Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg - a nightmare? (Page 2 of 5)

"MOSSMANN will do it again"

LOL

its manager education with hippie elements, so to say, thats the problem, it will affect...
wrong people with right skills, so to say...

funny that this is such a strong issue in all the european cities, berlin is the absolute a+ example of it, there it happens almost to the whole city.

Though I've been to Hamburg a few weeks ago and there its the strongest tendency probably in the schanzenviertel. It's an area with quite some big squats, and leftists who'd attack the newly opened adidas shop every night until they completely barricaded it during closing times.
You also got this yearly demonstration going on there where the leftists fight against the police on the street, while the arty bobo guys sit in the chique caffes next to it and have fun seeing the squatters being pushed away by waterthrowers.

But yeah, what do I talk, I live on hipster de hipstraat in rotterdam.

I totally subscribe to Byron's point of view. All my favourite cities all tend to be grotty and/or rough, whether it's Naples, Marseille, Barcelona, Berlin or east London. It never occurred to me until my girlfriend pointed it out in a recent conversation.

I'm usually found amongst the Lebanese take-aways in Kastanienallee...it must be the Phoenician connection!

@ dolcevita, maybe prenzlauerberg isn't that interesting for you anymore, but what's wrong with that?

if you like a more punk, leftfield, raw, edgy and artistic environment, than you probably also like change and improvisation.. so it's just a matter of finding or creating such a new spot or area, or 'seeing' the new prenzlauerberg in other things happening.. things like that never get lost, they just shift around the city because of what JamesTRubotnik said.

you're getting old and sentimental

nothing wrong indeeeeeed

I always had been to Prenzl during the cold season, but this year i was there in summer. It reminded me to tourist areas in Spain. I also noticed lots of these "Natureshop-1-Kid" Families, where the Dad's take care for the baby while the woman is at work earning money All dressed up very stylish of course In Vienna they have even an own name for that "new kind" of couples or 1-kid-families, but i forgot the name of it.  And i also noticed the masses of 20 and 30 somethings from all over the world that hang around there in Berlin to work somehow in creative fields. They look all very busy with their macbooks and iphones, managing their next project from the cafe in the morning. I wonder how hard it is for some to make some bucks there, since everybody goes there with the same goal. I wonder if there are lots of them lucky to get a monthly cheque from mom & dad? However, it is amazing and partly amuzing to watch this cosmos while walking along the streets, but i wouldn't want to live there everyday

I just discovered the thread here.

First of all: I am native Prenzlauer Berger, I live in Prenzlauer Berg since I was born in 1974. Sometimes I am frustrated, but I still like my city, somehow I am proud. and as some of you said before, those developments happen in nearly every bigger city in the world. I always said: If they bomb Berlin I would like to live in Hamburg, but it is the same shit there too...

I met a friend last night and he told me about the docu on tv, he said it was funny to see, they showed all our places, but he was pissed in the same way. He lives here since 1987 and hates all the yuppie shit.
some nice places are still there, like the huge beergarden at Prater we joined last night again. But I am happy if I can flee back to my house. Berlin nightlife is still interesting and always something new. That`s how it goes. It is not the end.

I live in the mos bio nature conscious family country. Which crap is meticulously cleaned away every second hour. The building where I live is painted with a special paint that costs millions because it breaths. We have a shop where people living in the same house can buy good, all bio of course and a piece a bread costs 4 euro, salad possibly ten etc. Most families here are mild ex left wing hippies supporters grown up to fear they can get robbed of they beautiful little piece of land.

Lots of deejayz and other 'artists' live and/or move to Berlin simply because it's still cheap here compared to many other european capitals (I think most are much more expensive).