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>you should probably make a redddit post how you will never be able to retire because of capitalism
Thanks for the good advice! I shall do so, because I highly doubt I'll see much of my main government pensions when I retire.

My fellow stackers, I need some life advice!
Currently looking for a new job and with kids and all that, I want to move out of the city I'm currently in.
Now, easy thing, you say, countryside is better than the hellish cities and cheaper to boot!
Well, here's the problem:
While my city certainly is a city, it isn't particularly bad. In fact, it's pretty nice with low crime and all the amenities you could think of, from an international airport (well, there's occasional flights into the neighboring coutry, so it's an international airport!) to grocers from about any nationality on this planet (I'm not that convinced of the whole >muh diversity thing, but for food, it's definitely a nice thing to have) and very high walk- or bikeability, but not having a garden for the kids to play in, or just being able to take a walk in the forest or fields definitely sucks.
So, countryside it shall be!
However, it turns out that I'm living in the cheapest city of the country which in fact is cheaper than most of the countryside! Looking at the area where I found an interesting job, rent for a similar flat as I got now is anywhere between 300 and 1000€ more per month and wages are actually lower. Well, that sucks.
And just buying a house is even worse. Of course, within the city I won't get much under 1 million, but in the outskirts it seems like you can get decent stuff round half a million and if you're willing to commute, there's a lot of stuff in the quarter million range (that needs fixing, though, but so does about anything under 1 million).
But countryside? Thanks to tourism, there's loads of stuff way above 1 million (essentially all 2nd homes/investment bullshit) and even some shitty, run down, 100k renovation backlog shithole in bumfuck nowhere is at least half a million, because there's some skiing two hills over.
WTF?
How do normies do it?
I'm getting really nervous if I'm not solidly in the green after a months end.