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by stiGGG 2958 days ago
It's mainly because the rents in Berlin had been comparatively extremely low in average. What happened in the last 5-10 years is more or less an adjustment to other cities in Germany e.g. Hamburg or Munich. But it is a big problem, the typical young IT worker can afford it, but the wages of "normal" workers didn't rise much, so gentrification happened like crazy in all central districts.