While I realize that smallworld.ch is a Swiss initiative for better English language skills, it may as well as be addressed to inertia-laden Austrians. Of course, this is the national motion known as Gemütlichkeit among Austrianos who just don’t realize that it is a small place we are living and every once in a while one [...]
We’ll start with a little anecdote taken straight out of my life in order to wave goodbye to my temporarily-Viennese-American friends.
Chilling by the water in Miami beach last summer, I ran into a Hispanic family. They chatted me up by starting with something like, “Where you’re from? You can’t be American reading a book on [...]
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24 hours of Viennese public transport. 510.026 stops.
(via Karl’s wissenbelastet.com)
“Family top, politics flop” is the headline of diepresse.com’s article I took this chart from. This survey reveals how we Austrians tick. In a nutshell: We prefer family and friends to our job and politics. We don’t agree with abortion unless chances are it’s going to be handicapped in some way. The more education, the [...]
Vie We always knew that Vienna (Airport VIE) was quite a great place to live at. And now it’s official with quite a great result for the city in the Askmen 2009’s Top 29 Best Cities to Live ranking. Ranked number 18, Vienna can be proud being compared to several international cities. Check out the ranking [...]
Christina over at amiexpat.com recently posted quite an interesting post on WW2 guilt as seen from the American perspective and also tried to bring it into relation with her (German) husband whose family like so many have been involved in the darkest chapter in European history. Reading it I really couldn’t help but give some [...]
Saw it. Loved it. And I guess I can file it in the Austrian Ad Landschaft series…
Superfly, based in Vienna only, caused a lot of fuzz with their campaigns lately. “This shit is fly” and “Don’t stay at home, baby!” were quite nifty. With the latter they tried to get back at FM4 whose slogan [...]