The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago, but Germany is still divided
25 years is a very short time to expect some of the longer term economic and cultural changes to take place.  Just like the street light bulbs, they'll get replaced as the old ones die off.<p>On a related note, I've never understood how you could live in West Berlin and yet travel freely to the rest of west Germany, because the city itself was deep in East Germany.  I know the city was supplied by airlift during the blockade, but that eventually stopped.  So how did someone from West Berlin travel to, say, Frankfurt by car?  What was to stop someone from East Germany doing the same thing?  The wall only went through the city, right?<p>I have travelled in East Germany and I found it to be a pleasant place, with very friendly people.  Though they tended to have bizarre fashion sense and much more limited English compared to west Germany.