The wooden-floored feel-good utopia

(...) Basically the only acceptable type of home for Germans is "Altbau" which, literally translated means "old building", but for Germans it carries the mystic aura of an anti-establishment, anti-capitalist. wooden-floored feel-good utopia, even if in reality, those buildings are mostly owned by the worst sort of capitalist who never put any money into renovating because they know they will rent off their beat-up apartments to easily impressed youngsters from the Baden-Wuerttemberg anyway. Never speak to Germans about this, though. You will be shunned for your mainstream way of thinking. Only when Germans finally become adults (earliest cases recorded were at 42 years of age), they are allowed to trade their "Altbau" apartment for an "sanierte Altbau" apartment. (...)

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