You know you are from Vienna when...
- Added by Priya, January 19, 2009 at 10:13am.
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Top 10 Reasons You know you are from Vienna:
- - you know it is normal to smell horse in the middle of the city
- - you know the Würstlstandbesitzer by name
- - you act like putting money into the newspaper bags at weekend, but really stealing it.
- - and you know how the Schwarzkappler look like when they get into the train
- - you pass underground stations which Otto Wagner has built
- you of course drink your beer in the streets
- - you've never been to a Sängerknaben-Konzert or Lippizaner-Show and will never do so.
- - you understand the guy in the Ubahn when he says "Zug fährt ab"
- - you know you can go to the subway without a ticket easily
- - you are surprised if a waiter is friendly and fast
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Vienna is the capital of Austria and is also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million (2.3 million within the metropolitan area), it is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 10th largest city by population in the European Union, and was listed by Mercer Human Resource Consulting as having the 2nd highest quality of living (as of 2008).Vienna is host to many major international organizations such as the United Nations and OPEC. Vienna lies in the very east of Austria and is close to the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary[+] Post a Comment | toggle meta
More reasons You know you are from Vienna
- - you don't think it's strange when all the students knocking the old wooden tables at the end of each class at university
- - you know the guy at schottentor who wants money to call his wife in the hospital since years!
- - at summertime you don't get stopped from dressed-up-like-Mozart people who want to sell you tickets to overprized bad tourist concerts because they know you would never attend a concert in summer
- - you think it is normal that no one is working from friday noon until monday morning.
- - you think Kaiserin Sissi was a bitch.
- - you don't think it is strange when someone has never been to a district outside the Gürtel
- - you can't believe you can't go to the opera for 2 euros each night anywhere else
- - you don't think it is strange drinking beer at flex with a business man next to a sandler
- - you know what "A Eitrige mit an Buckl und an Blech" means and where to get the best ones in the middle of the night.
- - you can tell of people's dialects from which district they are
- - you know how to get home from the Arena in the middle of the night when you missed the last subway...
- - you would NEVER move to another district
- - you know the difference between a Fiaker, an Einspänner, a Melange, a Großer Brauner and which one you like most.
- - you boycott starbucks.