[ido]

45% in 6 years is 6.21% compound per year, which is not unusually high for that time scale for an attractive large city.

[collyw]

Are the wages rising as fast? I would doubt it.

[ido]

Probably not but that's again a global problem not a Berlin problem. My point was only that Berlin is not specifically harshly affected by these global trends, it's that way (or worse) in pretty much every attractive major city.