They're personal, but it's just a fun city to live in. Besides, I've spent too much time on that damn paperwork to give up!
Sure that's understandable, but that's nothing objective in that, that's just a personal choice based on personal taste and circumstances, which can apply to any other city if you think about it.
There are so many other fun cities in Europe where you don't have to put up with all that nonsense.
That's nothing special to warrant overhyping Berlin even further, it already suffers from a branch of the Paris syndrome they could call it Berlin syndrome.