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If you are using a Mac and need the Euro sign: Shift+Opt+2
Pound sign Opt+3
Make sure you get the monthly ticket that stars on the day you buy it "Flexible" monthly.
A monthly bike pass is only €10. Also make sure you get "Flexible".
If you need to find a transport route, go to BVG.de and follow the dots.
For good vegan food, go to Hum Viet in PrenzlauerBerg,
1990 in Friedrichshain.
O-Slow near OsloerStr in SchwedenStr.
Best vegan cakes in the world at MorgenRot, not open Mondays, They Don't Like Mondays.
Look up all veg places in HappyCow.com there are over 80 in Berlin.
Do not go to Apple for Mac repairs, go to 88 WranglerStr , he's quick, very good and much cheaper, best of all he's honest. A short walk from U-Schlesisches Tor.
U-Bahns have stops average every 500 metres apart. S-Bahn average 1 km apart. Trams average 350 metres apart.
If Germans stare at you, don't be concerned, they stare at everyone who doesn't look like a Berliner. It's the most popular pastime for Berliners.
If you and a Berliner accidently bump into each other, and you say "entschuldigung", do not expect under any circumstances to get an "entschuldigung in return, all you will get is a scowl. It's normal here.
Be very careful not to become like them over time. When you catch yourself being rude like them for survival, get out, as quick as you can.
Be prepared to lose your apartment deposit, it's called the caution.
Do not use your address to have parcels delivered. Find a kind local shop-owner to keep it for you, tell them you'll pay €1.00 if they text you when it arrives. Or use the DHL delivery boxes, otherwise your neighbours will steal it from you.
If you live in Wedding, go to Cafe Baobab in SoldinerStr 41 Very chilled place, an oasis.
Anyone else have tips for fresh meat suckers arriving in Berlin.
One last thing, everything you think is great about Berlin, will turn to shiit within 6 months, and on reading this now, you won't believe me. Good luck, you are going to need it.
Some numbers go odd-even opposite each other, other streets go around in a circle, one after each other on the same side of the road each way.
Thomann.de have a 30 day return policy, if you need any musical instruments, mics, amps etc. Prompt delivery.
I've found the best supermarket overall, is KaufLand, you'll see what I mean.
Do not trave without a transport ticket, they will catch you. Apparently 1/3 or people in jail are for repeated transport fare violations.
Always get the €1.60 extension into zone three if you are going to the BER airport.
Go and watch the dogs have fun playing, in their fenced off area at Templehof Field, the old airport.
I hope these tips make your life a little easier.
Looks like you are becoming Germans, with only negative comments.
Kaufland near OsloerStr is open until midnight. After 21.00 it's very quiet, I love it because no one is there and the staff used to be very friendly.
That's the last time I leave tips for ungrateful khunts, go and fck yourselves with a red hot poker.
Wow! I found this post from 3 years ago, from Maria;
I am leaving Berlin for good on Monday. Am packing up this weekend. Texting friends and family at home, making plans to meet up. It's such an incredible feeling, to know that you're leaving this place. I hope you all get to experience this someday soon.
Background info:
I came to Berlin 1 year ago. At first, I was drawn to the physical freedom that I found in Berlin... you know, the typical things. Good quality of life for the price, slower pace of life, not stressful compared to major cities, lots of arts/culture/entertainment/nightlife, diversity, people weren’t obsessed with status, income or image like they are in so many places, and so on. I slowly realized, over that year, that this was all an illusion. And a very twisted illusion at that. If you don’t have the awareness and introspection skills to see Berlin for what it is, you WILL become a typical Berliner over time, if you stay in Berlin.
Here is my breakdown of the “illusions” of Berlin…
Good quality of life for the price - This is all relative to your salary. Salaries in Berlin are very low, unemployment is very high, prices are skyrocketing (especially for housing) without increase in salary or industry. There is a social tension in Berlin because tourists come in with money, long-term tourists come here and live for months/years, etc, and this pisses off people on Hartz IV and/or those receiving housing assistance, or those who make a typical low Berlin salary. I would say only maybe 20-30% of people in Berlin make a “real” salary. The rest are on some kind of social assistance, are unemployed, people who work very part-time (a few shifts at a bar or something) and are always working on “projects”, students and/or make a very low salary. The average person doesn’t have a career or much ambition. Tourism is the only real industry in Berlin, yet the people resent it because it’s forcing Berlin to change/evolve/etc, and people in Berlin are evolutionary failures. People who can’t and won’t evolve, change or adapt. The only reason they continue to survive/live is because the German government provides so much for them.
Slower pace of life/not stressful compared to major cities - True, but you also don’t get the bustling energy of a true major city. Berlin is more like a bunch of provincial towns pasted together.
Lots of art/culture/entertainment/nightlife - Once you go to a few grungy bars in Kreuzberg, some galleries that you know deep down in your heart is displaying totally sh*t art, eat doner a few times, go to the nightclubs stuck in time in the 90s with the whole sex/raver/drug den culture, maybe go to the Christmas markets in December… you have basically experienced all of the “culture” that Berlin has to offer. Unless your idea of culture is sitting in gritty bars where you can’t breathe from smoke fumes, going to horrible art galleries, getting high in clubs, going to fetish/sex parties, etc, you will tire of Berlin’s art/culture/nightlife etc, and find that it offers no variety.
Diversity - LMAO. This one is hilarious. I could write a book on how twisted this is in Berlin. Yes, on the outside, Berlin looks diverse, but really all you have is people who might look different, but they all think the same. You can be white, black, brown, yellow, green, but you think the same exact way as everyone else, have the same personality. Even in fashion, people in Berlin largely all dress the same and you won’t find many people with a unique style like you’d see in other big cities across the world. People are very same-samey, matching, robotic, conformist. Also, Germans deep down are quite prejudiced, xenophobic and secretly will never accept outsiders even though they put on this facade of being international, liberal, what with their constant traveling overseas etc. If you are white and learn fluent German, you might be partly accepted, but you will have to CONSTANTLY hear autistic screeching from Germans about how your country is x, y and z, how Germany does this and that better, hear their passive aggressive cowardly put-downs, and so on. If you are brown, non-European background, etc, forget it. Leave Berlin immediately before it starts to damage your psyche. People will assume you are a refugee at first glance, or a drug dealer (if you’re a black man), and you will never really be accepted in German society, let alone be allowed to prosper or advance. The best case scenario for non-white immigrants is opening a nail salon. Germans will always use Asians as an example of successful immigrants, when they are criticizing Turks for not wanting to integrate… yes, you can come to Germany, wash toilets, work in restaurants… maybe someday you can even open a nail salon! You good little immigrant! *pats your head*
People aren't obsessed with status, income or image - True, but they are obsessed with having the same exact political and social opinions , wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, eating the same horrible food, drinking the same cheap terrible beer, etc. There is MORE peer pressure in Berlin to conform, then there would be in a bigger, more cosmopolitan city that has true diversity in human beings. Yes, you will find more materialistic people in big cities like London, Paris or New York, but you’ll also find real artists, real intellectuals, real working class people who aren’t totally hostile, real everything. In Berlin, everyone is basically just the same, and if you are not, you will be soon, because no one can psychologically handle living in Berlin while being a real individual. Politics - mostly they are deranged wannabe anarchist pseudo leftist types who think they are “free" while being dependent on the German government, alcohol and drugs. Lots of SJW, 5th wave feminist type of brain damaged morons who find Berlin to be a mecca for their ilk. Lots of people have no real friends, are lonely, etc… this is why you will find people drinking at 10am on Tuesday on the train. In general, people here don’t have fulfilling relationships, and a large part of having good mental/emotional health, is having fulfilling relationships. People this stupid, devoid of common sense/reality, lacking in empathy/social skills and people this irresponsible WILL, over time, damage your own psyche.
Basically, Berlin is for a very specific type of person. It’s basically a place for losers, slackers, bums, etc… it’s like living in your mother’s basement forever, surrounded with other people living in their mum’s basement, so you never have to feel bad about yourself, although deep down you are extremely insecure. If you have any ambition or spark or whatever in you, you will come here and be miserable after a while, because you never planned to live in your mum’s basement forever… which is what Berlin is. If you are not this type of person, leave immediately before this city damages your psyche. I am leaving on Monday and am losing thousands of euros in the process, but I can’t stand to be here any longer.
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3 years ago Anonymous wrote:
I could have written this very same post. I left Berlin almost a month ago. Haven't regretted it a single time. Now I am back in my sunny hometown in the Caribbean, which is full of normal people. I have yet to see a woman with a nose piercing here, or a guy with a tattooed face, SJW vegans or someone who is in an open "relationship".
F*** Berlin.
Ever notice how chermans all like the same things and have the same hobbies and interests and fashion sense ? What’s up with that? There are like 4 outfit styles here. 3 types of music. 3 hobbies. Etc
i feel like a lot of Germans do do things in their free time like sports or volunteering but they always take it so seriously that it is more like a second job. It seems as if at no point is it acceptable to be "unprofessional" i.e. a normal, imperfect, feeling being
I’m sure all chomens used today’s events in the usa to feel better than them. Oh wait, they did this months ago at the Bundestag
just fornicate corona right now. Berlin is ok in comparison
I like money too much to live in Berlin. People here think they are rich if they get $60 in tips in a 12 hour bar shift. This place is a joke, for people who either don’t know any better or like having low self esteem and low standards.
So we finally have a cloud service at work. Well, it’s not really working. It’s a very German solution creating more problems.
Why?
Ohh America bad! We cannot save files on US servers. Sooo bad!
Germans only want you as their friend to project their own idea of yourself onto you and to have you fit into the role they have invented for you,
i.e. "the party girl", "the funny foreigner", "the desperate single", "the one unhappy in his job", "the rich kid", "the one I can call for advice at night" etc...
They don't like you for your personality and as soon as something changes in your life (especially if it is to the better) or you don't "serve" them any more in your "role" they will run away ...
(But they do it to everyone, Germans alike, and I experience this being half German ...)
I'm not sure if the lockdown is the West's way of destroying the Arab and Chinese economy with one stone because of no planes and less cars using fuel, and no one buying too much Made In China crap they don't really need, or if it's the start of the Big Reset to get us used to taking orders no matter how illogical they might seem.
Maybe both are right. I mean who wants a country run by a dictator to be the world's number one super-power, or Arab dictators running the world with their oil dollars. The west is the best.
Almost all of this video is eye-opening, but especially the woman at the following timestamp:
youtu.be/Wvxr6luFK8Q
You can absolutely see the phony altruism in these peoples' eyes as they pretend to gather their oh-so-deep, philosophical thoughts. And like good little Germans, they praise everything that has a nice little German name and is commonplace in Germany: soziale Marktwirtschaft, Rundfunkbeitrag, FKK, Buchpreisbindung, Reinheitsgebot. Government-controlled robots, the whole lot of them.
How to survive in Berlin
Treat screaming chormans as pests, not humans. That way their behavior won’t affect you
Don’t take the pests seriously. Ever.
Don’t try to be accepted by chormens. Waste of time and energy, plus you’ll become depressed
Date and become friends with other ambitious foreigners who live in Berlin for less than 3 years
Ignore the dirt and smells
Get noise canceling headphones for the apartment
Use the internet as much as possible to find a remote job and gtfo
What else would you add?
I just got yelled at by a crazy German hag because my dog ran up to hers and I was about 8 meters away from her. She yelled some poop about corona, she was worried about getting corona from my dog. Then said she will get the police and that she got two big men in her flat. While still outside with my dog some weird guy with shaved off her followed me, all this at 9am in the morning. We need Harris.
The best tactic for dealing with Germans chimping out in public is to just answer them in English. They can't speak it good enough to answer and they'll just leave you alone. Once I got fed up with some 40 year old German guy staring at me and I yelled at him in English. Everyone around me just completely ignored it and pretended nothing was happening while the guy I yelled at got up and left while avoiding eye contact with me. This is the only way.
LMAO, just saw a job posting and one of the "benefits" they named was that colleagues say "Du" to each other, LMAO.
I bet, there is also "we have 10000 nationalities in our office" too. I have never seen such things in any other job postings from other countries. Who cares If you have 1000 nationalities? Ohh wait, we are in Germany which follows the developed world 50 years behind
Well boys, we're now 9 weeks into a 4 week "mini lockdown" and they've already decided it's going to go on for at least an additional 4 weeks. Do you guys think it'll actually be lifted in February? March? After Easter? Ever?
Right, there isn’t really an pandemic. It’s all right one big hoax, right? Wait, there is an asteroid coming towards earth. Asteroid deniers: That’s not real it’s an computer generated hologram. Asteroid slams into earth: That’s not death and destruction that’s the LSD working it's magic.
East Europeans in Berlin are really Trash , drunk , no manners awful people, no wonder the UK leave the EU.
Germans and Slavinkas really deserve each other, by the way After WW2 many German Women were raped by east european Trash.
Germans and East Europeans are definitely the most hated Europeans.
