Is Berlin Really The Worlds 3rd Most Liveable City? | Travel Man Series | Absolute Jokes

[@lisar3944]

"I've finished expressing myself. We need to leave!" just....this is why I love Richard Ayoade. He's the bee's knees

[@hhunstad2011]

In a split second 😂

[@HB-bl5mn]

Come back in summer. It is a totally different place then.

[@Voice_of_p]

Yeah! Nothing like the smell of sweaty Berliner. Pfui Teufel.

[@m4rtin419]

Interesting concept; visiting all the cliché tourist destination in order to find out why a city is liveable…

[@Allenmarshall]

I had that same feeling watching this though i've never been to Berlin myself. Honestly it just came across as bleak and kinda miserable in this episode. I'm sure the season and weather contributed to that but now I'm wondering what someone like you would say is Berlin's great qualities?

[@Ink_25]

​@@AllenmarshallThe great public transit is Berlin's biggest strength. Aaand that's about it :D Berlin is actually pulling Germany's GDP down, as the only capital within Europe to do so.

[@Voice_of_p]

@@Ink_25dont forget our brown friends to the right.

[@flymafioso]

Properly the 3rd worst city in the world and I have been to Somalia :-D

[@Allenmarshall]

@@flymafioso but thats a country

[@janka248]

I was born in Berlin and have never been to any of these places. Thats Tourist-Berlin. Not mine.

[@maxc7198]

Was würden Sie denn empfehlen?

[@janka248]

@@maxc7198 Meinen geheimen Platz an der Spree in der Nähe vom Trewptower Park. Da fahre ich jetzt auch hin.

[@maxc7198]

@@janka248 Ich bedanke mich für den Tipp.

[@pyrho1]

Well they are tourists

[@Bobby_the_Brot]

Going to Berlin in February? Quite the brave move haha

[@viktoriavestalin106]

I get the feeling they tried to go to and do the most boring and depressing things one could experience in Berlin

[@ramone138]

That's an easy task in Berlin.

[@some-online-dude]

Honestly, the only thing saving this is the presence of Richard Ayoade.

[@BanjoSick]

Man, that was the saddest Berlintrip I have ever seen, haha

[@bicycle_repair_man]

15:40 I need a Jimi Hendrix Mockumentary starring Richard Ayoade as Jimi Hendrix

[@solitaryman777]

That would indeed be the result of an alternative universe

[@Ivan-zf6wd]

I feel like you missed most things that make Berlin, Berlin. Starting with the season...

[@Allenmarshall]

It seemed like that to me as well but I've never been to Berlin. May I ask, what things make Berlin, Berlin, in your eyes?

[@Voice_of_p]

@@Allenmarshallsorry to intervene here. Iam from germany and lived in Berlin. It is a bad city. It got everything and to much of that. The city is NEVER asleep. Everbody got a dog but nobody to talk to. It is really a harsh city. No thanks to the Neonazis groups in town. Just look up what they are up to during hitlers birthday: 20 of april. That gives you a good idea what to expect most of the time in berlin. Cant recommond it for locals and tourist.

[@foggycraw6758]

​@@Allenmarshallim also curious

[@moritzm8340]

Diversity in the people! Diversity & Authenticity in all the small private leaded shops and stores. The possibility to satisfy every need you can imagine since for everything you search for you will find your place. Somehow, all these many dirty places, even all the maniac people in the metro stations and hopeless people on the streets are part of the cities characteristic that can be appreciated. Other cities try to move the "dirt" outside so nobody is facing this kind of reality. Berlin is doing slightly different, its a more authentic representation of humans and society. Also the people have a more reflective drive leading to more activism and tolerance on each other.

[@Smudgie]

He should go in the summertime when migrants take over the swimming pools.

[@pavelmacek282]

21:53 I know this will change with time a lot, but right now, two weeks after release, the exchange rate moved again and it´s more like 8 GBP. Therefore, I´d say it is better to either use the local currency or show both - to see the local price and approx. equivalent...

[@rpennybrown]

11:19 There sits a smidge of quince fluff in temporary limbo at mouth's edge, overspray if you will, left almost as testament to the glad encounter with course #10.

[@ThurstonCyclist]

Mark Kermode sighting at 3:29

[@hhunstad2011]

Big fan of Roisin!

[@Czechbound]

Her room in the NHow hotel mid week, mid November 2023 is 190 Euro a night

[@ramone138]

For that price you could go to a real hotel.

[@angelicavences9357]

this companion is really lovely

[@MrMucera]

2:20 and we are already getting close to blasphemy. No hasseling the Hoff !!

[@Cat2.0_BLN]

You have to revisit in Summertime! It is a completely different experience. Also, this bit had nothing to do with living in the city, this was only tourist things

[@Lijoje]

What an absolute gem of a woman!

[@TheGoukaruma]

"Lipsi is the devils music" is certainly a new sentence.😄

[@oliviahafnermunichteaching957]

Trigger warning for Germans: starting round 06:30 - DO NOT - I repeat - DO NOT watch the bit where he fails to change gears when stoned. It broke my little German heart 🥺🥺🥺

[@evercuriousmichelle]

I am familiar with “stoned” meaning high on weed, what does stoned mean in this context?

[@solitaryman777]

And I came here because he makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it joke about the rock group The Fall at 6:30

[@marcromain64]

Berlin is big and very heterogenous. Some areas are barely liveable, others are really quite and nice. Some areas are perfect for partying or working and not even meant for living.

[@Ink_25]

Well, that was underwhelming. The answer to the title's question of whether Berlin is the world's 3rd most liveable city is certainly a big, fat NO. Maybe if you only count capitals, but Germany alone as so many more cities that are more liveable. The Netherlands are certainly high in content of liveable cities! But this just did not event touch on LIVING in Berlin. Rent, work, travel to and from work, grocery shopping, none of those were even mentioned (well, besides the U-Bahn, which I'd count as a tourist attraction the way it was presented).

[@MaxMustermann-zr6kf]

Your comment's line of argumentation is also underwhealming. The title is just based on some study's statistics that obiviously depend on its chosen parameters .. Berlin ist Beste anyhow!

[@Jdinrbfidndifofkdndjoflfndjdk]

Did I miss the part in which they go to a club?

[@pyrho1]

Richard is a dry comedy genius

[@niho9370]

Im a berliner, still living here. This was painfully mediocre. Berlin is the city where so many young europeans go to, because its really exiting. This video gives you no clue. There have been so many videos like this, always the same: wall, trabandt, weird food, bla bla. In the end, berlin is not a good spot for tourists because its hard to experience and understand in a few days. All thats left are some mediocre sights and a visually ugly city

[@enemdisk6628]

And then there are cities that offer both 🤷‍♀️

[@foggycraw6758]

​@@enemdisk6628like?

[@JJ-ze6vb]

Mediocre is the perfect description for Berlin though.

[@foggycraw6758]

@@JJ-ze6vb why?

[@bsl025]

Many young Europeans go to Berlin because 1. drug selection and 2. their own capitals are way to expensive. The most exciting thing about Berlin is finding a place you can pay with card or a service that will answer the email you set a few months ago.

[@SteinarHagalsson]

It is not. I have lived in Berlin since 46 years now and this city is everything but not a city where you should tend to life. Toothless police, a lot ot lawless places, building sites everywhere, big traffic jams and a massive crime problem. Public transport is a mix between disgust and thoughts if you come back safe. Compared to a city like Copenhagen Berlin is just a piece of trash due to the government.

[@LibertyDino]

Can confirm. I have lived in one of the no go areas. If someone pulls a gun in those areas you are on your own. The Police will not come to help you and the clans rule.

[@tsmay4598]

@@LibertyDino That sounds made up.

[@LibertyDino]

@@tsmay4598 go ahead and move there then

[@johannk1523]

Wow you really nailed the german humor too

[@StefanMetze]

The most idiotic thing you can do first as a tourist in Berlin is a Trabi Safari. A waste of time and money.

[@solitaryman777]

And then not get the doner kabob

[@apocalypsgoddess1]

Richard playing guitar made him 10 times hotter than he already was 😍 and I’m also jealous of how much fun he was having with this woman. He’s MINE

[@andywood5699]

Richard Ayoade seems to like to complain. Please come over and visit Canada in February.

[@martinlutz5446]

"3rd most liveable city" well, I guess that depends what you consider liveable. If your idea of "liveable" is rather expensive, public services that don't work most of the time, grafitti and dirt everywhere as well as parks full of drug dealers and crazy people, then I guess it can be considered the 3rd most liveable city. Berlin is a very interesting city for sure, a place where you go on adventures when you're young. It's not a city to raise a family, for that you're better off in Potsdam (or if you have money: Munich or Hamburg, depending on whether you like the ocean or the mountains)

[@Voice_of_p]

Spot on! I ve been there done that. Living in Kiel now for 16 years. Never looked back.

[@gwaptiva]

It's not even the third most liveable city in Germany...

[@markevans9188]

"A lot of stuff was ungoverned"

[@jenatix8664]

"3rd Most Liveable City" Nobody ever 😅

[@lukeshippart4]

I miss Berlin❤

[@egemensentin]

07:25 Berlin is NOT the birthplace of the döner kebab. Stop perpetuating this nonsense.

[@seed157]

Its driving me nuts. Turkish people really need to start making moves against this BS.

[@Fancy_PotHead]

East Germany reminds me so much of Hungary.

[@Walperion_Music]

Oh, for a sec misread that as "Is Berlin Really The 3rd World's Most Liveable City?"

[@enossified]

"Were East Germans really small?"

[@HenningSchneidr]

my father (east german, ~1,72cm, drove a few trabants in his life) was always wondering after '89, what would have happend car-wise, when the re-unification hadn't happen, because the next generation (for example me, 1,85m) couldn't fit comfortly in something like that.

[@solitaryman777]

@@HenningSchneidr along the same lines, the seats on the now torn-down old Yankee Stadium featured seat widths and depths that were clearly for a smaller previous ancestors. I'm convinced we are larger as a whole.

[@HenningSchneidr]

@@solitaryman777 yeah seems like it, fun side fact: my parents once visited an old castle in east Germany and found themself in front of a bedside where they wondered how anyone could fit in this bed, length wise ... "Damn, these knights where short" 😆 history is repeating 😆

[@solitaryman777]

@@HenningSchneidr or we are evolving as a whole. Maybe our nutrition distribution has gotten better, but I suspect A LOT of short cuts were taken that we will pay for down the line.

[@user-ve7hn2dh8h]

Why would you ask that misleading question? Nobody claims it's ranked 3rd most liveable city? Reported for spam

[@MrDimkan]

Ohhh Richard, you are so so boring! Berlin is such a great city !

[@bobrocker6582]

Will only say tourists and people who live in Berlin.

[@TomRauhe]

Berlin?? Hell no. What are you talking about 😂

[@ordoabchao4202]

Ich stimme zu.

[@kosmonument2682]

That restaurant is bonkers.

[@HenningSchneidr]

... and was really good, when we went there back in late 2018. But some of the stuff they served back than had no berlin zip-code, for example the salt came from Göttingen and some of the fish came from Schwerin (if I remember right)

[@judobisafr]

​@@HenningSchneidrno way. Salt from Goettingen. U-N-S-U-S-T-A-I-N-A-B-L-E to the brim

[@suzawilo]

Wow....the comment section😮 It's like most of y'all are new to the concept of the show😂

[@veda2701]

Why would you do a 10 course meal in Berlin??! That’s the least Berlin thing to do. Best city in the world for me.

[@gokturkarkan4067]

Berlin is not the birth place of döner kebab. Turkey is. Turk's brought the kebab to Germany in 1972.

[@ordoabchao4202]

Urgh... Berlin is the last place in Germany I'd recommend anyone to visit...

[@FuckFeminists]

Strange...what's the first and second you'd recommend then, and why?

[@SonnyDarvish]

Lived in that city for over a year, moved out and never went back for a visit or won't even go there as part of flight connection. Gives me shivers thinking about what I experienced.

[@Fff-tz5ik]

Same with London, wouldn’t go back there even for a weekend after living a year

[@Eldor-117]

Why?

[@JJ-ze6vb]

Woooow, a WHOLE year… you are the expert now…

[@janka248]

cool. Stay away.

[@indrinita]

Funny, I feel exactly the opposite about Berlin

[@unterbegabter]

Hamburg is better than Berlin. Hamburg is English city in Germany. In the port there is fish and chips with Danish remolade and in Hamburg there is also the better curry sausage. Cinnamon rolls are called Franzbrötchen here.

[@LeLe-bo7cs]

Berlin isn't even the third most livable city in Germany.

[@plerpplerp5599]

Oberaffentittengeil 🤪

[@seed157]

"Berlin is the pirthplace of the Doner Kebab" Im sorry but do you see a single German preparing that dish? What a idiotic statement.

[@judobisafr]

It's still the birthplace of the Döner if you like to believe it or not. You won't find many Döner in Turkey!

[@seed157]

@@judobisafr I am Turkish who was born and raised in Turkey and you are writing BS. Please tell me more about my country Judith!!! 🤡

[@judobisafr]

@@seed157 you have not even said anything about that it is not the birthplace of Döner. All you said was it is not prepared by Germans which is also a funny statement as most people preparing it are either by passport German or would do much to become it. And yes there isn't much döner found in Turkey as it was invented in Germany for the German/german-turkish people. Yes you have kiköfte and alot of good other meat and dishes. Yes Turkish cuisine is good but Döner Kebab was invented in Germany.

[@ramone138]

@judith2924 Calm down, Judith. If it weren't for Turks, Germans would still eat DDR-style vomit. Döner kebab is a Turkish dish that was brought by Turkish imigrants. You have basically the same dish in Turkey.

[@judobisafr]

@@ramone138 I'm calm. I'm just saying the truth. Döner Kebab (the dish that everyone is referring to as simply Döner) was invented in Germany.🤷🏼‍♀️

[@RobertSander4]

It's Kegeln, not Bowling.

[@Maya_Pinion]

David Hasselhoff? Hah. Richard is so lovable,cute as hell and 🤓. 💋🗽

[@OJ741]

Aren't you developing the new fable, what you doing here.

[@raistraw8629]

"Berlin The Worlds 3rd Most Livable City." Never heart a better joke. Every city in Germany is more livable than Berlin and there hundred of thousands of more livable cities in the world.

[@ClimateDude]

Spoken like a true B*LD-Leser. 😂

[@klauspeter5407]

You are free to keep on sc*****g your pigs in Bad Orp.

[@TheGoukaruma]

True. I guess for tourists there is enough spectacle for a few days but nobody wants to live there.

[@Thiesi]

Yet you couldn't name even one more livable city in Germany. Ah, the irony!

[@FABIAN-cy6ww]

I didnt know cities were livable

[@michelletrimbornCapeTown]

Fabulous

[@rimbaud1989]

NIEMALS!

[@tDASH97]

it's been almost 20 years since it crowd and you still look exactly the same. whats your secret?

[@Steve-hu9gw]

It certainly wasn’t about 80 years ago.

[@Voice_of_p]

Berlin, 1946. Berlin ist die Stadt der Warenhäuser. Da war mal ein Haus, da war mal ein Haus, da war mal ein Haus....😁

[@algonquin91]

Was this supposed to be funny or entertaining?

[@keahnig164]

Well yeah, there are districts, where police is too afraid to enter, so great place..

[@distancedrumming4670]

Good to know. Which districts are those?

[@richteffekt]

Here's my offer: you name me the district, I'll go there and take a picture with the police on their regular beat. If I fail to do so within the fortnight, I owe you 5000 pounds; if however I do deliver, it's the other way round. And we for a forum we choose your social media outlet of choice so it's not just between you and me to watch.

[@Thiesi]

​@@richteffektMay I partake in this? I'm a bit short on funds these days and could use a little cash infusion.

[@tsmay4598]

I've been to all the so-called no-go areas. Don't know what the fuss is all about. That's the great thing about Berlin. Every district has nice places. Even Marzahn.

[@rmoriarty569]

@@tsmay4598 I'm sitting in a flat in one of the seemingly endless soviet housing blocks in Wühletal Straße (looking after someone's cats), reading through these comments and wondering where these no-go areas are. "Maybe I'm in one of them", I joked to myself; I had to laugh when I read "Even Marzahn" in your comment (for those who don't know, that's the district that Wühletal Straße is in). I'm a Londoner (born and dragged up) and this place is like a housing estate in Peckham multiplied by a thousand but I've never felt a hint of danger or hostility while staying here. I expected such a down-at-heel, working-class area to be seriously dodgy but it just isn't. Takes bloody ages to get into the city centre but public transport is relatively cheap and pretty reliable, and there's just something about this great big ugly concrete jungle of a city; I can't put my finger on it but it has a unique, quirky character and so many interesting places to visit. To compare it with more sedate, picturesque cities in Europe is just silly; it's like comparing apples with bicycles.

[@FixedFace]

open border aficionados should be banned from travelling. "you want paris, milano, london, berlin, madrid, münchen etc to be the same euroasiafro melting pots? then why visit them in the first place?"

[@arschkalt2348]

That's what you got out of this video and decided to share? Perfectly sane individual.

[@rumbatumblajambomambo6241]

Retard Alert in the right wing section

[@kieferngruen]

you should be banned from traveling.

[@FixedFace]

@@kieferngruen "no u" lol! the target audience of these two muppets in a nutshell

[@kieferngruen]

@@FixedFace Dunning-Kruger effect in a nutshell.

[@pineapples8503]

yeahhh... should've gotten the döner instead of that ridiculous restaurant lol

[@solitaryman777]

He did say it was an "idiotic" choice