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I just read the discussion a week ago about Germans who don't shower often enough. I used to get annoyed by that, especially in summer. But I now use it to my advantage. It is not only easier to find a partner here when your personal hygiene is better than 90% of the rest, it is also easier to get hired after a job interview if you smell neutral and not like a bunch of stale cigarettes and body odor with a bunch of cheap perfume on top to try to cover it up. I also live in an apartment building with no water meters inside the apartments. Our usage is calculated as an average of all tenants. I know for a fact I shower probably 2 or 3 times as often as the other people so they are helping pay for my impeccable hygiene. Thanks Germans!
Lufthansa is now the first and only airline to ban Apple AirTags from use in checked luggage solely because they were being used to show how incompetent Lufthansa and German airport staff are.
I left Germany almost 6 months ago, and i need to tell you that after 10 years of spending there im so glad being in my home country after all. the people are not 100% nice, but i still need to get used to the "normal" life and people. So dont hesitate and do something about your miserable life in Germnay! It doenst matter how long you stayed there, just leave :)
Is Spain a better country to live? I know economically and jobwise it is not, but I need a friendlier environment! I am talented in picking up a new language! I just wanna regain some joy of life! This country makes me so miserable and depressed
Dumbest German word ever probably: Kuscheleinheit. Could it sound any more robotic and transactional?
One month away from planning my escape...
Berlin has crippled me mentally and even physically. Due to stress I have not only anxiety, but hormonal imbalances that I am bound to treat with chemicals for a while now... I have little power to arrange and pick myself up, and even tho I am leaving in a bit, at least for a while, I am still crippled and depleted and can't adjust my mindset to look forward. 5 years in this place and there's nothing I leave behind...
Everything is fake, superficial, evil, unfriendly and... rotten. I wasted some of my best years trying to give this place a chance until I fell into abyss.
I hope to get better once I am out. Leaving with no aim, only with hope that the world is better...
I wanted to comment about a female dog who works for a Tax Office in Spandau. freaking racist bitch, die in Hell you "Mauer-Zeit" bitch!
She was so harsh about my few mistakes and made me feel useless. I was super tolerant and tried to answer back nicely to maintain a professional and friendly working environment. But her German broken up mentality didn't know better. These people don't understand humour or manners. Straight-up uncivilised cunts.
FUCK YOU GERMAN RACIST BITCH!!! You are stuck in the past and you are ugly as fuck!
Why are there so many creepy 35-50 year old incels from the former GDR? I swear it feels like you can sense when a man is from there. Was this done on purpose to them?
I can't describe the level of detachment I feel here. I feel like I am in a mental patient's fever dream of the world outside the asylum. I don't understand it, I have been to other foreign countries and didn't feel like this. I have been to cold and bleak and poor places and didn't feel like this. When the winter comes I feel like the real world is just gone. It just isn't here. About 3 years in I legit had a mental break, but now I am just numb. You know how you have some bad memories and regrets from your past and you put them in a part of your brain and close it, don't go there? Berlin is like a city version of that. Is it the culture, the climate, the people? The rampant normalized addiction? Maybe there are ghosts, idk.
I know what you mean. The only time I ever felt anything here after the honeymoon period was over was when I was planning and making choices about my future. So much of German culture is following the stream and it often seems like everything is decided by someone else. If you can push back a little, then you'll eventually gather momentum. Make escaping your number one priority and always have that in the forefront of your mind. If you pray, then pray about it. If you meditate, then meditate on it. Eventually a path will show itself and most importantly, when it does you must seize it immediately. Do not talk yourself out of it. Do not rationalize the downsides of Berlin. Do not tell yourself you won't make it elsewhere. Just book that one-way ticket and say FU Germany!
lmao about this comment on youtube :
"I like western europe but eastern europe makes better music, better food, memes language and people and is hence more important."
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Why Germans seem entitled???? There are quite literally hundreds of thousands of people here who stopped working when the wall fell and have more disposable income than most immigrants. Look up the gap between what a German earns and what an immigrant earns here.
It does not matter the origins of these Berliners, they all seem to fulfil this nasty trait to be envious. They scan you like a hawk, passing comments and sometimes asking how much things cost. I cannot stand it when one enters your flat and immediately asks how much you pay. I feel the air turning green when I am with many of them. Like I said they do not need to be from a german family background. It was the same with whoever... as long as they are living in Berlin/berliners. I am from London, it just wasn't like that there. Of course jealousy exists everywhere, but here it is so common. They then proceed to probe you with a barrage of questions in order to analyse your job and education and decide if you deserve the things you have, or victimise themselves for their own shortcomings. They are so transparent. Yes money and status are facts of life and they may come up in discussion where relevant, or accidentally or whatever... but I feel like I have to be on my guard what I reveal. I feel like I have to justify myself. I think I have a slightly above average salary, I am not affluent, not rich or showy. My crime: being foreign!
Something warped about German logic - these idiots always have to act like they have a better life than you.
I have a "cheap" apartment because I have been in the same one for 8 years. Germans love to ask how much I pay and then say "Boaaaah I am in zee Vonungsbowgenossenshaft and I payz only 200 euroz for my 20 sq meterz apartment hahaha".
I mention vaguely how much I earn once and they say "Ooohhh vell I dont earn mutch moneey but at least I has fun at ze Arbeit and zat iz most important" while the MFer earns below the poverty level and has to get Wohngeld.
My brother came to visit recently from my hometown, some small <100k population city. German dude: "Oh zooo gut for heem zat he can visit ze big city and geet outta zat village they are zooo backwards zere" while this MF legit has social anxiety so bad that one time he is too scared to use the bathroom at a cafe we JUST left and went and pissed in the bushed instead.
True product of Berlin.
I left berlin and moved to london it was a good decision. People are polite here and mind their own business.
Yes I am trapped here... somehow Berlin traps one... we all know this Stefan, thanks. Berlin draws you in and somehow leaves you feeling there is no other place you can move to from here. It is either Berlin or the abyss. Strange, non-sensical but yes we all experience this dilemma. However, am I already in the abyss?!
Thing about Berlin is that it's shitty, BUT it makes you think that you, too, are shitty. Every job here you'll have you'll think "holy shit, this company is so fucked. management is full of idiots and no one actually works." After a year you'll think "holy shit, they've turned me into an idiot as well. i could never function in a real company in a real city." It's like dating an abuser or an alcoholic or something with a mental disorder. They pull you down to their level and ruin your confidence. Unless you're here for hedonism, the only good thing about Berlin is that you could live on 2k/month but even that's soon to be history.