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Homeless guy - should I let him in?
It was -8 so I asked him "are you alright?" to which he replied the obvious "it's cold". I repeated the question but more in a sense "are you going to die, or are you just going to have a really, really shitty night - as per usual?" to which he replied again "well, it's cold".
On his request, I gave him some cash and left but soon remembered that I my flatmate hasn't moved in yet so I have an extra room and bed.
And then this moral dilemma started playing in my head. OK, there's a risk that the guy might rob me or become a terrible inconvenience, but then - there's a chance he might die as well. Some discomfort on my part pales in the comparison to the discomfort that dying would bring him. Also - it's 4 am and I'm probably the only person awake around this area - so "someone else will take care of it" doesn't really work.
I called some friends who all advised me against taking the guy in. So I didn't.
I'm wondering - would anyone, under any circumstance - even if it was -30 outside, take the homeless guy in in Berlin? What's the right thing to do?
Convince me that I made the right decision. And what do I do tonight if he's still there?
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the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated.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.
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