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One doesn't need to work and pay taxes in Berlin to take a bicycle ride there, and better don't enter into or swim in its murky lakes and ponds.

nicbou 3y ago
There are many more good reasons to live in this dysfunctional hellhole of a city. Otherwise I'd have left a long time ago. No matter what, I still love it there.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago
  >There are many more good reasons to live in this dysfunctional hellhole of a city What are those reasons, that don't also exist in other better-run European cities, like Vienna for example? At least there you don't have to fight 200 other people for a shitty overpriced apartment. I also like Berlin to visit, attend tech conferences or meet-up, concerts and parties, but moving there now would simply wear me out.
  - nicbou 3y ago
    They're personal, but it's just a fun city to live in. Besides, I've spent too much time on that damn paperwork to give up!
    - FirmwareBurner 3y ago
      >They're personal, but it's just a fun city to live in Sure that's understandable, but that's nothing objective in that, that's just a personal choice based on personal taste and circumstances, which can apply to any other city if you think about it. There are so many other fun cities in Europe where you don't have to put up with all that nonsense. That's nothing special to warrant overhyping Berlin even further, it already suffers from a branch of the Paris syndrome they could call it Berlin syndrome.
      - expertentipp 3y ago
        Agree. DACH countries are among the most desirable for immigrants globally. Natives are hyper self-aware about their desirability and one can feel it when negotiating a job with them or making business with them. Many immigrants (ehem.... expats) masochistically buy into their hosts' superiority. Well if suffering if fun for them... in the end masochism is invention of German speaking world.
      - nicbou 3y ago
        Absolutely. I ended up here by chance. It could have been elsewhere. To each their own.

nicbou 3y ago

There are many more good reasons to live in this dysfunctional hellhole of a city. Otherwise I'd have left a long time ago. No matter what, I still love it there.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>There are many more good reasons to live in this dysfunctional hellhole of a city What are those reasons, that don't also exist in other better-run European cities, like Vienna for example? At least there you don't have to fight 200 other people for a shitty overpriced apartment. I also like Berlin to visit, attend tech conferences or meet-up, concerts and parties, but moving there now would simply wear me out.
- nicbou 3y ago
  They're personal, but it's just a fun city to live in. Besides, I've spent too much time on that damn paperwork to give up!
  - FirmwareBurner 3y ago
    >They're personal, but it's just a fun city to live in Sure that's understandable, but that's nothing objective in that, that's just a personal choice based on personal taste and circumstances, which can apply to any other city if you think about it. There are so many other fun cities in Europe where you don't have to put up with all that nonsense. That's nothing special to warrant overhyping Berlin even further, it already suffers from a branch of the Paris syndrome they could call it Berlin syndrome.
    - expertentipp 3y ago
      Agree. DACH countries are among the most desirable for immigrants globally. Natives are hyper self-aware about their desirability and one can feel it when negotiating a job with them or making business with them. Many immigrants (ehem.... expats) masochistically buy into their hosts' superiority. Well if suffering if fun for them... in the end masochism is invention of German speaking world.
    - nicbou 3y ago
      Absolutely. I ended up here by chance. It could have been elsewhere. To each their own.