Eventually, I gave up my sublet in Berlin and stayed in England for a long time - for about 20 years.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The fact is that I loved being in England.
I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
I was a foreign correspondent in Berlin in the mid-'90s.
When I was 16, I went to Berlin - West Berlin, since at that time a wall still divided the city - to live for three months with a family on an exchange program.
Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.
I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.
I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.
No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.
I was in the underground until I left Germany.