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Honestly don't know what's worse: the overall social climate in the city or the expats who come here to hate on everyone who happens to be German. Some people deserve one another.
I think we can be honest with ourselves by stating that most Berliners lack social skills. I don't know if it's different elsewhere within Germany, but considering most of the Germans I've met in Berlin are not from Berlin, that quality is either extremely German or learned from being in this city. There's such little diversity among Germans that it's easy to lump them all in together. There are like three archetypes of people in Germany: paranoid, loner East German types; type A, mean German girls; arrogant Rothschild-esques; and drugged out zombies. All of them are unbearable. Are there a few exceptions to those caricatures? I guess, but they're difficult to find.
People are people. You can run into weirdos everywhere. A lot of pepole from Latin America say that they feel safe here at last and are grateful for that. Not saying that Bumlin is not a dump. Just don't fool yourself into thinking everywhere else is better.
Berlin has a great advertisement and people believe it. But the reality is elsewhere and what many will experience here is daunting! Let the Germans stop saying that Berlin is a great place! In the end it turns out so that you get mad a lot of people, just because Berlin is not a good place for young people! Berlin is a place for gangsters and drug dealers!
Paris sucks, too expensive and jobs that pay less than Berlin and gets really crappy outside the main area. More aggressive people on the street trying to force you to give them money and more pick pockets. London is too corporate and expensive, full of very serious yuppies and criminals as well, salaries aren't that much better. Amsterdam is too small for the amount of tourism it gets and it's become very expensive while the salaries haven't gone up. Barcelona gets too many tourists and the salaries are too low for the cost of living, they have a major issue with pick pockets. Madrid is similar but without the nice beach and gets too hot in the summer. Rome is even worse than Barcelona in terms of tourists and job market and salaries. Vienna has a lousy job market if you're not fluent in German and it's far from the top cities young people think is cool or fun to be in right now (maybe that's a good thing in a way, but still, if you're single, that matters). Honestly, Europe is kind of in a pooping state as a whole right now and there is no clear stand out best city (excluding those quality of life lists of cities).
Istanbul would be great if it had a fourth of the population it does, a decent job market and was more prosperous, and wasn't full of devout Muslims and Turkey was in the EU (definitely not in favor of them being in the EU as the country is right now though).
Creepy German hatred of men and families. Complete with public urination and masturbation.
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What a broken up country that is mainlining this kind of drivel.
I hate the whole wanna-be-cool-but-too-poor-and-never-left-Berlin-or-Brandenburg-so-got-some-tattoos-Hipster-Alternative-left-but-actually-right-Scene in Berlin.
I love the way this climate change skeptic, wipes the floor with the brainwashed lefties who are pushing their ideoligical propaganda. www.youtube.com/watch Lefties really are morons, exagerating to the point of being laughable.
One part of german / berlin culture is low emotianal ingeligence. Like, not being able to even identify own emotions let alone deal with them. Ok Hans you’re frustrated I get it. But you don’t get it.
The only emotions they know are, rudeness, anger and superiority, all masking the real feelings helplessness, hopelessness and inferiority, that tey have pushed down so deeply, they have forgotten they did so, and then they pass it on to their offpring, neighbours and customers. "Vee ver vonce der great NastyNaziNation".
This has a lot do with emotions. Because it's so collective in this forced way there is tons of repressed things and emotions are dealt with collectively. That's why games and rules.You cannot be connected to life and therefore spontaneously smile at someone when you are managing your feelings. They have mind bugs, constantly get entangled and communicating stuff noone should ever get.Actually suffering from that, because it‘s not their identity. I'm just saying. I hate it as every life loving human can only do. You need to feel yourself in order to feel things, they'd be normal in no time. They are full, or a sucker/dumpster. I know because I'm a musician. I always express things this way, maybe to cope but I also like it. You feel different then, very.People take on 2d stuff for life. They learn to cope such way. Initially all is normal when young. They don't have a chance to be human here, trust me they try but things are so collective, it's like constant match ups. But ok, it's also simply karma. There isno effort to be normal. Hard to tell if anyone's fault. There is so many misunderstandings of things, like illusions. People are mad to be not connecte to life. Atst they try to get agood position. There is so much nonsense here, they don't know how life works. But not seem to care. Just lost. Some conflicting thoughts, obv hard topic
It's because they have had no life experience, straight out of school from a small country town, now with no one to guide them exceot other lost sluls in a huge, anonymous city for away from their family and real friends. It's sad. If I were you, I'd YouTube some Jordan B Peterson, he really cares about people's lives, he's a very sincere person.
And I'm almost certain that the mind stuff is secondary to emotions. Atst they don't even know because constantly trading emotions, avoiding loser positions. Just really poor effort to stay true to oneself. Just that maybe I have easy talk because not everyone can sing such way. I mean what's the use, they are toxic. It seems impossible to reply good pure things. Sometimes it feels they unconsciously try to get saved, surely coming in with their traumas. And then they’d never get it. They don't know who they are because they don't feel themseles because they are connected collectively. In theory Germans are very good people. They somehow got one thing fundamentally wrong, that being extra effort for natural things. Being, they don't know what this means.
They don't know it's the other way. At the same time they couldn't handle it. So yeah long story Berlin sucks. Btw with pure good things I meant also anger or whatever it is you feel , no meta stuff. I mean I did this one time. And the person was very lost in a good way. I can tell you.. I was in the car with my brother and I felt great because I just was singing, feeling it all and I got good sense for getting myself and seeing ._wait. Often the problem is ridiculous situation but serious feels. Very rough combo.. Ok so I just feeling fine and I felt tense vibe and that's why I just loved to chat a lot. He hated it of course and he cursed at another driver but it was addressed at me.I felt about it and he did not get the hoped reaction because I had no bonds, I was singing, healing. It was a very above feel , deep life. I found it so low. He tried again, by fake apologizing. There was nothing to say. We naturally were on different pages. Then he was really confused, he felt really small. He believed that he was fake apologizing, but in reality he actually meant it. It's something you can't try of course, I had the same extra effort bug.Good intention though. And I'm not only, there is even singers struggleing with that. It's relievingly absurd thankfully.
I'm sorry I mentioned this fuc.king bug. It's just irritating. Life is life. I mean sometimes you can see it in football, people trying to copy paste tricks or singers too. Ah I know, bug implies fixing but it's not like that. That was the problem. Just gotto feel.
From this city it is better to run away as soon as possible!!! This is only possible in the capital of Germany!
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Well, he doesn't want to seem racist against Africans now, does he.
What type of scum would come to someone else's country and sell mind-destroying drugs to young people, and what type of people would stand idly by and let them do it. This place is so ffucked up it's beyond repair.
Raegen should have said "tear down that city Mr Gorbachev, tear down that city". Not just the wall.
People trying to be cool. You aren’t.
Are you one of those dickwads who are still on Farcebook, well you'd better read this and start shiittting your pants: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/08/mark-zuckerberg-has-to-go
Anyone who would trust someone who says "I can't believe those phucking idiots trust me with their information", well they deserve everything they get. Read and weep you phucking morons. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/08/mark-zuckerberg-has-to-go
Yesterday I was walking back to work after lunch. I work in one of the busiest parts of the city, so there were tons of people all over the place. Some German guy stood like 12 feet off from the tram station and pissed into some kind of planter thing, not even trying to hide behind bushes or trees or anything, facing right into big groups of people. Don't understand how people can have such little respect for themselves and others.
Just fyi, there are enough Germans here who don't like this city and the mentality. And they don't have nice, sunny home countries to go back to.
Depends on where you go. The South is doing OK for the most part. The closer you get to the border, the better things get economically. Whether the culture is your cup of tea is another story, though the people are somewhat more relaxed and gemutlich than in the North.
"Honestly don't understand why Germans choose to stay in Germany. " Switzerland is waaay too expensive and anal, like the worst German traits x 1000. Austria has been struggling economically and with their job market for awhile now and continues to decline on country rankings. Vienna is just a well designed city and is still affordable but the job market there is pretty weak. Some other German cities are doing fine, they're just not really appealing in an international way and have higher living costs.
The problem of the Germans is that they are idealists! They are convinced that the world will work according to their style, and in this way! Germans are just like aliens. Everything that is normal anywhere else in Germany is not. If you come to the Pub in Berlin and there's only one person at each table, this guy will tell you, he's got no free space and he drinks his beer and then he leaves. At that moment, I want to go to him and punch him in the face! But this is a German mentality and everything in Germany works like this. I've been in Berlin for 4 years and I also feel very tired. Most of the Germans have been doing me pretty badly here!!! The majority of Germans only accept their mentality and think that this is how it works worldwide. In autumn I go back home to Portugal and I will behave German tourists exactly as they behaved me in their country! The worst are Eastern Germans!
They all deserve a good unch in the face, to wake them uo from their socialist dream stupor. This is capitlaism, you know the system that people all over the world are risking their lives to come into. Fhuck socialists and cummunists and all the bulllshit analchists and all the lefties and the feminist scum, so glad I left that shitehole. Berlin is for ;osers and scumbags. And ti thunk I c=actually spent a few years thunking, "it must be me, itcouldn't possibly be the whole city". I am almost back to normal 3 months after leaving that sewage pit. Feeling more, positive, friendly, optimistic and balanced again.
You know what's really funny? A lot of expats like it here. They have good jobs (sent over from the US or wherever by their companies), live in nice apartments in more or less decent areas and thoroughly enjoy the experience. Makes those who suffer look a bit weird. Some people are probably just lucky here.
yes, and they stick to their sanitized areas and never leave them, because they can afford to isolate themselves from the scum of the earth. No multi-kulti for them, they live in 100% western christian based white neighbourhoods, they don't have to buy their drugs in street corners from Africans, they have their own Uber service of home delivery. These are te tpe of people who go to Rome and have coffee at Starbucks.
OMG - the Zombie stare!!! What's up with these people???? All you get is the zombie stare when you encounter people!! No smiles, just weird stares... Never would have guessed that Zombie apocalypse is happening in Berlin...but yeah it is! Get out! Don't become a zombie like everyone else.... I'm leaving in 2 months!! Can't take it anymore!!!
Went into a music equipment store in Poland oday and the guy soent 25 minutes trying to work out why my mic wasn't working, his solution saved me oer €100 and wouldn't accept a tip,
In Berlin the answer would have been a curt "I don't know". S glad to be out of that feminist, pseudo anarchistinvested rathole. Good luck to all who enter, you will need it.
Don't lose hope, life after Berlin exists. Literally within minutes of leaving Berlin (and Germany for that matter) you start talking to nice people, see beauty, make friends and live like a human. Try it you'll never look back.
Read somewhere on here before that Berlin has a negative energy about it and even though I don't believe in new age stuff like that I definitely feel it. It lifts a little in the summer when you can get a little sun exposure but I don't think it's purely chemical because other Northern Europeans aren't quite this messed up. Maybe it's the perfect storm of poor living conditions, forced collectivism, abdication of personal responsibility and the manifestation of German patriotism in weird, indirect ways. Maybe it's just a population with incredibly high percentages of mental illness and personality disorders and poor access to mental healthcare. Maybe it's drinking water contaminated with lead from old infrastructure and full of hormones from 50 years of most German women taking oral contraceptives. Either way, there's definitely something wrong with the majority of people you meet here and random encounters are guaranteed to be negative in Berlin. In Berlin you have a one-in-a-million chance of running into someone who still has a spark in their eyes. It's simply not like that elsewhere.