Several cases: Ukraine refugees refuse accommodation in the country - This could be the reason
Created: 03/28/2022, 22:05
By: Magdalena von Zumbusch
Refugees from Ukraine arrive in Germany by bus.
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Not an isolated case: Refugees who arrive in Bavaria prefer to go to the big city rather than to the country.
There's a guess as to why.
Diepersdorf - A bus full of Ukrainian refugees recently arrived in the Middle Franconian community of Diepersdorf, not far from Nuremberg.
They left the bus hesitantly because they didn't want to be admitted in Diepersdorf.
A spokesman for the Nuremberg district office speculates why - a Ukrainian confirms his assumption.
Ukraine refugees do not want to stay in Diepersdorf
But first things first: On Tuesday, a bus with women and children who had fled the Ukraine reached Diepersdorf in the Nuremberg region.
There, around 20 people were to be accommodated in emergency accommodation in a gym.
But some refused to get off the bus and were then driven to the next S-Bahn station.
The reason: the women and children did not want to stay in Diepersdorf, but preferred to go to Nuremberg.
Arriving Ukraine refugees are afraid of poor living conditions in the countryside
Situations like these are not isolated, a spokesman for the district office of Nuremberg reported to
nordbayern.de.
Since the start of the Ukraine war, he has observed that people who have fled prefer to live in cities rather than in the countryside.
His assumption is that this has something to do with the social structure in Ukraine, since living conditions in rural areas are worse there.
The fact that there are also rural regions in Bavaria that are richer than any city (such as the Tegernsee area near Munich) is inconceivable for the arriving Ukrainians.
A total of 100,000 refugees are currently expected in Bavaria
"Whoever has some money moves to the city," reports a woman from Ukraine
A Ukrainian woman confirms the suspicions of the Nuremberg district office: "In the Ukraine there are no doctors and no schools in the villages, whoever has some money moves to the city," reports a woman who came to Germany five years ago to
northern Bavaria .de.
This attitude of the Ukrainian population explains that the situation has already been repeated in several Bavarian communities.
The arrival of refugee buses in Miesbach, Upper Bavaria, and just a few days ago at the anchor center of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in Zirndorf, happened in a similar way.
War in Ukraine: It will not be possible to accommodate all refugees in cities
However, it will not be possible to accommodate everyone centrally, despite the efforts of the cities and the many private initiatives.
It would probably enlighten the newcomers that life in the Bavarian countryside has nothing to do with the precarious conditions in some Ukrainian villages.
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