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Re:Belarus’s Soviet Economy by ben_w on Sunday December 01, 2019 @04:47AM (#21674733)
Berlin is in the east of Germany. I live in Berlin, and have considered cycling to Poland and back as a day trip.

One of my German coworkers remarks often that wages for any given job in former-DDR-areas are much lower than the same jobs in pre-reunification-Bundesrepublik-Deutschland-areas.

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Re:Belarus’s Soviet Economy by swebs on Sunday December 01, 2019 @06:29AM (#21674973)
Berlin was both. Hence why they had to build the wall.
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Re:Belarus’s Soviet Economy by IndrekR on Sunday December 01, 2019 @08:10AM (#21675307)
West Berlin was a political enclave in DDR. ~150 km from the inner German border [1]. Just outside Berlin is pretty much ex-DDR territory. At the same time Berlin does have quite a strong foreign community and high migration, lately negative for Germans and positive for other ethnic groups [2]. It is the second largest city (by population) in Europe after London with much lower living costs [3]. Also Daimler and BMW have strong presence in Berlin. Those factors may have influenced the Tesla's decision a lot.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_German_border

[2] https://www.statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de/produkte/kleines...

[3] https://teleport.org/compare/berlin-and-london/

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Re:Belarus’s Soviet Economy by ben_w on Sunday December 01, 2019 @06:49AM (#21675031)
Yes, but the Tesla factory is “just outside” Berlin, so I didn’t feel that detail was important in this case.
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