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If Trump is responsible for this then he just won a new supporter!
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Hypothetical scenario:
You have a friend or relative who's considering moving to Berlin. This person isn't easily persuaded by appeals to emotion or platitudes. They're willing to listen and reconsider, but want you to put your best argument forward for not moving to Berlin long-term. How do you convince them to make the right decision? What do you do to pull out all the stops?
Basically, without just saying "hurrdurr germanz r mean n sheit" what would be your actual argument(s) to someone against moving here?
Depends where your friend is from. If he's from a first world country I would pick out some economic indicators and other general metrics that show quality of life and show him a comparison to his own country. For example, if your friend were American I would compare median disposable income (especially with a breakdown by education attainment), tax and mandatory contributions as a percentage of income, average size of domicile, percentage of population living below the poverty level, survival rates of medical conditions (
colorectal cancer, breast cancer, heart attack, ischemic stroke, etc), alcohol-related death rates. For Berlin, if all of this information is even available, it should be extremely convincing. But even for Germany as a whole it paints a pretty damning picture.
one cant decide for another. let them make their mistakes!
some people do enjoy Berlin somehow (i suppose, if they are living in a parallel non-german world). so let them come and decide for themselves. you can tell about your frustrations, but dont decide for them in the end.
was referring to her:
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People here are unbelievably flaky and always think there is something better going on. It is hard to find good down-to-earth people who can be relied on. Even if you are a very stable, social person Berlin will knock you off balance in some way and it is not something that you can imagine beforehand.
Do you know why all job descriptions are very high level in Gemany ? I really do not understand this. When you read the job desciptions here, It does not give any idea / impression what your job could be. %90 of job descriptions are something like below
We are team ducked up, looking for a football player !
What are we looking for ?
- You need to control the ball and pass to your team mate
- You are able to wear your jersey on the match day
- You have two feet to play football
Seriously, why do they post these type of job descriptions without givng any idea about the job you would posibbly do ?
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this is an ode to a city that allows me to be. soil rich enough to blossoms me. bear me fruits and feed me its sweet nectar. a place where freedom of expression is encouraged, from one creativity to one identity. circle of trust created within potentiality. a community where i finally belonged, it is a sanctuary for my chosen family.
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as i grow, i grow collectively.
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thank you for giving me the time to experience change of seasons emotionally, and the space to breathe deeply with every single challenges you presents me.
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as i grow, i grow collectedly.
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im loving you infinitely.
Anyone else here notice that German guys in public bathrooms don't leave the customary space when using urinals? In every other country I have been guys almost never use the urinal right next to you out of respect for personal space. In Germany, even if there are 6 urinals and no one else present, they'll still stand right next to you. Why?
LOL I also noticed that in German WCs. I also noticed the underwear here doesn't have a hole in it for when you pee. It looks like womens panties sort of and it means you have to pull them down to pee. How do real men who don't pee sitting down deal with this?
Remember when that one judge Stefan Hank state the following in his ratio decidendi?
"Despite the increasing domestication of the male in this context, urinating while standing is still quite common. Someone who still practices this formerly prevailing custom must regularly expect sometimes considerable confrontations with - especially female - roommates, but not a chemical burn of the marble floor installed in the bathroom or guest toilet."
Pissing while standing obviously isn't a "previously prevailing custom" as anyone who has ever walked through Berlin more than 5 minutes will be able to tell you. What an absolutely bizarre country.
Previous poster here. Seriously, what psychological trauma causes this degree of repression and anal-retentiveness?
What about those born after WWII? What about those born in West Germany? What the feck is wrong with these people? I'm honestly flabbergasted. I've lived in four countries on three continents, never before have I seen the institutional normalisation of a collective developmental disorder on such a grand scale. Please help me find an explanation, I have to deal with these feckers for two more years until my contract expires. I think it would be easier to cope if I could explain it. Is it something about the educational system? Is it the climate? The geopolitics?
For one thing it's because Germany is a society without morals. Sure, there is some concept of a minimum standard that must be used when dealing with others but that is dictated largely by the government and maintained by force. That's why you see so little charitable giving and volunteering here. Look up OECD data for voluntary participation in organizations and groups for a clear illustration. The individualist countries in the report, like the USA and Australia, completely pummel Germany in nearly every way imaginable. Germans defer ALL responsibility to the government or, at the very least, "experts". They don't help people in need because, in their eyes, that's the role of the government only. Generally everyone in Germany shirks responsibility and accountability to the greatest extent possible and consider doing so to be the zenith of freedom (in Germany, you'll learn, freedom is nothing more than a synonym for hedonism/degeneracy).
And then there are so many rules and regulations here that people have stopped behaving like humans. It's illegal to insult others, it's illegal to throw glass bottles in the garbage on a Sunday, it's even illegal to dance on certain days. I've often thought to myself that you can teach a German manners but you could never teach one to be polite. Every sense of individuality is beaten out of German children from a young age by rigid rules and a harshly segregated educational system (children are railroaded into the roles of prole or intellectual already at the age of 10 and there's minimal mingling among these classes). Despite "free university" and government grants, on average it takes someone in Germany an entire generation longer to move from lower social ranks to middle class when compared to America. Add to that a largely uniform and status quo-friendly media and have a nation of people that believe something but don't have the mental capacity to explain why without vaguely appealing to collective emotions. Ask a German to give specific examples for why they oppose AfD (and - I am showing my German social conditioning now - I am in no way defending the AfD here) and they simply can't answer without using the kind of abstract reductionism that quickly becomes indistinguishable from a meme. It's why meaningless words like "solidarity" and "conservation" and "data protection" are able to justify anything conceivable in Germany from exorbitant taxes to abysmal service and literally anything in between.
Finally, they all have a blindspot for their own nationalism/patriotism. Ask a German if they're proud to be German and they'll invariably say no. Ask them what country has the best X, be it health care or environmental standards or quality of manufacturing or women and they'll all say Germany. They're pleased when they can embrace EU transnationalism because they see it as an extension of Germany and the soulless ideals Germany stands for (when Angela Merkel was once asked to describe how she views Germany she famously noted the "moderate weather" and "air-tight windows"). If you've been here longer than a week you'll already know how Germans react if you in turn show any pride in your own nationality in any way, however mild.
If you're used to people with passion or a heart then you'll forever be hopelessly depressed here and IT IS 100% THE FAULT OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE.
Why not defend AFD, I've spoken to many of them i Dresden and they were all very well educated and not at all hateful racists, they just want their own culture and heritage to be respected, like every other nationality in their country. Political correctness is a tool of the left to silence the majority.
Jesus Christ, this country is populated by autists.
Holy hell. How did this nation of weirdos and NPCs exist for so long? They're like rusty, inefficient steampunk-era robots without the aesthetic appeal.
Hi everyone! Im out of Berlin, living in a small german town. Lost my job due Corona.. Dont know, where to start, because this self isolating driving me crazy sometimes.. I have no friends here, so all alone..
I was thinking to return to Berlin, but no way.. There was a reason i left and i think thats why i keep returning to this site to remind myself of the situation down there.
I decided to look for happines in a smaller city than Berlin, earn some money and build a tiny house in my home country in the woods, so i can return there when im older.
I wish you all luck and stay positive!
When i got here i almost went crazy fron depression and anxiety. I just had this feeling like something in me is screaming all the time to get out. Why is it so bad? I tried to be happy like the people who say berlin is amazing, but I just end up feeling numb. When people say there is no other place like it, I just feel like Germany must be pretty bleak if this blows their minds.
Hey fuckhead. I did not dislike the post. I gave love to it. Doesn't change that you are a loser rasict who will always be a loser. To the OP I wish you luck my man.
Take care not to end like the losers on this site who will post poop even in 20 years and still stay in Berlin. Be a winner and take responsibility for the things you do. Instead of searching for the fault in other colors and cultures.
Don't end up like those conspiracy losers here.
Somehow being a critical thinker and citing statistics about homicides (gee, wonder who's committing most of them in the western world?), automatically makes you a conspiracy theorist and/or a racist. Charming. I guess when you're understanding of sociology, politics, and philosophy can be boiled down to a soundbite that's the best you can muster.
Here's another interesting little experiment to carry out in your own back yard. Search for "Polizeimeldungen Berlin" and click the link that says "Gesuchte Personen" and tabulate your own little breakdown of the ethnicity of the criminals shown. Sorry, is that racist too?
WHY do people let their dogs poop everywhere and just leave it behind? When I have to step off the sidewalk to avoid groups of assholes (always men in their 20s 30s, like these corona rules don't apply to them), I always step in a fat wad of dog shit. Filthy city.
I posted the last comment. I left Berlin four years ago now but returned to organise shipping of my belongings back home to Australia. The level of hate in Berlin is palpable. I walked around and simply could not believed I spent eight years of my life in that town. Sure..hard to start from scratch again back in Australia. But I found Berlin even worse. You can taste the hate in the air..Its a pressure cooker that's going to implode. Leave while you can..You stay and you will go broke and you will stay broke.
P.P.S. In my four year absence Two friends died from drug misadventure. One suicide under the U8..Good friends businesses down the toilet at the hands of their fellow Berliners. And after eight years in that idiot Ihad one friend....A German woman who systematically self sabotages every god darn relationship she finds herself in..Thank the gods above I never got anyone pregnant . The women I knew in Berlin would need a D.N.A. test to find out who Daddy is..Yeah...That skanky.
In my experience Australians are too human to survive in Germany long term. Sorry to generalize, but people from countries like Germany, France, Netherlands, Nordics all seem kind of like cold blooded machines. No, not all people, but the average person here is insufferable to a degree not seen in other places. Probably has something to do with the insanely high population density here couple with very, very small homes and flats and chronically overburdened infrastructure of all sorts.
Oh man..So Sweet.Coronavirus wipes out Berlin clubs. I hope they all go broke. Bye Bye Berlin. Just a toilet with no party now.
Let's just see this as an opportunity to virtually escape this sh1thole. You can just talk to people around the world instead of interacting with closed-minded uneducated Berliners.