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Hey if you are thinking of coming to Berlin and see all the fun things in the city available make no mistake, once you start living here and run out of savings you will not be able to afford them. That’s right, when they tell you your salary be prepared to lose 40% in taxes, spend the rest on rent, bills, fines and food and if you’re lucky new clothing not from Humana. So all those fun things you see? Notice how everyone sitting in the fancy restaurants are german? Notice how the heads of any companies are german? Notice how all the expats pass through the city?
And the expats who stay and make money well most are living at the poverty level and they don’t hire Turkish for many companies even tho Turkish have been in Berlin for 70 years and speak fluently german. Or what, you really think they aren’t so racist ? Look at any company, everyone is white
It is true. It’s a white dominated world. They’re bigoted AF.
I have seen it on many occasions.
Example: work related, looking for a new colleague. A black guy interviewed as well. My German colleague was extremely awkward to him, said he cannot feel comfortable next to black people. Although he was cool, educated, nice and frankly, kind of overqualified, he didn’t get the job because of his skin colour.
German guy I kind of dated, watching a movie, sexy nude African woman pops on the screen. My reaction “wow, she looks good!” His reaction: “She’s black”
Racists are a major turn off and they are very. Sometimes I think they do not even acknowledge how racist and bigoted they are, as when you have a conversation they start with the eco, bio, communist shit.
They are helpless.
From my own observation it seems that they are either self-employed aka have their own businesses, work in the medical field and etc. But apparently discrimination against Turks in German schools is common " It has also been found that teachers discriminate on non German sounding names and tend to give worse grades just based on names. The studies showed that even though a student might have had the exact number of right and wrong answers, or the exact paper, the teachers favour German names".
sometimes i forget how socially retarded germans are and then i have to interact with one. dumbest nation of people on earth.
I've managed to go my whole life without knowing the exact smell of my own sh1t, until I moved to germany. Somebody should tell these brilliant engineers that a bathroom doesn't actually HAVE to smell like sh1t and piss!! They seem to like it!
B-butt (see what I did there?) this German autist wrote an entire BLOG POST about how it's not true and it hurts his feelings:
scilogs.spektrum.de/sprachlog/no-shit/
German reasoning is that if something is bad then it is actually good because 1. medical reasons or 2. environment-friendly. There are no other justifications allowed and of course nothing in Germany is actually bad.
I have also heard the poop shelf medical examination thing but 1. who the hell knows what infectious poop looks like and 2. am i to believe that these toilets were all installed 150 years ago?
Maybe ask a German if their poop is infected . You make a good point. Can’t you see in the water the colour? What diseases are we looking for anyway? How often do we look? How do we look? Seems like they probably just like dissecting it, like anything else in life.
They still are spying on others ?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Office_for_the_Protection_of_the_Constitution
What ?
m.youtube.com/watch
Let me get this straight. Millions of Gastarbeiter came to Germany from Italy and Turkey and that still wasn't enough to keep wages flat into perpetuity. Then they reunited and added another several million low pay workers to Germany and that wasn't enough either. Then they opened up EU borders so 400 million other Europeans could potentially come to Germany. That STILL wasn't enough so they let 1.5 million refugees into Germany. That STILL wasn't enough so now you can get a work visa for unskilled labor? What the hell did I just read?
Whenever I see "German university education" related posts here I laugh so hard because I exactly experienced the same things.
My master degree was in English and whole master program felt like an English class. All I had to do was writing 10 pages of papers to pass the classes with some trivial exams or 10 mins presentation. Seriously nothing more.
University education is free in Germany because this type of education does not worth any single penny.
How come they are not then proficient in their jobs if that’s the purpose?
Oh wait. I know, because whatever you learn in theory does not apply 99% in practice and at the end of the day it’s you using your brain and applying that knowledge that should do the trick.
Which they are unable to.
A LONG time ago before I moved here I read some long-ass blog post by a "German engineer" about everything he hated about America. One of the things he went on and on about was defamation lawsuits and how in America you can sue people for defaming you. The guy was completely ignorant of Germany's much more extreme insult laws. Fine, whatever I thought. But he also complained about how outlets in the US will spark a little when you plug something in and was like "and in Germany our electricity is safer and therefore there's never a spark". There's no spark because the outlets here are recessed. And since the voltage in Germany is twice that of the US, anyone who has even the most rudimentary understanding of electricity (I would expect an engineer to know a little at least) would know that it will arc twice as far. Long-winded illustration of how Germans don't know anything about anything except their tiny little compartmentalized area of expertise. Worked really well for them during the holocaust.
because im an engineer (electrical) and know pretty much zero about other types whereas i think in the uk they do a general engineering course in the bachelors and you specialise in the last year or sth. Saying that they cant really know much about e engineering in comparison to people from german universities
What DO these people like besides being “right” all the time about everything?
www.berlin.de/polizei/polizeimeldungen/pressemitteilung.983416.php
Is this antifa?
Let me get this straight. To get a normal job in Germany, you need to attend school long enough to get abitur (13 years). Until a decade ago, if you were a male you also had to do one year of military service or some sundry unskilled job in the medical field. Then you must spend 3 and a half years getting a bachelor's degree. During that time you must complete a mandatory (i.e. unpaid or underpaid) internship. When you graduate you must get a master's degree, so another 2 years. During the entire time you were studying you had part-time jobs because, unless you have generous parents, you can't survive on air and love. Then you graduate and get into a trainee program (in Germany trainee is synonymous with internship including the same bad pay). After 1-2 years you finish and are placed into a full-time job.
Germans need 22 years of education before getting their first "real" jobs.
And one more tiny remark here: Homeschooling is illegal in Germany, even during the covid-19 pandemic now that schools have reopened. If you kept your kids out of school right now (for whatever reason - maybe your child shares a house with people who are high risk individuals) then the police would come to your house and forcefully separate you and your children.
Before I got my master's degree here I was kind of worried that German universities would be too demanding for me. I did some googling and came across a thread where some person said they were doing a master's here and that in the first semester the professor explained to them how to calculate the percentage change between two values. I thought the person was just trolling and just really wanted to badmouth Germany. Fast forward a year and I WE SERIOUSLY ALSO DID THE SAME THING.
It's also almost impossible to fail exams here unless the professor hates you. The grading system is pretty lenient and extremely subjective. Especially things like math. If you sort of look like you did the right thing you'll get half the points for each exercise. I went into so many exams feeling like I was gonna fail and ended up with so many 1.3s and 1.7s.
I was educated in Estern Europe from elementary until post-grad.
High-school-little-me-version would still KO a big chunk of arguments with many of these grown „educated“ Germans, when it comes to basic topics like science, history, civil culture, languages, art and definitely... literature!
Not to mention that if you are into exact sciences such as math and engineering, Eastern Europe programs are like playing the final boss fight on hard mode on a video game. Highschool math level in EE is equivalent to Uni/Postgrad level in WE.
I would recommend that Germans read this as required through out all schools in Germany.
“The fine art of small talk + Debra Fine”
You can buy the book on Amazon.
“I went on vacation to Berlin and loved it”
You know where else people have fun on vacation? Dominican Republic. Cuba. Russia. Mexico... the list goes on
I recently went to Athens and the properties were so cheap I’m considering buying something. It feels a bit dodgy in the metro but otherwise I feel safer there than in Berlin. Do you know anyone who has moved there? Thoughts ?
My logic being I can’t find anywhere to buy in Berlin for under 350,000 (I don’t want a studio) and given how bad berlin already treated me I was thinking it would make more sense to buy in Greece. Because even with the crisis you can find some flats for 40-75,000
People in Athen earn pennies for their labour, be careful if you are expecting to work there for local wages. Lovely place to live, but also be aware that ownership of property in Greece can be very complex for outsiders, do your homework and make sure you enquire as to capital gains taxes if you ever sell. Try to buy in Poland or Leipzig/Halle. Berlin is way to big, try smaller cities in Europe. I personally love Italians.
Leipzig sucks. Everyone who talks about the great up-and-coming spirit of the city either only knows about it from a blog post paid for by Germany or has some screws loose. It's like Berlin with less sex dungeons but just as many assholes. Stay away from Ossis as much as possible. Their brains are completely fried.