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...decades after the Wall that cut through Berlin's heart came tumbling down, the city is once again a happening place, drawing a host of international designers, writers, architects, musicians and visual artists like Grazioli, some just to visit, many to stay. The influx is transforming the city. "Yes, artists from all over the world are now living in Berlin and, some nights, they all seemed to end up on my living-room sofa," says Jeffrey Eugenides, the American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who lived in Berlin from 1999 to 2003 and goes back every summer. "It's a much...
...surge in tourism. The fact that discount airlines like easyJet have made Schönefeld Airport, in the former communist East, their German hub has also given the city a boost. The number of visitors from abroad is up 2.5 times since 2003. Just as dramatic is the influx of foreigners moving to Berlin to live - they now make up almost 1 in 7 of its 3.5 million inhabitants. The number of non-German Europeans living in Berlin has more than doubled since 2003. There are now more of them than Turks, who long made up the largest contingent...
Archie Jones is the English everyman: a bit dithering, culturally ignorant, but fiercely loyal in a pinch. Jones lives in an England haunted by the Second World War and the disintegration of the British Empire, one reeling from the influx of brown-skinned people with gleaming white teeth. He takes it all in his distinctly English way, his big eyes and open countenance accepting without understanding: “He liked people to get on with things, Archie. He kind of felt people should just live together, you know, in peace or harmony or something...
Despite occasionally disrupting foot traffic, local business leaders say that the influx of production crews has had a positive impact on the area...
...Dera Ismail Khan traditionally welcoms the Mehsud tribe this time of year, as they vacate their homes in the chilly mountains in favor of the town's warmer plains. But the influx now is seen as fanning the flame of the town's existing ethnic and sectarian tensions. "It changes the dynamic," says Faiysal AliKhan, head of Fida, the main refugee support group in the area. "Dera Ismail Khan is already cash-strapped. There is a shortage of schools and water. There is a lot of crime. Some of the locals are growing resentful. They say that troubles will follow...