Little Versus Big Problem

 Focus brought this story up in the afternoon today....over a town called Leinburg.  If you went looking on the map.....it's a smaller town about seven miles east of Nuremburg.  Size?  Population of about 6,000.  There's probably fifteen-odd restaurants in the area, and it's mostly where Nuremburg folks go to live....who want the small-town feeling but close enough to work.  In simple terms....it's quiet.

So, the town of Leinburg spent a fair amount of time/effort to build an emergency shelter for the Ukrainian folks. 

Couple of days ago.....the first bus arrived, and the folks stepped off....looked at the situation, and then declined...wanting 'a big city feeling' instead.

Some of the reasons here?  They think they will get better medical care in Nuremburg....than this town seven miles to the east.

What ended up happening?  Well....the bus had apparently pulled off and left (maybe a good thing).  Finally the mayor and local police suggested that the folks take the local train (S-Bahn), and somehow got them over to that station, and then they rode into Nuremburg.  Nuremburg was stuck looking for accommodations for them.

If you go back to 2014-2016....this was the same routine.  Refugees only wanted 'name-brand' cities.  A  place like Bitburg, or Boppard, or Winnweiler is not going to end up as a 'destination' for any refugees.  

The town on the other side of my village (over the hill) spent a fair amount of time working up a modular building to handle forty-odd refugees (2015).  People came, but within two or three months.....they all wanted a 'exit'....the town didn't have status or clout.  By the end of 2017, the modular building was cancelled out on the lease.

What this all means?  There are roughly 80-to-90 cities in Germany which can be deemed 'appropriate' for refugees of any type.  Beyond that....the other 3,000 towns, villages or communities have nothing to worry about.....refugee centers will never exist.

The funny thing I can about this logic.....if you settle upon a city like Bremen, Hamburg, Frankfurt, or Berlin....you have to accept the crime, drug scene, and big-city garbage that goes with the image.  If the refugees could grasp that....they'd probably realize that whatever they get....in the big-city....might not be happiness.

Even a temp lodge deal in Wiesbaden?  You might want to review the police blotter for the past year, and prepare yourself for petty crime being a daily activity to avoid.