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Krautz are absolute scum, they think they invented everything in the world. England had the biggest impact in the world. Today there is nothing that is really Important that comes from Germany.
Hello! Just a message of hope for you my fellow berlin haters who are still stuck there: get out of this broken up city and you will see that things quickly get better. I left in March, just right before the whole craziness and life feels so good ever since - despite of Covid and all. I recovered peace of mind, I feel loved, cared for, joyful and motivated after years of a daily life of stress, boredom, anxiety, tiredness, etc. I am back with my loved ones, to being the person I really am without having to pretend. I don’t feel awkward and pissed anymore. I even feel like I became a much better person since I left. I still began therapy to deal with all the poop Berlin put me through but I wake up happier every day not having to deal with the negativity of Berlin. In a nutshell : get out of there as soon as you can, make plans to make it happen and stick to it. Do not let anything stops you, you NEED to leave Berlin and you CAN do it. I’m with you, I feel with all of you guys. It will get better.
That's right, same here, as soon as I left Berlin, I started to feel balanced again. Leave these creeps to live with their own miserable selves, let's see how they get on then with no tourist and expat dollars flooding in.
The only cities that come anywhere near Berlin for emotional/social/mental retards, are London, NYC, LA and SF, but Berlin loses by a mile.
doing drugs doesnt make you interesting.
One of the funniest things I have noticed about Germany is that the people here unironically consider themselves victims at every step of their history. Today, during the GDR times, during the Nazi times. Always. They call their day of defeat "Tag der Befreiung". From whom were they freed? Themselves?
And now we have the Germans whining and bitching about the Greeks and Italians and Spaniards for being poor and needing coronafunds while at the same time rubbing their hands together as these very countries devalue the EUR which is the only reason German products are competitive on an international market.
These people are masters of gaslighting.
Merry Xmas to all contributors and fence sitters and even the BerlinLovers (we can tolerate them as they provide fodder for our amusement).
Happy Holidays all around from the BerlinHater Team... may you find your way from this place with at least a portion of your of your sanity remaining.
Good news about the vaccine is becoming contagious
Trump shuns stimulus bill as pandemic relief expires for millions of Americans
New York Daily News logoGermany, Hungary become first EU nations to administer COVID vaccines
"The European Union’s plans to coordinate the rollout of a coronavirus vaccine beginning Sunday were upended slightly when Germany and Hungary began administering the shots on Saturday."\
VEE MUST DO EET FERST. VEE MUZT B NUMBAH ONE CHOMANY
www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/germany-hungary-become-first-eu-nations-to-administer-covid-vaccines/ar-BB1cfwMT
where is a good city to move after berlin that has older people who used to live in berlin and then left for a better life? I want to find an expat community of ex berlin expats who were smart enough to leave
Most people who leave Berlin have to move home so that they have a strong support group during their recovery
I bought a little house in the German countryside. I am a very happy expat with kind neighbors. There are under 1000 people in my Dorf. I used to live in Berlin. It was gaslighty and the city's tone was like living with a covert narcissist Mutti and a older brother who was a junky at the same time. No thank you. I guess I am just too old for it. People there are whiny too.
is there a way I can get my online credit score without signing up for a one year contract of SCHUFA, I mean seriously what the hell
you can get a free credit score once a year. there is a form on the schufa website you fill out and send it a copy of passport and anmeldebestätigung (throwing up). it takes about 2 weeks to get it and gives you detailed information on everything happening on the record you have with them (seems more extented than the 30 eur version somehow)
People outside of Germany don't seem to understand that living and working in Germany is not the way to make bank. Can anyone offer logical, easily understandable arguments as to why Germany is not the land of milk and honey a lot of people see it as?
There's a global online campaign in place (both online and offline, new and legacy media) designed to demoralize and humiliate Brits and Americans. For England, they're attacking insularism, the poorly funded NHS and university tuition costs. For the US they're attacking basically the same. It took me a while to understand, but once you know then it's obvious everywhere from the artificially promoted Reddit posts to the top stories on NYT, Spiegel, The Guardian and pretty much all other newspapers. It's surely also a cultural difference between Anglo countries that they are capable of self-reflection and self-criticism, whereas Germany is not and has never been. Another big realisation for me was that Germans will at any cost view everything modern Germany does as positive. Accepting a million refugees? 100% good and necessary. Insult laws? 100% good and necessary. Solidarity tax and TV tax? 100% good and necessary. Literally everything. Germans also have either made is socially unacceptable or downright illegal for newspapers to report on a lot of hard truths about this country (suicides, Islamic terrorism, right-wing terrorism, sexual crimes...). Since the domestic press can't write exposes, for example, on the tens of thousands of victims of the Kentler project, neither can international press. That alone, in my opinion, should have completely destroyed Germany's international standing. The wide reaching implications are so comprehensive that Germany should never be able to recover until hundreds if not thousands of German politicians and advising scientists are behind bars. But instead they have tried to hide it for years and, to this date, no one has been punished. I find it hard to believe that there's less government control now over German media than during the GDR.
Basically the real first world is actually trying to root out evil and to become better. Germany is not as the German mentality is just to pretend that nothing really matters very much and that past crimes should be ignored. The answer to this is educating people on economics because when you compare Germany to the real first world, you see that Germany is still bordering on feudalism (I honestly mean that).
what exactly is solidarity tax anyway ? why should I pay to be in "solidarity" with the government.....? Dont I pay enough taxes as it is anyway? and where do those taxes go exactly, since Berlin functions like the third world? just wondering, as first world has half the tax and twice the infrastructure
Wages are extremely low and taxes are so high. Also, what is the point of paying more taxes when you are not married?
Career progression as foreign person is impossible here. People don't care and want to progress with their career. For Germans, most important thing is regular income not career progression or satisfaction. Also Germans are "preferred" (regardless how competent they are) when It comes to hiring.
Inc relation with above point, career switch is not existent here. For example, If you have been software developer for number of years and want to become project manager or product owner, your past relevant experiences become irrelevant. In the rest of the world, It is not like this
Germany is not migrant (or expat whatever you want to call It) friendly. There is lack of social life when you are foreign person.
"German everywhere" mentality and conflict. For example, If you want to become German citizen, B1 level of German is demanded. However, If you look for job on the market, they demand level C100000 German. This is not the case in Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Belgium etc When you can speak English well and qualified, you can work and live in those countries without any problem.
Lack of social life, communication, fun whatever you call which makes you enjoy the life.
The only good thing about Germany is you can travel inside of Europe easily (I assume you earn somehow livable wage)
As many posts are there are here about people being lost in berlin in their 30s or 40s, I am so SO glad I never spent any of my 20s here. I was way more impressionable and would have gotten sucked in to this dead-end culture, trying hard to fit in with the way people do things here. That's no way to spend your youth.
as I've said previously, I've known many people who have spent their entire 20s in berlin and now are 35 or 36 and still acting like 21. This is because in Berlin you do not have the clear progression or role models for "adulting" and early, mid, late twenties, early 30s and mid 30s, are not broken down into clear, normally developmental stages.
I used to think these people were avoiding being adults, but because they moved there so long and Berlin is a time vortex, I realized they just didnt develop in the same way as the rest of us. A lot of them are still wearing clothes that went out of style the year they moved to Berlin, which I find odd. That's why its so hard to relate to them.
Hey Berliners, you could pick up the trash, pull up the weeds, and paint over the graffiti. It won't make you nazis or capitalists, I swear.
Maurice Frank at Berliner Zeitung is a freaking pussy. I would honestly like to box that female dog in real life (consentually of course). I would love to see he german face groveling for mercy.
Somehow German society teaches you to pretend that you don't want things a normal, first-world citizen has and, even more sinister, they somehow teach you that you also don't deserve those things.
This'll be my last Christmas here.
I read this site pretty often, but I have to say I don’t hate Berlin or Germans. No one deserves to be hated, because at the end of the day you still have people and things in your mind when they don’t deserve to be there. Yes, some people and things don’t even deserve our hate. Merry Christmas!
you're right, this site should be renamed "holierthanthou.de"
I don't hate Germans or even everything about Berlin, just certain aspects of this society. Aspects such as passive aggressive weirdness on anonymous forums, gaslighting people who dare question what goes on here and the denial that anything at all here is ever shit. Merry Christmas.
I do hate Germans and Berliners. I probably don't hate all of them. I don't think it's genetics that makes them all so obnoxious, but German culture definitely does. There are no redeeming qualities I can find in typical German behavior.
If you are a defender of Germany then how the hell did you end up posting here on Christmas Day? Seriously shat led you to search for whatever keywords brought you here?
Guys, you missed the point. I’m the OP and I don’t like Germans at all. I don’t come from this country, thank Heavens. I’m not holier then anyone, either, only God is. But I just don’t hate them, I pity them. Pity because they grew up in this sick society and the correcting culture. Pity because they’re so broken they don’t realize they’re by no means a superior country. Pity for their misery. that’s all