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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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
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.
