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I was visiting it 2010 and it had many empty houses. I even read the Deutsche Bahn wanted to cut them off from long-distance trains. Today it's the new hip loc
by k__ 5y ago
I was visiting it 2010 and it had many empty houses. I even read the Deutsche Bahn wanted to cut them off from long-distance trains.
Today it's the new hip location to live at, like Berlin. People are gentrifying it in swarms.
It's a pretty nice place and compared to the rest of east Germany pretty leftist. But, yeah, when you leave the city there is nothing much.
- jamil7 5y agoPeople in Berlin are always threatening to leave for Leipzig as Berlin becomes less and less affordable, I guess a lot do, especially now that remote working make it actually feasible. I even had a colleague years ago who commuted a few days a week to an office in Berlin.
- hutzlibu 5y ago"But, yeah, when you leave the city there is nothing much. " Well, there are lots of nice lakes around. (left from open coal mining and renaturated). And if you drive a bit, you can reach quite nice mountains, for example, or other cultural interesting places, like Weimar or Dresden. And the average village around is indeed quite right leaning, but more and more nice projects are growing as well.
- wirrbel 5y agoWhen I visited the streets were fairly dark at night. Albeit beautifully renovated houses. My cousin who lived there said that everyone rented Appartments that would not face the street because there were much more appartments available than renters, the apartments facing the street were mostly vacant and thus dark in the evening.