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www.google.ca/amp/s/matadornetwork.com/pulse/5-uncomfortable-truths-living-berlin/%3famp
Very good articles. The second open summed up Berlin as Neverland for impressionable youth who have had no life experience and are brainwashed into Lefty-think. It's like the blind leading the blind here.
11 years ago I told local people to buy an apartment now, and everyone of these robots said to me, "we are Germans and Germans don't ike to buy, we prefer to rent". Eventually I gave up, it was like bashing my head against a brick wall, and now they can' afford even to rent. The crazy thing was that they could have locked their mortgage in at 2.5% for 30 years, for cheap apartments back then that meant they would have paid less than rent. They are total morons, in every area of life.
Dumb Germans (about 85%) think that financing anything is dumb. It's one of their biggest criticisms of other countries. They think it's prudent to save your money for 10 years or 30 years to buy a car or a house. They don't understand the concept of time value of money or tax deductibles for depreciation or anything else really. They freak out if they have a penny in debt. I have heard this justified so many times by the hyperinflation from right before WWII. If that were true then a logical German would prefer to spend all of his or her money immediately. But at least they subconsciously seem to believe that Germany's going to be in tatters again sooner or later.
At first I just thought german language or “deutsch” (which sounds even worse lol) was bad, then I realized the entire culture is bad
I decided to take shower recently and when I opened the water, the water literally was smelling like sewage. I did let the water run for couple minutes the the smell was gone. It was freaking disgusting
Does anyone know why nothing is available to watch on Netflix Germany?? What's the point of paying for it here!?
Feel like I am wasting my money
Does anyone know why nothing is available to watch on Netflix Germany?? What's the point of paying for it here!?
Feel like I am wasting my money
Berlin reminds me of a series of tests and levels that you are required to pass. And then once you pass those levels you are rewarded with very little. By that point you are already broke and trapped in Berlin. You look at your life before Berlin and realize it wasn’t so bad. Yet you still have to deal with the testing everyday. The testing never stops, you are always questioned. That’s when you realize you will never win. You can’t win, because there is no point to anything there. It’s not progressive, it’s the same thing over and over again.
What a coincidence, the number one Arab/Muslim area in Berlin and guess what www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/neukoelln/neukoellns-gesundheitsstadtrat-liecke-corona-sind-im-absoluten-krisenmodus
Do you guys have any recommendations for a good water filter that is strong enough to deal with the german piss coming from the taps?
Went to IKEA yesterday. Full of obnoxious Arabs screaming across the store, chasing their kids, making a big scene out of going shopping. They even scream when you try to pass them and there is very little space. Will never go to this IKEA again. Bizarrely, I hardly saw any of them at the checkout. Guess they only go there for family entertainment and to get all attention from civilised people.
I wonder if anyone found love on berlinhater
I went to Berlin for electronic music but the biggest joke of it all is there are so many events and no money to go out. How pointless
I’m so happy to be out of Berlin. What a relief . It took a long time to save money and I was trapped for awhile, but don’t worry you will get there eventually
At what point did you realize “wait a second, this place is really that bad”.
For me it was this site, when I was able to confirm everything I felt inside .
I let them gaslight me for years. Somehow Germans have this deep feeling that they're better than everyone else and they have some obscure "fact" (usually it's just a general feeling, nothing that can be quantified) they will pull out against any country. If you're British they'll complain about the NHS and racism (look up "In views of diversity, many Europeans are less positive than Americans" and you'll see how Germany has no leg to stand on regarding the latter point). If you're Italian then everyone is poor and in fear of the mafia (look up EU countries and median wage and compare pretty much anyplace to Germany). If you're American everyone is poorly educated and living in poverty (look up OECD's tertiary education rates and national poverty levels for a laugh). They all say this kind of stuff with such conviction I just assumed it was true.
Then by some fluke I ended up studying economics here and I actually started looking at the data. It wasn't really part of my coursework and, to be honest, my professors were mostly your typical German lefty types. As an example, our textbook at the beginning came with slides for most of the chapters. My professor always just used them without changing anything because he was pretty active in academia and was probably busy writing articles for publication or something. Anyway, one day I noticed that a single slide in a presentation was in a different stylesheet. So later I compared it to the official slides I found online. That weirdo created his own table with figures only to "prove" that Germans volunteer more than Americans. It wasn't even relevant to anything in the book really, it was just some random tangent about how many social benefits are not reflected in GDP. It feels like Germans are always trying to massage the public discourse like this.
I never really fit in here or liked it here. But almost everyone I knew, even the other foreigners, seemed to think it was pretty good here. Eventually I realized that's because most of them were from even worse countries (in terms of economics I suppose, culturally I think Germany is hands down the bottom of the barrel). But I did know one girl from my studies who complained about how rude Germans are and how almost every single day she had to see some guy peeing in public when she walked home from the station. The Germans all pretended none of it was true. More gaslighting.
In the end, what really shattered the way I view this place was also finding this website. Until then I thought I was alone here. Over the past few years it seems like public opinion of Germany has shot through the roof. I don't understand why. I think most people from my crappy little hometown would be appalled at the reality of day-to-day life here. Germans really do ruin Germany.
Every once and a while I'll encounter little pieces of truth. A few weeks ago I saw some graffiti at Alexanderplatz that said "Adolf Hitler had more humanity than the whole of Berlin" written in perfect German.
I had one fun summer in Berlin when I was out drinking almost every night. I stayed away from drugs luckily. When I grew out of it and started thinking about important things like achieving a decent standard of living with decent neighbors and considered raising a child here I quickly realized that Berlin is complete trash.
They don’t use streetlights and it’s dark in the winter. Not to mention, the city is full of sketchy butt people and drug addicts. If someone jumped me nobody would come to my help. The only reason why they don’t use street lamps beside their bullshitt “bio” environment garbage is because THEY ARE CHEAP. Considering it is so dark in the winter they may want to spruce some things up? Third world yo
I know germany is third world country because nothing ever functions properly, they never have any money for anything, they are not up to date on the latest technology, they steal all your money in taxes and pay a low wage, and it’s only a few steps away from becoming again a dictatorship . Really I feel these people have just been politely keeping the dictatorship scenario away because they have to to save their international reputation