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Not really. Everything she described - the feeling of being unwelcome, comments about your language skills (even when you're learning and trying), being stared
by manish_gill 3y ago
Not really. Everything she described - the feeling of being unwelcome, comments about your language skills (even when you're learning and trying), being stared at, the utterly ridiculous bureaucracy - all of these experiences are true. Even in a big, supposed modern city like Berlin. Even when interacting with young people.
Source: Been living in Berlin since '19
- dontupvoteme 3y agoI have not experienced any of these in HH. Even the bureaucracy wasn't that bad honestly.
- sillyfluke 3y agoNote to Germans: Do not even attempt to defend your country's hospitality industry. It is goddamn atrocious and often times worthy of a Little Britain skit.
- dontupvoteme 3y agoWould you kindly elaborate?
- McEngineer 3y agoI'm german. Berlin is the worst place that you can land in germany. Germans who come to berlin get a complete culture shock. There is "Berliner Schnauze", it describes that people just hurl slurs around on the first occasion. Someone from berlin told me that it is "Not holding back your emotions and being truthful" - he phrased it very positively. Berlin is one of the few citys in germany where a large organized crime scene exists and is considered massively unsafe by german standarts. Young people are even worse since they have normalized all of this. Try going to Karlsruhe, Göttingen or other univerity cities. They are the big modern cities of germany and you will feel accepted there as an obvious foreigner. ("big city" by german standarts). In addition, being obese is a good way to make a bad impression on germans. Since one of the biggest national virues here is (self) discipline. Hope that this helped some people form a better understanding.
- dontupvoteme 3y ago>Try going to Karlsruhe, Göttingen or other univerity cities. They are the big modern cities of germany and you will feel accepted there as an obvious foreigner. ("big city" by german standarts). Lübeck as well?
- manish_gill 3y agoYou assume that I haven't traveled the entire country. I have. I've been to many places that you describe and have friends in those cities. Student towns are sort of a bubble, they don't count. The rest of Germany as you put it isn't any better. I've had people tell me Berlin is _shockingly better_ compared to $insert_name_here.
- wrp 3y agoTo be fair to the parent, all the people I've met who reported a good experience living in Germany stayed far away from Berlin.