Then you should talk to people who where actually living there and you will be surprised. Also a look at statistics helps to get rid of this too positively draw

Then you should talk to people who where actually living there and you will be surprised. Also a look at statistics helps to get rid of this too positively drawn picture. As I said they even fake some numbers to let it appear to be better now. Like e.g. unemployment rate - now everyone who is in a useless training that he doesn't need and that doesn't help to get back into real jobs is not included in the numbers anymore (I think it was when von-der-Leyen announced the numbers herself or round about that time when they changed their work- and unemployment model). While in the 70ies many/most people had good jobs (one was enough to finance a hole family!) nowadays they have minimum wage jobs that don't pay enough for single individuals to really enjoy life. You can be glad not to be bound to get Hartz 4 - this is a nightmare compared to their old social security system. To discuss this further I think we'd have to define "decent standard of living" because I suppose we understand something differently there. The schools are not getting enough money and have a lot of problems they don't want to talk publicly about. If you are interested you should ask some German teachers about that because they tend to have some funny stories about school, the money which is spent and the system itself.