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Vienna again named world's most liveable city

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Re: Vienna again named world's most liveable city

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Post by sirwitti »

adrianh wrote: post #2

I've actually been thinking of moving to Vienna. Anybody in Vienna have a moment to type out some thoughts on what it's like to live there?

the good thing about vienna (or maybe austria) is that it's the biggests city in austria.

if something interesting is going on in austria, most often it's happening in vienna. (culturally, jobwise, universitywise,...). so austria is very centered around vienna in my experience.

Re: Vienna again named world's most liveable city

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Post by kfk »

So, I passed by Vienna kayaking down the Danube. We liked the “Neu Donau”, basically an unused arm of the Danube with super ultra clean water. People go there swimming, surfing or just for a walk, it’s super cool. We didn’t really like the city center, way to posh for us. But then again, we were coming to Vienna on a kayak from the woods, that might have skewed our vision of the city.

But overall, if you can, go visit Austria, it’s a small gem. They have this tradition of doing naked sun baths everywhere, but you do get used to that after a while.

By the way, I lived in Munich. It’s an amazing city. Lakes, mountains, rivers, you name it. And German people are super nice, people stereotype them way too much. I am looking forward to go back to Germany soon. I am really not a big fan of Dutch/Nordic speaking countries.

Re: Vienna again named world's most liveable city

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Post by stdclass »

sirwitti wrote: post #3

Funnily enough the viennese people are considered grumpy and often rude compared to the rest of austria :) but still, the city is awesome! martin, living in vienna

As a tyrolean visiting vienna frequently it's always strange to see the grumpy/rude people compared to tyrol.

Re: Vienna again named world's most liveable city

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Post by egeozcan »

kfk wrote: post #5

So, I passed by Vienna kayaking down the Danube. We liked the “Neu Donau”, basically an unused arm of the Danube with super ultra clean water. People go there swimming, surfing or just for a walk, it’s super cool. We didn’t really like the city center, way to posh for us. But then again, we were coming to Vienna on a kayak from the woods, that might have skewed our vision of the city. But overall, if you can, go visi…

After living in Stuttgart for the last 5 years, I can tell that these stereotypes describe some Germans perfectly well but the important thing here is those account for less than 1% of the population.

The remaining 99%? Those are these very friendly people who have this amazing ability to be relaxed and efficient at the same time.

Re: Vienna again named world's most liveable city

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Post by xmr »

sirwitti wrote: post #3

Funnily enough the viennese people are considered grumpy and often rude compared to the rest of austria :) but still, the city is awesome! martin, living in vienna

I visited at christmas and it felt like people were very reserved and yes at times quite rude / snobbish. Apart from that, seemed like a nice place.

Re: Vienna again named world's most liveable city

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Post by gutnor »

It is weird how traditional journalism has not caught up with internet mentality.

What about linking to the study (http://www.mercer.es/articles/quality-of-living-survey-repor...), hell, even their official press release contains more information than Reuters "article".

Also what about giving us the complete list. I suppose the 499$ you need to pay to get the report give you more meat than simply the list, so why not give it for free ?

Past years result can be found on good old wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_Quality_of_Living_Survey

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