Ich Bin ein Berliner (I Wish)

ACHTUNG! The window is quickly closing on the dreamy dream of moving to Berlin to live in a cheap flat and be an artist. (It seems the cheap flats are disappearing as wealthy Germans buy up housing stock as relatively stable investments because somebody — you? — wrecked the world economy.)

But it’s not too late! Only almost too late. On Craigslist at this moment is a studio for 290 Euro/month. There doesn’t appear to be a shower and you share a bathroom with a shop, but I think you could deal with that. You could make a painting and trade your neighbors your painting for a shower. Artist life! There is subway tile and a window. Internet is included. Buy a roundtrip ticket for $700 and you’re there. Do it. Do itttt. Do it while you have your youth.

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