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Just to give people some perspective, this is very cheap to basically unattainable in Berlin today.

Assuming you want to live somewhere with good transit connections and fairly central (say, on the inner side of the Ringbahn[1] or close to it) a 3-room apartment (2 bedrooms+living room, let's say around 60-70 m^2) will likely cost you 500-600 eur not including heat (700+ including heat and utilities) if you don't inherit an old contract (in Germany landlords are limited in how much they can increase rent on a year by year basis for an ongoing contract, so if you get a new apartment you'll probably pay more than the previous tenant as the land lord will use this opportunity to increase your rent).

Overall tho it is still cheap for a western city. I think my expenses dropped almost to half what they were in Tel Aviv.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Ringbahn