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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.
I am sitting here thinking how little I will miss the idiotic mums carrying 234 kids in their cargo bikes. Do grow up and get a proper way of transportation for kids.
You'd think with 200eur per month Elterngeld and state-sponsored child care that they'd have the time and money to figure out how to drive a car. But we're talking about idiot Germans who will live in the same apartment for 25 years and never even think about buying it.
Oh I mean the furniture on the bike not even a cargo.It was a big pictute flame once and chairs and some more.Thay is also dangerous for themselves and others too.I dont mind they save money but come on..And I don't know where they spent all their money.I know the wage is noy super hight here but it is not that bad to live like that every day.
You can see people trying to transport large pieces of furniture in the tram around Ikea all day everyday. It's so pathetic that people here are too poor to afford a normal life. Another sign all the discarded furniture people dump all over the city. Too poor or stingy to dispose of their own trash.
Saw a woman yesterday in Mittr with a sticker on her purse of a color photograph of any anus. Berliners are so embarrassing that I tell my friends and family bot to visit here.
Every day back in Australia I feel like I'm hallucinating, with the friendliness, helpfulness and generosity of people. It's a great reminder of what it means to have real friends around you. During the 7 years in Berlin, I couldn't name one person I could call a trusted friend. The thought of going back to Berlin, makes me shudder.
I stayed for 3 yeaes here I have some friend who I can trust and willing to help and all of them are foreigner or mixed race Germans.German has no empathy.Impossible to build friendship or rationship.Sad people...What is point to have a life like that?Be betrayer and being betrayed is how I should describe this people.Even between Germans.But they want to live like tbat so what I can do.
One thing is for sure. On my last day before I leave this country ( thank god ) I will hit the ugliest German in the face and will tell him that I will tell everybody in the world that Germans are still the biggest scums and Nazis and then I will hit the next one.
In all the years I lived in Berlin, I realized that people who actually left Germany, were either disappointed by this country, the people, the cultural mentality. The expectations were high just because Germany, surprisingly, has a good reputation in the world and people come here according to these expectations, only to see ruins and communistic remnants, people with extremely bad dental care, drunks, racists, dirt, bad quality of food, Ghettos and gangs. In other cities other than Berlin, were Germans are richer, they don't want to meet any foreigners.
Turks and Arabs adopted their own style of living because integration is impossible under these circumstances. Too often they behave aggressively and feel stronger when they are united (ghettos).
Not a society to raise a family, a society drowned in racism.
I have worked in my fair share of different companies in Berlin and have never once worked in an office with a Turk. I have never seen a Turkish police officer or a Turk working in any amt. There is only 1 real Turkish politician in Germany. There's no way for Turks to actually succeed here so why bother (and yeah it is the same for all foreigners here). Harz 4 life is easy but anything beyond super low middle class is basically impossible.
Thank God I was not born in Germany, because I wouldn't know what it feels like to belong somewhere.
Germany is a place where foreigners barely have any German friends. Most real friends are, of course, other foreigners.
I know many couples and other individuals returning back to their homelands after trying to live and work in Germany. It can be depressing. People don't know how it is to live here and they start to idolize it according to its financially stability, and they're wrong.
I too am grateful I wasn't born there, seeing what several months in that place did to me and to my outlook on life. How anyone with a heart and mind can survive here in the long term is quite beyond me. I think this country is not what many imagine it to be and people tend to idolize it and put it on a pedestal, which they shouldn't.
I got a letter an official letter from an embassy of my country it was official but with very kindness and brightness by starting "Good news!We ~~~".Remind me how I got used rude,depressed people here.Few more months and I can live witht those people again!!!Germany made me to appreciate what I had before.
Aand the letter is always way to long with so much of information for no reason for nothing.Germans are obssed with writing letter for everything and poeple spend so much time for it(even Polizei Anzeige.2weeks of waiting time the criminal could run away already).So not whatever efficient.And those letters give me so much stress to open.
freaking Germany can NOT walk!
Is it me? Or are they totally regarded and never learned to walk???!!!
Gotta get ma butt outa here
Yes, it's incredibly exhausting to walk through busy areas here (Alexanderplatz, Kudamm) with all these Germans who are too stupid to understand that you walk on the right side. I was working somewhere very central for a while and it became an absolute chore to walk just 1 km here because Germans are so incapable of walking on a sidewalk with any understanding of their surroundings. I can at least have some sympathy for parents with buggies but I keep seeing people here just stand right in front of busy entrances and block the doors while they're smoking, or just leaving shops and walking straight into crowds of people without even looking. Or the idiots who just stand around on the narrow sidewalks. Or the idiots who spread out 4 or 5 people wide. Or who try to enter stores 3 people wide and just look at you while you try to push past them. You'd think that living in a city with millions of inhabitants they would inherently learn systems thinking at least enough that they can walk down a street (but you'd be completely wrong). I am convinced that Germans have a part of their brains removed at birth.
And, to be fair, you also have to look at the civil engineering of common spaces here. The Alexa shopping center is a great example. They built the floorplan so that you have streams of people walking in opposite directions crossing. Don't know if the person who planned that was trying to be a penis or was just German.
Hahahh so true.And they always block the stairs and having non stop chatting.Why stairs?????I work at a restautant of 3 stories.And so many parents let their baby(not even a kid)to play around the stairs.What if someone with a coffee or souphit by????But they dont care and just playing it as if the place were a Kindergarten.And they are tall and big.But think they are so skinny so that everyone can pass if they block the streer or Supermarket exit and etc.It is really so hard to understand.Alwyas I see 4 or 5 poeple jusy standat the last step of stairs and talking and sayng good bye more that 10 times.And yes block the entrance of restaunt too.Always stand just in forjt of ans start their non stop German chatting over and over.I don't where it comes from??????
And don't forget the people that will stand like 2cm behind you at the supermarket or push their shopping carts until they are actually touching you. Or people just walking around and purposely running into you (seems to be mostly teenager girls doing this for some reason).
The Supermarket Queue drives me insane - I am about to lose my mind - why can't these people give each other space ? I said to one who was almost on my butt in the queue : "You are not going to get out of here any sooner - now, back up or I will smack you ! " What is the matter with these people ? Also, notice them exiting the train stations - they all go through the ONE open door even though there are 4 doors unlocked and available. This means the people exiting and entering fail to use all door only the one which has been set open - gerbils!
Hahaha Ja.So funny and true.And there is no exit at the Supermarket so you musr pass the Kase to get out(when you have to go out of it without shopping).Always fat people stand in the middle.And never move.They think they are too skinny so that people can pass??????The most selfish minded people in the Europe.
Has anyone had the experience of calling someone out on their poop and being shouted at??
I am in a shock, I had an adult man throwing a tantrum at me. AT WORK.
OP here, in response to giving more details. It was something that he said he would've done twice and because he seems to think that he is a man of his word, the second time I reminded him that this was not consistent in a calm and collected way. We were by the coffee machine, in the middle of an open space office and he raised his voice becoming very defensive! I told him to calm down and he did it again, I said that was embarrassing and if he could please stop... at the end he just stormed out leaving me there speechless!
Always OP, I quote "Most emotionally immature people I've encountered". It seems to me sometimes that they are all big children. They don't know how to interact and lose their s h i t very easily. Also defensiveness and throwing temper tantrums really leave me flabbergasted... as adults, I find this pathetic tbh
Why some Germans are lacking respects to the hard work of the others?
It might look like a small thing from outside, but I put fair amount of work for it. When I got pissed off about their attitude, they start get angry and make me feel that I’m the one “taking too personally”. Come on, I had it enough!
Do they learn the concept of appreciation and respect to the others? Or am I the one who is wrong?
They say Germans only criticize and that you should consider lack of criticism as praise. Seems utterly backwards and at odds with everything BF Skinner and other 20th century psychologists taught us. Maybe Germans still consider that "Judenwissenschaft" since it wasn't a German-language scientist.
I don't know, but I do know a study was done that shows east Germans are much more likely to cheat than west Germans (cheat at some kind of game involving money and dice, not cheat in relationships though it wouldn't really surprise me all that much if that were the case).
Just heard my neighbor groaning and burping thru the wall.
You know Germans are broken up when people from different nationalities believe them to be unworthy of trust, friendship and love.