Vienna Würstelstand

Vienna's English-speaking online magazine helping you make the most out of Vienna … and life.

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You know you live in a Viennese Altbau when you have to pull splinters out of your feet at least twice a week

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You'll never know someone's daily routine as well as you do when living in a shared student flat in a Vienna Altbau with extra-creaky floors

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In Vienna we don't say 'Da stimme ich dir zu!', we say 'Voll!' and we think that's beautiful.

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If Taylor Swift can perform for 3h in the pouring rain you can survive U6 at rush hour.

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Bored? At a party, call Radler beer and let the chaos unfold.

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Viennese wisdom: When life gives you oranges, slice them up and put them in your Aperol Spritzer.

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Are you really Viennese if you've never smashed a Käsekrainer at a Würstelstand while complaining about your life at 3am?

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Things that raise our Wiener Grant levels: People only opening one side of the U-Bahn doors in one of the old subway carriages.

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Apparently there are about 4 times as many rats living in Vienna than people – which make it 7.92 million. But where are they all at?

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You know you've become Viennese when you can replicate the exact wording and intonation of the announcements on public transport.

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If 'oida' was a feeling, it'd be the one you have when taking that extra sprint to catch the U-Bahn only to read 'Sonderzug, bitte nicht einsteigen'.

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Do you ever just pause the music of your earpods to show respect to the U-Bahn Star playing?

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Bored? Go to a Heuriger, order 'Weißweinschorle‘ and let the chaos unfold.

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Not dressing appropriately to the weather situation is our extreme sport this time of year.

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Allergy-season is magical. Did we have a break-up? Did we just dice onions? Or did we just have an encounter with a birch tree in Stadtpark? Nobody will ever know.

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Instead of 'Travel. Lifestyle. Fashion.' you should really put 'Huckn. Hackln. Sudern.' in your instagram bio.

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You know you live in a Viennese Altbau when you have to pull splinters out of your feet at least twice a week.

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You aren’t really Viennese if you haven’t caused a
'Liebe Fahrgäste, sie verzögern die Abfahrt.'
at least once.

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You'll never know someone's daily routine as well as you do when living in a shared student flat in a Vienna Altbau with extra-creaky floors

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Vienna's wind is like that toxic ex – just when you think you've moved on and forgotten about it, it comes back to mess everything up