I just have to say...

I just have to say... that moving to Berlin was a completely disenchanting experience, and I often find that I have become so resentful of this that I spread it on to others. Part of my problem is that (although I have a few friends here) I haven't had a good, genuine laugh, or a genuinely fun, good night out (not sexually, just fun..you know what I mean). Everything here for the past year has felt compromised, and it's one session of 'make due' after another. It's not that I dislike the place completely, but it doesn't feed my soul like my life in Southern California did, and I am starting to see new wrinkles forming...at 29.

HOWEVER -

Tonight, for the first time I actually took the time to do some erroneous browsing on this site. And I have to say that there were some extremely entertaining conversations in your recent past. And quite a few of you are as, if not more charismatic than some of the people I miss the most back home.

My point -

Thank you.

After having laughed, gagged, shuddered, and every other emotion provoked from the topics I browsed, I finally feel...alive? No too dramatic...I feel...like I just finished hanging out with a group of friends I've known for years. It's funny how tolerance, and relativity come into play here...I've said too much already.

My faith that assimilation might be worth the effort has been restored, slightly.

Awwww, now I feel all fuzzy inside. Then again, maybe it was the Weißbier after all.

I was getting that warm and fuzzy feeling too, up until the last line. Then some jokes from this web site popped into my head and I lost that lovin' feeling and started giggling. Oh, well...

_{I am Fudd of Bowg. Wesistance is wusewess. Pwepawe to be Assimiwated.}

You know, I wasn't going to mention it because I wanted to keep bias out of my post...

But 99.9% of the people I enjoyed reading post from hailed from Bavaria.

I can live anywhere in Germany, and my lease is up in 4 months.

Perhaps the 'conservative south' holds life more comparable to what I'm used to.

This is worth a visit...

Maybe you just have to exit the Berlin area...

Probably because most of the regular posters on this site are from Bavaria. This site used to be Toytown Munich before it went nationwide.

That being said, most of the posters here do know eachother offline and meet up regularly. You can usually find some kind of meet up or activity any day of the week.

If I could live anywhere in Germany, Munich would be the spot. Alas, I have no choice and am stuck in the middle of nowhere.

Regular posters - yes; members - not necessarily. I was very pleased at the non-Munich turnout at the TT Oktoberfest Do last year, more than half of the attendees were from the Frankfurt area and Hamburg.

Amen.

Me, too. But I guess I'll have to wait a little longer.

In 4 months you could come down and get some practice in the beer gardens before the O'Fest.