throwaway12903

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by throwaway12903 6y ago
Confirms my thinking that everyone wants to live in the middle and there isn't enough supply and really not enough space for new supply. From my anecdotal experience, if all listed rents were double the rent cap, all apartments would s
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by throwaway12903 6y ago
Gentrification is real though. And a lot of Berlin's culture is built by people who don't earn that much. I'd be interested to know for how many people it actually helps at the margins and how many its just a handout for. But
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by throwaway12903 6y ago
> 1.5 years to find an apartment, that is not cheap but bordering the acceptable Curious - how far outside of the center of Berlin did your search extend, and what was your parameters for an acceptable place/rent?
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by throwaway12903 6y ago
> it is not going to happen if they allow systematic exclusion* and abuse of expats that are trying to settle in the city. I don't think its deliberate exclusion/racism as you say. When we looked we always found that there were
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by throwaway12903 6y ago
I don't think it's about housing supply. People want to live in the city and in desirable suburbs. These suburbs have existing tenants who could not afford the market rate of rent today. Gentrification basically. The question is h
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by throwaway12903 6y ago
I moved to Berlin with partner in late 2019. We were looking for 3 rooms for < 1800 in East (Pberg/Xberg/Friedrichshain). After long, tiring search of 20+ places with 100+ people at each, through a friend of friend we got a pla