One thing that I hate about Berlin? I hate the fact that people go to this page to complain about Germany, this page is about Berlin , not your opinion about Merkel and wtv opinion you have about the country.
Berlin smells like Turkey and all the other ME-NA countries. Great places to visit, but who'd want to live in them, certainly not the people from there by the looks of it. The best and worst thing about Berlin/Germany is Angela Merkel, she was brilliant until she brought in all those so-called refugees, funny how one huge mistake can destroy your whole legacy built up over many years. Christian, Judaic and Islamic cultures do not mix.They are like oil and water.
Berlin bought into the Multi-Kulti politically-correct Kool-Aid and now it's too late. Unless you deport everyone of those in-bred weirdos from Neukoln, no I don't mean the hipsters, at least they aren't violent thugs and phone stealers. Multi-Kulti is total bullshite.
They're just the icing on the poop cake. When I moved to Berlin, the problem were the "normal" people, or let's say, what Berliner's call "normal". Unfriendly, ugly asshats, living from well-fare and lingering around McDonalds and cheap stores with their ugly tribal tattoos and huge caps and white boots. Unfriendly middle-aged women with East Berlin mentality. The whole charme of a city that is too full and behaves like it's overly important and busy all the time. Whenever I went to the doctor they were unfriendly, and I was not even going often, and so full people had to stand. When I called a doctor's office they were unfriendly and acted like they are closed because of too much wealth. The general mentality is: We have enough customers, just go somewhere else!!
I recently saw some job adds for a ridiculous company in Berlin, some fashion bullshit, they were looking for people to prepare packages. Their whole website was full of spelling mistakes and embarassingly put sentences, like it was all a huge joke. I bet they made a big poop show out of their search for a stupid butt to pack a few packages, like you need a doctor's degree for it. I mean, they're IN BERLIN!! Everything is gold in Berlin and oh so great. And then you look at it and it is just SHIT. Like literal shit. Like the poop on the streets. The poop smell everywhere. People pooping and pissing in the streets. pooping people.
Someone wrote here that Berlin is a party city and I think this is right. Lots of garbage from all corners of the world (and Germany) comes here, parties, and leaves. The people who try to live here become bitter psychos to survive.
What is funny: Since I know that this city is broken up and approach people like the psychos they are, knowing I will leave soon, they are suddenly very friendly to me.
I honestly don't understand how every single thing in this city can be full all of the time. Every mall, post office, bank, government office, doctor's office, playground, museum, art exhibition, bar, restaurant. Every street is 20% too small. Every aisle in every store is 50% too small. Every doctor's waiting room is 70% too small. Berlin even had it good in that vast portions of it were destroyed during the war and abandoned until the fall of the wall. But these idiotic civil engineers still didn't manage to build this city in any way that is conductive of normal, modern human life. You can't drive down any street in Berlin without encountering double-parked delivery vehicles, trash trucks, shop delivery vehicles, etc. These things aren't new - they have definitely not been invented only within the last 30 years. Why haven't these superior German engineers been able to make any kind of solution for them? Why are other big cities (that truly are big cities with large buildings, not just medium-sized cities spread over the area of four normal cities) able to cope so much better? What is so fundamentally wrong with Berlin that it cannot even provide the most basic things to support society?
I hate people like this:
www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/47pzym/i_became_a_german_citizen_yesterday_ama/
5 years in this city and still blind to the suck that it is. Probably a drug addict or worse.
Great posts and spot on. If you consider yourself to be an artist of any value Berlin is not the place for you.Leave it behind as fast as you can.
Oh, god. Do not get me started on the art here. The city's motto is: "If it's shit, it's art". You hear that about lots of modern art, but here, it's taken as a commandment. Thou Shalt Make Incompetence In All Thine Works. Too stoned to go buy some art canvases? Do your painting on a piece of toilet roll. Too lazy to walk down the corridor for your fancy marker set? Just use a stub of crayon or crap. Too self-important to devote actual time to your creation? Just scribble a few jerky lines to reinforce just how much you DON'T CARE cause you are a REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT ARTIST with better things to do, like going to Berghain.
What galls me is that some people, who haven't seen how bad the art here really is, just assume that I'm biased against modern art, and I'm parroting all those cliche criticisms (it looks like a kid did it, do you call that art? I could do better. Etc.)
I'm not.
I STUDIED modern art. I love the White Cube.
The problem is that all artists in Berlin seem to have read those same cliched criticisms of modern art and, without having ever looked at any actual examples of modern works, have decided that doing childish, incompetent poop is commendable, so why bother doing more than that? They become the stereotype through their sheer ignorance of the reality behind it. (This is a pattern one see over and over in Berlin in all areas of life, not just art).
FYI Berlin, real artists think you all stink. Grow up.
Merkel complaining about having lost a trusted ally in the world order is such a joke. Let's not forget about the depths to which Germany consistently sinks in order to gain an unfair advantage. One example: Remember about a decade ago before the bachelor and master degrees were introduced across Europe? Germany knew it's stupid diplom was already inferior, but the further bastardized it by introducing diplom 1 and 2 and reducing the credits needed. Then they act like a diplom is equal to a master's degree, which anyone familiar with the matter can flatly prove is incorrect. So they make their EASY degree even EASIER and then pretend it is worth something internationally. Maybe in Bangladesh. Joke of a country Germany.
Another example: freaking chimney sweeps from other EU countries were not able to work in Germany before 2013. Germany, in an act of desperate protectionism, tried hard to keep "traditional tradesmen" excluded from the German market. They dragged their feet until 2008, but managed to secure 5 more years before the laws were actually fully implemented. The EU is great for Germany to get cheap food, medicine and the like from foreign countries, but Germany of course has to prop up it's "superior" trades.
Another example: Germany was among the first countries to suspend free movement of people within the Schengan area.
If I hear anymore moral posturing from a German about globalism I will explode.
Once they start their trade war with America they can kiss those numbers goodbye. The media likes to pretend that Germany is so gracious to America, provides America with so many jobs and so on, but Germany gets much more out of the relationship than the US. Gonna be nice seeing that trade surplus dissolve fast.
Typical Berlin
Black text reads: "The fire of the hearts enlightens the darkness. *Kabbala*"
Scrawled in bold red: "The misogynist Islam does not go with Germany"
Another one wrote in wine red: "You idiot(ess) should inform yourself about what you rush against! Kabbala is jewish mythology!"
Who are the people who write thispassive agressive rubbish on posters anyway?
Hartz 4 recipients who have nothing to live for. Or students. There are a ton of people in this city with too much time on their hands. Just yesterday saw a post on my ex-university's fb page where some snowflake was whining tjat someone spraypainted "borders save lives" on the sidewalk, and begged someone to clean it or cover it with other graffiti. Kept claiming that is far-right propaganda. Amazing how far left this society has moved. Oh, and the school paid to remove it same day. Despite the fact that the school's interior looks like 1960, most toilets are broken and their programs arw chronically overstaffed. Great priorities. Coolest country.
This post might be relevant to artists living in Berlin or considering to move there:
I am a musician and made the terrible mistake of moving to Berlin because people had told me it's a great place for artists. I ended up leaving after a mere year after realizing that a lot of these artists see their "art" as an excuse to consume drugs, be constantly unemployed and dependant on welfare, be promiscuous and/or generally degenerate.
Everybody tells you "yeah, we'll do something together", but nothing ever happens. I guess that it is because Germans in general don't take you seriously unless you're northern European and therefore, working with you will be but a waste of time in their eyes. If you want to teach music, prepare for low wages and for desperate teachers offering their services on Ebay for a fee of 20 euros an hour and less, effectively lowering the earnings of other teachers (why would someone pay you 40 for an hour of tuition when they can get the same service for half, albeit with lesser quality?). It is sad to see experienced, rather old musicians having to resort to that, too.
Don't expect to make lots of money by playing live, either. I know of good musicians who get whatever people throw into a stupid hat that is passed around...
There are lots of jam sessions in Berlin, but good luck finding good musicians or people who don't go to jam sessions so that they can smoke a joint, share their stupid poetry or yell into a microphone for 5 minutes in a row thinking they're singing/rapping.
Obviously you end up having to have a side job so that you can survive. For some reason, getting a job in Berlin is more difficult than in other regions I previously lived in. Berlin is the only place where I got asked for a CV and a cover letter when I wanted to work as a cashier or as a waiter. In other regions you show up and that's it: you may even sign your contract the same day. But not in Berlin. In that sense I can understand how some people just give up and say "f*ck it, I will live on welfare" because of how unnecessarily complicated things are in that god-forsaken city.
I don't regret a single bit that I left Berlin, as it is a very ugly city, and obviously not sexy, as the average Berliner will have you believe. I was sick and tired of practically every woman having short dyed hair, a nose ring and awful tattoos. The ones that aren't overweight and have a terrible attitude won't look at you unless you have a nice car. Don't get me started on the SWPL vegan hipster people who can't live without their daily dosis of Club Mate, drugs, god-awful music and rudeness. There is an entire army of leftists in Germany who are proud of their T-shirts with "refugees welcome" captions printed onto them, but who don't have any non-white person as a friend and generally avoid foreigners.
To any musicians out there who take themselves seriously: stay away from Berlin! Move to Frankfurt or Dresden or Cologne. There is money and opportunities there. To any sane person: don't move to Berlin.
No wonder why even in Berlin mid-right CDU party has overtaken SPD.
Source:
www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/laender.htm
"Obviously you end up having to have a side job so that you can survive. For some reason, getting a job in Berlin is more difficult than in other regions I previously lived in. Berlin is the only place where I got asked for a CV and a cover letter when I wanted to work as a cashier or as a waiter. In other regions you show up and that's it: you may even sign your contract the same day. But not in Berlin. In that sense I can understand how some people just give up and say "f*ck it, I will live on welfare" because of how unnecessarily complicated things are in that god-forsaken city."
This part is so true. See, Germans have a tradition of forcing people to spend at least three years "learning" even the most menial of jobs. Waiter? Three year Ausbildung. Shop clerk? Three year Ausbildung. Landscaping? Three year Ausbildung. Literally every job requires at least a three year Ausbildung. So basically every employer treats you like you are a complete idiot until you have obtained at the very least a three year Ausbildung, during which time you earn nothing or earn really bad money. Then you're happy to find your first job in your field and the switching costs are too darn high to ever try to do something else (because it will require ANOTHER three year Ausbildung). That's coincidentally the reason all of the women who work at the post offices, supermarkets and bvg ticket shops are so darn unfriendly: they know they can't even switch to some other job, like even stocking shelves before shops open, because they would need THREE YEARS OF TRAINING for that.
And what's even more messed up: In German you are required to go to school until you are 16. Since their backwards education system can end well before if you just do Hauptschule, parents are further required to ensure their "children" are going to their Ausbildung, and face sanctions of they are absent, constantly late, etc. This, on top of the Left's almost forced Kindergarten attendance is worrisome. The German state goes to great lengths to indoctrinate kids from their earliest memories to at the very least 17-18. Literally the only sign that this is decreasing is a few years ago when they stopped mandatory military service for all males.
"r people who can't live without their daily dosis of Club Mate, drugs, god-awful music and rudeness. There is an entire army of leftists in Germany who are proud of their T-shirts with "refugees welcome" captions printed onto them, but who don't have any non-white person as a friend and generally avoid foreigners."
Very true, and very sad. Didn't a wise person once say, 'Be the change you want to see in the world', 'If you want change to happen, start with yourself'? But no. Once again, Berlin has taken a fundamentally okay philosophy and turned it into a stick to beat others indiscriminately over the head with. The Antifa spends more time fighting the Fa than they do befriending the immigrants and foreigners that it supposedly 'protects'. Says it all, if you ask me.
Wow, I'm so glad I found this site, I've been reading hear for the last 90 minutes, and now realise I'm not crazy after all. I think this post sums up my feelings about Berlin best:
Hmm, let me think, maybe a place where 90% of the people are not rude morons, untalented hipsters, not pseudo-anarchists, not misandrist Feminists, a place where homosexuality is not the norm a place where commitment and responsibility are respected, where people honour their words, where pissing in the street and spitting every 10 meters is not the norm, a place where people have initiate to make their lives better, a place where people don't have the leftover of DDR mentality, a place where it's not normal to have "open" relationships, where people are courteous and can think for themselves, where they'll cross a pedestrian crossing when there are no cars in sight of 500 meters either side, where you won't get harassed by beggars every 15 minutes, where people don't search out deviate clubs for their 15 minutes of shame, where all your "friends" will not have left every two-three years, because they can't stand it there anymore, a place where people don't just live day to day, bordering on poverty all the time, forced to eat the ubiquitous don(t)er and curry worst, where people don't make a big show of helping so-called refugees to show the wolrd that they are no longer Nazis, with police guards outside every Jewish establishment, that must cost millions of dollars every year in a city that is poor but "sexy", hey, everyone else forgives you, just don't do it again OK, etc etc etc etc.
Why do you care if homosexuality is the norm and people have open relationships. Urge to control much grandpa ? Also, how do expect a DDR mentality that's just about had a generation to dissolve to be gone completely, that's just so stupid.
You have some points but people cross the pedestrian crossing all the time with no cars in sight. Overall you do seem rather stuck up tho with dislike for 'deviancy' which you probably just want to join in anyway.
The police outside Jewish establishments is because of there being a constant threat by neo nazis and from people from the middle east but hey, I'm sure a 'everyone else forgives you' will help.
Seriously, who's just done a poop at the bottom of the stairs?
I really hate this place
Scatology has long been a fixture of German culture since the Dark Ages. In those days, there was rampant defecation in public hence the run up to the Black Death. The german who left those little droppings on the stairs was probably trying to commune with some long, lost ancestor.
Just stumbled across an article about the reactions to dianes kruger's best actress prize. Germans apparently hate her for having succes outside germany : ))
Come on. not all leftists behave like these dead heads.Pretty darn sure Marx would not eat at the same table as these petty vandals with premature ejaculation problems.
The mindless leftists and antifas in Rigaer Strasse are at it again, attacking more police in the past few days. Barely a day goes by that they aren't throwing rocks at people, setting cars on fire or worse. In June-July last year there were 280 cases of criminal activity recorded just on that one specific street. Leftists/antifas really are the biggest threat to people living in Berlin, their crimes increased by 16% in 2016. They were responsible for more than twice the number of criminal violence in the first half of 2016 in Berlin compared to the right. Toss them all in prison and throw away the key forever!
The good old day had dead at Berlin. Elegant, deep, convergence and comity etc. are all dead here. No more Tomas Mann, no more Hegel, no more Rilke but only Berliner Schnauze, and ridiculously people are shamelessly proud of it, it became selling point of the local couture and appears in movies, books and people's every day talking. What I can say, SOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I came here thinking it was the country of Rilke , Tomas Mann and all the german philosophers... people have no culture
Let Berlin independent from the country but keep Bavaria, It'll make German more German, the good old day had dead at Berlin. Elegant, deep, convergence and comity etc. are all dead here. No more Tomas Mann, no more Hegel, no more Rilke but only Berliner Schnauze, and ridiculously people are shamelessly proud of it, it became selling point of the local couture and appears in movies, books and people's every day talking. What I can say, SOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's no surprise that the father of archetypes Carl Jung came from this part of the world. Germans really are all the same. I'm surprised he could derive 12 different types though, because really there are only three types of Germans: Brainless Leftist SJW drug addicts, Brainless Nazi drunks, passive-aggressive, miserable moderates.
Just look at the streets. Easily 90% of all cars are black, silver or dark blue Kombis. What the hell do all of these people in the city need to transport that they all need this kind of car? Do they even sell cars in Germany with normal trunks? I'm not sure I've ever seen them here anymore.
There is a reason why NAZI and WWII stared in this freaking land. It's in their blood and will be in their blood forever. It's American's duty to depress those evil souls forever, don't give them any chance to be back to the mainstream. Depress the language and the culture. Squeeze those rude pigs out of the mainstream. Wipe out the most ugly language from the planet.
I don't like Germany either, but this will go waaay to far.