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A blog about our thoughts, plans and the actual journey to our own self-sufficient homestead in Germany
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We have a plan!

12. July 2018 By ourgoodplace in Blog Post Tags: going rural, leaving the big city

New Tiny Home 2c - 1c

It’s always good to have a plan! Due to our somehow complicated circumstances we couldn’t aim for building just a house. A house which would fit our needs and our wishes for space and storage capacities would never be financeable for us. The prices for building plots and costs for conventional house building are skyrocketing […]

Adding to the drama of YouTube

9. July 2018 By ourgoodplace in Allgemein Tags: Clickbait, Not a Cat Video, Video Content, YouTube, YouTube Drama

Youtube Bild 5

Why we are going on YouTube. It’s another experiment, another challenge! In other circumstances this would have to do it as the answer, on the other hand why even bother to start a blog post about it if not willing to type more than 3 words? And here we go! Another profusion of words just […]

Sometimes a TV show has an real impact.

7. July 2018 By ourgoodplace in Uncategorized Tags: DIY, Do It Yourself, Hobbythek, Jean Pütz

Hobbythek 5

A TV show somehow initiated DIY in Germany. In the mid-seventies a neet little TV show became very popular in Germany. It’s name was Hobbythek. The name was made of obviously “Hobby” and the suffix word formation element of “-thek”, which is of Greek origin with the meaning of: institution, place, space for storage, a […]

Being robbed by the utility company!

5. July 2018 By ourgoodplace in Uncategorized

Überweisungen 2

Each month the same painful procedure. The costs of electricity, water and sewage has risen to an nearly impossible to bear amount. Especially in Germany were it’s chancellor got on a wild ride declaring an energy turnaround just out of populist reasons and to please the opposition parties in the parliment, because the  nuclear power […]

Why write a German blog in English?

4. July 2018 By ourgoodplace in Uncategorized Tags: 4th of July, German Blog in English, Independence Day, We Love America

We Love America 2

It’s just that simple! It’s also a try and a self-imposed challenge. If we where in better circumstances we would rather pack our bags and leave Germany for good to immigrate to the United States, preferable to somewhere in the Midwest and start there all over again. This would be the fulfilling of our biggest […]

Who & why & where to go.

30. June 2018 By ourgoodplace in Uncategorized

Christian & Silke 1

  We are Christian & Silke and we want to invite you to our journey to Our Good Place! Our Good Place stands synonymous for our desires, dreams and needs to change our lifes dramaticly and shall be the name of this project. Living in a row house in a cramped city feels no longer […]

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