Luxembourgers leave country in droves due to housing crisis

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  1. Is anyone surprised? Prices apparently increased 450% in the last 25 years. What’s left to do other than go where it’s affordable for normal people?

  2. Nobody saw that one coming <.<

    Most of my old friends from school either never came back to Luxembourg after studying or choose live across the border in Belgium.

    The ones that still live in Luxembourg either inherited a house/a lot of money or had half the family take loans in order to buy something. (Or even both in one case)

    The situation is absurd to say the least.

    *Wat e Misär*

  3. Luxembourg needs to start building bigger apartment complexes with floor area ratio of over 500~600% and increase supply significantly, otherwise future is doomed with constant lack of talents and workforce. Bigger apartment complexes are much more energy efficient as well.

    Not everybody needs a full-size house with an island kitchen and a garden. They need to rethink about “affordable” housing schemes.

  4. No wonder and also when you apply for jobs you get replies after 1 year, despite having the qualifications (or even being overqualified). If you want to work freelance or make some companies there are too many taxes and innovative stuff such as crypto is rejected by Luxembourgish society etc. And also let’s not forget that I can’t be attended to as customer in my own language…so yeah go figure.

    Plenty of nicer places around the world…Europe, especially Western Europe is doomed too. Many ticking time bombs (pensions, bad immigration policies, atomized societies, taxes, etc).

  5. 70k already in the neighbouring countries?

    Damn that’s a lot considering the fact that only 300k Luxembourgers are left in Luxembourg. That’s nearly 25% of them.

    Say what you want, but our politicians only do politics for the rich.

  6. It’s crazy, im glad my dad bought our house in Bonnevoie (getting shitload expensive lately) for roughly 500.000€ and we were offered 2M€ not long ago, its insane and I did wanna move but the more I see people I know living in the border, Im so glad we have this house

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