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Has anyone here lived both in Berlin and Barcelona? I’m moving to Barcelona and hope I will like it. I have a Berlin-trauma
I was going to do the same before COVID, I also have several Berlin traumas. I’ve escaped out of Europe for now. I don’t think now is a good time to go to Barcelona. The economy is already bad and they are in stricter lockdown. But if you have savings try Going in the country in Spain until the pandemic blows over.
I grew up in Berlin and was put on Ritalin from the age of eight to sixteen. My parents were immigrants. In 2016 I moved to Barcelona, spent 3 years in the city and now it’s my second year in small coastal town in Tarragona right by the sea. Vitamin D and the Mediterranean people will ease the the Berlin trauma!!!
It’s me again, the Ritalin kid:
Yes totally, remember as long as you don’t move to Ciutat Vella(El Raval - people like to call it the Kreuzberg of Barcelona, so you know what to expect, El Born and El Gótico) you won’t have to worry.
In other words If I would have to move back to Barcelona from the coastal village I live in now I wouldn’t mind at all to live at Camp de l’Arpa. ;-)
Bon voyage!
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Things that are good about berlin : nightlife
things that are bad about berlin:
no money, high tax
draconian laws, no freedom of speech
angry people everywhere trying to tell you how to think and behave
shitty long winters
chance of getting attacked randomly on street are high\
racism and xenophobia
everything expensive when you make no money
no way to find a happy relationship
friends are fickle and self interested
people dying all the time because of drug overdose or suicide
germans
homelessness, cant find an apartment
endless bureaucracy for every little thing
mentally unstable people everywhere
evil butt vibe leftover from historical issues
heaps and heaps of traumatic experiences and traumatized individuals with Stockholm syndrome
morally corrupt, sexual assault and poop like that goes unpunished, but someone on ebay kleinenzeigung messages me asking the exact thickness of the rug I am selling, as if that poop really matters. OCD and anal retentive about mundane things, but when it comes to real issues that need solving, absent and dismissive
Jesus christ. The nightlife is feckin horrible. Every bar contains crappy 2nd hand furniture illuminated by candles. Don't get me started on the chain smoking inside. F Berlin and F its nightlife. Give me a decent bar overlooking the ocean... hell I don't know, somewhere like The Bungalow, Camps Bay, Cape Town. Watching the sunset in one of the most beautiful parts of the world whilst sipping on a decent drink beats watching Hanz masturbate in Kit Kat.
For those who left Berlin. What are your friends like years later? Did most of them stay or leave ?
Berliners can diss USA but it’s clear none of them could ever cut it or have the money or mentality.... yeah your country is soooooooooooo great.... y’all are stuck in year 2000 maximum
Germans became obsessed with anti-Americanism again the second Donald Trump got elected because here it's only publicly acceptable to punch upward. It's why you'll see news orgs here use words like "incompetence" and "pathetic failure" about the U.S. response to covid while using words like "resilient" and "coordinated" when referring to Italy. It's the result of a convoluted thought process that has degenerated into believing frameworks and theories that fly in the face of reality. It's driven by ideologically driven academism with methodologies so flawed that their results "aren't even wrong" - things like the World Happiness Report where Scandinavian countries always win despite high rates of alcoholism and suicide and Transparency international where they literally rank countries by what people think of them. Or how about the WHO report that claimed that that France and Italy had the best-ranked health systems in the entire world ("Measuring Overall Health System Performance for 191 Countries", p. 18).
How do you know the people that are pushing Americanism are feeble minded ideologues? Because they don't care about injustice when their criticism is about their own country/EU 0% of the time.
What kind of food do germans eat? Just saw my ex eat 6 brötchen for breakfast
What is the legal situation of abortion in Germany, it’s illegal by 3 years jail but you need to get a consultancy for it to happen?
I freaking hate this country
I freaking hate being stuck in this freaking city during corona. The situation is the same around the globe, but here the people are just shit. I'd much rather be in a place where I can respect the people, it would make the corona craze more bearable. Here, wherever I go there is poop around (it calls itself human)
What is the average life expectancy of a Berliner, 16? I meant in mental years. At what age does the brain die inside the head
We all should meet when corona is over and do a BBQ and then drink and fight.
Would be fun
Friendships in Berlin end when you stop entertaining a person
Do you think Berlin has scarred you for life? Do you think it’s possible to recover? How long does it take?
Every year, hundreds of thousands of old sick people die from the flu. Anyone who believes that CV-19 is any more than a flu, probably believed USA generals about Viet Nam, they probably believe that the World Trade centre buildings were not controlled demolitions, or that a lone nut killed JFK and another lone nut killed John Lennon. So many naive people coming out of the woodwork with hyper hype about CV-19, and the suckers lap it up. It's a flu, baby.
"I didn’t know Bolsonaro hated Berlin too."
Don't be retarded, Bolsonaro isn't the only person who doesn't really believe the hype surrounding covid. Look no further than the comments section of any article on Spiegel Online and you'll see plenty of people questioning it.
Wtf is this, if you insult a police they fine you this???
www.bussgeldkatalog.org/beleidigung-im-strassenverkehr/
Apparently if you address as Du instead of Sie they can charge you €600
Fucking idiot pigs. Come for me now bitch!
Are you just now seeing that this country has draconian laws? How about that time the Berlin police got a search warrant for some random old man's apartment where they confiscated his electronics because he... posted a swastika somewhere online.
www.berlin.de/aktuelles/berlin/4297004-958092-hakenkreuze-im-internet-polizei-durchsuc.html
Clown country.
I always have that discussion with people as I use "du". For me respect is not about "sie" or "du" but about how you talk to someone and how you treat them. Germans want to be addressed with "sie" because it makes them feel superior whilst the "du" is more even. They hate being even. Honestly, we should be addressed with "your royal highness" by these German shits.
When I will manage to leave this country, I will celebrate that day as my second birthday each year going forward
My life really hadn’t changed much since all the social distancing measures have been put in place. I didn’t go to restaurants because the food was mostly crap, the clubs were overrated, shopping here sucks, the art scene is a joke, .... I could go on and on ....