BERLIN - the update thread - Page 45

Lear · #**881** Posted **Nov 29, 2012, 5:29 PM**

Strausberger Platz, Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg by Caputtnik, on Flickr

Berlin Skyline (Dusty) by claudecastor, on Flickr

Lear · #**882** Posted **Nov 30, 2012, 9:24 PM**

BBC NEWS BUSINESS

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Berlin is the home of choice for many new hi-tech entrepreneurs from around the world.

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Berlin has always been fashionable, edgy, artistic and in search of a role for itself. Sliced in two by communism and then re-united when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, it is now re-inventing itself as one of Europe's leading hi-tech hubs. Cheap property plus a young, talented workforce are attracting entrepreneurs from all over Europe and even the US.

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"Berlin is a fantastic city. It's an old city, it's culturally and historically really rich, but it's also very young," says David Noel, head of community at SoundCloud, an audio sharing website.

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Berlin became one of coolest places in the world to live and that attracted an entirely different crowd, creative people, people who were willing to try something new and most of these people were also from other countries,"” - Ciaran O'Leary Earlybird Venture Capital

GlobalBiz: Start Up City: 17 Nov 12 - BBC Podcast (27 min.)

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Every city wants to become a high technology business hub, but ambitious entrepreneurs from all over Europe are rushing to set up shop in Berlin.

Berlin Skyline (Dusty) by claudecastor, on Flickr

Lear · #**883** Posted **Dec 6, 2012, 12:19 AM**

Berlin, Fernsehturm por el.manuelito, en Flickr

Guten Abend Berlin por el.manuelito, en Flickr

Lear · #**884** Posted **Dec 7, 2012, 7:19 PM**

How poor but sexy Berlin has tapped talent to be Europe's startup capital - The Guardian

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Startups are springing up all over Berlin, as the once 'poor but sexy' German capital expands into a creative technology hub

christmas tree by RICOW.de, on Flickr

Lear · #**885** Posted **Dec 9, 2012, 9:43 PM**

Lear · #**886** Posted **Dec 20, 2012, 8:43 PM**

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Swede · #**887** Posted **Dec 21, 2012, 9:03 AM**

Awesome.

Lear · #**888** Posted **Feb 3, 2013, 6:33 PM**

http://www.bloomberg.com/slideshow/2...ness-2013.html

Lear · #**889** Posted **Nov 30, 2013, 11:10 PM**

Copyright infoguide

Copyright spreephoto.de

Chadillaccc · #**890** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 8:09 PM**

Beautiful pictures of Berlin in this thread. It's great to see that there are additions to the skyline of Berlin forthcoming.

Lear · #**891** Posted **Jan 5, 2014, 11:26 PM**

Berlin's 'poor but sexy' appeal turning city into European Silicon Valley - The Guardian
Rupert Neate in Berlin, Friday 3 January 2014 18.40 GMT

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A decade ago Berlin's mayor Klaus Wowereit tried to attract creative types to the city by declaring "Berlin ist arm, aber sexy" (poor but sexy).

It worked. The City's astonishingly low rents compared with other European capitals – a one-bed flat a short walk from Alexanderplatz in the centre of town can still be picked up for as little as €450-a-month (£373) – have helped draw arty people from across the world and made Berlin a major centre for artists, writers, musicians and, increasingly, technology and web entrepreneurs.

Happy New Year !

Silvester Berlin 2010 - Marcel Berkmann - Flickr

Minato Ku · #**892** Posted **Jan 6, 2014, 3:38 AM**

There are lot of projects in Berlin (skyscrapers project in Alexanderplatz and Zoo and much more...).
I would be interested to see it more in this thread.

Lear · #**893** Posted **Jan 6, 2014, 12:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by Minato Ku

There are lot of projects in Berlin (skyscrapers project in Alexanderplatz and Zoo and much more...).
I would be interested to see it more in this thread.

Lets see what I can find......

Lear · #**894** Posted **Jan 6, 2014, 3:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by New Brisavoine

A question for the forumers from Berlin: when you have to deal with the administration, renew some administrative papers, etc, do you have to go to the administrative HQ of one of the 12 Bezirke, or are there some administrative sub-offices at a more local level?

For example if you live in Prenzlauer Berg, which is in the Bezirk Pankow, do you have to go to the central Bezirksamt Pankow or is there a local office in Prenzlauer Berg?

If you live in that neighborhood, where do you go to:
- renew your ID card?
- renew your passport?
- declare a birth or death?
- get your voting papers?
- get your driving license?

Depends.

In general: There are around 40 offices (Bürgerämter) in the city spread evenly over all 12 boroughs (Bezirke) dealing with most of the services you are asking for (renew your ID card, passport, documents etc.). Voting papers are always send to your address of residence (as a German). All things concerning driving licenses or car registration are dealt with in 2 major offices (KFZ-Zulassungsstelle). All business and tax relevant issues are dealt with in offices called "Finanzamt", one in all of the 12 boroughs is guaranteed.