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why is everyone so obsessed with Berlin, you can't even make one criticism of the city without them taking everything personally.
is it because they don't want to be reminded that it's complete poop and their lives are falling apart? honestly I try to improve my life by leaving and say what the poop is there and people delete me and try to make it like I'm the problem for why it didn't work out. Except when I look at my life BEFORE Berlin I actually had my poop together so.....wtf
Go to r/Germany or r/Berlin and ask about anything in Germany or Berlin and watch the ensuing shitshow. Just ask something completely neutrally like "Is it true that you have to have health insurance in Germany?" or "Is it true that you can get welfare forever in Germany?" or "Is it true that Germans eat raw meat?" and you'll see a flood of angry Germans and expats who completely lose their shit. These people are the most sensitive babies I have ever seen in my entire life. Ask critical questions about any other country (except perhaps the Scandinavian ones) and you'll get a sea of support. Germans are really dumb.
Regarding to welfare. I totally understand why these scumse live forever on welfare. Look how their government is fuckinng them up every month. Extremely high taxes. They HAVE to have a health insurance. Again taxes for taxes. If I would be them I would fornicate this state as well.
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Its seriously disgusting though how seemingly "normal" people have been on harz IV for years and years. There is no need for any adult who is not seriously ill to be sitting round at home all day and getting paid for it. It really takes the piss out of all of us who work our arses off the whole time.
But how do they manage it though? Do they just purposely write crap applications or apply to stuff they'll never get so they can prove it at the job center? Surely there must be a limit on how long you can get benefits. Like you are too useless to even be worth supporting kind of thing?
If you're an Ossi and above 45 they just let you stay on welfare. I am 99% sure it is because the GDR purposely drugged people back then to give them brain damage but that the government can never admit to that. We know they drugged athletes in the GDR without their consent and if you have ever met anyone from the East, especially men, you'll knownwhat I mean with brain damage. Definitely something way off with all of them.
Yeah i never used to understand why they always went on about "Schweigen" and the difficulty of saying things during our German degree. I was like just say it what's the big deal. But here people are very aware of the exact words they are saying and what they are omitting. They present a carefully crafted version of themself. Which ok everyone technically does but here it is more extreme. Its almost as if Germans, at least East Germans, dont have a natural self.
Old habits die hard. For Ossis, choosing the wrong words could mean going to prison for a long time. Or losing a job and getting a worse one. Or no chances to get to a certain university. The list goes on. I don’t blame them for that, but I do blame them for being grumpy, weird and living on welfare eternally
@"Surely there must be a limit on how long you can get benefits." No. A minimum standard of living is guaranteed by the constitution. This is the original universal basic income. But people from the EU and other foreigners cannot just turn up and apply.
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I had a 6 year relationship with a German. It must have broken me up as I haven't been able to be intimate with anyone for over 3 years now.
Hi fellow Berlin haters! My german boyfriend and I broke up (for many differents reasons) and although it's painful I'm kinda relieved because it was the very last thing still bonding me to this country (I left a few months ago) and it feels weirdly good to be able to leave behind this part of my life for good. But I feel guilty for this relief, what are your thoughts? Have any of you gone through a similar situation? More generally, does any of you feel like your 'hate' towards Germany affects (or affected in case it's over) negatively your feelings and relationship with a german partner? It would help me a lot to have some insight on this! I feel bad that the nationality/culture & language barrier played such a huge part in my decision to let this person go.
Yeah, of course my hatred of Germany negatively affected my relationship with Germans. I mean, at the beginning I tried to convince myself that the prevailing cultural norms in a country have nothing to do with the individual people but then I realized that thinking that was pretty stupid and desperate. The things I hate most about this country apply the people who live here and - and this is the important part - it applies to ALL OF THEM. Don't feel bad about it - this culture is so messed up that relationships here aren't even meant to last anyway. If you were outside of Germany and still pretending a long-distance relationship was going to work out then you were only deluding yourself. Your boyfriend was probably cheating on you anyway, especially if he was a Berliner. Never feel sympathy for Germans - they aren't worth it.
No the thing is, we were about to move together to another EU country (neither his nor mine - the idea was to be on neutral ground so to say), we had both found jobs and everything - then corona happened, but even this way it would have been too complicated and challenging
Thank you for sharing, I'm glad I am not the only one who feels that way.
We're constantly bombarded with the idea that people are equal and that we're all the same and that all cultures are basically the same with minor differences, which is a bald-faced crock of shit. Don't feel guilty about despising a certain people or culture.
Anybody lived in Bremen? How was that? I know, the more north, the colder are people.
Something something "directness".
Something something "not wasting your time".
No, dipshit, your inability to communicate basic facts is not a sign of moral superiority. It's the sign of a mental disorder.
"Someone should teach Germans that you can be straightforward and clear about your intentions while still being polite."
It is called diplomacy, of which they sorely lack.
Inference, hinting, the art of seduction, nuance, irony, self-deprecation, being considerate, spontaneity, sensitivity, empathy, selflessness, ... all missing here.
9 out of 10 Germans that do go anywhere always run back home after a few years to the safety of the Sozialamt. They then tell everyone how pooping and backward the country they couldn’t adapt to, supposedly is. German guys also like to claim that all foreign women are basically whores who only want to wed them to get a chance to come here. Delusional
Can't count the number of timws I have heard that German men/women are highly desired in foreign countries. Claimed by Germans. These people are too stupid to realize that when foreigners pretend to look up to Germany they're just trying to make small talk.
Diplomacy...more like tact. Germans lack tact. It's the difference between telling your girlfriend "yes, you're a total a fat person and need to lose weight" when she asks if these pants make her butt look big vs. saying "hey hun why don't we go work out together tomorrow? It'll be really fun if we do it together and maybe we can keep each other accountable."
Expats, Tourists, Travellers, hip districts, every single bar, restaurant, cafe, all the hyped up berliners who stare at everyone all the time, like they are constantly on some kid of event, and want me to look back, validating their pooping berlin-vibe. Everyone wih a music, box. Street musicians who turn up their amps so my ears burst, all the people who given them money for that. The non existence of free space. Everyone who lives here voluntarily. Everyone who moves here. Everyone who could leave, but doesn't. Every single party goer, pub crawler and fun haver. Each and every start up and artist and gallery and event location. Everything. It would be bad enough, without all the hyped new-berliners, what with no heating in public buildings, freezing tubes & S Bahn that only runs half the time & crazy Taxi drivers trying to run you over, just for fun - but then it would just be a pooping town, full of rude people & cultural clashes that make you go mad. But with that layer of hyperexited berlinophiles, who claim this overcrowded, awful place is the best place to be, and I'm ungrateful to be stuck here with no way out, I wish, daily, and sincere, though I would not do anything to further this happening, but I honestly wish this hell hole would just accidentally be nuked out of exstistence by someone pressing a wrong button somwhere and sending off a long forgotten H Bomb!
"pooping" Berlin vibe?? I didn't even write that - but sounds good! How the blast is there no editing function??
not seriously - they censor the "S" word?? Where are we? s h i t t y is a bad word? we are talking about berlin - that's a very genteel euphemism!
You didnt write pooping? Because Im seeing alot of this word and same words around on quite a few posts....I do hope most of these comments are individuals and not some paid person as I see alot of same writing style and vocab.....can anyone explain this ....or even notice....ps I love this site; everything is so so true.
i secretly upvote my posts here every time i visit this page
It's no real joking, you know what I mean. I was feeling like s.hit the other day. I got back home and I was like ok, that was it, but there was a neighbour with their bike. And I just felt so bugged. She said, can you leave it open quickly? And I got sarcastic: Of course. I felt truly bothered because people don't give a f.uck how you feel, they always talk to you the same way. She wanted to get her bike in the cellar btw. I added I can open the door too! And she still was all goody moody but rather confused about me. She said something like, not needed but not in a serious way and I said Well since I stand here, sarcastically. She tried to catch me I guess in a good way, she said I do that for quite few years, and I brainfarted a yes. Thing is she is older but she looks fit for her age and I just hated how this played out.
The customer services make you feel like you still live in 90s
The lack of social genuine connection to other people, be it friends, relationships or work colleagues.
I am definitely broken up mentally by now after 3 years and it shows a lot when I meet my old friends.
I am unconsicously desperate and needy, with no expectations or faith anymore.
hello all! did any of you have experience with self help groups (mental health/ illness) in Berlin? was it helpful?
lol as if I am going to meet up with a bunch of germans and discuss my problems - that would be like a mouse meeting up with a group of cats to air his grievances. if there were groups that were 100% non-german then maybe but how much proof does one need to collect that this country is pure cancer before leaving forever?
Oh, my god - the others are probably beyond help & hating Germans? Why on Earth do you live here, then, if we are all so awful!? Anyway, to the original poster: I haven't, but I know a person, who went to a group, which was quite useful, and I know, there must be many! I am pretty shure, there are enough expats in Berlin by now, who don't speak German, that you can find and English speaking group. Try googling for one? There are also a lot of meet ups (try meet up, or berlin meet up) and though some of these people probably have no great social skills, others may & perhaps they know more about the expat self help infrastructure.. If you do speak German, there must be a lot of different groups & you can try them out. I mean, self help groups are like other organizations & societies - they have websites & information evenings etc. where you can meet the people & get a feeling for the group! Take care of yourself, don't let anything bog you down unduly, especially now & especially in this big, at times rude town! <3
On Saturday, a bunch of aggressive idiots put together a demonstration in Berlin because of limitations of civil freedoms during coronavirus. These people are sick.
Pretty sure you only think the people who were at the protests were "aggressive idiots" because the media is doing its best to portray them that way. Just read Spiegel's reporting on the protests - the only descriptions they offered for the participants were "far-right, anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists". It would be weird if people were not protesting against the kinds of draconian and unprecedented limits to personal freedom - even in Germany where most people have opinions that flip flop depending on whatever the government says.
Funny how you can walk into any supermarket. If it was really a contagious virus they would be ordering you to at least wear a mask. So many naive people here, I suppose they believed them about VietNam, that Saddam had WMD and that the World Trade Centre came down without being a controlled demolition. The sheeple are morons.
Watching this video it definitely looks like one group of people (the ones in uniforms) were definitely acting aggressively.
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But I guess if you don't mind a government that tells you what you can say and how and when you're allowed to say it you won't value the right to protests. Not sure why you're here on this site since you seem to embody the "trust thy government" ethos present in pretty much all Berliners.
Crazy, how the majority here are talking about "sheeple" and "the government tell us what to think" and think the "protests" were in any way okay! Of course our constitution & law has provisions for a state of emergency, natural catastrohpes, war, insurgencies, or, yes, an epidemic. It's amazing, how all of a sudden, our government shows, that it is people, who matter, after all, not "live as usual" or "economic growth". In case some still don't get it: Covid is more deadly, than the flu, and nearly as contagious, as far as research can tell, so far. It is not a virus like Eobola, that poses the greatest threat, but one, like Corona, that can travel undetected from host to host, and only a fraction will experience a severe illness. This very sick fraction is still a huge number, in total, if corona travels like the flu & infects millions & millions of people. The flu is bad, especialy for elderly or young kids, but it is different, from covid. Covid causes a very severe inflammation & deterioration of lung tissue, differetn from other pneumonia & different from what the flu does. So if the "fraction" - that would be tens of thousands of people, in a country with eighty million inhabitants, get severely ill, they can not all be cared for in the hospitals - and would just die a slow, painful death at home. We don't want this! Hence the shut down. To stop the virus to travel so fast, that so many people get infected at once. If you think, "hell, let a few hunded thousan people die a slow, painful death, who cares, economy & fun are more important" you are just wrong. No civilized state can do that, and still claim there is stuff like "human rights" and "equality". Even if it was only old people, it wouldn't be okay. We would not even have the palliative means, to help them thorugh their struggle - you really want all our grandparents, who built up this country to just suffocate to death, over days, without any painkillers even? No, I think the government owes them this shut down, even if you or me are at the moment not too concerned about severe covid.
Hey Jerry, if you don't want to go to the protest then stay home. That's what you shitlords have said to us about abortions and drugs for half a century. Lower courts in Germany arr upholding the right to protest. If you have a problem with that then why not move to an even more oppressive country like... you seem retarded so you're probably from the GDR so China or NK are probably familiar.
Domesticated males and frigid women.
"Domesticated males and frigid women"?? Do you mean, in some districts there are actually civilized blokes & women, who don't care to be bothered by some idiot boy who thinks he's hot & tries his "pick up lines" ? How about having some respect for a culture, where people simply like to be left alone? Ohterwise fo course, you can find a few rather more bothersome "non domesticated" males in the primarily turkish sectors & see, how fun it is, if you try the frigidity of the girls there, too!
When Germans stop with their Übermenschen syndrome of thinking themselves above other cultures, then only then shall they recieve respect.
For now, I think OP is right. Men are female genitalia and women an atrocity around here.
None of any known for good hygiene either ;)
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Of course German women are frigid - German men don't shower regularly and behave like dogs that have been whipped. They probably grew up with brothers/fathers who sexually abused them. German "culture" is just a huge labyrinth of bizarre social behavior no one outside of Germany even wants to understand. If it were a human, it would be the schizophrenic homeless wino who wears three winter coats and begs for change in front of Netto.
so as i likely wont get kaution back can anyone please give me advice on how to leave my rental contract? I have to give two months notice, and so this is about what im paying as kaution. a friend is subletting. do you just call the landlord and tell them whats up, and then just write a notice (without mentioning I wont pay them last two months rent)? I will never live in Germany again, but wondering if this would affect my credit score if I live somewhere else.... also, a friend is staying there now. they cant kick him out wil they?
that was a bit confusing wording. basically dont know how to get out of this and im sure they will not return that kaution, so then i just write them a letter telling them I am leave...and then not pay rent for two months maybe? not sure what these insane fuckers can do. I've heard the gov going after someone for 40k and 60k in tax just because they didnt abmeldung. Just grabbing a random number out of the air with no proof. And i need to abmeldung. freaking fascists.
basically i think the landlord has to register the abmeldung...can i do the abmeldung online since I am not in the country? I am def not stepping foot in that idiot again... today i transferred the IBB grant out of my bank . just trying to get through this without getting broken
Yes, you can Abmeldung online. You can google search the link or ask on the berlin reddit or fb groups and someone will lead you in the right direction. If you have no plans to come back... I would personally withhold the last two months rent. THESE LANDLORDS ARE CROOKS. Once they know you aren't in the country anymore, they will not work with you or return your money. Again, you can verify this by reading other people's horror stories. Let your LL know, but feel free to withhold last rents. fornicate them. No, it won't affect your US or international credit report. The Germs wish they had that much power. Lol.
You can skip the last two rent payments, however, this will be deducted from your Kaution. If your Kaution was the usual 3 months rent, you will only get 1/3 of it back. Keep in mind the landlord also has to take care of the Heizkosten and Betriebskostenabrechnung. This might take some time as it legally has to be done by end of 2021 for this year.
true, it is 3 times the cold, but its just over twice the warm. I remember they told me (verbally, not in writing) that I would take 6 months minimum to get the kaution back and it would have to be a german address.....so then, if I j dip it wont affect EU credit score if i rent elsewhere in EU?
He's gotta register himself, I guess you just give him the form for it. As far as I know you can do the Abmeldung on the phone after you've left and they don't actually require any documentation (and what would they really be able to threaten you with if you're outside of Gomorrmany.
Your friend has no contract with the landlord and can be kicked out immediately. Unless the landlord gave you permission to sublet, you are in breach and he can terminate the lease. Him paying you the caution and staying there is bullshit. They will evict his butt or if he is lucky get a new lease with a higher rent and will have to pay the Kaution again. You and he are separate entities and you can’t demand that he get the place. I guess he is not really your friend if you are willing to fornicate him over like that.