People who meet people from Reddit - How did it go?

It really depends on the vibe you get from the initial messages. I met someone from the Berlin social sub for a walk around Volkspark Friedrichshain and we ended up grabbing a beer at the little kiosk near the top of the hill. They turned out to be totally fine, just a quiet person who was new to the city. I think the ones who actually agree to a public, daytime meetup are usually self-aware enough to not be a problem. The sketchy ones never make it past the "let's meet at 11pm at my flat" stage.

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met a guy from the berlin sub for a beer at schlesisches tor once, turned out we had mutual friends from a random party. another time someone from the meetups sub, we just walked around tempelhofer feld and talked for hours, totally normal. i think the key is picking a public spot and not overthinking it, most people here are just bored or new in town. worst case u make an excuse and leave, best case u get a decent bar buddy for the evening

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honestly most of my meetups from here have been boring in a good way. met a guy at the mauerpark flea market once, we just wandered through the stalls and he pointed out which secondhand sellers were actually legit versus the ones selling ikea stuff repainted. another time i did a sunday afternoon thing at the cafe on the corner of weichselplatz, the one with the big windows, and it was just two people talking about their jobs for an hour. i think the public daytime thing filters out 90% of the weirdos because theyre not gonna make the effort for a 3pm coffee. the one time i got a weird vibe was from someone who wanted to meet at their wg in wedding at 10pm, i just said no thanks and that was that

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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