oddhouse85

people always take Uber here in Berlin, but as a local I’d always take a taxi. Technically you have to be a taxi driver anyway, and a lot of Uber drivers are not legit (it’s not profitable if you are legit/certified so all the real taxi drivers just drive taxis). also, no one drinks… Read More

honestly this is probably just a fellow Berliner trying to slow the flood of people who keep moving here and making our city expensive and boring

great pls don’t come to berlin, we are kind of tired of tourists and expats tbh

I’ve been living in Europe for half my life & it’s really not that hard to find most of these things outside of the US (or to make them from scratch if you are up to it!) You just need to know where to look. The only thing I still buy in the US is baking powder (ours is single acting… Read More

I honestly got stuck and couldn’t keep reading after one of the reviews said “an 11 day backpacking trip through Europe” - how!? As a European, pls consider slowing down - sometimes I think this is why there are so many insanely wrong tiktoks and posts by Americans explaining Europe… Read More

#25 isn’t an eviction - the “tenants” are subletting from someone who is a renter, and the renter is moving out (3 months notice is the standard window of notice for leaving an apartment here). you can’t get evicted if you’re on the lease in Germany without a court case and it takes… Read More

when I was teaching high school in the US, one of the older teachers at the school found out my roommate was from the same small town in Michigan that he grew up in. it turned out that my coworker’s dad’s parents built the house that my roommate grew up in. they’d never met as he’d… Read More

idk, I mean, yes, it means you have financial insecurity, but part of being a mature adult is learning how to manage money and talk about it in a relationship. if you are in dire financial conditions, a mature approach would be to let your partner know that you’re struggling and talk… Read More

I know it can be so hard - but I also want to share that it isn’t always hard. I was so scared because of all the horror stories I’d heard and really stressed about having waited so long. We got pregnant the first try, in one night (I was traveling for work and only home one nicht!)… Read More

I’m pregnant at 40 and I’m fine with being ancient but I got very very lucky - we had no problems conceiving. A friend of mine changed her mind about having kids in a second marriage and has has about four rounds of IVF that didn’t take - she’s about a year older than I am. The one… Read More