Berlin: 9 reasons why the German capital city isn't very German at all | Meet the Germans
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- Rachel moved from the UK to Germany in 2016. As a relative newcomer she casts a fresh eye over German clichés and shares her experiences of settling into German life. Every two weeks she explores a new topic - from saunas to asparagus or the ins and outs of German small talk.
This week she's off the to the capital city, Berlin, to find out more about its unique identity and how, in so many ways, the city and its inhabitants are not at all typically German.
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I can't since I don't know all of Germany, but what I realized when I was there 5 years ago, that in the inner city I heard more English than German, so it wouldn't surprise me if there are actually some bars there where they don't speak German.
great video
Being born and raised in Cologne (23 years), also having lived in Freiburg (2 years) I can confirm that Berlin is BY FAR the most international city in Germany. Many Berliners say what they think, good or bad. What you see is what you get. That is certainly different to the rest of Germany...
As the headquarters of DW is located in Bonn I guess you know the term "Kölsche Klüngel" and what that means. In Berlin and especially in the former West Berlin, you have to multiply the "Kölsche Klüngel" to imagine how Politics did work over there. As long as West Berlin was an exclave of the BRD, it was highly subsidized. In the early 1980th, I signed a work contract with a company in West Berlin and even I got a bunch of subsidizes (e.g. a fully furnished apartment, tax reductions, cheaper flight tickets and so on and so on). If you think the Köln Messe or the Köln Sparkasse was a big fault, look the Berliner Bank case up. The whole political class in West Berlin was used to be subsidized since the end of WW2. With that in mind, imagine what it does to them and how revolutionary it is for them to change that mindset.
Instead of making Berlin attractive to big companies, they ask for more support and behaved as everyone must come to Berlin and they are the ones who decided if a company is worth to come. After they did realize that this way to build up a successful city must fail, they change their targets but not their behavior. So they ended up, with an economy that produces mostly small paid jobs and labeled that one poor but sexy. In reality, it is not more than a big lie. With such a concept you will (and that is what did happen to Berlin) relay more and more on subsidies instead of being able to live on your own economy. To camouflage your own faults it is and always was a good idea to blame others and that is what Berlins politicians have cultivated to the max.
Only one small example. In Frankfurt, they had found a WW2 bomb some month ago, after the experts did check the situation and said that there is no need to act at once, the city decided to disarm the bomb at a Sunday because that did harm the economy the least. Not so far later the same thing hapend in Berlin, but they decided to disarm the bomb on Friday. (Because that gives folks the opportunity of a longer weekend?)
Yes, Berlin did have its disadvantages after WWII, but tomorrow is the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall.
After WWII Bavaria was a state that had an economy mostly driven by agriculture and so Bavaria was a collector in the Länderfinanzausgleich. But 30 years later, Bavaria was at the edge of becoming a contributor to the Länderfinanzausgleich and than the Bavarian MP did invent the "Zonenrandgebiet" and that one keeps Bavaria on the receiving side. It was so important to him, that he even helps the GDR to get a credit worth a billion DM so that the GDR could exist a bit longer.
To make that clear, both ways are the same kind. They cheat the whole system to claim an advantage for their own group. But the Berlin way is endless, while the Bavarian way did only by them a small amount of time.
To answer your question. Berlin is different from the rest of Germany because they even did not have the feeling that they must live on their own economy. The mindset of Berlin seems to be that we other Germans did owe them the billions we transfer every year.
Miss Steward try to imagine what will happen in Canterbury or Colchester if Greater London would act as Berlin did.
In a way, it's like comparing NYC to the rest of the US...
Abcflc, Not only NYC. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Las Vegas and even Chicago seem very cosmopolitan as well. On the other hand, big cities such as Washington D.C., Philadelphia or Dallas appear more nationally inward-oriented.
Not really; NYC is an immigrant area, just like the rest of the USA except perhaps for various Indian reservations.
If you live in NY, Newark, Philadelphia or even Boston it's pretty much the same. DC is a bit different from the USA but even that isn't all that very different. DC is much more like the rest of the USA than Berlin is to Germany.
A lot more of a Portland feel. NYC has Wall Street. Frankfurt is more like Manhattan.
Could NYC been a city in any other country than the US? I dont' think so. Berlin also couldn't be anywhere else than Germany and it is not a giant difference to Hamburg in size or cultural and nightlife aspects. Leipzig is also often described as the "better Berlin" or the "new Berlin". I like Berlin but it's not so unique and outstanding as the Berliners and the press sometimes pretend they are
@@r.mcdichnich1979 Berlins history makes the city so unique, you won't find a place like this. Berlin was built on a drained swamp in the middle of grasslands, fields and forests and was a political and economical unsignificant city among many other big-german speaking cities like Frankfurt, Vienna, Cologne, Hamburg, Munich. But the industrialisation has transformed Berlin into the most innovative economical powerhouse as well as the cultural and political capital of the German Empire. Berlin was the third largest city on earth in the Golden Twenties, before becoming the center of evil. After the almost complete destruction, Berlin was divided and partly isolated for over 30 years.
This goddamn city has seen so much, from miraculous ascents to terrible downfalls. But the soul of Berlin never died. And that's definitely unique and outstanding.
Berlin is like the child who always is loud even when the teacher tells it to shut up
not really, berlin is more like that strange punk kid who has friends rather outside of school and usually does it's own thing
Berlin really shouldn't be the capital. Bonn was a much better choice.
Forgot to mention drugs in Berlin?
Maybe the topic needs a whole episode for it self.
"If you happen to be addicted to drugs such as cannabis, cocaine or LSD, you will always manage to locate a generally friendly drug dealer at Warschauer Straße or Görlitzer Park who will help you out. And once you make it into one of the more exclusive clubs, you better have a vast knowledge of controlled substances before you partake in what's offered to you."
Berlin seems perfect then
I love doing drugs
But in a smart way
@@kostam.1113 I am not a doctor but I believe in researchers and expert's opinions, and by them, there is no smart way to do drugs. Let's not glorify using drugs! If you like it and know the cost of your life, do it but don't act as you are cool to take drugs.
@@samkhpak I'll stop drinking my morning coffee then
As someone who moved to Berlin from a different part of Germany, I must say that this is pretty accurate.
I give you one year
@@hanszimmer9224 And then?
@Jannis Kiesewalter No strong feelings but Berlin is mainly a block of concrete with people completly disconnected from themselves and the nature which materializes in a destructive party culture. They basicly sold their heritage and culture to McDonalds & Co. to become the USA 2.0.
@Jannis Kiesewalter But the main issue is that Berlin lives in the past. Berlin is poorly developed comparing to other countries in Germany and the EU. Even less developed than most of the countryside in south Germany.
"And all this talk of tradition is stupid. What traditions and culture are we supposed to keep up? this sentence is already so extremly typical (north) german.
It's Weimar Germany all over again. Europe's sin capital. And then for no reason at all...
I tied and gagged my landlord playing this video to him: "Cheap rent, she said! CHEAP RENT!!!!"
HAHAHA
Compare Berlin to any other German city with > 1 m inhabitants and you'll see that rents are cheap in Berlin.
Compare Berlin to any other West European capital with > 2 m inhabitants and you'll even find rents very cheap in Berlin...
@@notroll1279 All German cities (Munich included) are cheap compared to prices in London!
@@notroll1279 well I guess you are actually a troll as just state some unsubstantiated "facts"... Okay, since you not even bothered to look up some statistics I did this for you:
Average rent in German cities >1M:
Munich: 23,03€/m²
Berlin: 15,11€/m²
Hamburg: 13,47€/m²
Cologne: 13,39€/m²
So what are you talking about dude?! Get your facts straight next time...
@@AsselParty Would you be so kind to name your sources?
So viel erzählt in 3 Minuten. Toll! Weiter so!
Spaceman danke, es war sportlich 😅😅
Hey what does that mean)
@@krateproductions4872 I don't know lol
I really love the Meet the Germans videos. Because even though I'm born and raised in Germany I still learn so many new things about my own country. Thank you for making these videos:)
I love Rachel's style better for Meet the Germans.
These bits are very well produced, almost impossible to turn off. And, oh yeah: They're informative. Congrats editorial team, congrats DW.
Most people walking around downtown don’t even speak german.
Those are the tourists :-)
Sounds Exactly like Amsterdam, a tourist place where all foreign languages resides except for the other cities in The Netherlands.
@@vanessas2454 and migrants
not the case, and those who don't are tourists.
Germany doesn’t even have that many migrants. Germany is like 80 something percent German, 90 percent German/European, and only like 9 to 10 percent actually come from outside of Europe. Diversity is almost non-existent in most parts of Germany. So I don’t even know what there is to complain about. You got like 100s of other cities and small towns where there mostly only Germans.
Berlin is different in many ways, and the reasons lie in history.
1) Germany is in the very heart of Europe and has been the continent´s "crossroad" for centuries. People have come from all directions, transitted through, left their marks. There has always been an above-average turnover in residents.
2) Berlin has never had lots of industry, instead it has always been a centre of culture, academia and politics. It has always attracted free thinkers and artists.
3) Germany´s history has been turbulent during the past 150 years to say the least, with Berlin often at the epicenter. This meant a rollercoaster ride for the city´s developement . The population is a melting pot of people who have come and left, either seeking their fortune or running away from turmoil.
4) The wall has meant that West Berlin practically became an island. Large companies wouldn´t choose (or keep) Berlin as their base because of difficult logistics (having to ship their raw materials in and finished products out somehow). So, for decades, Berlin didn´t see as much growth as other west german cities. The lack of an industrial base and manufacturing sector is still evident in Berlin. This is why Berlin is not really part of the German economic powerhouse.
5) The end of the city´s division required huge investments to reconnect the two parts. The building activities during the 90s were absolutely insane, the infrastructure only merely working, the whole city getting a complete make-over. Those are not the conditions that attract businesses, so again no real economic growth. Unemployment skyrocketed. You had to be creative to get by, find alternative ways of living. This brought about the shabby culture. Berliners don´t pretend, and they don´t care. They are straightforward by nature, with a cheeky tongue and a no-nonsense attitude anyway.
6) The mix of east and west German ways makes Berlin unique.
7) Now that the post-unification make-over is completed (by and large), the little-developed business sector has attracted countless start-up businesses. The city´s one strong asset - universities and higher education - make for a good supply in young, well-educated people ready to try new, innovative ideas (making use of the alternative creativity of Berliners). This in turn attracts more young people, and now the city has one of the highest rates of single households in Europe.
8) Berlin is Germany´s capital and biggest city, but is located fairly far away from other major metropolitan areas in the country, so there is still some disadvantage. Also, population density and infrastructure around Berlin is a vast contrast to the areas surrounding other major cites, which of course is explained by the wall largely sealing the city off for so many years.
Tesla is going to build a giga factory in Brandenburg, maybe that's the beginning of a new era.
Thanks for the effort, much appreciated
@@Gerico9008 Indeed a new era for German auto-industrie.
A very good explanation. I way too often see people complain about the länderfinanzausgleich and how berlin is a net negative in the overall german economy when its not berlins fault for having suffered the worst in the past century, in ww2 and under soviet occupation. It gets my blood boiling when some hinterwäldler whose home town never had to face such destruction/hardship complains that 0.01% of his taxes go to this great, unique city.
it's a little bit like Madrid in the Middle of nowhere :P
cheap rent!!!!!! when did they record this video? 1990?
Yeah cheap rent compared to say Munich go compare
@@IainMcGirr I thought rent is the most expensive in Berlin.
Especially that there is a shortage of housing in Berlin.
Anyway, is rent cheaper than Hambourg or even cheaper than Hanover?
Thanks!
@@Muhamedim Only expensive if you want to or HAVE to live in the trendy areas of the East such as kreuzberg everywhere else it massively cheaper than other major cities Cologne Munich anywhere in Baden Wuttenberg ...and yeah I have lived in these areas to compare .. Munich is the MOST expensive city in Germany fact check it out.
@@IainMcGirr thanks
Yeah it's almost dirt cheap in comparison to cities like Frankfurt.
I watched this series, in the USA, before my study abroad in the Rhineland-Palatinate. I’ve been here for over two months and it’s all so accurate! Berlin is very different from the rest of Deutschland for sure except for the Charlottenburg area as mentioned. I can’t wait for more! 🇺🇸🇩🇪
Hallo Rachel!
I study in Universität Siegen. If you guys can please make a short video series on life in German universities that would be an instant hit.
Something on German professors-student dynamics.
Something on life in rural Germany.
Something state specific like for NRW or Bavaria. What is special about these places
Also what can you do while you visit German cities apart from getting a selfie with famous monuments.
Warm Regards
Vishu Sharma
vishu sharma Hi Vishu, wow thank you for all these ideas! What have you noticed about studying in Germany? That could be a really good episode :)
@@RachelStewart04 Hi Rachel, everyone knocks on the desk after the lecture is over (to thank the Prof). All exchange students find that weird.
@@florenceching So they do it elsewhere as well ? Interesting....
@@user-et8vm9cc3t you meant where? :)
@@florenceching Not just in Baden-Württemberg.
Loving the series!
Thank you!
Now I get why I didnt like Berlin while Im loving Hamburg, Bremen and Flensburg.
Geht nix über friesisch Klartext, sach ich ma'.
Meanwhile, I cant think of a more depressing city than Bremen. And I live in Bremen
@@michaeldemse3944 Really?? I found it beautiful and a place I would live in. Berlin it's depressing, full of graphitti.
Natalie Muñoz thank you for standing up for my hometown 😂 Bremen
@@stepa3442 Bremen rules!! 👍
Ich liebe Bremen 😍
Saludos desde Chile 🇨🇱
I remember I drove for 5 hours and ended up at my hotel in Berlin, and everyone there was speaking English (without knowing I was an anglophone). I thought I had gotten lost at first! Also most stores and restaurants I went to in Berlin were very inclined toward English.
Excellent video as always. Well done, Rachel!
DarkRuins Dankeschön 😁
Neat precise and efficient. Love you. Keep up.
Thank you!
I love this series, Rachel is so funny
Valerian Ardelean 😁
Cred că cineva vrea să emigreze;)))
Berlin splits the people, there are some, who love this city... and a lot of others, who think it is messy and do not like it at all...
This is my favorite TH-cam series. Rachel your presentation is very good. Plz don't stop.
Thamindu kavinda thanks so much! 😃
COOL! thank you fer the sharing yer experiences.
I appreciate and enjoy your videos! Keep them coming!
We upload a new episode every second Wednesday! :)
Thank you - we will! :D
Yes! Please make more videos!!
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Dirty? I just visited Berlin as a tourist from Greece, and I absolutely loved it.
I was staying close to Charite hospital, in Invalidenstrasse. I like the area very much, clean & freshly painted roads, posh cars, excellent Public Transportation, nice people, and you're close to everything.
The sights are fantastic really. Only thing I didn't like was the cold and the many night hours. But hey, it's winter after all.
Keep your city as it is, it's very nice!
Berlin is, for a german city, very dirty. Trash and graffiti is everywhere
Uh, if Berlin is clean in comparison to Greece, you should seriously start tidying up your country.
@@TigruArdavi I visited Berlin from NYC. It's so much cleaner lol
Berlin has been liberal and a melting pot in the 1920's as it is now and is still typical Berlin. Always a bit chaotic and messy, poor, grey and half finished Baustellen everywhere. Not our problem your stereotypes of Germany don't fit here. Every region and every major city has a different mentality and history. Hamburg is nothing like Köln which is nothing like Munich which is nothing like Frankfurt M. ...
Many people said that German Empire should have won WW I
Gecko Lia Das ist ja ne interessante Mischung aus deutsch und englisch die du da benutzt :D
There is only one stereotype one should know about Berlin, because it's the most fitting one: freeloader. Berlin is like a person who refuses to work for his living but still wants to have all the benefits of doing a good job. Without the money of Bavaria Berlin would be nothing but a slum.
i think many of these things intesified due to the Berliner Mauer, the knowledge that every day the russians could just annex west berlin lead to a "fuck all that serious shit, lets have some fun" mentallity.
@@christianhoffmann8252 berlin, like paris, should be pushed into the sea
My Berliner German friends think it may be to do with a quarter of the population being middle Eastern and /or Turkish and a big chunk of the rest being Tourists or students. Well it is diverse!
Love the automated english captions when they speak german!
i think berlin still has the "live every day like it´s you´rt last" mentallity.
Thank You for this video.
Awesome Presentation...👍
Berlin is that one city I feel like I’m home without being at home.
facts, it has its charm
I decided to take a offer to go to Berlin. Hopefully I can practice my German there, took several courses on German and now self teaching myself. Hope the people appreciate the effort. Going for IT, I don't really care if berlin is German or not. Im German out after traveling to all of the German states. Would be good to travel to Leipzig now and then. Using DW with Nico to study right now. But Im glad as American I can speak some German :D, and French. Then I wanna tackle Luxembourgish and Swiss German. Berlin Germany will be the start
You should make a video about the very traditional areas in Germany, such as East Frisia. Nobody ever believes me if I say that we drink more tea in my area than anywhere else one earth :) and I'm sure other areas have their own interesting traditions, too.
Nobody believes whatever East Frisians say.
Turks do drink a lot of tea. And they grow their own. And they have their own system of constantly re-supplying tea & hot water over the whole day. I would guess in Turkey (including Berlin of course) more tea is drunk than in East Frisia.
Frisia is on my list to visit. It's supposed to be the area with an historic connection to England. The Dutch Frisian being the closest Germanic language cousin to English. Perhaps that could explain the tea drinking? :-)
You guys speak Frisian right? I think they might have trouble getting material.
@@tompatterson1548 In East Frisia, lots of us speak Low German, but most of us speak High German (the standard one) in daily life. There are only a few older people who might struggle with High German.
Berlin, are there Gernans in Berlin? Been there once and felt like a minority.
@M Stop underestimating the issue.
@@multiversalman4270 70 percent of Berlin is german. 80 percent is white
@@multiversalman4270 berlin is far less diverse than for example London or Paris, so shush
@@PodcastCentral333 not gonna lie, I've been there myself and in some places it's like a city in the Middle East. Not what I expected tbh.
@@johniewalker4356 uhm?? where exactly in Berlin, the most white city of all major European capitals, made you that "it's like a city in the Middle East" ???
My most memorable thing from Berlin is the instant freezing of my breath at -17C in December and icicles forming on my eyebrows. We noticed immediately we crossed from the former West Germany to the former East Germany by the huge increase in pot holes. We were on a day trip from Celle and I then drove my family mad by trying to look for a black Minox LX in every photographic shop we passed and no one had any.
Just like Toronto. I don’t feel like I’m in Canada whenever I go there.
But what is typical Canadian?
Oh, isn't Toronto a US town? :)))
i'm from Montréal and i felt like i was in Canada for the first time in my life when i visited Toronto
Nah, Toronto is still extremely Canadian.
@@trevbarlow9719 I heard it's very multicultural. Maybe that's what he meant. But most people in Canada are immigrants, aren't they?
"Mont Klamott / auf dem Dach von Berlin / Mont Klamott / sind die Wiesen so Grün"... if I remember correctly. That song was quoted in my German textbook back when I was 13. In 1992. Haven't heard it since.
"Poor But Sexy" couldn't find three better words to describe myself with if i tried
Not every part of Berlin will “make you’ look shabby to fit it. Not every part of Berlin is dirty. The city has as many vacettes as it has districts, and each one is different. Discribed here are Neukölln and Kreuzberg mostly. But there is a lot more to it. I’ve always lived here and it makes me sad, to read all these bad comments, about a city, that has so much more to offer.
Also the rents are high unfortunately.
"I did not get in" too :D
I live in a small southern Bavarian city near Munich and I love Berlin. I'm a big Techno lover, so nightlife is one things I really miss here. I also love that you can do almost anything without being judged and the Police are very relaxed. I do have to say, the people of Berlin seem to be very grumpy/unfriendly towards outside people from other cities/states. Also, it did baffle me, how little people speak German, I even had a situation where I talked to a guy in English, because I just assumed he didn't speak German, but he infact speaks German, which I later found out.
Berlin, one of the very few places in Germany I feel comfortable in. And maybe Bremen, which has a lot of similarities to Berlin just on a smaller scale.
What’s bremen like?
@@tompatterson1548 Bremen has a bit of a run down character, especially in the residential areas in the centre. This is not your rich, well-to-do city like you'll find in Munich or Hamburg, more working class than middle class. That's not to say that people there don't try to keep the place neat and tidy. They are quite laid back, very tolerant of others, very accepting and even generous to others not as fortunate as them. For instance I've seen whole still working stereos and TVs standing in the street with a sign, "for free". They didn't stand there for long.
My daughter lives there and swears that it's the wettest place in Germany. I can't second that, every time I've been there it has only ever rained in the night, if at all.
Why don't you feel comfortable in German cities I'm curious?
@@enea_7280 Apart from Berlin and Bremen, over the years I've also lived in Braunschweig, Nuremberg, Erlangen, Cologne, Potsdam, Stuttgart and also in a few villages near these places.
I suppose they're all okay in their own way if you have a more or less standard life style. But ask those people who don't, the ones tattooed head to foot, the ones with unusual dress codes, the squatters insisting on living in abandoned breweries in protest against rising rents, the ones with out of the ordinary careers, the drag queens, the living statues, in principle all those people who make a city interesting to live in.
Berlin is one of the few places I know where the people show huge tolerance towards such people and in so doing make the city an interesting place to live.
All the others are rather boring in comparison.
Berlin is actually a City of/for the World!
Unemployment sounds scary.
Don't live in Berlin if you are unemployed for christ's sake! Go to a village and live way cheaper.
@@LuisaH2022 what about a job seeker visa holder. Who have degree in mechanical engineering but can't speak German properly.
@@safhadkhan2427 it depends on the company you work for
@@safhadkhan2427 Try it in the southwest of Germany, first of all, they are looking for guys like you and second they label themselves with the sentence: We master everything, except high-german, so you have something in common with them. God luck.
@@lotharschepers2240 thanks very helpful
Your video should have been out before I moved to Berlin. It could have saved me from quiet a big frustration 😇
Hi, what gave you frustration?
This is why I don't particularly care for Berlin
I feel for ya. I'm third generation German American. I can't stand what's happened there. And here now.
Berlin is a really international city. You hear a lot of English while walking through the streets.
You hear a lot of Arab especially...
@@julien.s2002 Definetly in Sonnenallee. But in the good places you don't.
Maybe in the central scene districts because many students live there. But outside of those, it's a very German city. Also, Berlin has only an average share (35%) of people with a migration background.
so many place where you even have to order in english because ppl don't speak german sometimes, which is a bit strange, but aight i guess
Was in Berlin a few years back it appeared like every other city in the world but expensive, most people spoke German very stand offish in appearance but love their Tecno a place round the corner was belting it out but not on Sunday, just wish they would smile a bit more would go back any day especially for the coffee and pasteries
i like berlin only because of two reasons: 1) the Museums Island ( where are some of the best museums i was ) and second the big art and flea market
Where Angela Merkel lives. She has the equivalent of 10 Downing Street to live in but chooses not to.
So as a Texan, Berlin sounds like Austin (our state capital in that it's super liberal and hipster, has great night life, also rents are rising) and the rest of Germany is like Texas...but smarter. Austin, Tx is it's own thing and many Texans don't see it as fitting in with such a conservative state. When ppl from California move to Texas, they move to Austin.
It’s insulting to compare the rest of Germany to Texas 💀
@@snowwhite4133 Unfortunate you feel that way. I recommend learning more about why I made the comparison so that hopefully you feel less insulted by my comment.
texasheritageforliving.com/texas-living/how-german-immigrants-shaped-texas/
@@snowwhite4133 no, it's true
@@Nopebrbra it’s not
@@snowwhite4133 yes, it's true. Most Germans are conservative. Yes
Rachel , i am waiting for your video for so long, i rewatched all the meet the Germans
Thanks for being such a loyal fan! :-)
Hope we didn't keep you waiting too long! Do you have any topics you think we should cover?
Berlin is different from other Germany cities because it was divided into sectors after the war and had a wall built through it stopping the people going from east to west. What other German Cities have Russian T34 tanks on the main road ?
Bonn was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990. West Berlin was an enclave of West Germany inside East Germany during that time so became like East Berlin.
Don’t get me started on west vs east Berlin 😂😋
US and Soviets wants to start a conversation with you
so basically id love germany except for berlin.
white people be like
@@user-kl1yj7ml6b what
It's true to many economically developed countries, Capitals are like a different country altogether.
I've been in Berlin sometime before, people there are really helpful, like sometimes strangely helpful compared to the rest of Germany, Berlin is humongous by land mass as a city, I've been lost onetime there 😂, who ever I ask for directions, they ask me where you wanna go to tell you the shortest rout, are you going to be okay? Here i can rent a bike for you (because I didn't had a credit card by then), it's strangely helpful 😂, even more than my country where i come from where people are known to be friendly with foreigners, but perhaps Berlin it's due to its huge foreigners population also.
Why aren't there loads of satellite towns near Berlin, like there are near London, Paris, NYC etc. It's puzzling that Brandenburg state isn't densely populated.
@Andrew Jones Brandenburg state for example does not have the infrastructure that North Rhine-Westphalia or other regions in Germany have. However, an increase of the population within the commuter belt (we call it "Bacon Belt" 🥓) around Berlin can already be observed.
There is no way I will wait a few hours to enter a bar anywhere in the world.
Rest assured for every club or bar that has a queue there are 50 that dont. ;)
@Tagedieb Not Berliners but tourist. I never waited for hours rather we would go to another club. We do have enough.
Really nice video. I couldn't figure why Germans didn't liked Berlim nor did I knew they had this dislike, but your video made it easy for me to understand.
Interesting !
So, I like Germany but not Berlin
Many in Germany don’t like Berlin xD. It’s a beautiful city though
We Berliners love Berlin but can‘t stand the rest of the country, guess it‘s based on reciprocity lol
Mural 030 and the rest of the country can’t stand you. Great
@@Berlinerundso we tourist come to Germany for German culture, food etc... and if I wanted the hip hop, cool scene I would stay in LA
@@kinnish5267 visit NRW, Bavaria
Also, someone else said it in the comments: drugs.
First time ever going to Berlin as an adult.
After leaving my luggage at our rented flat, I had walked just 10m out the door when someone came up to me saying (in English):
"Ey rastaman, you want some?"
I am looking to do my masters in Germany. Which would be the best German universities to do MS in mechanical engineering.
What I heard about, the TU in Braunschweig Germany has a really good reputation.
Tbf, meat consumption is going down quite a bit, all over Germany.
Production is just going up because more is getting shipped to countries on the rise where eating meat often is a way to show your status.
"Germans have a reputation for being orderly, punctual and generally straight-laced". Sweet baby Jesus... where do I begin...
explain
ang el stereotypes
You'll question this reputation until you meet some non-Germans ;)
I came to Berlin from Cairo and to be honest it was paradise. Super clean...
There are plenty of Arabic speakers and everyone speaks English otherwise. The best German conversations I've had have been with Turkish people.
Berlin is not german anymore
Go home
Welcome to Germany. Enjoy your stay and have fun. We germans might be a bit shy at first, but we will be great friends! :)
The thing is, the standards of "clean" is very poor in Middle East you can actually find anywhere else clean. I visited Cairo and I understand.
Whats the name of the music in the video.??
Anyone knows the song at 1:12?
As a person who lives in Berlin, this video is True.
Same story all around Europe. Large metropolitan cities, usually capitals, losing their nationals, becoming less native.
Anyone know the song at 1:34?
hi i need 1 information.i am Portuguese..i want to move to Germany next year.i am a professional chef/cook.can someone tell me which city is best for find good job and for living?Berlin or Frankfurt or munich or Hamburg or Cologne?if you have any idea please tell me
@Ehan7 This is hard to answer, so check out the food scene of the different german cities on the internet and let yourself be inspired.👩🍳👨🍳
@@dweuromaxx i am professional chef which city is good for me?
„Relatively cheap rent“...?!?
Otherwise: yes Berlin is an urban and socialist bubble, but often champaign socialists and they can and do afford all these politically correct moves.
Compared to Munich, Frankfurt or Stuttgart, yes cheap rent.
I were born in berlin and live here for 25 years now, I often heard from non-berliner that they hate the city cause its loud, smelly and hectic. But I love the people (well... most of them) and how free minded we are. I think in Berlin you can be everything, if you just try hard! (and I'm sorry that my english isnt that good)
Rachel, I love your videos.
You give so much interesting information in a light, entertaining and funny but still serious way.
Can get enough of it.
And I'm a German.
Thank you very much for your effort.
I wonder if Rachel has a Goethe C2 Zertifikat in German?
Cool city but i can't with all the Berliner snobbery thing. Calm down hipsters.
All capital cities in the west are like this. You could easily say this about London or Paris.
As well as NY.
Berlin is more like Brighton though. It is much more decadent than London.
Decadent in what sense? 😀
excellent
Very interesting video. Maybe you could do one only about the use of English in Berlin? I keep reading some conflicting info about this - some people say you can live in Berlin just with English, some people say this is a myth. I wonder if it's more like Montreal (where I used to live, a true bilingual city) or more like LA (where you can live just with Spanish but the city itself is not really bilingual).
"live" is always a word you can stretch. You can probably "live" in the deepest village in Germany, it is just much harder than in a big city, you can point with your fingers on things. What I would say is, if you plan on living there long time you want to learn the language or you will always feel isolated and not part of the country.
Nah, it's basically a myth. You can surely get around with English as a tourist but if you want to live there you should definitely have a basic knowledge of the German language. It's not a English speaking city.
@@theodorkorner1497 yeah i heard Germany dubs every foreign medias, it's why Germany & Austria have lower English skill than the NL or Scandinavia
Rents increased dramatically in the past few years. It's not that great anymore!
20 years to late peeps....the big party is over. Now it's all about business.
No one lives in Berlin. You simply survive in this place.
Can you make a video about Schleswig-Holstein it has a very unique mentality as well
Short and catchy! Amazing videos! ♥️
Ich liebe Deutsch Sprache, und ich will nach Deutschland kommen! 🙌
Also funny while being informative 😍
#2 Berlins rents are became realy high. It's as expensive as Cologne, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf etc. Also shops are more expensive than elsewhere.
Berlins architecture differs a lot from the "normal" german style. Although there is no particular german building style, Berlin with it's mix-up of very modern buildings and the old, epic buildings of the old Empire is unique.
Silanokaumirale ah interesting! I’m on my way to Berlin now, so I’ll pay more attention to the architecture :)
@@RachelStewart04 Okay cool :D enjoy your trip.
Unlike most German cities, Berlin doesn't have a medieval or early modern core. Practically everything you see today is 19th century or younger. It's nowhere near as dense as a Medieval city center. It always had space to grow into the surroundings.
I imagine being leveled in WWII created a necessity for the "very modern buildings."
@@eljanrimsa5843and also because most of the city was bombed during WW2
Rachel, the elderly lady you spoke to, was Swabian. I've lived here for 7 years, originally from Swabia. Berliners still regard us with suspicion. Thanks for not mentioning Döner Kebabs (still banned on the Kurfürstendamm).
Thanks for your thoughts, Andy :)
Actually with this 25-30% rate of religious people Berlin is the most religious state in the former eastern part of germany. Here in saxony were I live approximately 85-90% are not religious at all.
Berlin is the place to be. I absolutely love this city. 😍
Do you live here? 🙂
@@dweuromaxx No, I live in Stockholm, Sweden (so boring!) but I used to spend my vacations in Berlin for more than ten years in a row. The pandemic prevented me from visiting the city lately. 😢
We hope to welcome you back soon, then 🙂
@@dweuromaxx Oh yes, I already booked hotel and fight tickets for the CSD in Berlin. 🌈
I loved it, it was nothing but a never ending party when I lived in Coleman Barracks (Mannheim) I was 22/23 years old, 84/85. Berlin is German because it has always been the never ending party in Germany. Sorry I know that isn't what you wanna hear, it's just my opinion. Funny I always get treated better in East Germany whenever I have returned, I'am of German decent and when they pronounce my name they smile. I love Germany, like my life depended on it. How else can an ordinary joe blow get to see the world other than joining the service? I have also lived in the UK and Korea. I'm proud of Germany today. It makes my heart and soul feel good to see this country in such a great condition.
Hello! Sorry do you have a brother that also does language youtube videos? You lool very similar to him, is like if you were twins or something, the face, the accent, the way of expression and movement. If anyone knows please let me know, I am curious
kein Länderfinanzausgleich= keine Party
Yes, Berlin is not "poor but sexy" but poor and dirty despite they get an awful lot shoved up their's.
Well, berlin suffered the most out of all the german cities in ww2 and the cold war. So its only reasonable that it gets financial aid by parts of the country that were less afflicted by warfare/soviet occupation.
I'd say it's the same for all capitals in big countries. Someone in the comments here have mentioned NY, and I can say Mexico City it's not what a typical Mexican city looks like.
Not really, been to Mexico city and 4 other cities in Mexico. People act pretty similar.
@@JosueLopez-kk9us Too bad Hernan Cortez ruined it.
Even when I was young i didn't go in for too much night life. I have more fun having conversation or playing a sport . Playing cards or boardgames. Bars and clubs can lead to trouble.
The famous webseries 'DARK' was also shot in Berlin
yep, expected lederhosen, not leather pants. haha But love this kooky city of Berlin.