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When A City Cannot Support Its Talent

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Laura Kranz
31 May 2005 - 9:00am

Berlin, Germany's capital, is faced with such severe economic stagnation that it can no longer support its bohemian residents.

"Berlin has high unemployment, huge debts and a real-estate market that's been floundering for years. Affordable housing attracts artists, students and other bohemian types. Spacious lofts designed for advertising agencies and consulting firms have been converted into photo studios and practice rooms for bands.

...There's something both likable and miserable about a city that cannot support all the talent it attracts. Germany, a stagnating economy, has raised a lost generation of young professionals -- and nowhere are they as lost as right here in the capital."

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Full Story: Berliner Hot Luft
Source: Wall St. Journal, October 26, 2005
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