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My brother has lived in Munich for several years and I visit him as often as I can. I've also been to Berlin and fell in love with it. I want to experience living in another country, and Germany's a place I'm drawn too. I've been exploring the au-pair route as it comes with a place to live, the freedom to go to language school too and enough money to do things in my spare time.
I've been in talks with lots of German families and there seems to be lots of talk with potential host families, and lots of people saying I'm "amongst their favourites" but everyone want to keep their options open until the last minute.
Anyway, I've got a firm offer from a family in Vienna. I was thinking I could at least improve my German then be in a position where my job prospects are wider in the future to live in Germany. I don't know really know much about Vienna/Austria though. I'd like to know if the people are friendly and if it's an easy place to make friends if you're not local. I'm not into clubbing, but like to go for drinks sometimes and want to be somewhere there is lots of choice to do and see.
People are friendly, lots of students (Uni Vienna has roughly 100k students alone), it's modern, good public transport and it's fairly easy to make friends. Make sure to learn some German before moving here, though. Makes life certainly easier.
Young people in my family are always heading off to Vienna and really enjoy the city... always something to see and do...
I've stayed several times with friends that were students at the time and they were quite active...
It's the only time in my life where I didn't need of miss having a car... see, I had a car and parked it for 13 days once... simply because everything from shopping to getting around was so easy.
Vienna is different from other regions of Austria and anyone wanting to see more only need take a train to get there.
Another time I was based in Vienna and did some exploring in the Czech Republic and enjoyed it too...
These days I tend to enjoy the beauty of the mountains and make Salzburg my homebase but will always have a fondness for Vienna.
I visited there a few years ago and thought it was pretty lively.
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