| crissindahouse said: i'm from germany and i would have put munich top places in the world as well. same with duesseldorf. but for both cities you should have money. if you don't have money i think it's better to live in berlin or so because these cities are expensive. same with all other top spot cities. to live in vienna for example can cost you more rental than some people earn, just for a small apartment. i think i have been in ~35 countries in my life and without the “wow how sick is that“ which you always have on vacation and just thinking which is the best to live they are right with countries like new zealand, germany, austria and australia. personally i think sweden is fantastic as well and not only stockholm. |
Oh, rents in Vienna are pretty low, if you don't have much money you can go live in a "Sozialbau" where you pay the third of a normal rent and you pay around 10€ per m² if you have enough money to afford a living, also, if you can't afford a "Sozialbau" you still can go to a homeless shelter (I asume they aren't that bad since my father enjoyed living in them for a while ;P).
With the lowest salaries (minimum wage - except waste disposal industry) for a full time job in Austria starting at 1000 € monthly (14000€ a year) (Data of 2009) you have a monthly after tax value of 849,30 available and two times 859,30 summing to 11.910,20 € a year, so you could afford arround 30m² without serious issues - i pay for ~27 m² about 280 € a little too much, but come around with ~480 € a month with food and everything. So in my eyes living costs arent that high in Austria...
EDIT: if you wonder what you would have left of your salary (netto) in Austria type in here what your total salary is (brutto);
Also I want to say, since I am a student I only get something called Familienbeihilfe (211,1 € per Month) and 280 € from my Mom, so 480 is pretty much everything I have ;P
