Leipzig: A walk around a city reborn
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Leipzig: A walk around a city reborn
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#2I lived in Leipzig for three years during my physics studies, and I really enjoyed the city. It's there that I really learned to love long walks. I've walked through and around that city more time than I can count. My favorite time to stroll through the city center is when they have the (Christmas) market set up, it has a very welcoming feel to it. It's a city with a lot of culture and usually always something going on, but much more laid back than Berlin. Summertime there is especially nice, I always enjoyed walking or biking to the lakes in the south on a bright summer day.
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#3"Bach, Bombs & Books" is an amazing title. I think it should have been included in the HN title submission.
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#4Nice to see my hometown on HN! It is also one of the most affordable cities in Germany in terms of housing, and probably the best in terms of quality of life / cost of living ratio...
If you plan to visit: be sure to check out the Museum der bildenden Künste and a boat-tour through Plagwitz / Karl-Heine Kanal (esp. nice in spring at night).
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#5Nice to see my hometown on HN! It is also one of the most affordable cities in Germany in terms of housing, and probably the best in terms of quality of life / cost of living ratio... If you plan to visit: be sure to check out the Museum der bildenden Künste and a boat-tour through Plagwitz / Karl-Heine Kanal (esp. nice in spring at night).
Very nice. Out of curiosity, how is it for foreigners? I see that AfD gets a pretty high vote share there.
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#6Nice to see my hometown on HN! It is also one of the most affordable cities in Germany in terms of housing, and probably the best in terms of quality of life / cost of living ratio... If you plan to visit: be sure to check out the Museum der bildenden Künste and a boat-tour through Plagwitz / Karl-Heine Kanal (esp. nice in spring at night).
Very nice. Out of curiosity, how is it for foreigners? I see that AfD gets a pretty high vote share there.
In Saxony yes, but not in Leipzig. About 50% of my colleagues are foreigners and they all love the city -- it's very international and you can come by with English in most places.
Little caveat obviously: there are also quarters where it's not that simple and you are looked at sideways if you have the "wrong" skin tone -- Grünau, Gohlis-Nord etc. But these are the parts of the city tourists usually don't visit...
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Very nice. Out of curiosity, how is it for foreigners? I see that AfD gets a pretty high vote share there.
In Saxony yes, but not in Leipzig. About 50% of my colleagues are foreigners and they all love the city -- it's very international and you can come by with English in most places. Little caveat obviously: there are also quarters where it's not that simple and you are looked at sideways if you have the "wrong" skin tone -- Grünau, Gohlis-Nord etc. But these are the parts of the city tourists usually don't visit...
Thank you :)
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#8I was visiting it 2010 and it had many empty houses. I even read the Deutsche Bahn wanted to cut them off from long-distance trains.
Today it's the new hip location to live at, like Berlin. People are gentrifying it in swarms.
It's a pretty nice place and compared to the rest of east Germany pretty leftist. But, yeah, when you leave the city there is nothing much.
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#9Been there several times in the 1990s. Got some work done. Also got into trouble!
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#10I was visiting it 2010 and it had many empty houses. I even read the Deutsche Bahn wanted to cut them off from long-distance trains. Today it's the new hip location to live at, like Berlin. People are gentrifying it in swarms. It's a pretty nice place and compared to the rest of east Germany pretty leftist. But, yeah, when you leave the city there is nothing much.
People in Berlin are always threatening to leave for Leipzig as Berlin becomes less and less affordable, I guess a lot do, especially now that remote working make it actually feasible. I even had a colleague years ago who commuted a few days a week to an office in Berlin.