"You go into a shop, just back from Japan, and expect the local version of a cheerful irrashaimase! Instead you get a sort of scowl that seems to say "What the fuck do you want, you weird pirate-looking guy?" Even when you say "Guten Tag!" you may well get no response"
hmm.. wonderful post. I think it has all of the reasons listed in it as to why I personally left Berlin. It's a hard place to live without but it's also a really hard place to "survive" for long. Although..." it's white Germans who are the worst -- totally disinhibited, arrogantly lazy, proud of not fitting in, beer bottle in hand, ready to assail and insult strangers. "
I have to say I sort of miss that because now that I'm back in England I personally really dislike how subservient everyone is and how the system gets to do anything it pleases with people. There is a vicious freedom in Berlin, I think, which sure, on one hand means you suffer but on the other means that you're free too.
There is a kind of dignity in that sort of recklesness.
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Date: 2010-01-23 06:35 pm (UTC)hmm.. wonderful post. I think it has all of the reasons listed in it as to why I personally left Berlin.
It's a hard place to live without but it's also a really hard place to "survive" for long.
Although..." it's white Germans who are the worst -- totally disinhibited, arrogantly lazy, proud of not fitting in, beer bottle in hand, ready to assail and insult strangers. "
I have to say I sort of miss that because now that I'm back in England I personally really dislike how subservient everyone is and how the system gets to do anything it pleases with people.
There is a vicious freedom in Berlin, I think, which sure, on one hand means you suffer but on the other means that you're free too.
There is a kind of dignity in that sort of recklesness.