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Interested to hear your thoughts on nice ways into/out of the city! We currently have an apartment in Buch (beyond Pankow on the S4) which is fantastic because you have endless gravel less than 2 mins from the front door but obviously a pain for commuting to the city. In the medium-term we want to find a place a little more central but my preference would be for a neighbourhood with good routes for getting out of the city, any recommendations?
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Oh Buch. Wrong side, and way out (sorry).
But probably best for good routes, north has the nicest stuff in my opinion, parts of Uckermark and mecklenburgische Seenplatte is great.
South and East can also be fun, but up where you are it's hillier in general. Ok, less flat. I didn't do much in the west, but Grunewald is nice in a road cycling in the park way, and has a few very short MTB trails.
I honestly can't say where is best.
In a way Neukölln/Treptow is a good compromise of right side of town and going out via Müggelsee is good but very bad in the beginning. Then back along Dahme and the Teltow canal. -
from Buch you have nice routes to Liepnitzsee, Gorinsee etc., or you can do a village loop, there are plenty of small villages. there even is a former secret GDR settlement called Waldsiedlung where very important GDR politicians lived.
When you`re in northern Berlin, you can also follow the Berlin-Spandauer Schiffahrtskanal (Berlin- Spandau canal) that starts at Plötzensee and ends in Tegel, there you have many possiblities discovering the Tegeler Forst.
and I don't want to shatter somebodys dreams, but many people are not finding a decent flat in the central parts of berlin, so everyone searching for a cheapish flat that is not in the outskirts with good routes, have patience. Kreuzberg is not the only district.
c.h.e.
HK_Berlin
Guess you'd find a job, but minimum wage here is low, and rents are high. My guess would be that the chain shops would need you to speak German, and small ones might be reluctant to have to train you.
@Sig_Arlecchino just had his last day in a good shop, guess he might have helpful insight.
We often did (I don't really ride my bike it seems) take trains back into the city. This definitely works.
Traffic/infrastructure is up for debate. Loads of improvements, drivers are often dickheads, but there are some nice ways to get out of the city.
And yes, it's a great place to live. I have big city blues often, loads of stuff doesn't work, we just got a new idiot government, but still very nice.
Also not that easy anymore for people arriving, literally no apartments and loads end up with a string of short term or a place that's way too expensive.