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Why do germans build such ugly cement box houses? They look like bunker houses. I feel like I suffocate in them. And the interior decor is always super tacky and outdated.
Berlins dumb and if germans really think they are the best they should try going anywhere else LOL
Had a conversation with a German man yesterday. I need to emphasize - with a grown-ass man. He was probably in his 40s. And a few things occurred to me:
1. Why are German men so angry? I know that there are a lot of angry people in the world but here I see it much more often. They seem to live in a world in which they are angry at everything.
2. They do not tolerate differing opinions. If you have a conversation and both sides can't agree - why don't you just agree to disagree? No - they purposely want to keep the conversation going and try to force their world view on you?! Why? I am a different person, I might had a different experience in my life. Why do you think YOUR opinion is the right one, Stefan? Taking into account that you have never lived in other countries, grew up in a small German town and Berlin is the only big city you ever lived in?
3. Quite a few German men seemed to have travelled to the US a few times - probably to Los Angeles - and seem to have adopted a certain, well, swagger?! It is a kind of a demonstrative extroverted, expressive and very loud way of speaking, with a desire to be the center of the party at all costs. No offence to Americans, I think Americans and especially American men have a lot of good traits that German men do NOT have. But this expressive way of speaking seems to be typical of American corporate culture which is very competitive and where it is necessary to demonstrate a high degree of self-esteem all the time. Now, when German men try to adopt this 'swagger' it just makes them look like shouting dogs - due to the fact that they lack any charm. He was not the first German man I noticed to have this kind of behaviour, that's why I wanted to point it out.
OMG, never go to live in LA or Hawaii, visit and then get straight out. If you want to live in the USA, try the part farthest north called Canada, where the people are down-to-earth, real and hospitable. If you didn't grow up with USA culture, you will go crazy there, it's a very weird place. The best place t be is where your friends and network are, that is how you get things done. Go back home and just have holidays to exotic places. Cultural shifts lead to mental illness. And whatever you do, avoid places with a strong left-wing/feminist culture, like Portland/Seattle/NYC, they will really screw your head up. Stay real brothers and sisters.
Don’t ruin my Moana dreams...
But yes, I can imagine that is a good advice.
I shall then fantasize only about chilling, surfing in the ocean, listening to Ukulele and eating everything with pineapple...
When I say Hawaii, I am strictly referring to the native culture.
Well Germans think 30,000 EUR/year is a good salary. Minimum for a decent life in NYC is more than 3x that. Germans can't imagine a life where they actually have to fend for themselves. Too many Germans in NYC on vacation as it is. Wish it was possible to go on vacation anywhere and get away from these assholes.
Hahahahaha, there is an actual website called neighborhater.com. How apt.
I have never seen a German who doesn’t cheat on his / her partner. These people are disgrace to the humanity.
Come on, what should Islam fix? I respect relegions since it means something to someone but other than that it is not good to live by a book instead of your feel and common sense. So no, no book will solve a thing. Just like Bhuddism, they went all nuts about this living in the moment, turned it into something it never was meant to be. Yes, it's good to live in the moment but not with an extra freaking pressure like awareness, that was though not meant that way. The real Bhudda probably facepalming on this anyway.
I’m trying to understand why people are so broken and mean. There must be a set of reasons
Well. I had 2 job options: Germany or Balkans. Chose Balkans. Ppl here mind their own business and the food is much better too. 100 x less hassle than Germany or German speaking countries. No thanks to that. I made the mistake of living in Berlin 2x - never again. I do not see why they spend so much effort luring expats with jobs, when they actually hate them.
What? :) You say you got a job, so was it hard to get one or not? Probably not, I just don't get the act about it. I mean if you wouldn't know, you would have mentioned that despite you finding a job, you still don't know. I just don't like this pessimistic note you ended on. But I see, you don't wanna have anything to do with someone going there and then it doesn't work out and I just don't see what that would have to do with you? :) It was the most innocent question to ask.
How can you convince someone to leave Berlin?
Take them to Kottbusser Tor or Moritzplatz at night. Take them to an ü40 party. Tell them to look at where all their friends from before Berlin are at in their lives and compare. Make them spend a week with Germans. Challenge them to a week of sobriety.
Berliners and Germans in general are human garbage. Might be brutal, but this is horrendous. This society and mentality needs to perish from the face of planet Earth in 2020.
Unacceptable behaviour, unacceptable ideas.
Primitive low-lives.
In general I have noticed a LOT of German men who just seem to meander around without action having any goal in mind. Just randomly standing around and leering at groups of people or drinking beer alone in the parks. Probably a ticking time bomb that will either rape children or attack a random foreigner eventually. These people are all sick
www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/hoocpo/dear_non_germans_what_do_you_think_of_germany/
1) Fake or no friends. 2) Institutional racism everywhere (have make a call at the Arbeitsamt hotline for my Ausbildung, waited for a whole week then called up again, and another employee told me that the inquiry was not forwarded, guess my name is not german to be taken so seriously :( ) 3) weird people looking you persistently and when you look back at them, they either smile or looking elsewhere (mind games?) 4) pretentious hipsters 5) if you wear a Dragonball Z or something that is not so Berlinish, you will be mobbed (better walk naked with a sexual toy somewhere in Alex) 6) Coworkers that know better than you (thats what they think) but take no advice from you, or mobbing you (especially 50+ year old women) 7) passive aggressive people ready to devour you at the next second 8) always finding ways to blame you... thank God im abandoning this place in 3 days!!! :D advice: DONT COME!!! night life due to Corona is dead. Investors who are buying appartments and renting to rich kids (no way you can afford it even with 2000 salary). Just stay away.
When expats say they moved to Germany because it seems like a good place to raise a kid I really can't help but wonder what exactly they mean. Do they mean it seems like a place where raising a child is easy because the government takes over starting at 6 weeks and doesn't stop until the kid is like 25? Do they mean it's good because someone else is going to be paying the bill for the kid forever? Do they mean it's a good place because, unlike most other western nations, here they kind of just sweep sexual assaults, physical abuse, paedophilia and human trafficking under the rug and pretend it isn't a problem? Do they mean it's good they won't have to worry about if their kid is out drinking and doing drugs and having casual sex because in Berlin they can be 100% sure that their kid is doing all of those things? What do they mean? They will never be more specific when I ask.
the Postal system...
The notes that come saying we tried but you weren't in. Where was I Stefan? I was working from home the whole day... and you decided to not knock on my door Stefan. So now I need to traipse over to an old-fashioned hell-hole known as a post-filiale and queue with the other mugs for half an hour, and be barked at by Ursula that they haven't got my package and to come back tomorrow...and repeat process. Love German efficiency. Lying, lazy, petty prigs.
Try sending something to another country. I wanted to send a small parcel to the UK and it tool me almost two weeks to finally get the task done. Either the parcel shop only accepted parcels send withing Krautcountry, or they didn’t take card payments unless you have a german EC card, or their online system didn’t work, or or or. I cannot believe how broken up the whole process was.
"Didnt realise how much people can lie over petty things. They lie so much that they actually start to believe it themselves."
OMFG the worst is when companies claim they cannot do anything because of DATENSCHUTZ! I was recently at the customs office to pick something up (because Germany's duty-free limit is a pathetic 25EUR) and the lady in front of me was saying that he parcel was there but that she didn't have the document anymore that said she needed to pick it up and the man working there claimed he couldn't help her because of DATENSCHUTZ. What a freaking joke, protecting my data from ME? What a bunch of Kafkaesque nazi bitches.
its just no use getting pissed off about Beamte its no good for your health. At the beginning i used to get riled up and offended but the sad truth is none of the strict rigid rules here will change no matter how much you get emotional about it. That is probably why germans are as they are: they have resigned themselves to the fact they have no power. It is dangerous to stay here too long because then you also start to become a braindead sheep too.
The only time I want to be back in Berlin is when the police finally beat the sshit out of the AntiFa fascist thugs in RigaerStr. I'll pay good money for a front row seat to watch them beat these laft-wing imbeciles to a pulp with their trusty batons.
One thump for each car they've burned in Borelin and two extra thumps for all the peaceful conservative protesters they've beaten while these pathetic cowards wearing balaclavas, it won't be long, their karma is slowly catching up on them.
So far the police are too scared of catching a disease off them. All that is going to change soon.