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This post might be relevant to artists living in Berlin or considering to move there:
I am a musician and made the terrible mistake of moving to Berlin because people had told me it's a great place for artists. I ended up leaving after a mere year after realizing that a lot of these artists see their "art" as an excuse to consume drugs, be constantly unemployed and dependant on welfare, be promiscuous and/or generally degenerate.
Everybody tells you "yeah, we'll do something together", but nothing ever happens. I guess that it is because Germans in general don't take you seriously unless you're northern European and therefore, working with you will be but a waste of time in their eyes. If you want to teach music, prepare for low wages and for desperate teachers offering their services on Ebay for a fee of 20 euros an hour and less, effectively lowering the earnings of other teachers (why would someone pay you 40 for an hour of tuition when they can get the same service for half, albeit with lesser quality?). It is sad to see experienced, rather old musicians having to resort to that, too.
Don't expect to make lots of money by playing live, either. I know of good musicians who get whatever people throw into a stupid hat that is passed around...
There are lots of jam sessions in Berlin, but good luck finding good musicians or people who don't go to jam sessions so that they can smoke a joint, share their stupid poetry or yell into a microphone for 5 minutes in a row thinking they're singing/rapping.
Obviously you end up having to have a side job so that you can survive. For some reason, getting a job in Berlin is more difficult than in other regions I previously lived in. Berlin is the only place where I got asked for a CV and a cover letter when I wanted to work as a cashier or as a waiter. In other regions you show up and that's it: you may even sign your contract the same day. But not in Berlin. In that sense I can understand how some people just give up and say "f*ck it, I will live on welfare" because of how unnecessarily complicated things are in that god-forsaken city.
I don't regret a single bit that I left Berlin, as it is a very ugly city, and obviously not sexy, as the average Berliner will have you believe. I was sick and tired of practically every woman having short dyed hair, a nose ring and awful tattoos. The ones that aren't overweight and have a terrible attitude won't look at you unless you have a nice car. Don't get me started on the SWPL vegan hipster people who can't live without their daily dosis of Club Mate, drugs, god-awful music and rudeness. There is an entire army of leftists in Germany who are proud of their T-shirts with "refugees welcome" captions printed onto them, but who don't have any non-white person as a friend and generally avoid foreigners.
To any musicians out there who take themselves seriously: stay away from Berlin! Move to Frankfurt or Dresden or Cologne. There is money and opportunities there. To any sane person: don't move to Berlin.
No wonder why even in Berlin mid-right CDU party has overtaken SPD.
Source:
www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/laender.htm
"Obviously you end up having to have a side job so that you can survive. For some reason, getting a job in Berlin is more difficult than in other regions I previously lived in. Berlin is the only place where I got asked for a CV and a cover letter when I wanted to work as a cashier or as a waiter. In other regions you show up and that's it: you may even sign your contract the same day. But not in Berlin. In that sense I can understand how some people just give up and say "f*ck it, I will live on welfare" because of how unnecessarily complicated things are in that god-forsaken city."
This part is so true. See, Germans have a tradition of forcing people to spend at least three years "learning" even the most menial of jobs. Waiter? Three year Ausbildung. Shop clerk? Three year Ausbildung. Landscaping? Three year Ausbildung. Literally every job requires at least a three year Ausbildung. So basically every employer treats you like you are a complete idiot until you have obtained at the very least a three year Ausbildung, during which time you earn nothing or earn really bad money. Then you're happy to find your first job in your field and the switching costs are too darn high to ever try to do something else (because it will require ANOTHER three year Ausbildung). That's coincidentally the reason all of the women who work at the post offices, supermarkets and bvg ticket shops are so darn unfriendly: they know they can't even switch to some other job, like even stocking shelves before shops open, because they would need THREE YEARS OF TRAINING for that.
And what's even more messed up: In German you are required to go to school until you are 16. Since their backwards education system can end well before if you just do Hauptschule, parents are further required to ensure their "children" are going to their Ausbildung, and face sanctions of they are absent, constantly late, etc. This, on top of the Left's almost forced Kindergarten attendance is worrisome. The German state goes to great lengths to indoctrinate kids from their earliest memories to at the very least 17-18. Literally the only sign that this is decreasing is a few years ago when they stopped mandatory military service for all males.
"r people who can't live without their daily dosis of Club Mate, drugs, god-awful music and rudeness. There is an entire army of leftists in Germany who are proud of their T-shirts with "refugees welcome" captions printed onto them, but who don't have any non-white person as a friend and generally avoid foreigners."
Very true, and very sad. Didn't a wise person once say, 'Be the change you want to see in the world', 'If you want change to happen, start with yourself'? But no. Once again, Berlin has taken a fundamentally okay philosophy and turned it into a stick to beat others indiscriminately over the head with. The Antifa spends more time fighting the Fa than they do befriending the immigrants and foreigners that it supposedly 'protects'. Says it all, if you ask me.
Wow, I'm so glad I found this site, I've been reading hear for the last 90 minutes, and now realise I'm not crazy after all. I think this post sums up my feelings about Berlin best:
Hmm, let me think, maybe a place where 90% of the people are not rude morons, untalented hipsters, not pseudo-anarchists, not misandrist Feminists, a place where homosexuality is not the norm a place where commitment and responsibility are respected, where people honour their words, where pissing in the street and spitting every 10 meters is not the norm, a place where people have initiate to make their lives better, a place where people don't have the leftover of DDR mentality, a place where it's not normal to have "open" relationships, where people are courteous and can think for themselves, where they'll cross a pedestrian crossing when there are no cars in sight of 500 meters either side, where you won't get harassed by beggars every 15 minutes, where people don't search out deviate clubs for their 15 minutes of shame, where all your "friends" will not have left every two-three years, because they can't stand it there anymore, a place where people don't just live day to day, bordering on poverty all the time, forced to eat the ubiquitous don(t)er and curry worst, where people don't make a big show of helping so-called refugees to show the wolrd that they are no longer Nazis, with police guards outside every Jewish establishment, that must cost millions of dollars every year in a city that is poor but "sexy", hey, everyone else forgives you, just don't do it again OK, etc etc etc etc.
Why do you care if homosexuality is the norm and people have open relationships. Urge to control much grandpa ? Also, how do expect a DDR mentality that's just about had a generation to dissolve to be gone completely, that's just so stupid.
You have some points but people cross the pedestrian crossing all the time with no cars in sight. Overall you do seem rather stuck up tho with dislike for 'deviancy' which you probably just want to join in anyway.
The police outside Jewish establishments is because of there being a constant threat by neo nazis and from people from the middle east but hey, I'm sure a 'everyone else forgives you' will help.
Seriously, who's just done a poop at the bottom of the stairs?
I really hate this place
Scatology has long been a fixture of German culture since the Dark Ages. In those days, there was rampant defecation in public hence the run up to the Black Death. The german who left those little droppings on the stairs was probably trying to commune with some long, lost ancestor.
Just stumbled across an article about the reactions to dianes kruger's best actress prize. Germans apparently hate her for having succes outside germany : ))
Come on. not all leftists behave like these dead heads.Pretty darn sure Marx would not eat at the same table as these petty vandals with premature ejaculation problems.
The mindless leftists and antifas in Rigaer Strasse are at it again, attacking more police in the past few days. Barely a day goes by that they aren't throwing rocks at people, setting cars on fire or worse. In June-July last year there were 280 cases of criminal activity recorded just on that one specific street. Leftists/antifas really are the biggest threat to people living in Berlin, their crimes increased by 16% in 2016. They were responsible for more than twice the number of criminal violence in the first half of 2016 in Berlin compared to the right. Toss them all in prison and throw away the key forever!
The good old day had dead at Berlin. Elegant, deep, convergence and comity etc. are all dead here. No more Tomas Mann, no more Hegel, no more Rilke but only Berliner Schnauze, and ridiculously people are shamelessly proud of it, it became selling point of the local couture and appears in movies, books and people's every day talking. What I can say, SOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I came here thinking it was the country of Rilke , Tomas Mann and all the german philosophers... people have no culture
Let Berlin independent from the country but keep Bavaria, It'll make German more German, the good old day had dead at Berlin. Elegant, deep, convergence and comity etc. are all dead here. No more Tomas Mann, no more Hegel, no more Rilke but only Berliner Schnauze, and ridiculously people are shamelessly proud of it, it became selling point of the local couture and appears in movies, books and people's every day talking. What I can say, SOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's no surprise that the father of archetypes Carl Jung came from this part of the world. Germans really are all the same. I'm surprised he could derive 12 different types though, because really there are only three types of Germans: Brainless Leftist SJW drug addicts, Brainless Nazi drunks, passive-aggressive, miserable moderates.
Just look at the streets. Easily 90% of all cars are black, silver or dark blue Kombis. What the hell do all of these people in the city need to transport that they all need this kind of car? Do they even sell cars in Germany with normal trunks? I'm not sure I've ever seen them here anymore.
There is a reason why NAZI and WWII stared in this freaking land. It's in their blood and will be in their blood forever. It's American's duty to depress those evil souls forever, don't give them any chance to be back to the mainstream. Depress the language and the culture. Squeeze those rude pigs out of the mainstream. Wipe out the most ugly language from the planet.
I don't like Germany either, but this will go waaay to far.
Very very rude and uneducated fat Berlin pig yelling at foreign tourists to ask them shut up. freaking fat losers, that is the only time he found himself the meaning of existence: to be a Cooksucker in front of the really thugs and a scary rude pig in front of the happy foreigners
Man, I am one of those people who thought something was wrong with them for not enjoying to be here and feeling trapped and annoyed most of the time. As long as I stay inside it's okay, despite the fact that my neighbors are of course reckless idiots who don't understand the concept of a door handle and think party is the most important thing in life. But whenever I go out, it gets annoying. I can't even tell what it is exactly, I guess it's just the feeling of being surrounded by braindead, mentally challenged idiots most of the time.
Whenever I go back to my home town, people approach me, initiate friendly conversations and so on, but people in Berlin are usually ignorant, cold and rude. It's just normal to see people piss and spit, and often when I see the ever present dog shit, I wonder if it's actually from a dog because it would not surprise me if it wasn't.
The funniest thing about it: I hopefully get a job somewhere else (now that I am aware of all of this I am not looking for jobs in Berlin anymore anyway), and my first thought was: Nooooo then I have to leave Berlin and my freedom and all the possibilites. LOL! Only because this is what you get indoctrinated here, when you actually hate it here from day 1. So many people say it, many deny it, but I guess it is true: There's a dark, depressing cloud over Berlin and I'm glad when I am far away from this shithole. So glad to have found this website.
I am 100% convinced that the annoying neighbors thing is more often than not a form of Zersetzung from the former Stasi spooks that continue to roam and control this city. Don't underestimate them or their numbers, they are very real and very powerful. When you encounter the mean hag at the post office that is them. When you get pickpocketed at Warschauer Strasse at night that is them. When someone takes a dump inside your apartment building - that is also them.
"When you get pickpocketed at Warschauer Strasse at night that is them. When someone takes a dump inside your apartment building - that is also them."
Oh, i see. So the Stasi are also masquerading as Romanii children and skeletal junkies, now? I must say, their array of disguises is most impressive ;)
Went drinking last night at one of those "America-themed diners" in Berlin. It's a big chain so I won't mention the name. I was wearing a Make America Great Again baseball cap I bought a while back when I was back home visiting. The waiters refused to take my order and told me to leave. I stood my ground and refused, but after about 45 minutes of just sitting there being eyed angrily by everyone in the restaurant I got annoyed and left.
Are they allowed to refuse to serve me just because they disagree with my political opinions? Is there any legal recourse for me? Would filing a police report do any good?
A gay man was attacked in Berlin by a family with children, police announced Saturday. It was the latest in a string of homophobic assaults in the city.
The 35-year-old man was walking through the southeastern neighborhood of Neukölln on Friday afternoon when a group of men, women and children started verbally abusing him.
We do not hate him. We think he is a sad joke. You should worry more that your cuck in chief does his job instead of twitting and watching tv. The orange fatty can barely pay attention for 1 min.
You americans are going to lose more jobs when Germany and other companies close their factories in Trump land. Trumpcare will hopefully kill as many poorly educated rednecks with preexisting conditions.
Your poor redneck kids will lose education. Your sick babies with preexisting conditions will die. Your women will die from breast and cervical cancer due to PP and medicaid cuts.
Trump voters will become poorer and sicker. Trump voters are like Berliners just have a different political ideology. You are both dumb, poor, hateful, easily manipulated cucks.
Fact: PP has never helped a woman detect breast cancer because they don't offer mammograms.
Fact: Fewer than 4% are on Obamacare.
Fact: Pre-existing conditions were grounds to refuse Obamacare already. The new plan allows stated suffering unduly from providing care to obese diabetics with "pre-existing" conditions to petition to refuse coverage. It's common sense anyway: it is HEALTH INSURANCE, if your body is broken already then you missed the time to insure it already.
Glad PP won't be selling baby parts any longer.
WTF is this crap below? Anyone have any ideas?