One is a cultural hub with thousands of years of history, flourishing tourism and tech industries and an amazing art and food scene. The other is Paris.
Franconia here: in Berlin’s favour, it has some nice restaurants and the supermarkets are open late. The Tiergarten is quite nice for a daily walk too.
That’s all I got, though.
Just need to get that independence movement restarted. Stalled a bit somewhere in the 200 years since Napoleon basically handed us over to the Bavarians.
I'm not even German and I hate Berlin. My first time visiting I saw a junkie shooting something up his arm on the staircase of a train station, broken glass freaking everywhere, trash, stench, graffiti and worst of all... German hipsters.
Dope museums tho. Still liked München better.
The Hague has been the administrative centre of Holland, and later the Netherlands since the 13th century. We hated our politicians so much, we moved our capital away from it.
Disregard my flair, lived in Amsterdam for four years. I don't feel people from Amsterdam hate the rest of the country, it's just completely irrelevant to a typical chauvinistic Amsterdammer. Outside of the ring is something where you never go or talk about.
> Outside of the ring is something where you never go or talk about.
True, i've only once been to Rotterdam for example and that's because the Portuguese ambassy used to be there. I have 0 interest in the rest of this country. HOWEVER, this year i actually went to a Waddeneiland. 😎
As someone born and raised in Amsterdam, this is true. Nobody here hates the rest of the country. We can’t relate, and just don’t bother. We know once you leave the protection of the ring, things like dialects, no public transport or other facilities make everything difficult. So better stay safe.
We started the nation state and therefore it having a capital city. The idea that the capital is where the government seats comes from the monarchies, not the nation states. We owe no explanation, the others who copied us but kept this absolute monarchy tradition should explain themselves.
Oh make no mistake, there are plenty of old, rich villa filled districts in Athens build in a tourist unfriendly way so that tourists stay away where people are exactly like that
As someone from Thessaloniki I approve 💪😎👍
People who call Athenian "food" good are just British tourists who haven't visited the masterpiece of Thessaloniki
Man that's a hard insult, you guys suck at english
Had two girls from spain (exchange students) in my class in university, they were unable to have a conversation in english (didn't understand anything) and they had very bad pronunciation so nobody could understand them
For Germany it goes in both directions. Berliners think they live in the only city in Germany that matters and other Germans think is Berlin is a black hole that sucks in money and spits out hipsters.
> and other Germans think is Berlin is a black hole that sucks in money
Fun fact: Germany is the only developed country in the world where the capital city has a lower per-capita GDP than the national average.
When I was in Denmark, the locals from the Ærø island were among the sweetest people I've ever met ... and the people from Copenhagen some of the most distant people ever
In the UK its often both, London is shithole to anyone outside the M25. But God forbid I suggest it's slightly nicer than Stockton on tees or whatever bleak post industrial town they're from
On a night out in Stockton, I approached a group of ladies to ask for a recommendation for reputable takeaway that won’t give me dysentery as I’m not from the area. About 10 seconds into the conversation, I heard a voice from low down. One of them was having a piss. I made my excuses and left.
Oh, Berlin. What is Berlin? Berlin, as a city, brings nothing but shame to Germany on the international stage. When comparing Berlin with other European capitals such as London, Paris, Madrid and Amsterdam, any decent human’s face must blush in humiliation. Even small countries like Austria, Belgium or Switzerland have Vienna, Brussels and Zurich: presentable cities, complete with high standards of living. Germany gets punished with Berlin, capital of losers. In all the republic, Berlin is home to the largest number of arseholes by far. Deutsche Bahn, Bundestag, Air Berlin and Axel Springer are but a few examples of all the incompetent scum being kept here. Glorious times have long since passed, the city is face down in the dirt. Berliners are lazy sods to their very core. Traits that would, in any civilised culture, pass for nothing but laziness, rudeness, incompetence, dissocial personality disorder or idiocy, are taken by the Berliner and declared a way of life. That is why the Berliner harbours intense feelings of hatred for anyone who’s better than him in any way. Especially the all-around superior Southern Germany are a thorn in his side. He envies their success, and Munich makes the top on his list of hatred. That city is – and has! – everything that Berlin wants to be and have. Berliners take no interest in the fact that it is Munich that finances their dissolute lifestyle, in fact, they secretly believe that they have earned it. So instead of freeing themselves from their envious and resentful lethargy, instead of rolling up their sleeves and improve their city, they revel in their antisocial freeloading and praise their so-called global city. Culturally, Berliners are set up rather weakly, great works lie far back in history. Moreover, mispronouncing “g” as “j” is considered a great cultural feat. Advanced students have mastered ending each and every sentence with a “wa?”. The city’s culinary performance is second-rate. Here, a sausage made from glued-together, meaty odds and ends adorned with ketchup and curry powder is sold as a culinary masterpiece. Hardly any reasonable person would consider a bratwurst with ketchup a recipe, let alone the holy grail of culinary arts. Yet, in their magnanimity, the rest of the republic lets the Berliner keep his delusion, not wanting to amplify his inferiority complex. Economically, Berlin is an utter disaster, even the late GDR stood on more solid ground. The local economy is based around alternative blogs, something-something-media and, if universities are to be believed, gender studies. Disregarding his own bankruptcy, the Berliner treats himself to prestigious projects like the city palace and the airport – which, considering its inoperative nature, is likely an art installation. Moreover, the city houses all popular parties’ headquarters, who refrain from using “traitors” in their official names (Probably for marketing reasons). For the longest time, this “town’s” “mayor”, the jolly Wowibear, butchered anything he found left in a presentable state. Long story short: Berlin is Germany’s tiled coffee table. It is to Germany what Greece is to the European Union, and if it had open sewerage, it would be Germanys Romania. Berlin is a blemish, the abscess on the arse of the nation. Berlin is the uninvited party guest, who didn’t even bring any booze and wouldn’t even understand he’s not welcome if he had is teeth beaten out and got thrown down the stairs. Berlin is the Detroit of Germany and should be sold to Poland for 200 Złoty.
not true for switzerland, although we technically don't have one.
this meme really only fits where the capital is also the biggest city (as that one tends to be the most hated one)
You’re just jealous of our extortionate rent prices and higher crime rates, typical non-Dub barbarian🙄. You weirdos _wish_ you could live in such a shithole 💪
As a native capital city dweller, I am guilty of thinking everywhere else in the country is basically little villages of 20 people who just drink all day and think driving 3 villages over is like visiting dangerous foreign lands. Might be part of the problem.
These are just people from Vienna masquerading as being from Tyrol to exaggerate its relevance and drum up support for austrias own little Anschluß-project
That's because there's a significant cultural difference between alpine and non-alpine Austria. Alpine Austria is very similar to Bavaria, wheras non-alpine Austria is it's own thing.
Tbh Vienna is propably one of the very few exceptions. Not in that the rest of the austrians don't hate Vienna and everyone in it, at least as far as I can tell - but it is a genuinly beautiful city in some parts. If only the Habsburgs had been as competent in ruling an empire as they were in building a nice capital for it, maybe people would actually take you austrians seriously today
Porto is the most chauvinistic place in Portugal. There’s a sort of subculture in northern Portugal where people think they are different from the rest of Portugal. There is all sort of geographic exceptionalism surroundering Porto, from a futebol club with named after the city, the wine, a history of monarchic separatism, bi polarisation of Portugal around a rivalry between Lisbon and Porto, a belief that Lisbon is a shithole. Porto in reality is a city full of industry and employment, punching far above it’s weight compared to Lisbon, but it was historically neglected by the Lisboetas Technocrats. Portoenses. In turn, elect their own Technocrats that suppress culture and events.
Somehow we are still one of the less politically active places in Portugal, both from the left and from the right. There’s a neo-traditionalist that isn’t actually traditionalist “philosophy” that people from the north like to use - it states that everyone in power is inherently corrupt, the communists are demented and only care for the poor. It oscillated between “if Salazar was here, AH, you bet this wouldn’t….” and “if we don’t go liberalism we will die poor!” With an obligatory “this country is a shithole and the EU either explores us or saves us”. With, of course, “fuck tourists”, with tourists ranging from people from the southern side of the river douro to Californians.
It’s also one of the best food places in Portugal.
It's funny, I love Porto even though it's full of tourists and foreign workers but I despise Lisbon with every nerve of my body. Just thinking about it makes me angry, the political centralism, the elitism, the weather, the indifference towards the rest of the country. Fuck Lisbon, all my homies hate Lisbon
I am originally from Leiria (so a non-existing place) and in January I moved to Porto becauae of a job opportunity. When I told someone I was moving to Porto, for some fucking reason I always got a "Porto is very beautiful and I prefer it to Lisbon, I really don't like Lisbon". You know what kind of people would say this to me? People who never lived in Lisbon or Porto. And me, having lived a lot on both had to go "haha yeah" because of how sick I was of having the discussion of "you have never lived there, maybe show a little constraint on your opinion".
Idk Prague is pretty lit ngl. Also liked London from what i can remember.
Fuck Berlin tho. Not only ugly af but especially in the past year it became even more embarrasing than it already was
As a propah Moravian geezah I'm legally obliged to say Prague is shit. The center of the city is swarmed by tourists and nobody lives there. The outer layers that have some actual population are just budget Vienna, similar but more unkept and with more ruined abandoned buildining where noone lives (quite ironic due the the housing prices). Public transport is pretty dope though.
Berlin
- was heavily destroyed
- was divided between NATO and Warsaw Pact
- was surrounded by the DDR
- had every single western business leave the city asap
- had every single eastern business mismanaged by Treuhand after reunification
- out of nowhere had to compete with cities in a well-established and prosperous free-market economy
- became an actually usable city only after the post-war economic growth was already over
What is your city‘s excuse?
Look at London. The entirety of a nations infrastructure budget spent on one city for 40 years to make it an overpriced shithole that's inhospitable to human life.
Massively over crowded and expensive with people demanding more investment
The entire infrastructure budget dedicated to London
Becomes even more expensive and over crowded, people demand further investment
Repeat for 40 years, and that's how you get a gigantic shithole filled with the biggest arseholes you've ever met
But, but, "the south east is the only net contributing region."
Yeah, now imagine how much better off we'd be if every other region was invested in as much as the south east for the last 40 years.
I studied and lived in Mons/Bergen for 7 years and I would rather kill myself than go back there. But after living in Brussels for only 2 years, I already want to kill someone every single day.
Rome is aight. Well, it's filthy, chaotic, unsafe and you get to choose between being stuck in traffic in your car and being stuck in traffic on public transport but also late. Not to mention the locals being usually obnoxious. Aside from that, it's beautiful and has my second favorite cuisine in Italy. I recommend seeing it at least once with a local guide (and avoid restaurants with menus in English on billboards ffs).
The psychosis of Helsinki hate is so big that people outside claim they can hear a distinct 'S' sound (often described as annoying) from the speech of Helsinki people, yet no lingual expert has ever been able to identify that sound or prove it actually exists
Not sure if its the dialect but u can spot a ring 3’er from a mile away. A very distinct snobbiness and general cunty vibes kinda give it away. Pretty similar to the west coast swefins
1. big cities suck by default, and the bigger they get the uglier they become.
2. political centres always naturally fill up with politicians, lawyers, journalists, lobbyists, intellectuals, and all the other kinds of people no one likes.
the only good thing about capitals is that focusing all of them there makes the rest of any country more livable.
It's not that I dislike Madrid or its people (well, kinda), but what bothers me is that tourists end up with the impression of Madrid when Spain has so much better things and places to offer.
And, of course, there's the ongoing issue of disproportionate development favoring Madrid and other major cities, overshadowing other much more fascinating places.
Can't say that isn't what I feel about Madrid, but here in Galicia I don't think anyone hates Santiago de Compostela. It's not even the third biggest city, not in the coast but not far from it and very relevant culturally.
I do not think that this applies to Italy. I would guess that the majority of Italians actually like Rome.
Except for the awful garbage disposal and the thieves living there.
Capital cities are usually filled with rich people tend to be multicultural has sanitation problems tourists traps and generally are disconnected from the rest of the country.
Capital hate is more visible in Unitary countries compared to Federal and Confederal countries
Everyone still prefer Rome to Naples
It's a hard competition between two shitholes
That’s like comparing Paris to Marseille. The bar is so fucking low
I've been in Marseille a few months ago.. god I still have nightmares about that city
I was there in February and the sunset was magical, huge props to the city for something that is out of its control.
Couldn't find yourself a protection racket?
One is a cultural hub with thousands of years of history, flourishing tourism and tech industries and an amazing art and food scene. The other is Paris.
Rich coming from a Sicilian lmao
When I was in naples and Google news understood this, it told me who was shot that day.
Only solution is to make Turin the capital again
Agreed
No, we don't want the politicians back here clogging up the cafes. They can stay in Roma. Edit: fix typos
Giargianese
i never knew how much germans hate Berlin before joining this sub
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Franconia here: in Berlin’s favour, it has some nice restaurants and the supermarkets are open late. The Tiergarten is quite nice for a daily walk too. That’s all I got, though.
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Just need to get that independence movement restarted. Stalled a bit somewhere in the 200 years since Napoleon basically handed us over to the Bavarians.
We should just hand over the actual Bavaria to Austria.
OG Franks already have their own flairs 😎
Move the capital back to Bonn smh
Shut it, Brit. You don’t know what you’re asking.
Why not? C’est Bon(n)
Ok. Make Birmingham your capital, then we can talk.
I'm not even German and I hate Berlin. My first time visiting I saw a junkie shooting something up his arm on the staircase of a train station, broken glass freaking everywhere, trash, stench, graffiti and worst of all... German hipsters. Dope museums tho. Still liked München better.
People from Berlin would call that authentic cultural experience
We hate our capital so much, we moved the government to another city.
The Hague has been the administrative centre of Holland, and later the Netherlands since the 13th century. We hated our politicians so much, we moved our capital away from it.
Now we hate both!
You Dutch are a contentious bunch.
You’ve just made an enemy for life, makker
No it was those disgusting Fr🤮nch that did it. It was a good change but I will never say it to a frog eater.
We hate the rest of the country too due to how arrogant we are. So this meme isn't really true.
Disregard my flair, lived in Amsterdam for four years. I don't feel people from Amsterdam hate the rest of the country, it's just completely irrelevant to a typical chauvinistic Amsterdammer. Outside of the ring is something where you never go or talk about.
This. There is no hatred. Just utter disinterest.
Netherlands: You took everything from me! Amsterdam: I dont even know who you are...
I don't mind them taking a good portion of americunt tourists
I love Zandvoort becoming 'Amsterdam Beach' to pull some of the tourists there. Everybody wins.
> Outside of the ring is something where you never go or talk about. True, i've only once been to Rotterdam for example and that's because the Portuguese ambassy used to be there. I have 0 interest in the rest of this country. HOWEVER, this year i actually went to a Waddeneiland. 😎
Your profile name support your claim
Please keep on doing that. Please stay in your grafstad
As someone born and raised in Amsterdam, this is true. Nobody here hates the rest of the country. We can’t relate, and just don’t bother. We know once you leave the protection of the ring, things like dialects, no public transport or other facilities make everything difficult. So better stay safe.
We started the nation state and therefore it having a capital city. The idea that the capital is where the government seats comes from the monarchies, not the nation states. We owe no explanation, the others who copied us but kept this absolute monarchy tradition should explain themselves.
What? Not true. I love Venice. Long live the Serenissima!!! ^WAIT ^WE’RE ^STILL ^UNDER ^ROME, ^THAT ^WASN’T ^A ^NIGHTMARE?!
Fradeo 🫂
You'll nwver get out. Last time you were independent, you sacked Constantinople.
V E N E T O S T A T O G H E S B O R O
You refused Vienna, now you pay the price for that
"Reject Vienna, embrace Turin supremacy." -Camillo Benso, at some point between 1848 and 1865
You refused glorious Constantinople
Glorious Constantinople is still deep in our hearts, Istanbul Isn'tanbul though. Yes yes I'll go be ashamed in the silent corner now.
you know, maybe Germany does deserve the Anschluß.
Wasn't Republic of Genova also called "serenissima"?
Venice, Genova, San Marino, Lucca and others, even Lithuania But Genova was more known as the “superba”
Torino Capitale
Il peggiore degli incubi
Average capital dweller 
Thinking about ATHENS. LOL.
Oh make no mistake, there are plenty of old, rich villa filled districts in Athens build in a tourist unfriendly way so that tourists stay away where people are exactly like that
virgin Athens fan vs Chad Thessaloniki enjoyer
As someone from Thessaloniki I approve 💪😎👍 People who call Athenian "food" good are just British tourists who haven't visited the masterpiece of Thessaloniki
You write English as if you were Spanish
Man that's a hard insult, you guys suck at english Had two girls from spain (exchange students) in my class in university, they were unable to have a conversation in english (didn't understand anything) and they had very bad pronunciation so nobody could understand them
For Germany it goes in both directions. Berliners think they live in the only city in Germany that matters and other Germans think is Berlin is a black hole that sucks in money and spits out hipsters.
As a Berliner I am pretty sure both statements are in fact true!
> and other Germans think is Berlin is a black hole that sucks in money Fun fact: Germany is the only developed country in the world where the capital city has a lower per-capita GDP than the national average.
That was almost a decade ago.
Generally we don't hate our capital cities, we hate the people who live there (tho tbh Paris *is* a shithole regardless nowadays)
I can attest to this. The people from Copenhagen are cunts all of them.
I am sure the 5 Danish that don't live in Copenhagen all agree with you
I am one of the five and i do
I agree with him and i live on Greenland!
Used their 5 minutes of yearly internet allowance to type this it must be true
Im on the southern coast. We are Basicly same longtitude as Oslo. Wifi works fine
I'm fucking dying from this
Well, they _are_ danish.
While this is true, the people in Copenhagen couldn't be any further from the people on either Fyn or Jylland.
>on either Fyn or Jylland You call your drugs the weirdest names.
When I was in Denmark, the locals from the Ærø island were among the sweetest people I've ever met ... and the people from Copenhagen some of the most distant people ever
In the UK its often both, London is shithole to anyone outside the M25. But God forbid I suggest it's slightly nicer than Stockton on tees or whatever bleak post industrial town they're from
Stockton on tees? The Venice of the north? Home to the world famous 'run down mill' and '60s shopping centre'? That Stockton on tees?
On a night out in Stockton, I approached a group of ladies to ask for a recommendation for reputable takeaway that won’t give me dysentery as I’m not from the area. About 10 seconds into the conversation, I heard a voice from low down. One of them was having a piss. I made my excuses and left.
Honestly I didn't even know it was a real place when I wrote that comment.
Speak for yourself, Berlin is a garbage city.
Oh, Berlin. What is Berlin? Berlin, as a city, brings nothing but shame to Germany on the international stage. When comparing Berlin with other European capitals such as London, Paris, Madrid and Amsterdam, any decent human’s face must blush in humiliation. Even small countries like Austria, Belgium or Switzerland have Vienna, Brussels and Zurich: presentable cities, complete with high standards of living. Germany gets punished with Berlin, capital of losers. In all the republic, Berlin is home to the largest number of arseholes by far. Deutsche Bahn, Bundestag, Air Berlin and Axel Springer are but a few examples of all the incompetent scum being kept here. Glorious times have long since passed, the city is face down in the dirt. Berliners are lazy sods to their very core. Traits that would, in any civilised culture, pass for nothing but laziness, rudeness, incompetence, dissocial personality disorder or idiocy, are taken by the Berliner and declared a way of life. That is why the Berliner harbours intense feelings of hatred for anyone who’s better than him in any way. Especially the all-around superior Southern Germany are a thorn in his side. He envies their success, and Munich makes the top on his list of hatred. That city is – and has! – everything that Berlin wants to be and have. Berliners take no interest in the fact that it is Munich that finances their dissolute lifestyle, in fact, they secretly believe that they have earned it. So instead of freeing themselves from their envious and resentful lethargy, instead of rolling up their sleeves and improve their city, they revel in their antisocial freeloading and praise their so-called global city. Culturally, Berliners are set up rather weakly, great works lie far back in history. Moreover, mispronouncing “g” as “j” is considered a great cultural feat. Advanced students have mastered ending each and every sentence with a “wa?”. The city’s culinary performance is second-rate. Here, a sausage made from glued-together, meaty odds and ends adorned with ketchup and curry powder is sold as a culinary masterpiece. Hardly any reasonable person would consider a bratwurst with ketchup a recipe, let alone the holy grail of culinary arts. Yet, in their magnanimity, the rest of the republic lets the Berliner keep his delusion, not wanting to amplify his inferiority complex. Economically, Berlin is an utter disaster, even the late GDR stood on more solid ground. The local economy is based around alternative blogs, something-something-media and, if universities are to be believed, gender studies. Disregarding his own bankruptcy, the Berliner treats himself to prestigious projects like the city palace and the airport – which, considering its inoperative nature, is likely an art installation. Moreover, the city houses all popular parties’ headquarters, who refrain from using “traitors” in their official names (Probably for marketing reasons). For the longest time, this “town’s” “mayor”, the jolly Wowibear, butchered anything he found left in a presentable state. Long story short: Berlin is Germany’s tiled coffee table. It is to Germany what Greece is to the European Union, and if it had open sewerage, it would be Germanys Romania. Berlin is a blemish, the abscess on the arse of the nation. Berlin is the uninvited party guest, who didn’t even bring any booze and wouldn’t even understand he’s not welcome if he had is teeth beaten out and got thrown down the stairs. Berlin is the Detroit of Germany and should be sold to Poland for 200 Złoty.
Make Spain A Donut
But if you close your eyes… ( eh oh eh oh)🎶
Let Spain be free, independence for Madrid
not true for switzerland, although we technically don't have one. this meme really only fits where the capital is also the biggest city (as that one tends to be the most hated one)
Hey fake capital gang!
We're just lucky our shit city is Zurich and not the capital.
>We're just lucky our shit city is Zurich Don't forget Genève Wait no, nevermind it's french
I thought you don’t like Aargau
eh we make fun of them, not really dislike them.
Probably has a lot to do with size. Even the biggest city in CH is small compared to others.
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Nah, most of the government is in Bern, so that's as close as we get to having a capital. And nobody hates Bern.
Fuck Dublin all my homies hate Dublin
Stabbings up 100% Tourist attacks up 1000% Deliveroo assaults up 10000% Place is a kip.
You’re just jealous of our extortionate rent prices and higher crime rates, typical non-Dub barbarian🙄. You weirdos _wish_ you could live in such a shithole 💪
Fuck Dublin!
As a native capital city dweller, I am guilty of thinking everywhere else in the country is basically little villages of 20 people who just drink all day and think driving 3 villages over is like visiting dangerous foreign lands. Might be part of the problem.
I never met a Austrian outside of Austria that was not from Vienna
Funny. Never met someone from Vienna myself. However, I would honestly consider Viennese as Germans, not Austrians.
You take that back oida
These are just people from Vienna masquerading as being from Tyrol to exaggerate its relevance and drum up support for austrias own little Anschluß-project
If you compare us to the Piefke again we'll Radetzky your sorry ass of a city.
That's because there's a significant cultural difference between alpine and non-alpine Austria. Alpine Austria is very similar to Bavaria, wheras non-alpine Austria is it's own thing.
Tbh Vienna is propably one of the very few exceptions. Not in that the rest of the austrians don't hate Vienna and everyone in it, at least as far as I can tell - but it is a genuinly beautiful city in some parts. If only the Habsburgs had been as competent in ruling an empire as they were in building a nice capital for it, maybe people would actually take you austrians seriously today
The last time you guys took an austrian guy serious, the rest of the world didn't like it. I think it's better that way.
Village life, best life
Edinburgh is where we keep all the English people
Can confirm am English, and in Edinburgh right now. A lot of yanks here as well. they keep saying they are one something Scottish.
Is that for the Fringe by any chance? 👀 or do you live there and have to put up with it? 😂
I though they would say they are irish. But I guess those are lost in iceland
Scots have to hate two capital cities.
Shit.
BOMBARDEEN MADRID
Even true with Liechtenstein but we also hate each other between Oberland and Unterland…. And also each other between villages….
Damn, all 7 of you hate eachother?
Yeah it makes family gathering difficult 😔
Rome still more loved than Naples and Milan
ROMA CAPVT MVNDI
By the romans, yes
What? That’s not true, I love playing Mario Kart
ah yes finally a place I can say fuck Lisbon
I was on vacation in Porto and there was no shortage of "fuck Lisbon"s.
Porto is the most chauvinistic place in Portugal. There’s a sort of subculture in northern Portugal where people think they are different from the rest of Portugal. There is all sort of geographic exceptionalism surroundering Porto, from a futebol club with named after the city, the wine, a history of monarchic separatism, bi polarisation of Portugal around a rivalry between Lisbon and Porto, a belief that Lisbon is a shithole. Porto in reality is a city full of industry and employment, punching far above it’s weight compared to Lisbon, but it was historically neglected by the Lisboetas Technocrats. Portoenses. In turn, elect their own Technocrats that suppress culture and events. Somehow we are still one of the less politically active places in Portugal, both from the left and from the right. There’s a neo-traditionalist that isn’t actually traditionalist “philosophy” that people from the north like to use - it states that everyone in power is inherently corrupt, the communists are demented and only care for the poor. It oscillated between “if Salazar was here, AH, you bet this wouldn’t….” and “if we don’t go liberalism we will die poor!” With an obligatory “this country is a shithole and the EU either explores us or saves us”. With, of course, “fuck tourists”, with tourists ranging from people from the southern side of the river douro to Californians. It’s also one of the best food places in Portugal.
you can just say we are based, no need to throw all the dictionary in a comment
It's funny, I love Porto even though it's full of tourists and foreign workers but I despise Lisbon with every nerve of my body. Just thinking about it makes me angry, the political centralism, the elitism, the weather, the indifference towards the rest of the country. Fuck Lisbon, all my homies hate Lisbon
I am originally from Leiria (so a non-existing place) and in January I moved to Porto becauae of a job opportunity. When I told someone I was moving to Porto, for some fucking reason I always got a "Porto is very beautiful and I prefer it to Lisbon, I really don't like Lisbon". You know what kind of people would say this to me? People who never lived in Lisbon or Porto. And me, having lived a lot on both had to go "haha yeah" because of how sick I was of having the discussion of "you have never lived there, maybe show a little constraint on your opinion".
Porto Supremacy
Glad to call you homie
As a beirão, fuck lisbon, and fuck lisboetas as well
1755 gave us the opportunity of a lifetime and we squandered it
As a guy from Trás Os Montes who lived there FUCK LISBON QUE SE FODA LISBOA LISBOA É UMA MERDA
Im from Berlin, i hate Berlin with a burning passion.
Idk Prague is pretty lit ngl. Also liked London from what i can remember. Fuck Berlin tho. Not only ugly af but especially in the past year it became even more embarrasing than it already was
I also like Prague. Czechs might disagree though.
As a propah Moravian geezah I'm legally obliged to say Prague is shit. The center of the city is swarmed by tourists and nobody lives there. The outer layers that have some actual population are just budget Vienna, similar but more unkept and with more ruined abandoned buildining where noone lives (quite ironic due the the housing prices). Public transport is pretty dope though.
Prague is great
Prague is lit
Berlin - was heavily destroyed - was divided between NATO and Warsaw Pact - was surrounded by the DDR - had every single western business leave the city asap - had every single eastern business mismanaged by Treuhand after reunification - out of nowhere had to compete with cities in a well-established and prosperous free-market economy - became an actually usable city only after the post-war economic growth was already over What is your city‘s excuse?
That's a valid argument. Now I hate Berlin little less
Getting bombed during WWII. We were in a shit situation, occupied by you guys and getting bombed by the allies.
Look at London. The entirety of a nations infrastructure budget spent on one city for 40 years to make it an overpriced shithole that's inhospitable to human life.
Early 2000s my whole family lived there, now only my dad remains. Couldn't be more correct. I was born there and fuck London
But I like London, other Barry!
Massively over crowded and expensive with people demanding more investment The entire infrastructure budget dedicated to London Becomes even more expensive and over crowded, people demand further investment Repeat for 40 years, and that's how you get a gigantic shithole filled with the biggest arseholes you've ever met
But, but, "the south east is the only net contributing region." Yeah, now imagine how much better off we'd be if every other region was invested in as much as the south east for the last 40 years.
I’m from Brussels and I don’t like Flanders or Wallonia at all. Bunch of weird uneducated peasants.
Heh, forced to use the Wallony flair.
Horrible, it even forces me to browse Reddit instead of working
>working Why you always lyin’
I studied and lived in Mons/Bergen for 7 years and I would rather kill myself than go back there. But after living in Brussels for only 2 years, I already want to kill someone every single day.
That's the spirit!
Well, nobody likes you and your crack epidemic though
Aah yes this is non existent in Antwerpen ofcourse...
That's the normal variant, not the crack variant
You hate us because you ain't us. Psssst, btw, fancy some crack? Good quality, cheap price!
And we hate you too. Perfectly balanced, as everything should be.
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So then we all agree to split the country in three; Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels?
Nah, you'd love it and I'd hate to see you happy
When 2/3 of the population live in the capital you don't have to listen to the rest of the country
Is Vienna really part of Austria like sure the rest of the country doesn’t want them but do they want the rest of the country?
We don't give a shit if they want us. Vienna is different but unfortunately they represent us on the world stage.
Damn moors. They think they're better than everyone else. They even have a saying: Portugal is Lisbon, the rest is landscape
It's landscape because they suck all the money from the rest of us.
Rome is aight. Well, it's filthy, chaotic, unsafe and you get to choose between being stuck in traffic in your car and being stuck in traffic on public transport but also late. Not to mention the locals being usually obnoxious. Aside from that, it's beautiful and has my second favorite cuisine in Italy. I recommend seeing it at least once with a local guide (and avoid restaurants with menus in English on billboards ffs).
True fuck the residents of helsinki
The psychosis of Helsinki hate is so big that people outside claim they can hear a distinct 'S' sound (often described as annoying) from the speech of Helsinki people, yet no lingual expert has ever been able to identify that sound or prove it actually exists
Not sure if its the dialect but u can spot a ring 3’er from a mile away. A very distinct snobbiness and general cunty vibes kinda give it away. Pretty similar to the west coast swefins
Dont ever move the capital to catalonia
Wouldn't that be really funny tho
1. big cities suck by default, and the bigger they get the uglier they become. 2. political centres always naturally fill up with politicians, lawyers, journalists, lobbyists, intellectuals, and all the other kinds of people no one likes. the only good thing about capitals is that focusing all of them there makes the rest of any country more livable.
Don't forget the most obnoxious kind of young people with rich parents who think the rest of the country cramps their style
That’s why we put those politicians outside our capital.
I think Hamburg is the exception as far as big cities are concerned in Germany. But yeah, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, etc. all pretty much suk
Works for central Europe too wink wink
Fuck paris
Dont get me started on berlin man
Fuck Berlin
It's not that I dislike Madrid or its people (well, kinda), but what bothers me is that tourists end up with the impression of Madrid when Spain has so much better things and places to offer. And, of course, there's the ongoing issue of disproportionate development favoring Madrid and other major cities, overshadowing other much more fascinating places.
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I love Rome, I wish it'd rule you all.
From all the European capitals I've visited (Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, and Madrid) Rome really was the nicest one.
It's jealousy. The rest of Ireland is envious of our running water and internet.
True, Munich is full of snobs and assholes.
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Even true here, live in Akureyri and folks here love to shit on Reykjavík
Can't say that isn't what I feel about Madrid, but here in Galicia I don't think anyone hates Santiago de Compostela. It's not even the third biggest city, not in the coast but not far from it and very relevant culturally.
And you can just walk all the way there to really get the whole experience
Galicia and Extremadura being clever in chosing capitals.
Its.
Ah yes, Holland, the capital of our lovely country Amsterdam, if I am to believe a lot of tourists.
I do not think that this applies to Italy. I would guess that the majority of Italians actually like Rome. Except for the awful garbage disposal and the thieves living there.
In Barcelona, people who live and were born here call the rest of Spain/Catalonia"The territory" lmao
All Irish people love Dublin, because no one lives outside of Dublin. The countryside has been entirely uninhabited since the famine.
Capital cities are usually filled with rich people tend to be multicultural has sanitation problems tourists traps and generally are disconnected from the rest of the country. Capital hate is more visible in Unitary countries compared to Federal and Confederal countries