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On the way between Hamburg and Berlin, there's an area that looks like a deserted warzone. It's where all the young people came from that moved to big cities fo
by fxtentacle 5y ago
On the way between Hamburg and Berlin, there's an area that looks like a deserted warzone. It's where all the young people came from that moved to big cities for the better job opportunities. The people that remain are elderly / unemployed, so naturally those villages will decay. The east had quite some areas that relied on local industry and/or farming for people's income. During the unification, most industry was auctioned off to westerners, so the east took a pretty big hit, both in terms of losing company tax revenue and in terms of losing high-skilled labor.
- downrightmike 5y agoThere are a lot of areas in the east that are abandoned and falling into decay.
- AtlasBarfed 5y agoThis is the precise problem that rural America has with youth abandoning the rural areas. The cure for this is immigration, but the people that remain in the rural areas are very right wing and very xenophobic.
- coryrc 5y agoThat cure is worse than the disease. We don't need people living all over for no good reason.