Dec 13 2004
Living in Berlin - for the ultimate expatriate
“He brought his wife, an illustrator, to a show in Berlin in 2003 and the couple decided to move here. Sometimes, he says, it’s hard to believe that a guy from Rock Hill, S.C., who has been known to work under the name Donna Summer, wakes up in Berlin in a bed from IKEA.
“I think in Europe people are living more fulfilling lives,” he said. “In the U.S. there’s this ‘Super Size Me’ mentality. I began to realize that it was really malaise. People were consuming things because their lives were empty.”
He finished his tea. He was off to see his wife and then he was biking to check his e-mail, pedaling over drizzly streets once haunted by communist spies but now the domain of real estate speculators.”
