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.
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).