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It's the perfect place to bootstrap a small not-technically-a-startup-by-certain-definitions company, though. Fantastic place to live, still quite cheap, etc.

by TillE 13y ago

It's the perfect place to bootstrap a small not-technically-a-startup-by-certain-definitions company, though. Fantastic place to live, still quite cheap, etc. It's close to the ideal environment for an indie games studio, for example. Not looking to make massive piles of money and scale to infinity, just explore creatively and grow slowly.

wellboy 13y ago
Oh yes it is, you can virtually "not" run out of money there. Sandwhich costs $3, you can a really big room with a double bed for $600/month.
- DasIch 13y ago
  If you pay $600/month for a room in Berlin you are doing something wrong.
  - crucialfelix 13y ago
    or you are making decent money and you want a nice apartment and are tired of living in tief neukölln. when things are on sale, buy the nice one
  - wellboy 13y ago
    Sure you can also leave there for 200 Euros in Neukoelln but that was in the hip area Prenzlauer Berg, 25 m2 with a nice kitchen and bathroom. I payed 400 Euros for that.
- DanielleMolloy 13y ago
  Just to provide numbers: I pay about $650 for a two-room apartment about 15min by subway from Mitte, where I study, and I sublet the smaller room. I end up paying a bit less than what my classmates pay for rent on average. This is still considered expensive by people who have been living in Berlin for just few years more. The rents are still rising since many people are coming to Berlin at the moment; and have been quite high in hip districts like Prenzlauer Berg for a while, but there is definitely no comparison to many other large cities in Europe like London (and none to the Bay Area at all, where you can literally end up paying $700 for a room shared with a stranger, next to the gap in general living expenses).
  - jedrek 13y ago
    In a discussion on Quora over where the "next Berlin" will be, someone mentioned Warsaw, Poland. I replied that that's a ridiculous notion - rents here are already far higher than in Berlin.

by TillE 13y ago

wellboy 13y ago

Oh yes it is, you can virtually "not" run out of money there. Sandwhich costs $3, you can a really big room with a double bed for $600/month.

DasIch 13y ago
If you pay $600/month for a room in Berlin you are doing something wrong.
- crucialfelix 13y ago
  or you are making decent money and you want a nice apartment and are tired of living in tief neukölln. when things are on sale, buy the nice one
- wellboy 13y ago
  Sure you can also leave there for 200 Euros in Neukoelln but that was in the hip area Prenzlauer Berg, 25 m2 with a nice kitchen and bathroom. I payed 400 Euros for that.
DanielleMolloy 13y ago
Just to provide numbers: I pay about $650 for a two-room apartment about 15min by subway from Mitte, where I study, and I sublet the smaller room. I end up paying a bit less than what my classmates pay for rent on average. This is still considered expensive by people who have been living in Berlin for just few years more. The rents are still rising since many people are coming to Berlin at the moment; and have been quite high in hip districts like Prenzlauer Berg for a while, but there is definitely no comparison to many other large cities in Europe like London (and none to the Bay Area at all, where you can literally end up paying $700 for a room shared with a stranger, next to the gap in general living expenses).
- jedrek 13y ago
  In a discussion on Quora over where the "next Berlin" will be, someone mentioned Warsaw, Poland. I replied that that's a ridiculous notion - rents here are already far higher than in Berlin.