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This City make me really aggressive.
There are many places worse than Berlin. Trust me,I'm 53 and have lived many places round the world. What's bad about Berlin is the attitude of people coming from elsewhere trying to alter it to fit their preconceived notions of what it is. If any of you were my age,and I suspect very few of you are,you would've known a very special city years ago that was unique in the world. It's now a mere Disney version of itself with an invisible wall of stupidity replacing the former real one. I still like certain natural aspects of the city,ie.parks,lakes and nature. The hipster bubble was predictable ever since the speculators started buying everything up and raising rents.....many years now. I highly suggest to anyone who doesn't enjoy the city to leave and find their ideal city somewhere else. I myself have a family here so I shall continue on here in some fashion. Try looking at the beauty of past history here and more nature. Stinky penner on trains exist in all populated cities and they aren't really all that unusual here. Ride a bike,take a walk....avoid clubs and nightlife if you have problems with party people- best clue: go out on a weeknight and leave the city on weekends.
Your opinion of Berlin really depends on your situation & location. Living in a predominantly foreign (or at least accepting of foreigners) area where your native language or accented German may be easily understood makes a massive difference to your experience of the city and the locals.
I am in my 40's, married to a German and have lived here for 7 years in both the West & East areas of the city. I can honestly say, that although not the friendliest people on the planet, West Berliners are absolutely more pleasant than those in the East...and by East I mean the areas past the cultural & language melting pots of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg & Prenzlauer Berg.
I look like a stereotypical German: blonde hair, blue eyes, pale complexion (but with an always pleasant expression) - I speak German - I married a German (not a Berliner) - my child was born here so is also German...I am polite & pleasant yet, in the 7 years I have been living in Berlin I have been treated rudely on a near daily basis: everything from the typical German heavy sigh & eye roll for no apparent reason to being shoved with shopping carts while waiting in line at the supermarket because I didn't move into the 1cm of 'empty' space in front of me. I've accepted the fact that living in Berlin means dealing with the above crap every day. It saddens me that rudeness/coldness seem to be an integral part of German culture. (and it is absolutely awful when it is directed at my young child.)
I've been here a year and a half now but can't wait to get out of this city. There is no solid jobs-even for Germans, not cheap anymore especially when it comes to rent... And lots of people take drugs and judging me that I am narrow minded person who doesn't take drugs. Weather sucks, even summer this year is not a summer. And I don't get most of Germans I met here think Berlin is the best city ever! Of course they never lived in other countries... People in ubahn are miserable, ugly and sad. Service in General is the worst ever and German guys are super weird to date. Cheap city, cheap people. I will leave soon. I can't take it anymore.
Happy to see mor people are finally being honest about the reality of what berlin and germans are like. As club culture has now almost finally burnt itself out most clubbers who live there wont be there in 10 years time and with it all other artistic people will leave, its already now now different to other cities in terms of rent in europe and you cant compare berlin to london or paris its a fooqing joke.
The terribly terribly dull buildings the vast majority inhabit. They seem intentionally designed to be as miserable looking as possible, and the desperate attempts some go to to brighten them up with jaunty colors seems to emphasise the featureless architecture
I occasionally come back here to read peoples comments now that i left and hopefully will never live there again. It just gets worse, the latest influx of inhabitants are Aussies "Boiler Room Kids" with little or no level of Artistic culture or exposure to other races, these are the next ones to run Berlins creative music circle of whats now left of it. The bubble burst a long time ago, its now cheap butt tourists and the next dregs of hopefulls from shittly places like Australia, there are no decent cheap places left to live and fornicate all to do apart from drink beer and go to an pooping boring club playing house music.
Left berlin.3 months ago. will never return .its an UTTER idiot
The deep deep growl of girls voices, They don't sound like girls and it scares me,
What I really hate about this city is total control around. On the work, on streets, in shops. Before I was living in south Germany, I never had such feeling like there is stasi back in he game watching at you in everything you do. Like you enter a toilet, and there is a sign hanging there with an angry face labelled "flush the toilet!". With several exclamation marks at the end!!! Why can't you just write "please"? Is it difficult? Why you need that angry face? Can you be just polite and trusty instead of controlling? Apparently not. The next bakery to me, they give you paper bags at kasse when you pay. What? Are you serious? Am I going to steal your precious bags? No, incorrect, this is not you who take the bags, they give them to you in hands. And know what? They always try to give me one large, like I was about to throw buns and bread together. Everybody wants to control in this city. Even though, most of the time the person does not entirely understand what he is controlling. Not talking about paying attention on little things. He likes you reporting, arguing with them. "Trust no one, control everyone" is the moto of this city. Kind of attitude, I'll never tolerate. That's why I hate this community so much.
I've been living in Berlin for more than ten years and although I have a good job I really hate the city and most of the people here. I basically don't even leave the house anymore because I don't ant to be confronted with more rude people and drunk idiots on the U-Bahn. The biggest mistake was going to New York for a couple of weeks this year because I loved it so much and got along with the people there so well. Now Berlin seems even worse to me, haha. I wish I could work in NYC but that is practically impossible ...
Being trapped in traffic because of the Garmin Velothon.
Love it that a private event can block off the streets to the entire city. The "interaktive Verkehrskarte" on the Garmin page doesn't work at all.
angelamerkeleatingthings.tumblr.com/ THIS!
2013 We cannot believe the NSA spied on Merkel!!! This is an outrage. We soooo believe in privacy.
2014 Yes we Germans support the NSA in some anti-terrorism operations specially in Somalia and the Middle East. But don't worry.
2015 Yo France remember when I said you and I were friends, lol I lied, I spied on you and your companies. But it's ok, I spied on Austria as well and they seem ok with it.
This is your daily reminder that shi,t is about to hit the fan in Europe and Berlin is again part of the problem.
The fact that being Spanish makes me subhuman in their eyes
Ok, first of all, I, thankfully, do not live and have never lived in Berlin, but I visited a couple of times (my best friend lives there). Let me tell you something - the only times I felt good there was when we were sitting around in the apartment. And that says it all. I felt really awkward in all the public places, the people are so rude and always have a Kristen Stewart facial expression, which is fairly creepy is all I'm saying. But there was one situation in particular that left me speechless. So, my best friend's bf and I went to buy some burgers down the street and so we were sitting there, waiting (for like 45 mins or something - it is really crowded) and then some couple approached us asking if they could sit at the same table while they wait. So, we said yes, of course. Now, he is German, so they started talking in Deutsch, but then he told them that I dont speak it and asked them if they spoke any English, to which they answered - yes, BUT continued talking in German. I was shocked. And so the time was passing by and I was sitting there, watching them laughing, trying to look calm, looking at my mobile phone... Then I thought to myself - ''you are not a moron, you don't deserve this, do something for god's sake''. And so I interfered by just asking some really polite questions, ''demanding'' answers. I could see how they felt really pissed about it which gave me the ultimate pleasure. At the end of the wait, I told them ''Good luck with your future life and hopefully you'll learn how to be polite to somebody else who isn't German''. They were shocked. Oh well. Do I care? NO. But the person that hurt me the most in this whole misadventure was my best friend's bf - he just kept talking to them in German. I told him that he was extremely impolite afterwards to which he replied that he didn't want to be rude to those two (?). Oh, but being rude to me was okay, huh? Good to know. Duly noted. So, again, I can only be thankful for not living there, but my friend is stuck there, surrounded by rude, unapologetic excuses of people.