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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
merry christmas to everyone except germans
They don't realise that they don't own shittt in this country. Home ownership 52% thats phucked and they somehow seem proud about the fact that they rent homes here. I thought about this recently, is it just me that finds it extremly unnatural to be forced to live with complete strangers in WGs just because you can't afford a own flat here? No wonder people are so broken here, to me it's a human right to somehow get your own home with real FAMILY OR ALONE to then start your life from there, that's the basics if you don't have a home that is really yours you can't start a decent life because you in constant fear of losing it or because you live with strangers that you eventually won't like in Germany that's a constant stress many people have here. Alot of Germans move into WGs because they don't have families and or have a broken relationship to their familys they don't have any backup.
lmao....to the last two comments. If you are above the age of 30 you will want to think about sometime buying property. This is because even if your dreams fail you will have a stable place to live so that when you age and have to go into forced retirement, you wont be left homeless. I am an artist and even I left berlin, because I need to be able to work a side job, such as bartending, to make money to buy a home. Bartneder in berlin think 60 euro is a good night for 12 hour shift. first of all, working a 12 hour bar shift is totally ridiculous. I would never work more than 6-8 hours on a weekend and each night pull home minimum 300 in tips in north america plus my hourly wage. Sorry I dont feel like scraping by and rotting in berlin. there is no point. you do the math.
and to continue my above post - because I feel like ranting right now on here - do these germans and people here not realize that while they are in their 30,40s this is NOT the time to scrape by? Ok, say you rent. Then landlords come by for a renoviction. well look at all these elderly people who are now having to deal with what is happening with that. Rents in berlin ten years ago were 1/3 or even 1/4 of the price they are now. all these old people who do not have jobs most likely, did not buy a place then. so now they are being evicted and being thrown into the streets trying to look for a flat in a housing crisis, where the rents are more than the price. they could have bought something, but no, they decided to just rent, because everyone else is doing it. they didnt save and they expected the goverment to take care of them because socialism. we can see how well that worked out for them. If you own something, you can later sell it, its an investment. My aim is to find another city in europe where I want to live, where property isnt so expensive. I am personally looking at Athens. This is because I could drop 250,000 euro and buy a 5 bedroom home in the city in an upscale area. I could make one room a studio, I could have one room for if I decide to have kids and make another office. You cant even find a 2bdrm in berlin for that these days. Say I wanted a 1bdrm in athens. I could buy that for 20,000 at the lowest. I could have that money in the next year easily if it wasnt for corona. so there you have it.
and before anyone comes for me talking about the greek economic crisis, lets just remember why people came to berlin in the first place. because it was a total idiot and landlords were giving away free rent because no one wanted to live there. and now look at it. This is how gentrification starts but whatever, I predict Athens will not be a bad investment, because the properties are so cheap due to the crisis. And thats exactly why I want to buy something there, even if I dont live in it, because I could sell it in ten years
and one more thing LOL..... the stupidest people....are the old people...who rent on the 7th floor....because these flats have no lifts.... yeah great future plan.... how do you walk these stairs as you get older....everything in berlin is third world..... the greeks have economic issues but at least they have lifts, air conditioning, good food, warm culture
Berliners dont realize that all they have is berlin. They cant afford anything else. so they are left with berlin. but there are much more appealing cities in europe to stay for long term. I am also considering visiting places I have not been like croatia and portugal. Maybe budapest. I hear krakow is nice, warsaw. This is just the stupidest thing, people being so obsessed with berlin, as if there are no other options around the EU, where you can pay way cheaper and actually OWN a home, if you just go to north america and work for a couple of years.
anyway thanks for listening to my rant on basic economics, which the idiots in berlin i do not expect to comprehend, as they cannot think further than the next weekend, feierabend or whatever, which is why they are stuck in their cycle, as they have no plan.
and PS I am sure someone will come after me saying how much "capitalism sucks" yeah ok. I always hated capitalism until I lived under near socialism in berlin. The government controlling every aspect of your life or being forced to tone down your dreams to satisfy the lowest common denominator is ridiculous. I now appreciate the fact that I can work in a bar and make that many tips, or hey, how about NOT WORKING FOR EXPOSURE. berlin is a shitt hole
I told these Berliner morons 12 years ago to buy an apartment now because in the future when Berlin fills up again they won't be able to afford one, back then they were going for €20,000.00, yes 20, not 200. They all said to me, "Oh vee are Germans, vee do not buy, we rent". Give up on them, trust me, they will never change anything, their teutonic origins will always keep them trapped by their suspicious and untrusting nature. Ironically, they are the most untrustworthy of all.
What's the logical conclusion of saying that renting is too stressful and that owning things is bad? It's the 80 year old granny who has to move from the apartment she has occupied for 40 years because of rent hikes. It's being content with having zero power over your own home except being able to stand at Alexanderplatz once a year with a bullhorn yelling "Please don't raise my rent". And, most obviously, it's chosing to say "My net worth is zero after living here 35 years" while you could have a net worth of 300K Eur with the same exact living costs if you'd been smart enough to buy.
I honestly cannot understand how Germany convinced people here that renting is the prudent decision.
www.quora.com/Why-is-Berlin-such-a-run-down-and-disgusting-city
First comment of course begins with a German gaslight.
"Berlin is extraordinary in as much as it was nearly destroyed by war less than 75 years ago. Was split in two during the cold war until 1991 (less than 28 years ago and had to absorb all the East Berliners to date. Now, it extends a helping hand to refugees from war-torn countries because it still feels the need to show the world it has changed (no thanks to the UK that keeps on banging on about WWII). So, I guess that means they have an excuse. Don’t they?"
I think the author might actually be retarded or schizophrenic.
Imagine if someone in USA believed everything they saw on tv was true. Imagine if they also paid their tax dollars towards state controlled media. And still thought it was the truth. These people are robots bro
A little bit of Xmas cheer:
www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/12/19/sarah-palin-julian-assange-deserves-a-pardon/
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin added her voice to the growing chorus of conservative figures favoring a pardon of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
“I made a mistake some years ago, not supporting Julian Assange — thinking that he was a bad guy… I’ve learned a lot since then,” said Palin in a video provided exclusively to the Gateway Pundit.
How is Germany considered a developed country?
Germans should be not allowed to going anywhere else outside their country
I now had an idea how to respond to the aggressive stares from Turks and Arabs... show them the finger! There is always a possibility these people do not understand common gestures since they seem to live in their own world, but it absolutely doesn't matter! I know what it means, that's all that counts.