People like me flocked to Berlin because it was ‘poor but sexy’. Those times are over | Fatma Aydemir

Berlin was going to be different. If there was anything I’d heard more about this city than its unmatched freedoms, it was that anyone could afford a decent life here on a part-time job’s salary. Universities were free for everyone. I’d enrolled in a master’s program for the visa and found a student job in my first week. I moved into a shared Altba

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Berlin, baby! This is a city infected with a pre-teen’s idea of “being edgy.”