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Did you ever visit Berlin after leaving? Did they try to pull any weird poop at the border?
I ditched my rental contract there. Didn’t pay the last two months as they didn’t give me the deposit back, didn’t give any notice. Worried there may be a law or issue against this if I Visit again?
I don’t know what’s more annoying, Berlin, or the people who think just living in Berlin makes them cool.
Do Germans know the whole world thinks of them as racist nazis? They all seem delusional to me and actually believe people like Germany. Aside from people in the third world hoping to come here because it's possible, I don't know any foreigners in real life who like it here. Feels like prison here.
Post graduate education in Germany below. I can't imagine how bad underd education system is
www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/jukk3v/were_entering_week_three_of_my_english_taught/
"I’ve never needed to cram for an exam in my life and I’m really nervous that my “style” won’t work in the German system. In the US, I consistently did work throughout the semester and then I felt confident and prepared to take the exam because I understood the material. Here, people are like “Yeah you just spend ten days memorizing all the slides and then hope for the best on the exam.” So I’m pretty sure I’m going to fail all of my exams because I don’t know how to memorize the slides."
Someone is starting to get know Germans....
"I’m in a super small subset of my program and it’s supposed to be “one big happy family.” Someone I keep having to work with is such an insufferable jerk and working with her makes me want to cry. She doesn’t understand the difference between an opinion and a fact, she’s extremely rigid with all of her ideas, and she doesn’t listen to anyone else. The theme of our group work is how stressful 2020 has been. Her idea was “Young adults have been the least affected,” so that’s now our project because she would not budge or listen to anyone else. I brought up how stressful the US elect*0n was and she straight up laughed and said “That was stressful for what, a week?” I’m literally not allowed to say anything to her because I’m a privileged white American and she’s from a developing country. I can’t talk to the professor because then I’m going to look like the one who’s incapable of doing group work."
I am OP here and I have completed my English taught masters in Germany. All I was doing was writing papers in English with references from academic books couple times in a semester. Then I had final exams and exams were all about memorizing things from slides prof was showing during classes.
I found a job which underpays but It is beneficial for me because they sponsor some training and certifications. So I do keep working to gain working experience and some job related certificates .I am aiming to leave Germany in couple years
This city is a motherfuxkker and not in a good way. This city will dom you. Forget having control of your future and life unless you want to sell your soul to the Germans and especially if you want to keep quiet about how fuckedd the place is, this is the only way you will ever get anywhere
Man don’t listen to anyone in Berlin. Either they are stupid and/or have no goals and/or are self destructive, OR they have rich parents so they don’t need to panic when they get in a bind. OR they have just accepted their fate. Hate to see what happens to these people without mommy and daddy to bail them out once they pass their youth, a scary thought
How many times have you heard these questions from German(s)
Why did you come to Germany and when are you going to leave ?
Its normally the same set of questions or at least it used to be: How long have you been here, how did you learn such good German, how much longer are you staying (when are you getting out). And I haven't gone much deeper than that with many Germans. Maybe they stop asking these annoying questions so much the more assiilated you are.
Berliners are highly suspicious of people from outside Berlin. They have this superior attitude that makes them think other people are never good enough to break into their circle. One girl said to me "I don't think you can be considered a Berliner unless you have lived at least half your life here". And I replied "I don't want to be a Berliner". Who on earth would.
What happens to Berlin artists as they age? Do most leave for another city? I’m just wondering because I know some who are Over 35.. and I worry for them
I love this Jewish guy for his honesty about how Donald Trump lost because of the mainstream media, anti-Trump war. Germany and Berlin will be next, if not already.
www.camelotdaily.com/jews-control-96-percent-worlds-media/
It’s nice to see when people come to the realization that Berlin is a shitthole on their own
Don’t worry, the day is coming when people from Canada, USA, Australia, and the UK will stop migrating here. At least the normal ones who want a family and a stable income. The mentally dead heads who are 45+ and are on drugs, partying like they are 25 will to come here. It will be interesting to see how these people turn out when they are 70 and 80. Will they party like their are 20 then? No kid, grandkids or partner because they banged everything that moved and now they are used rotten goods at 70. Lets see how cool they are then when they are 80 and alone. I think Berlin will become a complete embarrassment to all of Germany soon. This garbage city will get what’s coming to them. No tourists and no recent grads coming here to help the economy...what then, Berlin?
Guys, I don't think I'm going to make it through this winter. I think that every year, but I've now given up all hope that things are ever going to improve for me. And the worst part is that I have wasted so much of my life in Berlin that I'm in my 30s and have no semblance of a career or anything to look forward to. I'm worried if I move home things will be even worse and that I'll end up on the street. Suicide seems like the only sane solution at this point. I'm not writing this for sympathy or in hopes that people say "don't do it" and all that. Take this as a warning to GTFO while you're still young.
And by the way, if you're like me and you think to yourself "i'll just stick it out a little longer" in hopes that your next job is going to magically have decent coworkers or that after you finish your german degree program that things will be better then stop deluding yourself. I lied to myself for years that I could handle Berlin by going on frequent vacations with all the mandatory time off here. Well I enjoy my vacations but I have absolutely no joy in my daily life in Berlin and I hate every second of it. I fall in love with every other city I visit because this place is so bad. I can't even think straight anymore because I hate it here so much in this shithole.
It’s eerie, what you wrote at top is identical to my own story here. I have thought about offering myself. But I’m the kind of person who would go and murder the individuals who caused me pain first then I would off myself.Seriously no joke. I’ve had problems with my German managers and it got so bad I had thoughts of killing his ass. The thoughts freaked me out because I was freaking serious. I contemplated for a second if I could do it. I hated myself for thinking evil thoughts like that. And if you are like me going back to your home country is a bad idea. Pick a country you like, visit a couple times and decide if you want to go there. It’s not hard, once you start traveling and living in different countries the process becomes easy. If you lived in one country before then you know how it works. Remember, this whole situation is chess when one deals with these Nazis bastards. If anything, use your anger, hate, and rage as a weapon to fuel your desire to leave this place. If that means cheating and stealing from them to leave then do it. There is no right way to deal with Germans. But get that killing yourself poop out your head.
Don't die in Berlin. I am also struggling with those kinds of thoughts, I was very suicidal in 2018, then 2019 I was building myself back up again, then comes 2020 and it's like being back in the hardest times. Why don't you go check yourself into the Kriese dienst, maybe the hospital, then consider that it's okay to go back home and also many people get jobs by padding their resumes, especially when they have work experience in a foreign country. The 30's are a really hard phase of life and fuck-ups feel really big. Give yourself some credit.
I left three years ago and life is now very good. I live by the sea, own my own place earn > €100k. This all took time to accumulate but I don’t regret a thing.
Don’t top yourself in Berlin because it’s the equivalent of losing the special olympics. Even by identifiying that the place is a shithole, you’re ahead of 90% of people there.
Please don't do it.
Germans are not normal, mentalky weird and sick. Just leave by Feb-March when the weather warms up. You can go to another coumtry or your home coumtry. I'm getting out by March with a Super job offer. Life is full of surprises, Cheers bro!
Never trust these backstabbers. You deserve better.
Is being an artist really cool if your mommy and daddy are paying for your Berlin lifestyle? Last time I checked this was when scenes died
Nailed it, 15 years ago when real artists and other creative people came to Berlin from all over Europe, it was very interesting. Posing hipsters and lefty virtue-signallers destroyed the Berlin vibe, hasn't been creative for at least ten years, full of clones these days.