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I'm done with this city. A few days ago I got a call from my daughter's kindergarten that I need to come in and have a talk with the caregivers regarding her recent behaviour. Yesterday afternoon I go in and they tell me that my daughter has been bullying some other kid every afternoon when they're outside playing. I ask for more details and they told me that there's one German kid who likes throws a fit everyday unless he can run around naked when they're outside. Apparently my daughter told him last week some time that she wouldn't play with him unless he put some clothes on, which made him freak out and cry all afternoon. So they called me in to tell me I need to have a word with her about it or that I'll need to find another kindergarten. What the hell? I know there's a lot of people here that let their kids run around naked but how the hell is what my daughter did bullying? And what's worse is that it's pretty much impossible to find a kindergarten in this city so my only options are either to teach my daughter a completely messed up lesson or to quit my job and be a SAHM for another year until she enters school. What the fuck?!?!?!?!
Dont quit the job. These assholes will make it harder for you to reenter the job market. Teach your daughter that the boys behavior is not correct, but to ignore him, because, unfortunately, he can not be disciplined properly. WTF. I would report the vagina teacher too.
OP,
I think most sane people around the world would find it incredible that this kind of stuff is allowed to go on, but having spent some time in this country I can actually believe it. Here one has to accept that right is wrong, up is down, light is dark and 2+2=7.
Living in Germany is a slow drip of weird and bizarre cultural norms that get stranger and stranger the longer you live here. I had a German girlfriend once who confided in me that she gave her brother handjobs as a kid. Run away from this degenerate cesspool.
The greatest Feminist fail of all time, gotta love Jordan B Peterson, please, someone bring him to Berlin www.youtube.com/watch
Everywhere I go — trash on the streets. Everywhere I look — dirty and strung-out people who seem to be barely scraping by. I thought I was moving to Europe but feel like i moved to a 3rd world middle-eastern country with a weird German subculture who’s bonded together by their “too cool to care”, left-wing extremism attitudes. No one seems to be working to better themselves and the ones who want to work and grow in a serious career will be met with a joke of a wage offering. The wages for professionals is so low, it’s embarrassing. And in-spite of all the social handouts, people here literally treat this city like their trashcan. The parks and U-Bahn stinks of stale booze and piss. Homeless people are literally sitting in mountains of empty beer bottles and trash. I’ve given Berlin 1 year and I feel like the city has poisoned me. Never in my life have I been so negative, never in my life have i felt so hopeless in society. I’m so ready to leave the place and am counting down the day. Everywhere I look, I see a city ravaged by poverty, drug addiction, booze, and general apathy to strive for anything better. I might sound like an elitist, and maybe I should have never moved to this city in the first place (but I didn’t really have any other options).
You are not imagining all this, so don't worry, you haven't gone totally insane, everything you said is 'real', and that's only the tip of the iceberg. Best to treat Berlin like Vegas, spend a few days to gawk at the freak show, but never actually live here.
That's what Berlin has become, a DisneyLand with freaks.
Roll up, roll up and see the pierced and tattoed ladies. See a man actually pisss in the open, even when families are walking by, if you're lucky you might even see one of them take a shitt. Be astounded by the AntiFa fascist thugs, who are a cross between the brown-shirts and the Klu Klux Klan. Peruse a bevy of tanned gay men masturbatingg each other in public parks.
Roll up ladies and gentleman and feast your eyes on the multitude of single mothers and fatherless children of African illegal immigrant drug sellers and pseudo-anarchists. See the drug addicts and acoholic beggars. The battalion of bottle collectors, the only people doing good work in Berlin. These are not actors ladies and gentlemen, they are real people. Spend some of your hard earned money here and you will leave with a greater appreciation of how good you life is in your own state and country. See with your own eyes the foundation being laid for a future Islamic state.
Roll up, roll up, for the diseased offal masquerading as sausages and doners, there's one on every corner, next to the ubiquitous spati, you know the shops that all look the same sellin the same old rubbish, with the drunks hanging around, being obnoxious and sad.
Roll up, roll up, for the never-endng freak show.
Roll up and see grow adults trying to pass their baby siblings finger paintings as art, ebcause they were too busy looing cool and 'partying' to pathetic techno 'music' to actually learn anythung about art. Experience people being rude to you for no apparent reason, these neanderthals even have anthropologists baffled.
Roll up, roll up.
Foreigners destroyed berlin.
A foreigner.
Foreigners destroyed berlin.
A foreigner.
Is it just me, or do Yoga people in Berlin seem fake to you too. Also the gays seem a bit more affected today than usual, must be gay pride week? Fake is boring. By the way, why are they proud to put their peniis in a another man's sewage outlet. Do whatever turns you on, but to be "proud" of it. Strange world.
I don't care where people stick it, all I'm saying is, why is it something to be PROUD of. Should masturbatorss have PRIDE marches and parties.
And why be proud of putting on and affected voice and mincing while you walk down the street. I've got some news for them, they are not special, no one is. So stop with the rude and get real.
Even most gays can't stand the mincing -queens. Just go to your bedroom and do what you like, if you want to go to the local beat and pick up some AIDs, It's your life, do as you want, but please don't expect people to not be scared of their children being indocrinated into this strange, perverted, hedonistic cult, or to be forced to pretend they think it's cool. Please just keep your junk out of my face, so to speak.
Anyone up for meeting in person to have a rant about Berlin? Maybe we can get a group together, so we at least don't stay totally isolated with all this anger. I personally feel totally disconnected and alienated from this city and this feeling hasn't changed much during the past few years I've been here. The architecture alone constantly makes me want to throw up. I don't think I've ever been in an uglier place than Berlin and I'm surprised how this "minor aesthetic issue" keeps winding me up. Also I haven't managed to engage in any deep or meaningful conversations with any Germans so far (even though I speak the language fluently) - it always feels like there's a massive wall, so much coldness and distance between us that I'm starting to have a hard time coming up with new strategies to "break through" this barrier. Schwierig!
That's all Berliners do, troll others because Berliners have nithig original to say, they are all sheep, they were bred that way. Oh but ask them anything about the good old days under Marxist dictators. And they'll spin a very good yarn about how AntiFa thugs are going to destroy capitalism, if only they could get some funds from capitalist taxpayers, and as long as they can get out of bed in their filthy Lefty squats.
Strange how they support fake refugees who are breaking their necks to get into a capitalist country.
It's better to come from a real life pov. Just meet because you want to do something together, it's automatic. And remember, a 3 year old can be more adult and the other adults are more like "children". If you were at a party with people you really like, and there was one of the rude ones there, imagine how he would be viewed at this party. I also let you know the best almost magic spell for poop here: It must be so hard for you. You can express even real empathy with it, or lightly joking if it was playful by the other. It fits with everything. Remember people often make big deals out of nothing. It keeps you better connected to yourself. It's something real. It's no sharp sarcasm, it lightens you up a bit.
Being homosexual doesn't mean being left-wing! I know a couple of them and I can't say they're those who have sex on the street. In Berlin, homosexuals are like extremists! But who does not behave in Berlin as an extremist? My friend is gay and hates Berlin! He explained to me why and it's exactly the same as here all you write!
Why do people in San Francisco still resemble Hippies? A similar phenomenon is Berlin and Techno. But If you look in Berlin today around you, you can see mainly Muslims and Hipsters! I'm in Berlin for three months because of the job, I'm gay and I don't like it here! I do not like homosexual activists because until they were there and they were not looking for a problem in every little thing, so it was all OK! Before Gays started screaming for every fart, I felt good at this company. Berlin is now the top of all extreme. Berlin is terrible and the local people are embarrassing!
The aggressiveness of people in Berlin is something terrible! I'm not surprised that there's never been anything good here! Fortunately, I'm leaving here next month. Local people are really evil and the worst are in the east. They need a new wall!!!
Reading through these pages I wonder how the hell some have managed to stay here for years on end. I've been here less than a year and I'm feeling suicidal. Anxiety and depression like I've never experienced before. I wanted to thank the people who put this site together - it's nice to know I'm not the only foreigner who has struggled in this part of the world. I keep on keeping on only because I've invested so much time, money and resources into this place and that I'm afraid if I leave I'll regret it. I joined a chess club and started some German classes last month. This has helped to deal with these horrible feelings but I don't know how much longer I can hold out.
Sounds like you haven't been here for all that long. Nevermind the lost time. If you can be a better person elsewhere, it may be a good choice to cut your losses and just leave. Hope and persistence isn't always a good thing. This city is unlikely to change significantly. But you may find yourself changing under its influence. Sit beside a chimney and you will start to smell, no matter how attentive and mindful you are. Don't mean to sound condescending. This comes from exüerience.
The longer you stay in Berlin, the more money it will cost you and you'll become even more emotionally unwell.
As soon as you get out of Berlin, you will start to feel your real self again. I went to the Swiss Alps on business for 4 weeks last year, and I was on the verge of crying at the thought of going back to Berlin. It never et's better here. You keep thinking to yourself, "it can't be the whole city, it must be me", or "If I stay here longer, I'll crack teh social code". We've all been through it.
If you are not a brainwashed left-wing, homosexual, sexist feminist, pseudo-anarchist student, you have no need to be here. In fact 85% of them will be gone when they finish their studies and find out what the real world is about. Then a new lot of fresh meat will take their place for the hardcore Berliners to corrupt with drugs, alcohol, hedonistic debauchery, homosexuality, anti-anti-anti anything you can think of, they'll suck the fresh meat into polygamy culture to screw them up even more. Plus a hundred other excapes from their sad and miserable lives.
I know you probably won't listen, but I'll say it anyway: BEREXIT. Leave. Just do it.
'If you are not a brainwashed left-wing, homosexual, sexist feminist, pseudo-anarchist student, you have no need to be here. In fact 85% of them will be gone when they finish their studies and find out what the real world is about. Then a new lot of fresh meat will take their place for the hardcore Berliners to corrupt with drugs, alcohol, hedonistic debauchery, homosexuality, anti-anti-anti anything you can think of, they'll suck the fresh meat into polygamy culture to screw them up even more. Plus a hundred other excapes from their sad and miserable lives. '
Yes, much of what passes for modern culture is in fact quite rotten. I'm hearing you loud and clear.
I'm turkish till 2017 I had never been to Berlin nor Germany. I came to Berlin and stayed for a year and let me tell you something guys turkish people in berlin are ignorant and rude af compared to turks in Turkey. They are stuck in 70s 80s with their meaningless nationalistic minds. There also many religious nutjobs i really think germany tried to pick worst Turks and took them all. For gods sake we have much less hijabis in İzmir( cool city in west of Turkey) than Berlin! . Happy that i left Berlin hope you can all get away from that idiot
I've heard this from other Turks. Thanks for the tip about Izmir. Muslims and these kind of Turks have no place in the West. If they think Islam is so great, they can stay away from Christian countries and live in Muslim countries and stop telling us that we need to be Muslims to be saved. Religion is another word for brainwashing.
I have now figured it out: avoid any restaurants in Berlin which are run by Germans! Every time I went into a restaurant and the waiter was German, whether with or without an 'migrant background' I got into an argument with them - over payment, rudeness, treatment of me as a customer, and so on. I NEVER had this issue in an Italian, Vietnamese, Spanish, or any other restaurant besides German! Do some research before you go out and don't give them your money!
As far as German customer service goes I've had good and very bad. I've had instances in which I was so disgusted with the rudeness and inefficiency that I just got up and left. On the other those who ran Vietnamese or Ethiopian restaurants were very welcoming.
There's a lot of things like laughing because the other one might think they lie because they laugh. Lots of such things here. Then losing the page.
One more petty annoyance that bothered me so much I refuse to go to bakeries here anymore. In the summer there are always flies and bees all over the place, crawling all over the food behind the glass. Where I'm from a food establishment would be shut down for a health violation if they had live insects walking on the food. And then the invariably indignant saleswomen often have the nerve to touch the food with their bare hands to put it in a paper bag. And to top it off they insist that you use the idiotic coin tray to pay for it. Nasty people here.
I'm not sure where you live but in my part of Berlin bakeries are heaven. Germans make amazing bread and cakes, and the bakeries I visit have no flies or bees and are incredibly clean. The shop assistants are always really kind and nice. They appreciate a few words of German and try to help when I struggle and switch to English. As a comparison, the cakes and bread are *miles ahead* of what I could find in the UK, or the USA, where bakeries are poop (GREGGS? Tesco Bread? Vomit inducing). Anglos can't bake for poop - cupcakes are the worst, most disgusting stuff in the history of mankind - just eat a spoonful of sugar, it's the same.
Sometimes I think everyone complaining here lives in some pooping expat bubble in some pooping corner of Berlin , surrounded by other pooping miserable expats like themselves. Get out more.
He's a delusional German as evidenced by the fact that he thinks German bread is good. In Germany bread is only good if you can't bite off a piece without shaking your head violently like a rabid dog. 90% of the bakeries in Berlin are massive chains that don't even do anything other than heat up frozen dough. And about sugar in cupcakes - what the hell were you expecting a CAKE to taste like?
I noticed something finally a few days ago. Was trying to enjoy a little walk through a park near my apartment and it hit me that the groups of people you see there on the weekends hanging out and having fun are always foreigners. You never hear Germans sitting around and chattering and enjoying themselves. It's always English or Spanish or Russian or Turkish. The Germans always lie around completely alone in baseball caps and sunglasses (especially men) or groups of 2 or max. 3. The only time I ever see Germans doing anything in larger groups they're doing some kind of weird sport. Germans seem extremely cliquish, probably because they spend 15 years going to school with the same exact classmates all day long. A German acquaintance even once told me about a kid who moved and joined his class in 4th grade and how that kid was never accepted into the group (even 8 years later). Just an observation.
You're right in that there are a lot of weird parks in Berlin where social outcasts hang out like Hasenheide and Gorlitzer. The one near my apartment isn't that bad and I've never seen a drug dealer there but way too many people smoking weed out in the open, way too many people openly pissing all over the place and a corner where a lot of gross gays congregate and have anonymous sex. Actually now that I think of it the park is completely messed up. I honestly can't believe that Berlin has messed up my judgement so much that I think that what I described above isn't that bad. Where I'm from even the park near the most squalid ghetto isn't that disgusting during the day.