Hello! I am currently living in Stockholm, and I have received a job offer in Nuremberg. I am almost decided to move again, but I would like to hear opinions about the city from other people. My main interest is mountain biking, and it is very nice in Sweden, but I think that around Nuremberg is pretty good as well, so if anyone has any tips about it I appreciate it as well!
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You will like the beer and fränkische Schweiz is awesome for biking. Coming from Rheinland people are a bit introverted though.
That’s probably what I am used to, Swedes are very nice people but it takes years for them to open up, and so far I have mostly managed to become real friends with those who have been exposed to the expat community. In any case, I assume learning German is going to be an important step to socialize fully.
[…] I assume learning German is going to be an important step to socialize fully.
yeah Nürnberg doesn’t have an established university and shares the major one from Erlangen, because of this you will find probably more English speaking people in Erlangen. But subcultures don’t align general rules.
I live in Nuremberg since 2011 and I really like the quality of living here. It might not be the biggest or fanciest German city but it has everything I need: a diverse cultural landscape with theatres, concerts and cinemas, lots of shops, you are never far from the countryside e.g. to go on a hike and from what I hear from my friends the Reichswald is really good for mountain biking. Infrastructural integration within Germany is also good, no matter if you ride a car or take the train. And it has an airport that is neither too small or to big if you want to travel around Europe.
Thanks for the answer! I have checked the airport as you say and there are direct flights to my original country, and it’s nice that it is so close to the city!
You can reach it with the metro, which makes it’s super convenient
Nuremberg ist quite a nice location and offers nice scenery, beautiful nature and also some international flair due to its university.
However, it is located in Bavaria and that is, at least for me, a total show-stopper. Federal politics and politicians are pretty right-oriented and conservative. The local party, the CSU, is corrupt, incompetent while staying cocky and so are many people in Bavaria. Germany (i.e. the taxpayers) just got handed a 220 million Euro debacle because the former Minister of Transport, Andreas Scheuer, wanted to enact an illegal law and signed contracts beforehand - despite severe warnings. This is not a solitary incident, it’s the party’s modus operandi. Despite all the failures in the past, the party gets the vast majority of votes in every elections - which speaks volumes about the local population.
It might not be tangible if you stay for a short time and spent most of your time at work. But if you stay longer and are exposed to politics and peoples’ general attitude, it might be different
Tell me you’re not from Nuremberg without telling me you’re not from Nuremberg
I don’t think the local population is responsible for Scheuer or the CSU :') I also don’t make Aachen (my other home) responsible for hosting Armin Laschet.
What a weird take.
- Nürnberg is franconian and does not share the same culture as bavaria. It’s like saying cologne is culturally Ruhrpott.
- Nürnberg is generally goverened by SPD (although not in this legislature). Since 1945 it was only goverened by CSU for like 8 years. Kinda same as for every larger bavarian city, tbh.
- you are mixing up federal politics with state politics and city politics. Scheuers fuck up does not affect Nürnberg politics.
I hear the same stuff about Dresden and Sachsen…
That’s more comparable to the situation of Munich in Bavaria. However, Franconia is culturally rather different from Bavaria, despite having been “incorporated” for some time before the German unification (i.e. after Napoleon).
