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One of the worst mistakes of my life was to move to berlin when I had some undiagnosed depression. The weird cold, bleak energy here caused me a genuine mental breakdown. I would like to go somewhere else and experience a different energy and culture and feel alive again, and see people who are not ashamed to feel joy and enthusiasm for life.
It’s hard to recognize truth when everyone goes on and on about how great it is and also ketamine doesn’t help with that. There are other places in the world. Everyone in Berlin has a tunnel vision. Stay long enough and you become so much loser you cannot actually live anywhere else at your age. Then you are sticks.
I remember seeing a woman crying because she couldn’t find work for 6 years due to colour of her skin and she STILL stayed in Brrlin. I have seen people get so upset and broken up like o never have but still they keep the pattern and they still stay there. What will happen ? It makes me sad.
OP here, I actually went to the Krisedienst and I will say the German woman there who helped me was very kind. Sometimes there are comments on this site that get very hateful toward Germans but I don't want to do that. I don't want to hate people but I just want to talk about how common it is to get depressed here, something is wrong with this city. This is the first site where I see other people saying this too.
Why do Berliners smile sneaky and stare at you ? It's like they laugh about about you and want to start a argument. Next time I punch them in their Krautface whoresons and whoredaughters.
Berlin is a terrible place to live if you are a clean person with high standards of hygiene. I think I'm having a mini breakdown at how disgusting everything is.
They say its for the environment but the truth is that the water quality is so bad it makes your hair fall out, causes skin many problems, and makes your laundry stink like stagnant pond water. I used to love my long showers but here I almost feel worse after I wash sometimes
What causes the lack of empathy.
People lack normal empathy, or the ability to feel what others are feeling, when something has gone wrong in their brains. It might be the result of a genetic defect, or physical damage due to trauma, or a response to their environment.
I found the term for German jealousy. It’s “neid”
www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2013/oct/25/berlin-tech-startup-scene-10-things
at last. Someone spoke the truth online. Here’s another: www.thelocal.de/20160826/6-reasons-why-berlin-has-earned-its-label-of-a-failed-capital-city/
Berliners think Berlin is this be all end all but little do they know it’s a stepping stone for most people
I’ve heard of the government going after people for 40,000 and 60,000 who were freelancers (foreign) and had left the country for tax money. They didn’t even have to have any proof or invoices they just grabbed a number out of the air .
Being unemployed and collect unemployment benefits are much better option than working full time here.
If you have been working in Germany for couple years, If you calculate how much you would earn net by working full time vs collect unemployment benefits, you would select to collect unemployment benefits. Working full time job makes you earn just couple of hundreds euro more which does not make sense. Nothing encourages you to work full time in this country
This society is joke.
What if I told you that Berlin was an illusion? That nobody makes any money off their art, they make very little money actually, in fact either working another job or having the dole or their parents pay their rent....
sure, that’s the same in any city you say. No, Berlin is specific. The amount of people working for exposure is ridiculous. So people like myself get lured there because it’s supposed to be good for artists, and just end up meeting a bunch of trust fund kids, or people extremely poor. Not only that, but I can’t even work a side job to supplement my artistic practice, because nothing pays well, so I’m just further and further into debt.
Berlin is a lie
If you see something on social media from people thriving in Berlin guaranteed they make under 1000 euro a month do not travel in Europe and if they travel internationally or especially come from China they have extremely rich parents. There is no money there. None.
And yet, nobody says anything. They just keep up the Berlin hype and lure other people to Berlin to ruin their lives ..because the hype is what people believes and maybe if they work a bit longer for free and maybe if they just get people in other cities to see their work and think wow cool Berlin then maybe they’ll have their big break...yeah no people rot there for years in drugs and distractions and unless they have some kind of income or backing from family they are trapped.
And you know what? Where I come from, nobody is a trust fund kid. I know ONE. Everyone else makes good money working at bars or another job, to be able to afford this lifestyle. I was disgusted with Berlin. Disgusted. Buncha posers. Who asks their mom to help them as an adult anyway
All the sex and partying can’t make up for the gaping emotional hole in your angry souls it seems
"I can't remember whether it was just curiosity or a certain desire to provoke, but at some point I started a survey among my Brazilian friends. I wanted to know from the men how they pee, standing or sitting, and the doubtful looks I got suggested that I was the first to confront them with this alternative. "Sitting, what do you mean?" they asked. "Do you think I'm gay?"
These men we're talking about, I think they're actually quite enlightened. They read newspapers, they don't eat meat, and they change their children's diapers, but not a single one of them ever had the idea of sitting on the toilet seat when they pissed. At first I thought it was an expression of machismo, deeply rooted in their Latino soul. But as time went by I realized that there was something else behind it."
www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/coronakrise-in-brasilien-die-stehpinkler-und-ihre-maegde-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000171037344
1. Who the fornicate randomly asks their male friends whether they pee while standing or sitting?
2. Who the fornicate considers it machismo to pee while standing?
3. Maybe most importantly, for what is considered to be the pinnacle of German journalism, what the fornicate is going on at Spiegel?
I am now in my home country and have been outside the last few days. A lady biked by the other day with 3 kids, speaking German. I thought I just hallucinated it. And now, again, she biked by and said “links”. So I know she’s speaking German. I guess she is my neighbour. I guess I can never escape them.
And the thing that pisses me off so bad about this is people in my country will welcome this person with open arms and be interested to hear all about “Europe”. It’s just not fair how these fuckers can make our lives living hell and then go elsewhere and be seen as interesting due to their country’s propaganda. I glared at her and she saw me the first time. If she walks by I feel like saying something to her.
does anyone else feel peer pressured into having sex just because everyone else in berlin is so promiscuous?
what i was trying to ask is do people who would normally wait for someone they actually like and want a relash with end up having sex with friends and things because you are bored and feel like you should somehow be sexually active even if you dont necessarily want to be