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Originally posted by Yorick:
Kaz, Berlin now is vastly different even to the Berlin of eight years ago when I was last there. (Before earlier this year) You can't tell Easterners from Westerners anymore. The east is the funky part of town. The old tension is gone or going, replaced by newer different worries.
The Soviet pressure isn't there either. 
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Quite unfortunately, here you can still occasionally hear jokes about the "Ossies" (former East Germans) and, for instance, that they can't drive, etc. And this was a border city, only about 10km from the border to Thueringen (formerly East Germany). Sad but true... and on an average, people in the eastern states still earn less, own less, have a higher unemployment rate and (as far as I know) more crime than in the western states. It will take more time until there is truly no difference between East and West anymore...
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