Things must be pretty dire if they compare themselves to Germany.
Infrastructure in Germany is crumbling too. Access to basic public services is always measured in weeks. Access to mental healthcare is extremely difficult if you don't pay out of pocket. Public transit is falling apart, especially in the last few weeks. Housing prices are out of control, and yet it's impossible to find a place to live. I hear that education has already collapsed. Berlin has been repeatedly called a failed state over the last decade.
I help people settle in Berlin for a living. I just don't know what to tell them anymore. I'm seeing the collapse in slow motion and it pains me. Berlin was always dysfunctional but at least it was cheap. Now it's not.
Things are bleak, especially when you consider the upcoming challenges that all countries will face: ageing population, cost disease and global warming.
your choice of words are quite poor my dear poster.
Infrastructure is not crumbling, you can be across the entire country in less than 4 hours.
I agree that public transit in Berlin specifically has been better, but you can still get across the city which is wide and not high in about 40 minutes.
Car, bike and scooter sharing is plenty-full too and if you really want to, everything is walkable.
The challenges you call out for are also an international problems and the follow up of the boomer generation
When everything takes 4+ weeks to get any piece of paper and the Deutsche Bahn has 52% punctuality (cancellations excluded), I would say that my choice of words is appropriate. These things are getting worse every year. It is crumbling.
Are you reading all of this online or have you actually used any of those transportation methods recently? I have just had a trip for from the boondocks of baden würtenberg to the center of Berlin in said 4:30 hours.
As for your pieces of paper, that is because Berlin is at capacity. Which is also why housing is expensive. Its also -the city to be- for anyone under 50 and one of the top 10 cities for clubbing in the world.
Nothing is crumbling and your punctuality are mostly slight shifts in arrival times.
Infrastructure in Germany is crumbling too. Access to basic public services is always measured in weeks. Access to mental healthcare is extremely difficult if you don't pay out of pocket. Public transit is falling apart, especially in the last few weeks. Housing prices are out of control, and yet it's impossible to find a place to live. I hear that education has already collapsed. Berlin has been repeatedly called a failed state over the last decade.
I help people settle in Berlin for a living. I just don't know what to tell them anymore. I'm seeing the collapse in slow motion and it pains me. Berlin was always dysfunctional but at least it was cheap. Now it's not.
Things are bleak, especially when you consider the upcoming challenges that all countries will face: ageing population, cost disease and global warming.