Obviously it's not just Canada that looks good to those 'fleeing the sinking ship' according to Der Spiegel's English site
www.spiegel.de. In The Ex-Pat Hordes Descend, it picks up a LA Times article on Berlin perhaps becoming what Paris was in the 1920s and Prague was in the 90s.
A new high speed train went into service last week that links Hamburg and Berlin in 90 minutes which is faster than driving time.