Yes, there are people living in East Germany. The larger cities (Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, ...) are doing kind of okay, but the less populated regions struggle

Yes, there are people living in East Germany. The larger cities (Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, ...) are doing kind of okay, but the less populated regions struggle a lot and people are moving away. > Because all they do is offshore? Germany can do nearshore, since there are countries next/near to Germany with lower wages/costs, which at the same time are in the European Union. A common large economic region (the EU and its associated countries) makes nearshoring attractive. Thus "East Germany" is often in competition with other EU countries for new factories.