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In a few words, what do you hate THE MOST about Berlin?
well goodbye for good Berlin. It was not nice meeting you. Everybody here is so hyped for the summer but I only see a steaming pile. I hope I never ever come back to this place.
Here's a thing that actually happened to me a few days ago and I believe it sums up pretty well why I will probably never function socially in this country. It didn't happen in Berlin though, but this site is the best place I can think of sharing it: There's a train station, where the arriving train is split in two in the middle, and each of the two "heads" that point in different directions have opposing destinations. I was standing there with my bike on the far right side, minding my own business and waiting for the train. Suddenly this woman comes up to me, late middle aged, short and slightly overweight. Apparently she has some company with her, which doesn't catch my attention right away. She asks me in this dubious tone "Sagen Sie mal, können Sie mir bitte mal sagen warum man mit dem Fahrrad hier stehen muss?" which can only be roughly translated as "I'd like to know why one has to stand here with one's bike", which doesn't cover it properly though. I was just startled and stared at her, paling. Several thoughts shooting through my head: Am I blocking the way? No. Is it forbidden to ride the train with a bike? Or stand around waiting for it? No? Right? What am I doing wrong?
Then she continues, since there's no answer coming from me: "The guy over there told us to enter the train in the far right part." Oh. She meant that as in "We were told to enter the train with our bikes here. Can you tell us why?" I explained to her that the trains splits and yada yada yada. And that was the moment I pretty much realized why I don't manage to get along well with most people and why I feel so lonely and have no real friends. I don't think I'm in the right place.
OP here. I grew up in Berlin, so no, thanks, I don't intend to go back ever again. I'm slightly better off here, but again, these people have an idea of communication that just boggles my mind. These kind of things happen on a daily basis by the way. It's so exhausting I swear.
"creative-bio-hipster-feminist-LGBT-tolerant-muslim-yoga-dj-party scumbags... "
Ha ha so true ! It seems that people in Berlin are always the same.Im tired of this people to,most of these people are in areas like Kreuzberg,Neukölln etc
Most Berliners (Germans and Immigrants) are filthy Bastards and female dogs :)
THEY told me that I wasn't cool enough to be in their clubs and be their friends. So I adapted my behaviour to adjust to their expectations. THEY told me I wasn't "German enough" so I had to share their culture (whatever that is) and master their language even the small nuances that not even all Germans know. THEY told me that I had to take an insane amount of drugs and alcohol because I wasn't open minded enough, so I can finally "GET BERLIN". THEY told me I had to hate on others but keep it low-key because Germans have to give the impression of "openness" while still hating with their guts everything that they don't like. I finally realized I made a mistake. I wish I had stopped long ago. The only way to "get Berlin" is having your brain so destroyed that you can no longer be human and accept injustice as if it were natural so in a delusion created by your mind after years of nothing but drugs and hate you can be happy to have a beer while doing K in a dark room surrounded by strangers as destroyed as you are. Berlin is not hedonistic, it's just self-destructive.
I'm tired of the endless journeys you have to take just to meet friends in other parts of town.
I have never seen so many lonely, neglected, crazy people all the time in my entire life.
After a while even Vietnamese, American or Spanish people become like Germans... no service, no smiles, no politeness.
I feel like this is a city without a vision or some kind of hope. Everything just comes together and clashes.
There are great little initiatives and people who are creating communities here. But the vast majority has no clue on how to love well, how to enjoy life, make things work out for themselves and get along.
I'm leaving in October. Now it's "spring" but I don't forget those winters. I actually got ill due to the lowest vitamin D levels my doctor ever saw. Berlin.
Very astute post.Berlin = Antidepressants.Alcohol.Oblivion.
The startup scene in Berlin: showing fake KPIs to VC, getting money from VC, buy Facebook Ads (95% of the marketing jobs in Berlin), showing more KPIs (people who click to your ads, eventually sign up but not using your stuff in any way). At the end, living the hard and real life in London comes less expensive than living the fake dream of Berlin.
I'm glad to read here more about the "startup scene" crap in Berlin.
Taken from this article: travelsofadam.com/2015/05/berlin-startup-scene/.
But it’s my belief that a lot of startups, including those “cool” ones regularly making headlines in Berlin, are doing things at the expense of workers rights. My generation maybe has more opportunities for new things, for better things—hell, even for a better life. But at what cost?
Seriously, Berlin is one of the worst spots to work in tech in the world. I'm happy this is being talked more because the city is attracting talented people and making unfulfillable promises. I won't be surprised that many of those guys will be talking here in the months and years to come.
Is it just me or is it plain impossible to make friends in that city? I've never been so lonely in my life, people here aren't interested in creating friendships - I mean even the bare minimal social interaction is missing (people stare angrily instead of smiling, customer service doesn't exist, people bump into you violently and don't bother to say sorry...). I am getting so depressed Iddon't know what to go, where to go to meet decent people that aren't drunk or junkies.
I'm preparing my escape, it should happen in September but in the meantime I'm going completely nuts :(
Same here, with only one difference, I'm introvert and for me is perfectly fine to live in the big city, without having any friends. The same period ( last year ) I was really depressed like you, bought a dog and guess what, depression gone :) btw I'm also preparing my escape, just to finish studying in this shithole.
The problem being that even foreigners here are annoying, they can't stop talking about how "great" and "open" Berlin is. They can't smell the poop that's right down their feet. It became impossible to find expats who aren't into the "party scene" of Berlin.
Oh dear god. "German government offering how to "FLIRT" with Germans for new Asylum seekers. I would have thought it should be the other way around. Asylum seeker says to Berlin woman." Hello..You look lovely". Berlin womans response."Ah..fuck you.I am no object! Now I must be off to cut myself.I have boarder line personality disorder, therapy and yoga in an hour you filthy auslander."...And as the Berlin fairy tale goes.NOBODY lives happily ever after.
They are not asylum seekers but welfare opportunists who DO see women as objects. These men should go back and fight for their country and not shop around for best EU welfare packages and sexually harass european women.
We don't need more economic migrants with poor skill set in a city like Berlin with already high poverty and low employment opportunities. One of the reasons Berlin is so dirty is because of these migrants. Go to Wedding and you will see migrants dumping everything on the streets and in parks.
Listen, you "high-potential": for every whatever migrant who comes here, seeking whatever, I will be happy to exchange people like YOU. Leave the city and let migrants in. Fascist idiot simplifying idiot. Go take your hate-speech to some peasants congress and cook some Sauerkraut, cockroach.
People who jump to insult others as nazis and fasicsts are hypocrites. A rational debate about improtant issues is important for peace and welfare of society.
Far left is as bad as far right when it comes to supressing free speech.
This is why Berlin sucks. It is filled of 2 extremes and illegal migrants.
I am a legal migrant who is not on welfare. My family died in WWII. I do not want more of hateful islam that killed my classmates in an explosion in a club or supermarket. I do not want live in fear just so that the left has its multicultural utopia.
Germany's government expects to spend around 93.6 billion euros by the end of 2020 on costs related to the refugee crisis, a magazine said on Saturday, citing a draft from the federal finance ministry for negotiations with the country's 16 states.
GLAD. I. LEFT!! Yeah...screw that noise.
It is scary to think what would happen to Europe and especially central Europe in the near future. The government just disregarded and disrespected the will of its citizens. No country can handle an influx of migrants in a short period of time without facing political, economical and most importantly social repercussions. What Germany owes to the middle eastern refugees morally speaking to justify this irrational generosity? Berlin is going to get even worse now. Most of these migrants will end up here and the far right groups will go completely nuts.
Thanks for the tip! Last thing I need is to ever be stranded in Berlin again!!!
Have a job offer with decent money that would need me to return to that idiot Berlin....am torn...I freaking hate Berlin BUT perhaps having money and isolating myself from its inhabitants can work? hmmmm....I freaking hate that city.
I am talking from experience here. They will pay you less than what they are offering now... much less (not counting taxes and whatnot). And since you're there already you will have no other choice to sign the contract and Berlin will have screwed you once again. IF it is really good money and you cannot make the same figure elsewhere, then make sure to sign the contract BEFORE you move to the city, in that way they won't be able to "change their minds". I've been played dirty by German and non-German companies in Berlin so I would suggest you to be always suspicious of their offers.
Thousands of right wing thugs on the streets of Berlin.This kack hole is about to implode in serious social discord.Only assholes will be left in this city shortly.Tourists,culture events and investment will go else where.And this greedy city of bigots will get what they deserve.
I know I am leaving soon. I posted the same before I don't even have a solid plan and only some money that may last for 6 months. But I'm sure as hell I won't stay here. I used to say that poop will hit the fan soon but now I think there is no way to stop it.