Yes, I think “relevant but potentially outdated experience” is better than “literally no experience whatsoever”; but I suppose reasonable people can disagree.

Yes, I think “relevant but potentially outdated experience” is better than “literally no experience whatsoever”; but I suppose reasonable people can disagree. The arguments about Berlin being “over” and it being impossible to find a place nowadays are constant since ~2012? I’ve definitely heard that I missed “the good times” when I got there in 2015. Did it get worse since? Sure, in some ways. Is it as hard as people make it out to be, if you’re not rejecting 90% of available supply outright? Not really. Again, I’m not trying to say that the situation is great, and it should be a model for other cities. But it genuinely does not take half a year to find a place, unless you’re trying to find a unicorn or have very specific needs/limits. (I, of course, also have friends who still live in the city and have moved since, so I do feel like I know what I’m talking about; but that is somewhat besides the point being argued here.)