3 minutes agoGerman city offering nomad workers a month of free stay
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Last year, Eva Bodenmüller read about a town east of Germany that called people to live there, one month and free of charge. She and her partner, Carsten Borck, an artist, knew they should leave their home in Italy soon and were not interested in [...]
She and her partner, Carsten Borck, an artist, knew that they should leave their home in Italy soon and were not interested in returning to their eastern Berlin, Koha Ditore broadcast.
I thought: 18x1>, said Bodenmüller, an independent journalist.
Görlitz, Germany's most eastern city, is a canned gem that had roles in numerous Hollywood films, from the “The Grand Budapest Hotel” to “Inglorious bastards” and “The Reader”. But the old city dominated by its afterel shades, which attracts 140 thousand tourists each year, hides a slightly darker reality in itself.
Under the shadow of low wages and extreme right
The city has the lowest income rate in Germany and also the largest share of extreme right-right voters.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the easterns flocked to the west, contracting Görlitz's population for more than 25 percent to a total of 54 thousand in 2013. City officials decided that they should do something to repel this trend, and they were supposed to offer a month's stay free of charge or obligation.
Other cities had only experimented with the idea of seducing new residents, offering housing covers.
