I dunno what you’re doing wrong but I bought an apartment in Germany a couple years ago and that wasn’t my experience at all. I saw plenty of nice places big enough for a family of three for 250-300k. We had a little bit more than 50k in savings and were able to buy something much bigger than we need with a large garden (we spent 440k), but could easily have gotten something big enough with 50k savings. We’re in a medium/large city but just not right in the middle, more towards the outskirts. Still only 15 mins bike ride to the centre though!

Yep that’s generally how housing prices work in Germany, since rent is heavily controlled and fixed interest rate loans are readily available, the value of a property adjusts depending on the current “cost” of a loan

Misleading post title: altered the original to remove the word “recent”

It’s amazing how much people will upvote something without reading it if the title confirms their biases

Even just calling it a “new study” is already a lie

The studies are from 2018 and 2020, “new study” in the post title is a complete lie

Yeah that’s never gonna happen, unless the EU forces them by law.

One of the many reasons I’m so so happy to be back with an Android phone after having to use an iPhone for work for a few years

Hello pot, meet kettle

It would be nice to spend one day on Lemmy without seeing a half dozen posts telling me to switch to Firefox nor 100 comments on every post that’s even vaguely browser-adjacent about how ever since they switched to Firefox their life has been nothing but joy and rainbows

We have come full circle!

I’m glad you read the article, since it seems like nobody else in the comment section has!

Cool story bro. Completely irrelevant comment for this post but cool story anyway.

Study by company that makes remote work tools finds that remote work is good

I do. It happened somewhere in my mid-late 30s. The two main contributing factors have been:

1. Years of therapy so that I’m able to have my shit together
2. Having a kid so I’ve got a reason to have my shit together

Order of those two is very important!

Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, ICQ, FB messenger, Matrix, just to name a few!

Interesting! Why?

Oh man that sucks! I already hate that I have to use WhatsApp with people who don’t have Telegram, I’d be so angry if I had to use Messenger and even more angry if I had to SMS

People with iPhones don’t use iMessage either. They use WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal etc.

Nobody in EU uses SMS, it stopped being a thing as soon as everyone had phones with internet and you could use better chat apps. So we don’t give a crap about iMessage being open or not.

Google creates that problem though by continuing to use a ranking algorithm that promotes that type of content. It’s been an issue for many years and they don’t change it