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Is Leipzig any better than Berlin...?
Thanks for the responses guy much appreciate that....Im getting the feeling that all places in Germany are similar in terms of rude people for the exception of a few....Is Munich or Bavaria or any other place in Germany are better? or is it much of the same throughout the country? I did notice when I was 19 in southern Germany even though I had some good friends....the general feeling from people towards foreigners was distain and suspicion.....and quite a strange approach to us English and Irish people....at best....It was quite un-nerving at time.......Even the other day I walked into a restaurant and usually speak German (this is in Berlin) but this time I just said in English to the waiter I know - "Hi How are you?" I got funny looks from other people on another table.....2 guys seemed to be young German Gay guys and I could see their faces and one in particular had a look of disgust and abruptly left the establishment.....I though to myself - what a little shit.
To the OP : There is no better place in Germany in terms of the things you already mentioned. Well to be fair, NRW cities dortmund, düsseldorf, köln are a bit better and liveable. but this is all. you can not find %100 charmness, friendly people in germany regardless location
Of course the more west you get the better it gets. But what is the definition of better. You are still in the county of mentally ill people. Munich is a nice city. Specially on Sommer. But the Bavarian people have a big sexual toy in their asses. The Berliner is more open minded. But you won't see dirty poop in Munich like in Berlin. But you have to know finding an apartment in Munich is hell. It's pure HELL. If you are Foreigner than it's even hellier:-).
Get your butt out of this country. That's what we all are going to do.
But if you have To stay and you have a good job just I would say go to hamburg. It's a pretty city with nice bars and people. Still Germans and mentally ill but waaaaaaas better than Berlin .
Y'all talking about positivity, mental healthiness and peace and in the same sentence you're becoming a racist fornicate because you say poop like "all guys from east germany are creepy fucks". This website could be literally AnyBiggerCityEverHater.com. Special snowflakes
I have never ever had any problem to communicate with people. I have lived in Austria, UK and Holland before moving to Germany. I made so many friends most of them were temporary, some of them were permanent friends who I still keep in touch with. Anyways, my point is, I have never ever experienced feeling alone.
However, everything became upside down when I moved to Germany for post graduates studies. Yes, I was deceived by free education and Germany needs skilled labour force trap. This year is my 5th year in this country, I have finished my studies, I have a job which pays okay but I feel extremely alone, purposeless, hopeless, depressive, no friends etc. You know these feelings... All of these feelings are related with this country. Too many things are wrong for a normal, decent human being here. I am feeling like I am stuck in this country.
I have to keep working couple more years to raise the funds I need to support my move to another country. I hope, I will be achieving my target.
Living in Germany as foreigner like you are already experiencing the hell without even dying physically but this country makes your soul fade first then death.
What you need to do to be accepted, do not show any form of spontaneity, become an irresponsible alcoholic or/and drug user, chain smoke, listen to monotonous techno crap for three days straight, eat doners for breakfast lunch and dinner, act as though you know everything about everything and be as rude as you think you can get away with. Never be generous with money, time or spirit, never even think about reciprocity and ever, under any circumstances say something optimistic or outside of the politically correct boxes.
Then and only then will you be accepted and maybe even feted.
Here's some better advice, run Forrest, run.
The woman I was madly in love with took a short trip to Berlin last year. When she came back she was already in a relationship with some Kraut. She now lives there and is pregnant with his child
In kreuzberg, ubanhof, guy with needle in arm, people around drinking beer.
Lived in new york city for 8 years. Never seen picture like that above.
Germany is a pure nightmare
Welcome to our nightmare, and it will only get worse, not better because of lefty political correctness not allowing people to call a spade a spade. If I was a dictator, the first to be put to real work would be the AntFa fascists, feminists and then greenies. That would get Berlin back on track again.
I am curious if anyone experienced the same: Are Germans really really unable to apologise and feel remorse? I find it extremely bizarre how they can box it and move on like nothing happened when they anger or hurt someone else.
Accidentally slightly bump into them and say "entschuldigung" (sorry) and they give you a dirty look.
The worse is when they are at fault and still give you a dirty look after you say sorry.
The best move I ever made was moving out of Berlin. I was cool for awhile in the early 00's, but not for the last 8 years, maybe even 10 years.
Student cities are full of 'know-it-all' SJW morons who have had no real life experience. They are brainwashed by lefty professors and think they are infallible, then set about totally fcking Berlin up, when what they should do is shut the fck up and stop virtue signalling.
Just read about the murder of Wilson Gavin in Australia. It happened just hours after Australia's entire media condemned the guy for protesting something called Drag Queen Story Hour (yes seriously). What the hell kind of child abuse is this? It's now all over the world and, of course, also in Berlin.
Drag Queen Story Hour in Berlin with creepy men named Geena Tequila and Antina Christ (among others).
www.facebook.com/pg/Over-The-Rainbow-Story-Time-255775955093540/
Why would anyone do this to their child?
BERLIN
Braindead
Entitled
Retards
Losers
Infested
Nazti ;o)
Being here for a while (almost 3 years) and I haven’t found a decent person to date, German or not.
It’s concerning... Either I am from a different planet or something is off.
I am a woman, and I find most guys to be weird, or wimpy, immature or plain losers. The ones available at least, regardless age.
Being told regularily that I have high standards and/or I am intimidating and that’s my issue, but... I promise, it‘s not the case.
What happened to Berlin? Where are the men?
Nonetheless, I cannot really blame them. Women are awful too.
I usually get male attention (that I do not really want as I don’t like to mislead anyone/friendzone dudes that like me but I don’t like back in that way. I am good with my ego. Don’t need validation by hurting anyone’s feelings) and passive aggressive behavior from women.
One time I even thought I befriended a German girl that seemed cool. Turns out she hated my guts even though she acted like a strong, independent woman that can pluck around as she wants to pluck around.
She was really miserable that guys would pluck her anytime, but be more interested in me as a person to talk to than to her.
Women here can be some rotten, miserable b!tches with an evil core.
I am chill, but still WOW: Almost 3 years and no decent prospects yet and little to no female friends.
Everyone here, both male and female, act like they were sexually abused as children. They have a very strange relationship with sex, and they seem to want to completely deny that they have emotions. Why anyone would want to date a German is beyond me. As for immaturity, that's the logical result of an overbearing nanny state. Germans don't have any real responsibility and it's crippling. They don't have to care for or love their children and they don't have to help with their parents. They don't really even have to care for themselves. It's a never-ending state of adolescence that grows gradually colder and greyer as they age and inevitably lose hope and happiness (assuming they possess the ability to feel either) due to the normal tribulations of life. I have never met a sadder group of people in my life.
German men sit down to pee, don't eat meat because it's nAzI, don't eat onions, get drunk after 2 beers, don't shower often enough, have bad breath and/or lack teeth, are not romantic, are awkward, are selfish.
The handsome, masculine German men died during the last world war. Back then even women in enemy territories would hook up with them. Nowadays the only women eager to date a German man are desperate third worlders who want a visa.
Germans can't drive for shit. Nowhere else in the world have I seen highways or freeways or autobahns or whatever you want to call high speed roads where traffic literally stands still for hours sometimes because of a small fender bender. Sure there's traffic elsewhere but only in Germany do I see bumper to bumper cars that don't move AT ALL for hours. Germans are so bad at driving that they only have two lanes on most autobahns here because they'd probably ho insane if they had a larger choice. People in Berlin seem to be even worse drivers though. They don't know or respect the zipper, they double park all over the place, they speed all the time (especially when they see you crossing the road ahead). They think being aggressive behind the wheel means they're competent. Most are just real jerks. And they all have extensive driving classes and pay around 2000 euro to be this bad? Give me a break, what a load of absolute retards.
Plus all these idiots in the city that brush up against each other at intersections and then leave their cars there while they call the police. I see this all the time where they block two lanes of traffic because they're so concerned that a tiny 2cm scratch must be documented by the police. Country of brainless assholes.
Made the mistake of taking the train this morning to work. Wagon was full of fat Marzahn Cindys and Chantals who were celebrating a bachelorette party at freaking 7am, drunk and loud like retarded sluts. Wearing those retarded dick-shaped hairbands and drinking from plastic champagne glasses. Icing on the cake was sone poor refugee-looking guy sitting next to them and looking extremely uncomfortable. freaking Miss Piggy looking aryan whores.
I feel sorry for that chap who thought that he could find a nice life in Germany. Funny enough, I think he would have been better off in the UK or even Italy. I have seen my fair share of stag nights and bachelorette parties (from distance, of course), but never at 7am, that is another level of scumbags altogether.
www.berlin.de/polizei/polizeimeldungen/pressemitteilung.884170.php
Naked German woman found floating dead down the Spree.
German police: No signs of foul play.
What an absolute joke this country is.
Germany feels like a poor country. Someone wrote on here several pages back that even relatively well off Germans usually can only afford a small row home or part of a house that belongs to several families. Even when I take a Flixbus somewhere and they drive through some tiny little no name village I see nothing but big apartment buildings and row homes. How can anyone ever feel like a grownup here under these conditions?
There are many reasons why it feels like a poor country.
1. Taxes! Second highest in the world. In germany you work literally 7 months in year for taxes authorities. And now it gets funny. German statee is also top high in the list for wasting peoples taxes. There is even a yearly report about this problem. Berlin airport is only one example.
2. Germany doesn't have a house coulture. It's an apartment/ renting society. That's deep grounded in the German coulture. Not thinking, living, acting and being independent. And if you want to have your house, the German state and taxes make it so difficult that its a pain in the ass. You have to pay a house tax to your house tax and they are talking about bringing another one for people who have more than one house. And none of the Germans go on the street and protest.
Talking about being independent. They don't even have a entrepreneur coulture. They have the big companys like Mercedes, bosh Porsche etc. Who they work for and their children.
Guess what? Being in entrepreneur is a monster of bureaucracy. And a monster of tax work and you need extremely good lawyers and very very very much optimisms to handle your idea and business. Because most of the time you are broken up with bureaucracy and taxes.
There are a lot of other stuff. The mindset of the germans etc etc. But that's why it feels like living in a poor country and it gets shittier year to year.
Fun fact: because of this they are talking about higher taxes. Haha
Bingo!!!
They are like robots, "ja mein furhrer". I find it creepy just to think about Berlin and she herd mentality. Make that creepy and sad. They've even been conditioned to believe the huge taxes are a good thing. The medical insurance in the scam of the century, and on top of that, 19% for nearly everything you buy, after already paying your axes. How much does the EU cost to run, for what in return.
The UK people are very smart to vote for Brexit, the whole of Europe is a sick puppy.
Germany will not even be like Sweden or England. And those Germans make fun of us Americans and the way they live. Even about brexit. " How retarded the UK people are to brex the poop out of EU. Indeed. Germans are sheeps robots. Just watch their comedy shows. Humor says a lot about people.
And the medical insurance. OMG. Pure mafia. You have to pay your insurance. Every month. Even when you were in a another country. They are freaking stupid
I am convinced that Germany will be at a tipping point soon. It's either going to be the recession (Germany judt reported 0.6% GDP growth) or the pendulum swinging back from the far left. That seems to be all Germany is capable of - switching back and forth between radical ideologies. I have a strong feeling that the there's a huge right wing population behind Germany's green "progesive" veneer that is eagerly waiting to run amok. It's naïve to think Germany has finally figured anything out. Civil unrest is on the horizon. Just a few days ago over 100 people gathered to violently attack a political party's Berlin office. The news organizations here don't talk about it because they always downplay leftwing terror.
Well I don't like many things in Germany but if you visit other cities it is not so like that.Many people owns house cars(more than 1 per family)and eat a good restautant.reallyBerlin...too much.I don't understand why so many couple have kids like only less than 3 years gap between but more than 2.The mother looks so tired(and must be)carry one at the back in a cargo by bike or Ubahn...Work more so make their kids life comfortable emotionally and financially or make a family plan...
"Guess what? Being in entrepreneur is a monster of bureaucracy. And a monster of tax work and you need extremely good lawyers and very very very much optimisms to handle your idea and business"
You also need optimism to counter all of the negativity about your business idea. Which is one reason why the startup scene in Berlin is a fr+ckin' joker.
Gotta love the mentality of some expats "why yes, Neukolln definitely needs another bar with awesome 2nd hand furniture. We can cut our electricity bill by using candles". Ffs. Berlin is just Doner and bars filled with 2nd hand smoke. A Hieronymus Bosch painting feels more tranquil.
Yeah the people that go to bars in Neukoelln are poor. There are no good bars there so they all just try to save money wherever possible. You don't care about this kind of stuff when you're in your early 20s but you do when you start to develop some self respect. If you have any self respect at all them Berlin will drive you crazy.
But funny thins is the price of drinks at thos self insisted artistic hipsters paradise Neukollen bars are not so cheap.Real local Kneipe is cheap and I like it(much cleaner and better furniture).I hate those Neukollen bars.The smell ...but many people from several countries I met at the Deutsch languaye school they liked it and they think those bars very unique and artistic.Such as funny joke to hear.
Hello, I came here because a friend said me to visit this site. He is from England and not happy with Germany .
If you have so problem with Germany who said you to come here?????!!
We are the beste cuntry in the world now. We take much migrants from all over the woald to us. And we german we like white migrants more than black or brown. So I don't understand what is your proboem. Every time I hear q Foreigner say " Germany is poop bla bla". Go Back if you don't like. Nobody tell you come here to us. When we come to your country we are very nice people and you are like poop to us. We give you money, smiles, freindly and Berlin is very good city. Better than new York or Sydney or Paris or London.
So go back if you don't like.
And you say we can not walk??? Hahahaha. You are so stupid. How can we not walk???? Can people from other coutry better walk than us??? I don't think.
I tell you. We Berlins and Germans think Berlin is the best place in the world. We can live here with only 5 euro for day to eat. Very cheap beer. Everything is cheap. What do you want. Go bqck then!!!
If you think its the best place in the world then wow - you need a reality check and its not better than these other cities that is for sure!!!!I wouldnt say also there is money, smiles and friendly people - that is a complete joke....plus honestly you write like you are piss drunk. There is such a problem with drugs here, drinking and dysfunctional people along with mental illness that are way above the norm. Most comments here are true and honest......the only thing that is poop around here is your pissed drunk comment....good luck with you.
I don't hate all cities of Germany but really Berlin is the worst city with full of sad people whole they have good enough condition to live better than that.That is why we complain because people here just crying and being mean when they live way better better situation than many other poor countries.See?You dony know anytthing and berlin is yhe best.hahahaah
Hey OP - have you ever lived in another country? I don't mean a week in Mallorca, an exchange in America or a semester erasmus in Spain. I mean have you every actually been on your own in a foreign country and tried to integrate into another culture? I would bet all my marbles that you haven't so your opinion isn't very relevant to anyone since you have nothing to compare Germany to. If I had been born in Germany I would probably be as retarded as you and thus wouldn't noticed how base and disgusting this country really is.
"Very cheap beer" says it all. You're one of those drunken and mentally ill people of Berlin. The city is a toilet that needs flushing. How come I take the subway around 7:30pm on a Friday and instead of people going home from work you have dysfunctional poop with a beer in their hand? Its because its full of scum.