Its such ugly city most people look looser who dont give a fuck to do anything good with their life, how do you or what motivates you to live their-? Genuinely curious.
@@eyadouiri3866 Its such ugly city most people look looser who dont give a fuck to do anything good with their life, how do you or what motivates you to live their-? Genuinely curious.
Berlin has sooo much more to offer than hipster/party/Bavarian and young people oriented stuff. As someone who grew up here, lived in other countries and came back because home is home, I really miss the ordinary Berlin people living here for good. Don’t get me wrong: I love diversity, but somehow I’ve got the impression for the last 2-3 years, it is getting more and more lost among all the hipsters trying so hard to look different but in the end all look the same. And there are definitely great living and leisure areas outside the Ring, but why bother to explore those when many young people mostly come here to have maximum fun for a short period of time. As great and energetic this might be for a city on the one hand, it has its side effects on the other hand for the permanent residents... like rising housing prices, dirty streets etc. I wish Berlin would finally be seen for more than just a great party location(s).
I landed in Berlin 2003 and left in 2012. In that time I saw the original Berlin squeezed out, by as you said, people who stayed for the short term who didn't give a damn for learning a lick of German, yet complained how rude and unfriendly the locals were. Keine Überaschung sie haben kein Berliner kennengelernt.
@@LeoPlaw So ein Schade! This is sad to read. I was a 'short timer' foreigner, but adored the city, learned and practiced Deutsch, and soaked up as much of the local culture/art/music/nature/history/Schnellimbiss and meet as many Berliners as I could. Berlin will always have a very special place in my heart.
Munich feels actually more tolerant and welcoming these days. Berlin is by a huge part a shithole for hipsters and drug addicts, especially in the center
You bring up a valid point about longevity. Berlin has much to offer, and i feel some come to abuse this. The vibe has a short term feel to it unfortunatly. This is why i love freidrichshein/prinzlauerberg because it had the energetic feel from long term residence.
I live in Australia and would LOVE to live in Berlin, not because of the partying, but because it’s such a beautiful city, and has so much history to it! Berlin imo is a great city.
here is a lot of misinformation about berlin, and where to live. Also this is the reason why you pay 2.000 euros for 40 square meters in pberg. Maybe if you are below 30 years old, is "vital" to be in a place where you can reach your social -life bar within 10m. But there are areas where quality of life is way better than the "turistic" areas within the ring. Most of foreigner do the mistake to consider only those , where they get scammed regoularly by ridiculous crappy apartments. Wansee, lichtenrade, rudow, altgliniecke , grünau, rahnsdorf, friedrichshagen, grünau to mention some, prices are (not cheap at all) but maybe 200 euros cheaper, but quality of life is x times better. Rispondi
I live in Friedrichshain and enjoy it. But as long as the apartment was close to S-Bahn/U-Bahn it wouldn't really matter and I wouldn't mind moving to Lichtenberg. They also have some nice places and if you want to get away just hop into U5 which, besides connecting to Alexanderplatz (U2, U8) soon will go all the way to Berlin Main Station (and more importantly, Brandenburger Tor, where you should be able to switch to S1/S2) and you can be basically any relevant place in Berlin within 45 minutes. Unless you're doing home office, I feel your workplace matters most for choosing where to live.
Well berliners hate that club, but tourists love it. I had a lot of fun there with my friend because it is one of few clubs in Berlin who does play other music than just hardcore techno/trance.. xD
@@marcoyankovich There are a lot of clubs that play other music than techno and trance. But we like to dont be bothered by tourists that much and therefore we tell nobody about the other ones.
As a Berliner I must say "things do change over time".. before Unification the hippest area in West-Berlin was around Savigny Platz and Kantstraße, cause of the nearby University and High School of fine Arts. There was Hansa Studios right near the wall (Köthener Str.38), the only 16 track Studio in Europe, that is one reason why David Bowie lived here, but Iggy Pop, U2, Brian Eno, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Claw Boys Claw, Depeche Mode, Marillion, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Killing Joke, Boney M., Manic Street Preachers, R.E.M., Snow Patrol, Kent, Living Things, Go Go Berlin, last not least the Rolling Stones recorded here, the hippest Clubs were "The Dschungel" and "The Metropol" as well as at least a dozen others with more Bar-Style Character - and yes things change and keep changing - cheers! P.S: Maybe a Vid about Berlins amazing parks and green areas would attract attention.. Berlin is such a beautiful city, rich in culture and loads of parks and gardens, as well as forests, lakes, rivers!
I feel the same way. And the sunset on the Karl Marx Allee Plattenbau and the tree lining the area with the Fernsehenturm in the distance is great. I also had a good time at the Abgedreht
Districts outside of the ring are most of the time better connected to key spots in the city (Zoologischer Garten, Friedrichstraße, Alexanderplatz, you name it) than some districts inside of the ring (e.g. Moabit). So it's actually an urban legend that living inside of the ring is better for one's mobility.
100% true. I live in Reinickendorf, right next to the U8. I'm at the ring in like 5 minutes, Alex in 10. We got Spätis, living and food is still affordable and the bars and clubs in Wedding are close. But when I tell people that my flat is here, they either have no idea where it is or they look at me like I live in the middle of nowhere. I'm not complaining though. The obscurity of the place keeps the rent down.
@@Nicarand I also live in here, between U-Bahn and S-Bahn (Schönholz). I’m not sure about cheaper rent prices as it was similar to Kreuzberg and many other parts of the city when I was looking for an apartment few month ago. However, I love this place, it takes me only 20 minutes cycling to the office in Mitte and also lots of great parks, lakes and canals around. Central station is also close. I haven’t noticed much difference for food prices, but some of restaurants/cafes near U-Bahn don’t look good.
@@Nicarand Totally agree. I also moved to Reinickendorf almost a year ago and I love it. Quiet, close to Wedding's bars and restaurants, incredibly green. 15 minutes to Alex, 30 minutes to my workplace in P-berg, 30 minutes to Hermannplatz, where I usually meet my friends. It's not hip but I love it.
@@haizeabezala you are not representative. Zehlendorf, Steglitz are really cool...beautiful houses, amazing gardens .....high live standard than Neuköln
Well, screw them. It will teach them to be less racists on the entry policy. Now they are requesting everyone who loves techno music to support the scene and save the clubs buying symbolic tickets... Hypocrites
@@chaddy2409 Rampant Coronavirus would be even worse. The pub right around my corner will never reopen, not because of lockdown, but because Covid-19 killed the owner.
Finde deine Videos absolute klasse! :) Sehr guter Humor - weiter so! Ein kleiner Widerspruch: Es gibt auch "jenseits des Rings" schöne Stadtteile, die man nicht wirklich als suburban bezeichnen kann: Steglitz z.B. hat sehr urbane Stellen. Selbst Spandau und Köpenick haben ein kleines Stadtzentrum und beherbergen viele Restauraunts, Bars, Cafés. Es gibt Kinos und Theater. Suburban ist - vor allem für das englischsprachige Publikum (an das du dich ja wahrscheinlich richtest), normalerweise Häuschen an Häuschen. Das geht in Berlin in vielen Teilen erst weeeeeeeeit nach dem Ring damit los. Sub-urban im amerikanischen Sinne ist doch in Berlin schon praktisch Königs-Wusterhausen ;-)
Definitiv richtig, dieses Ringdenken ist für mich auch wirklich extrem simplifiziert. Die Ringbahn wurde ja auch eher aufgepropft und ist nicht aus Stadtstrukturen gewachsen, symbolisiert also keinesfalls eine Trennung zwischen Urban und Suburban. Das wurde eher von Reiseführern und snooty expats erfunden.
It's green, it's the wealthiest part of Berlin, it has relatively high prices and a less urban flair, there are some villa districts, the Wannsee lake and it houses the campus of Free University (FU). So it's not really a good neighborhood for young people.
What I find fascinating is how everyone tells you to basically settle wherever you manage to find a flat, and yet once you do so - you're immediately defined by the kiez you live in by the people from other parts of town )))
i visited berlin 2 times and wanted to learn more about the city and german culture in general.I like very much your channel so keep up the good work!, greetings from Greece-Athens :)
Thank you for the video. I knew Berlin was huge but you explain it very effectively how really big it is. My wife and I are considering moving there so it is great to know more about the districts. Where I am currently located we have 4 parts of the city that is each totally different. Berlin makes it seem like a town
As a big city, there is a district for every lifestyle. There are districts like Neuköln that are incredibly densely packed and urban, but there are also districts - or at least sub-districts like Buch and Buchholz - that remain open farmland. The diversity is staggering and people who can’t find a place where they feel at home in Berlin haven’t really looked.
I lived in Berlin for 6 months attending a language school and had the privilege to live on the Adalbertstraße, Kreuzberg. Sad that I eventually moved to Köln to further my studies. Köln is a great city but nothing like Berlin at all. I’ll definitely go back to Berlin again!
He says it will take you so much(45 minutes) lol. When I visited Berlin I was fascinated by how transportation is so fast because in Turkey 45 min transportation time is the usual. Not too much, normal.
I love Neukoln, my best friend lives there, I thought it was a bit confusing the first time I was in Berlin and stayed in Berlin but this year I was there and it’s easy to navigate and it’s quite charming, too.
@@SuperKanuuna Hey seems like a good idea. No joke i mean just get some 80+ year old woman that owns a house and wait a few years... And bam you have a place and don't have to pay rent!
Im a Moabiter. I was really excited to watch this video to see what you will say about Moabit. Nothing??? Cmon ofc its not Kreuzberg but still worth mentioning?? 😭😂
They are not completely accurate but can be a good guide. As someone who moved recently and lived near to Alexanderplatz and now in the south of Reinickendorf, there isn’t much difference. Just be close to the public transport (U-bahn or S-bahn), check the area near to the apartment. It all depends on your preferred lifestyle and due to terrible German bureaucracy, you will have at least a month before you can legally rent an apartment :) Good luck
Nice work nailing the different districts in Berlin and pretty accurate. With the diversity of the Kiez in Berlin it's like having the option to do daytrips to a new vibe or feel outside of the Kiez you live in. There truly are countless of moods to explore here.
I've been to Berlin Almost every year since 2011, and yet I feel I still haven't seen all of Berlin. Please do a video of the outter ring areas of Berlin. Danke :)
After waiting for months you finally uploaded this video and it is really good. hell yes, we want a video about the places outside the rings. love your content!!!!!!
I love Berlin so much, I grew up in Mecklenburg, live in the states now but if I ever come back, that's where I'd live. I spent some time in Tegel and LOVED it. In general, so many awesome parks, very exciting city and so much to see and do. It's the New York of Germany. I love your video's. Thank you!
I do really love the way you tell us my beloved Berlin. One day I’ll leave Italy to come back there to live permanently. In the meanwhile, I’ll be back once in a while and I’m enjoying your stunning videos!
Well described! I'd mention he sub-district Weissensee, north of Prenzlauer Berg. Since P'Berg became nearly unaffordable for families, Weissensee is gaining popularity. There are many nie cafes and restaurants, sport clubs, two lakes you can swim (Weißensee and Orankesee) and a very good access via public transportation. The second very popular but often unmentioned sub-district is in my opinion Rummelsburg.
In Berlin right now and can’t say how much your videos have helped prepare me! Wanting to head to Neukölln today for street art, shops and bars - what’s the amazing looking bar you were in with the eyes and funky decor?
Man, congratulations for putting the effort into this video. It has wonderful editing and storytelling. I visited Berlin with my girlfriend -- she is from Frankfurt -- back in February right before the lockdowns started and fell in love with the city and its vibe. It would be amazing to live there sometime in the future. Keep up the good work. Greetings from Mexico.
I am from Berlin and i like to compare it with Tokyo, because it is so diverse. It feels like a different City if you go from Alt Tegel to Kreuzberg... I can also really recommend the "Wedding". It is cheap, you have really good Public Transport, many Bars, Restaurants, Shops, less Hipsters and Tourists and they started to build more Parks and Playgrounds! ;)
"U gotta be careful because u will spend most of your time in your district since some of them could be 45 mins away!" Me, an Argentinian who took 45 mins to go to school every day even tough I live near by the capital... hahah Ps: I love Berlin I'll try to go to study a semester there❤
I'm a 49-year old English man with no immediate plans to visit Berlin. If I was, then Radical Living would probably be ny guidebook. Great work my boy, great work.
Thanks! This is the best overview of Berlin's neighbourhoods I've found so far. I'll be there this fall for a week & now I have a better sense of where to stay. Good stuff.
Great work once again ! :D It would be great to hear also about some areas outside Berlin, the same criteria as the ones you had in this video. + easy to reach city center .
I'm living in Prenzlauer Berg at the moment and my family originally comes from Schwaben! haha I never realized that it may be my heritage that made me like the district so much. Cool video!
The longer i lived in berlin, the more i found myself avoiding mitte. Unfortunatly my class was in mitte so i had to go a few times a week. I lived in kruezberg for a while, and was the place i felt the most comfortable to my life style.
I lived at Kottbusser Tor for 5 years and I always felt safe there. Nothing bad ever happened to me. And those junkies, who are indeed there, leave you alone as long as you leave them alone. They are friendly if you ignore them. :)
Would love to know if this information still stands true today? Is everything exactly the same? Also would be great to get more information on rough cost estimates when living in these different parts you mentioned. Thank you again for your content, your videos are great! ❤
Voll Klasse Deine Doku! Bin 23 Jahre weg von Berlin,da war der schöne Richardplatz mit der Schmiede und dem brummeligen Uwe vom Motorradladen die Attraktion! Schön Mal wieder Berlin zu sehen,danke!
wie geil, dass ich dich in der Simon-Dach-Str getroffen habe, als du dieses Video gedreht hast :D war schon sehr gespannt und muss sagen, dass es wie immer lustig, zutreffend und interessant ist! Good job :)
Lived in Neu Köln and later in Charlottenburg. Loved the quite and clean place with a Balkony over the river spree. On weekend I took the subway to go to the east for clubbing and under the week I lived outside the dirty and fucked up part of the city 😅 Now I live in Switzerland in a small village and for sure the time in Berlin was nice, but in the other hand if you enter your thirties it’s time to leave 😂😂
Most European cities seem to have ring around the inner city but the ring in London is the M25 which goes around the outside of the suburbs. There is a north circular route and south circular route further in which is featured on the Unfinished London playlist on the Jay Foreman channel. Cities on the coast have a dual carriageway road instead that bisects the north part of the city from the south part of the city if on the south coast. If on the west or east coast the road would separate the east side of the city from the west side.
Best place to live in Berlin. 1. Köpenick. We've got the charming Altstadt, loads of water, the massive Müggelsee, tons of forest and wild birds. It's quiet, affordable well-maintained housing and relaxed vibes. Disadvantages? No cool bars, but I lived in Weserstraße (ecke Fulda/Weichsel) between 2007-12 so had my fill. Now I love the nature & big spaces of Köpenick. Perfect for nature-friends who don't want to leave Berlin completely: the Ringbahn is only half an hour away, so no biggie.
would really like to know more in depth about the aforementioned districts in Berlin and also what’s life like outside the ring. 😃☺️ Good and informative video 👍🏻 Danke sehr!
I loved Berlin every time I visited. It is a truly magical and unique place, just how I imagine the ultimate city. Too bad I never ended up moving there, got into other plans. Guess I'll just live on the memories and a visit every now and then.
Prenzlauer Berg looks nice. I was in Berlin in 2018, for only a couple of days, with work..stayed at OstBahnhof..the area around the hotel looked pretty creepy. It is quite strange to see that there is a considerable difference between areas.
Can you do a part 2 with the other districts? I grew up in the cool part of Kreuzberg but can't afford to stay there now and will now have to move waay outside the ring too, to Lichtenberg! I feel like I'm not welcome in my own home. Thanks capitalism!
I have the same experience in London. I grew up in Notting hill, now I can barely afford zone 4 :( feels so weird being ‘rejected’ by the place you consider home.
I always livid in the poor district ( also not poor but you know waht I mean ) like wedding (müllerstraße ) but even there the rents are high now :( and you can be lucky if you have an old rental contract and dont have to pay that much it's sad to see family's that have to leave their homes because they cant afford them anymore I'm sorry that happend to you :(
they live there now coz they cant afford it in neukölln, friedrichshain or kreuzberg anymore, acutally, nobody can afford it anymore... just the wealthy business people coming from the south of germany.. im living since 12 years in berlin, and I saw the disaster coming up.. the build fancy houses which no one can afford, but therefor they breakdown old cultural buildings same as clubs.. berlin is not the same what it was, and creatives have to find a new underestimated city where it is still affordable to live.
I live right by Bahnhof Heerstrasse and Theodor Heuss Platz, 2 stations outside of the ring. Takes me 28 minutes to get to Alex, the same time to Hermanstrasse, and with the Ubahn I'm at Kotti in 30, and Spittelmarkt in 25. Mobility is fine. The neighborhood is really chill, has plenty of Spatis, and very green. I like it
Great video! So, I just realised during my brief visit as a first time tourist to Berlin I was mostly just hanging around in Mitte! I would love to explore more districts in Berlin next time when I go there. Love the bears in Berlin and love being a tourist! =D
It is so great to see the different neighborhoods. I usually stay in Charlottenburg when I go to Berlin but one time I stayed near the Matrix at the NH hotel and noticed how different the two are.
spent the summer in Berlin way back in '01, rented a flat overlooking Kollwitzplatz. S'war Unbedingt Perfekt! Looks like many of the same restaurants are still there, but I wonder about the ice cream around the corner, on the walk back from the Ubahn station. Damn, I miss Berlin.
hey, i also want to live in berlin for a while. Did you search a new job in Berlin when you stayed there or could you do your 'old job' there? :) Greetings
the best place to live in berlin is where you can get an apartment..
Damn true...
Its such ugly city most people look looser who dont give a fuck to do anything good with their life, how do you or what motivates you to live their-? Genuinely curious.
@@eyadouiri3866 Its such ugly city most people look looser who dont give a fuck to do anything good with their life, how do you or what motivates you to live their-? Genuinely curious.
@@amanverma-es8of good dog
So god damn true
Berlin has sooo much more to offer than hipster/party/Bavarian and young people oriented stuff. As someone who grew up here, lived in other countries and came back because home is home, I really miss the ordinary Berlin people living here for good. Don’t get me wrong: I love diversity, but somehow I’ve got the impression for the last 2-3 years, it is getting more and more lost among all the hipsters trying so hard to look different but in the end all look the same. And there are definitely great living and leisure areas outside the Ring, but why bother to explore those when many young people mostly come here to have maximum fun for a short period of time. As great and energetic this might be for a city on the one hand, it has its side effects on the other hand for the permanent residents... like rising housing prices, dirty streets etc. I wish Berlin would finally be seen for more than just a great party location(s).
I landed in Berlin 2003 and left in 2012. In that time I saw the original Berlin squeezed out, by as you said, people who stayed for the short term who didn't give a damn for learning a lick of German, yet complained how rude and unfriendly the locals were. Keine Überaschung sie haben kein Berliner kennengelernt.
@@LeoPlaw So ein Schade! This is sad to read. I was a 'short timer' foreigner, but adored the city, learned and practiced Deutsch, and soaked up as much of the local culture/art/music/nature/history/Schnellimbiss and meet as many Berliners as I could. Berlin will always have a very special place in my heart.
Munich feels actually more tolerant and welcoming these days. Berlin is by a huge part a shithole for hipsters and drug addicts, especially in the center
You bring up a valid point about longevity. Berlin has much to offer, and i feel some come to abuse this. The vibe has a short term feel to it unfortunatly. This is why i love freidrichshein/prinzlauerberg because it had the energetic feel from long term residence.
I live in Australia and would LOVE to live in Berlin, not because of the partying, but because it’s such a beautiful city, and has so much history to it!
Berlin imo is a great city.
Neukölln 0:58
Friedrichshain 3:22
Mitte 5:12
Charlottenburg 6:20
Schöneberg 7:50
Kreuzberg 8:46
Prenzlauer Berg 10:08
Thankyou
Can we pin this comment?? this is handy
Wedding ?
here is a lot of misinformation about berlin, and where to live. Also this is the reason why you pay 2.000 euros for 40 square meters in pberg. Maybe if you are below 30 years old, is "vital" to be in a place where you can reach your social -life bar within 10m. But there are areas where quality of life is way better than the "turistic" areas within the ring. Most of foreigner do the mistake to consider only those , where they get scammed regoularly by ridiculous crappy apartments. Wansee, lichtenrade, rudow, altgliniecke , grünau, rahnsdorf, friedrichshagen, grünau to mention some, prices are (not cheap at all) but maybe 200 euros cheaper, but quality of life is x times better.
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Nobody wants to live outside of the ring.
Me, in Lichtenberg: triggered
same hahaha
but i actually live close to s frankfurter allee
Lichtenberg is super underrated.
Lichtenberg, the best Berg
I live in Friedrichshain and enjoy it. But as long as the apartment was close to S-Bahn/U-Bahn it wouldn't really matter and I wouldn't mind moving to Lichtenberg. They also have some nice places and if you want to get away just hop into U5 which, besides connecting to Alexanderplatz (U2, U8) soon will go all the way to Berlin Main Station (and more importantly, Brandenburger Tor, where you should be able to switch to S1/S2) and you can be basically any relevant place in Berlin within 45 minutes.
Unless you're doing home office, I feel your workplace matters most for choosing where to live.
only foreigners don't want that lol
“The best thing about Mitte is that it’s central”
Shows subway station Hermannstrasse.
Hermannplatz *
@@smittywerbenjagermanjensen8366 Which is in Neukölln, i guess
@@mtrmotrio3963 yep, exactly
His hate for Matrix is so Pure. I will definitely visit Matrix once to checkout what makes him hate that club so much.
u can smell the cosmetics n hear the normally shitty music passin by
He hates the wannabe party scene
Well berliners hate that club, but tourists love it. I had a lot of fun there with my friend because it is one of few clubs in Berlin who does play other music than just hardcore techno/trance.. xD
Matrix is probably the best and only place to listen to David Guetta and Pitbull lol. If you like them you will probably love it haha
@@marcoyankovich There are a lot of clubs that play other music than techno and trance. But we like to dont be bothered by tourists that much and therefore we tell nobody about the other ones.
As a Berliner I must say "things do change over time".. before Unification the hippest area in West-Berlin was around Savigny Platz and Kantstraße, cause of the nearby University and High School of fine Arts. There was Hansa Studios right near the wall (Köthener Str.38), the only 16 track Studio in Europe, that is one reason why David Bowie lived here, but Iggy Pop, U2, Brian Eno, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Claw Boys Claw, Depeche Mode, Marillion, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Killing Joke, Boney M., Manic Street Preachers, R.E.M., Snow Patrol, Kent, Living Things, Go Go Berlin, last not least the Rolling Stones recorded here, the hippest Clubs were "The Dschungel" and "The Metropol" as well as at least a dozen others with more Bar-Style Character - and yes things change and keep changing - cheers!
P.S: Maybe a Vid about Berlins amazing parks and green areas would attract attention.. Berlin is such a beautiful city, rich in culture and loads of parks and gardens, as well as forests, lakes, rivers!
My second visit to Berlin I lived a few minutes from Frankfurter Tor and loved that area. I think I'm more into east berlin than west.
I feel the same way.
And the sunset on the Karl Marx Allee Plattenbau and the tree lining the area with the Fernsehenturm in the distance is great.
I also had a good time at the Abgedreht
💕💕💕👌
Districts outside of the ring are most of the time better connected to key spots in the city (Zoologischer Garten, Friedrichstraße, Alexanderplatz, you name it) than some districts inside of the ring (e.g. Moabit). So it's actually an urban legend that living inside of the ring is better for one's mobility.
100% true. I live in Reinickendorf, right next to the U8. I'm at the ring in like 5 minutes, Alex in 10. We got Spätis, living and food is still affordable and the bars and clubs in Wedding are close. But when I tell people that my flat is here, they either have no idea where it is or they look at me like I live in the middle of nowhere.
I'm not complaining though. The obscurity of the place keeps the rent down.
@@Nicarand I also live in here, between U-Bahn and S-Bahn (Schönholz). I’m not sure about cheaper rent prices as it was similar to Kreuzberg and many other parts of the city when I was looking for an apartment few month ago. However, I love this place, it takes me only 20 minutes cycling to the office in Mitte and also lots of great parks, lakes and canals around. Central station is also close. I haven’t noticed much difference for food prices, but some of restaurants/cafes near U-Bahn don’t look good.
like ljubljana
@@Nicarand Totally agree. I also moved to Reinickendorf almost a year ago and I love it. Quiet, close to Wedding's bars and restaurants, incredibly green. 15 minutes to Alex, 30 minutes to my workplace in P-berg, 30 minutes to Hermannplatz, where I usually meet my friends. It's not hip but I love it.
Shhhh, don’t be that guy. Let’s keep the myth alive
I am the coolest person in Berlin, I live in Steglitz and I work in Zehlendorf.
Why even live in Berlin then? I couldn't do that
@@haizeabezala you are not representative. Zehlendorf, Steglitz are really cool...beautiful houses, amazing gardens .....high live standard than Neuköln
u dont even live in Berlin then
Can you explain please thx
I live in schöneberg/ friedenau and but i live in steglitz earlier and worked for some time in Zehlendorf also
It's so sad that many of these clubs and bars will never re-open after corona.
Thank the government
Well, screw them. It will teach them to be less racists on the entry policy. Now they are requesting everyone who loves techno music to support the scene and save the clubs buying symbolic tickets... Hypocrites
@@SuperNeowiz
Berlin is probably one of the least racist cities in Europe. Try to get into a club in Zürich, Warsaw or Copenhagen as a foreigner.
@@chaddy2409 Rampant Coronavirus would be even worse. The pub right around my corner will never reopen, not because of lockdown, but because Covid-19 killed the owner.
I think it’s good 😀
Finde deine Videos absolute klasse! :) Sehr guter Humor - weiter so! Ein kleiner Widerspruch: Es gibt auch "jenseits des Rings" schöne Stadtteile, die man nicht wirklich als suburban bezeichnen kann: Steglitz z.B. hat sehr urbane Stellen. Selbst Spandau und Köpenick haben ein kleines Stadtzentrum und beherbergen viele Restauraunts, Bars, Cafés. Es gibt Kinos und Theater. Suburban ist - vor allem für das englischsprachige Publikum (an das du dich ja wahrscheinlich richtest), normalerweise Häuschen an Häuschen. Das geht in Berlin in vielen Teilen erst weeeeeeeeit nach dem Ring damit los. Sub-urban im amerikanischen Sinne ist doch in Berlin schon praktisch Königs-Wusterhausen ;-)
Wedding zB ist zum Großteil auch außerhalb des Rings, würde ich aber definitiv noch zu den "liveable" Bezirken zählen.
Tampelhof💆🏽♂️👌🏽
Definitiv richtig, dieses Ringdenken ist für mich auch wirklich extrem simplifiziert. Die Ringbahn wurde ja auch eher aufgepropft und ist nicht aus Stadtstrukturen gewachsen, symbolisiert also keinesfalls eine Trennung zwischen Urban und Suburban. Das wurde eher von Reiseführern und snooty expats erfunden.
Weissensee ist auch toll
Und auch in deinem Kommentar ist ein Widerspruch. Berlin und Spandau in einem Satz? Das kann doch nur ein Missverständnis sein. :D
Would love to see a video on districts outside the ring (Zehlendorf, Wannsee).
Yeah but "nObODy wANtS tO lIVe tHErE" *eyeroll*
It's green, it's the wealthiest part of Berlin, it has relatively high prices and a less urban flair, there are some villa districts, the Wannsee lake and it houses the campus of Free University (FU). So it's not really a good neighborhood for young people.
Those two are the best, if you can afford it
Ask Friedrich Kautz - he can tell you everything you wanna know.
@@LinusFeynstein yes, agreeing. Zehlendorf, Steglitz, Grünewald, Charlotenburg in some areas
More videos on junky side of Berlin and the calm side of berlin ( outside of the ring )
Such a great channel and so little views :( You deserve much more. Thanks for the video!
this is exactly what i'm saying. the humor, content, editing, and overall quality is amazing.
Glad you enjoy it!
I just discovered it and I love it. It explains a lot about Berlin.
What I find fascinating is how everyone tells you to basically settle wherever you manage to find a flat, and yet once you do so - you're immediately defined by the kiez you live in by the people from other parts of town )))
Häää, watt is los?
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i visited berlin 2 times and wanted to learn more about the city and german culture in general.I like very much your channel so keep up the good work!, greetings from Greece-Athens :)
Thanks! 😃 I will
Thank you for the video. I knew Berlin was huge but you explain it very effectively how really big it is. My wife and I are considering moving there so it is great to know more about the districts. Where I am currently located we have 4 parts of the city that is each totally different. Berlin makes it seem like a town
As a big city, there is a district for every lifestyle. There are districts like Neuköln that are incredibly densely packed and urban, but there are also districts - or at least sub-districts like Buch and Buchholz - that remain open farmland. The diversity is staggering and people who can’t find a place where they feel at home in Berlin haven’t really looked.
Interessantes Video! ich bin belgier und vor anderthalb Jahren nach Deutschland umgezogen aber war noch nie in Berlin, Zeit für ein Besuch!
I lived in Berlin for 6 months attending a language school and had the privilege to live on the Adalbertstraße, Kreuzberg. Sad that I eventually moved to Köln to further my studies. Köln is a great city but nothing like Berlin at all. I’ll definitely go back to Berlin again!
He says it will take you so much(45 minutes) lol. When I visited Berlin I was fascinated by how transportation is so fast because in Turkey 45 min transportation time is the usual. Not too much, normal.
I love Neukoln, my best friend lives there, I thought it was a bit confusing the first time I was in Berlin and stayed in Berlin but this year I was there and it’s easy to navigate and it’s quite charming, too.
"The only reason because you live outside the Ringbahn is because you're low on cash"
laughs in dahlem
That’s what I thought hahahah. Especially in the last few years the prices for a house got up like crazy
and I laugh for dahlem. have fun with your cash and surrounding grannies
Haha so fucking true. Dahlem and Grunewald are so funking expensive
@@forzasheva7515 yes rich grannies own those places. Maybe we should marry them?
@@SuperKanuuna Hey seems like a good idea. No joke i mean just get some 80+ year old woman that owns a house and wait a few years... And bam you have a place and don't have to pay rent!
Im a Moabiter. I was really excited to watch this video to see what you will say about Moabit. Nothing??? Cmon ofc its not Kreuzberg but still worth mentioning?? 😭😂
Moabit is a subdistrict.
@@jip8793 sadly, enough tourists and yuppies already here
@@nw9338 what do you mean? In Moabit?
@@jip8793 sure
@@nw9338 That must be very dissapointed tourists ;D
Thanks for this! As someone who's considering Berlin for a post-pandemic move, your guide has cleared up a lot of confusion and overwhelm
They are not completely accurate but can be a good guide. As someone who moved recently and lived near to Alexanderplatz and now in the south of Reinickendorf, there isn’t much difference. Just be close to the public transport (U-bahn or S-bahn), check the area near to the apartment. It all depends on your preferred lifestyle and due to terrible German bureaucracy, you will have at least a month before you can legally rent an apartment :)
Good luck
Nice work nailing the different districts in Berlin and pretty accurate. With the diversity of the Kiez in Berlin it's like having the option to do daytrips to a new vibe or feel outside of the Kiez you live in. There truly are countless of moods to explore here.
This is one of the best descriptive video about the neighborhoods in Berlin. Thanks for creating such an amazing content mate. ✌️
FINALLY made PART 2 where i cover the districts outside the ring: ua-cam.com/video/JL0bSVPgWqg/v-deo.html
I've been to Berlin Almost every year since 2011, and yet I feel I still haven't seen all of Berlin. Please do a video of the outter ring areas of Berlin. Danke :)
After waiting for months you finally uploaded this video and it is really good. hell yes, we want a video about the places outside the rings. love your content!!!!!!
I love Berlin so much, I grew up in Mecklenburg, live in the states now but if I ever come back, that's where I'd live. I spent some time in Tegel and LOVED it. In general, so many awesome parks, very exciting city and so much to see and do. It's the New York of Germany. I love your video's. Thank you!
Best 15 minutes I‘ve spent in a long while
I do really love the way you tell us my beloved Berlin.
One day I’ll leave Italy to come back there to live permanently.
In the meanwhile, I’ll be back once in a while and I’m enjoying your stunning videos!
My 6-year old son told me Berlin used to be two cities, I told him there are way more now!
Well described! I'd mention he sub-district Weissensee, north of Prenzlauer Berg. Since P'Berg became nearly unaffordable for families, Weissensee is gaining popularity. There are many nie cafes and restaurants, sport clubs, two lakes you can swim (Weißensee and Orankesee) and a very good access via public transportation. The second very popular but often unmentioned sub-district is in my opinion Rummelsburg.
Shame that you haven't mentioned Moabit and Wedding. Best places in Berlin imo.
I was literally thinking this! But the fewer people talk about it, the better imo actually...
Shittiest places
@@PodcastCentral333 would recommend Brandenburg or Chemnitz - way better.
Wedding (Gesundbrunnen) is the best
I want to move to Wedding.. surprised he didn’t mention it
this video is so great, thank you for your effort to shoot and edit, these informations are so valuable. May the blessing of Techno Gods be upon you!
I screamed when you said "Silicon Alley" and "Charlottengrad"
why?
I've lived here for 8 years and this overview is absolutely spot-on! Great video.
Because You are as the crator of the Video not from Berlin. If You were, you would see things differently.
@@RobVaderful can you give some insights?
In Berlin right now and can’t say how much your videos have helped prepare me!
Wanting to head to Neukölln today for street art, shops and bars - what’s the amazing looking bar you were in with the eyes and funky decor?
Sehr detailliert, dein Kanal ist sehr interessant, danke feurs Hochladen. Ich habe abboniert.
Danke 😊 Welcome aboard!
Man, congratulations for putting the effort into this video. It has wonderful editing and storytelling. I visited Berlin with my girlfriend -- she is from Frankfurt -- back in February right before the lockdowns started and fell in love with the city and its vibe. It would be amazing to live there sometime in the future.
Keep up the good work. Greetings from Mexico.
Oh God dude love your videos I'm super new in berlin but make me feel like home
Welcome aboard!
I am from Berlin and i like to compare it with Tokyo, because it is so diverse. It feels like a different City if you go from Alt Tegel to Kreuzberg...
I can also really recommend the "Wedding". It is cheap, you have really good Public Transport, many Bars, Restaurants, Shops, less Hipsters and Tourists and they started to build more Parks and Playgrounds! ;)
Wedding squad! 👌
Wedding - the place which had to become hip since the 90s', but actually never did
@@franek2369
And we love it like that! 😊
I used to live in Mitte,Prenzl. Berg,Friedrichsain,Wedding..and I love it everywhere...I miss Berlin
Then come back! 😁
"U gotta be careful because u will spend most of your time in your district since some of them could be 45 mins away!"
Me, an Argentinian who took 45 mins to go to school every day even tough I live near by the capital... hahah
Ps: I love Berlin I'll try to go to study a semester there❤
Whats ur Insta name?
@@ZeroFive50 SIMP
I'm a 49-year old English man with no immediate plans to visit Berlin. If I was, then Radical Living would probably be ny guidebook. Great work my boy, great work.
Yes, outside the ring, too, please. Keeping options open and rental price problems as a student.
As an artist, Berlin is always on my top list of place I wanna visit. I just wanna feel the punk atmosphere there and night life.
Then You really should visit us in the eighties of the last century...
Ausgezeichnetes Video. Danke.
Thanks! This is the best overview of Berlin's neighbourhoods I've found so far. I'll be there this fall for a week & now I have a better sense of where to stay. Good stuff.
Great work once again ! :D It would be great to hear also about some areas outside Berlin, the same criteria as the ones you had in this video. + easy to reach city center .
This the most informative video I watched so far about Berlin. Thank you, man! Really helpful for someone new in Berlin
Grandioses Video! Schön verpackt und super interessant. Gerne mehr solchen Content!
I'm living in Prenzlauer Berg at the moment and my family originally comes from Schwaben! haha I never realized that it may be my heritage that made me like the district so much. Cool video!
The longer i lived in berlin, the more i found myself avoiding mitte. Unfortunatly my class was in mitte so i had to go a few times a week. I lived in kruezberg for a while, and was the place i felt the most comfortable to my life style.
I would like to know a bit more about outside of the ring. Lifestyle of the suburbs. Me falling in love with Berlin 😁
Definitely will visit Berlin for 3rd time. Berlin is something special to me. And your video is by far the best video about this city!
Cool video! Please make another one about other districts outside the ring.
I lived at Kottbusser Tor for 5 years and I always felt safe there. Nothing bad ever happened to me. And those junkies, who are indeed there, leave you alone as long as you leave them alone. They are friendly if you ignore them. :)
Great video. Makes me want to runaway to Berlin. 🏃
Just wait. Till you want to run away from Berlin.
I live in Mitte and like it a lot here, I thought many would like to live here too
Would love to know if this information still stands true today? Is everything exactly the same? Also would be great to get more information on rough cost estimates when living in these different parts you mentioned. Thank you again for your content, your videos are great! ❤
Voll Klasse Deine Doku!
Bin 23 Jahre weg von Berlin,da war der schöne Richardplatz mit der Schmiede und dem brummeligen Uwe vom Motorradladen die Attraktion!
Schön Mal wieder Berlin zu sehen,danke!
Hab da für 2 Jahre studiert. Die beste Stadt!!
wie geil, dass ich dich in der Simon-Dach-Str getroffen habe, als du dieses Video gedreht hast :D war schon sehr gespannt und muss sagen, dass es wie immer lustig, zutreffend und interessant ist! Good job :)
Was nice meeting you! 😄
The disrespect for Zehlendorf
I lived in Mitte for some time and loved it! Thanks for the great video!
Lived in Neu Köln and later in Charlottenburg. Loved the quite and clean place with a Balkony over the river spree.
On weekend I took the subway to go to the east for clubbing and under the week I lived outside the dirty and fucked up part of the city 😅
Now I live in Switzerland in a small village and for sure the time in Berlin was nice, but in the other hand if you enter your thirties it’s time to leave 😂😂
your amazing ! best videos on berlin - im on my way there from New York, I feel less anxious now that I have reviewed your videos !
Have fun!
Most European cities seem to have ring around the inner city but the ring in London is the M25 which goes around the outside of the suburbs. There is a north circular route and south circular route further in which is featured on the Unfinished London playlist on the Jay Foreman channel. Cities on the coast have a dual carriageway road instead that bisects the north part of the city from the south part of the city if on the south coast. If on the west or east coast the road would separate the east side of the city from the west side.
vienna and paris as well
Best place to live in Berlin.
1. Köpenick. We've got the charming Altstadt, loads of water, the massive Müggelsee, tons of forest and wild birds. It's quiet, affordable well-maintained housing and relaxed vibes. Disadvantages? No cool bars, but I lived in Weserstraße (ecke Fulda/Weichsel) between 2007-12 so had my fill. Now I love the nature & big spaces of Köpenick. Perfect for nature-friends who don't want to leave Berlin completely: the Ringbahn is only half an hour away, so no biggie.
I've watched this video 5 times already trying to figure it out where to live!
Amazing, thank you :D
Best of luck!
would really like to know more in depth about the aforementioned districts in Berlin and also what’s life like outside the ring. 😃☺️ Good and informative video 👍🏻 Danke sehr!
Your videos are addictive, can't wait to move to Berlin.
I've been in Berlin two weeks ago with my class. We were in a hostel in Prenzlauer Berg and it is a really nice district
Hope you had fun!
@@RadicalLiving It was awesome! Party the whole week! I love Berlin
I live in P. Berg really quiet and lot of new families
Yes, please, lets see the outlying areas... tks great vid, btw
I loved Berlin every time I visited. It is a truly magical and unique place, just how I imagine the ultimate city. Too bad I never ended up moving there, got into other plans. Guess I'll just live on the memories and a visit every now and then.
where did you ended up living? if you're single everything is possible
@@S5Dic09 I’m not. 😉 Next life…
Lived in the Rheingauviertel in Wilmersdorf District back in the late '70s. It was beautiful.
Prenzlauer Berg looks nice. I was in Berlin in 2018, for only a couple of days, with work..stayed at OstBahnhof..the area around the hotel looked pretty creepy. It is quite strange to see that there is a considerable difference between areas.
OstBahnhof 😅 time to come back and see the good parts!
Awesome channel with killer content! Thanks for putting up fun and informative videos for us. Looking forward to more of it.
Dude, I wish I knew all of this when I was living there
Bitte nicht herziehen, schon voll genug
Thx for the tour around Berlin, im planning to study there, psichology, and its good to now a bit of the city. Peace from Brazil bro! ✌️😁
Can you do a part 2 with the other districts? I grew up in the cool part of Kreuzberg but can't afford to stay there now and will now have to move waay outside the ring too, to Lichtenberg! I feel like I'm not welcome in my own home. Thanks capitalism!
You're welcome. Sincerely Mr.Capitalism
I have the same experience in London. I grew up in Notting hill, now I can barely afford zone 4 :( feels so weird being ‘rejected’ by the place you consider home.
Go Wedding...
I always livid in the poor district ( also not poor but you know waht I mean ) like wedding (müllerstraße ) but even there the rents are high now :( and you can be lucky if you have an old rental contract and dont have to pay that much it's sad to see family's that have to leave their homes because they cant afford them anymore I'm sorry that happend to you :(
@@idontevenknowwhatishouldfu8965 thanks/
What a great video! So helpful so much detail!!! Thanks a lot
Glad it was helpful!
You didn't talk about wedding :( such a nice district. Rest was spot on, nice video!
There's on video he does, and goes like this "Hello, where do you live? - Wedding -Wedding? ok BYE". But I find Wedding very nice too, in some places.
Ni Ho Wedding is disgusting 🤮🤮
oh god what would he say bout hellesdorf
you dont even get a bye. just block lol
Wie immer - ein schönes Video! Danke! Sehr nutzlich!
What's your opinion about Lichtenberg? :D A lot of students life there too
they live there now coz they cant afford it in neukölln, friedrichshain or kreuzberg anymore, acutally, nobody can afford it anymore... just the wealthy business people coming from the south of germany..
im living since 12 years in berlin, and I saw the disaster coming up.. the build fancy houses which no one can afford, but therefor they breakdown old cultural buildings same as clubs.. berlin is not the same what it was, and creatives have to find a new underestimated city where it is still affordable to live.
@@sonjahdz There is no alternative. Berlin is unique.
@@sonjahdz and many will find it in Berlin 2.0 called Leipzig :D
I live right by Bahnhof Heerstrasse and Theodor Heuss Platz, 2 stations outside of the ring. Takes me 28 minutes to get to Alex, the same time to Hermanstrasse, and with the Ubahn I'm at Kotti in 30, and Spittelmarkt in 25. Mobility is fine. The neighborhood is really chill, has plenty of Spatis, and very green. I like it
Living outside the ring is not that bad. Steglitz and Zehlendorf are great areas and so is Dahlem.
he has never been there...
Great video! So, I just realised during my brief visit as a first time tourist to Berlin I was mostly just hanging around in Mitte! I would love to explore more districts in Berlin next time when I go there. Love the bears in Berlin and love being a tourist! =D
What about Wedding? 😃
hehehehe good call ! :p
I want to know about Wedding too!
He actually hates wedding I've discovered from his other videos
@@indrinita without a reason
Thanks god finally a long serious vid 😅 your guides are the best
More to come!😉
@@RadicalLiving maybe you do one for the parks in Berlin (FKK/not FKK) it can be great and interesting :)
HEEEEYYY WHERE IS MOABIT ???? WHO ARE WE FOR YOU ? NOT- PEOPLE ???????
Not hipstery enough! Too much “ordinary people Berlin living” there. Be happy about it 😉
It is so great to see the different neighborhoods. I usually stay in Charlottenburg when I go to Berlin but one time I stayed near the Matrix at the NH hotel and noticed how different the two are.
It’s so funny how these outsiders think about Berlin, when real Berliners actually don’t give a fuck bout Berlin lol 😂
spent the summer in Berlin way back in '01, rented a flat overlooking Kollwitzplatz. S'war Unbedingt Perfekt! Looks like many of the same restaurants are still there, but I wonder about the ice cream around the corner, on the walk back from the Ubahn station. Damn, I miss Berlin.
hey, i also want to live in berlin for a while. Did you search a new job in Berlin when you stayed there or could you do your 'old job' there? :) Greetings
I personally love the area around Schlossstrasse in Steglitz for living
Junge, behalts für dich. Will keine touris hier
Ludwig Löffler 😂😂😂😂😂