Is Berlin the new home for tech start-up business? [video]

Post by paulnelligan » Mon, Jul 23, 2012, 4:53 PM UTC

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Top 5 reasons why you should move to Berlin, now: 1. Lowest livings costs with highest quality of living. Stay in gorgeous, perfectly renovated apartments in pre-WWII residential buildings with high ceilings, right in the middle of the center and pay a fraction of costs of any other capital (even cheaper than any Eastern European capital). No need for a car—Berlin has one of the densest subway nets and wide streets m…

Lowest livings costs with highest quality of living. Stay in gorgeous, perfectly renovated apartments in pre-WWII residential buildings with high ceilings, right in the middle of the center and pay a fraction of costs of any other capital (even cheaper than any Eastern European capital). Why is this true? Honest question, how can a great large Western European city cost a fraction of other, even Eastern European citi…

Post by notJim » Tue, Jul 24, 2012, 1:21 AM UTC

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That's what I thought. Can employers in Germany actually choose to hire men or women for a position? And under what circumstances is that allowed or common?

The use of f/m or w/m results from the fact, that most of the job titles are gender specific, as are german nouns in general. An example: Programmierer is a male programmer, Programmiererin is a female programmer. So "Programmierer (w/m)" is a shortcut for "Programmierer oder Programmiererin"

Post by eli_gottlieb » Tue, Jul 24, 2012, 1:35 AM UTC

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Because in Germany it's a building that my own ancestors, relatives, or family friends may well have owned or inhabited before being forced out. Putting the war behind us is a good thing. Getting cheaper housing prices because Berlin has never entirely gotten over the war... is not putting the war behind us. In fact, it's capitalizing today on the lingering effects of the war.

I'm German, and spent my teenage years in South Africa. That mostly means that kids at school called me Nazi (I doubt they meant it as badly as I took it) and then when the Berlin wall came down the whole apartheid thing got big in South Africa. The upshot is that I had quite a chip on my shoulder in my 20's. I outgrew that. So I'd suggest, if I may be so bold, not to stay stuck in a past you can't change. Don't miss…

Post by Spearchucker » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 2:39 PM UTC

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I'm German, and spent my teenage years in South Africa. That mostly means that kids at school called me Nazi (I doubt they meant it as badly as I took it) and then when the Berlin wall came down the whole apartheid thing got big in South Africa. The upshot is that I had quite a chip on my shoulder in my 20's. I outgrew that. So I'd suggest, if I may be so bold, not to stay stuck in a past you can't change. Don't miss…

Don't miss out on what's there now (wherever "there" is for you). You mean war profiteering of real-estate values? Honestly, you Germans would be much less creepy if you stopped trying to pretend WW2 and the Shoah never happened and everything is totally happy-shiny now. You certainly don't have to apologize anymore, but you could at least have the decency to act uncomfortable about marketing apartments that are avai…

Post by olifante » Sun, Aug 05, 2012, 5:16 PM UTC

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urgeio wrote: post #10

Top 5 reasons why you should move to Berlin, now: 1. Lowest livings costs with highest quality of living. Stay in gorgeous, perfectly renovated apartments in pre-WWII residential buildings with high ceilings, right in the middle of the center and pay a fraction of costs of any other capital (even cheaper than any Eastern European capital). No need for a car—Berlin has one of the densest subway nets and wide streets m…

Just as an observation, it is absolutely incredible how in just 25 years, the capital of one of the sternest and most ideological top-down communist states[1] has become a mecca for technology startups, the apotheosis of bottoms-up entrepreneurial capitalism. The collapse of Communism and the Soviet Union was a critical factor in unleashing the internet wave of innovation that is still cresting today; though this occ…