yes.
 

You cheeky bitch. Does Berlin even have yuppies?
 

Yes again. Welcome to the club (and, cough, neighborhood).

Derick
 

Yes. But high proportion of pregnant mothers notwithstanding, to me it still feels creepy there at night. So maybe yuppie with an edge.
 

People, time for definitions. Derick's not a yuppie; he's a rock star with a child. I'm a novelist running a freelance-writing concern at a loss. And if the photo above looks like a yuppie neighborhood to you -- I don't care how many beautiful mothers chivvy their babies in carriages over tea on the streetcorner of a beautiful summer's day -- y'all have never been to Manhattan Beach.

Someone just a couple of weeks ago said Berlin would be run efficiently if it had yuppies -- meaning social climbers like you see in New York or Boston or West L.A. Ed, was that you? Wasn't it on somebody's blog?
 

I was just trying to remember where I saw that. But I'm too lazy to try to find it right now, so i thought I'd sit back and wait for someone else to refer to it.
 

Yuppie in Berlin = anyone with the motivation to do more than one thing a day.

Sattva was the one who linked to the yuppie article.

And I'm glad you are moving. Your toilet scared me. H-platz has a fantastic fetishistic chocolate store, excellent bars, pingpong tables, water pumps and lebanese restauruants. It's worth dodging the pram pushers for.
 

Exactly. Thank you Sattva and Desyl. This guy in the Village Voice says Berlin's lack of yuppies "makes you realize they have some function."
 

I'm a bit nonplussed by this quote. And what would be the function of yuppies exactly? In most places, to serve as the engine behind the sprucing up of a derelict district, I believe, but here that happened by decree, so to speak, so who needs them? What's nice about Berlin is that it's not London or NYC, which may have lots of that fabled "energy" but much of it of the wrong kind. Just my opinion of course.
 

I think the quote was half-joking and sardonic. With more yuppies in local government the city might move along a bit faster, but, you know, you're right;Berlin's better the way it is.
 

I dont think its the area that makes the yuppie but the yuppie him or herself. Sure the place is swarming with menus of coffee types that i have never heard of but the real yuppie in you comes out in the way you describe it as if it were a chav housing estate in deepest Siberia where you have to be on your guard at all times.

For all those who havent been to Berlin: This isnt some jobless unemployment hole with 0 perspectives, young mothers and a smack problem. The pregnant women here are all career women in their mid 30s and have baby buggies worth more than most peoples cars.... and as for dangerous!!! I dont get that bit at all. Apart from the 10 drunk guys and girls in the park its probably the area with the highest percent of pacifists in the world. I think (but cant be sure) that the NPD got 0 votes there a few years ago in the election, meaning the idiots didnt even remember to vote for themselves.

The only question is whether you count as a yuppie or a yippie? Certainly its more arty there than all mod cons.

Be proud though...
 

Well, that was the joke: What I wrote 6 years ago is no longer true (if it ever was).