Future Leipzig: Incredible Shrinking City (2015)
Funny that this article does not even mention once that East Germany is pretty well known for right-party extremists - and this might be one of the reasons of its shrinkage, instead of further development.<p>As a non German native, I find this one of the main reasons not to live in such a city. As far as I know ( but please don&#x27;t take my words for granted ) Germany is investing pretty much to develop and to grow in this region (lower tax rates&#x2F;fares for mortgages, lower house prices, and so forth), due to the fact it was deeply underdeveloped compared to the rest of Germany before&#x2F;after 1990. However, my understanding is that this region is destined to be the &quot;cheap&quot; region with low paid salaries (companies like Zalando hire there). It would be a cool idea to attract cheaper workers, but first they need to solve these &quot;right-party&quot; problems - but this won&#x27;t change any time soon, considering the political situation in Germany.<p>This is the region you hear about in the news when they mention people with &quot;molotov against refugees camp&quot; or similar episodes; this is the region Pegida comes from: exactly the cultural hub of Germany. Seriously? Germans are not like that (and if you talk with many of them, you&#x27;ll realize it).