8 Things I Wish I Knew Before Moving To Berlin!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2024
- Hi there! Since moving to Berlin and sharing videos from my experience, a lot of people have reached out to me with questions about my move here. I thought I would film a video covering some of these questions and in general what I wish someone had told me before I moved to Berlin.
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ANMELDUNG: allaboutberlin.com/docs/anmel...
The website "all about Berlin" is in general a very helpfull and informative website in English to anyone wanting to move here.
WG-GESUCHT: www.wg-gesucht.de
HOUSING GROUP: / flatsinberlin
I hope you can benefit from my video, please don't hesitate to ask me you have any other questions!
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This is super valuable information - keep doing what you're doing, I wish I would have had this info when I moved here as well
These are great tips! I just shared a similar video on my channel of my own list of things I wish I knew before I moved to Berlin. It's such a great city!
You have done a great job on the video. So much information. Welcome to Berlin.
Tank you!
Hello Viktoria, very good video and you mentioned important things.
I'm not the youngest anymore, but I follow the development of Berlin and videos like yours are very informative. First I noticed how the house prices have gone up. On the one hand because many are moving to Berlin, but above all because investors are driving prices up. Mainly investors from the USA, London, Sweden, Norway and from the Arab countries. Unfortunately, as always, the German government is too slow and has not issued any laws to protect the property. I heard that Denmark has such laws. For some time now, these investors have even been buying up farmland in Germany and driving up prices there too.
I was in Berlin for the first time in 1996 on a school trip. Back then, Berlin was a huge construction site, the largest in Europe. But everything was super cheap. A 100sqm apartment in a prime location cost between 400-500 euros. Then in 2006 I went back to Berlin a few times to go to clubs and that was the time when Friedrichshein was starting to get expensive. Today Berlin is one of the most expensive cities in Germany, but Munich and Stuttgart are much more expensive, but salaries there are also much higher.
I wanted to mention that the ones in the supermarket checkouts used to be longer. In supermarkets there is a lot of pressure on the employees to work quickly and if these checkouts are so short you can do more customers per hour. That is also one of the reasons for the low prices.
Regarding paperwork it is unfortunately the case that by law some authorities have to do many things in the old-fashioned way by letter. But above all, the Conservative Government combined with incompetence and corruption has prevented digitization in the last 20 years.
Finally I wanted to mention the GEZ, because I think this fee is quite high. The sum that comes together is gigantic. It is 8 Mrd. (Eng. Billion) per year in Germany. But like so many, a lot here has to do with the history of the country. I recently read that the money is intended to guarantee neutral, high-quality reporting and programs. Trendy reporting and propaganda should be avoided so that history never repeats itself. Or something that last happened in the usa.
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you seem so sweet oh my goodness and your smile is just gorgeous! this video really helps and i enjoyed learning more so thank you! its my dream to move to germany when i finish school :)
Loved this video ❤️🥰
Could you please do a "how much I spend in a week in Berlin" video?
Thank you ✨
That would be great idea for a new video, thanks!
I can confirm all that you've said, three weeks into living here - especially that panic at the grocer + the fact that people here get sooooo grumpy and rude if you are not immediate. I get that it helps them as often there's only one cashier at a store, but the attitude is not lovely!
Would lovveee Berlin vlogs
Great content! You have a decent looking apartment, how much is the monthly rent ?
As a german I really dont love paperwork :-D Would prefer it more digital as well, but honestly I never thought about it. Anways really important stuff I prefer as paper. I really like your voice btw, it's so relaxing..
I think it just a matter of what you are used to! And thank you!
this really helps
Nice information, thank you
Also You are so pretty
Hello, for your first time anmeldung registration did they ask for your original birth certificate or copy of your birth certificate or birth certificate is not necessary?
Hhey victoria, can u please make a video on, weekly expenses?. That would be great1. Thanks
Are you from Danmark? There is somthing in your acent that sounds a tiny bit danish ?
Its really informative for me. Thanks @VIKTORIA
hey, btw don't get nervous in front of camera. You are doing good. 🥂
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On your point of speaking German, please keep in mind that § 1 of the German administrative law keeps it the following way: The language of the administration is German.
So expect that every official letter is written in German and not only that, bureaucrats did have their own way to write or speak and they will use it in every letter.
On the amount of church tax, it is 8% (in Bavaria and Baden-Würtemberg) or 9% (in all other Bundesländer) of the amount of your individual income tax.
On income I'm sorry but Berlin is not the place where companies pay the most, you could get a higher income in places like Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt/Main, Hamburg or other places around these cities. Germany is by far more diverse than Denmark and our capital (Berlin) was cut off from the rest of the FRG until 1990 (it did only become the capital of Germany in 1991) and so the places for business are not in or around Berlin. In Germany, the south and southeast (with the exception of Hamburg) make the majority of the money and the politicians in Berlin did "only" spend it. So I (as a native and much older German) would like to ask you, please do not advise other folks that your experiences in Berlin are counting for Germany (Berlin is the least German city that I know, even other cities in the former GDR are more German than Berlin).
By "least german", are you addressing the recent diversification, the historical division between east and west or historically/culturally? Not judging, just genuinely curious :)
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If you go for groceries, put everything back in your shopping cart or basket, pay everything and go on the side to put everything in your bags. Usually there must be some space to do so. I do it that way without any kind of stress.
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Don't start to talk about the poor digital country of Germany. But that has nothing to do with the citizens. It's our government and the responsible industry that's to slow to build all these things, so Germans have to wait.
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Be aware that you are supposed to pay church tax when you are a member... In germany in many cases you are member by birth. If the church here see this Video they May ask the danish church if they have you at the memberlist. If the answer is yes you have to pay All the taxes since you are here.... So to choose Atheist in the Anmeldung does the trick in the beginning but the evil end may come. 😊 I had to go to the Amt and pay for the leaving. I think it was 50 € but that was 17 years ago.
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Gut dass wir englisch sprechen. Das sagt doch vieles
Wie läuft es denn mit der Sprache? Ich nehme an, du lernst Deutsch? Oder kannst Du es schon?
In Dänemark lernen meisten Leuten in der Schule Deutsch zu sprechen. Ich finde die Sprache aber immer noch schwierig und könnte mehr lernen!
@@viktoria3028 Das ist ein wenig kurios, wie ich finde. Mir wurde immer erzählt, dass das Dänische so schwer sei (es enthalte einige Laute, die man kaum nachträglich lernen kann).
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