I saw thousands of people there out on the streets and this was really unbelievable and exciting. The Wall may have fallen but people in both eastern and western Germany say there are still mental walls separating them. Germans say it may take more than a generation to demolish that kind of wall. Unification has come with a great price. Eastern Germany still lags behind.
Unemployment is high.
Many West Germans resent the burden represented by the East - especially since the German economy is having difficulties supporting high levels of social welfare. But to an outsider, seeing Berlin for the first time without a dividing wall, it seems worth the price.