Frankfurt: High rents and crime cause misfortune!

Frankfurt: High rents and crime cause misfortune!

Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland - Frankfurt am Main, according to the current lucky atlas of the southern German class lottery (SKL), got a sad rank: the city occupies the 35th place of 40 cities examined in Germany. Despite a comparatively high medium -sized income and an expanded infrastructure, many Frankfurters classify their happiness as insufficient. This is particularly evident in the big differences between very satisfied and extremely dissatisfied residents, which makes life satisfaction appear unevenly distributed in the metropolis. Bernd Raffelhüschen from the University of Freiburg emphasizes that even satisfaction is crucial for happiness in cities. This inequality is also reflected in the rental prices, because the average rents in Frankfurt are 14.15 euros per square meter and are the third highest among the 40 cities that have been examined in the lucky atlas.

Another remarkable point is the living space per capita, which is the slightest among the compared cities in Frankfurt. In addition, the financial metropolis fights with an alarming high crime rate of around 14,872 crimes per 100,000 inhabitants, which makes the city appear dangerous, especially through the large number of commuters and international visitors. In comparison, Kassel, with a lucky value of 7.44 points, cuts excellently. It has the highest proportion of highly satisfied (56 percent) and only 3 percent dissatisfied, although the economic key figures are average. Kassel leads the ranking, while Rostock is at the end of the list with only 6.08 points.

comparison to other major cities

What about other cities? So while Frankfurt is considered unhappy, some cities, despite hard factions, enjoy a significantly better quality of life. Duisburg, on the 13th place with 6.99 points, has the worst quality of life, but is still considered overperformers. Stuttgart follows the 14th place with 6.97 points and has a considerable quality of life, while the satisfaction of the residents is rather mediocre. Mannheim and Oberhausen are also in midfield and show that subjective satisfaction often does not match objective living conditions.

• Kassel: 1st place, 7.44 points
• Frankfurt: 35th place, 6.55 points
• Rostock: Last place, 6.08 points

An interesting comparison also shows the cities in Baden-Württemberg, which have the best objective quality of life, but are classified as dissatisfied by their residents. This discrepancy makes it clear that a high quality of life does not automatically go hand in hand with luck.

General life satisfaction in major German cities rose by 0.13 points compared to the previous year, but not all cities are equally advantages from this increase. It remains to be seen whether the trend of increasing satisfaction can help Frankfurters improve their current situation or whether they will remain behind the expectations.

For more information about life satisfaction in big cities, you can report the reports of frisn.de and skl-gluecksatlas.de href = "https://frankfurt.t-online.de/region/frankfurt-am-main/id_100764740/Gluecksatlas-frankfurt-un-den-ungluecklichest-staedtten-deutschlands.html"> t-online.at The current developments in frankfurt.