maynarkh ,

So here's an immigrant perspective; as an Eastern European in Western Europe I see that the wealthy are using me as a cudgel to keep the locals down. I'm paying quite high rents in a market where a lot of the locals in different careers can't, and there is a housing crisis. The place I'm renting could be where someone's kid would move out to.

And it's partly German neocolonialism that fucked up Eastern Europe, so thank Merkel I'm here, since it's this or the VW factory.

That said, the people who kept the whole literal city awake honking their horns last midnight while waving Turkish flags, or the Moroccan teenagers accosting everyone near my place, including hurling abuse at my Asian or queer neighbours don't scream peaceful coexistence.

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