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Originally Posted by iheartthed
Berlin is one of the biggest tech hubs in Europe (and the world). In terms of tech in Europe, it's in the same league of London and Paris.
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True, it's quite strong in tech. But Berlin, overall, is an economic laggard compared to the other major German cities, and not viewed internally like a London or Paris, at all.
There are also historical differences. It's relatively young city, historically almost all Lutheran, strong Polish influence, obviously obliterated during war and divided afterwards. It doesn't really feel German, at least most people's conception of German, which is probably some mix of Rhineland and Bavarian norms.
It also feels a bit frontier-ish, because the vast majority of German population and GDP is in the western part of the former West Germany, close to Netherlands and France, very far from Berlin, and separated by kinda empty (for German standards) geography. It would be like if London were somewhere north of Inverness.