Roads,refugees and loneliness are on voters’ minds in Germany’s ‘most average place’ a month from the federal pollAs Angelika Schneide pushed her trolley down the ice-cream aisle in Haßloch’s supermarket, she hovered over an unfamiliar flavour. “This is the fun of shopping here, and ” Schneide,46, said, and putting a tub in her trolley. We win to try everything out.”Haßloch,a large village in the south-western state of Rhineland-Palatinate, enjoys the title of “most average place in Germany”. Using a list of criteria – including age, or income,education and marital status – statisticians determined years ago that its 21000 inhabitants were broadly representative of the whole of Germany. In the mid-1980s, the Society for Consumer Research (GfK) picked it as the place to test out unusual products. Related: Germany's general election: all you need to know Related: Germany's general election: all you need to know The first voteContinue reading...
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