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People talk that Iggy Pop, David Bowie and Nick Cave lived here like that's cool..... unfortunately they never thought that after a while even THEY had to leave this idiot of boredoom
The fact that when you were living in our home city/country you had a social life and when days off from work were coming you were looking forward to it.... nowadays in lame Berlin my plans are complaining that Netflix here is poop and I don't want to go out with hipster brats....
So, let me start my hate speech against the biggest crap hole the world have ever seen - berlin.
What does suck here? Hmm...How about ALL? OK, but let's go through it step by step.
1) Architecture and outlook. I'm sure I won't be mistaken if I'll say that berlin is the ugliest city in Europe. Compare it to such cities as Barcelona, Prague, London, Paris, Saint-Petersburg, Rome, Madrid. Just look and compare. Any questions? Berlin is freaking ugly. TV Tower? Brandenburg Gate? Don't make me laugh. It looks miserable. And I even don't want to speak about areas like Marzahn or Kreuzberg.
2) Culture and events. It's even more simple - there's NO culture, no activities, nothing interesting. OK, probably some museums, only a couple of. But once you visit them, have nothing to do in Berlin. The separate ray of hate I send to them, who shouts about how great parties in Berlin are. Parties? In Berlin? Lold hardly. The biggest party here can be only sitting in an female dog butt kneipe with some old losers to sip them pilsner and talking about refugees, taxes and job. freaking interesting, yeah.
3) People. Oh yeah, here we go. The biggest minus.
What we have here?
- Unbelievably ugly groomed women in them dirty butt Converse sneaker
- Drunk punks, left-winged scum, feminists, hipsters, k00l kidz
- Tons of fat moslem women with their 100 children trying to sit at the 1 place in the subway
And all of them with this unique "berlin" facial expression.
So...Fuck you, berlin. fornicate you and everything bout you. I hope, you will be bombed to the ground once.
No culture ? No activities ?? Are you blind ? I can understand a lot of rants in here but this is just wrong.
"Tons of fat moslem women with their 100 children trying to sit.." - you got a serious problem I think Berlin wont be missing ya. Srsly, I understand a lot of rants here, and theyre just one way of looking at the city, so you know.. "Everyone is kinda right" - but your rant is just wrong.
It's completely nothing to do here. No parties, no events, only Ze Rules and boredom
"crazy Berlin" parties are still there, but are so secretive that they won't tell you where they are and when you find out and go to one of them you realize what a lie the city actually is. Same music as always but with an inferior sound system and cheaper drugs widely available, same as any other club in Berlin.
The fact that people are ALWAYS saying that Berlin is full of events and that's amazing, the parks are amazing, the bikes are amazing and so on so on, but if you spend a bit thinking about it, a lot of towns have the same, without the amount piss and beggars that are here in Berlin!!!
STOP THE BERLIN SCAM!!!!!
On the day of our Civil Partnership, my German bf started a massive, physical fight...over a misplaced DVD and that our laundry wasnt "clean" enough. I gave him a Concussion...on our Wedding day. darn it felt good. Even better than our Divorce and my exit from that Pit of a city. Mirko was such a useless obsessive prick.
Your Answer: Everything! Being in that city (even as an Americanized German...made him Miserable, anxious, angry. Even though it was home, Berlin brought out the worst in him. I made due, other than the fact I was horribly bored, I didnt mind that Pit too much. It was just another Sad and impoverished City to me. Thankfully I unstuck myself from the entire lot of it. And have never been happier.
I found this on r/Germany today, thought I'd share.
STORY:
Writing here today to ask for your advice before I get some professional help. Mostly because I'm very frustrated and sad about how I got treated at the foreign office.
So I moved to Germany in 2014 August. stayed here on a tourist visa for 3 months. Tried to get a termin, and ended up getting one a month later. Got a temporary visa in between and finally got my student preparation visa in March for 1 year and 6 months. (you can have a maximum 2 years of student preparation visa) I've been constantly enrolled to a language school and was having private music lessons as my focus of the study was music. in 2015, I got pregnant and went back to my country at some point for a regular routine check up and found out I had a missed miscarriage. I had an abortion and was hospitalised shortly and continued seeing a psychiatrist for I was very depressed. I came back after 2 weeks and ever since then, I struggled a long time with depression and bad health condition. I couldn't do anything. Couldn't attend language school for a long time as I had problem just leaving my apartment. My visa ended this year 31st of July and again, my appointment was scheduled a month after the visa expiration date. It says that as long as I have the appointment date that's made within the expiration date of the already existing residence permit, my legal stay in Germany is active- just like how it was when I got my student visa.
So I go to the foreign office, cheerfully greet the woman who's sitting in the office. She says with no emotion on her face, "have a sit". So I sit down. She asks me why I'm here today. I told her that I'm here to extend my preparation visa. And she notices that I'm speaking in English and gets extremely annoyed. I tried to speak in German, saying that I understand German pretty well but my speaking is very slow and it's not so advanced at the moment for me to explain myself well enough. She goes through the computer system and finds out that I didn't change the address ever since 2015 and says, "we consider you left germany". I apologized her and explained her that it was my fault. I also mentioned that I was sick and it's a personal issue that I haven't overcome yet, but that's why I didn't attend language school regularly even though I was enrolled the entire time, based on the paperwork from school. She starts calling me failure and that my teachers have failed me, saying "My english is b1. if your German is b1 like it says on your language school paper, you should be able to speak like this.".. "I'm not gonna be a little asian like you and run around asking you to do this and that".. "apparently you're not a good musician either that you didn't get in to school" I told her that I was not any close to the condition to perform for the audition so I gave up on the final invitation. I have another audition in December and I also presented the audition invitation from school. She just laughed.
And she finds out my second language school started in April of 2016 and asks me what I've been doing in between. I told her that I was constantly enrolled in the previous language school as she could see in her computer. I guess it doesn't say for how long so she finds it that I stopped going to school. She says if I stop studying, my visa expires immediately and for that reason, my visa expired in January 2015. I didn't even have my student visa at the time and I had my temporary visa I got from the foreign office until I finally got the preparation visa in March.
Finally, I told her that I had a miscarriage and have been suffering from depression and that's why I couldn't go to the language school regularly and also why I couldn't continue with my music. She laughs and says "do you think you're the only person who's asking for my empathy sitting in front of me?" And she asks me if I have any doctor's note. I was sincerely not expecting to present a doctor's note that's all the way from my country in order to extend my student visa, so I said I didn't bring them with me, but I could come back with them. She gets furious and starts calling me a liar, that I'm depressed but somehow had time to move into a new apartment and "travel" back to my country. I honestly don't think she even tried to understand what I said. It legitimately felt like she really hates me and I did something bad to her, personally. My god, she was treating me like a piece of shit. I wish I could've recorded her.
She looks at me as if she's looking at a cockroach and ask me to leave the room and wait until she calls me again with "my number".
When she called me back in with my number , she gave me a piece of paper that says my visa ended in January 2015 and that I've been staying in Germany illegally. It also said that she gave me 3 weeks to appeal the decision by sending all the supporting docs to her email. She asked me for 60 euros for her time saying that she will let me know about the result of the appeal. If they decide to deport me, I'll have to leave the next day they send out the letter.
3 days later, I sent her receipts from my language schools stating that I was constantly enrolled in languages courses. I also attached two different doctor's notes from gynecologist and psychiatrist. She gets back to me 10 mins after that she can't see google drive files so I need to send her the docs again. I made a second attempt by sending them all together in original file name extensions and she writes back again, 5 minutes after, asking to send the files again. I sent her the docs one by one with a picture of my anti-depressant and a personal statement from my boyfriend. And after that, I hear nothing from her and for the last 2 weeks, I asked her 4 time when I can hear back from her regarding the appeal. She's been totally ignoring my emails since then, and I also haven't gotten any mail from the office.
I'm afraid that she's just hope torturing me and is just waiting until the very last minute to see my butt getting kicked out of the country.
I was very sad and mad about the fact that I was treated that way by a person that I don't even know for doing the thing that I have absolute rights for... being called with this and that names. Now it's been 2 weeks, I'm trying to seek for a professional help from a lawyer. I don't even have any valid identification with me since she took my passport. I was supposed to leave on the 13th this month to go back to my country to get some documents in order to get married to my German boyfriend here. I couldn't even mention about our marriage to her in a pure fear of her making our marriage a problem too. Now I'm afraid if I get deported, there will be no way for me to come back here and marry the man I love. I won't be even be able to land my feet on any EU countries. I just don't know why she's being so unfair to me, personally going out her way to put me down in every way possible saying that I'm a failure and a liar. It's really affecting my mental heath as well as it's affecting my financial situation since I'm getting a lawyer.
END OF STORY
Then you get all the apologist to chime in and stand behind the official: "but the officials here will not coddle you. They will be very direct and sometimes this comes off as rude", "I Dont have any advice that can help you, just for other people in the future... speak german!", "The German attitude in official dealings is to be efficient and unemotional."
So, as all of Berlin expats know: it's OK to be rude to foreigners because it's all in the name off efficiency. It's OK not to speak english to help someone, even if you've had mandatory english lessons for N years.
Eh, funny folk, no wonder everyone dislikes them, esp. German tourists, who treat EVERYTHING outside of Germany as "funny and inefficient (WRONG)".
To be fair, the original poster of this story was extremely naive - she expected helpfulness and humane treatment from a system that is built to function like a machine. The line from "The Great Dictator" has never been truer: "Machine men with machine hearts" - it describes Germany perfectly to this day, even though the movie came out what, 80 years ago?
that's a horrible story, why did the poor girl not take her fiancee and file an official complaint about this person? I would totally go that way, it's no way to treat someone. Also, why did this woman from the office keep her passport, is this even allowed?
I hate Afd. But, I secretly hope they get 15-20% in Berlin elections.
I live in a neighberhood that feels like a Nigerian middle eastren overpopulated third world city.
To those who will call me a racist Sauerkraut, I am not a racist nor a German. I just hate overpopulation and poverty.
You do realize that unless you've got blonde hair, blue eyes, and at least german great-grand parents, afd is gonna come after you too? Why the hell do you live in a neighborhood that you abhor? Germany sucks, but you sound like some coddled hipster who can't doesn't know how to take responsibility, lol.
Don't fall for all that propaganda bs. AFD is the only political party left in Germany that follows the constitution. The Greens came up today with the idea of someone putting next to you while making your cross at the election process. Just to make sure that the voter will elect one of the established parties. Horrible idea but shows clearly that Germany will be a police state in the near future. The forced "Welcome Refugees"-culture is just a political tool to get there even faster.
> Don't fall for all that propaganda bs
There's no propaganda. All the political parties here are pretty bollocks. Some (NPD, AFD) are worse then others since they clearly want turn Germany into a police state, whereas all others - AT BEST - want an oppressive nanny state. I'll go for the lesser evil, thanks.
>Are you German? Wtf are you doing in Germany any way?
Scamming people for rental apartments
Marrying unattractive German ladies so that I can get a permit. Meanwhile absolutely no decent job, no contribution to the country economy just living on aid money coming from tax payers who give 1/3 their salary
From OP:
Afd would never be able to influence germans to repeat the Holocaust.
I just wish for an oppostion party to put pressure on the German government to change their immigration policy.
As a jew, I am more scared of radical islam than right wing parties.
If u are a musician, artist, photograph , dancer or whatever you are ..don't come to Berlin , save your energy for somewhere else
After 2 months staying here u will realize that this place is nothing then a fake !
I think a better answer is to completely retrain. There are so many 30+ year olds in this city who still dream of working in these fields. It's like a pack of teenagers who were always told they were special. Once in, they complain about poop salary long hours etc.
Anyways, all these fields are so over saturated and full of self entitled people. It's best to keep this stuff as a hobby. The stats are definitely not in your favour, low barrier to entry + media glamour == worst people on earth.
Before people write this off as horse poop and someone who's just salty. I have been there and done it. 5+ years in a respected agency and realised all of this around mid twenties. Don't ever work for an agency of startup. Go work in house if you still like wearing a plaid shirt, think you're important and eat fancy sandwiches.
if u are not a rockstar with 30 you'll never be with 45 ! are this singer songwriter getting this when they are coming here ??? of course that here is possible to have concerts every night, but if u are poop , u will remain shit.. and also if u can play guitar and sing , it doesn't mean that you can be famous, GET A JOB , GET A LIFE !
Berlin is a Evil City with Evil People Period.
Anyone remember people saying over here: "Keine Angst, wir beißen doch nicht" ...:) On the other side maybe people in Berlin need the most help, just that you can't really help them. And you can't try to be kind, since it always is a side-effect of perception.
I've always heard people here saying "don't worry, rudeness and racism go away when you travel west". So I had to stay in Düsseldorf work for some weeks, work related. I relaxed a bit and lowered my shields so I went out for a walk and maybe have a drink and on the very first night out I was GREETED BY A GERMAN DOING A NAZI SALUTE directed towards me. Nice, I know what people will say: "but that's illegal", "no German would ever do that", "zee German law", bullshit. No people. It doesn't get better in the west. That's how Germans justify that it's ONLY BERLIN who is lazy and poor. That is fuckin' bullshite. More poop happened as expected later that month, at least one incident every week but it doesn't matter rambling on details, all the same old shit. This will be my last Christmas in Germany, after that I will never set foot in this awful country, that's right Germany for Germans I'm out you finally convinced me that. It's not like I make 10x more money here. Your country is near to bankruptcy yet you still think you are the richest country in the planet.
Women are gorgeous but they scare me as seem to be just to o beautiful to look at. Architecture has been raped. Music... I am not into eisturzende no more cinema I am stuck in the past people what's wrong with Germans ?
What? You like their close cropped hair and manly jaw lines? I've never seen such un-womanly women anywhere. If you want to see real woman, just go to Spain... or Italy, France, Poland, Ukraine, Czech Rep., England, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Slovenia... The list goes on.
I guess there must be something wrong with me.. while in berlin I could not help but admiring almost every scandinavian german blonde/red haired long legged (...) with no make up and severe look on theyr faces.. I met a girl at the mauerpark she had a pair of doc martens hanging on her back and wore flip flops.. she was just.. perfect and I lost my mind
I had a crush on berlin but people are way too grumpy here, today Ive been called pooping tourist by the book seller in front of that uni in Mitte... And then people were mean all the time.. I think inside every German there's a SA in uniform... It's too bad I loved many things about Germany.. History art music movies.. I want to leave now
It feels like "Berlin paradise" is officially over and the scum of the scum are getting more visible and active. muggings and violence is rampant in Berlin. I even heard rumors of gang confrontation between nazis and refugees / muslim gangs in various places in Germany like Berlin, Bavaria and Dresden. Right now it seems it's happening in the East and Bavaria but I think it will spread to the rest of Germany quickly.
Take a trip towards Kopenick. Along the way you'll see posters of a political party that I think is called "NPD" (might be wrong, didn't have a closer look). The posters portray a young child, a girl, with blond hair and blue eyes (oversaturated) and the slogan "Naturlich Deutsche". As far as I know these are absent from Mitte, but only appear in more rural areas like Kopenick.
It's kind of scary to see this racist ideology being brought back to life after so many years.
lol, I rather not tale a trip to Kopenick but I've heard a lot a about it and some other places like that. Rural areas have always been like that, what really worries me is the new Kopenick sentiment resurgence in other places and major cities, no one will be safe when it goes mainstream.