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I'm european and I've always been surprised at how far east Vienna is compared to where I imagine it to be. I mentioned this to many people and quite a few very

• pflenker 4y ago
  People routinely place Vienna to the south of Munich, when in reality it is almost exactly due east. I think this is because the generally somewhat valid heuristic - Austria lies to the south of Germany - does not apply to the special case of these two well known cities in Germany and Austria.
• paganel 4y ago
  I jokingly refer to people from Vienna as Slavs who happen to speak German. As an Eastern European myself Vienna is one of the few “Western” cities where I still feel relatively at home/familiar with, was one of the few cities to which I thought about emigrating when that was still on the menu for me. Their tram network is one of the best in Europe, I can’t see myself living in a city without a decent tram network.
• elcapitan 4y ago
  It's more intuitive when you remember that Austria-Hungary was an empire spanning much of Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and that Vienna was more central to it than it is today to Austria, but I make that mistake of placing it to much in the West regularly too.
  • zokier 4y ago
    More historical cue is that the western parts of modern-day Austria, most notably Salzburg and Tyrol, were not part of the historical (arch) duchy of Austria. With that in mind the location of Vienna is bit easier to picture.
• lordgrenville 4y ago
  "Östlich von Wien fängt der Orient an"