Post-Europe Depression

Things to know about Berlin:
1. Beer costs roughly $3 a bottle in a bar. In superkmarkets, you get 10 liters for 8 euro. Do the math.
2. The subway is clean, efficient, huge, more or less runs 24 hours and has signs telling you when the next train is coming. Also, if you're clever, it doesn't cost anything.
3. Girls in clubs do not talk to or dance with you, but can be plied with alcohol like any other human female.
4. They don't understand hard liquor. A glass of Maker's Mark costs 3.50. A glass of Jack Daniels costs 3.50. A glass of Wild Turkey costs 3.50. A whisky and soda made with Maker's Mark costs 6 euro. A whisky and soda made with Jack Daniels costs 6 euro, etc.
5. Graffiti, drinking in public, smoking indoors, prostitution, and small amounts of marijuana are legal. Broken windows theory be damned (though this is a fairly European thing in general. Here's a fun Weekly Standard article from November that uses a bunch of uncited sources to prove that it's why there's riots in Paris, and also why American is better than everyone else).

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