The former East Germany suffers from frauenmangel - that means that there's not enough women. Because much more of the young women than young men leave the East German villages.
This is because the women in the former East Germany are better educated according to therapist Stefan Kröhnert from the independent Berlin Institute for Population and Development.
-- People with higher education are more mobile and have higher expectations of life, and therefore moving the women away, he explains to the Danish newspaper - Radioavisen.
They remain in West though.
The pattern known also in the outskirts...
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