I'm from Austria, so this is obviously biased, but in my experience, it really is as great as all these statistics make it seem. The biggest selling points are obviously the public transport and how green it is, but the thing I really like about it is the lack of smell. Most big cities I've been to have a distinct unpleasant smell in a lot of places. That is just not the case in 95% of Vienna. Also, a lot of the newer parts of the city are very pleasant places to be on foot. As you get into newly built areas, there are significantly less cars around and there is more space for walking and cycling. Its really nice. One small drawback that Vienna does have are the inhabitants themselves. I don't have much experience when it comes to interacting with people in other cities so I don't have a lot of comparisons, but Viennese people tend to be very private. It's not common to speak with strangers on the street in Austria. People like to keep to themselves most of the time.
I've been living there for my whole life and I have to say that it really depends where you live. If you want to see sights of course. Close to me there is sadly not much to see other than a kind of big green park. A little like the Times Square but much smaller. Otherwise I love my city.
Vienna is a fantastic city! Been there last month, and they really knew how to maintain historical landmarks combined with modern city life. Urban design is amazing and public transit system is smooth and easy to navigate. It’s been hot there, and they really took walkability to the next level; providing trees with shades in the heat. All in all, 10/10 city. Can’t wait to go back to the Austrian capital!
@@avacandide Have you seen pics and video of Vienna after WW2? It wasn't razed, but most buildings were damaged in some way, so were repaired and reconstructed...
@@stevemcgowen I have and I live in Vienna. Historical buildings you can see today were preserved. Most buildings from the 50s are ugly af, they didn't bother to rebuild the old stuff. Around 20 % of the city was damaged in air raids and most historical buildings actually survived. Some buildings like trainstation north were destroyed and are gone forever.
As an austrian who lives in Vienna, here are some more things, I think should be included: -the quality of our school/educational system is very high and super cheap/mostly free -Being a big city, Vienna has lots of recreation areas; along the danube or various parks (f.e. prater) -can´t stretch enough how good our public transportation is -fresh water! with direct acces to fresh, clean and cool mountain water, it can´t get any better -public fountains with drinkable water scattered all across vienna -multicultural; vienna is a home to many cultures and religions -the art and culture scene, not only museums but also publicly available areas to paint etc (f.e. graffiti) -very bike friendly -the nightlife, lots of clubs, bars, discos...
The „fresh water“-part is so important! My dad is a taxi driver here in vienna and from time to time it happens that tourists ask him which brand of water he recommends that they should buy, because they don’t know that our tap water isn’t just drinkable, but also amongst the best tap waters in the world. Travel guides and pages that write about vienna mention every tiny detail about the city, but always fail to mention how good our water supply is.
I live in Vienna and love it. It's definetly the best place to live, provided you are Austrian or a EU citizen. For us third-country nationals, however, the experience of living in this amazing city is stained by its incredibly dysfunctional immigration bureaucracy (the MA35). As a result, many high-skilled professionals, such as myself, end up moving elsewhere after a while (in my case, even though I love this city, I will not hesitate to move elsewhere in search for opportunities and less bureaucratic stress once I finish my PhD).
I'm a native viennese (even writing my masters thesis on the cultural stereotypes of vienna) and it makes me (even more) proud of reading about all the positive feedback and experiences people made. It's wonderful to read that so many visitors were able to make some good and great memories of this beautiful city.
Life-long Austrian Vienna resident here. I guess we're pretty good in a global context. But the people are often somewhat grumpy and like to complain. Service culture is not a top priority. Crime has definitely increased. But any American used to downtown curfews at night would probably feel very safe.
That's the thing tho :P We like to complain, but we often forget how good we actually have it. Like Qualtinger (an Austrian comedian, actor, reciter and author) said "The problem of every Viennese: You can't stand it in Vienna anymore. But not anywhere else either."
No wonder crime has increased, just look at how the demographics of the city have developed in recent decades, especially the young generation, especially the schools.
@@SilverWave64 I noticed that there is so many muslim people in Vienna, but on other hand, all of them were kind and I had no problem with them and they all speak English, anyway, I am glad that we have Vietnamese instead of muslims. 🙂
I live and was born there and i am thankful every day for that. We are fucking blessed and lucky to live in Vienna. Even though some idiots tend to complain here a lot, but thats another story (of austrian behaviour)^^ And yes, our public transport system is one of a kind. You can get to any place pretty fast and it doesnt cost much. And they are still building it further, an entire new Metro Line ist just being built as we speak. Also, it is a very clean city and has great city administration. The men who are keeping our city clean and take the garbage away do a fantastic job and it all works fine. I might also add, that we are somewhat a modern city, but many things are the entire opposite. Like old tramways that are still around, or old buildings without an elevator or anything. If you compare some things to like, say, Japan - we are almost medieval compared to them^^ But it kinda fits into the entire package of our lifestyle and our beautiful city.
I love Vienna. The many beautiful parks, the Ringstrasse. great museums, the Volksoper and the Staatsoper, the Philharmonic. What's not to love? Wish I had lived there. At least I can visit every couple of years.
@@laulinger8560 oh really? I live in Vienna so please tell me where the fuck I should get the fuck out to. Because I‘ve already been to many cities, both in Europe, US and Asia but none of them come even close to Vienna as far as the living standards are concerned.
I'd rather say grumpy than cold and rude. But that's to be expected. As someone mentioned once before - that grumpy attitude pushes the city to always improve - it's never good enough 😊. As for you, now that you have admitted that you were served with a genuine Viennese "warm" welcome, you can't ask for your money back 😊
I have lived in Munich, Germany, for 11 years and moved to Vienna in 2020, shortly before the start of the pandemic. During that time, when you would expect people to be extra burdened and grumpy, I have experienced more casual kindness (at the supermarket checkout, in public transport and general in public) and fun and humorous small talk with people than I have ever had in all my time spent in Munich. There also was a terror attack in 2021 in Vienna. The first one to ever happen there, I think. 4 people died. They put out the slogan "fuck off, asshole" in Austrian and moved on. The character of the city and the people hasn't changed since then. I perceive them as relaxed and down to earth as ever. There are, of course, grumpy and rude people here, too, but as far as I can tell, rude behavior is called out immediately. I experience it on my daily commute. Austrians are not afraid to speak their mind, so if they're bothered by something or someone, they might pick a fight, but I mostly thought, their reasons were justified.
Very cold and rude I would say, even for me as Czech, we are considered cold and rude, but what I saw in Vienna was too much even for me, especially in covid time. They were literally like "Halt! Papers!" 😀 I think muslims in Vienna were more kind than native people. I know that you doing your job, but as we say, give at least little life to that dying or how to translate that. 😀But it's possible that all those too cold people are former Czechoslovak refugees who think they are something better now.
I moved from Budapest to Vienna a year ago. I absolutely love that city almost as much as i did love Budapest. But still there are a few things for me that the others already mentioned: I really struggle to make contact with viennese people, they stick to their own probably, which is okay because there are sooo many other newbies for you ti connect with, and most of them are open great people. An other thing I didnt really experience is the very high profiency in english. Sure its not bad, but Stockholm or Amsterdam are on other levels. I really can recommend for anyone to move to Vienna, but for me i am eventually going to move back to Budapest, she is just holding a tight grip on me :)
I'm currently studying in Budapest and I've visited Vienna... I don't see that much difference in architecture or transportation, except economy Budapest is also beautiful.
100% agree with this. The locals attitude really should be a consideration in this. There place is amazing, the people - well I wouldn't know because after two months living here I haven't connected with a single one. Just expats as you say.
I love the transport system and how accessible Vienna is to other European countries- Venice is just a seven hour train ride away, for example. However, as a few people have already mentioned- some of the Viennese are rude and unfriendly. After five years of living here I have no Viennese friends. It's a great place if you want to be left alone and ignore people, lol.
I don't find the people to be so rude. I personally think it's more of a stereo type than a fact. Of course I encounter rude and unfriendly people, but this happens in every country and I don't see them every day.
@@spicynugget_0294 tbh, I didn't notice the lack of friendliness in Vienna until I visited Graz. There the people smiled and said good morning to me and I was a bit taken aback at first. Such a difference in attitude between two Austrian cities!
@@kenmarten6049 There is some truth to what you write, yet colloquialisms in larger cities usually tend to be harsher and one more often gets dealt with in a curtly manner. At least in the West. Think New York or Paris where some say it to be advisable to use one's elbows not to drown.
@@Flex2212 true but vienna is special. I moved here too a year ago and it is unbelievably difficult to befriend people here that are not also foreigners. A lot of viennese/austrians are totally non-receptive to even talking more than is absolutely necessary. To get any friends, I had to be totally annoying and arrange meetups with literally everyone I met, because almost noone takes the initiative in these things, it is almost always the newcomer who has to carry the weight at first. And I'm German! Can't imagine what it's like if you're from a completely different culture! Note: This is the experience of most skilled people or university students who come here
I lived in Vienna for one year. The city is really beautiful. I especially loved the Danube-Island which was close to my place. Within 15 minutes I could walked through the city and found myself in a green paradise. However, during my time there I missed a decent nightlife and in particular a proper club scene.
in vienna there are about 100? night clubs - several types for each music from jazz to dnb , also very big clubs where yóu can meet nice girls. i think you were mislead. i have been to 20 countries for parties - vienna is among the better cities for it
Pratersauna, Grelle Forelle, Werk, Flex, Celeste,....... and so many more. Backl Market. So many great Techno clubs. I live in Berlin and have to say that the nightlife i Vienna is very great.
@@Solaris0071 I also lived in Berlin and the clubs were much better. When I went to Sisyphos for instance I could stay there the whole weekend. In Grelle Forelle the music was shut down at 6 am sharp. Don't get me wrong ... Berlin looks like a wasteland compared to Vienna, but the nightlife (especially clubs) is much better.
Visited last week!! Coming from India, obviously one can feel how different life is in these parts of the world. This made my determination to learn German and reach the B2 level in 2 years that much stronger. Can't wait to work harder to get my second master's and settle in either Austria or Germany.
Lived in Vienna for 2 years and half and I confirm everything that was said in the video. The only thing that I don't like much about Vienna is that people that serve you in bars are restaurant are often quite rude. Sometimes it really feels like they are making a big favor to serve you as a paying customer.
I live in Canyon Country CA and will be in Vienna soon. I love the sunsets here but frankly yogurt seems to have more culture. Off to hear the Vienna Philharmonic!🎻
I have lived in Wien and attended school at Vienna international school my late father was a diplomat. Great city great people if the opportunity presents its self I would go back
Copenhagen is definitely the cooler city to live in, although they public transpoet system is better in vienna and copenhagen is incredibly expensive. So both are cool:)
Yeah its good there. I actually like almost every City. It only so happens that I live in Vienna and there for dont need to change. All tho I would like to go to NYC or other cities to Check out all the differences.
We can speak English, but for living there it IS recommended to learn German, especially the Austrian Standardvariety of German. Otherwise interactions with municipal officials is going to be... complicated at best. (It also helps with full integration, we're kinda wary of outsiders, ngl)
I visited Vienna in 2016 and i loved it! Great transports, great architecture and quality of air. Despite that, i think i was the only guy who was pickpocketed there 😅
Interesting fact about Vienna: 99,5 % of households get real fresh mountain spring water on tap. The water runs at a maximum temperature of 8-10° C (in Paris that's almost at 20° C).
No idea where you found the chart at 02:46, but comming from Croatia I can assure you that Split in Croatia and Novi Sad in Serbia are way way worse then Vienna when it comes to transportation
i live here my whole life long and i gotta say i was suprised to hear all that. Although i do not disagree i just didnt know all that (Especially the things with the Statistics)
I live here and a few days ago i saw a broken glass bottle next to a playground, I called the citizen's government care hotline and told them, they sent a cleaning troop right away, and it was taken care of immediately and removed, now that's something you can't make up.
ive been living in vienna for 8 years and the life there is pretty good whenever you go you just seee a random shop so i got 2 gas stations and 3 shops near my house i dont need to waste any time going for a shop and also visitet some historic buildings
I grew up in Austria, Graz to be specific, but I am living with my partner (Viennese) in Vienna for almost two years now. Culturally Vienna is fantastic! As a cultural anthropologist and historian by education, there are more job opportunities for me here in Vienna than in Graz. However, Vienna is not exactly the most climate-friendly city in Austria. I live in the 8. district and it is so hot here because they cut down all the big healthy trees to make parking spaces. The little trees they are planting instead are all dying because the city doesn´t give a sh****. Viennese are also known for being very grumpy and like to complain a lot. My partner loves to curse every time he watches local news. At the beginning of our relationship, I was seriously shocked that he has such a strong reaction when local politicians are being interviewed. It was really a culture shock because people in Graz are a lot more chill. Now, I got used to it. 🤣
I was born, lived most of my life in Vienna and completely agree with everything you said😂 The younger generation however is a bit different I must add. Also crime rate is much higher than known + corruption in politics. I grew up in the 11th and went to school in the 15th district. Saw with 15 years for the first time a glock, butterfly knifes, cocain, speed and weed > all in my school. A lot of young chechens, balkan and turkish youth gangs. Advice : stay away from parks at night if you can > especially the one close to Lugner City, längenfeld
Finally someone who said truth about Vienna, I've been there with my father and I saw such examples you talking about, it's not that green as people think and people are too cold there, it was really weird experience in covid time. Here in Czechia, they were always saying sorry in restaurants for all those restrictions, but in Vienna, they just put some papers (everything in German) in front of you and nobody helps you and you could clrearly see that they are annoyed that they see another tourists. Native people had some app in phone so they didn't have to fill papers, but I haven't found any informations in English so I didn't know what app and how to use that. I hope it was mainly covid what made our experience in Vienna that weird, but even city didn't really amaze us. I saw mainly cars and patched asphalt there. Here in Czech cities, trend is to plent trees and make no pedestrian zones and restore what was ugly in the past, I didn't expect Vienna beying so grey from car smog, only few important buildings are nice, but surrounding is traffic hell, it's mostly just parking which is destroying atmosphere of those historical places.
@@thcaustria7439 Same. I also grew up in the 11th district and also went there to school. Same, knifes, cocain, weed, many foreign gangs, not very nice. And yes, the parks at nights are a no go, or else you might not see the next day. So I wonder how this is the most liveable city
You forgot the biggest point. You have a whole Island within the city. Its like central park just better cause you can swim in the summer, or winter if you are that hard core
Vienna looks great! I like where I live in Victoria, it’s just a boat ride away from Vancouver and not nearly as large. I was born and raised in Calgary, pretty cool to see it on that list even if it’s a bit of a meme among Canadians that it would make it on there. Calgary isn’t exactly pretty or warm but it has everything you need in a city of around 1.5 million people and it’s big enough to have pro sports teams, good public transit including passenger rail, plentiful cheap housing and big name concert tours stop there, etc. The major drawback with the Canadian cities on the list is horrific car centric traffic and urban sprawl in general though.
Also, we have the most extensive public housing provider in Europe owning 2000000 units with 5000000 tenants paying less than 10 euros per squer meter.
But sadly they aren’t really building new flats and instead go for public-private partnerships that only open up a few flats. Our public housing mostly is a remnant of good policies from the 1920s and 1950-70s, with very little happening since then.
As an Austrian citizen I can tell you Vienna is a great country to live in if you are citizen or EU citizen. For outsiders it is really difficult because they face racism in certain areas, lots of issues with the ministry of immigration MA 35/BH and mainly because of the language. You MUST know German to survive here for EVERYTHING. (Doctor, finding an occupation, buying groceries, finding place to live, walking up to people…) Some are able to speak English but especially the ministries and authorities insist on speaking German! Additionally, be aware in Austria people do not speak German but dialect. Especially the elders always speak in their dialect which is really difficult to understand even for someone from Germany. Furthermore, as a foreigner in some ways you will always be treated as one no matter your German skills are great. Please note that due to some criminals from certain places the anger towards muslims is raising. It is very difficult to find good AND cheap apartments and some people try to exploit you. I paid 860€ for 42m2 and my neighbours pay 450€ for the same apartment size! If you come here for vacation, you will fall in love with the nature, the big variety of tourist spots, historical places, public transportation and the fresh water from the sink!
A lot of younger people think Vienna is boring (like I did) but it has so much to offer. Amazing bars, live music, a lot of artsy/alternative areas that would fit right in somewhere like Berlin. It really beats the old boring stately city reputation tbh. Plus, housing in Vienna is still so affordable, even compared to places like Berlin, that artists and students can actually afford to live in the city, and as such, many are moving to Vienna, Prague, and Budapest now, making them even more interesting and cool places.
Yeah i live in vienna and its awesome for living in a town 👍🎶 but living on the land in Lower Austria (Niederösterreich) is even better near klosterneuburg wich is not far from vienna (only 10 Km)
Melbourne can never compete with Vienna, on cost of living alone, same goes for Copenhagen Also education, healthcare, housing, childcare and retirement security are better in Vienna, Austria
WTF Which normal person makes 52k/year here? That must be a paralell Vienna you are talking about because that is just not true. Not at all. Most people are glad if they get 1.500/month. Apart from that, quite accurate.
Up until this July (2023) I spent 12 beautiful years in Vienna. I lived pretty centrally, where city centar was within a walkable distance from my place: needed less than 20 min by foot to get to St.Stephen's. Then I moved to the 3rd most livable from this list: which is Zurich. Between the two, visually, Zurich is rather ugly and pretty provincial, but that is not the main issue. Living is more affordable and much more available in Vienna than in Zurich. There just aren't enough available places to live in Zurich. I think that is why Zurich fell down some places on this list in the last 2 years.
seriously? i have been to vienna many times and while i love the city, i never imagined it would rank first for anything, maybe except public transport which is very advanced. i am going to vienna again in 2 weeks btw for another 10 days, i will pay more attention to the city to see if this video reflects the reality that i may have missed.
as someone from vienna i highly recomend going to the "prater" and i don´t mean the amusementpark (well, you should visit that as wel haha), but the "green, or in german: grüner prater". it is the biggest greenspace in whole of europe! i was surprised they didn´t mention it in the video. you can walk or rent a bike and expore it for a whole day :)
@@sarahholzweber6181 ive been to the prater amusement park and paid for a ride in one of those, idk how you call it in english, lets say flying chairs that are attached to the main body of the machine by chains. Well those chains are so thin it convinced me to never do that again haha, but i will go and check out this green space that you mentioned. Thanks
@@sarahholzweber6181 I went to Prater because I expected nice western looking amusement park, but in reality, it was exactly the same what we have here in Czechia and we hate it, just cheap kitsch, except it's not cheap anymore and they have some accidents almost every year. I hope it's not owned by mafia as most of such places here in my country. 😀 They kicked those carousel people from our version of "Prater" in Prague and place is much better now, city is finally trying to restore that place and renew park and old exhibition grounds which were occupied by those "amusement park people" or how to call them to not beying called racist. The place is really much nicer now and with much better atmosphere, there was for example meeting of all european scouts in that place now, much better than carousel kitchs.
As a Czech originaly from Prague, I am not afraid to say that Vienna is overrated and Prague is much nicer city. Yes, you can still find many ugly places, but I can swear that you will find more ugly places in Vienna. I especially like our today Czech trend (you can see it in all our cities, not only Prague) that they restory cobblestones and remove old ugly patched asphalt, car drivers hate it, but city looks much better then. In Vienna, you have that ugly patched asphalt almost everywhere and it's not really green city. People who say Vienna is green must be from Sahara or something, they haven't seen a really green city with parks, meadows and forests inside of city. When you want to see green places in VIenna, you have to travel to Danube islands, or visit their parks, but most of their parks are baroque kitsch or how to call that or it's one long streed with trees alont like Prater, that'w not how I imagine a real park! Our parks have forests, meadows, ponds and it's more complicated terrain, so it looks more natural, it's not flat and straight patch with trees along or vice versa baroque garden. We have them too, but it's not a park, it's more like tourist atraction.
@@Pidalin the green prater is veeeery big, you just walked on the main way there with the trees :) its in the center of vienna and the biggest park in europe, which is crazy to me! I have never been to prag, but all of my friends say it's nicer than vienna too haha :D have to visit soon!
Im from vienna and i gotta say its pretty cool here. although since stuff like a good public transportation system is a normal thing for me, i mainly see the social side of this city. the people here are mostly very anti-social and rude (at least to other locals) and politics arent that great either. historically we've been catalysts for both world wars and you can tell by how (especially elderly) people see the world. we may be the most liveable city in the world, but we still have the problems and struggles of modern sciety
@@conorstapleton3183 you apparently do not know that 60% or more people living in Vienna, that you consider Viennese are actually Slovak, Czech, Croatian, Bosnian, Serb, Albanian or Turkish who came to Vienna.
@@TheThingIs415 Bruh, one of the reasons why Vienna is rich is it's location. It was capital of huge Habsburg monarchy, which controled big part of central and eastern Europe. When the monarchy collapsed it was a huge city in relatively small Austria. So I wouldn't say that it's geography is a problem.
wait i traveled to damascus for a week this year and it seems really beautiful definetly better than many cities I've seen, I guess its ranking is politic
I love my city. It's green, culturally rich, beautiful, modern, but also historic, somewhat affordable (even though rents are increasing a lot lately), people are generally friendly or have a typical dark humor cynical character (if you understand the humor it's awesome) and like the video says - you don't need a car! I am spending most of my money (apart from rent that is more than 50% of my income) for good food and traveling. So yeah, very livable 😁
i'm austrian and moved to our capital 18 years ago. the main feature i see in vienna is the general unfriendliness, i think people are very quick to make racist and sexists remarks, they rant about any tiny inconvenience, and they rarely give positive feedback when stuff is working out for them. they have no patience and they cant be bothered when in other cities, i see civil courage way more often. viennese people look away, tend to themselves. i think it has something to do in how we managed to cope with wat happened after the worldwar. austria broadly positioned itself as the victim of germany and chose not to talk about what happened and what their role was. other than germany, schools and politics do the very minimum of educating and making amends. also i think the iron curtain that fell 32 years ago helped to strengthen the propaganda of the nazis of being better people than anyone beyond the border, and the economic boom vs soviet deprivation cemented that superiority complex... that fake narrow identity of being so special has reoriented itself again in the pride of having been the largest monarchy 150 years ago or so. also because of that superiority complex, austrian politicians like to hang out with autocrats and has very strong ties with russia (vienna served as "the russian spy" in the west after the WW and still does). "immigrants" (people from poorer countries) but also "expats" (people from richer countries) need more than 20 years to be somewhat integrated, but you will still be treated like you are a criminal that hast stolen valuables. it's like viennese people forgot how they were the thieves in the monarchy and how most of its population actually is a conglomerate of slavic/balkan and hungarian people that were working the lowest jobs in the midst of austrians, that went there during the monarchy when vienna was growing fast from 300.000 to 2 million inhabitants in the 19. century. as of now, vienna is growing again, with many eastern europeans and middle easterners coming here as in any western city in europe these days, because of the economy. vienna is a capitalist playground and needs those socialeconomic agitations from its inhabitants to function. so thats why happiness and friendly behavior isn't on top of our game, because it's not about acknowledging our own mixed identity, but about striving to be unattainable and ideal so we're not losing. poorer countries just a few kilometers away have brought in poor people for centuries, and austrians are sick of being the envied and being demonized for holding more wealth, they think they have earned it while the others haven't, so they started to not being friendly to strangers cause the strangers always wanted something and austrians wanted to built their own wealth instead of giving. class struggle kicks down, and not up, and because austria is so near the border to what was the soviet union, its always like holding its pockets real close to themselves...
i am born and raised in vienna. it used to be a good place to live, but sadly, as a regular citizen, the life quality is sinking more and more every month! the main reason for this, is our infamous, corrupt, intransparent politic system. we call it "freunderlwirtschaft", it means that that all major important positions are given to friends and families of the already ruling, corrupt and incompetent arselings! dont get me wrong, i know that these problems occure everywhere in the world, but living here, knowing the mainly ignorant attitude of my folk, its just sad to watch how this once wealthy country is going down the drain... and nobody even cares to really change something, all i hear all the time is the sentence "es woa scho imma so", meaning it was always like this... imho thats the worst part about vienna... other than that, this city has tons of unused potential, and i would like to see it thrive again one day... (also we have one of the worlds highest tax rates, in combination with a very intransparent expanditure system, what makes me doubt my political system even more)
I live in Linz, it's 2h away by train. Everytime i go to "work" in vienna for kpop events it's just comfortable to hop on a tram or metro and go around the city. It's refreshing as a young guy that there are asian culture events too and just a buzzling city to enjoy. The landmarks are very beautiful too. The cons are that some areas of vienna i never go without a knife because it's gotten worse with crimes in the last few years. The city is actually fighting against the rent increases too but all in all its still rising because the increase in general is just astronomical. If it weren't for rent i'd move out to vienna because i prefer it a lot more than linz all in all. Even tho a real vienesse would nag about vienna, deep down they still love the city XD. A echter wiener geht ned unter oder WIEN ist anders xD
I'm quite shocked to hear carry a knife with you in Vienna! All I carry, day or night, is a camera (and tripod sometimes) and there are no parts of the city where I have felt unsafe when making pictures. I have even left my camera on a nightbus once and it was returned to me.
@@kenmarten6049 probably because of my experience dealing with the club areas, i'd say vienna is really safe no doubt but sometimes there are shady people, like every other major city but it became worse over the last 5 years
The Kultursommer sadly was limited to 2020 and 2021, as it was a project to support artists that had less income due to covid. I worked at the Kultursommer for the past two years and had to find out that it ended once it was already too late to find another somewhat decent job for this summer.
Ahhh! Got it! Funny, I always include the suburbs (~7m) when thinking of the population of Houston, so I confused myself lol. Just an absolutely massive feeling city imo being from here lol
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Have you been to Vienna before? Perhaps you live there! What is it like? 🇦🇹
I'm from Austria, so this is obviously biased, but in my experience, it really is as great as all these statistics make it seem.
The biggest selling points are obviously the public transport and how green it is, but the thing I really like about it is the lack of smell.
Most big cities I've been to have a distinct unpleasant smell in a lot of places. That is just not the case in 95% of Vienna.
Also, a lot of the newer parts of the city are very pleasant places to be on foot.
As you get into newly built areas, there are significantly less cars around and there is more space for walking and cycling. Its really nice.
One small drawback that Vienna does have are the inhabitants themselves.
I don't have much experience when it comes to interacting with people in other cities so I don't have a lot of comparisons, but Viennese people tend to be very private.
It's not common to speak with strangers on the street in Austria. People like to keep to themselves most of the time.
When you uploaded this, I was having vacation in Vienna (on a train to Zurich as I'm writing), and I honestly found it straight up beautiful.
I've been living there for my whole life and I have to say that it really depends where you live. If you want to see sights of course. Close to me there is sadly not much to see other than a kind of big green park. A little like the Times Square but much smaller. Otherwise I love my city.
I have been a few times, but like Prague a lot more...
I live here and honestly, even if i had unlimited funds, i wouldnt move away.
Vienna is a fantastic city! Been there last month, and they really knew how to maintain historical landmarks combined with modern city life. Urban design is amazing and public transit system is smooth and easy to navigate.
It’s been hot there, and they really took walkability to the next level; providing trees with shades in the heat.
All in all, 10/10 city.
Can’t wait to go back to the Austrian capital!
A lot of Vienna was destroyed in WW2, so what you think is well preserved is mostly re-built in the 1950's...
@@stevemcgowen Historical buildings you can see today were not destroyed. Some were damaged and repaired.
@@avacandide Have you seen pics and video of Vienna after WW2? It wasn't razed, but most buildings were damaged in some way, so were repaired and reconstructed...
@@stevemcgowen I have and I live in Vienna. Historical buildings you can see today were preserved. Most buildings from the 50s are ugly af, they didn't bother to rebuild the old stuff. Around 20 % of the city was damaged in air raids and most historical buildings actually survived. Some buildings like trainstation north were destroyed and are gone forever.
Vienna ❣️🇦🇹 ! One of my fav cities in the world 🌎 ,definitely in my bucket list✈️
Greetings from Vienna 😉
As an austrian who lives in Vienna, here are some more things, I think should be included:
-the quality of our school/educational system is very high and super cheap/mostly free
-Being a big city, Vienna has lots of recreation areas; along the danube or various parks (f.e. prater)
-can´t stretch enough how good our public transportation is
-fresh water! with direct acces to fresh, clean and cool mountain water, it can´t get any better
-public fountains with drinkable water scattered all across vienna
-multicultural; vienna is a home to many cultures and religions
-the art and culture scene, not only museums but also publicly available areas to paint etc (f.e. graffiti)
-very bike friendly
-the nightlife, lots of clubs, bars, discos...
The „fresh water“-part is so important!
My dad is a taxi driver here in vienna and from time to time it happens that tourists ask him which brand of water he recommends that they should buy, because they don’t know that our tap water isn’t just drinkable, but also amongst the best tap waters in the world.
Travel guides and pages that write about vienna mention every tiny detail about the city, but always fail to mention how good our water supply is.
I would say it’s relatively bike friendly compared to some other city’s, but not „very“ bike friendly
Is it expensive rent?
@@oraz. nah, for a city like this not, Vienna is the city with best social housing in the world, therefore rents aint that high
Went to Vienna recently and wasn't impressed by the night life at all
I live in Vienna and love it. It's definetly the best place to live, provided you are Austrian or a EU citizen. For us third-country nationals, however, the experience of living in this amazing city is stained by its incredibly dysfunctional immigration bureaucracy (the MA35). As a result, many high-skilled professionals, such as myself, end up moving elsewhere after a while (in my case, even though I love this city, I will not hesitate to move elsewhere in search for opportunities and less bureaucratic stress once I finish my PhD).
True, I'm moving out 😀
What is your opinion about iran?
Oh the MA35! Trust me, I’m an EU citizen, and I’ve had issues with ma35 even after almost 4 years of moving to Vienna lol
If it's just about MA35, you can also move to Klosterneuburg to avoid it and still get all the perks of Vienna.
@@woodywoodverchecker it doesn’t matter where… I live now in Baden and still had to go through ma35 to get my “anmeldebescheinigung”
I'm a native viennese (even writing my masters thesis on the cultural stereotypes of vienna) and it makes me (even more) proud of reading about all the positive feedback and experiences people made. It's wonderful to read that so many visitors were able to make some good and great memories of this beautiful city.
What is the crime rate there?
@@junejuly532 its a safe city
Life-long Austrian Vienna resident here. I guess we're pretty good in a global context. But the people are often somewhat grumpy and like to complain. Service culture is not a top priority. Crime has definitely increased. But any American used to downtown curfews at night would probably feel very safe.
That's the thing tho :P We like to complain, but we often forget how good we actually have it. Like Qualtinger (an Austrian comedian, actor, reciter and author) said "The problem of every Viennese: You can't stand it in Vienna anymore. But not anywhere else either."
Half of people in Vienna have Czech surname, so you know where that complain culture comes from. 😀
@@Pidalin Hald of the people in Vienna don't even speak German and the schools are dominated by islamic children.
No wonder crime has increased, just look at how the demographics of the city have developed in recent decades, especially the young generation, especially the schools.
@@SilverWave64 I noticed that there is so many muslim people in Vienna, but on other hand, all of them were kind and I had no problem with them and they all speak English, anyway, I am glad that we have Vietnamese instead of muslims. 🙂
I live and was born there and i am thankful every day for that. We are fucking blessed and lucky to live in Vienna. Even though some idiots tend to complain here a lot, but thats another story (of austrian behaviour)^^ And yes, our public transport system is one of a kind. You can get to any place pretty fast and it doesnt cost much. And they are still building it further, an entire new Metro Line ist just being built as we speak. Also, it is a very clean city and has great city administration. The men who are keeping our city clean and take the garbage away do a fantastic job and it all works fine.
I might also add, that we are somewhat a modern city, but many things are the entire opposite. Like old tramways that are still around, or old buildings without an elevator or anything. If you compare some things to like, say, Japan - we are almost medieval compared to them^^ But it kinda fits into the entire package of our lifestyle and our beautiful city.
The complaining isn't "Austrian behaviour", it's Viennese behaviour. That's why no one wants you in the rest of the country.
I love Vienna. The many beautiful parks, the Ringstrasse. great museums, the Volksoper and the Staatsoper, the Philharmonic. What's not to love? Wish I had lived there. At least I can visit every couple of years.
If you visit it as a tourist, it indeed is a very nice city. If u live here however u just want to get the fck out of here
Unfortunately also culture is declining in vienna, now more punks/ rappers on the streets who give the city a worse look. Imo these should be banned.
@@laulinger8560 not true, Vienna is the best city to live in
@@laulinger8560 oh really? I live in Vienna so please tell me where the fuck I should get the fuck out to. Because I‘ve already been to many cities, both in Europe, US and Asia but none of them come even close to Vienna as far as the living standards are concerned.
I spent 2 weeks in Vienna. Everything discussed in this video is accurate. That said, I found the people to be cold and at times rude.
Thats how we are😈😈😈
I'd rather say grumpy than cold and rude. But that's to be expected. As someone mentioned once before - that grumpy attitude pushes the city to always improve - it's never good enough 😊.
As for you, now that you have admitted that you were served with a genuine Viennese "warm" welcome, you can't ask for your money back 😊
Sorry for that. Weve been plaqued with inflation, corona and immigrants. Everything is just pissing us off.
I have lived in Munich, Germany, for 11 years and moved to Vienna in 2020, shortly before the start of the pandemic. During that time, when you would expect people to be extra burdened and grumpy, I have experienced more casual kindness (at the supermarket checkout, in public transport and general in public) and fun and humorous small talk with people than I have ever had in all my time spent in Munich.
There also was a terror attack in 2021 in Vienna. The first one to ever happen there, I think. 4 people died. They put out the slogan "fuck off, asshole" in Austrian and moved on. The character of the city and the people hasn't changed since then. I perceive them as relaxed and down to earth as ever.
There are, of course, grumpy and rude people here, too, but as far as I can tell, rude behavior is called out immediately. I experience it on my daily commute. Austrians are not afraid to speak their mind, so if they're bothered by something or someone, they might pick a fight, but I mostly thought, their reasons were justified.
Very cold and rude I would say, even for me as Czech, we are considered cold and rude, but what I saw in Vienna was too much even for me, especially in covid time. They were literally like "Halt! Papers!" 😀 I think muslims in Vienna were more kind than native people. I know that you doing your job, but as we say, give at least little life to that dying or how to translate that. 😀But it's possible that all those too cold people are former Czechoslovak refugees who think they are something better now.
I moved from Budapest to Vienna a year ago. I absolutely love that city almost as much as i did love Budapest. But still there are a few things for me that the others already mentioned: I really struggle to make contact with viennese people, they stick to their own probably, which is okay because there are sooo many other newbies for you ti connect with, and most of them are open great people. An other thing I didnt really experience is the very high profiency in english. Sure its not bad, but Stockholm or Amsterdam are on other levels. I really can recommend for anyone to move to Vienna, but for me i am eventually going to move back to Budapest, she is just holding a tight grip on me :)
I'm currently studying in Budapest and I've visited Vienna... I don't see that much difference in architecture or transportation, except economy Budapest is also beautiful.
100% agree with this. The locals attitude really should be a consideration in this. There place is amazing, the people - well I wouldn't know because after two months living here I haven't connected with a single one. Just expats as you say.
Also, I visited Budapest and absolutely fell in love with it. Would definitely love to live there at some point.
I live in Vienna for the past 7 years or so. I really love it there, I’m Romanian but I moved to Vienna and I don’t regret it.
Kindest people I ever met was as a tourist in Vienna. Took us in under their wing and showed us their city. Will forever be grateful.
I went there recently and it truly is amazing. I grew up there before moving to London at age of 10. In many ways vienna beats london.
I love the transport system and how accessible Vienna is to other European countries- Venice is just a seven hour train ride away, for example. However, as a few people have already mentioned- some of the Viennese are rude and unfriendly. After five years of living here I have no Viennese friends. It's a great place if you want to be left alone and ignore people, lol.
There's a viennese saying: Vienna would be the most beautifull city in the world, without the Viennese.
I don't find the people to be so rude. I personally think it's more of a stereo type than a fact. Of course I encounter rude and unfriendly people, but this happens in every country and I don't see them every day.
@@spicynugget_0294 tbh, I didn't notice the lack of friendliness in Vienna until I visited Graz. There the people smiled and said good morning to me and I was a bit taken aback at first. Such a difference in attitude between two Austrian cities!
@@kenmarten6049 There is some truth to what you write, yet colloquialisms in larger cities usually tend to be harsher and one more often gets dealt with in a curtly manner. At least in the West.
Think New York or Paris where some say it to be advisable to use one's elbows not to drown.
@@Flex2212 true but vienna is special. I moved here too a year ago and it is unbelievably difficult to befriend people here that are not also foreigners. A lot of viennese/austrians are totally non-receptive to even talking more than is absolutely necessary. To get any friends, I had to be totally annoying and arrange meetups with literally everyone I met, because almost noone takes the initiative in these things, it is almost always the newcomer who has to carry the weight at first. And I'm German! Can't imagine what it's like if you're from a completely different culture!
Note: This is the experience of most skilled people or university students who come here
I lived in Vienna for one year. The city is really beautiful. I especially loved the Danube-Island which was close to my place. Within 15 minutes I could walked through the city and found myself in a green paradise. However, during my time there I missed a decent nightlife and in particular a proper club scene.
in vienna there are about 100? night clubs - several types for each music from jazz to dnb , also very big clubs where yóu can meet nice girls.
i think you were mislead.
i have been to 20 countries for parties - vienna is among the better cities for it
Pratersauna, Grelle Forelle, Werk, Flex, Celeste,....... and so many more. Backl Market. So many great Techno clubs. I live in Berlin and have to say that the nightlife i Vienna is very great.
@@Solaris0071 I also lived in Berlin and the clubs were much better. When I went to Sisyphos for instance I could stay there the whole weekend. In Grelle Forelle the music was shut down at 6 am sharp. Don't get me wrong ... Berlin looks like a wasteland compared to Vienna, but the nightlife (especially clubs) is much better.
Imagine caring about club scene.
@@shanghaifunk. Imagine caring about Fortnite 🤡
"Vienna is not the most livable city in the world. It's just less shitty than the others."
Quote from a Viennese ;-)
I have moved to vienna in 2020 and I have to say, this city is truly special. It even inspired me to start a TH-cam channel about it. :D
Visited last week!! Coming from India, obviously one can feel how different life is in these parts of the world. This made my determination to learn German and reach the B2 level in 2 years that much stronger. Can't wait to work harder to get my second master's and settle in either Austria or Germany.
Wish you much success :)
Good luck. Go for Vienna, you won't regret it, and you will also find a large Indian community there.
I was born in Vienna and have lived here ever since. The worst thing about Vienna is really the people themselves.
Im really happy see my hown in this video
I literally know every place and love my hometown
Lived in Vienna for 2 years and half and I confirm everything that was said in the video. The only thing that I don't like much about Vienna is that people that serve you in bars are restaurant are often quite rude. Sometimes it really feels like they are making a big favor to serve you as a paying customer.
i love living here, already here for half of my life :)
I born in Vienna and dont know where youre 52.000 average salary data comes from , maybe 25.000€ without taxes kinda not right data.
Best regards
I live in Canyon Country CA and will be in Vienna soon. I love the sunsets here but frankly yogurt seems to have more culture. Off to hear the Vienna Philharmonic!🎻
I have lived in Wien and attended school at Vienna international school my late father was a diplomat. Great city great people if the opportunity presents its self I would go back
The amount, distribution, and quality of public space is also a major category that makes Vienna great.
Please compare Vienna vs. Copenhagen in details 🙏🏻
Copenhagen is definitely the cooler city to live in, although they public transpoet system is better in vienna and copenhagen is incredibly expensive. So both are cool:)
I'm still cheering for Bangladesh 🇧🇩 💓
Yeah its good there. I actually like almost every City. It only so happens that I live in Vienna and there for dont need to change. All tho I would like to go to NYC or other cities to Check out all the differences.
We can speak English, but for living there it IS recommended to learn German, especially the Austrian Standardvariety of German. Otherwise interactions with municipal officials is going to be... complicated at best. (It also helps with full integration, we're kinda wary of outsiders, ngl)
I visited Vienna in 2016 and i loved it! Great transports, great architecture and quality of air. Despite that, i think i was the only guy who was pickpocketed there 😅
You're my favorite TH-cam channel for real.
Interesting fact about Vienna: 99,5 % of households get real fresh mountain spring water on tap. The water runs at a maximum temperature of 8-10° C (in Paris that's almost at 20° C).
No idea where you found the chart at 02:46, but comming from Croatia I can assure you that Split in Croatia and Novi Sad in Serbia are way way worse then Vienna when it comes to transportation
Very knowledgeable 👍🏻
i live here my whole life long and i gotta say i was suprised to hear all that. Although i do not disagree i just didnt know all that (Especially the things with the Statistics)
Very picturesque. Which camera did the shooting please
Canada strong with 3 cities in the global top 10.
I live here and a few days ago i saw a broken glass bottle next to a playground, I called the citizen's government care hotline and told them, they sent a cleaning troop right away, and it was taken care of immediately and removed, now that's something you can't make up.
Yo, hello from Vienna. 👋.
"calgary of denmark me be like 😑 are you sure about that"
I would love to visit Austria one day.🤩🥰
ive been living in vienna for 8 years and the life there is pretty good whenever you go you just seee a random shop so i got 2 gas stations and 3 shops near my house i dont need to waste any time going for a shop and also visitet some historic buildings
Very lovely greetings frome vienna-danube ❤️
Vienna has done it again in 2023😍😍
I grew up in Austria, Graz to be specific, but I am living with my partner (Viennese) in Vienna for almost two years now. Culturally Vienna is fantastic! As a cultural anthropologist and historian by education, there are more job opportunities for me here in Vienna than in Graz. However, Vienna is not exactly the most climate-friendly city in Austria. I live in the 8. district and it is so hot here because they cut down all the big healthy trees to make parking spaces. The little trees they are planting instead are all dying because the city doesn´t give a sh****. Viennese are also known for being very grumpy and like to complain a lot. My partner loves to curse every time he watches local news. At the beginning of our relationship, I was seriously shocked that he has such a strong reaction when local politicians are being interviewed. It was really a culture shock because people in Graz are a lot more chill. Now, I got used to it. 🤣
I was born, lived most of my life in Vienna and completely agree with everything you said😂
The younger generation however is a bit different I must add.
Also crime rate is much higher than known + corruption in politics.
I grew up in the 11th and went to school in the 15th district. Saw with 15 years for the first time a glock, butterfly knifes, cocain, speed and weed > all in my school.
A lot of young chechens, balkan and turkish youth gangs.
Advice : stay away from parks at night if you can > especially the one close to Lugner City, längenfeld
@@thcaustria7439 Glock gesehen mit 15. Mit wem hast du bitte gechillt hawara
Finally someone who said truth about Vienna, I've been there with my father and I saw such examples you talking about, it's not that green as people think and people are too cold there, it was really weird experience in covid time. Here in Czechia, they were always saying sorry in restaurants for all those restrictions, but in Vienna, they just put some papers (everything in German) in front of you and nobody helps you and you could clrearly see that they are annoyed that they see another tourists. Native people had some app in phone so they didn't have to fill papers, but I haven't found any informations in English so I didn't know what app and how to use that.
I hope it was mainly covid what made our experience in Vienna that weird, but even city didn't really amaze us. I saw mainly cars and patched asphalt there. Here in Czech cities, trend is to plent trees and make no pedestrian zones and restore what was ugly in the past, I didn't expect Vienna beying so grey from car smog, only few important buildings are nice, but surrounding is traffic hell, it's mostly just parking which is destroying atmosphere of those historical places.
Yeah, you cant really compare a 350k inhabitants city to a 2 mill inhabitants city.
@@thcaustria7439 Same. I also grew up in the 11th district and also went there to school. Same, knifes, cocain, weed, many foreign gangs, not very nice. And yes, the parks at nights are a no go, or else you might not see the next day. So I wonder how this is the most liveable city
We are not in the same Vienna...
You forgot the biggest point. You have a whole Island within the city. Its like central park just better cause you can swim in the summer, or winter if you are that hard core
Really brilliant city!!
greeting from vienna
Vienna looks great! I like where I live in Victoria, it’s just a boat ride away from Vancouver and not nearly as large.
I was born and raised in Calgary, pretty cool to see it on that list even if it’s a bit of a meme among Canadians that it would make it on there. Calgary isn’t exactly pretty or warm but it has everything you need in a city of around 1.5 million people and it’s big enough to have pro sports teams, good public transit including passenger rail, plentiful cheap housing and big name concert tours stop there, etc.
The major drawback with the Canadian cities on the list is horrific car centric traffic and urban sprawl in general though.
Melbourne, Australia, the infamous city that locked in its residence for over two years during Covid is rated the second most livable?!
Also, we have the most extensive public housing provider in Europe owning 2000000 units with 5000000 tenants paying less than 10 euros per squer meter.
But sadly they aren’t really building new flats and instead go for public-private partnerships that only open up a few flats.
Our public housing mostly is a remnant of good policies from the 1920s and 1950-70s, with very little happening since then.
In 0:40 you showed Melbourne ranked 10th but at the end of the video you said it's Vienna's (ranked 1st) closest competitor ?? 🤔🤔
I live there and it is very very liveable
As an Austrian citizen I can tell you Vienna is a great country to live in if you are citizen or EU citizen. For outsiders it is really difficult because they face racism in certain areas, lots of issues with the ministry of immigration MA 35/BH and mainly because of the language. You MUST know German to survive here for EVERYTHING. (Doctor, finding an occupation, buying groceries, finding place to live, walking up to people…) Some are able to speak English but especially the ministries and authorities insist on speaking German! Additionally, be aware in Austria people do not speak German but dialect. Especially the elders always speak in their dialect which is really difficult to understand even for someone from Germany.
Furthermore, as a foreigner in some ways you will always be treated as one no matter your German skills are great. Please note that due to some criminals from certain places the anger towards muslims is raising. It is very difficult to find good AND cheap apartments and some people try to exploit you. I paid 860€ for 42m2 and my neighbours pay 450€ for the same apartment size!
If you come here for vacation, you will fall in love with the nature, the big variety of tourist spots, historical places, public transportation and the fresh water from the sink!
@@SA-pb4nb tell that to someone from NY and he will not understand what are you talking about
Living in Dhaka and watching this😐
You wont believe how glad i am to live in an historical house. (Altbau) Es ist wirklich cool.
As a Viennese i dont want to live here anymore.
A lot of younger people think Vienna is boring (like I did) but it has so much to offer. Amazing bars, live music, a lot of artsy/alternative areas that would fit right in somewhere like Berlin. It really beats the old boring stately city reputation tbh. Plus, housing in Vienna is still so affordable, even compared to places like Berlin, that artists and students can actually afford to live in the city, and as such, many are moving to Vienna, Prague, and Budapest now, making them even more interesting and cool places.
Vienna is great. I really would like to live there but you can't say it has the most beautiful architecture in Europe. It's not Rome 🤪
Yeah i live in vienna and its awesome for living in a town 👍🎶 but living on the land in Lower Austria (Niederösterreich) is even better near klosterneuburg wich is not far from vienna (only 10 Km)
So glad to live here
Melbourne can never compete with Vienna, on cost of living alone, same goes for Copenhagen
Also education, healthcare, housing, childcare and retirement security are better in Vienna, Austria
WTF Which normal person makes 52k/year here? That must be a paralell Vienna you are talking about because that is just not true. Not at all. Most people are glad if they get 1.500/month. Apart from that, quite accurate.
maybe before taxes.
@@DenisHavlikVienna I live here. Taxes are high but not that high. The salary they said we would earn isn't realistic at all.
HOW THE FLIP IS FRANKFURT ON THAT LIST
52.000€ ? The avereage is more like 43000€ anual and you pay half of that taxes.......
Only got back from a visit, I'm already looking at apartments here
This list cap tho. How is Frankfurt up there, how tf is Vancouver up there and how tf is Zürich up there
Ha! We did it LESSS GOOOO
Living here is expensive. Rent is high. But it's still a nice city because basically it has everything.
Up until this July (2023) I spent 12 beautiful years in Vienna.
I lived pretty centrally, where city centar was within a walkable distance from my place: needed less than 20 min by foot to get to St.Stephen's.
Then I moved to the 3rd most livable from this list: which is Zurich.
Between the two, visually, Zurich is rather ugly and pretty provincial, but that is not the main issue. Living is more affordable and much more available in Vienna than in Zurich. There just aren't enough available places to live in Zurich. I think that is why Zurich fell down some places on this list in the last 2 years.
Vienna is a very balanced city .
Dakar is the capital of Senegal, not Bangladesh - whose capital is Dhaka.
seriously? i have been to vienna many times and while i love the city, i never imagined it would rank first for anything, maybe except public transport which is very advanced. i am going to vienna again in 2 weeks btw for another 10 days, i will pay more attention to the city to see if this video reflects the reality that i may have missed.
as someone from vienna i highly recomend going to the "prater" and i don´t mean the amusementpark (well, you should visit that as wel haha), but the "green, or in german: grüner prater". it is the biggest greenspace in whole of europe! i was surprised they didn´t mention it in the video. you can walk or rent a bike and expore it for a whole day :)
@@sarahholzweber6181 ive been to the prater amusement park and paid for a ride in one of those, idk how you call it in english, lets say flying chairs that are attached to the main body of the machine by chains. Well those chains are so thin it convinced me to never do that again haha, but i will go and check out this green space that you mentioned. Thanks
@@sarahholzweber6181 I went to Prater because I expected nice western looking amusement park, but in reality, it was exactly the same what we have here in Czechia and we hate it, just cheap kitsch, except it's not cheap anymore and they have some accidents almost every year. I hope it's not owned by mafia as most of such places here in my country. 😀 They kicked those carousel people from our version of "Prater" in Prague and place is much better now, city is finally trying to restore that place and renew park and old exhibition grounds which were occupied by those "amusement park people" or how to call them to not beying called racist. The place is really much nicer now and with much better atmosphere, there was for example meeting of all european scouts in that place now, much better than carousel kitchs.
As a Czech originaly from Prague, I am not afraid to say that Vienna is overrated and Prague is much nicer city. Yes, you can still find many ugly places, but I can swear that you will find more ugly places in Vienna. I especially like our today Czech trend (you can see it in all our cities, not only Prague) that they restory cobblestones and remove old ugly patched asphalt, car drivers hate it, but city looks much better then. In Vienna, you have that ugly patched asphalt almost everywhere and it's not really green city. People who say Vienna is green must be from Sahara or something, they haven't seen a really green city with parks, meadows and forests inside of city. When you want to see green places in VIenna, you have to travel to Danube islands, or visit their parks, but most of their parks are baroque kitsch or how to call that or it's one long streed with trees alont like Prater, that'w not how I imagine a real park! Our parks have forests, meadows, ponds and it's more complicated terrain, so it looks more natural, it's not flat and straight patch with trees along or vice versa baroque garden. We have them too, but it's not a park, it's more like tourist atraction.
@@Pidalin the green prater is veeeery big, you just walked on the main way there with the trees :) its in the center of vienna and the biggest park in europe, which is crazy to me! I have never been to prag, but all of my friends say it's nicer than vienna too haha :D have to visit soon!
Im from vienna and i gotta say its pretty cool here. although since stuff like a good public transportation system is a normal thing for me, i mainly see the social side of this city. the people here are mostly very anti-social and rude (at least to other locals) and politics arent that great either. historically we've been catalysts for both world wars and you can tell by how (especially elderly) people see the world. we may be the most liveable city in the world, but we still have the problems and struggles of modern sciety
"Vienna would be wounderfull, if it wasn't for the Viennese."
-Georg Kreisler
Don't get me wrong, I love my city but I sometimes despise it.
Problem is the geography, bordering to Eastern Europe, so they come to vienna as it is the first more wealthy city for them
@@TheThingIs415 I think you didn't get the reference.
@@conorstapleton3183 you apparently do not know that 60% or more people living in Vienna, that you consider Viennese are actually Slovak, Czech, Croatian, Bosnian, Serb, Albanian or Turkish who came to Vienna.
@@TheThingIs415 that is hyperbole, please don't tell me how my city works.
@@TheThingIs415 Bruh, one of the reasons why Vienna is rich is it's location. It was capital of huge Habsburg monarchy, which controled big part of central and eastern Europe. When the monarchy collapsed it was a huge city in relatively small Austria. So I wouldn't say that it's geography is a problem.
Im Viennese and I would never live somewhere else, it would be an waste not to come here.
2nd highest English proficiency? With Britain, Australia and USA, I find that a little hard to believe...
wait i traveled to damascus for a week this year and it seems really beautiful definetly better than many cities I've seen, I guess its ranking is politic
I love my city. It's green, culturally rich, beautiful, modern, but also historic, somewhat affordable (even though rents are increasing a lot lately), people are generally friendly or have a typical dark humor cynical character (if you understand the humor it's awesome) and like the video says - you don't need a car! I am spending most of my money (apart from rent that is more than 50% of my income) for good food and traveling. So yeah, very livable 😁
i'm austrian and moved to our capital 18 years ago. the main feature i see in vienna is the general unfriendliness, i think people are very quick to make racist and sexists remarks, they rant about any tiny inconvenience, and they rarely give positive feedback when stuff is working out for them. they have no patience and they cant be bothered when in other cities, i see civil courage way more often. viennese people look away, tend to themselves. i think it has something to do in how we managed to cope with wat happened after the worldwar. austria broadly positioned itself as the victim of germany and chose not to talk about what happened and what their role was. other than germany, schools and politics do the very minimum of educating and making amends. also i think the iron curtain that fell 32 years ago helped to strengthen the propaganda of the nazis of being better people than anyone beyond the border, and the economic boom vs soviet deprivation cemented that superiority complex... that fake narrow identity of being so special has reoriented itself again in the pride of having been the largest monarchy 150 years ago or so. also because of that superiority complex, austrian politicians like to hang out with autocrats and has very strong ties with russia (vienna served as "the russian spy" in the west after the WW and still does). "immigrants" (people from poorer countries) but also "expats" (people from richer countries) need more than 20 years to be somewhat integrated, but you will still be treated like you are a criminal that hast stolen valuables. it's like viennese people forgot how they were the thieves in the monarchy and how most of its population actually is a conglomerate of slavic/balkan and hungarian people that were working the lowest jobs in the midst of austrians, that went there during the monarchy when vienna was growing fast from 300.000 to 2 million inhabitants in the 19. century. as of now, vienna is growing again, with many eastern europeans and middle easterners coming here as in any western city in europe these days, because of the economy. vienna is a capitalist playground and needs those socialeconomic agitations from its inhabitants to function. so thats why happiness and friendly behavior isn't on top of our game, because it's not about acknowledging our own mixed identity, but about striving to be unattainable and ideal so we're not losing. poorer countries just a few kilometers away have brought in poor people for centuries, and austrians are sick of being the envied and being demonized for holding more wealth, they think they have earned it while the others haven't, so they started to not being friendly to strangers cause the strangers always wanted something and austrians wanted to built their own wealth instead of giving. class struggle kicks down, and not up, and because austria is so near the border to what was the soviet union, its always like holding its pockets real close to themselves...
i am born and raised in vienna. it used to be a good place to live, but sadly, as a regular citizen, the life quality is sinking more and more every month! the main reason for this, is our infamous, corrupt, intransparent politic system. we call it "freunderlwirtschaft", it means that that all major important positions are given to friends and families of the already ruling, corrupt and incompetent arselings! dont get me wrong, i know that these problems occure everywhere in the world, but living here, knowing the mainly ignorant attitude of my folk, its just sad to watch how this once wealthy country is going down the drain... and nobody even cares to really change something, all i hear all the time is the sentence "es woa scho imma so", meaning it was always like this... imho thats the worst part about vienna... other than that, this city has tons of unused potential, and i would like to see it thrive again one day... (also we have one of the worlds highest tax rates, in combination with a very intransparent expanditure system, what makes me doubt my political system even more)
And the strudels there must be palatable to all tastes !
You my friend should try Krautstrudel then. And yes, it's a thing!
I live in Linz, it's 2h away by train. Everytime i go to "work" in vienna for kpop events it's just comfortable to hop on a tram or metro and go around the city. It's refreshing as a young guy that there are asian culture events too and just a buzzling city to enjoy. The landmarks are very beautiful too. The cons are that some areas of vienna i never go without a knife because it's gotten worse with crimes in the last few years. The city is actually fighting against the rent increases too but all in all its still rising because the increase in general is just astronomical.
If it weren't for rent i'd move out to vienna because i prefer it a lot more than linz all in all. Even tho a real vienesse would nag about vienna, deep down they still love the city XD.
A echter wiener geht ned unter oder WIEN ist anders xD
Which areas of Vienna do you think are the most dangerous to go at night?
I'm quite shocked to hear carry a knife with you in Vienna! All I carry, day or night, is a camera (and tripod sometimes) and there are no parts of the city where I have felt unsafe when making pictures. I have even left my camera on a nightbus once and it was returned to me.
@@kenmarten6049 probably because of my experience dealing with the club areas, i'd say vienna is really safe no doubt but sometimes there are shady people, like every other major city but it became worse over the last 5 years
@@dogetea hawara wenn du dein messer ziehst, ziehen die erst recht ihre messer. wer glaubst du kann damit dann besser umgehen?
@@ohohyeahohyeahohyeah i ziags natürlich ned, nur dabei fian ernstfall. Natürlich zerst deeskalieren aba es gibt leid da gehts gar ned
I live in Melbourne so want to visit here to see our competitors 😅
After reading the comments, I really don't want to visit this city with its rude and cold people. No way.
I would like to live in vienna but I feel like everything is so big
Wien is anders
There was a Vienna.....
What's the building in the thumbnail called?
It’s the Franz-von-Assisi-Kirche in the second district.
More commonly known as Mexikokirche, as it’s located at the Mexikoplatz
@@yourlocaltoad5102 Ok, thanks a lot
The comparisons with poverty stricken cities in the developing world are insensitive and unneeded.
don‘t forget about the Free Festivals over the whole Summer, like Donauinselfest, or Wiener Kultursommer. That makes the city so much more liveable :)
The Kultursommer sadly was limited to 2020 and 2021, as it was a project to support artists that had less income due to covid.
I worked at the Kultursommer for the past two years and had to find out that it ended once it was already too late to find another somewhat decent job for this summer.
The Von Habsburgs would be proud... I think
really,how? cause i live there and i cant confirm ur content at all !
Vienna, Austria: except for the population, is the very opposite of Houston, USA.
Out of curiosity, could you explain? What do you mean with "outside of the population"?
@@DavDaJa Houston has a similar population of about 2 million.
Ahhh! Got it! Funny, I always include the suburbs (~7m) when thinking of the population of Houston, so I confused myself lol. Just an absolutely massive feeling city imo being from here lol
@@DavDaJa Greater Houston is as big as a 1/3 of whole Austria
That's impressive, but try holding it for 7 years 😉
Im pretty sure the only thing Vienna has over any dutch city is housing prices.
which is a pretty big thing no?
Never have I heard a Brit mispronounce "Melbourne" before, I mean you guys named it xD
'the 'cheapest'. Not 'the most cheapest'