Who here lives in Berlin? (1 Viewer)

[egg_]

Tom? You still there?

Got a friend (well, more a friend of my brothers', but I like him) going over there for a while, could do with a few people to talk to while he's getting settled in

 

[taubstumm]

check yr bocks

 

[pete]

An eminently quotable article

Berlin Is the ‘Post-Tourist’ Capital of Europe -- Next

 

[nooleen]

"When I first came to Berlin, I didn't really like it here, the whole hipster thing," says Rachel Martin-Austin, a 31-year-old freelance graphic designer from New York. She's eating a knoedel, a German version of a dumpling, at an event called Street Food Thursdays in a Kreuzberg food market.

 

[Lili Marlene]

That's interesting, goes well with this yoke from 2013 that i've posted a few times

Sacking Berlin - The Baffler

 

[Lili Marlene]

"When I first came to Berlin, I didn't really like it here, the whole hipster thing," says Rachel Martin-Austin, a 31-year-old freelance graphic designer from New York. She's eating a knoedel, a German version of a dumpling, at an event called Street Food Thursdays in a Kreuzberg food market.

"this is the kind of authentic experience she’s been looking for"

“I can Google a picture of the Brandenburg Gate, but I can’t Google a picture of the smoky bar in the Berlin street.”

I love that they include this picture with it

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

If Harbo gets his way, Dublin will become Little Berlin.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

This is what awaits you when you walk out of the IMAX cinema in Potsdamer Platz

It's like the future

This is what's below that yellow glass

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Tunnels just for bikes - Zehlendorf

 

[Lili Marlene]

Just move to Berlin already.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Just move to Berlin already.

Learning German. We shall see.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Tacheles RIP

New Berlin creeping in

 

[Lili Marlene]

Learning German. We shall see.

kudos! How is it going? I'm awful at languages and don't have the guts to go all in and just move somewhere where they speak foreign.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

kudos! How is it going? I'm awful at languages and don't have the guts to go all in and just move somewhere where they speak foreign.

It's difficult but fun.

Depending on your job, you might not even need it in Berlin. If you were working in a bar or whatnot, you could probably get away with cupla focal Deutsch and Bearla the rest of the time.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Hey, I might join you. London is becoming unliveable for a man of slender means! I did German at school. No brainer, right?!

 

[Lili Marlene]

Hey, I might join you. London is becoming unliveable for a man of slender means! I did German at school. No brainer, right?!

It's just broken english and literal translations, you'll be grand.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

It's funny how people go on about gentrification of Berlin. I was there 13 years ago and that is the way locals went on. The edginess of the old East Berlin was then sadly lamented by many I met.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I'm pretty sure there was also close to sweet fuck all at Potsdamer Platz back then, a couple of high rises IIRC.

 

[nooleen]

my mental image of berlin (never been) is a combination of wir kinder vom bahnhof zoo and then sausages and beer and stuff

the two don't actually go together, like the kinder are never eating sausages, just being all tragic

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Hey, I might join you. London is becoming unliveable for a man of slender means! I did German at school. No brainer, right?!

I have no idea, tbh
I imagine my current career would be difficult to transfer, as it's got lots of technical words and jargon. The language requirements would be severe.
Can't speak for other industries.
I just figure if I keep learning then I'll be in a better position in 6 months time than if I didn't.
It has a very low likelihood of actually happening.