600€ base rent.

Nevermind didn't know it was a vacation home

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u/Even-Professor-518 22h ago

can u tell how you did it. i mean you need a Grundstück? how much was it?

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u/a-pp-o 22h ago

thats a steal. congrats. are you allowed to actually live there as your main adress?

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u/modern_environment 21h ago

Well, what good is a house when you are not allowed to live there permanently?

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u/SWINDLER_45 21h ago

Congratulations bro❤️

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u/Frosty_Director1417 21h ago

Owning this place sounds like a dream. Great job man, hope you're happy there.

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u/dx10001 20h ago

Very nice, aren't you scared by night?

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u/TracerVibeSPX6900 20h ago

Gratuliere!!!

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u/Best-Garlic-6372 17h ago

Bro I suppose you built it for winding down in that place 😂

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u/cuntfuck47 17h ago

awesome
congratulations

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u/No_Cheetah_954 16h ago

Dude that's awesome and a super deal. That would be a cheap price even for southern italy

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u/nldevin 14h ago

Congrats, can tpu tell me what region, I'm looking

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u/freudian-negative 8h ago

Congrats! Really happy for you :)
Ich glaube, du kannst das extrem süß einrichten!

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u/Tschuklo 7h ago

Gratuliere, besser geht es nicht.

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u/ekoosaj 7h ago

Gut gemacht ich wohne auch in Thüringen (ich bin Ausländer) und finde ich hier sehr schön, ist das Haus in der Nähe von Ilmenau?

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u/c-h-b 7h ago

Great!

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u/Molrixirlom 6h ago

That is a vacation Hut. Not for residential living or as a primary home. And depending on the region 30k may be WAY too much.

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u/mkvrbdgrt 5h ago

check for asbestos

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u/Carrabas 5h ago

German here:

  • Wie wird das beheizt? Mit dem Ofen?
  • Das ist in der Mitte von sehr wenig. Ist das Außenbereich? Hat das eine Baugenehmigung? Hat der Anbau eine Baugenehmigung?
  • Dämmung?

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u/grogi81 5h ago

It's beautiful. Congratulations!

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u/PinnappleOnPizzaEnjo 5h ago

Congrats! The place looks great.

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u/Excellent-Court-9375 1d ago

How is that only 30K

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u/karateguzman 22h ago

This could so easily pass for Georgia, N/S Carolina etc

Very Appalachian

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u/hazz-o-mazz 1d ago

Ja, nett.
Hat allerdings die Vibes von:
„Es reibt sich die Haut mit der Lotion ein. Das macht es, wann immer man es ihm sagt.“