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Best city : Vienna, Zurich or munich

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    #62
    Pang
    Registered Users Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Pang


    Vienna, absolutely amazing place!


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    #63
    jmayo
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    Banjo String wrote: »
    That means nothing to me.

    Oh, Vienna
    zweton wrote: »
    looking like munich could win this one :)

    Isn't it enough they fecking will win the champions league, bundesliga. :mad:
    Cienciano wrote: »
    What's the first 2 things you think of when someone says one of the cities:
    ...

    Nazis for two of the listed cities. :o
    Ah come on admit it, some of you older folk must be thinking it.
    Arthur Beesley wrote: »
    It was a joke. I don't drink. Get a sense of humour.

    Even worse you don't drink and you make out you do.:cool:


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    #64
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    Vienna

    Zurich is deathly boring and the locals are zero craic.

    Austrians are more fun and open than the Swiss in my experience. You can get a boat up to Bratislava....too, err, i dunnno watch Ice hockey. Seriously hot women live there if that's a draw.

    Munich, I dunno, Vienna is more pleasing on the eye. Lots of Munich was levelled during the war. You can visit from Vienna !


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    #65
    bodhrandude
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    I am pie wrote: »
    Vienna

    Zurich is deathly boring and the locals are zero craic.

    Austrians are more fun and open than the Swiss in my experience. You can get a boat up to Bratislava....too, err, i dunnno watch Ice hockey. Seriously hot women live there if that's a draw.

    Munich, I dunno, Vienna is more pleasing on the eye. Lots of Munich was levelled during the war. You can visit from Vienna !

    I am also a pie :D

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #66
    Aidric
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    Vienna is my favourite city in Europe, simply stunning. I have been many times and will continue to visit.

    I live in Zurich for 5 months now and don't listen to people who say it's boring. It has a large international community and a diverse cultural offering. It also knows how to party, especially if you're in to electronic music. Bear in mind that it is a very expensive place to live.

    Never been to Munich so can't comment on that.


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    #67
    losthorizon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    Ive been to a tot of German cities but not Munich funnily enough. I have been to Vienna and its stunning. Its also the location for my favorite film.

    I found the Germans in the main very friendly. Austrians in Vienna were businesslike but not unfriendly. Kind of preferred the Germans.

    People were mentioning Reykjavik - nice place for a day or two before you head off into the wilds of Iceland for two weeks. And Iceland really is unique in Europe if not the world. Not sure if I would live there though. I wouldn't mind giving it a go for a year.


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    #68
    zweton
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    Pang wrote: »
    Vienna, absolutely amazing place!

    why so?


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    #69
    Pang
    Registered Users Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Pang


    zweton wrote: »
    why so?

    Great coffee shops, fabulous architecture and history and I always feel quite safe waking around and doing various activities in the city. Crime levels appear to be quite low.

    Oh and public transport is extremely efficient and punctual.


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    #70
    zweton
    Registered Users Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭zweton


    ah, i was hoping you would say the nightlife was rocking :)


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    #71
    The One Doctor
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    Munich. Vienna is beautiful but Munich is by far and away the better city.


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    #72
    Autosport
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    Vienna is one of the most beautiful cities i have lived in and i found the locals loved the irish accent and you should def go to Innsbruck and Salzburg aswell. In Germany, Dortmund was fabulous but Berlin took my breath away.


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    #73
    gandalf
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    I've never been to Zurich but any Swiss I have met have been aloof and were very arrogant.

    Munich was a great place to visit but if I had a choice I would choose to live in Vienna. I've been a couple of times and find it a very easy city to get around. The Austrians can be hard to get to know but are lovely once you get past their initial standoffness.


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    #74
    zweton
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    ah damn now i think i need to add berlin to the list:D


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    #75
    First Up
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    zweton wrote: »
    ah damn now i think i need to add berlin to the list:D

    Do. Berlin has it all.


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    #76
    zweton
    Registered Users Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭zweton


    would it be easy to get an english speaking job in berlin?


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    #77
    diograis
    Registered Users Posts: 435 ✭✭diograis


    zweton wrote: »
    would it be easy to get an english speaking job in berlin?

    from what I've read it's doing absolutely terribly from an economic point of view, I look forward to reading to whether you actually get a job or not though


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    #78
    ringadingding
    Registered Users Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭ringadingding


    Vienna has an unfair rep for a shît nightlife, granted it's not Berlin.
    There are always places to drink and party through the night, a lot of underground clubs / venues, great irish expat community here ( a lot of party heads / house parties )

    You need to know where to look.

    Been here a few years now, it's great, and at the end of my street the signposts are for Bratislava , Prague, Budapest and Ljubljana for when you're bored and fancy a complete change of nightlife for a tenner bus ticket.


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    #79
    zweton
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    still cant decide on either munich or vienna:D


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    #80
    D1stant
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    zweton wrote: »
    would it be easy to get an english speaking job in berlin?

    Easy. Just ask Enda


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    #81
    First Up
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    zweton wrote: »
    still cant decide on either munich or vienna:D

    Would the availability of suitable employment not be a factor? Do you intend to just arrive and start looking?


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    #82
    losthorizon
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    MadsL wrote: »
    Reykjavik - terrible place to work unless you like fish guts. Great place to party. Outside genes are very welcome so expect attention.

    Ive been to all those places except Zurich (and Tokyo) and it has to be Vienna. Although its slightly colored by the fact that my favourite film is The Third Man. They have excellent Beer in Vienna (not so sure about the food though). As for football - a true football fan goes to their local club so it doesn't matter where you are based ( Cork city fan here). Rapid Vienna and Austria Vienna are two very famous teams and supplied numerous players to the Austrian pre-war team which was is one of the great European national teams of all times.



    Vienna is one of the European capitals.


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    #83
    First Up
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    losthorizon wrote: »
    Ive been to all those places except Zurich (and Tokyo) and it has to be Vienna. Although its slightly colored by the fact that my favourite film is The Third Man. They have excellent Beer in Vienna (not so sure about the food though). As for football - a true football fan goes to their local club so it doesn't matter where you are based ( Cork city fan here). Rapid Vienna and Austria Vienna are two very famous teams and supplied numerous players to the Austrian pre-war team which was is one of the great European national teams of all times.



    Vienna is one of the European capitals.

    The food in Vienna would be my big worry. Pure stodge. But most of Mittel Europe is like that.


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    #84
    zweton
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    ya i heard the food is not great there.


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