Unless all you care about is tech start-ups and wild parties with drugs and cheap beer, the housing market there and general poor state makes it a bad place to live if you're used to high quality of life cities, like Vienna for example.

I'd like to live in a place where finding housing that isn't overpriced and poorly maintained, isn't a full time job in of itself where you spend dozens of hours and compete with hundreds of people hunger games style. Since I'm not a student anymore, the party scene doesn't make up for that huge hassle.

I hear this a lot, and this may still have been the case 4 years ago or so, but I feel this is mostly coming from people who found housing in Berlin before Covid and aren't experiencing the current market.