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I know a lot of people are stuck right now. And I apologize for being an jerk when leaving. I know that I got lucky with thefunding and was able to use the money to leave. I apologize for anything bad I said when I left. If you feel like Berlin is breaking you, please don't become broken by it. Don't hurt yourself and if you need to talk you can always come to Berlin hater. It is like a free support group after all. I still go on it because there are some people I care a lot about in Berlin. And to remind myself however why I had to leave.
I miss someone in Berlin a lot and a few people and I know things are just getting worse so this is what I mean when I said I apologized for being a jerk. Becase it doesnt help to say " im getting the f out here" when they cannot , and have no choice. and its dark winter. I feel horrible..
All the other cities on cityhater dont get more than a few comments, but Berlin gets almost 5k. Says a lot
Why the hell are they shutting down central heating at night???? Why do they shut down heating when its 18 degrees outside????? I want to heat my place at night and when days are mild but still too cold without heating,
I hate that they tell me when I can heat and when not,
How to deal with being yelled at and harassed by Germans? I yell back and they become cowards, but I just want to develop a thick skin and not be affected by their harassment in the first place. How to do that?
I usually just completely ignore them when possible. Like if they yell something at me I just act like I didn't notice and continue on. Sometimes I'll just say "fucking retard" loud enough for them to hear it. But lately I have just been yelling back at them because they're too weak to do anything about it about 100% of the time. And I'm not even a tough guy or anything.
www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/bringen-die-deutschen-in-den-usa-trump-zu-fall-li.115238
Funny how Germans delude themselves into believing they are relevant.
P.S:: I'm American and 0% German according to my DNA test. Thank God.
lmao heard an interview on the radio this morning with some guy who volunteers for democrats abroad and was very obviously pretending to be american. they said he's lived here 7 years but he spoke 100% perfect German, no accent and no article errors. He was saying "I don't even recognise my country anymore..." No shit, krautboy - it's because you're a German who, if you ever even lived in the US, refused to integrate and probably lived in a German enclave and attended German school. Who actually believes this crap? You cannot believe anything you see or hear in the German media.
I read a couple of comments on here of people that know a few people who died by committing suicide or drug overdoses. Is it really so common here in Berlin ?
Longtime lurker here. Are other German cities better places to live? I get not wanting to get screwed over, but so many people here really want to have everything for caca. Where are the real adults in Germany or at least somewhere more tolerable? Fornicate this Scheiße.
When did you decide not to settle down in Berlin / Germany ?
After 6 months. I realized there was something completely wrong with this place and the people. Berlin is haunted by its evil, totalitarian past. People on both sides of the former wall were completely broken. Nazi Berlin, then East Berlin capital of a crazy totalitarian DDR, West Berlin an Island full of deadbeats with no vision in life. I should have known this place would be DARK
When I saw everyone party over and over again aimlessly, complaining about not having any money, people dying, being yelled at constantly and harassed by germans, did I really feel like I was in some demonic parallel universe. Hard to explain to anyone who doesn’t live there. I just wanted a happier life so I left
I'm throwing a BH party. Who's down ? lol
If you live in Berlin, Brisbane, Bombay, Boulder, Belgrade, Budapest, Bucharest, Banff, Bondi, Benghazi, Bogota, Bilbao, Bologna or Bangkok,
YOU'D BETTER HOPE TRUMP WINS. IF THOSE LEFTY COMMIES RULE THE WORLD, YOU'LL ALL BE SPEAKING CHINESE VERY SOON.
BERLIN will be one of the main cities affected by the commies Belt and Road, be very careful, nothing is what it seems. Belt and Road will force countries into dealing with Yuan instead of U$ dollars, and that will be a catastrophe for the West, which Berlin is now part of. What do you think the CV-19 scam is really about.
Stupid me, why am I wasting my time on an imbecile who wouldn't even know what the world trade reserve currency means to a superpower. That's right, go and look it up on Wiki and come back and tell me "of course I know".
That's the whole problem with Berliners like you, you all live in your pathetic bubble of Ostalgia. Wake up baby, this is 2020, not 1970.
I posted the following as a reply below, but I think it's important to give it it's own space as well.
I used to think of myself as leaning left, but after my experience of living with the lefty scum in Berlin I'm ashamed to have ever considered myself left. I'm now moderate right wing. I love capitalism, love democracy, and love freedom of speech, unlike Muslims, who are too pisss weak to demand democracy and oust the dictators in their own lands. I love true Christian values. The muslim culture does not mix in a Christian and science based land.
The thought of forced marriages with young brides, cliterectomies, beheadings, the awful treatment of sheep and other farm animals, and their disgusting racism and attacks on people who don't believe in Mo Hammered. That's the main reason I will never spend more than a week in Berlin ever again, but, I must say, the Muslims and Berliners deserve each other.
The whole Middle East is totally phucked in the head, they remind me of neanderthals, and the worst thing is the in-breeding, one muslim in Berlin told me he was excited because his family in Turkey had picked a bride for him and she'd be arriving soon.
The other thing I can't stand about them is the stupid headscarves they wear, it makes them look like space aliens with pointy heads, and the ones who cover their whole face make me want to puke. Do everyone a favour and go back to your own pathetic culture, no one wants it in the enlightened west.
Long live the free, democratic, capitalist, Christian-based West, I LOVE MY WESTERN CULTURE and I'm proud of it. I'm also proud to be a WHITE HETERO MALE EQUALIST, definitely not a Feminist. Oh and the worst is the Berliners who pretend they like multi-kulti to appear politically-correct.
Ten years of my life wasted in that khunt of a place.
I understand why Muslims in Europe feel stronger need to be united and get defensive whenever someone criticises their religion. Islam is based on the mix of Judeo-Christian principles, local traditions and customs practiced by Arabic nomads. It had a tremendous influence and ability to unite all those nomadic tribes by creating a new social order with religious devotion instead of tribal membership. The rise of Islam coincides with the fall of two great empires such as Byzantine and Sassanid hence their terrirotires were conquired by Muslims under the leadership of prophet Muhammad. I see a similar pattern in Europe where all the uniting forces such as nationalism and religion ceased to exist replaced with rising identity politics. Guess what? While I'm not a fan of such things, the current space created by the far left-wing like in Berlin,makes people feel alienated, lonely and depressed. We are all social creatures and we need to feel like we belong somewhere hence we are faced with the decision to be tribal or just ‘lone wolf’. However, times change and Muslims should understand that they need to reform their religion as it was done by Christians. While I am against of any kind of agressive bullying and discrimination of followers of Islam, I find it unacceptable calling criticism of Islam as Islamaphobia. Most Muslim countries that were never reformed like in Turkey (at least partially) are totalitarian states with little to no freedom. I sympathise with your desire to be virtuous but believe me atheist Stalin also thought it was in the interest of ‘equality of people’ to kill anyone critical of the ideology.
www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/lyon-priester-bei-terroranschlag-schwer-verletzt-li.115503
Islam is an unreformed belief, hence makes it 500 years behind. All religions are pretty idiotic, look at the Christians too & abortions laws in Poland. Religion should be behind us in XXI century. But I agree, Islam is a lot more primitive still and extremely untolerant. Their believes think this is the only “true” one, based on stupid honour and even the peaceful, non-extreme muslims still believe Charlie Hebdo is offensive for portraying the prophet.
How can you not see how broken up is and still defend that broken up system of belief once people are brutally massacred in the name of it?
If I would be a muslim, I would instantly convert to agnosticism... But they do not wish to see, understand, adapt or integrate.
Islam is a plague in Europe
"wAtEr iN BeRlIn iS GoOd"
In Berlin, 7.1% of households have tap water that exceeds 10 ug/l (the safe level set by WHO). The higher concentrations are found more frequently in the new federal states than in the old ones. Exposure can be reduced by drinking bottled water or letting the water run for a few seconds before filling a glass to drink.
www.ncel.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Fertman-Hamburg-Lead-Water-Women-IJHEH-2004.pdf
Sorry, forgot to mention that's about LEAD EXPOSURE.
Here are the symptoms of lead poisoning (many describe a typical German):
www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lead-poisoning/symptoms-causes/syc-20354717
Also don't forget that until 3 years ago those New Years Eve lead melting kits still used actual lead. Ask your German acquaintances, from the ones I know nearly 100% did the lead melting thing every year since childhood.
Chermens are totally egoistic and unbearable. They want everyone else to understand them while they make absolutely no effort in understanding others. They’re the center of the universe and all others suck. I’ve had a Chermen tell me how horrible people are in the country, when in reality he was just as horrible. Intolerance of anything different! How can any foreigner integrate here?
I was once glad to see this site because I was struggling with the weird bleak energy of berlin and it's hard to talk about it in real life. But there's too much right-wing hate on here lately, rants against feminists, muslims, gay people. I don't want this rot in my brain, sneaking in with legitimate frustration. I guess I gotta find somewhere else to complain about the lack of sunshine, smiles, well-seasoned food, and reliable internet. I'll go somewhere else to grouch about the bad water, and bureaucracy. So long BerlinHater, thanks I guess.
"I'll go somewhere else to grouch about the bad water, and bureaucracy."
I very much doubt that you will find anywhere. Every other Berlin community online is so anodyne and sterile from excessive moderation that all you ever see are overly filtered instagram pictures and endless praise for Berlin. If somehow some extremely mild criticism slips through the moderation cracks then you'll see a steady stream of "I am German and I have never experienced this so it must be a lie"s and "If you don't like Germany then GTFO"s.
Granted, there's always been a lot of anti-feminist, anti-muslim, anti-leftism here. But I have no doubts that there would be more such content in every other online community about Germany if everything controversial weren't streng Verboten.
I am relatively sure that my hatred of Berlin has pushed me more to the right because almost every person you meet here chirps mindless leftist mantras ("Diversity is strength! Money is violence!") ad absurdum. The thing is, it's hard to tell what I actually believe now and what Berlin has driven me too. One that that is clear, however, is that the kind of decades-long far-left politics that have been practiced in Berlin do NOT advance society. A glance at statistics on the percentage of Berliners living below the poverty level makes that abundantly clear.
In my own bubble here I have absolutely no negative interactions with muslims. I don't have muslim neighbors, I don't have muslim colleagues. I have never been insulted or attacked by a muslim. I DO have a problem with bio Germans. But things would probably be different if I lived in Wedding, NK, Kreuzberg. The guy here who hates muslims probably does have his reasons and there are a lot of aspects of mainstream muslim culture most people don't agree with. I mean, Germany went out of its way to make it illegal to travel to the Middle East to get clitorectomies performed. It's way more common than you think if you aren't familiar with the statistics - until 5 years ago something like 92% of married Egyptian women were victims. Add to that the fact that Germany's media is really hush hush about any crimes committed by Muslims (I am guessing this is done because they know the right-wing potential here). The media blackouts on Islamist criminality here is worrying (Cologne New Year's Eve assaults, the Dresden knifing recently, the young student who was raped and murdered, etc).
At the same time most media outlets here praise leftism all the time. We're warned of right-wing terror all the time, which obviously does exist (the whatsapp nazi pictures, the Beate Zschaepe scandal, the guy who was stomped to death near Alexanderplatz...) BUT we are never warned of left-wing terror (cars are set ablaze every night here and the only way to know about it is if you see the aftermath or read Berlin Polizeimeldung if they even bother making a post, the sabotage of the ring train, the bomb threats to local politicians, the nightly vandalism of the AfD office, the death threats to anyone they see as capitalists like the Volksbuehne director... the list goes on and on and on). Reporting here isn't only not transparent, it's purposely skewed. And Germans seem the LIKE it that way.
One last point: The Muslims I grew up knowing were not the same as the ones in Germany. Where I am from there were almost no Muslims, and the ones that were there were upper class as they'd directly immigrated from the Middle East. They were educated and were highly westernized and eager to assimilate and thrive. In Berlin they seem for the most part to be the opposite and I can understand why they would prefer to be amongst themselves. Germans don't want them here but most are too weak to admit it openly. It's no wonder that they are acting out if they're third generation Turks who are still treated like complete shit.
Poster above summarised it well. I dont hate Muslims, I hate unskilled immigration and importing a culture which is even less tolerant than German themselves.
I don’t care what colour you are, I dont care what god you worship. What I do care about is the following:
- not pissing off your neighbours by having a family of 4 live in one bed flat with 2 kids under 5
- not leering at women on the street
- not lecturing people about haram activities
- not snarling at me as I walk my dog
- not trying to rip me off by claiming all of my deposit and thinking I wont sue you because I am a foreigner (got deposit back + legal fees and day rates for time wasted doing admin)
- getting asked for drugs every 10 seconds near particular parks
All of the above happened to me and was one of the main reasons for me leaving this city. Yes there are going to be Muslims as good as gold but my experiences tells me not to bother. I will never do business with them or live near them, that ship has sailed. I live in south Europe and the people are much friendlier.
'I am relatively sure that my hatred of Berlin has pushed me more to the right because almost every person you meet here chirps mindless leftist mantras ("Diversity is strength! Money is violence!") ad absurdum. The thing is, it's hard to tell what I actually believe now and what Berlin has driven me too. One that that is clear, however, is that the kind of decades-long far-left politics that have been practiced in Berlin do NOT advance society. A glance at statistics on the percentage of Berliners living below the poverty level makes that abundantly clear.'
Very well put.
I used to think of myself as leaning left, but after my experience of living with the lefty scum in Berlin I'm ashamed to have ever considered myself left. I'm now moderate right wing. I love capitalism, love democracy, and love freedom of speech, unlike Muslims, who are too pisss weak to demand democracy and oust the dictators in their own lands. I love true Christian values. The muslim culture does not mix in a Christian and science based land.
The thought of forced marriages with young brides, cliterectomies, beheadings, the awful treatment of sheep and other farm animals, and their disgusting racism and attacks on people who don't believe in Mo Hammered. That's the main reason I will never spend more than a week in Berlin ever again, but, I must say, the Muslims and Berliners deserve each other. The whole Middle East is totally phucked in the head, they remind me of neanderthals, and the worst thing is the in-breeding, one muslim in Berlin told me he was excited because his family in Turkey had picked a bride for him and she'd be arriving soon.
The other thing I can't stand about them is the stupid headscarves they wear, it makes them look like space aliens with pointy heads, and the ones who cover their whole face make me want to puke. Do everyone a favour and go back to your own pathetic culture, no one wants it in the enlightened west.
Long live the free, democratic, capitalist, Christian-based West, I LOVE MY WESTERN CULTURE and I'm proud of it. I'm also proud to be a WHITE HETERO MALE EQUALIST, definitely not a Feminist. Oh and the worst is the Berliners who pretend they like multi-kulti to appear politically-correct.
Ten years of my life wasted in that khunt of a place.