Is Berlin the coolest city in the world?

Berlin, the capital of Germany is thriving. In addition to the historic Turkish community, a new category of migrants are populating the city looking for employment and a cool and trendy way of life. Berlin, Germany. 18/03/2010.

What is the coolest city in the world?
"Of course, Berlin," replies Aleksandra, a Russian student at the Universität der Kunste, the prestigious institution of music and arts located in the suggestive square of Pariser Platz, next to the Brandenburg Gate.
With more than 3.4 million inhabitants, Berlin is the second most populous city in the European Union after London.
Although only 13.9 percent of the population has foreign nationality- a datum not comparable with other metropolis as London, Paris or New York - a new multicultural and multiethnic scene is gaining ground.
According to the Statistical Bureau of Berlin-Brandenburg, Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandeburg, the number of foreign citizens who have chosen Berlin as place of residence, has been increasing by 1.5 percent every year since 2006.
"If you compare [Berlin today] with the 1950s or the 1960s, when almost all the foreigners were 'gastarbeiter' - guest workers - and most of them moved from Turkey and the former Yugoslavia, today the situation is completely different," explains Edith Pichler, lecturer at the Humboldt Universität. "The new immigrants are successful professionals, freelancers and artists. They are looking not for a job opportunity, but for a better quality of living and a new stimulus for their activities.”
The reasons are clear: Berlin, which has a 14 percent unemployment rate, a large debt accumulated from reconstruction after reunification and lacks relevant industries, is poor. Also, the cost of living is cheaper than any other metropolis in Western nations.
These characteristics, to whom we should add the peculiarity of Berlin history, which makes the German capital the icon of the darkest period of the 20th century, have allowed it to build a reputation of being an underground city where the bohemian style of life is still possible.
Kreuzberg is part of the borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, which is divided by the Spree river and by the East Side Gallery, a 1.3 km long section of the Berlin Wall. The area was considered the center of the underground West Berlin scene during the 1970s and 1980s, when David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed lived there.
Rery Maldonado, a Bolivian writer, blogger and journalist, is sitting at the Ankelklause, a little and smoky kneipe (the German word for pub) over the bank of the river. She has been living in Berlin since 1997.
"If you are a writer, a musician or an artist, you can’t live in any other city than Berlin," she said. "Due to the low price of apartments, you can survive easily; moreover, there are a lot of opportunities to promote your works, even if the competition is high.”
“Many artists are coming day after day to participate in the cultural life of the city,” says Tobias Delius, a well-known saxophonist and clarinetist of the European Free Jazz scene. Delius moved here from Amsterdam in 2007. “Berlin is experiencing an outstanding artistic flowering, which could be compared to the most well-known music scenes, as New York, Copenhagen or Amsterdam. The difference is that living here and finding a place where practicing or performing is absolutely cheaper than any other cities.”
"Here,” says Michael Obert, a German book author and travel journalist, "you can live without speaking the local language. I have many friends from UK, USA, France, Spain and South American countries, who have been living in Berlin since years and they don't still speak a single word of German."
Obert’s apartment is located in Prenzlauer Berg, an old district part of the former East Berlin that became a centre for bohemian Berlin youth during the 1990s. Prenzlauer Berg has recently become a popular area for the current wave of American and European immigrants: “G8-Bevölkerung”, a G8 population, as the journalist H. Sußebach classified ironically the inhabitants of the district in an article published in the German newspaper Die Zeit in November 2007.
“Of course, if you go for a walk in Casting Allee – the way how Berliners name Prenzlauer Berg’s famed street Kastanienallee for the attitude of its inhabitants to show themselves as they are modeling on the catwalk -,” points out Franziska Klauke, a young lawyer who has just finished her legal practice, “you will hear only English or Spanish conversations; but if you look at the boroughs which surround the central districts, the situation is completely different.”
Berlin is subdivided into 12 boroughs: less than 3 percent of foreign citizens are living in the peripheral areas of Marzhan, Lichtenberg and Treptow-Köpenicker in the Eastern part of the city. The percentage of foreigners is higher in Western boroughs such as Charlotenburgh-Wilmersdorf (19,1 percent), Spandau (10 percent), Reinickendorf (10 percent) and Neukolln (22,6 percent) where the working class and Turkish community are concentrated since the 1950s and the 1960s.
Which integration could be possible without sharing a common language?
"The problem doesn’t exist," continues the German author. “The new migrants, who have been moved to Berlin in the last ten years, are looking not for integration, rather for the artistic and cultural scene. They have been coming from New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Barcelona, Milan, London, Paris and many other places around the globe; their interests are the arts, the fashion and the music and, in order to share those subjects, people need obviously a common language, but they can talk in English or Spanish."
The German language is not only "needless", but in a way it clashes with the identity of new migrants: "The arts are free; the artists don't look for integration; they are individualists; why should they learn a new language?"
Is Berlin the coolest city around the globe or just a place for “escapists”?
“Berlin is an isle of happiness,” say most of the interviewees, but none of them would like to live in the outstanding German capital for the rest of their lives.

Berlin, the capital of Germany is thriving. In addition to the historic Turkish community, a new category of migrants are populating the city looking for employment and a cool and trendy way of life. Berlin, Germany. 18/03/2010.

What is the coolest city in the world?
"Of course, Berlin," replies Aleksandra, a Russian student at the Universität der Kunste, the prestigious institution of music and arts located in the suggestive square of Pariser Platz, next to the Brandenburg Gate.
With more than 3.4 million inhabitants, Berlin is the second most populous city in the European Union after London.
Although only 13.9 percent of the population has foreign nationality- a datum not comparable with other metropolis as London, Paris or New York - a new multicultural and multiethnic scene is gaining ground.
According to the Statistical Bureau of Berlin-Brandenburg, Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandeburg, the number of foreign citizens who have chosen Berlin as place of residence, has been increasing by 1.5 percent every year since 2006.
"If you compare [Berlin today] with the 1950s or the 1960s, when almost all the foreigners were 'gastarbeiter' - guest workers - and most of them moved from Turkey and the former Yugoslavia, today the situation is completely different," explains Edith Pichler, lecturer at the Humboldt Universität. "The new immigrants are successful professionals, freelancers and artists. They are looking not for a job opportunity, but for a better quality of living and a new stimulus for their activities.”
The reasons are clear: Berlin, which has a 14 percent unemployment rate, a large debt accumulated from reconstruction after reunification and lacks relevant industries, is poor. Also, the cost of living is cheaper than any other metropolis in Western nations.
These characteristics, to whom we should add the peculiarity of Berlin history, which makes the German capital the icon of the darkest period of the 20th century, have allowed it to build a reputation of being an underground city where the bohemian style of life is still possible.
Kreuzberg is part of the borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, which is divided by the Spree river and by the East Side Gallery, a 1.3 km long section of the Berlin Wall. The area was considered the center of the underground West Berlin scene during the 1970s and 1980s, when David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed lived there.
Rery Maldonado, a Bolivian writer, blogger and journalist, is sitting at the Ankelklause, a little and smoky kneipe (the German word for pub) over the bank of the river. She has been living in Berlin since 1997.
"If you are a writer, a musician or an artist, you can’t live in any other city than Berlin," she said. "Due to the low price of apartments, you can survive easily; moreover, there are a lot of opportunities to promote your works, even if the competition is high.”
“Many artists are coming day after day to participate in the cultural life of the city,” says Tobias Delius, a well-known saxophonist and clarinetist of the European Free Jazz scene. Delius moved here from Amsterdam in 2007. “Berlin is experiencing an outstanding artistic flowering, which could be compared to the most well-known music scenes, as New York, Copenhagen or Amsterdam. The difference is that living here and finding a place where practicing or performing is absolutely cheaper than any other cities.”
"Here,” says Michael Obert, a German book author and travel journalist, "you can live without speaking the local language. I have many friends from UK, USA, France, Spain and South American countries, who have been living in Berlin since years and they don't still speak a single word of German."
Obert’s apartment is located in Prenzlauer Berg, an old district part of the former East Berlin that became a centre for bohemian Berlin youth during the 1990s. Prenzlauer Berg has recently become a popular area for the current wave of American and European immigrants: “G8-Bevölkerung”, a G8 population, as the journalist H. Sußebach classified ironically the inhabitants of the district in an article published in the German newspaper Die Zeit in November 2007.
“Of course, if you go for a walk in Casting Allee – the way how Berliners name Prenzlauer Berg’s famed street Kastanienallee for the attitude of its inhabitants to show themselves as they are modeling on the catwalk -,” points out Franziska Klauke, a young lawyer who has just finished her legal practice, “you will hear only English or Spanish conversations; but if you look at the boroughs which surround the central districts, the situation is completely different.”
Berlin is subdivided into 12 boroughs: less than 3 percent of foreign citizens are living in the peripheral areas of Marzhan, Lichtenberg and Treptow-Köpenicker in the Eastern part of the city. The percentage of foreigners is higher in Western boroughs such as Charlotenburgh-Wilmersdorf (19,1 percent), Spandau (10 percent), Reinickendorf (10 percent) and Neukolln (22,6 percent) where the working class and Turkish community are concentrated since the 1950s and the 1960s.
Which integration could be possible without sharing a common language?
"The problem doesn’t exist," continues the German author. “The new migrants, who have been moved to Berlin in the last ten years, are looking not for integration, rather for the artistic and cultural scene. They have been coming from New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Barcelona, Milan, London, Paris and many other places around the globe; their interests are the arts, the fashion and the music and, in order to share those subjects, people need obviously a common language, but they can talk in English or Spanish."
The German language is not only "needless", but in a way it clashes with the identity of new migrants: "The arts are free; the artists don't look for integration; they are individualists; why should they learn a new language?"
Is Berlin the coolest city around the globe or just a place for “escapists”?
“Berlin is an isle of happiness,” say most of the interviewees, but none of them would like to live in the outstanding German capital for the rest of their lives.

Berlin, the capital of Germany is thriving. In addition to the historic Turkish community, a new category of migrants are populating the city looking for employment and a cool and trendy way of life. Berlin, Germany. 18/03/2010.

What is the coolest city in the world?
"Of course, Berlin," replies Aleksandra, a Russian student at the Universität der Kunste, the prestigious institution of music and arts located in the suggestive square of Pariser Platz, next to the Brandenburg Gate.
With more than 3.4 million inhabitants, Berlin is the second most populous city in the European Union after London.
Although only 13.9 percent of the population has foreign nationality- a datum not comparable with other metropolis as London, Paris or New York - a new multicultural and multiethnic scene is gaining ground.
According to the Statistical Bureau of Berlin-Brandenburg, Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandeburg, the number of foreign citizens who have chosen Berlin as place of residence, has been increasing by 1.5 percent every year since 2006.
"If you compare [Berlin today] with the 1950s or the 1960s, when almost all the foreigners were 'gastarbeiter' - guest workers - and most of them moved from Turkey and the former Yugoslavia, today the situation is completely different," explains Edith Pichler, lecturer at the Humboldt Universität. "The new immigrants are successful professionals, freelancers and artists. They are looking not for a job opportunity, but for a better quality of living and a new stimulus for their activities.”
The reasons are clear: Berlin, which has a 14 percent unemployment rate, a large debt accumulated from reconstruction after reunification and lacks relevant industries, is poor. Also, the cost of living is cheaper than any other metropolis in Western nations.
These characteristics, to whom we should add the peculiarity of Berlin history, which makes the German capital the icon of the darkest period of the 20th century, have allowed it to build a reputation of being an underground city where the bohemian style of life is still possible.
Kreuzberg is part of the borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, which is divided by the Spree river and by the East Side Gallery, a 1.3 km long section of the Berlin Wall. The area was considered the center of the underground West Berlin scene during the 1970s and 1980s, when David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed lived there.
Rery Maldonado, a Bolivian writer, blogger and journalist, is sitting at the Ankelklause, a little and smoky kneipe (the German word for pub) over the bank of the river. She has been living in Berlin since 1997.
"If you are a writer, a musician or an artist, you can’t live in any other city than Berlin," she said. "Due to the low price of apartments, you can survive easily; moreover, there are a lot of opportunities to promote your works, even if the competition is high.”
“Many artists are coming day after day to participate in the cultural life of the city,” says Tobias Delius, a well-known saxophonist and clarinetist of the European Free Jazz scene. Delius moved here from Amsterdam in 2007. “Berlin is experiencing an outstanding artistic flowering, which could be compared to the most well-known music scenes, as New York, Copenhagen or Amsterdam. The difference is that living here and finding a place where practicing or performing is absolutely cheaper than any other cities.”
"Here,” says Michael Obert, a German book author and travel journalist, "you can live without speaking the local language. I have many friends from UK, USA, France, Spain and South American countries, who have been living in Berlin since years and they don't still speak a single word of German."
Obert’s apartment is located in Prenzlauer Berg, an old district part of the former East Berlin that became a centre for bohemian Berlin youth during the 1990s. Prenzlauer Berg has recently become a popular area for the current wave of American and European immigrants: “G8-Bevölkerung”, a G8 population, as the journalist H. Sußebach classified ironically the inhabitants of the district in an article published in the German newspaper Die Zeit in November 2007.
“Of course, if you go for a walk in Casting Allee – the way how Berliners name Prenzlauer Berg’s famed street Kastanienallee for the attitude of its inhabitants to show themselves as they are modeling on the catwalk -,” points out Franziska Klauke, a young lawyer who has just finished her legal practice, “you will hear only English or Spanish conversations; but if you look at the boroughs which surround the central districts, the situation is completely different.”
Berlin is subdivided into 12 boroughs: less than 3 percent of foreign citizens are living in the peripheral areas of Marzhan, Lichtenberg and Treptow-Köpenicker in the Eastern part of the city. The percentage of foreigners is higher in Western boroughs such as Charlotenburgh-Wilmersdorf (19,1 percent), Spandau (10 percent), Reinickendorf (10 percent) and Neukolln (22,6 percent) where the working class and Turkish community are concentrated since the 1950s and the 1960s.
Which integration could be possible without sharing a common language?
"The problem doesn’t exist," continues the German author. “The new migrants, who have been moved to Berlin in the last ten years, are looking not for integration, rather for the artistic and cultural scene. They have been coming from New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Barcelona, Milan, London, Paris and many other places around the globe; their interests are the arts, the fashion and the music and, in order to share those subjects, people need obviously a common language, but they can talk in English or Spanish."
The German language is not only "needless", but in a way it clashes with the identity of new migrants: "The arts are free; the artists don't look for integration; they are individualists; why should they learn a new language?"
Is Berlin the coolest city around the globe or just a place for “escapists”?
“Berlin is an isle of happiness,” say most of the interviewees, but none of them would like to live in the outstanding German capital for the rest of their lives.

Berlin, the capital of Germany is thriving. In addition to the historic Turkish community, a new category of migrants are populating the city looking for employment and a cool and trendy way of life. Berlin, Germany. 18/03/2010.

What is the coolest city in the world?
"Of course, Berlin," replies Aleksandra, a Russian student at the Universität der Kunste, the prestigious institution of music and arts located in the suggestive square of Pariser Platz, next to the Brandenburg Gate.
With more than 3.4 million inhabitants, Berlin is the second most populous city in the European Union after London.
Although only 13.9 percent of the population has foreign nationality- a datum not comparable with other metropolis as London, Paris or New York - a new multicultural and multiethnic scene is gaining ground.
According to the Statistical Bureau of Berlin-Brandenburg, Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandeburg, the number of foreign citizens who have chosen Berlin as place of residence, has been increasing by 1.5 percent every year since 2006.
"If you compare [Berlin today] with the 1950s or the 1960s, when almost all the foreigners were 'gastarbeiter' - guest workers - and most of them moved from Turkey and the former Yugoslavia, today the situation is completely different," explains Edith Pichler, lecturer at the Humboldt Universität. "The new immigrants are successful professionals, freelancers and artists. They are looking not for a job opportunity, but for a better quality of living and a new stimulus for their activities.”
The reasons are clear: Berlin, which has a 14 percent unemployment rate, a large debt accumulated from reconstruction after reunification and lacks relevant industries, is poor. Also, the cost of living is cheaper than any other metropolis in Western nations.
These characteristics, to whom we should add the peculiarity of Berlin history, which makes the German capital the icon of the darkest period of the 20th century, have allowed it to build a reputation of being an underground city where the bohemian style of life is still possible.
Kreuzberg is part of the borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, which is divided by the Spree river and by the East Side Gallery, a 1.3 km long section of the Berlin Wall. The area was considered the center of the underground West Berlin scene during the 1970s and 1980s, when David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed lived there.
Rery Maldonado, a Bolivian writer, blogger and journalist, is sitting at the Ankelklause, a little and smoky kneipe (the German word for pub) over the bank of the river. She has been living in Berlin since 1997.
"If you are a writer, a musician or an artist, you can’t live in any other city than Berlin," she said. "Due to the low price of apartments, you can survive easily; moreover, there are a lot of opportunities to promote your works, even if the competition is high.”
“Many artists are coming day after day to participate in the cultural life of the city,” says Tobias Delius, a well-known saxophonist and clarinetist of the European Free Jazz scene. Delius moved here from Amsterdam in 2007. “Berlin is experiencing an outstanding artistic flowering, which could be compared to the most well-known music scenes, as New York, Copenhagen or Amsterdam. The difference is that living here and finding a place where practicing or performing is absolutely cheaper than any other cities.”
"Here,” says Michael Obert, a German book author and travel journalist, "you can live without speaking the local language. I have many friends from UK, USA, France, Spain and South American countries, who have been living in Berlin since years and they don't still speak a single word of German."
Obert’s apartment is located in Prenzlauer Berg, an old district part of the former East Berlin that became a centre for bohemian Berlin youth during the 1990s. Prenzlauer Berg has recently become a popular area for the current wave of American and European immigrants: “G8-Bevölkerung”, a G8 population, as the journalist H. Sußebach classified ironically the inhabitants of the district in an article published in the German newspaper Die Zeit in November 2007.
“Of course, if you go for a walk in Casting Allee – the way how Berliners name Prenzlauer Berg’s famed street Kastanienallee for the attitude of its inhabitants to show themselves as they are modeling on the catwalk -,” points out Franziska Klauke, a young lawyer who has just finished her legal practice, “you will hear only English or Spanish conversations; but if you look at the boroughs which surround the central districts, the situation is completely different.”
Berlin is subdivided into 12 boroughs: less than 3 percent of foreign citizens are living in the peripheral areas of Marzhan, Lichtenberg and Treptow-Köpenicker in the Eastern part of the city. The percentage of foreigners is higher in Western boroughs such as Charlotenburgh-Wilmersdorf (19,1 percent), Spandau (10 percent), Reinickendorf (10 percent) and Neukolln (22,6 percent) where the working class and Turkish community are concentrated since the 1950s and the 1960s.
Which integration could be possible without sharing a common language?
"The problem doesn’t exist," continues the German author. “The new migrants, who have been moved to Berlin in the last ten years, are looking not for integration, rather for the artistic and cultural scene. They have been coming from New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Barcelona, Milan, London, Paris and many other places around the globe; their interests are the arts, the fashion and the music and, in order to share those subjects, people need obviously a common language, but they can talk in English or Spanish."
The German language is not only "needless", but in a way it clashes with the identity of new migrants: "The arts are free; the artists don't look for integration; they are individualists; why should they learn a new language?"
Is Berlin the coolest city around the globe or just a place for “escapists”?
“Berlin is an isle of happiness,” say most of the interviewees, but none of them would like to live in the outstanding German capital for the rest of their lives.

Berlin, the capital of Germany is thriving. In addition to the historic Turkish community, a new category of migrants are populating the city looking for employment and a cool and trendy way of life. Berlin, Germany. 18/03/2010.

What is the coolest city in the world?
"Of course, Berlin," replies Aleksandra, a Russian student at the Universität der Kunste, the prestigious institution of music and arts located in the suggestive square of Pariser Platz, next to the Brandenburg Gate.
With more than 3.4 million inhabitants, Berlin is the second most populous city in the European Union after London.
Although only 13.9 percent of the population has foreign nationality- a datum not comparable with other metropolis as London, Paris or New York - a new multicultural and multiethnic scene is gaining ground.
According to the Statistical Bureau of Berlin-Brandenburg, Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandeburg, the number of foreign citizens who have chosen Berlin as place of residence, has been increasing by 1.5 percent every year since 2006.
"If you compare [Berlin today] with the 1950s or the 1960s, when almost all the foreigners were 'gastarbeiter' - guest workers - and most of them moved from Turkey and the former Yugoslavia, today the situation is completely different," explains Edith Pichler, lecturer at the Humboldt Universität. "The new immigrants are successful professionals, freelancers and artists. They are looking not for a job opportunity, but for a better quality of living and a new stimulus for their activities.”
The reasons are clear: Berlin, which has a 14 percent unemployment rate, a large debt accumulated from reconstruction after reunification and lacks relevant industries, is poor. Also, the cost of living is cheaper than any other metropolis in Western nations.
These characteristics, to whom we should add the peculiarity of Berlin history, which makes the German capital the icon of the darkest period of the 20th century, have allowed it to build a reputation of being an underground city where the bohemian style of life is still possible.
Kreuzberg is part of the borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, which is divided by the Spree river and by the East Side Gallery, a 1.3 km long section of the Berlin Wall. The area was considered the center of the underground West Berlin scene during the 1970s and 1980s, when David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed lived there.
Rery Maldonado, a Bolivian writer, blogger and journalist, is sitting at the Ankelklause, a little and smoky kneipe (the German word for pub) over the bank of the river. She has been living in Berlin since 1997.
"If you are a writer, a musician or an artist, you can’t live in any other city than Berlin," she said. "Due to the low price of apartments, you can survive easily; moreover, there are a lot of opportunities to promote your works, even if the competition is high.”
“Many artists are coming day after day to participate in the cultural life of the city,” says Tobias Delius, a well-known saxophonist and clarinetist of the European Free Jazz scene. Delius moved here from Amsterdam in 2007. “Berlin is experiencing an outstanding artistic flowering, which could be compared to the most well-known music scenes, as New York, Copenhagen or Amsterdam. The difference is that living here and finding a place where practicing or performing is absolutely cheaper than any other cities.”
"Here,” says Michael Obert, a German book author and travel journalist, "you can live without speaking the local language. I have many friends from UK, USA, France, Spain and South American countries, who have been living in Berlin since years and they don't still speak a single word of German."
Obert’s apartment is located in Prenzlauer Berg, an old district part of the former East Berlin that became a centre for bohemian Berlin youth during the 1990s. Prenzlauer Berg has recently become a popular area for the current wave of American and European immigrants: “G8-Bevölkerung”, a G8 population, as the journalist H. Sußebach classified ironically the inhabitants of the district in an article published in the German newspaper Die Zeit in November 2007.
“Of course, if you go for a walk in Casting Allee – the way how Berliners name Prenzlauer Berg’s famed street Kastanienallee for the attitude of its inhabitants to show themselves as they are modeling on the catwalk -,” points out Franziska Klauke, a young lawyer who has just finished her legal practice, “you will hear only English or Spanish conversations; but if you look at the boroughs which surround the central districts, the situation is completely different.”
Berlin is subdivided into 12 boroughs: less than 3 percent of foreign citizens are living in the peripheral areas of Marzhan, Lichtenberg and Treptow-Köpenicker in the Eastern part of the city. The percentage of foreigners is higher in Western boroughs such as Charlotenburgh-Wilmersdorf (19,1 percent), Spandau (10 percent), Reinickendorf (10 percent) and Neukolln (22,6 percent) where the working class and Turkish community are concentrated since the 1950s and the 1960s.
Which integration could be possible without sharing a common language?
"The problem doesn’t exist," continues the German author. “The new migrants, who have been moved to Berlin in the last ten years, are looking not for integration, rather for the artistic and cultural scene. They have been coming from New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Barcelona, Milan, London, Paris and many other places around the globe; their interests are the arts, the fashion and the music and, in order to share those subjects, people need obviously a common language, but they can talk in English or Spanish."
The German language is not only "needless", but in a way it clashes with the identity of new migrants: "The arts are free; the artists don't look for integration; they are individualists; why should they learn a new language?"
Is Berlin the coolest city around the globe or just a place for “escapists”?
“Berlin is an isle of happiness,” say most of the interviewees, but none of them would like to live in the outstanding German capital for the rest of their lives.