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The day I leave Berlin:
www.youtube.com/watch
The rent protests show what entitled deluded crusty poopheads consider themselves to be 'real Berliners'. Honestly, I'm just laughing at them, because gentrification is happening (thank god!) and these losers can sod off elsewhere and let everywhere in Berlin become nice like Mitte/Steglitz/other German cities. Praise be to the tech companies and startups for raising the standards here. I don't care if the bitter jealous locals (who are stuck in an alternate universe where they think they should be able to live in a 120 sqm apartment for €450 a month in a nice part of town) are having their bubbles burst and being evicted. They do not add charm to the city like they do self importantly think. The city will be better when they're driven out. I'm happy not to mix with them and to just watch on the sidelines with my popcorn as their time runs out.
Wages don't raise enough to keep up with the rent.
You are stupid for wishing gentrification because real estate market will end up like in San Francisco, NYC and London.
I don't want to pay over 1000 euros for a 50-60 sq meter apartment just to live semi central.
Unless ypu earn at least 60k euros, you should not be happy about raising rents.
The rent protests show what entitled deluded crusty shitheads consider themselves to be 'real Berliners'. Honestly, I'm just laughing at them, because gentrification is happening (thank god!) and these losers can fornicate off elsewhere and let everywhere in Berlin become nice like Mitte/Steglitz/other German cities. Praise be to the tech companies and startups for raising the standards here. I don't care if the bitter-ass jealous locals (who are stuck in an alternate universe where they think they should be able to live in a 120 sqm apartment for €450 a month in a nice part of town) are having their bubbles burst and being evicted. They do not add charm to the city like they so self importantly think. The city will be better when they're driven out. I'm happy not to mix with them and to just watch on the sidelines with my popcorn as their time runs out.
What the heck?
I just heard a German explaining that he wants to forcefully reconquest the territories of what is western poland now. Don't you dare, Goring junior!
And the German women look frightening to me - they have a woeful clothing style.
Does anybody know why else the Arabs and Turks have a grudge against them?
Oh, and another advice: Do not come any closer than one arm length to ANY man in this country! They will either yell at you to mind your step or they will look at you like you were a piece of s**t.
Sincerely,
A regular dutch woman.
It’s basically the capital of techno music. No further comment.
No wonder Hitler originated from this country. Such a sociopath couldn't come from another society.
There was the Austria-Hungarian empire, then there were the German principalities. It is not the same people or the same history. Austrians and Germans are not the same. Austrians speak Österreiche Deutsch. Your analogy is like saying that the Swiss Germans and the Germans in Germany are the same. They all have very different histories. History did not start and end with World War 2
+1 to above. All German speaking area community is more or less the same. Cold, arrogant, thinks (s)he knows everything better than everyone....Swiss, Austrian, German people are more or less the same poooopy, except living economical standard and life quality is lower in Germany.
OK, this is odd, maybe because I posted two links in the one comment, I'll break them up and see what happens. I saw these on Breit-bart www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/middle_east/is-there-really-more-oil-in-the-golan-heights-than-is-saudi-arabia/
OK, now they appear, that must have been the reason www.trunews.com/article/genie-oil-the-syria-goldman-sachs-israel-isis-connection
As I was peacefully walking home at a corner I stumbled across a group of 4 elegant German ladies. They all had a beer in their hand , thrift shop attire and 2 of them just finished pissing in the bushes next to the side walk. Aren’t they to be loved?
At least they are not taking a pee with currywurst on U-Bahn, like this guy: www.youtube.com/watch
I hate this city of ugly losers.
How can you be in your 30s and still enrolled in Uni? Are you a slow learner or you’re just running away from the responsibility of having a job as long as you can? Other countries even cut the student benefits after you’re 26 and darn right is right. You should be able to live like a darn adult after a certain age. Besides that, this degrees are fancy toilet paper. Unless you’re doing med school or some technical stuff, shove your art, marketing or communication degree up your ass! No one cares about it. When you’ll graduate you’ll be a 42 years old intern in a dying startup eating canned soup and living in a WG? Also, who lives in a WG after they’re 30?? Only fuckups again.
I cannot seem to understand this bunch of people with no self-respect, ambition or will to live nicely. Losers! Both the ones from here or the ones that come here for this purpose. I am never going to take serious an traditional art student after 23. If you’re talented by nature, you just are... You don’t need 183846 masters and a phD to validate that. If you do, it means your talent is poop anyway!
No, you’re not. You can make a decent living anywhere in the world as long as you’re not a leech. One thing is right although, due to many rotten people with pooping attitudes an acceptable norm was created to be a loser. Amd then ofcourse, it’s super hard for someone with greater ambition to make something out of this nothingness around, but still... You can make it! Trust me
When your job gets lost to automation than you will be forced to understand why people go back to school in their 30s and 40s.
Millions of truck and taxi drivers are faced with unemployment due to driverless cars.
Who are you to judge others who want to get an education in the arts?
It is non of your business.
I understand the complaint though. There are tens of thousands of people OP describes in this city. Little Germans who lost a year in high school because they did an exchange year in America (financed by their parents and/or the government), finished their Abitur at 21 or 22 and then are finishing an 8-semester Diplomstudiengang not in four years but in 10. When you talk to them they are always just finishing their Thesis. Maybe they dropped out of another degree program before that. Maybe they also did the voluntary social year. And tried a few internships. That puts them in their early 30's before they ever actually work a real job. Say what you want about expensive college in the United States but when people there graduate it is at least a sign that they are tenacious as they will usually have to work hard to afford that life. Here it is thrown at your feet by the government and used as a means to just have a relatively relaxing life for a few years. But on the other hand, you really can't blame people who do that. A few pages back someone posted median salaries for jobs in Berlin and they are a joke. Work part-time as a student, get some kind of government assistance and you're earning almost as much as people working 40+ hours a week. Sure, there are jobs in this city that pay decent salaries, but the majority of jobs do not and the barriers to entry are high. The socialists worked hard to make it darn near impossible to fire people for incompetence so there are only three ways to enter any given German company: through a temp agency, through an internship (or traineeship which, in Berlin, are paid just as poorly as internships) or through a student job. There's a disease of mistrust among Berlin companies and you've lost already if your last name isn't Schmidt or Meier. And it's interesting to observe that, despite having very low unemployment numbers (for Germany), wages aren't increasing much at all. Maybe this country is a welfare state, but it flows almost exclusively to corporations. These little Germans who have 30 years of education are still working 24k euro jobs, have no assets or savings. The Berlin job scene is a joke anyway. Nothing interesting going on here.
So I honestly understand why many people logically postpone real adult life here as long as possible.
School education is anyway some sort of.. nothing. If you’re passionate about something you pursue it. If you want to learn business, you join a company. If you’re a talented person, then you just are. What happens in theory almost never happens in practice, except we talk exact sciences. These people are just wasting on life and deserve some moral slaps and hard cold „judgment“, they don’t seem to get enough anyway.
I came here one year ago for a job in a pooping startup. I was low paid, only option for living was a WG because I couldn’t afford more and people were actually OK with that on the surface, but as frustrated or even more than I was deep down. Not to say that this suppression they tried made them bitter humans in general.
I just cried in sublet bathrooms almost every night until I picked myself up and said NO!
I started setting objectives and applying for jobs while being a lot more careful on how the company presented itself.
I don’t speak German, I finished a regulat Uni at a reasonable age, worked full time jobs since 20(sometimes shittier, cooler other times) and now I am under 30, living in my own 2room flat alone, earning almost double than a lot of Fritzs and Claudias. And I am not a genius, no an expert, not a revelation to this world... I am a boring, regular person.
I guess I just had a better attitude towards what I want and how I want my life to be. Sometimes you make your luck yourself, my friend.
"If you want to learn business, you join a company."
Yeah, in theory I would agree. And probably in many parts of the world that is possible. But try landing a job at a company in Berlin without a university degree. There are so many unemployed PhDs here you have absolutely no chance at all.
A degree in indeed opening opportunities, it’s a by default requirement, but doesn’t necessarily add points to your abilities. The problem with the phD unemployed most of time is because they have unrealistic expectations to begin with because they have a phD, or when they land a job to cement their professional experience they are resistant to almost all tasks because “I didn’t got a phD to do this.” You must be willing to climb the ladder as well... and if your phD is in history or literature, then what? You’ll probably be an awesome person to talk too about those topics, but not very successful finding jobs where you can apply that awesome knowledge.
The devil is in the details.
Yeah, your opinion is probably shared by most hiring managers in Germany which leaves the question: Why is a degree a requirement? Why require young people to waste 4-6 years of their lives if you feel that education "add points to your abilities"? If every job is so unique it requires skills you cannot learn at university then what is the point of studying at all? It is a schizophrenic stance that seems to have permeated German society. At least in other countries businesses will correctly assume a college graduate is capable of doing a job without completing a six-month first.
I said a degree, not education. Two completely different things. A college graduate does not simply do a job better than someone else just because went to college and got a paper who said he can do the job better. There are more variables to this than just that. Degrees are milestones in this society that give or close access. If you don’t have one, you get certain jobs, if you do, other jobs. It classifies a bit, but nowadays is so so easy to get a degree that it’s become irrelevant at some point ( no disrespect here for engineers and medical people, that’s a different thing as I said). I have a degree as well and an MA and i don’t think they make a difference. All I learned in my professional career was on the job. I still yet to apply any wisdom from the books, if ever...
That’s the issue: People that think a degree will secure them a job because of having degrees, will hit a bitter wall. Attitude and drive is more important.
Actually in Germany a degree is everything and for a uni degree you need at least a masters to be competitive on the job market. For the non-uni Hochschule cerificate you need this. You will never find a job at a known German company or Mittelstand without one. You need a meister degree to open a bakery or a hair salon. It is only in the US where losers without degrees can some how make 6 figures. That is due to nepotism and croynism.
Why are German men such pussies? Emasculated, weak feminist cuckolds, either skinny or with a huge beer belly, smelly cowards. What a disgrace of the mankind? They let themselves be humiliated by Middle-Eastern scum and even defend them! Are they out of their minds? What did just happened to them? WWII isn't an excuse.
www.thelocal.de/20180412/10-ways-to-pass-yourself-off-as-a-true-berliner
A lot of our complaints phrased positively. Eurgh
Ignoring the frequent grammatical errors (the author actually doesn't know the difference between "there" and "their"), the extremely strange interpretation of pretty straightforward facts (the author considers the thrift store "Humana" to be a "Berlin label"), the piece is just a case study on the cognitive dissonance that plagues most expats. Of course rudeness is politeness because encountering this many savages on a daily basis would mean that there is definitely something wrong with this city on a fundamental level. Let us also pretend that phosphate-rich street food is a delicacy, and that there are various degrees of quality to a freaking cheap pork sausage covered with ketchup. And the cherry on the top is obviously the libertarian dream of uninhibited beer consumption. Nothing spells out personal freedom like straphanging it in a hot, overcrowded Berlin tram and and chugging a Sterni while your sweat covers the entire car in the stench of a million hobos. And when you're done - if you can spare the 8 cent deposite - your bottle can double as a makeshift club/knife combo to attack innocent bystanders. What a great city. Let's all pat ourselves on the back for living in such a squalid hole.
I don't know any Germans after 11 years in Berlin. Not because I do not want to, but rather because they ..
Can we talk about the water in Berlin for once? It's simply terrible.
For one, it is chock full of mineral deposits. Barely a week goes by that I don't have to descale my coffee maker because the heating elements are completely covered in disgusting gunk. Offices across Berlin deal with this problem constantly, which is why their coffee makers and kettles are out of service every second day.
And it's not only bad for your electronics, it's also hell on your skin and hair. Take a short vacation to Italy or Spain or anywhere other than here and enjoy a shower where you can actually wash the soap suds from your body and hair. Nowhere else in the world have I dealt with dandruff, but the sub-par water here makes it nearly impossible to avoid. It almost makes you understand the German aversion to bathing. And you might as well get used to water stains on every surface in your bathroom for the rest of eternity.
Also just completely forget about ever getting your clothes clean if you're washing with German water. A "high efficiency" German machine and trash water means you'll have to run at least two cycles to get the detergent out. There are industry-grade water softeners and filtration systems that could prevent this problem, but we know these luddites would rather just maintain the status quo than actually do anything. I mean, when's the last time you saw a German air conditioner or any other technology that makes life easier here?
Then there's the smell. Leave even a minuscule amount of Berlin water standing and within an hour it smells foul. Like rotten eggs and dead fish. And we're expected to drink this bacteria soup? If Germans had any understanding of hygiene standards it might be preventable, but enjoy weekly bouts of diarrhea if you drink this mess. And that's if you can even stomach the taste of pure vinegar. I wouldn't even give a potted plant this toxic waste.
Then there's the poor infrastructure. Until just 4 years ago many of the pipes leading from the water mains to apartments and homes were still made of lead. Perfectly legal mass poisoning. Certainly explains why most east Berliners act the way they do. And there have been plenty of scandals in the past few months/years regarding carcinogens and chemicals in the water, like glyphosat, nitrate, etc.
And then there's the price. Not only is the quality terrible, but the German water providers were convicted of price gouging so we're overpaying for the pleasure of contaminated water.
And you cannot even avoid the problem of the water by buying it bottled. It is also routinely found to have large amounts of the same chemicals that are found in tap water.
In summary, Berlin water is terrible and likely dangerous and we are overpaying for it.
Public affection season begins, I want to vomit. Totally unattractive, unfeminine German women lick and vantouse men they are able to build a relationship somehow. Disgusting.
Yeah, these Stefans and Claudias are born without the modesty gene, which results in stuff like this:
www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/neukoelln/paerchen-rammelt-in-der-hasenheide-wie-die-karnickel
For all the complaints about Africans in Berlin, as evidenced in the video they were the only people man enough to confront these degenerates. This city is beyond repair.
Germans are those people that complain about everything, but offer no solutions. They think they can never be wrong. Can't wait for all these feminists to see where they are around 45 years old with a miserable life and no husband hahahahah