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berlin needs guiliani
nice thing about 5 millions refugees storming Deutschland, which will happen this year at Grun Party urging, is it will with mathematical certainty collapse the social welfare system, leading to either a. drastic cutbacks in services or b. central bank money printing leading to most things much more expensive, , ie a doner for 10 euros average. THEN listen to the Germans crow about their 'system'.....how will Berlin survive?
What I really don't understand is the expats who apparently love living here. I don't see a single redeeming quality in Berlin, the nice areas are "nice" in the sense that they are not much worse than the less affluent districts of London or Paris. Nothing to write home about. Have you looked at r/Geemant latelt? I just can't fathom how people who weren't socialised and educated in an anal-retentive, repressed, frustrated, humourless, uniform Prussian culture not only get used to it, but come to love it. Any ideas?
I used to be one of those people who “loved” the idea of Berlin. Then one day I woke up and stopped making excuses for the mediocrity this city and culture is. I really tried to look at the brighter picture, but the reality is just too bleak to ignore.
A lot of sunk costs, a lot of people who like the idea that you simply cannot fall through the social net, a lot of people who are lazy and aimless, a lot of pseudo-socialists. If you're from any other first world country (other than somewhere in Scandinavia) Germans will bombard you with weird stereotypes and half truths that you could almost start to believe that it's impossible to live in the UK, US, France or Japan without being under water in debt and living hand-to-mouth. It's easy to believe it, especially considering all the taxpayer funded things offered here. It took me a long time to realize that most of the stuff that people think is true here is far from it. And even those who recognize the shortcomings here, I often meet people who'll say things like "yeah, Germany is full of assholes, druggies and jerks but at least I can spend my 4 weeks of vacation each year somewhere else" and seriously think that that's a realistic approach to life.
Western Europeans especially Germans love their taxes and bureaucracy. Its almost like they invite the state to take take take and tell them what to do, like they love it and relish. 42% isn't enough? Let me bend over and spread my asscheeks just a little wider for the common good...gotta make sure we're all paying our "fair" share after all...
I wanted to post an exaggerated message about coronavirus being in Berlin now but it's no longer a joke. There are going to be international travel restrictions soon and probably entire cities that are quarantined. There's a very real possibility that I won't be able to fly back to my home country within the next few months. Feels like the media sensationalized so many previous bugs that people instinctively think this'll be the same. Mankind's most advanced organic supercomputer, the global financial market, recognizes that we are all fucked.
Thinking about moving to Berlin. What do you guys think?
Are you serious? Read a few pages on here, or better yet go read reddit.com/r/Berlin and sort by controversial to see why this city sucks and how invapable or self reflection people here are.
How can such a big city be so bland and monotonous? Too much traffic everywhere. Feels like living on the freeway. Always busy but not worthwile.
Ugh my self esteem has taken a tumble here. I eat healthy, exercise, and take care of my appearance. Unfortunately because I don’t look homeless, a caricature of the 80s, and am not pierced/tatted up, people aren’t interested. Looking forward to leave and rejoin civilization soon.
It's a joke that they changed the Ausländerbehörde to a more friendly-sounding name. The employees there still talk to you like you're poop on the bottom of their shoes.
The weather is nice, I would love to go out ... but wait ... I would have to see Germans. Better stay in.
Back in the UK I loved to go out, staying inside made me depressed. In Berlin its the other way around.
Its hard to be spontaneous here. And everywhere you go you feel like you are being judged. Germans always have to interfere and "give their Senf dazu" so even just going out for a bit can never be a chilled thing. In general I think its also hard not to internalise the depressive and bitter mood of this city while out and about. I am shocked every time I go home at how people in shops just talk to me like a human being and how much q little bit of small talk can immediately lift your mood.
Non-discounters usually have students working there outside of the hours normal people are usually at work (weekends and evenings). Gen Z Germans really seem like they might have been influenced enough by Netflix to smile and act like real human beings. It beats the hell out of dealing with the dour middle aged zombies who work at all the discounters.
@the person above me. yeah, there seems to be a difference to the non-discounters any time past 5/6 when a younger crowd works. The Edeka near Hbf also has a mixed crowd in terms of ethnicity. For the first time I’ve seen black people work in a supermarket. They are students so its not their life career and I wish them well. Generally, staff over-there also smiles and have a bit of a chit chitchat with you.
I,m married person in my 30s, in this god forsaken city in startup environment if they know im married they look at me like on some alien asking why i got married and want family, they all seem to be or homosexual or changing partners like every year, wtf....
Gay men have more than 5x the number of sex partners v. heterosexuals and 4x the number within a year. They are more promiscuous. Just accept the facts and stop looking for homophobia everywhere. It's not a coincidence that gay men are the most likely demographic for HIV.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3334840/
I agree with the "homophobic" guy, and I'm gay myself. Most gay guys don't care about being with just one person and staying safe. Thats why I stay away from these people as I actually do search for someone to be with in a monogamous relationship. In Berlin is even harder as NOBODY wants any relationship.
yes, this is what i mean these ppl in berlin despise normal long term relationships with having family and kids in their plan. Instead they prefer to go to kitkat to f%^ck random person and call it a day, or change partners depending on mood, if someone thinks differently they look at him like on some kind of freak, wth ...
"i wouldnt say this trend only applies to the gay or homosexual community though. this is something i have only witnessed in berlin"
Bingo. People here think freedom is a synonym for hedonism and we've now seen a few generations that were taught to oppose conservatism and tradition and anything 1930s Germany supported at any cost. Take a normal human and remove reasoning and accountability and you have a modern-day German (to abuse a Jack Nicholson quote).
The Ubahn drivers in this penis poop city drive like they are bringing you to Auschwitz. Hurensons
Germany sends infected patients with coronavirus in home carantine. Lack of hospital equipment, of staff, or just pure stupidity.
I miss seeing good looking feminine women with high heels and good fashion on the street. Why do women in this country look like garbage?
What is wrong with them....
If Arabic and Turkish women are so hot, why are their men the biggest predators in this city? Why do they look at every female as if she was a piece of meat? If they were blessed with good looking women in their community, they would be happy and content and not bitter, overly horny losers.
What the fornicate is wrong with the bureaucrats in this country? How is it that I cannot resolve a single administrative or financial matter under a week, why the fornicate am I flooded with snail mail in 2020? Did anyone tell the govt that waste separation is useless if you have to chop down a freaking rainforest to get registered at the Bürgeramt?
Worst of all, is everyone autistic? Did somebody collect all the village idiots of Europe and drop them off here? Did I miss a memo? freaking hell.
herzlich willkomen in berlin, the place when sanity is scarce, and common logic goes to hell, i actually after moving here noticed i collected so many papers in 6months than for my entire life in my country, actually to deall with this flood i started to segragate them and collect in boxes in different colors, you need a system against it or loose your sanity for good
Germans don't seem to know how to listen. It's like you explain something to them a dozen times and they still don't understand it or maybe they just don't care. It's just a bunch of type A jerks who'll bully you around as long as you let them do it. I hate this shithole.