> If you look at the geography, if you look at the political climate, just at the fundamentals it's not clear why Vienna is a large city.
Could you elaborate on this a bit please? Vienna has culturally always been considered the front door to eastern Europe (from a central European POV).
Vienna is one of the best cities in central Europe to go for an academic degree: Renting is capped and still affordable (and wants to be kept that way btw, see the ban of AirBnB). There are almost no education fees, even non-austrians can apply for benefits from the government. With 200k students it's the largest german-speaking university city on par with Berlin[0]. The employment law is exemplary good. For me personally it isn't surprsing that almost 1/4th of whole Austria lives in Vienna.
Could you elaborate on this a bit please? Vienna has culturally always been considered the front door to eastern Europe (from a central European POV).
Vienna is one of the best cities in central Europe to go for an academic degree: Renting is capped and still affordable (and wants to be kept that way btw, see the ban of AirBnB). There are almost no education fees, even non-austrians can apply for benefits from the government. With 200k students it's the largest german-speaking university city on par with Berlin[0]. The employment law is exemplary good. For me personally it isn't surprsing that almost 1/4th of whole Austria lives in Vienna.
[0]: https://www.wien.gv.at/statistik/pdf/viennainfigures-2023.pd...