When it comes to creativity, Berlin can cope with every other metroplis in the world. Nowhere else can you find art that is more exciting, theatre that is more radical, more opera productions or cooler clubs than in Berlin. The city just never gets boring - and the best thing is: there is no constant traffic chaos, the suburbs are not burning, and there are no impudent investment bankers stealing the best seats in the restaurant. What again did the writer Wladimir Kaminer say? "Better poor and sexy than rich and impotent."