Why I Moved To Austria
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Moving to the country of Austria: How and why I moved to from America to Austria and became an expat is described in this video. Im new to TH-cam and making videos. Join me on my TH-cam and expat journey. #expat #livingabroad #expatvlog #vlog #expatlife #austria
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Thanks for watching todays video: Why did I move to Austria?
Check out my Hometown here in Austria : th-cam.com/video/STS_K9iLMWI/w-d-xo.html
You're a stand-up guy. I love your vibe and I appreciate your passion for Austria! Here's to your channel growing in subscribers. It deserves it.
Thank you so much ! I appreciate your kind words ! Thanks for supporting my channel ❤️
I'm moving to Austria for the summer to work for the Bregenz Festspiele. Thanks for the content.
Very cool 😎 you'll be in my hometown. I went to the Festspeile 2 years ago to see Rigoletto. I haven't seen the new one yet.
I'm an American who is half Austrian. Loved my visit there very wealthy country everything was clean and well kept. People were very nice to me. Would definitely go back!
Hey 👋 thanks for watching !!! What part of Austria did you visit ?
My mother and sister were born in Austria, but I was born in Miami, Florida. I spent much of my youth with my family in Austria (mostly Salzburg and Sankt Pölten) I have always been in love with Austria and have visited several times through the years. Last time, I took my children (2023 ), and I cried when our visit was over. I live in Mexico now, and I am very happy here, but my heart will always belong to Austria.
Such beautiful animals and such an awesome story. Thank you for sharing, I'm wishing you nothing but happiness and blessings.
Thank you !!!! 😊
Beautiful relocation story🤩. Would love to move to Austria someday. You gained a new subscriber.
Thank you so much Emeka 😁 I really appreciate it ! I would definitely recommend it. Austria is a beautiful country.
👍😀 it is so nice to hear you are Feeling Well here in Austria 👍. Smile and greetings from Vienna 😀
Thank you !!! 😊
Hi, subscribing as a fellow expat to Austria from the states, also married to an Austrian. We lived in the states for several years, but family emergency brought us to Austria to care for his father. I can totally relate to your moving issues. We did use Aeroflot and that made bringing out dog SO MUCH easier (she LOVES it, too---Wien is so dog friendly). No flight problems whatsoever, even though it took us all the way to Moscow from DC, before returning westward to Wien (this was before the war. don't know how it would be now, if at all possible). We did the exact same thing with all our property and my last trip back to visit, I ended up just taking digital pictures of all the thousands of photos I have, every page of all my cookbooks, pretty much everything got digitized and discarded and most all belongings that had been stored got taken to Goodwill and we gave our last car to a friend. Yes, I can relate to your relocate. I love it here.
Hi thanks for subscribing !!! I hope all is well with your husband's father.
That's such a good idea to digitise everything. I will have to do that next time I go back to the states.
omg your babies are gorgeous. Congratulations for taking them with you. God Bless Your Family.
Thank you so much !!! They are pretty cute aren't they.. lol
Me and my wife are flying to Salzburg from Samara Russia on 26th of October, seeing you being able to transfer that amount of pets is impressive and decreased my anxiety regarding relocating my cats 😂 Thanks for the vid, looking forward to other stories of yours
Hey 👋 Thank you ! Good luck with you're move !!!
I’ve explored all over Germany, but never made it to Austria.
My goal is to visit Austria with my wife next year!!
hey @rickquintero thanks for watching. I hope you make it to Austria next year its definitely worth visiting !!!
@@austrianadventureAustria is so much nicer than Germany & the people are warmer & friendlier.
my wife is from Vorarlberg and we are planning on moving to Austria in the Bregenz area. Austria is absolutely beautiful and clean with great food and reasonable housing.
Hey that's awesome !!! Best of luck with you're move !
I have a question. My wife and son have Austrian citizenship. Will I have to pass a german test to establish residency?
@@BUCKINUT Yes if its the same as when i came 4 years ago you will need to be able to pass German A1. Heres a link to a website with all the info you need for moving to Austria www.migration.gv.at/en/welcome/?no_cache=1
Thanks!
@@BUCKINUT no problem
I live one hour from your new home Bregenz. Welcome in my neigbourhood. 🙂 Just came back from a week in your old home, spent in Texas. Loved the people we met, but missed a lot of things in Austria.
Hey 👋 thanks for watching... Texans are nice people. I have some family there.
American expat here. Culture clash was a major issue for me, takes years to assimilate, but it was so worth it. Moving a pet or pets is a big challenge, but they are worth it if you've had them a long time and they'd be lost without you (some cats don't know or care who their owner is, lol). Everything worthwhile is a challenge and a lot of work with disappointments in between. Wish you well.
Hey... tell me about it. I'm still struggling with meeting new friends here. Moving with our pets was super difficult but they are like our children we would have never left them behind. Thanks for the kind words and checking out my channel.
Appreciate this comment. I'm working my way to live in austria. Ps I'm living in a desert in thr middle of no where haha and I'm studying german
I moved to Portugal with the Golden Visa program, so I’m eligible for a citizenship in about a year. Then I can live anywhere in the Schengen zone. I moved two years ago with my little dog Sadie, who I would never have left in California. I had to wait until my other dog a golden retriever, Sam , passed away because I didn’t think he would make it on the trip. I agree it is a huge adjustment. I don’t feel assimilated yet but little by little and I’m studying my Portuguese every day and that is very challenging. I love your animals and they love you obviously. very nice little intro and best wishes. I visited Vienna a few years ago and loved it and I met some people from Salzburg and I would really like to visit there as well. I’m thinking of going to Austria this winter. They say that Vienna is one of them best places to live in terms of the quality of life for a city.
You are funny, man. Good luck with everything!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for sharing your story! I look forward to seeing more and hopefully sharing mine as well :) It's great to hear that the tiring journey from the US was well worth! How long did it take you to learn German while in Austria?
Glad you enjoyed it 😊 Are you also an expat ? I would say it took me about 3-6 months to get comfortable with the German language but I'm still learning something new everyday lol 😆
Interesting about the dialect, I understand a few words here and there but can`t hold a conversation.Enjoy your time in Austria
Yeah it was difficult in the beginning but i eventually figured it out. Thanks for watching!
I had to stop at “my wife is from here”, of course you live in Austria if your wife is Austrian. Why would anybody wanna live in United States these days if they could live with a European passport. It’s much more civilized to live in Europe. I subscribed anyway thanks for the info.
Haha I guess this video should have been much shorter. Thanks for subscribing !
So you are an immigrant of Austria.
@@juanmillan9873 If he intergrated well, know languane, their values, their traditions and respect them he is an austrian citizen. Not to mention real american people are germanic. So you cant compare turk or syrian immigrant and this guy.
Love austria from slovenia
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@@liebherrlmtfan9000 I agree. And also out with the Balkans from the germanic heartlands. They are like the turks.
@@christopherandersson2496 stupid racists be like
Austrian culture is wonderful.
glad I found your channel. I am about 10 years away from retirement and considering 5 or 6 countries to retire to, of which Austria is one. I hope to be able to find out more about the process of relocating and the cost of living there. New subscriber.
Hey thanks for subscribing ! I plan to make some videos about the cost of living here in the near future.
I wanted to move to Austria to buy a home and was told that a non eu citizen can not buy in Austria. I would love to move to Austria, Salzburg region
Yeah it's really hard to move here. Im married to an Austrian citizen and still had to jump through hoops to move here.
I'm from southern California with a wife and kids. Been wanting to move to Austria since we visited it around 2014. Would love to learn more about how it was for you to find an apartment, public schools, owning a car, and how the housing market is there.
We were at Salzburg, Hallstatt, Bad Ischl, and Sanct Wolfgang. Loved it and I could imagine us living in the countryside with the Photoshop-looking green grass that was actually really that green.
I've been planning to move my family there; however, you actually did it. Kudos to you. :)
I am your new subscriber and liker. Rooting for your success.
Hello Son B thank you for subscribing and supporting the channel ! 💙 That sounds like an amazing vacation you had, Hallstatt is one of my favorite places in Austria .
As far as finding an apartment just look online there are a bunch of real-estate websites with listings.
I don't have any children but I know the school system is really good here especially when they go to college because it's free !!!
Owning a car is no problem. I bought a car as soon as I got her. You will just have to go to the dmv here and they will transfer your American driver's license to an Austrian one.
The housing market in the cities is insane a small apartment where I live in Bregenz is starts around €400k but in the country side they are a little cheaper.
I hope you make it here one day and don't forget to start learning German lol.
@@austrianadventure what about learning austro bavarian german?
@@priceless073 I just focused on learning hochdeutsch (proper german) pretty much everyone can speak proper German. Then when you move to what ever part of Austria you want you can start learning the dialect of that region.
@@priceless073 It's dying out more and more. Young people, especially in the East of the country, hardly even speak it. in Vienna it's literally non-existing in U-25 age stage.
@@BBNix thank you
Wow! I'm planning to visit there soon!
That's awesome !!! What part of Austria are you going to visit ?
Thank you for sharing!
Great story !
Thank you!
Enjoy Austria 🇦🇹
How hard is it to find work over there ? Im also wondering if its really difficult to get all the paperwork to actually become a citizen over there. Im really considering making the move from the US but could really use some advice on theses things, thanks.
Hey 👋 I am not sure how it works because my wife is from here, so I am on a family visa. Check out Austria.com they should have all the info you need.
My fiancé is Austrian. Funnily enough I am also from Tennessee! I totally understand what you mean about dilect being hard. I am roughly B1 and I don't understand a word when I visit Austria. I do want to move there though! Any suggestions of VISA, work opportunities, or lessons you learned along the Journey? Thanks!
Hey Corbin thanks for watching ! Where in Tennessee ? I lived in Clarksville. That's awesome that you're already B1, you will pickup the dialect fast once you move here. There is a lot of work for the visa but the Austrian immigration website has a checklist you can print out. For work you can start applying before you move and get some interviews scheduled. Good luck with everything I hope you get to move here someday.
@@austrianadventure I actually study in Murfreesboro now but I live down near Chatt. Took me 6 years of study to get to my level of German but there was a lot of breaks in between. As an American did you find it difficult to adjust or did it feel like Tennessee?
Once you get your baseline German going you can learn to understand dialects.
However, being able to understand a dialect from one region does not mean you can understand dialects from other regions.
How do you cope with the language? Are you fluent? Is your job English speaking?
Hey thanks for watching ! Yes im fluent in German and I started learning German before I moved here. No I speak German at work but I do have contact with English speaking customers.
4:38 😂 „This is not german!“
Rainy days in Vorarlberg but Miami is under water😊
Yea, it hasn't rained in so long, and now they have too much...
I am from Vorarlberg. Great that you learned to understand our strange dialect!
Lol 😆 thanks
@@austrianadventure take heart the rest of Austrians also have a hard time understanding them. I wonder why people would not talk English or proper German with you ?
Mear hind kan "Dialekt"... Mear hind "Dialekte".
What if someone is not married to an Austrian you don’t inform how one would be able to immigrate etc.?
Im sorry but this video isn't meant to inform you on how to immigrate to Austria. It's just my story.... but I think you can find the info you need on Austria.at
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dialects are a mess for foreigners ;) - I wonder however that people would not be so polite as to either switch to English or talk German (Gigh German, as they talk on TV and as it is written) with you. I think some people (if they do not have higher education) just cannot switch from dialect to German. One advantage: if you know how it is written you know how to pronounce it.
Lovely 👍👍👍👍😁
Thank you 😊
Thanks for the videos, I really like your channel so far. I have one question for you. How did you find employment during the move, and was there any language barriers for someone who doesn't have perfect German?
Thank you for watching! I was lucky enough to have someone here that helped me find a job. As far as the language barriers go , it definitely wasn't easy in the beginning. I was constantly asking people to repeat themselves, but living here and being immersed in the language I learned it pretty fast.
Hi. I saw this video when you first posted and ran across it again. Totally forgot that you took the Lingoda Sprint and decided that it was a waste because of the dialect issue. I'm wondering if it was really a waste though? surely you needed the German for your Visa? Didn't you have to take a language test in Standard German to get a Visa?
Hey. I meant that as a joke because of the dialect here in Vorarlberg. I highly recommend Lingoda for learning German it definitely was not a waste.
Yes, within 3 months of moving here, I had to pass a german language test (A1) and the 2nd year A2, 3rd year B1 now I have no test for 3 years then I need to pass B2. Thanks for watching!!!
Born and bred Austrians have a problem understanding the dialect of the region where he lives :) Dialects (even the less extreme ones) are hard for non-natives (and it is impossible to prepare in courses because there is so much variety that applies to relatively small local subgroups of the population. But once you trained your ear, tongue and brain in ONE dialect it gets easier with the other dialects.
Btw as a native Austrian you can hear the differences: whether someone grew up in Vieann, Styria, or Salzburg (and even in what region of Salzburg), or Tyrol ..... We can also hear the nuances in many German dialects (of Germany) although we may miss some of the details.
Not only the differences in dialects but also if they speak correct German (for instance on TV, when reading the news. The cadence, the timbre of the voice - you just hear it). Same for the Swiss (their German dialect is also difficult for us. And the state where he lives borders on Switzerland).
There are some actors that do a good job of imitating speech patterns or hide where they come from - but those may have a special talent AND they had training.
People in the middle and North of Germany speak a very correct German, pretty much like the writen language. But dialects are more charming.
The printing press and distribution of bibles helped to CREATE a common WRITTEN German language (proper German). Before that the regional differences even in writing (between Germany, Austria, Switzerland) were considerable and the differnces in spoken language even more extreme.
That variety in language can be explained by the former societal order and poverty. And from the terrain which made it hard to travel (except walking). Dialects are more varied and extreme in the mountains. But even in terrain that is easier to travel and had more trade, population movements, larger settlements and wars / invasions - for many centuries most people stayed put, many hardly ever left their village or city during all their life.
In the U.S. people moved around a lot (and still do). Also the distances. If you drive in any direction for 2 - 3 hours in Austria you are in another country (or pass through more than one country) and only a few of them have German as language. So the language barrier contains population movement. Even now with freedom of movement in the Schengen states.
In the U.S. people can drive for 12 hours and still the dominant language will be English and the legal system etc. is the same.
These days the differences in speech patterns go down (a bit). Very peculiar and very local words and phrases vanish. (if it was literally spoken in only one valley or a few villages). People move more, marry into other regions, move for a job, go to university. and since radios and TVs became a thing people got used to hearing more proper German so they did not hear only dialect all their life.
In case of a real emergency most Austrians and Germans would be able to communicate in proper German ;)
If I meet people that struggle with dialect I take care to talk with them and around them in proper German (the language as it is written and used on TV and radio). Or we switch to English. Of course if they give the impression of having mastered the dialect then they will not be coddled.
It is proper German that is taught in language courses and they talk and write the same in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. (around 100 million people).
Hi! Would you mind giving more information on moving with pets? I'm going to do something similar very soon, moving to Austria from the US with two dogs.
Yes . I'll try to get a video up by Wednesday and if you have any questions you can DM me on instagram @chadtheexpat.
If you still have this question, I can easily make a inquiry how to do this with the responsible offices
@@austrianadventure That would be amazing!
@@SirSquallus Yes please if you don't mind.
How do you get a visa to live there? My dream Is to live there. Where/how could I get a job there?
I would suggest visiting www.migration.gv.at . This website has all the information you need.
@@austrianadventure thanks brother👍I hope to be there soon. I'm gonna come on vacation in March to check it out. Do alot of people speak English?
@@tspiv No problem ! Yes most people speak English especially the younger people, but it wouldn't hurt to start learning some German.
Beautiful story, you make me wanna move in sooner 😀😀😀
Wishing all the best bud ... 🎉
Thank you ! are you also moving to Austria ?
Aww, minzele ...
wow pets, the cost.
It wasn't cheap but they are worth it.
Ha, Ha, Ha...even no one in Austria is understanding a heavy Vorarlberger dialect..So in principle you are sharing the same difficulties in behalf of understanding their language as like a local Austrian who isn´t Vorarlberger...just saying
The reason why is that the Vorarlberger dialect is from the "allemanic language family" while the rest (= 8 out of 9) of the Austrian dialects no matter how different those other 8 sound amongst themselves are all from the "bavarian language family" which makes it way easier for Austrians no matter from where in Austria those are to understand all the other 8 dialects for the most part except Vorarlberger. The only way to communicate with Vorarlberger is to switch into Hochdeutsch.
Thanks I never knew about the origins of the language. Thats really interesting. Here its hard to get them to speak Hochdeutsch. They start off in Hochdeutsch when you ask but then switch back to dialect lol.
@@austrianadventure "German speakers" which includes Austrians and German Swiss are no "linguistic entity" they are descendants of many germanic tribes like Alemans, Baiuvani(Bavarians), Francs, Hessians, Thuringians, Prussians, Saxons, Frisians Swabians and some more..and they all had and even have today their own form of german language ...
"Standard German" also known colloquial as "Hochdeutsch" (although the term "Hochdeutsch" has in the linguistic science a totally different meaning refering solely to all the language variants of German spoken in the geographical higher regions in the South = Alps + Southern Germany meaning basically "Highland German" while the variants of German spoken in the lowlands in Northern Germany is named "Niederdeutsch" meaning "lowland German"..but because "Standard German" took over by far way more characteristics from the "Hochdeutsch variants" than from the "Niederdeutsch variants" Standard German became in colloquial speech the name "Hochdeutsch" as well although it isn´t scientific correct but solely based on pure emotion...by the way "the Dutch language" is a direct pure follow up of the "Niederdeutsch language variants" just to give you a whole picture) So ..Standard German was implemented as recently as the beginning of the 20th century which isn´t that much long ago..and even that is not an "universal Standard German" because there are 3 official forms of "Standard German" = Austrian Standard German + Swiss Standard German + Germany´s Standard German because Austrians + Swiss wanted to keep some local characteristics therefore the implementation became then a compromise of 3 forms of "Standard German"...and they now differ here and there very slightly in behalf of vocabulary + grammar including orthography...but "overall" it is basically the same for the very most part meaning we all (Austrians, Swiss, Germans) understand each other when speaking Hochdeutsch while we don´t understand each other at all when we speak in our genuine dialects.
And after "Standard German" was implemented all local languages then became the status of "dialects"..and those dialects are the native tongue and "Standard German" is then taught in school and is so to say way more "the universal written German language" and is used as an "official umbrella language" for the whole german speaking area from the Northsea shores till to the Alps..
There is a song called "Vo Mello bis ge Schoppornou" by HMBC. They sing the song in the Vorarlberger accent and when I heard it in the radio for the first time I didn't even realize that it was in a German language 😆
Haha I'll have to check it out ... I probably won't understand a single word !
You tell very much about yourself and the animals but little about Austria, good luck anyway
Watch my other videos to see more of Austria 🇦🇹
@@austrianadventure ok
Is it Swiss German?
No Swiss German is different... here the dialect is called Vorarlbergerisch. Swiss German is even harder to understand.
Same language family though. But I agrees the Swiss German dialect may be even harder.
Each state has its own dialect.
It's curious to hear a Americans experience moving to my home state as my wife got to homesick and we have moved to Australia keep it up it's not easy to deal with the language the reserved ness of Vorarlbergers.
Viel Glück
Thank you !!! Im dealing with a little homesickness myself right now so I know how she feels. The people here in Vorarlberg are definitely not open to meeting new people. It's really hard to make friends here !!!
Regional / complementary currencies in Vorarlberg.
Klostertaler
Walsertaler,
Walgauer
Langenegger Talente
V-Thaler
I guess most of these currencies are initiated by local authorites = Gemeinden (so they may not be so useful for your networking), but some could include time sharing exchanges - people that engage in such projects tend to be more open to meet new people.
And the Red Cross is open and a good hub (I live in Upper Austria, so at least it is like that where I live). You can only work the phone for a limited number of hours and still have the foot in the door.
Oh and engaging in the carneval groups would be a big one .... A lot of nonsense and booze helps with socializing.
have you tried the horse meat sandwiches yet?
No 👎 but I have seen a place that sells horse meat. It was definitely a culture shock coming from America.
@@austrianadventure Actually up to WW2 horses were eaten in the U.S. too. Pretty much like beef. (they also shot mustangs for that). These days they likely become dog and cat food.
I think Kansas and Leia are not expats. They are expets! Lol... Okay I'm done now :)
hahaha I love it !!!!
How it that a word expat is used to describe American and British emigrants? Whilst Latin American “expats” are migrants. Never heard of an African expat :)
There are so many videos on how Austria has become ultra-far-right. I was wondering if this is actually true. I know that Kurz had his loyalists, and now he has been booted. Just wondering what the political scene was now. Been wanting to move for 20 years, but am not sure now.
No, not ultra far right. Even the people that vote for the FPÖ are normally not that bad in real life.
Hi
Hope you enjoying your new life in Austria and good luck for your future
Please if you don’t mind send me your Germany Language course details and how did you apply on line classes
Send me the link
Appreciate 😊
Hello ! Thank you.. I did a 3 month language marathon from lingoda.com. Im not sure if they still do this but you can check on the details on their website. www.lingoda.com
Of course u moved. Ur wife is from austria… duh!
It like I moved to Italy cuz my wife is Italian 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
So, find a wife from Austria you say....
Lol 😆 if that's what it takes ....
This is disrespectful towards usa 🇺🇸 animal doctors what you mean re examine
regarding to your title: YOU KNOW VERY WELL WHY YOU DID and I believe know as well even if you think we believe all the bull explanation you say...
As you know why - so why do you asking us....