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Not got an internship yet-I want to do an intensive German course for a couple of months and do my thesis, some portfolio etc at the same time to get it out the way, then we'll see if anyone has any interest in actually hiring a half-crazed Scotsman...
Could possibly find a room in student housing if it's going to be a nightmare but would rather not... Or I could just go somewhere cheaper like Dresden but I always overthink these things it seems!
Anyway-I appreciate and share your wariness of spooning male strangers so that wouldn't be my desired solution either ;)
Joined a couple of FB groups for finding flat and it's obvious why rents have gone to shit. So many international douchebags (like me, except less stingy I guess...)
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I am here. Rents are indeed crazy. The influx of not only people but also capital looking for investment opportunities is obvious. And the fact that the city sold thousands of flats ten years ago. Also a lot of social housing is loosing that status right now. Now all we need is a Google Campus here in Kreuzberg and it will be great.
Has to be said though that its still pretty focused on Mitte and the hip places eg Neukölln. If you look a bit less central (which Neukölln might also mean because the Bezirke are huge and not all of Neukölln is full of tourists and pale ale but still a desperate and poor place) that might help.
For cycling there are the obvious city spots Tempelhofer Feld (going in circles around the airfield) and Grunewald Runde (circles around the city forest).
I am in Kreuzberg, so I tend to go south/southeast if I go riding. Britz-Buckowgoing south is nice using parts of mauerweg. I tend to go around Rangsdorfer See then. Kiefholzer Strasse is a long straight that takes you eats towards Müggelsee which has nice bike roads in the woods and then you go south to Königs Wusterhausen.
Further out one of my favourites is going to Märkische Schweiz. It has actual up and downhill for maybe 5 minutes!
looking fwd to have you here grubz! got your pm, will respond in a bit.
housing prices have indeed gone through the roof, damn forrins coming here and being used to pay through the nose..
ill keep an eye and ear around, but dont hold your hopes up.. even when I moved back in 2012 I had to move 4 times in 6 months.
dont have a spare room either because thats the one I live in and I dont look fwd to spooning an internet stranger...
got an internship already?