r/AskAustria

Bin m26 und würde gerne jeden Monat eine Summe zahlen, mit einem gemeinsamen finanziellen Ziel welches man über eine Zeit erreichen will.

This summer I spent some time in Vienna with my family and didn’t expect to fall so hard for the city. I’m now seriously considering moving there for a Masters after I finish my Bachelor’s next year. I’m from the UAE, so the lifestyle, culture , climate and of course the overall way of life are very different. I know being a tourist is like a honeymoon phase so I’m trying to get a more realistic picture before I commit. If you live or have lived in Vienna, Austria, I’m really curious to now..

What’s daily life actually like as a young person or student?

Cost of living (especially rent, food, transport) for someone on a student budget.

How hard is it to find housing in Vienna?

Do most people speak English or is German pretty essential for daily life and university?

What’s the student experience like (social life, making friends as an international student, part time work opportunities)?

Bureaucracy, visas, and settling in as a non-EU citizen?

The biggest culture shocks or things that surprised you (positively or negatively) compared to what you expected?

Thank you in advance💖

UPDATE:

Ich war beim Händler. Hab mit ihm freundlich gesprochen und mein Dilemma dargelegt. Wir haben uns ausgemacht, dass ich die Storno Gebühren jetzt einfach als Guthaben beim Geschäft habe.

Also wenn ich doch noch bei ihnen kaufe hab ich den Betrag bereits Gut.

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Hallo Leute, hab was dummes gemacht und Montag spontan n Fahrzeug gekauft.

Direkt am nächsten Tag hab ichs entsprechend bereut.

Händler würde mir maximal auf Kulanz entgegen kommen mit 10% Stornogebühr.

Konsumentenschutz hat mir mal nicht weiter geholfen. Der sagt nur erstmal Mitglied werden, dann ihnen alles schicken und dann ggf. machen sie irgend nen Vergleich mim Händler oder so.

Anwaltskammer gibt's auch frühestens Montag n Termin und vorher wird keinerlei Frage beantwortet.

Ich hoffe also hier gibt's wen der mir ein wenig die Rechtslage noch etwas besser erklären kann.

Fahrzeug hat nie den Laden verlassen. Scheinbar, hätte ichs online bei ihnen gekauft dann würde es 14 Rücktrittsrecht geben, aber so Pech gehabt. Nachdem es doch um 500€ geht joa würd ich halt dich irgendwo gern wissen ob das jetzt einfach als Lehrgeld abgehakt werden sollte oder ob ich da doch noch irgendwelche Rechte hab...

Hallo!
Meine Frage, gibt’s in Graz eigentlich ( noch) so richtig Café Häuser? Also so wie in Wien ? Hab’s noch nicht so gesehen wenn ich ehrlich bin….

Hi everyone,
What are my rights if an MA 35 employee behaves rudely or unprofessionally towards me during an appointment?
What steps can I take? Can I ask for the employee’s name, request a supervisor, or file an official complaint? Could a complaint negatively affect my residence/immigration case?

TLDR at bottom of the post

I have German citizenship (born and raised there, German mother) and a German passport. My father (married to my mother at the time) is Austrian, so I also have Austrian citizenship through him, though I've never had a passport or Staatsbürgerschaftsnachweis.

I actually only found out I had Austrian citizenship when I moved to another city at 18 and the lady at the Bürgeramt asked why I hadn't put down my Austrian citizenship on the form. It doesn't say it anywhere on my birth certificate and it had just never occurred to me as a child or teenager that I have it and my parents never mentioned it, but apparently it must say it somewhere on my file, perhaps because of my parents' marriage certificate?

I've not thought about getting an Austrian passport much because I didn't see any advantages compared to just having my German passport and it seemed like a lot of paperwork to get the Staatsbürgerschaftsnachweis, especially because I don't have much contact to my father.

Now, I live in the UK on settled status and my UK spouse and I are considering moving to Austria (among other options). I understand it's much easier as an EU citizen with a non-EU spouse to move to an EU country you're not a citizen of due to the Free Movement regulations. So basically it would be easier for us to move to Austria with me being just a German citizen rather than an Austrian citizen as well.

Now my question is would the Austrian government know I have citizenship if I've never lived there, never had a passport or Staatsbürgerschaftsnachweis? Would they cross-reference everything with the files the German government holds (can they do that?) and find out that way?

I will also soon be eligible for UK citizenship and I know that if I take on another citizenship, I will automatically lose my Austrian citizenship. So getting UK citizenship would completely eliminate the problem (and my savings lol - it costs £2k) I would assume? But also, to lose the Austrian citizenship would I first need proof that I have it? And if we were to move with me having given up my Austrian citizenship, would my UK passport be proof enough that I don't have it anymore if they do have my citizenship somewhere on file?

TLDR: Dual citizen Austria Germany, no proof of Austrian citizenship, wanting to move to Austria with non-EU spouse, can we get around strict immigration rules for non-EU spouses of Austrian citizens?

Our nanny used to live in Vienna and absolutely loved it. We're huge fans of the Sound of Music. We have discussed moving from Madrid to Vienna. Is it really so difficult to make friends?

Hi zusammen,
ich lese hier auf Reddit immer wieder davon, dass Österreicher etwas erben und dadurch relativ früh über Investments, Immobilien oder andere finanzielle Möglichkeiten nachdenken können.

Als Österreicher mit Migrationshintergrund ist es für mich ziemlich unvorstellbar, einmal ein größeres Erbe zu bekommen – zumindest in dem Land, in dem ich leben möchte, also Österreich.

Mich würde deshalb interessieren: Wie fühlt es sich eigentlich an, etwas zu erben? Plant ihr mit dem Erbe bzw. habt ihr dadurch eure finanzielle Situation oder eure Lebensplanung verändert?

Ich denke, dass das eine enorme Erleichterung sein muss. Ich habe jetzt selbst alles zusammengespart, was ich für meine Wohnung brauche, und hätte mir ehrlich gesagt auch immer gewünscht, einmal eine finanzielle Spritze zu bekommen, die einem den Start etwas erleichtert.
Vielleicht könnt ihr eure Erfahrungen ein bisschen schildern – mich würde wirklich interessieren, wie ihr das erlebt habt und was ihr mit dem Erbe gemacht habt.

Danke

Anyone from Austria can share their point of view?
If you look at the data cars are the least used means of transport. Transit is absolutely great for its size and cycling is acceptable.
BUT while cycling I noted that infrastructure is patchy and you're often left with nothing having to share the road with cars on wide roads. If you go along the rivers you might get anywhere and fast but when you go south via Suedring it's pretty bad.
And there's cars that still dominate everything, the state roads 171/174 cut through the city where people live and move around and being a "flow first" type of roads they get priority at intersection and quality of life = high traffic, high speeds and constant noise.
My impression is that they tried but with high density comes high interactions with cars.
What would you do more?

I'm not sure how to title this correctly, but i am moving to vienna from a village in salzburgland in a few months. Through my whole time of living here i have a lot of stuff, like clothes, electronics and so on. I have a klimaticket ö, so a lot of the stuff could be moved just using two big suitcases that i have and a backpack. I don't think that it would be a problem if i take a train with all that stuff a few times. BUT i also do have clothes that won't make any sense to be transported this way. Like jackets, shoes etc. I also do have a few bug items, like my computer table (which is pretty easy to disassemble and pack in some kind of a box). My question is, if this is actually a normal practice in austria. I never moved anywhere properly before, so I don't know if that would be weird. The price of these whole shenanigans is also a big concern for me. I tried to contact a few private companies that do the transportation of goods and the prices that they told me were shocking. So what is the best way to do all of this?

At 77 years of age, I had gotten through life never arrested and then Austrian police arrested me for residing in Austria illegally. I had been in Austria for 4 nights. The reason was my time in the Schengen Zone which I stated was 88 days in the 180 days. As the officers were going through my passport stamps, when I asked repeatedly, how many days? She repeatedly said we are trying to figure that out. Too which I responded 88 days. Because the officers (4 of them) could not figure out the number, a couple of hours later, 2 border control officers were brought into the case. Having been voluntarily ( I thought in the office, trying to help them with the stamps and numbers), it was with hope, I greeted whom I thought would be knowledgeable on 90 in 180 day rule. A few minutes later, I understood they had not been properly trained in the 90 in 180 day rule; Austrian border control officers. The arrest was announced; strip searched to underwear, mug shot, and fingerprints. An hour later, they had the answer of how many days. 88 days! They unarrested me! Then the head border control police person said I must leave in 2 days, I will be overstay in 3. I said I will be at 88 days tomorrow and the next day and my 90th is in about 4 weeks. The officer went wild with threats. Said that cannot be. I am not here to educate anyone on how that can be. I did get through to 2 of the 6 officers involved. One said; I believe you are correct. The other border control officer seemed rather embarrassed about the be gone in 3 days threat. I do not blame the border control officers! Officers lacking in training are a danger to us all. Put into more serious situations, the result can be deadly.

I’m Japanese and I’m really interested in everyday Austrian home cooking.

I’m not looking for traditional dishes for special occasions, but the kind of food an ordinary family would actually make after work/school.

What did you eat for dinner yesterday? Or what would a typical Monday–Friday dinner look like in your family?

I’d especially love to hear from Austrian people about what you eat at home, including simple/quick meals.

Hey,

I was wondering if any one was travelling on or around October 8th to New Delhi (from Kerala) for their RP appointment.

I'm looking to get in contact with others who have an appointment on the same day or around that date. Feel free to DM me if you are going around the same time.

Thanks!

im visiting Vienna and I want to shop local brands! Streetwear, high end, or any type of fashion😅 I just want it to be austrian!

Servus mitanand!

Gibt es unter uns jemanden der als Solo-Gamedev oder vergleichbares unterwegs ist? Ich ziehe seit längerem in Betracht diesen Weg zu gehen, nur hängts mich etwas beim nachforschen übers Gesetzliche auf.

Was mich ein wenig verwirrt: Ich finde Infos darüber wies mit dem Gewerbe anmelden/Steuern/etc abläuft, wenn man sich spezifisch ums programmieren, das künstlerische oder den Vertrieb kümmert, aber keine zu Solo-Devs die so ziemlich alles selber machen?

Laut Netz: Spiele vertreiben ist eine gewerbliche Tätigkeit, das reine Programmieren auch, das kreative Programmiere nicht? Was zum Teufel ist da ein Solo-Dev? Wäre EÜR oder EAR richtig? Hilfe oida...

Entschuldigt falls ich der Lösung schon irgendwie in den After gaff lmao, dachte ich versuch mal das Schwarmwissen abzufragen. Arschmüde und gelernter Koch, wenig Erfahrung zu Selbständigkeit/Freiberuflern.

Danke vorab!

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Hallo, ich und meine Familie wohnen in Wien schon seit über 12 Jahren, und die ganze Zeit zahlen wir Miete.

Bald werden wir Erbschaft bekommen, und wir dachten einen Teil zu verkaufen und eine neue Wohnung in Wien zu kaufen. Neubau.

Es interessiert mich, welche Bezirke soll ich absolut vermeiden, wo ist es gut zu kaufen, auf was soll ich achten bei Neubau Wohnungen, kann man da große Fehler machen? Welche?

Es gibt eine neue ​​Gebäude die wird im 14 gebaut, cirka 6.6k Euro pro Quadrat. Sieht nicht schlecht aus. ​

lust auf kunstmesse und arbeit ?