At sixty miles an hour, the Trabi is the quietest car on the road. Its kind of cramped and you can cover your ears with your knees. The Trabbi is almost a rarity on East German roads now. There have been massive improvements in the infrastructure of eastern Germany. Lots of families want to move out of their socialist style apartment buildings with their three tight rooms into something better.
Affordable housing is the problem.
Many buildings in Jena in the fancy part of town have been rehabilitated. These are fine old houses in the Art Nouveau, or Jugendstil style. They are now so expensive that they are out of reach for most of the Easterners. It has turned out that many of the owners of these buildings were in West Germany, or West German interests have come in to buy the buildings and renovate them. Once renovated, the rents are too high for the Easterners.