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Why are the covering the faces of these Muslims www.bz-berlin.de/tatort/menschen-vor-gericht/erst-stritten-sich-die-kinder-dann-sollen-acht-maenner-die-eltern-verpruegelt-haben
I stopped taking my anti-depressants about 6 months ago. I'd been on them here for the past 4 years because I had severe insomnia and the doctors here were too incompetent to give me anything else to fix the problem. Each month I feel more like I did before I went on them, i.e. a full range of emotions. But lately mostly rage. The entire last 4 years I've still hated Berlin and all the stupid Germans in it but I was able to deal with it and look past the daily reminders that this is not a normal place. But now it's different. I know, not just on a cognitive level but on a visceral level as well, that I can't stay here. It's very difficult to drag myself in to my deadend, underqualified job everyday. It's nealy impossible to deal with my co-workers without just getting up in the middle of the day and leaving without saying a word. In fact, not being on any medication makes me seriously question whether EVERYONE else I deal with on a regular basis is on something. Anyway, this is just a wordy rant to say that quitting my medicine was the smartest thing I could have done to accept that my time here is officially over. Anyone else who might read this should try - if you're on meds or drugs and have been wavering on whether you should leave then quit cold turkey and you'll know. If you're here because your relationship to a German is keeping you here then ask him or her to leave with you. If they won't make the sacrifice for you (and we both know they won't) then why are you doing it for them? Someone here said recently that Germans don't understand reciprocity and that is absolutely correct. Leave before you lose all ambition, creativity and lust for life. There's something heinous about this place that's so rampant I have trouble believing it isn't a conapiracy.
I've read every single post ever written here. All the angry rants. All the Berliners trying to defend their city. All the complaints from one individual who really seems to be bothered when paying at supermarkets. Even all of the weird random word posts that aren't coherent. But one thing I have never seen is a Berliner/German saying something like "Hey, my girlfriend really hates this city. What are some things I can do to make things easier for her?" Germans don't seem to tick like that. In fact, they don't really seem to have any capacity for empathy at all. I ask myself if getting frustrated with them is like getting mad at a mosquito for biting you.
<<<In fact, they don't really seem to have any capacity for empathy at all.>>>
They don't. Not a single one of them. Even the somewhat, maybe, kind of nicer ones. The concept of empathy is not understood here. None of them give a poop about anyone but themselves. Even actually for their own friends and family. They are robotic, self-satisfied, arrogant pigs.
Can anyone tell me ANY REDEEMING FACTORS that GERMANS HAVE?
I am leaving in 6 DAYS (thank god) and in the 2 MONTHS I have been here I have not seen any. The people in this country as far as I can see are: rude, greedy, selfish, racist, stupid, incompetent and the only pleasure they derive in their sad little lives is putting foreigners down --- the companies here have got some NERVE, that they keep trying to attract foreigners into this hellhole of a country only for expats to find a very rude awakening.
I will add: ITS NOT JUST BERLIN ITS GERMANY WIDE. This entire country is a sh===hole with sh=== people.
I am going to be generous and overly simplistic here but I have exactly one (and keep in mind I have to use a lot of willpower to not absolutely despise ALL Germans):
- They do a relatively good job of taking care of the absolute lowest levels of society. Germany probably has one of the lowest levels of abject poverty in the world (people living on less than €2 per day). The flip side is that even low class earners suffer from wealth distribution, a wide spread shirking of personal responsibility and overcrowded and/or overused public services (the state of German hospitals, roads, public transit as examples). Another consequence, as far as I see it, is that the more the government guarantees to people the more bitter, asocial and unfriendly individuals become. Visit a relatively poorer country and you'll see real community and emotional support in candid situations. In Germany people feel that this too should be performed only by an expert. Families here even seem to be extremely cold and distant.
"They do a relatively good job of taking care of the absolute lowest levels of society. Germany probably has one of the lowest levels of abject poverty in the world (people living on less than €2 per day). "
- yes by taxing foreigners and their own.
" keep in mind I have to use a lot of willpower to not absolutely despise ALL Germans" - I dont have this willpower anymore, they are absolute c**ts but I admire yours. Anyway I am leaving in a few days so I wont have have to put up with this crap any longer.
Needed some dough and did an odd job for a "start-up" (a.k.a pretentious ramshackle factory). Helped out at a company event on Saturday one hour away from my place at short notice, did a good job, everybody was happy. Been almost 4 weeks, no money yet. They said it would take 2-3 weeks. Asked why there was nothing on my account. They ignored my text. Never work for a startup. Or at least be careful.
I've never seen a "flat hierarchy" in Germany. in fact, power and authority is concentrated at the top so much that all of the companies I've personally seen from the inside don't let middle/lower management (if those tiers even exist) make any decisions at all. Even trivial stuff like marketing spend had to be approved beforehand when within the appropriated budget! At least that explains why every single job here requires three years of training: Companies have such granular contingencies that a robot would be better suited than a person. That's why everyone here is bad at their job. I used to hear about how strong unions are here and how companies fear German workers councils but in all I think fewer than 30% are represented by either and the number is dwindling every year. Being from a country with lax employment laws I was still shocked to learn that German employment contracts pretty much always include a clause that days any overtime necessary is required but voluntary. What a joke of a country.
Oh yeah, gotta make the mandatory statement about German startups that are still startups after 20 years.
OP here. After four weeks and half a dozen text messages/phone calls (most of them being ignored), it looks like I MIGHT get paid SOON. After a very friendly conversation with the (German) secretary of the startup agency (not joking here! She seemed genuinely understanding and helpful), they told me they'd issue the payment immediately, so it would be there today. That was yesterday around noon. Nothing on my account yet, but hope springs eternal, right?
What a joke.
For everyone who does odd jobs here, be prepared to work double: not just doing the job you were hired for, but also getting it, making arrangements, changing same arrangements at sb. else's whim and then running after your hard-earned cash. Better get a real job or win the lottery.
Moved out of Berlin after 10 years and finally feel like I’m living among human beings again. This city is an illusion of a metropolis, when in reality it’s a just bunch of small villages, filled with the worst German people and plenty of wannabe-hipsters from all around the world.
I came for the culture and music, but the whole nightlife is so cocaine-fueled that it is simply unbearable. No one seems to have fun, it’s all about posing and judging, such a shame. Back in the 90ies Berlin was quite cool indeed, but now that image is sold out to the highest bidder until there is no substance left. Where exactly is the culture supposed to evolve to at this point? I’m pretty sure people will wake up to that fact soon and realize that they spent millions on flats in a Soviet shithole. Berlin will never enter the realm of places like London or Paris.
I praise the heavens I left this place
You only about 10 years with parole for murder, and you had a choice to leave this prison. But no judjment, I understand how it sucks one back into it over and over. It really does send people insane. I first came to Berlin as a positive, optimistic, intuitive, friendly, generous and helpful person, and by the time I left, I was a total mess, but I'm now almost back to my real self again.
" I moved to a smaller German city. I was born here, so the idea is to enjoy the last good years of this county until the Muslim invasion will trigger the next war." -- so you are NOT really winning OP. If you stay in Germany - the entire country is sh== NOT just Berlin. That is a FACT.
Locals (here and throughout Germany) who brag about how educated they are. Most of them would struggle to change a light bulb.
Yeah well people here are warned that if they don't hire electricians to attach the two wires of a light fixture that they'll be liable for any damages (that won't occur ever). The ovens here don't have regular plugs and people are told they could die if they try to hook them up themselves. They want to compartmentalize all knowledge and skill so much that people can't do anything outside of their narrowly defined domains. And it's working.
There was an interview in Zeit Campus (student-centric magazine published by that dreadful rag Zeit - I could write a thesis on why that newspaper is terrible but here's but one example: a few years ago they published a cover story with the title "This is a penis" with an accompanying picture and an article in which the (female) editor complained she "rarely" encountered penises in her daily life (what the hell?).) Anyway, there was an interview in the magazine with a custodian at a student housing complex somewhere in west Germany. He complained about students calling him when they needed lightbulbs replaced and a ton or other pathetic heights of incompetence.
I went to university here for a while. One amazingly sad thing I saw was that they had to post signs in the men's bathroom informing people not to throw tissues into the urinals and, despite this, several urinals would routinely be clogged. Just one of many examples I could give.
Comrades, I’m glad to inform you that after a couple of painful years in this shitehole, I’m getting out! I could go on and on about what a vicious country this is, but some posters above did it already and to be honest, I’m tired sick of talking about this place.
I’m in a very lucky position (for which I worked very hard) to pick between two offers from US and UK. Needless to say, either is decades ahead of this sink.
My advice to y’all: get out as soon as possible. Life’s to short to waste in here.
Club kids rent trucks with diesel generators, park them in the middle of the Climate protest rally last Friday, and fill the air with noxious fumes so that we can all enjoy techno music. I approach one then another of them in an effort to get them to see that they are actually part of the problem we are protesting against, but each of them sheepishly smile and tell me they agree it's terrible but there's nothing they can do. I guess Berliners need their boosh-boosh-boosh more than they need fresh air. Couldn't even get people in the crowd, who were becoming sickened by the fumes to confront those responsible. So with my 9 year old child I watched the smoke rise for a bit, then left, instructing those we passed who were on their way to the protest to find it by following the smell of diesel fumes. My faith in humanity has never been lower.
The attack on diesel and conventional power generation is the problem. We've been conditioned to believe that it's all bad and that we're going to boil over in ten years. I'd laugh if it wasn't so sad. It's part of a plot to destroy civilisation. The protesters wouldn't know science if it hit them over the head. It's a waste of time to even talk to them.
All housing in Germany is super EXPENSIVE AND FULL OF SHODDY CONSTRUCTION. Because Germans are cheap (and greedy), thats why. On a scale of 1-10 Germans are annoying a 20. Thank f** I am out of here end of the month. THANK GOD.
It's fine if you like concrete alls covered in the same white chipboard wallpaper you'd find in a Jobcenter waiting room. And if you don't mind being able to hear your neighbours piss (some kind of throwbavk to Stasi times?). And if you don't mind no modern heating and don't even think about aircon. And if you don't mind mold in the kitchen and bath because there's no active ventiliation anywhere in this country.
EVERYTHING. This city is filthy and full of rude, arrogant, degenerate, personality-free people who for some reason think you should be thankful for the opportunity to live here. For what? Nothing works here, the water tastes like sewage, housing is a joke, the transit system looks and works like something from the 1970's, there is rubbish and poop and piss and filth everywhere. Everyone wanders around like zombies in their sweat ridden black clothes being oh so cool at some stupid shite techno club while the space around them is wasteland and they have fill themselves with drugs to convince themselves life is worth living. Disgusting. 6 weeks till I'm free of this shite hole.
" This city is filthy and full of rude, arrogant, degenerate, personality-free people who for some reason think you should be thankful for the opportunity to live here. For what? Nothing works here," - Exactly, they think you should be greatul to live in this dump of a country and their anti-social behaviour. F** that. East block has already surpassed Germany in terms of quality of life.
Oh, sorry I was wrong. Maybe you're right. Let's try it your way. That's a really good way to look at it.
Said no German ever.
Look up "obnoxious Germans reddit" and bask in their full idiocy. Countless threads of people writing stories about obnoxious Germans doing obnoxious things and Germans replying with gems like this one:
"Polite is subjective. If a culture behave a certain way and that is seen as the norm behaving in a diffrent way can be seen as impolite. You come to this sub and complain about things you yourself deem to be the normal situation. So now you complain and call it impolite. Therefore you are impolite by complaining in an accusing tone."
It's trite and cliche, but with this kind of specious reasoning it's no wonder systematic genocide was possible here. Luckily Germans are only canalizing their closeted nationalism (which if properly integrated wouldn't necessarily be negative) into fruitless environmentalism and a push toward more government control. Neither of these ends are relevant to anyone outside of the EU, which is where I plan to be within the next 6 months.
When you and a German both accidentally bump into each other, and you say "entchuldigung", no German will ever say "kein problem". They will just give you a filthy look. No social skills whatsoever. I'm out of there so I don't care what happens to those mongrels, and whatever happens, it's there own karma that they will desreve. And what will happen is that all the ex-pats will leave and the Berliners will be starving in the streets.
I don't know how long you guys have been here but around 2007/2008 during the recession a ton of foreigners who lived in Berlin moved back home - especially Spaniards. It was really easy to find an apartment at the time and prices weren't anything like now. in fact, looking back 20 years Berlin's population has only grown less than 5%! The entire housing crisis is fake. The OECD is now warning that Germany is almost definitely entering another recession so you're probably correct. Thank God I have a foreign passport.
"When you and a German both accidentally bump into each other, and you say "entchuldigung", no German will ever say "kein problem". They will just give you a filthy look. No social skills whatsoever. I'm out of there so I don't care what happens to those mongrels, and whatever happens, it's there own karma that they will desreve. And what will happen is that all the ex-pats will leave and the Berliners will be starving in the streets."
SO TRUE. I AM OUTTA HERE ON MONDAY.
This must be the most clever poster in history, it has sent the brainwashed, politically correct lefties into confusion meltdown, can't stop laughing. www.youtube.com/watch
Imagine the British woman's disappointment when the police didn't just pull up surveillance footage from their extensive CCTV network and arrest the perpetrator for hate speech, anti-social behavior or some other inadequately and unevenly applied charge. You're not in London anymore.
She was actually Australian. She's from the most PC nation on earth, full of Lefty sheep, who have been emotionally blackmailed into only saying the 'right' thing. If you think Feminst are morons here, go to Ausralia for awhile and your mind will be spun out of control by these virtue signallers.
I'll make some bullet points:
- This city is stuck in the past, grinding to a halt between 1980s and 1990s. The development stopped and any new buildings have to fulfil certain requirements: they must look like throwbacks to the 90s. Was architecture interesting in the 90s the first time around??!!!
- Everything is square. There is an allergy to circles or arcs, or elliptical shapes.
- Ugliness. Grotesque people shrugging, sighing, cursing, moaning or complaining to each other, because they have no art of conversation.
- People swear and their children pick it up and also swear. You hear swearing on the TV and Radio. Crass language is not offensive here to Germans.
- The Airport experience, in either dump. Go to baggage conveyer belt and expect to be pushed out the way while collecting your suitcase. People act like you are invisible. They will shove you out the way.
- Take a bus, be shoved and everyone will run to squeeze through doors.
• At peak time on trains, a pedestrian as to randomly wait 10 minutes in the ‘centre’ of the city. Sometimes it is busy, other times empty- no explanation.
- Feels provincial, despite its big city scale (for Europe).
- The Supermarket experience. Old fashioned. Ugly packaging, and good displayed in transit boxes still(?!) Always understaffed, unwilling to help, under-trained, and rude. When they attempt promotion, they bark aggressively at you and are sarcastic. You always have to queue as there will be several lanes but 5 will be shut. When they 15 min too late open another lane cos Mustafa or Steffen is back from smoking for 15 min the others krauts will run over to the lane disregarding the order they were in in the other snaking line. They will trample over grannies or disabled. Don’t worry about the grannies too much: they are the grumpiest and rudest of all!!!
- Schadenfreude culture. The word comes from here. Go figure.
- People are know-it-alls, yet actually are ill-informed and small-minded.
- They like to place others into neat categories and are pleased when others fulful these stereotypes.
- Archaic, ugly, harsh, mean language.
- Mean-spirited people. Meisly and selfish. Distrusting and petty.
- The ‘food’. I read some refugees left back to Syria saying they couldn’t stand the food because it was so disgusting. You get the idea.
- They do ‘assertive’ lessons for school kids at age 6(!) Whaaat? Children are taught to be dominant and rude from the moment go.
- News seems to be censored.
- If a car sees you crossing the road they will speed up! Motorists are aggressive and selfish. They curse at you for the most minor misdemeanor.
- As a pedestrian, if you happen to be in someone’s way they will curse you, tut, stamp their feet petulantly or glare til you hop aside. You will apologise meaningfully and they will ignore you and grumpily march off.
- They will not let you out of the lift, the ubahn, the shop, before entering themselves. The curtesy/practical rule about letting others out before you enter doesn’t apply here.
- You are expected to know what you want straight away. Try to order and take your time to ponder your decision and expect to be berated by impatient staff.
- Impatience. It runs deep in these plebs. They tap their feet demonstratively. They sigh and bark at you. Then when you are ready…they refuse to serve you.
- Customer Service. No time to list the inadequacies. Let us just say it does not exist, didn’t, and doesn’t seem to be an issue for germans- cos they don’t expect it. They are all rude to each other and that is how the society ‘knows’ and exists.
- Technophobic attitude.
- Staring at you on the Ubahn.
- They think their direct language (and behaviour) is the most ‘natural’. In my opinion, it is primitive and childish. One learns diplomacy and subtext as they grow up in others countries. Not here.
- No card-culture. Everyone does ‘black’ business and washes through money to avoid taxes. Business owners say they would go under if they didn’t. How is this tolerated? This permitted city-wide corruption??!
- Everyone smoking.
- Immigrants here seem to behave with no respect or grace- wonder who they picked up this attitude from…
- Consensus thinking. When you are from a real democracy, this country is very tiring.
- You are forced into a system, expensive health insurance is enforced and the threats of fines constantly. If you are unemployed you are required by law to register as unemployed.
- Bureaucracy. Just don’t let me start!
- A friend said ‘nothing in Germany is free’ and despite the big social net, I agree. Need to use toilet – have to pay. Need water – have to pay tap water. Want to change up some coins – have to pay commission.
I will try to make some more soon! There is a LOT to hate!
I agree with most of those but I'm not so sure about the unemployment one. I've been unemployed here without registering it because I wouldn't have gotten money anyway at the time. If you do register for unemployment as a foreigner, though, you're forced by law to fill out a lengthy "survey" with pretty intrusive questions.
Here's some more:
- Not only is crass language considered acceptable here, overly sexualized language is considered absolutely uncontroversial. I had lunch at a Subway of all places recently and there was a song playing with a refrain that was something along the lines of "fucking" someone in the "ass". No lie. Just make sure you don't accidentally say the word Untermensch, Scientologist or Jew because their dour faces will wrinkle like sun ripened raisins.
- Public urination/defecation. Every park, every train station, every bridge. They all smell like rancid urine and alcohol. Be careful when walking not to step in a man-made landmine on the sidewalks. I've NEVER heard of anyone getting arrested or fined for public relief. Berliners are more afraid of asking a business to use their bathroom than to pull out their wangs in public.
- There's no freedom of speech. Browse the Berlin Polizeimeldungen a few days and you'll see a common occurrence: Someone arrested for hurting someone else's feelings be it by saying a naughty word describing sexual orientation, identity of ethnicity. You'll also see people getting arrested for things like doing a salute. Grow up already.
- Most customs are accepted as dogma and any criticism is met with a puzzling amount of hostility. Complain about Buchpreisbindung? Expect an insult. Complain about being forced to pay high prices for health care? Expect an insult. Complain about the Reinheitsgebot? You get the idea.
- Maddening "data protection" laws: Recently switched health insurance companies and before my contract commenced I had to print out a pdf and physically sign it and mail it in before they were able to process my registration. Every page now has at least two cookie warnings. I'm pretty sure this is going to be the EU's version of the Great Firewall of China.
- All news agencies peddle exactly one opinion and you're told exactly what you should think. News agencies all "willingly" have agreed not to disclose criminals' nationalities/ethnicity. It took news agencies something like 10 days to initially report on the Cologne sexual assaults.
- News agencies cannot report the full names of CONVICTED criminals. It doesn't matter if they're murderers, pedophiles or rapists. No pictures, no full names. Just an initial. Oh, and Bild recently lost a lawsuit because they wrote articles about two murderers from the 90's. German Wikipedia is censored.
- Sex parlors all over the place. Sex massage studios and brothels all over the place. One of the Europe's largest brothels is advertised all over the place.
- 19% VAT!!!
- Unwelcoming culture. Anywhere else I've been people have welcomed me when I was new. Not so here. Whether it's at work or among friends of friends, people here are extremely clique-ish. If you sit as an outsider among a group of people who are well acquainted they will only talk about inside jokes and stories and won't try to integrate you at all.
- Comedy and jokes in Germany are based on physical humor and dumb words that rhyme. Comedians here have built careers on nothing more than saying "Finger im Po Mexiko" and speaking with a voice that sounds mentally challenged.
- Germany's public television complex has the most money of any state-owned system in the world but still cannot manage to produce anything worth watching. Tatort is stupid and becoming overly reliant on sex to draw viewers. Private television is even worse and they regularly show things like men washing their genitals and urinating during prime time. Once I was awake at night at was flipping channels and on Arte I saw a segment where a man literally ejaculated into his own mouth on public television.
- Germans are extremely reluctant to change. They've clung to Merkel for 4 terms just like they did with Helmut Kohl. Both are utter failures.
- The level of professionalism here is woefully lacking. Companies almost never respond to e-mails. They just ignore them even if you're a paying customer waiting for a service.
- Germans consider small talk to be throwing out random stereotypes about your nationality (You're American where's your gun? You're Colombian you must have cocaine. You're from Paris, I bet you have AIDS.)
- Pensioner poverty. This is a problem everywhere I guess, but here I see so many elderly women collecting bottles. Young Germans actually think that this is a good thing.
- Worthless diploma mills all over the place. If you've attended a German university you'll know that about 85% of the degrees conferred are worthless.
- Supermarkets stock goods and clean the floors during working hours so you're forced to dodge big carts and floor cleaning machines while trying to make a purchase. The employees refuse to ever give you a chance to squeeze by.
- Germany has the biggest spy facility in the history of the entire world.
- Too many alcoholics and a staggering number of alcohol-related deaths. Too many people shooting up in public.
- Pedophilia isn't taken seriously here. Recently a large scale pedophile who had raped something like 100 girls at a campsite was released from police custody pending trial because they couldn't prove he'd "actively" sought out his victims. Edathy was tipped off of his investigation beforehand so he could escape from German jurisdiction. The entire Green party has a disgusting history of sex kindergartens that are well documented but never spoken of.
- General practitioners are incompetent and unable to treat any illness or condition beyond the common cold. If you have anything else you'll be passed to a specialist and you'll wait between 2-8 months for treatment.
Be careful calling it television tax. In 2004 GEZ (which a few years ago was rebranded Rundfunkbeitrag) sued a bunch of bloggers for calling it "GEZ-Beitrag". Thanks to the German Impressumpflicht it was easy pickings. But hey, at least Merkel saying in speeches that online anonymity is a necessity for free expression of ideas (that's probably the reason she doesn't want Germans to have it). But hey, what can you expect from someone like her whose father willingly fled INTO the GDR after the wall was built. I wish someone could rationally explain that piece of information to me.
Countdown begins....leaving Germany in a week. The thought of continuing to live in this oppressive, annoying and miserable society gives me the chills. I have not seen a single person smile here, nor have I myself and the ppl here are all greedy, liars, control freaks, rude and impossible to deal with. Dont even get me started on German employers.
Within 5 years there will be a mass exodus from here - I am quitting while I am ahead. This country SUCKS.
I've gotten so depressed here that I can't think straight anymore. I'm not sure if I can hold out much longer but at the same time I'm scared I'll regret leaving if I do. FML
Btw I know lots of Germans who have left due to fked up politics and because they were miserable. They all tell me they'd never go back, except to visit family.
To the person above a quick response:
"I've gotten so depressed here that I can't think straight anymore." - Same here.
" I'm not sure if I can hold out much longer " - I cannot so I opt to leave.
"but at the same time I'm scared I'll regret leaving if I do. " - Then thats your problem if you are stupid enough to stay here.
Btw I know lots of Germans who have left due to fked up politics and because they were miserable. They all tell me they'd never go back, except to visit family.
"Btw I know lots of Germans who have left due to fked up politics and because they were miserable. They all tell me they'd never go back, except to visit family." - If even Germas leave why would you be dumb enough to stay? If you dont make plans to leave: STOP MOANING:
"Lol fair point. I guess it's time for me to make a decision and get on with things. Thanks for your brutal honesty" - You are WELCOME. If you have the financial means best thing you can do is get the f*** out of here. Payday is in 7 days for all of us. Just take the money, quit your job and leave. Unless you are tied to your landlord with a Kaution - a game I never got into because there is NOTHING WORSE than trying to get money out of a German that THEY OWE YOU!
You won't get your kaution back anyway, they will find some excuse to keep it, Germans can't be trusted. When you leave, everything will just work out, everyone's afraid to make changes, but once they do, they never look back. You will ge used to a new place very quickly.
A friend of mine put me onto TheReleaseEffect, and I had very good changes as well from anxiety and depression, the results are still with me today and helped me finally move out of Berlin.
Unfortunately they have left Berlin, but a friend of mine did it on Skype. Also, make sure you take viamin B12 with folsaure and D3, they will help you cope better, especially if you are drinking or smoking dope, because they lower your B12 levels, that's one of the reasons so many people are fcked up here.
HERE IS WHAT I HAVE LEARNED ABOUT GERMANS AS A FOREIGNER WHO MADE THE MISTAKE TO LIVE HERE:
1. Geramans are stupid and incompetent
2. You cannot have a normal conversation with them because they will always try to throw in a negative comment about you or a condescending comment about you (for no reason).
3. They will go out of their way to frustrate you if you are a foreigner
4. The housing here is expensive and actually pretty sh**
5. They are not passive-aggressive - they are just aggressive
6. They can never admit when they are wrong and have screwed up
7. They have severe personality defects incompatible with a civilised society
8. They get a buzz out of treating foreigners like crap to make themselves feel better in their own gormless and insignificant lives.
9. They are greedy, lazy rude and their entire system is designed as a trap.
10. They are impossible to have romantic relationships with (see above) and thus only people who make the mistake of settling with a German can get stuck here.
The above applies in Berlin and GERMANYWIDE.
I am leaving in 10 days. WHOOP. The people in this country have annoyed me so much in less than 2 MONTHS that I am seeing the light and cutting my losses whilst I still have the financial means. Will not be anmelden myself here! So they can trap me in this miserable cesspit of a country.
Germans are really SOMETHING ELSE.
Better to live in East Block: Poland, Czech Republic...that kind of thing - the people there are normal.
TO ALL MY FELLOW EXPATS: Leave when you can. Even if you do not have a designated plan. Its better than wasting your time and money here on expensive accomodation with these s**ty people.
Very good advice. Germans never offer to help, never offer advice, never invite you for Xmas when they know you are without family there, that shocked me.
Here's the thing, in most civilized countries, you thank someone for helping you and they say, half-jokingly, "you owe me one", and the other person says "sure, no problem, I would love to help you out in the future".
Here they will despise you for offering to help them, because they will feel indebted. They have no idea of the feeling of fairness one gets from reciprocation.
Good observations. You have figured this sh.it out in just under two months. It can take others years to get to that point. Best wishes to you and here's hoping I'll be out of here soon
"You have figured this sh.it out in just under two months. It can take others years to get to that point. Best wishes to you and here's hoping I'll be out of here soon" - THANKS. And yep. I am outta here end of the month. Screw this country.
'Wish I had been as smart as you when I moved here. Would've saved me years and years of despair and unfulfilling relationships.'
I came here with the hope of a starting a new career and perhaps finding someone. Don't think either is going to happen, definitely not here anyway.
Why is the kill yourself guy so mad? The original post isn't even offensive or needlessly inflammatory. Just a guy's opinion (one I happen to share for the most part). I can't imagine getting so mad about a person who makes some valid points about a bad country.
Probably one of those little Antifa cccunts who is going to get his head bashed to a pulp one day when he pushes peaceful Conservative people too far with his violence. How I'd like to see that. My guess is it just around the corner for those freaks. I see the cops in Portland are cracking down on them, beating them to within an inch of their lives with truncheons when they try to run with their cowardly masks on. You filthy AntiFa scum, I hope you try to attack me one day, I'll grab your ffffucking baseball bat and shove all the down your throat after knocking all your teeth out first. Lefty scum.