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It's the place where hipsters and expat programmers meet. Everything gets downvoted to "0", because they are all a bunch of pretentious wankers that think they're better than everyone.
Did they build all German apartments with no internal sound insulation like that on purpose? Is thay some technique they popularized during stasi times to remind you that privacy here is a farce and that you'll never escape the tyranny of loud neighbors? I can literally hear my neighbors sneeze at times. How the hell is this standard of living considered normal here?
I’m so mad because I feel like I failed in Berlin. But really it’s just been such a struggle since two and a half years to keep my head above water. If I had known was so bad in retrospect I would have gone about it differently but at the same time I found out who I was. More professional and not compromising for what I want in life. And maybe someone with a bit more of a plan that would always be uncomfortable in Berlin when everyone around is wandering aimlessly. It put me in some bad places. At times I did get aimless/ really I feel I had wasted some time. If I come here again, I come on a sublet and with the money to execute the plan which I should have done to begin with except I had no money. Don’t move to Berlin. Just sublet.
It should not be “if I come back here again”. It should be “once I’m out I’m out!”. Made the mistake of coming back here after leaving some years ago. I forgot how bad it was and thought it had something to do with me. After I build something for me in another country I though I can really achieve something here. BOY WAS I WRONG! Now its back to building an escape plan and tear down all bridges
The extreme lack of public toilets affects women far more than men. Women have to choose between paying a fee every single time they have to go, or exposing themselves in public. Meanwhile men just easily piss against a tree, or against a dumpster, a gutter, a wall, off a subway platform...Also women have to deal with periods, and are more likely to be caring for children and elderly who need restroom facilities. Let me tell you about the time I got my period, out in public, on a freaking Sunday that was also a church holiday and all the shops were closed and there was not a city toilette to be found.
Fees to use restrooms add up, but this is not an issue because it doesn't affect men so badly. Tell me again how Berlin is so progressive.
That is one thing that also get me angry. No free toilets anywhere. I was shouted at many times when simple walking pass the toiletpeople. Once I pushed through one of those gates (i never have cash on me) and the toiletperson saw me over the camera. guess what he followed me to the toilet
I'm sick of the trash and graffiti everywhere. I'm sick of the overgrown weeds and yellow stringy sickly plants and dirt patches. No gardens flourish here. All the plants look half-dead and they are struggling to find sun. I'm sick of the false summer. I hate going out to enjoy nature in the parks and know I might come across men pissing out in the open, sucking each other off, doing drugs or selling drugs. I'm sick of the areas in parks where the ground stinks like urine and there are shreds of tissue and toilet paper everywhere.
And what's with freaking stinging nettle plants everywhere? And the landscapers just freaking leave them there to grow. What person in their right mind thinks "Yeah a poisonous plant taking up half the walkway here... Let's just leave it"? Imbeciles, the entire darn country.
And yeah, amazing that even the women here will have a piss out in the open. Was walking along a shaded path a few weeks ago. Some woman was pissing right on the actual path. Thought I was in a filthy porno or something but no - it's just Germany.
we were sitting in britzer garten, a nicely maintained park and you even have to pay a small entry. so we enjoy nature and eat there on a bench when some f*cking dude walks up behind us with his little daughter, walks into the bushes next to us, i already know what is coming, and yes: he lets her pee on the tree next to us.
savages. disgusting. typical.
I guess the thing that bothers me most about Berlin is the insistence that everything here is the best. How Berlin is a happy, open, free, vibrant place to be or something. It makes me feel like shiiiiiit, what is the rest of the region like if this is considered open and vibrant and non-racist?!
You arrive in Berlin to work for one of those big IT companies ( which IT companies?) , can’t find a job then try your luck as Freelance Graphic Designer or Yoga Teacher, don’t get paid enough, take a side job as a Barrista, get fired, take Hart4, getting broke, return home!
the u8 is a freaking freakshow. today some guy asked everyone on the train for cigarettes only wearing shorts. no t-shirt and no shoes and socks. when he left some other messed up person took his place asking for coins. freaking retards
when u have a one night stand and have to sexual act off once you are home. fornicate hook ups
“Sex” lol. I feel you
I also had to go home to get myself off. Seems German men and expats alike get more out of playing games than a nice encounter. Idiots this doesn’t have to be always about power?!????? It’s supposed to just be a nice time between two people ?!??
So with the looming Brexit and the US economy in ruins, guess where a lot of young people wanna move?
Brexit is the best thing possible for Britain. The "US economy in ruins" is still better than anywhere else in the world since the US dollar is and will continue to be the world's only reserve currency. US is also the only country I know of that is paying most people more to be on unemployment than they were earning going to work + an economic impact payment + most likely a second economic impact payment within 2 more months. No other country is ever going to do that. What did Germany do? Kurzarbeitergeld which will increase 2021's tax burden despite you now being paid less and welfare with no bank account reviews. Germany's going to be screwed when this is over. Falling demand for German products, tariffs from US (Germany's biggest export market), new tariffs from UK (Germany's 5th largest export market). The empire is going to come tumbling down.
And I know what you're getting at, but Berlin's unemployment numbers were higher than the current US unemployment numbers before the covid BS even started. Anyone who moves to Berlin for economic reasons is either from the third world or a complete idiot. Anyone who moves here because of Brexit and fake British xenophobia is an even bigger idiot.
Blurlin is not for entrepreneurs looking to make a profit. It’s great if you are ok making 1500€ max or less and giving away 40% of tax, unable to save. It’s also great if you are on Hartz IV. It’s paradise if your mom & dad pay your bills to be an “artist”. Its paradise if you are a white German. It’s ok if you want to live in a squat or WG at 40+. It doesn’t make sense to work here. May as well collect welfare. this is the #1 reason I’m leaving. No personal control of my future. Plan? What’s that?
Guys, I’m so happy that you exist. I’d love to meet up with you. Reserve or find a table somewhere, have a “BH” sign and connect with each other. Maybe that’s the only way we can keep our sanity in this place
Do people get angry when you leave Berlin or shun you? I really don’t get it. I’m leaving and people are flaking everywhere but, they also did this when I was here? It’s just weird? I’m just moving to a new place not disappearing off the face of the earth. This also happened a few years ago when I stopped partying, people disappeared from my life. But I was still living here. ??? Honestly this isn’t a place where you can be yourself. It’s not individualistic. Everyone is just concentrated on community and doing the same things over and over, but what about having your own adult life? You cannot do both here ?
it also pisses me off how everyone thinks they are so worldly here but have zero actual work experience or professionalism on a scale that involves not being in berlin. THey reall think this is the epicentre huh. then complain about how everything is so expensive in other places yeah, because other placed you have work for a living to survive. here I mean, some of these people I hung out with if I was not in berlin I would have not hung out with them because, theyre drug addled losers....why I did it here I will never know...
This squeaky-voiced Feminist mouths the same rhetoric as moronic Berlin feminists www.youtube.com/watch Gotta love Candace Owens, she's the best
A person like Candace Owens could never exist in Germany. Have you ever seen a successful, black media personality in Germany? And have you ever seen a non-lefty media personality in Germany? She would be extra-judicially "taken care of" like so many others in Germany who go against the Rundfunkbeitrag narrative. The German government loves to heart attack people, e.g. Udo Ulfkotte and Ernst Zündel.