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What bothers me most about this city are the hauntings and ghosts that are present in basically every apartment in Berlin. When I first moved here and found my own place in Frohnau I thought it was just the close proximity to Sachsenhausen concentration camp and all the sad, untold stories there. But I have since moved to different places in Friedrichshain, Prenzlauer Berg, Charlottenburg and that really peaceful quiet part where people always tell you to go and I can say that every night I am kept awake by the restless, disembodied life forces of generations past. I don't know if Berliners simply have qualms with immediately ascending into the warmth and radiance of Eternal Pleasure after shedding their mortal coils or if there are physical constraints keeping them earth-bound but it gets old very quick. It's weird this never happened to me when I was staying at hotels when visiting before I moved here. What's even worse, however, is that you cannot take legal measures because Berlin courts have consistently ruled that sounds and noises from normal apparition behavior are not grounds for reducing your rent. When you mention it to a Berliner they just mock you and say you are a Spießer if you complain about the noise pollution from the undead. Looking forward to getting out of this place.
The thing I hate the most about Berlin are the LFS,
Lefty Fascist Scumbags. Lefty's are the George Soros cannon fodder and Berlin is full of these brainwashed imbeciles.
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I don't understand why people think that living in Germany is the greatest thing ever. I mean, how many people in Germany own a house, a big car and enjoy their lives? Aren't most people earning between 1000 and 2000 euros?
Depends very on your focus. Big car? I don't think, that young people in Germany are so into a big car as a status symbol. But e.g. health could be for many people the most important thing. German health care system is quite good and effortable, despite other opinions. Germany has a long history in renting housings, especially in the cities. That's different from other countries, where renting is put on a level with poor.
... and in general. Who thinks, that living in Germany is the paradise? When you follow the German media, then for me it seems, that Germany is country where lament, criticism and dissatisfaction are more prevalent then in others.
German men are what you get when an entire generation of able-bodied men are killed in a war that only Germans could think the would win. No wonder most of the German men I have met are physically or mentally ill and incapable of meaningful relationships. And since the women had to work like men it is no surprise that most German women are dykish and manly nowadays.
Yes, in America people complain that their health insurance premiums are so expensive but in Germany they are often just as expensive or more so, with fewer health services covered - especially basic dentistry services. Especially for small business owners and the self-employed this is a huge, unnecessary burden and here you are required by law to be insured. And the irony is exacerbated when you see the prices you would pay without insurance - almost nothing. But you cannot just pay-as-you-go and you have to earn something like 5,000€ per month to be insured with a more efficient private health insurance. And everyone having mandatory insurance puts a huge strain on the system. With all of these subsidized hypochondriacs, when you really need an appointment with a specialist you'll wait months. But the worst part is that German doctors seem to be less skilled than elsewhere. Just one example: according to the WHO fewer people in Germany are diagnosed with cancer than in the US, but more people here die of cancer. I don't know if their knowledge, skills and methods are outdated or if they are just less hard-working since people here rarely if ever sue for malpractice. I would not want to grow old in Germany (not only for this reason).
This slacker culture. A huge holiday camp. This let you get down and make ambitous and engaged working nearly impossible.
AHAHAH only in Berlin could a product this stupid exist:
pappbett.de/
And the company is run by three Berliners. What a load of shit.
The puppets defending this stupid product definitely work for the company. I saw an ad for their trash on facebook once and they kept replying to the haters with the same kind of stupid bullshit. What a pathetic company peddling an idiotic product for people who are 4 weeks away from being homeless.
www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-19/silicon-valley-s-400-juicer-may-be-feeling-the-squeeze
Can't beat this tho.
Palm, is that you? Or Dissen? Does it hurt so bad to have sunk so much money into an idiotic product that literally no one wants that you have to write poor social media posts at midnight? Don't worry, pal. In another 6months you'll be unemployed like the rest of the city. Hope you're making your voluntary unemployment insurance contributions, otherwise it'll be a rocky ride. At least you can probably construct a makeshift home out of your cardboard beds. There's a nice community under the bridge near Nikolaiviertel I am sure would welcome you.
berlin sucks life force out of you and over prolonged stay turns you into a hateful weakling.
Berlins school system is designated as the worst of all school systems in the 16 German countries (which is too bad anyway).
- up to 40 students per class
- poor, violent or unassimilated children
- too old rooms in subterranean condition
- unexperienced or unsuitable teachers (and too few)
- much to little investments overall
Wow Berlin schools are the worst in the country. So the worst of the worst. Germany's education system is a joke. All it teaches kids is to pretend everything is difficult because it's GERMAN. Too bad they don't even do real trigonometry and BARELY cover calculus. Even then it's only the easiest problems possible. No wonder all my classmates at university in Germany had so much trouble passing exams. The school system in Germany coddles German kids. If you have a foreign last name then RIP.
Let's take a glance on the Bundestagswahl polls:
Right parties:
AfD 6.5 % / CDU CSU 40 % / FDP 10.5 % = 57 % for right parties
Left parties:
SPD 24 % / Greens 7 % / Lefts 8.5 % = 39.5 % for left parties
3.5 % for other parties
And there I found another reason to hate Germany:
Why is there even a 5 % barrier to the parties?
Back to my home country. So difficult to explain to everyone what didn't actually work back in Berlin for me without looking like weirdo that didn't "make it" there.
P.S. Berlin is a village.A small town nightmare.A big sexual act joke.Only suckers pay money to be part of this turd.
Never forget the city is still full of stasi spooks. Even if they aren't active anymore, old habits die hard. Something like 1 in 8 East Berliners were traitors to their own people. Psychological warfare was always present. Zersetzung was the norm. These peoplea are now small-scale agitators, but cause problems nonetheless. They are to blame for the real lack of diversity of opinions.
You are spot on with your observations of the sick mindset of the east.Bunch of mindless cunts afraid of original thought.Pathetic men.No balls.Scum.
Berlin is a city with a really high stress level. If you plan to go a few districts farer than you have to prepare for the extreme overcrowdedness.
Its very chaotic and you can never feel yourself safe. Because you know, these people are not ruthful, not polite, and when you are unlucky, they even offend you. The athmosphere is rather foeshiply and loaded with aggression. If you stumble or so, nobody will help you up, you rather get kicked instead. That leads to a constant level of danger on the streets and raised stresslevel of everyone. If you walk on the streets youll be stared as if youre from another planet and as if you have nothing in comin with the human race. You simple cannot go out for a nice relaxed walk, because it is not nice nor relaxed. When you plan to go to the other side of the city, prepare for a dangerous and annoying expedition full of dangers. The trains are extremely overheated and if heat is not good for your health than youll have a hard time. Its no fun for some people to stand in extremely overcrowded trains, involuntary group snuggeling and body contact. Not all people are totally enjoing this. Sometimes i went out being really happy and in a good mood and on the way it seemed that the city and its people sucked out every good feelings and replaced them with bad ones, like dementors in harry pothead. People will look you all over and will see all your imperfections, and all of this is a reason to despise you. Even if you look good, they will show you that you look not good enough to be a valuable person. And then woman. Some have a grin all the time, but in that smile is no little niceness at all, more a spiteful one. When you face them theyll make grimaces, like they wanna say: "Your poop and im the most precous beeing of the universe" or something like that.
I started now to listen to bad blackmetal when im out, beacause it is like homeopathy for all these situations.
I know its no good kind of life here, the city creates lots junkies, drunks and sick people. The downward swirl is enormous. Please dont let them suck you out. Sometimes its better not to search luck in the streets, or to spend to much time in overcrowded places.
Berlin is a city with a "high stress" level only if you had previously lived in a small town. Compared to Paris, London, etc. Berlin is rather a village itself, or rather a collection of villages. However I do agree with some of your observations, there is indeed not much positive unconditioned public interaction, just for the sake of being nice.
I think he's right. The city is full of forced stress. The kind of superficial conflict that would be the equivalent of the "fake American kindness" the Germans so deeply despise. People in this city always do seem to be in a hurry, pushing and shoving and invading your personal space. Standing on your heels in every supermarket, post office, ticket counter and shop. And they're always so passive aggressive. Don't have exact change? Expect eye rolls and audible sighs. Can't get your groceries in the bag fast enough at the checkout? Cold stares and head shakes. I've witnessed many people physically assaulted in this city for walking too slow, not opening doors fast enough, needing to use handrails when ascending staircases, having to ask for directions. And to the locals it's endearing. Being greeted by the level of contempt one could only muster up if you were either born with a chip the size of Berlin on your shoulder or were constantly always looking for extravagant hyperbolic rage. All this, the very essence of the Berliner Schnauze, is the result of mistaking negativity for intelligence. It's the false conclusion that the natural state of man is abject degeneracy. It's the social conditioning that being down-trodden, unhappy and unable to enjoy life is superior to healthy emotional intelligence. And it's all compounded by poorly engineered infrastructure, outdated technology, neo-ludditism and schizoid-paranoid behavior so rampant in this city. Berliners pride themselves on being authentic, genuine, real. Unfortunately for them, any intelligent human being can see that this anger, angst and rudeness are all carefully contrived coping mechanisms for children who will never grow up.
"I started now to listen to bad blackmetal when im out, beacause it is like homeopathy for all these situations."
Wow!! This is what I have started doing as well. I never listened much to it but here it just seemed like a natural thing to do. I always make sure to put "aggressive music" on my mp3 player before I go out.
The bad thing about it is that I might seem like one of those aggressive turds as well. I also usually go out and feel good and after a few meters I start to feel like shit. I remember a few occasions where I went out with people to celebrate, got a bit drunk, and ended up lost and alone crying somewhere, ignored by people around me.
When I went to my home town for a visit at the checkout in stores people started friendly conversations with me in line, here everybody has a grump face and people, especially cashiers, are usually rude - probably because they deal with so much poop during the day.
I do experience random acts of kindness even here, and I try to be kind and smile at people whenever I can and it's not suffocated yet for the day, but usually it gets ignored :)
"Sometimes its better not to search luck in the streets, or to spend to much time in overcrowded places."
This. I feel best when I downright avoid it. I find streets without many people and more nature, I avoid the crowded places. Makes me unhappy anyway, and they are usually ugly, too, The places, I mean.
'Berlin is a city with a "high stress" level only if you had previously lived in a small town. Compared to Paris, London, etc. Berlin is rather a village itself'
It seems like you're suggesting that the size of a city or its population is what makes it stressful, when what the posters here are saying is quite different: despite the spaciousness and small population, the people who live here GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO BE STRESSFUL. So it's not the size, but the bad attitude which is too big, and too stressful in this town.
Before I visited Berlin the first time my grandmother told my parents not to let me go. She said she was here in the 50's or 60's and that the place was a dump: broken beer bottles in the streets, used condoms in the gutters, vomit and urine everywhere. Cranky, drunk, rude people. I thought to myself that must've been just the worn down vets and war widows. But really nothing has changed. City is still filthy. People are still rude. Berlin is a joke.
Wow can't believe I found this site after googling "Berlin sucks"! I moved to Berlin a few months ago and find this place to be a bit like a hell on earth. I mean, probably there are worse places to live but nowhere else have I found the people so sick emotionally. There is so much pathology you can see everywhere. Drug addicts, young people begging, people being rude and fighting for their own little space in this maddness. The people I met here are often very insensitive - they are actually unhappy and stressed but they stay in unhealthy situations instead of changing them. They are tough on themselves and don't treat themselves nicely and so they are to other people - tough, agressive, cold. And no wonder they are feeling stressed and unhappy - it's a typical big city where everywhere you go it's dirty, crowded, noisy. It's hard to make genuine human connections as no one has time. I am thinking people who choose to stay here must really not know that life quality is better in different places. I lived before in a different German city - didn't like the German mentality there but the life quality was very high. I thought I can find the same plus more international spirit in Berlin. Yes, it is international, but for me life quality here is pretty low. To be honest though I don't find it so very german here - it is like a completely different country! The Germans from outside are boring and tense but usually very kind people. Here you find very few of those type, most are just crazy, stressed out and rude. The fact that so many people take drugs, smoke and drink also speaks for how stressed they are and how they don't find other ways to cope. I think people who choose to stay here are crazy as there are other places that are nicer, cheaper and with more jobs.
Wow can't believe I found this site after googling "Berlin sucks"! I moved to Berlin a few months ago and find this place to be a bit like a hell on earth. I mean, probably there are worse places to live but nowhere else have I found the people so sick emotionally. There is so much pathology you can see everywhere. Drug addicts, young people begging, people being rude and fighting for their own little space in this maddness. The people I met here are often very insensitive - they are actually unhappy and stressed but they stay in unhealthy situations instead of changing them. They are tough on themselves and don't treat themselves nicely and so they are to other people - tough, agressive, cold. And no wonder they are feeling stressed and unhappy - it's a typical big city where everywhere you go it's dirty, crowded, noisy. It's hard to make genuine human connections as no one has time. I am thinking people who choose to stay here must really not know that life quality is better in different places. I lived before in a different German city - didn't like the German mentality there but the life quality was very high. I thought I can find the same plus more international spirit in Berlin. Yes, it is international, but for me life quality here is pretty low. To be honest though I don't find it so very german here - it is like a completely different country! The Germans from outside are boring and tense but usually very kind people. Here you find very few of those type, most are just crazy, stressed out and rude. The fact that so many people take drugs, smoke and drink also speaks for how stressed they are and how they don't find other ways to cope. I think people who choose to stay here are crazy as there are other places that are nicer, cheaper and with more jobs.
Why are leftists so prone to child abuse, molestation and worse? Could this be the real reason politicians are afraid to go after the thugs in Rigaer Strasse? The Green Party in Germany is well known for it's "experiments" in child sexuality all the way up until at least the 80's, probably also thereafter. What is wrong with leftists' brains that they think abusing children is acceptable?
In current polls, Green party lays around 6 percent, so this would not be too tragic.