General
Haircut on a Sunday? Shopping Across The Austrian Border Offers Flexibility and Discounts
We’ve all been there: It’s Sunday and we need new shoes, a haircut or just a day shopping across the Austrian border.
Cafés and Restaurants
How To Celebrate Thanksgiving in Vienna (Despite Lockdown)
Just because you're a long way from home doesn't mean you can't enjoy Thanksgiving in Vienna - even during a lockdown.
General
How to Get Married in Vienna
Looking to get married in Vienna? Here's our straightforward guide to tying the knot in the “City of Dreams.”
General
How to Get a Student Visa in Vienna
Here is everything you need to know, the documents you need, and which steps to take to get your student visa in Vienna and Austria.
Guidance
How to Master the Art of the Viennese Dialect
The world’s most livable city still has its share of challenges, with overcast skies, unfriendly locals – and the city’s notorious dialect.
Features
How to Embezzle a Million Euros
Maintaining the highest quality of life in the world is a costly endeavor – thankfully, there is always someone out there gullible enough to pay the bills. A satirical look at Austrian corruption.
How To
How to Find Your ‘Stammcafé’ in Vienna
In Vienna, you need to prove yourself worthy of your café of choice in what can be a lengthy application process.
Fall 2020
How To … Make Your Own Clothes
Vienna is full of sewing shops and DIY stores. We checked out some of them – and ended up printing 100 T-shirts.
How To
How to Write a Will in Austria
Getting our affairs in order in time of a crisis can be a huge relief for all parties, while protecting those you love.
How To
How to Raise Your Kid to be a Scientist in Vienna
STEM-tastic opportunities await Vienna’s children, even before their first science class at school.
How To
How To… Become an Art Collector
The scene may feel like an impenetrable world from the outside. In truth, it’s within any art lover’s reach. The trick is knowing where to look – and how.
Fall 2019
How to…Serve (Up) a City
Imagine you are planning a dinner party in your home, your city. A mix of people coming together to spend time with each other. Your job, as...
Features
How to…Play Games in Vienna
Forget the idea of Vienna as a big open-air museum. It's really one big playground.
“Jackpot!” a young woman yells excitedly, after her boyfriend m...
City Life
How to… Enjoy the Danube!
From sports on its shores to a Hugo on the canal, the Danube is much more than Vienna’s Riviera.
How To
How to Grow Up in Vienna
Coming of age in Vienna can be frightening, freeing and exhilarating at the same time - just like growing up.
Arriving in Vienna at 14 wa...
How To
How To … Live Like A Real Viennese
Start with eating, end with drinking – and take in the Gemütlichkeit on the way.
Coming from a chaotic, colorful and noisy part of Italy, a little ...
General
Get the Hang of Wiener Schmäh
Schmäh may not be the first thing you notice when you arrive in Vienna. But it comes up soon enough
In school, for example: My children were astonish...
Features
How to… Visit a Factory in Vienna
See how Augarten porcelain is crafted, learn how to make chocolate pralines, and sample Schlumberger Sekt right at the source: here is how to visit a ...
How To
How To Find the Perfect Home in Vienna
Whether you want to chill like a hipster or enjoy the green, there’s a place for you.
Art
Buying Art for the First Time | An Essential Guide to Viennese Etiquette
Metropole and viennacontemporary join forces to help new buyers navigate the local art scene in style
When you visit the sauna for the first time...
How To
How to Keep a Dog in Vienna
Gustl, a six-month-old golden retriever, tugged at the leash, tempted by the many smells around the Donaukanal. Katherine Mawdsley stopped. “We’ve got...
Business
How to… Land Your Dream Job in Vienna
An employment consultant with 20 years’ experience has some advice for landing your dream job in Vienna.
Want to work in Vienna? Finding a job as...
How To
How to… Learn to Cook Viennese
Pull your own Apfelstrudel dough, make a perfect Wiener Schnitzel – passionate chefs offer tasting tours and сourses.
Maybe you’ve come to love Aus...
How To
How to Get an Austrian Driver’s License
Feeling the urge to get out of town and hit the open road? It may be time to get an Austrian driver's license.
It had been snowing all night. S...
How To
How to Get Involved in Politics in Austria
How do you make your voice heard in a country that is not entirely your own?
Politics often seems like a cross between a telenovela and a car c...
How To
How to Learn to Dance in Vienna
This year, the dance floor can be yours. With these tips, you’ll have all the moves to wow the ball season crowd.
How To
How to Keep a Pet in Vienna
Not without my pets! Vienna offers pet lovers everything a furry, scaled, or feathered companion needs
The one-eyed Persian cat Guinevere i...
How To
How To Enhance Your Life with Viennese Design
You don’t need to be an artist’s muse to live like Alma Mahler. Vienna is bustling with design pieces that can turn your flat into a stylish Gesamtk...
How To
Discovering Vienna Second-Hand with Willhaben
The U.S. has Craig’s List. Brits adore Gumtree. But Austria has Willhaben, the country’s biggest peer-to-peer marketplace for secondhand goods.
Will...
How To
How to Stay Close in Long-Distance Relationships
Long-distance relationships are living proof that love is not just physical. I can feel you next to me even when you’re thousands of miles away.” – Pa...
How To
How to Break the Cycle of Domestic Violence
When love goes bad, many cases of violence go unreported. Here is how Vienna offers support for victims and families
Think of five women you know...
How To
How to Relax in Urban Vienna
Finding ways to take it easy in the city bustle can give you new strength in health and spirit
It’s Monday; you wake up to a leak in your kitch...
How To
How to be Pregnant in Vienna
Your guide to being pregnant in Vienna, Austria – a great place to have a baby, but make sure you have your “MuKi”
Having a child is one of lif...
How To
How to be a Diplomat
The ultimate dream jobs in public service take patience, persistence and good language skills. If you’re lucky, you even get to save the world
Ad...
How To
How to be a Spy
Are you cut out for 00 status? Improve your combat skills, polish your manners, and become wine, poker and dance floor savvy. It could just save you...
How To
How to Buy Antiques
Vienna is teeming with ancient goodies and there are plenty of experts to help distinguish the Wedgwood from the deadwood
In a shop called Dead Peopl...
How To
How To … Be an American Refugee in Austria
Dear Democrats:
We are sorry you lost your country, displaced by rampant factionalism, ubiquitous guns and powers beyond your control. We also fu...
City Life
Expanding Your Circle of Friends as an Expat in Vienna
How to accumulate an international circle in Vienna
If you've been living in Vienna as an expat for quite some time, you might've noticed that the Vie...
How To
Keep Learning
We can’t stop ourselves from learning, so why not do it on purpose?
Human beings never stop learning. Not only are we a...
How To
5 Things You Need to Know to Vote in the U.S. Elections
Key Reminders from the Federal Voting Assistance Program during Absentee Voting Week
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - With less than two months until the General Ele...
10 Pitfalls to Avoid When Moving to Vienna
Moving to a new city can be daunting, so we’ve assembled some words from the wise to help you avoid potential screw-ups and face-palms of nesting in t...
How To
How to…Minimize Your Carbon Footprint
Want to go greener? Be like a Wiener! An introduction to the eco-friendly habits of the Viennese and how to minimize your carbon footprint.
In many ...
How To
How to…Fund Your Startup
Navigating your startup safely through Austria’s bureaucracy is tricky. Fortunately, a multitude of subsidies can give you a strong tailwind
Bure...
April 2016
How to…Keep your culture
Being an expat in Vienna doesn't necessarily mean turning your back on all things home
Often, it isn’t until you live outside your native land th...
How To
How to…Invest like an Austrian
Austrians are notoriously risk-averse and have been big fans of savings accounts, but how do they invest?
All over the world, investors, bankers ...
February 2016
How to…be a Data-Savvy Spy
Fear of Big-Data snoops sifting through your chat history, photo streams, and following your private trips across town?
Greta Garbo understood ab...
City Life
Vienna Transport Guide
A Guide to Getting Around In Vienna
While New Yorkers are perennially confronted with the question of whether it’s faster to walk, grab a cab or take ...
How To
How to…Invest like an Austrian
Austrians are notoriously risk-averse and have been big fans of savings accounts, but how do they invest?
All over the world, investors, bankers ...
How To
Voting in Britain’s EU Referendum for British Expats in Austria
At the 2015 UK General Election, almost 106,000 overseas electors registered to vote - three times the number at the previous election. While this is ...
How To
7 Habits of Highly Effective Expats
We've all been that expat. The one frantically looking up the fine print of their contract while wondering just how much it would cost to throw in the...
City Life
How to be a Bohemian in Vienna
Getting connected and funded as a foreign artist – with a little help from City Hall
For creative professionals, Vienna could be the New York of ...
Business
How to Buy Property in Vienna as a Foreigner
Real estate can be tricky, but with patience, perseverance and a little luck, you'll own your own place in Vienna
In many countries, buying your fir...
Business
Seven tips to help you survive the MA35
If you want to become a Vienna resident all roads lead to the Municipal Department 35 - Immigration and Citizenship, a.k.a. the MA 35.&...
How To
How to be Legally Viennese
So, you have fallen in love with Vienna. No surprises there; the enviable quality of life, and the Gemütlichkeit, that oh-so-Viennese term for slowi...