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so the post says something like

wage levels in the east: Companies like "Lidl" or "Rotkäppchen" pay their employees in East Germany significantly less than in the West. For the exact same work. Up to a thousand euros or even more are missing from their monthly paycheck.

tags then the tags say maybe: #Nah, forget it—the East has been left behind. #It’s also great that rental rates have skyrocketed while wages haven't kept pace—that really brings a smile to your face.

germany is fucked up because the east had a piss poor economy and in 1989 the "reunification" was not so much a reunion as the GDR (east germany) being folded into the FRG (west germany) and the west german government all but encouraged west germans to take advantage of the cheapness of the east to buy out housing and businesses etc. this of course only exacerbated the poverty and drove east germans out of their own homes which created social and political issues that still affect us today.

for example the east is more “conservative”. AfD (neo nazi party) majority states are overwhelmingly in the east. my family is east german while my friends’ are all from the west and the divide is very much still there. ways of thinking, raising kids, food, wealth, the damn generational trauma… it’s insane. and in most of our infrastructure you can still see a clear line on a map where the quality drops/changes running right along the former border.

this country is still divided and until those issues are solved the government can forget about their precious patriotism.

i was complaining about berlin specifically because imo it’s a poster child of this, what with the east and west sitting side by side in the same city. foremost example i can think of is trams: they’re everywhere in the east while the west of the city was built by americans so cars were seen as more important and no tram lines run. also i live in berlin so it’s what i’m dealing with every day. i could rant about this more coherently than in 15 minutes over my oatmeal.

Red = Best chances, Orange = very high chances, pastel orange = high chances, yellowish orange = slight chances, yellow = balanced risks/chances, light blue = slight risks, medium blue = high risks, dark blue = very high risks.

The text under the map reads: The overall map illustrates the future opportunities and risks of the regions in a comparison across Germany. It is based on the 31 macroeconomic and socioeconomic indicators of the Zukunftsatlas.