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The reason I'd live in Berlin is the food and culture. Why would I need to go anywhere? every big production visits Berlin. Some of the best food in the world, beer gardens and parks and I just ride the u-bahn everywhere?
Oh and the people are fucking incredible!
Good damn I'm selling myself on living there all over again. Berlin was my favorite city in the world a decade ago. I'd have stuffed myself in a shoebox to live there in my 20s. Now I'll need a decent size flat but it's still a nice dream.
For the record I now live in a city and it's good but not the same level of dreaminess as basically any European city, even the smaller ones.
OK that surely are nice points for Berlin. If one like all those things. But does it justify the higher cost of living? To me it doesn't.
I don't drink, I hate the UBahn (last time I used it was 20yrs ago), rarely eat outside (we have a cook) and also don't visit cinemas or whatever you exactly meant by "big productions" (I assume musicals or bands and the likes?) We're more the boring museum-types ๐
But the Ruhrgebiet has tons of all that too I guess (never been in Berlin long enough to know). If our city does not, the next one does. Or the surroundings. But unless you live in some remote foresty places there, it's not great.