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Small world ??
I'm moving from LA and at times there were moments I felt the world was small when meeting people.
Curious to know if it's the same in Berlin ?
The small world thing hits hardest when you change neighborhoods. I lived in Friedrichshain for two years and felt like I couldn't go to Boxhagener Platz without seeing someone I knew. Then I moved to Wedding and suddenly I was a ghost for six months, nobody recognized me anywhere. The moment you cross the Ringbahn your whole social map resets, which is either freeing or lonely depending on your mood.
moving from LA you're gonna find it's a different kind of small. in LA you bump into people because everyone drives the same three highways and goes to the same few spots in silver lake or echo park. here it's more about your kiez, you'll see the same faces at your local bakerie, your späti, and the same park bench every sunday. but step one u-bahn stop over and you might as well be in a different city, i've gone months without seeing someone i know from neukölln after i moved to wedding
yeah it definitely happens, especially if you're in a specific kiez for a while. i used to run into the same people from my gym at the späti on weserstrasse all the time, and then see them at syndikat on a friday night. the dating app thing is real too, i matched with someone on tinder, saw them on hinge the next day, and then literally passed them on their balcony while walking my dog the week after. it's not as small as a village but your circles collapse fast if you stay in one neighborhood
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What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
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.
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the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated.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
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.