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Hi everyone,
I'm a 36 year old Aussie guy who has been living in Germany for the past five months and I'm currently based in Leipzig, Saxony. This is my second time in Germany, my first being a three week holiday in 2015 (which I actually quite enjoyed). Let's just say that my second time here hasn't been quite as enjoyable. It has been very difficult and frustrating at times and I feel like I live in a social graveyard. It's gotten to the point where I don't want to leave my room and am scared to speak the language. This is despite the fact that I practice it daily and know enough to be able to have a short conversation. This is on top of all the bureaucratic nonsense and the sheer expense of trying to get settled in a new country. I haven't spent a great deal of time in Berlin itself, but I can totally understand why so many foreigners have such a tough time in Germany. Before I came here I was a happy-go-lucky sort of a guy with an open mind about things. But I feel that my time here so far has changed me, and not for the better. I suppose not all change is good lol. I wanted to give this place time and to see if things work out but I'm seriously considering packing my stuff and going somewhere else (Poland, Czech Rep, Russia and France are possibilities.
Josh
(In addition to this, I cannot stand the politics in this place)
I am from Sweden and after a couple of years in Berlin I moved to Prague. I can recommend this city to everyone. Many English-speaking people live in Prague. There's a lot of Americans here. I don't have to worry about my life here and no one is attacking me without reason. My life in Berlin was about constant fear! I'm so glad I'm in Prague.
The most terrible thing I am experiencing in Berlin every day is loner. It's like poison. I hate it here. I'm going away soon. Berlin is a terrible and very bad city.
People don't know how to say you are welcome. When they work a job at a counter, they can't act as if it was their money by saying thank you. While you are saying thank you for their service respectfully but they deny it because to them it appears low apparantly. And it makes sense to say an ironic you are welcome to their thank you. It's so dumb.
Berlin is a city that has the most dog poop on the sidewalk in the EU!
Who’s lived in Scotland?
I have. It's great and I miss it a lot. But careful: it's not for everyone. The weather sucks. It's basically Mordor for 300 days/year. Occasional sunny days all year round. Summer is two weeks of 20-25 degrees. If you can cope with this, it's great: lovely people, music, nature. Loved it.
Berlin is a totally waste of time and Money,do not recommend this place to anyone.
If you are an English speaker, you will love Liverpool, the best sense of humour of all Brits, and very helpful and friendly. If you are European, stay away, please don't phuck this place up like you have all the European countries with your Left-wing PC insanity. Keep Liverpool multi-kulti-free
Whenever you see Germans laughing and in a group. You can be sure they are talking poop or talking behind someone back. That’s the German way of having fun.
I am from Sweden and after four years in Berlin I moved to Prague. Someone might wonder but this was a great choice. Great location for me and my wife! Prague is a clean and safe city, people here understand English and the job I found here almost immediately. I love it here!
Swede: Here on this portal I found a lot of useful ..
portal.mpsv.cz/eures
Swede: Sweden is good only if you don't live in the city. Berlin was also a mistake. Prague is fantastic! My wife can finally walk out alone and I'm not worried that someone will hurt her. Within two months we met a lot of people in Prague. In Berlin, we only experienced terrible things with locals. I never want to go to Berlin again!
Tegel and Schönefeld airports can go to hell. I as well as millions of tourists, business people etc. don't give a flying fornicate about your "emotional connection" to your trashy little airports. Your dysfunctionality is not a character trait; give it up and join the freaking 21st century. Why are you trying to "build" another pooping airport when you should be renovating the two existing ones up to international standards??
Ha ha, build Shitfeld Airport to I'nat standards, that would be like turning a turd into a diamond, not much chance. Shitfeld must be the worst airport in the world, especially if you use easyjet and the labrynth of stairways to finally get to your plane.
Also, why the hell haven't they put in a moving pathway from the S-Bahn and the airport, it would cost about 10 cents per customer, they could even charge €1 to use it, it would make a fortune. Studid DDR relics.
Also an Express Train from Treptower or Ostkreuz. Typical of Berlin to get it all wrong. A city of obnoxious morons.
People are so poop unfriendly and for no logical reason. No lady, I don't need to move 30 feet away so you can put in your little pin number into the card reading machine; I don't have your card or card number anyway so what use would a pin be to me, assuming I could see it in the first place.
You are right. There is no logical reason. That's often a big part of why something is affecting one. You trying to figure it out and the sucker just was going for an emotional button. You cannot think about this stuff too much. There is simple feelings for that.
"Rauchfreier Bahnhof" is as big of a joke as BER--have you seen all the cigarette butts littered on the tracks? Not to mention the current shut down of S45, 46, 8, 85, 9. I have to transfer 5 times to get anywhere, and it takes at least an extra 15 min. Don't even get me started on the freaking "Ersatzverkehr" busses...hot, overcrowded, late, no AC.
Won a game of Berlin Bingo this week. Saw at least one slob pissing in public every day. Yesterday some savage peeing on the side of C and A at Alexanderplatz at like 4 pm in the afternoon. Why is Berlin so trashy?
The only city with more human than dog shiit on the street. A friend said he saw a bloke mass-debating in the Tierpark. I suppose if you have a million 'refugees' from third world countries swarming in every year, you have to expect this to be the result.
They are working towards their first public stoning of a woman in 2022. FGM clinics in every city and of course arranged marriage centres. In 2024, they want to have weekly executions of homosexuals, to be thrown of the roofs of buildings. By 2015, they are planning to force the government to allow them to have camel brothels. By 2016, they want to have a law passed that requires all infidels to wear hijabs, burkhas and tea towells on their heads. Next year is the first public slaying of a goat, you know, because some guy in outer space wants it that way.
We in the west have a lot to learn from these people, apparently, or so the spin goes.
Isn't Multii-Kulti just wonderful, doesn't even the term make you feel all warm and gooey inside.
Oh, be quiet!! Where are you from? Unless you are German than you are part of multi-multi too. Or if you are white than you must think you are exempt? Shut up! All the poop white-Europeans have done and are still doing you be quiet. You don’t have the moral right to talk poop about other cultures. Dumb butt motherfucker!!
I'm not taking about race you moronic phucking Lefty sheep, bleating your virtue signalling propaganda, I'm takimng about Kultures, and in multi KULTI, get it noiw your oea-brain ccunt. The next time I see one of you cowardly AntiFa fascist ffuckwits, I'm going to bash their brainless head to a pulp. Your days are numbered dip-shitt.
I hate Berliners and people who are from Germany in general,they are filthy whoresons and whoredaughters.
A lot of ppl post that they actually moved out from the city to “somewhere else” and are now living a happy life. you know the funny thing is: they NEVER say WHERE they went to. as if they had justified fear that all berliners will follow them :D Or at least all Berlin Haters :D
It's been 2 years since moving out of Berlin. It's great. I got a great job, a huge pay increase, much better health care, my coworkers respect me, and people in the street or in the stores are respectful, sincere, and they smile.
I look back at my 2 years in Berlin and I'm in awe that I didn't go crazy, that my wife didn't go crazy, and that we somehow survived. Looking at some photos from then, I can't believe how pale, thin, and depressed we looked.
The crazy thing is, when I tell anyone about these 2 years, no one believes me! Stuff like people bumping into you, passive aggressive neighbors, freaky bureaucrats, piss EVERYWHERE, the blatant racism, everything falling apart - no, they're like "oh, it's such a nice city, I spent a week there in the summer". FFS, they've never gone through a winter, they never had to get a job there, never had to deal with various -amts.
When I'm having a particularly bad day, I think about places like Karl Marx Allee, Friedrischein, Marzahn, Prenzlauerberg, all in the winter, and realize how effing lucky I am to be alive and out of there.
To all the poor souls still stuck in Berlin - there is another life! Another world! Gather resources, make connections, and get the fornicate out as soon as you can and go back to enjoying life.
Tourists and short-term visitors misinterpret a lot of the negatives of Berlin as positives. They look at the green patches scattered across the city and think to themselves that easy access to nature, however minuscule it may be, is great. They don't for a second consider that German parks are basically just public toilets and marketplaces for those in search of drugs or gay sex. They look at women here in dresses and skirts in the summer and think to themselves that German women really must be classy but will never interact with the locals long enough to have one confide that, deep down, they only wear that garb so they can urinate in public more easily. They'll comment on how reliable and cheap the public transport here is but won't notice that car ownership is a pipe dream for most here and that Berlin transit is full of junkies, aggressive teenagers and exhibitionists.