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In the UK at the moment, and it just feels so much more alive here. I must have had at least 40 "microinteractions" with strangers today, ranging from mutually apologising for bumping into one another to a quick chat at a checkout. All were positive, none were agressive, and it's just nice to interact with other humans as you go about your day. Berlin is so miserable!
It's because people are not in the natural flow of life and always think they gotto do something special. They don't know how to do it. They think it's gotto be done controlling and with big effort. You gotto feel free to just be, but here it is more that people have the eye on themselves and don't realize the absurdity of it since it makes it technically not possible. People just say things, empty words plus the energy of trying and staring..it doesn't stimulate. breaks the flow. I remember this one interaction at the checkout where the woman working there said , wait here is the dialogue
Good evening (looks other way, starts interacting with somebody in the queue)
no reply
Did I say Good evening?
Yeah, but the other way
It's bad isn't it (some kinda irony from hell)
Well, it's technically not possible :)
*peaceful confusion*
I didn't feel good about replying to her though in the first place. She pretty much ignored me passive-aggressively, so if I had been in my right mind I had probably replied either nothing cause she just ignored me or something like a detached You did. That being said as it went it was still interesting and it's not like a braggy win smile, but something serious and a bit of relief I felt.
I am exhausted. Every day I go home-work and nothing else. At my job I have a clear “inferior” label for being non-German. At first I got super anxious about it, but slowly I got numb and accepted my faith. I am not social anymore because it’s so painful and fake and fornicate ups my mind when I even try. At time it makes me feel the issue and it seems I need to measure everything I say, do around everyone because no one is genuinely open and no matter how friendly, nice or open I try to be when meeting new people, there’s always a cringing feeling of being weird or dumb because of it. I was a lively person, not with a majestic self confidence but quite comfortable with myself. Since I came to Berlin I only grow my insecurities and depression. I am just hiding at home in my spare time and think on how to avoid any (little) social interaction I get invited to. I feel like those invites are painfully extended to me anyway. I don’t want to be friends with anyone anymore or going out with my coworkers after hours. I am tired of trying.
And I look ugly as fuck. I am a woman and I used to care for the way I dress, the way I look when I go outside, putting a bit of makeup and perfume... being feminine. Now I am a pile of poop with bad pale skin, dark circles around my eyes and permanent dropped down corners of my lips. And I dress in baggy, faded colours... I am turning into some gloomy ghost
I have the exact same feeling, i wrote a post below, im leaving in 5 months from this hell...and i can feel you, i used to dress very feminine and now i have ranger boots that i don"t care about, because they gonna get destroy by drunk berliners, and a depressing "berliner" uniform... even yesterday i received a beautiful feminine top (black sheer with velvet flowers) as i was trying to convice myself i could wear it here, i showed it to one of my coworker friend, which is an expat, but a real berliner now, and she laughed at me saying" hahahaha where you gonna wear that! it's underground here!! with evil laughts"... that sums up everything...
If you want we can have a drink, to try to not turn into one of those berliners!! let me know! :)
Vienna and Munich have expulsed the chinese rental bike crap. Obike detracts their bikes because of vandalism. In Berlin the citicens are so familiar with crap and ugliness, that these rental bikes don't gain attention and aren't subject of vandalism.
Pretty classic German behavior:
1. Have two decades of wage stagnation
2. Steadily increase actual cost of ownership for automobiles while road quality deteriorates
3. Steadily increase cost of mass transit while offering lower standards of quality
4. When a foreign investor with deep pockets offers a tried-and-true solution to a problem:
a. Wait for the locals to autistically screech (kick the wheels until they are broken, throw the bikes into the river, set them on fire, slash the tires, piss and poop on them, etc.)
b. simply outright ban them rather than punishing the culprits
Meanwhile, new bikes in Germans are somehow always upwards of 200€ for poop products. Elsewhere in the world you can get a bike good enough for a 30 minute ride everyday for like $80. In general, asset prices in Germany and especially Berlin are too high across the board. fornicate this country and fornicate this city of cucks.
After almost two years here, it's time to leave. I still have 5 months to go before leaving this city. Last year some of my expats friends decided to quit after few months, i stayed, i wanted to give a chance to this city and the berliners. How wrong i was.
i was also blinded for the love i have for a german guy, now that it ended, it's like all of the bad aspects of this city came back like a boomerang to slap me hard in the face. I had the same phase like 'is it me? or is it the city?"
I lost my appetite, my joy of life, the will of going out to meet people, and it's not like i didnt tried i've met a bunch of germans, trying to integrate myself, what a jokes, they are all gone, they stay between themselves, they don't give a shit, even if you try.
Im so tired of these grumpy faces all day long, this arrogant-berliner behavior, stupid berliner schnauze, these drugged and lost people, depressed and dumb, thinking they are the best in the world, this numbing"party-hardcore" style full of emptiness, the lack of creativity and art in the city, this f*cking weather which drive me insane, this loosers mentality with no ambitions than living on hartz 4... This pooping feminism where all women looks like f*ucking "genderfluid"-pan-sexual-whatever" thing, everyone looks the same in the street, with their dumb ring in the lips and nose trying to be "so edgy", wtf...
I miss joy, i miss life, i miss people full of life! smiling, sharing, friendly and warm people, dressing up,i feel it's sucking out the life out of me, i can't wait to get away from here omg
Summer in Berlin = rain every second day followed by the smell of warm urine and dog poop in the streets. What is good about a Berlin summer? Baking in your apartment and at your workplace because of the squalid state of this city and "eco-friendliness" (read cheapskatedness)? Encountering even more rovibg groups of German youths looking the start a drunken fight so they can run away? People dound heroin in the train stations, where they actually live? Bicyclists terrorizing the city with their reckless behavior? Open air evens where everyone is hopped up on mdma and speed? Having a picnic in a piss-soaked German park five feet from an exhibitionist jacking off into a Tempo?
Berlin sucks butt in summer and in winter.
Obviously you didn't fully comprehend her concerns, she tried to connect, but realized it was a useless objective, and I know many other people who say the same. But that's OK, we'll leave all you Berliners to your own pathetic Schnauze "Kultur", and see how you get on bleeding the rest of Germany dry when you don't have ex-pats paying your wages, well the few that actually work that is, most are on Hartz 4. The rest of Germany will crack down on you very hard, maybe even crack a few of your anarchist skulls open to knock some sense into your Peter Pan heads.
She won't be crying in 5 months time, she'll be jumping with glee and you will still be stuck here in this cesspit, joke of a "city".
Yes it's my fault when i moved to this city, but is it a bad thing to still have faith in humanity? I'm from Paris, i went more than 10 times to Berlin before moving there, and when i moved here, at first i found the most amazing wg, with the coolest and sweetest girl ever (which is a true german and berliner) and an amazing job one week after arriving.i believed the polished and "positive-cool" image the world had from this city, but it took me few weeks/months when i moved here, to realise it was all lies and a huge jokes. I stayed that long because i wanted to believe in this city, to believe in people, but i hurted myself to a wall each times, to finally give up. I came here, because for me Paris was worse. (now it's actually not, now that im living in berlin, but well, i had to compare it to this sh*thole to realise Paris is not that bad after all)
Anyways, i won't see these two years as lost, or regreting moving here, it was a decision, i made an experience, never again, but even with the fact that i hate this city so much and the Berliners, i learned a lot from this experience, so it's not lost. I know it's almost over for me, and that i will recover soon as i leave from the depression and axiety this city gave me. And from now i will try to warn every person who wants to live there, unless they are depressed, lost souls, dumb leftists, drugged, techno-alcoholic, pooping party goers, clones from the bad 80-90s era, garbage look people, no ambitions people, well LOOSERS.
The most annoying expats are the ones from third world countries like Russia, Czech Republic and anywhere in Africa because they actually think this place is decent and talk about how great it is all the time. People from first world countries like US, Japan, France and UK recognize that Berlin sucks so much. At any rate, all of those groups of expats are less annoying than a Berliner.
Yes i'm french, and yes i most of the time avoid french people in berlin, because yes i agree a lot of them are aweful, and even more arrogant and stupid than when they are in france....That's why i escaped france and paris, to escape snobbish and arrogant french/parisians people... So no i don't put myself into the category "worse expats of berlin"
Hey arrogant parisian girl,
The depressed and lost souls do not want Berlin. You are so perfect to hate on people with mental conditions.
It's clueless, instagram loving, fashion blogs fan and arrogant expats like you who fall in love with Berlin.
I had a deep depression in this miserable city and I still maintained higher living standards and humanity than miserable berliners.
I wish the world did not have arrogant fake expats like you and miserable cities like berlin.
Hey arrogant whateverthef*ck you are
You don't know me, i don't know you, i don't know your life, and you don't know mine, so better keep your useless and empty of any concrete arguments comments on some other websites
i never felt in love with Berlin, i just wanted to escape Paris, i just ended up doing a bad choice regarding the city.
And good for your if you can still see rainbows and unicorns while living in berlin, for my part, i juste decided to go away to exactly keep rainbows and unicorns in my mental health before turning like the people living here. I know what it is to have depression, and in no way im turning down people who have mental conditions. i had it too. i just got my poop together.
ps: i hate instagram, i don't have facebook, i hate fashion blogs, coming from Paris doesn't me we are all a cover of Vogue magazine moron.
Next.
1 Döner please (didn't hear it, somebody spoke)
?? look
*energetically* 1 Döner!
with pleasure (tried fake friendlyness to contrast it as over the top, didn't expect)
*listens to music*
.... ....
huh? *plugs out one earphone*
*&!%& * (cause now he gotto repeat) with cheese?
No, no cheese
colleague then: sause please
Kräuter
salad please
all
???
All!
to go?
Yes, and a bag please
*finishes salad*
to go?
you just asked me this, yes to go
*confused, no reaction* bag?
and a bag
We have customer card, would you like?
No! ...You have another question?
Excuse me?
*repeats same* You have another question?
*pauses brainfarts* ..No
Good! Bye then *leaves*
the masters at passive aggressively talking at you
Germans are the most Disgusting People on Earth.They are deformed and Act like Dogs.Their Women are Filthy and Whores and the Men are Bastards.
Whatever happened to the plans to have a berlinhater meetup somewhere?
Don't think for a minute that the scummy Rigaer Straße Leftists are harmless. Barely a week goes by that they aren't burning cars, beating up innocent bystanders and cowardly attacking the police.
www.berlin.de/polizei/polizeimeldungen/pressemitteilung.688568.php
And when will the civil war begin in Berlin?
- If start-ups and internet industry continue bringing well paid employees to Berlin, sponsored by stupid cheap global money
- If same cheap global money continue investment in costly apartments in Berlin
- If refugees continue to be a social welfare problem
- if public transport continue to collaps by random
soon.
I've been to many major cities and countries around the world in my life, I've even been to Germany before a few times, but yesterday was my first time in Berlin. I only spent one day there, but I think the fact that I am on this website speaks for itself. Never experienced disdain like this for a city before.
The people in Berlin are utterly pathetic. Grown adults, near retirement age that own nothing more than the furniture in their rented apartments. Two missed paychecks away from personal bankruptcy. The only joy in their lives being the annual vacation to some third-world country like Turkey, Egypt or Bulgaria or Mallorca where they can pretend for a few days they're not the absolute lowest social bottom feeders.
Unfortunately I have no possibility to leave for 3 years (it's a long and boring story why). And I don't know how to survive here. If I would describe my life in Berlin, I could use only one word - rejection. Joining meetup groups and writing a message? Ignored. Using dating sites and apps? Ignored or rejected, sometimes even humiliated. Lurking in expats forums, trying to build even a small social circle? Nobody cares. Going to bars / clubs and talking to people? They stare at me like I'm a pile of garbage. And tbh I really feel myself like an useless pile of garbage. The only person I can talk to is myself. I need human connections, but it's easier to fly to the Moon as to set some. If I would believe in mysticism, I would have thought that I have a curse on me. I've visited therapists some times, but all they have done is they given me a receipt for SSRI and said "Ah Entschuldigung, aber alle Plätze für Therapie sind besetzt". Well, what should I expected from German. Berlin it's not hell, it's worse than hell. The frozen trap, where you dwells in self-hatred, feeling of undesirability, feeling that you don't belong and nobody cares about you. Lonely? Depressed? Desperate? Nobody gives a damn. Have not a single idea how to cope with that for 3 freaking years. No idea. I really understand the guy who probably have commited suicide a week ago after he wrote on this site. Too afraid to do it, but I can get his mood. It's like...I don't know.
I tried yoga, meditation, analysis and the only real way to deal with Berlin that worked was TheReleaseEffect which helped me get enough sense to leave Berlin, also a friend who introduced me had similar luck and is now happy in Greece, 3 months later and I'm now happily living in Switzerland. Also, reading Krishnamurti books helped. Berlin is great in very, very small doses, but hard to live there. Good luck to you and everyone else.
I told you to let out your feelings but you ignorant fools did only ignore it! It doesn't replace the lonliness but you feel yourself again. Screw yoga. Just pick up a guitar, learn a few chords and shout to it, but allowingly, then you shud feel relief, just allow it then, cry like a child. You'll see...And yeah I'm a Music therapist also, but obviously have no job here.
Been in Italy for 8 days now and feel 95% back to my old self, getting better every day, already met hospitable, generous and friendly people who I have a good acquaintanceship with and feel they could develop into friendships. What a relief.
