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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.
Returned yesterday after 6 months away and was halg surprised at how pleasant the weather is... started thinking again, maybe it was just me, maybe I never gave Berlin a proper chance. Then I took a train from idyllic Dahlem into the city... nope, wasnt me... this place is a pie hole.
The welcome back hopelessness I feel everytime I return to this nut house of a city from a holiday. It gets harder and harder to get adjusted back to Berlin.
Good God, how STUPID I was, when I moved to f*cking Germany. What a hell of a country? Seriously, WTF is wrong with them?
- NO beautiful women
- NO sense of humour
- NO emotions or warmness
- NO politeness
- NO culture (except "creative-party-dj-vegan-yoga-underground-techno-punk" trash, which, of course, isn't a culture, it's rubbish)
BUT:
- Dirty homeless punk butt b*tches with their dogs everywhere
- Tons of ugly radical feminists and broke permanently drunk lefties
- Middle-East immigrants with their cave habits (not all of them, but the majority)
- Plenty of old deviants, perverts, freaks, who think, that being a crazy person is so "cool"
Really, what I was thinking at that moment? It's a doomed place. Dear Lord, give me the strength to earn some money and run away FOREVER.
Since you have over 2 active users a day, which is more than most Berlin startups. Please make some merch. I will gladly buy a t-shirt with one of the following slogans:
- You are not David Bowie
- Thank you for funding my Phd in Gender Studies
- I work in media *cough €100 a blowie.
I'm sure you'll cover your server costs.
I'd gladly buy a t-shirt like that too. I would out-hip the hipsters for sure! I really like idea no. 2.
Anything really to stave off the feeling that winter is approaching fast. I'm dusting off my sun lamp to keep my brain from falling into deep depression. It's healthier and cheaper than alcohol.
- Hermit
Is Berlin a giant negative morphic resonance field ? It feels like it. Everywhere-almost all the time.
I hate how everything tends to be a sqare even the ways in woods and playgrounds have no ways in the middle but are seperated. No natural river like ways unless it came with the landscape but surely looks like tried as much as possible to make it a square.
How every line at Lidl, Rewe, Netto and Edeka is a slow descent into HELL.
This is the fourth time in a year that a neighbor has volunteered a "helpful" suggestion regarding the placement of my bicycle. Each time a neighbor tries to convince me about the fact that I could just lock up my bicycle in front of the apartment building instead of carrying it up the stairs and inside my apartment where it doesn't do anyone any harm.
I have my reasons, but they are not relevant here. What is relevant is why do these people try to tell me how to do things? Why can't they just mind their own business?