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Ok, a lot of people feel this about their cities they view through the lens of the past. I think the same of Nashville, but I at least acknowledge I am extremel

Ok, a lot of people feel this about their cities they view through the lens of the past. I think the same of Nashville, but I at least acknowledge I am extremely biased and basically just a grumpy 30+ year old. Munich is easily one of the best -big- cities in the world. Literally everything you just said could be applied to virtually every large city on Earth. Munich has roughly the same population as Manhattan, it is a huge city and yet is clean, safe, accessible, has great transit, close to tons of lakes and the Alps. I know Germans are fairly pessimistic, so not really surprising to hear this, but also, I will vouche that it's not really in touch with reality when you compare it to cities of similar sizes in Europe and the US.

mschuster91 3y ago
> Munich is easily one of the best -big- cities in the world. That's the usual problem with relative comparisons. When the competition is cities with people defecating on the sidewalks (SF), half the city being bought up as a wealth store for Russians and Chinese (London) or places with incompetent politicians (Berlin), even a run-down place like Munich stands out. And the conservative clowns holding the Bavarian government hostage for decades does all it can to fuck up the city even more (see e.g. the years of the Bezirksregierung Oberbayern throwing wrenches into the C-series subway or tram trains, or how the state and federal government completely blew the 2. Stammstrecke train tunnel project), just to help out the local Conservatives which really aren't liked in Munich by acting like the SPD/Greens government is at fault for the issues. Seriously, I demand better from politics than to be happy with being the best among mediocrity. Germany is the fourth-richest nation in the world by GDP, the most powerful economy in the EU. We can do better than that.
- yladiz 3y ago
  > places with incompetent politicians (Berlin) What makes you think that, stuff like the Mietendeckel?
  - mschuster91 3y ago
    The complete inability of reforming the Senate vs Bezirke competences chaos is the biggest practical issue for me. The biggest meme issue was to time the last election right alongside the Berlin Marathon which completely predictable led to utter chaos.
    - yladiz 3y ago
      I guess they had no choice about the election date, but yeah they should have realized this when they approved the marathon date. And even disregarding that they really should have planned much better, as you said it was predicable there would be immense chaos that day. The most perplexing thing in recent memory for me was that they had digitized things like apartment registrations during covid yet undid it at some point. What sense does that make?

mschuster91 3y ago

> Munich is easily one of the best -big- cities in the world. That's the usual problem with relative comparisons. When the competition is cities with people defecating on the sidewalks (SF), half the city being bought up as a wealth store for Russians and Chinese (London) or places with incompetent politicians (Berlin), even a run-down place like Munich stands out. And the conservative clowns holding the Bavarian government hostage for decades does all it can to fuck up the city even more (see e.g. the years of the Bezirksregierung Oberbayern throwing wrenches into the C-series subway or tram trains, or how the state and federal government completely blew the 2. Stammstrecke train tunnel project), just to help out the local Conservatives which really aren't liked in Munich by acting like the SPD/Greens government is at fault for the issues. Seriously, I demand better from politics than to be happy with being the best among mediocrity. Germany is the fourth-richest nation in the world by GDP, the most powerful economy in the EU. We can do better than that.

yladiz 3y ago
> places with incompetent politicians (Berlin) What makes you think that, stuff like the Mietendeckel?
- mschuster91 3y ago
  The complete inability of reforming the Senate vs Bezirke competences chaos is the biggest practical issue for me. The biggest meme issue was to time the last election right alongside the Berlin Marathon which completely predictable led to utter chaos.
  - yladiz 3y ago
    I guess they had no choice about the election date, but yeah they should have realized this when they approved the marathon date. And even disregarding that they really should have planned much better, as you said it was predicable there would be immense chaos that day. The most perplexing thing in recent memory for me was that they had digitized things like apartment registrations during covid yet undid it at some point. What sense does that make?