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What are divorce laws like in Germany? Do they give custody to the German? Ugh
It’s funny how white trash American can go to Berlin and thrive because literally anywhere in Europe they would not last. You cannot dress like that anywhere else. Germany is like freaking texas
I may have to go in and out of Berlin to get something. I’m scared. I’m worried something bad will happen. Something will go wrong. Maybe someone will punch be in the street again randomly. I cannot feel at ease in that place.
Random piles of dog poop on the floor
You sure it's from a dog? German girl I used to date told me once that when she was a kid and outside playing with other kids from the neighbourhood that if they had to pee or poop they'd go underneath the stairs INSIDE of their apartment building. Why they wouldn't go up one flight of stairs to actually use a toilet is beyond me but welcome to Germany I guess.
I don’t believe anyone who says they are “the best”. I’m surprised a country with such a dark history STILL declares itself to be the best and STILL talks down to foreigners. To apologize for the holocaust is one thing. To change your interactions is to actually do something about it. Except many of them don’t actually care and even enjoy making foreigners life a living hell. Talk is cheap
Anyone else notice that Germans love doing the same things over and over and over again and never seem to get bored ?
When I graduated from university here I applied for about 100 jobs and only managed to get ONE offer. Then I applied to ONE job in France and they contacted me the next day for a phone interview and made me an offer an hour later. If there's anyone else here who is in the same situation I was in a year ago then keep your head up and try applying in another country. Germany is truly a... unique place.
I remember when I was looking for internships and I was turned down at one because they had had a negative experience with a Pakistani woman (I am a man from South America).
I also remember when I got fired from another internship because of not having experience. Isn't that the point of doing an internship, though? Gaining experience?
Why and how do Germans always manage to engineer situations in which someone ends up being naked in public? Even when I'm on holiday in other countries and I see someone changing clothes in the middle of a crowded beach it is always 100% of the time a German. Why do Germans refuse to use provided changing rooms like civilised humans?
Germans seem to lack a sense of shame. That is why they don't mind being smelly, behaving like retards while on vacation, wearing t-shirts with dumb captions on them, being in open relationships, pretending to be "ghetto", hating on the USA in spite of the USA being the country that helped Germany rebuild itself and brought democracy to that country.
Let me put it this way: Look at the reform of the German penal code for rape and sexual assault of 2015. Look at what they changed and then consider that somehow to the German mind it was entirely okay to coerce someone into sex by use of force and THE ONLY REASON the law was tightened was because of foreigners.
Yeah I would imagine people that actually pioneered gay rights would look at the excuse for debauchery that is CSD in shame. If you're fighting to be treated as an equal then why the hell would you dress like that and f-ck in public? Even someone whose brain has been addled from drugs and AIDS must be able to see that 1 + 1 = 2
I left Berlin last year. Best decision of my life. Never felt so incredibly unhappy living in a place. Berlin has a weird energy I guess, a collective depression... a demon that has grown over centuries of horrible things that happened there... I don’t know. It is weird... as soon as I left, I came back to myself again. And still today when I tell people how bad it was, most people don’t believe me. “But it’s so great! Such a creative city! So progressive...” Yeah - try to live there and fornicate off!
Yes exactly , it has a very destructive and negative vibe when you are actually sleeping night after night with your head next to where the Berlin Wall was or in the houses where people were abducted or on the sbahn where people were shipped off to the camps. And the aggressive cumulative experiences towards you just for being foreign don’t help that.
Berlin made me asexual
My favourite flirting technique is walking into a dark room where nobody can see my STDs and are so high on drugs that they would never know I have herpes. Oh and of course I never use a condom. Who uses condoms in Berlin? I also don’t pull out either, and give the girl a fake phone number after because I don’t have money to buy the morning after pill for her, even tho I tell her to call me.
(These all happened to friends in Berlin, parts of this story per respective person)
Doesn't surprise me. STDs are so common here that there is no comprehensive STD panel offered at German doctors offices. Like, if you tell them you have a new partner and you want to make sure you don't have anything before having sex without a condom THEY WILL LITERALLY SAY IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY SYMPTOMS THAT YOU DON'T NEED A TEST. The free clinic back in my hometown in Buttfuck, USA even offered a comprehensive panel FOR FREE.
That’s because they have no money to do the test. And yeah I forgot about that. Lol. Everything is so backwards.
A doctor once screened me for
“What race” I had sex with because she said and I quote “blacks and south asians have more aids” I wrote an email to the clinic saying it was racist, I also told this to her, she denied it. They send me an official document back the mail saying “we are not racist”.
They literally have zero idea what racism means in Germany. They think racism = holocaust or attacks someone. Idiots
Germans are like pitbulls. Even second or third generation immigrant German blood has an icy demeanour and moral corruption
The ONLY good thing about Berlin is an early spring compared to NY. But the pooping winters really cancel that out.
Germans don’t realize we wouldn’t bash them if they didn’t continuously act so darn arrogant and ignorant as if THEY ALONE have the answer to life.
If Berlin was a font it would be comic sans
One of the major reason why I want to leave this country is salaries in this country. They are extremely low and It does not make sense If you are doing high skilled job. You would not get any pay rise more than %5 per year and there is no career progression. If you excel at your job, you keep staying at that role forever.
I am almost ashamed of the money I earn after all those years of studying and efforts
It pisses me off when people here in Poland say that salaries in German are better. The pay in Germany is nothing to write home about. You get taxed to hell and back. Most Germans don't own anything beyond a second-hand car. Quite a few families share a house. Imagine that. One family on one floor, the other family on the upper floor.
The country is so populated that most people live in small flats.
I know people in Berlin who worked in excess of 200 or even 220 hours a month and only got 2000 euros. Imagine that.
The home ownership rate in Poland is 64% higher in Poland compared to Germany. Look it up.
It's really shocking when you look at people who are 40-50 years old and own nothing of value. It's completely normal here to live in the same apartment for 20 years and never even consider buying it. Sure, financing an apartment would be a little more expensive in the short-run - maybe 15% more per month but after 20 years if you decide to move you'd be able to sell it. It's ridiculous that people here don't even consider that but then complain about the poor old grannies who are driven from their rent controlled apartments. And then there is weird stuff like Wohnungsberechtigungsschein that you apply for when you are a poor Student or HarzIV recipient that opens the door to subsidized housing. And then they will never take it away from you, even if you become a millionaire. Every apartment within the Berlin ring that has 3 or more rooms and costs less than 1.5K/month requires one that WBS. People earning 20k/year are literally paying for people who earn 2-3x more to live in subsidized housing. Clown world.
And the weird shared homes phenomenon is truly worrying. Even in tiny little 500 inhabitant villages you'll see that kind of home here. It's as if Germans need to be less than 5 meters from each other at all times. Why the hell would you build a house that shares a wall with another family? How much does that save you? 10% of the total price?
In the end, even if you make 100k/year here there's no endgame. Home ownership is prohibitively expensive even at that kind of salary. You'll still be stuck in an overcrowded area with annoying neighbors. You'll still have to send your kid to a weird school full of dumb, undisciplined Germans. You'll still only be able to eat out at weird restaurants that look like they scavenged their furniture from street corners at night. There's no real luxury in Berlin no matter what your income bracket.The only way you'll be able to enjoy life here is by buying a plane ticket and flying somewhere else every chance you get.
At the beginning I had no clue about young Harzt4.But niw yes.It is better be unemlpoyed instead of earming so less after hard work.I dont have any dgree but some skill I got decent money out of Germany.But I was stupid made misyake to come Germany.Low wage and govermenr do notjing to protect workess.Here still 6 days week.No public holiday pay.Who wants to work har like me and always less momey and not having publicholidays?Now I want to be Harzt4 too hahahaaha.But my contract end in this year I leave !