I do like Austria. It offers a super lifestyle for outdoor types, both winter and summer, with hiking, sight-seeing and swimming in lakes, my summer favourite. Plus the beer is good.
Life seems amazingly relaxed, with a high level of trust that their people will gauge any risk in their lives at the right level. There are no lifeguards keeping watch on high perches at their swimming lakes, and large slabs of cheese sit alongside salami, kaesekrainer and raw meat in the local butchers. It's all rather fun and works well and apparently very safely.
The landlords we have known have been pro European Union (EU). This year,while Pepi (a long-distance HGV driver) spoke appreciatively of how Schengen had made his job easier over the years, his wife Eva urged that Austria should group with Switzerland and Lichtenstein and pull out of the EU, to make their money by charging tolls on through traffic, for example, rather like in days of yore on the Munich-Venice trek.
How many of their 20 million people think like this? I don't know, but meeting and getting to know this kind couple gave me an interesting insight into a side of the Austrian psyche that I'd not yet had through business contacts.
I do recommend it.
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