Country melikes a lot.Discuss.

[Pookie]

Never been, never had any desire to.

Many parts of US - yes.
Canada - yes.
Russia - yes.
India - yes.
etc.

Germany - no.
Australia - no.

Not that I have anything particularly against those countries. I just think what makes me want to go to a country? Landscape is a factor, culture another. And there's nothing about Germany's landscapes/marks that appeal to me, and little of German culture and art has ever appealed to me. Same goes for Australia. Not too much art, literature or music that I like has come from Australia.

But if anybody wants to offer me a free trip to either place (or anywhere for that matter), I wouldn't turn it down.

[SynthethicalY]

I would like to go.

[atari 2600]

If one sees a German gig date for an artist they like that's a soundboard from FM broadcast, by all means, download it!

This is a generalization, (although based on empirical evidence), but they really know sound engineering and recording.
In addition, many of the older FM broadcasts have been preserved by audiophiles using only the finest reel-to-reel recorders available at the time.

Bah, i got stuck in England, which is an adorable place and all that, but now it's time to move on and Germany always fascinated me. It might as well be a shithole, but i aint care.

[Pookie]

I have a friend who intended travelling around the world.

He started with Germany, and never got any further (he's been there about 6 years now), so there must be something to it.

I noticed,earlier, a beatiful thing (again) about english streets: they look awesomely pretty, even when where you live in is not that much. Evey country has a nice thing about them. I'm generally attached to England because i love the people, but sometimes you need to detach from them. I'm from Italy, by the way.

[demonrail666]

I've been to Berlin and Frankfurt - oh and Dresden, which is hardly the most interesting of places.

I like Germany a lot. Well, I like BERLIN a lot (Frankfurt is bloody horrible). Berlin has a very similar to vibe to London and NY. In many ways I prefer it to London - at least creatively/socially.

I've often thought of moving there, just as a change from London.

[fishmonkey]

yeah i love Germany
i got me a big chunk of the berlin wall.

[Bastian]

Berlin is really nice. I moved here last year. Before that, I was living in West Germany, in the Ruhr Valley. That was really boring most of the time and I never want to live there again. I haven't been to London, so I can't compare it to that, but at least Berlin has one major advantage: it's much more affordable.

Hamburg is fine too, btw.

[hotbutterknives]

germanys is cool , i love that country , except for the strong racist presence there

[demonrail666]

Berlin still has more of an underground vibe to it than London, which has recently become so overly satisfied with itself that i can't bear it. Berlin has far more of a sense of possibility about it. And, like Bastian said, it's FAR cheaper!

[sonicl]

I've been to Berlin and to Heidelburg. Both very nice places. I preferred Heidelburg, but Berlin would probably suit you better.

And the German people: very friendly, I liked them very much.

[Danny Himself]

Germany is pretty depressing. I like Germans though.

New Germans.

[!@#$%!]

i once spent 6 hours in the frankfurt airport. one of the worst places ever.

[ALIEN ANAL]

how can you say Australia doesnt have beautiful landscapes?!

[_tunic_]

I've worked in Germany for a couple of years, in a couple of different places. Köln is a very nice town, Frankfurt is too busy for me. The München area is beutiful. Didn't see much of the city myself, as I lived a bit more north but I loved the nature there. We don't have any hills in Holland :-) The people in the south seem to be more relaxed compared to the Ruhr area also
And driving is great fun as you can go as fast as you can :-D
I've never been to Berlin though

[Katy]

Berlin is a great city. I'd love to go back. Probably will, sooner rather than later.

[o o o]

I find that cities/regions in Germany are very different one from another and naturally the atmosphere or the people one is going to meet there also differ a lot… I guess it’s the same in many countries, but I found it quite noticeable in Germany.

I lived in Munich for a bit more than 1 year, then moved one year ago to Berlin, and the two cities felt somehow like opposites… Munich seemed to me rich, bourgeois, clean, orderly, very safe, etc. but with not much going on… while Berlin is bankrupt, more chaotic, very lively, more free, more international, and yes, with a general strong "sense of possibility about it", like demonrail666 said - that might be the city’s main quality… there is a lot of space, too: big parks, a lot "waste lands", some of them very large… and the urban landscape changes really fast. It is quite a city to explore, as the various districts of the city are also quite different one from another. Not a beautiful city, though, some parts of it are in fact incredibly ugly, but some of this brutal ugliness also has its charm.

I still enjoyed my time in Munich (life is good there one must admit, there are definitely some nice places, the Englischer Garten is nice, the beer is nice, and the lanscape around the city is lovely indeed, with all the lakes and the Alps very close), but I much, much, much prefer Berlin. I love this city and I can see myself living here for a long, long time. I'd lke to explain more why I love this city but right now my brain doesn't seem to be able to find out what exactly I want to express. And yes, it is cheap, although the rents seem to rise quickly in certain districts where they used to be really low not so long ago.

Another city I know a bit in Germany is Hamburg: when I was a kid/teenager, I would regularly spend holidays there, because most of my mother-side family is based there… I remember really liking the city, but back then I was always with my parents or family, so I didn’t get the chance to really experience the city on my own. It’s been years since I last went there: I would like to visit it again to see what it’s really like.

[o o o]

Originally Posted by Danny Himself

Germany is pretty depressing. I like Germans though.

New Germans.

What are those "New Germans"? Ex- East Germans, as in the Old Europe / New Europe thing?

Originally Posted by _tunic_

The people in the south seem to be more relaxed compared to the Ruhr area also

Well, the people in Bavaria seemed to me more "bon vivant" (my dictionary suggests to translate "bon vivant" by "jovial chap" but I don't think that's the word I'm looking for, plus I want to use it as an adjective) than elsewhere in Germany... but on the other hand, in Munich one would get arrested by the police and get a fine when riding one's bike in the wrong bike lane - on the wrong side of the street - and in Berlin, nobody would care... I think...