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The weather. The freaking weather here. Berliners rant and rave about how amazing the summer is, but of course you do when 10 months out of the year it's so miserable and dark that you're suicidally depressed and miserable. If someone punched you in the face for 10 months out of the year and then stopped for two, sure you'd rave about how great those two months are. It's clearly made the Germans from this area into miserable, grouchy, unfriendly sad sacks which doesn't help at all. Neither does the drab look of the whole city, even the non-Eastern bits. This city was supposed to be vibrant and cool, but it's just people moving here to party their faces off and then leave when they want to actually accomplish something meaningful. Come for the summer, then get the fck out.
I think it was summer 2014 - I was in Berlin, brought all my summer clothes and summer shoes. Naturally, it was sunny and kinda nice during the first few days but then... It was freezing, rainy and depressing. I had to buy winter clothes/shoes in the middle of the summer! It was, I kid you not, between 5,7,10 degrees C outside. They seem to not even have the summer either. :/
Growing up here half turkish and half german I was constantly looked down on and made to feel like a piece of crap. People yelling racists things at me on the s bahn. "friends" telling me casually how they dislike turks like it's totally normal. I had longer hair and once this german guy on the s bahn started pointing and laughing then once i got off at my stop started following, continuing to laugh and point. I never felt safe, got mugged multiple times by people on the bus while the driver did nothing. I hate the stupid smoke filled clubs and never knowing if you'll be turned away at the door to dance to repetitive stupid music. I never experienced meeting a warm hearted person, constant darkness and no sense of humor. People always thought i was crazy when i brought it up. So glad that i know there are people who share the same opinion. Something is really off about this place. I live in NYC now and I'm so happy I could kiss the ground when I land at JFK. People think New Yorkers are rude but I bet they've never been to the dark poop hole that is Berlin.
And, what do you hate?Clubbing in Berlin sucks. I'm a seasoned party goer and music producer and engineer and I know my biz because I work with both large and small labels mainly in techno, EDM, house, and others so I know my shit. I have been to many of the largest clubs all the way through underground events all around the world in America and in Europe, everything from burning man to underground raves in undisclosed locations. That's my lifestyle. BUT I FELL FOR THIS SCAM CALLED BERLIN. I'm from Boston and I was told at the entrance of clubs I look "too Italian" to enter, what the hell, what is this? Gangs of New York? Bostonians are tough, rude and even racists, hell even I've been racist sometimes but Berlin is a whole different monster. There they drop the n-bomb like it was nothing, they discriminate against everybody that's not German or that's not them, EVERYBODY! and the list can go on but I'll stop right here. But that's water under the river right so I went in to check their crappy clubs and see what the fuzz is all about and all I can say it's a buncha wannabes and losers who pretend to be "cool" and "edgy". By the way, these words I haven't used since third grade. They pretend to be great so that they keep ignoring the fact their city is awful their parties are awful and their DJs lack talent. Because they are no better than Russians doing krokodil and ketamine. Drugs that some of Berliners actually do!!!! Don't eat that Berghain - Sven Marquardt social engineered bullshit. They are using Stockholm syndrome to attract clientele for their business, because they are soooo selective their parties must be great right? wrong. And come on, don't tell me that poop about Berghain not being a business but a non-profit awesome party association, more bullshit, more lies. Berghain musta been great during the early gay parade - Ostgut days but right now is shit, if you fall for their poop and social engineering then you're stupid and you deserve get all your money stolen. And if you do you probably like to do krokodil too. Now I get Felix da Housecat's rant about Germany. If you think this is a criticism about Berghain only then you're wrong, the same poop applies to all crappy clubs in that piece of crap city that's called Berlin. That place is stuck in the past so my advice is, be smart, don't fall for their tricks if you're a serious partygoer - musician - artist - or even if you really value your art and content, but if you suck hard and you like doing scam drugs bad music and cheap whores/manwhores then I guess Berlin is the perfect place for you. Berlin please kill yourself.
All true iam up in the Game as a musician in the House game. All true, Berghain is just a Business now and again there is NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT PLAYING AT BERGHAIN NOW AS A DJ OR GOING TO LISTEN TO THEIR NOW pooping LINE UPS it has well had its day and so has berlin long time ago. Keep spreading the word Berlin is all FCKIN HYPE. Its Miserable people, terrible food and weather, galleries and boring Smoky House clubs are same as you get in ANY COUNTRY. Come for a weekend or a few weeks but dont stay you will ver soon after a few months think JEEZUS I wanna go home or somewere else.
There are just way too many reasons to hate Berlin,but the filthy people,overrated clubs and disgusting food is always a good place to start.
More hate to come!
Houses and people in the deep end east look just depressing as shit. And no one ever smiles at you, never.
I hate all ugly male citizens!!! unsurprisingly Im going to remain single as long as I live here
I cannot take the superiority anymore... no matter what I do my Berlin "friends" could have done it better and constantly let it be known so. Mostly they have no clue but condescending "advice" is always on the tip of their tongue.
I am a person who is modest, defers to the loudest female genitals in the room and often engages in self deprecating humour... this is not viewed as modesty and an enviable trait here but as weakness???
Have you ever noticed how people react when you just give them a smile? They step back in fear as if you were about to put a gun on them or something.
They do know how to react when confronted with real warm human beings.
I seems that Berliner's best friend is the psychiatrist. come on cold motherfuckers have a laugh and smile for sexual act sake..
I'm a Berliner and I often read your comments to have a good laugh- some of your statements here are very accurate and reasonable! However, I guess most of you live in these so-called "gritty" and "hip" areas like Friedrichshain, Mitte(the Eastern part of it), Prenzlauer Berg or even Lichtenberg ... it's no surprise then why you have so many bad experiences here. Despite the hype, these areas are still very much "East Berlin". You don't see that many (some funny quotes from this site) "tattooed ultra-feminist skanks", "racist unemployed losers who are racist on the bus", "anarchists", "pseudo-creatives", "rude geezers from the Plattenbau" in the good and "boring" parts of "Old Berlin", e.g Charlottenburg, Schöneberg, Steglitz, Wilmersdorf etc.
You’re cheap
You’re dirty
And you’re probably a whore
You’ve been destroyed
Put back together from pieces
Now you’re not pretty like Venice
Not classy like Milan
Not tidied-up like Munich
No, you’re quite ugly in fact
Oh, how I love you
I love you, Berlin
‘Cause you’re so much like me.
And if the softness of a mellow bassline hits you in the light of dawn
You shine, forever
Everyone is polygamist/polyamore here. Is society evolving or is it just a fashion?
Hate is love. Indeference,is something else ❤️
It's so ugly....Amsterdam is much better
Amstaerdam is prettier, and at first the people SEEM nicer but they are not, don't be fooled. The Dutch are very similar in character to the Germans and if you spend more than a year there, they will drain your soul.
Multi culti Amsterdam? big joke, Dutch are racist/xenophobic AF.
We at BerlinHater would like to send a warm thanks out to all of you who have posted here over the years.
When we originally built this website we thought we were alone in hating this putrid cesspool of a city but have found much support in these pages. It has enabled us to laugh at our own predicaments as well as check our own sanity as many of you have experienced the same things.
Here's to another 500 reasons!
Cheers