@carrie
I like your username. Reminds me of Stephen Kings movie and book.
I will be happy to meet someone from any country as long as they have a nice heart.
@foreigner
hmmm, y'know I think you should go with a professional dating service. The reason being is that in order to make a connection with someone, you want as complete a first impression as you can give and receive- pictures really matter in that regard.
I just canīt do this. I feel really like a big idiot doing this because I feel like I am shoppong in the grocery store for a fruit and on the shelve next to the fruit are ladies. This is just something I cannot get out of my head. I donīt mind people who do it, but it is hard for me to.
I will say this; if I did such a thing I would not do it from Austria as I do not trust the agencies in Austria.
I did consider putting ads in polish newspapers just to see what kind of response, if any, I got. But I donīt know which papers or how to do this from here.
Then again, you seem to have much more experience with the ladies than I do so maybe you're taking the road less traveled for a reason.
Actually I am sure I do not. I was married for 12 years to an Austrian, but since 2002 (the divorce) I only dated one austrian for 2 years, one austrian for 2 months, one german for 4 months and one Ukrainian for a few months. I feel like I am rusty and lost all over again lol
You seem like a good guy and you seem like you know what you want but c'mon in this day and age any girl between 20-26 is not what you're looking for man, that's just asking for trouble down the road....
Thanks and I agree with you on the age issue. I prefer not to, but if it was the nicest person I liked, it would be hard to say no.
Tell me more about Austrians. Are they really tight knit in small towns? How do they spend their leisure time in small towns and cities?
Itīs hard to tell you much about small towns as I never lived in one. I have only visited several times. My best friend is from a town with about 800 people, and I met his brother and he lives in shell, so it seems.
In the 20000 population city I lived in, the people are just friendlier than city people. But I think this is all over because in the city rude people survive and in the smaller towns everyone knows everyone. Even in the 20000 town I noticed the nosiness that bothers many, but in my opinion we have that even in Vienna. Ad like all small towns they know everything about everyone. these things do not bother me.
In small towns here they are more laid back, also the same I suppose like in many countries.
Leisure time is spent at the local Gasthaus, and they have a lot of little celebrations the rest of Austria does not have.
They are also more active in terms of walking up the mountains, through the forests, and they are much more friendly to visitors than city people are. They are more proud of their town than a city person is of the city.
An example; I mentioned before that I wrote to each Town hall in each town. The biggest city had 60k people in it (wanted to see what they would say to me) and the smallest town had 84. Most towns had between 800 - 4000 though.
When I asked for the bus schedule in their city/town and where I an find apartments, the big city answered me like this; You can pick up a bus schedule in our town hall.
The smaller towns all answered me like this; Please give us your address and we will mail you a bus schedule. To find out which apartments are available, please call Mrs at xxphone numberxx to tell her what you would lime and she will send you a list of all apartments.
I also got one email from he mayor of one of the towns with 1400 people in it and it was really nice. he just wrote we hope you decide to join our community and look forward to having you.
Do you have any pet peeves regarding them?
Yep. Austrians are very direct, which can easily be misconstrued as being extremely rude. They donīt seem to know how to say something a nice way as to not offend you. If they think something they defintely say it direct to your face.
I also do not like the very silent racism against eastern europeans (although I think this exist in every country about someone the people are racist against).
I do not like how they do not understand if you are in line waiting to get something at the store, they overlook you 95% of the time. But you eventually get used to this and accept it. Some people must go first or they obviously will explode within 2 minutes. usually they just act like nothing happened. They wonīt argue about it.
They also like to say how Americans are overweight and do not know the history of their own country. Yet I see many obese people here, and I seem to know more about Austria than some Austrians.
I do not like how they accept alcoholism as a part of Austria (beer is big here, in fact when I came in 1992 I saw 14 year olds buy it in stores as there was no age limit. Now the drinking age is 16 but no control (I do not mind the age because you have to accept the country and the way they are). But I donīt like how alcoholism is accepted. Any clubs or bars will sell alcohol to anyone. Everyone here knows at least one alcoholic. I know 2 very well.
I also do not like people drinking beer in the subways, cause on friday and saturday nights it just reeks of alcohol. (although I still laugh after 20 years that they sell beer at McDonalds).
Other things as well, but nothing that really bothers me. I am just being picky.
What surprised you about them?
This is hard. I think what suprised me the most is how their lifestyles are compared to ours. They are much more laid back than Americans. Theyīd rather walk 10 minutes to the store than drive 2 minuets to the same store. They seem to make a lot more free time than we do back home. To me Americans are always rushing. Drive quick to the store, be back by 2 because I have to return the rental dvd, my movie starts at 8, etc etc.....
It also suprised me that most Austrains are catholics. yet most do not attend mass ever.
Is it just Vienna or do all Austrian women have really nice derrières?
lol I lived in Graz as well (second largest city in Austria) and I actually found girls there to be more attractive than in Vienna. But itīs not true. all Austrian girls are the same; some heavy, some hot, some average. Just like all over. Alwaqys depends on ones taste in women.
E.g. What I have noticed here is: Poles seem to have an innate disdain for order. If there is a system set up, they seem to do their darndest to sabotage that system or "work around" it. That goes for everything from recycling, to driving, to queuing, to parking, to getting on and off buses, elevators, to walking on pavement/sidewalks, etc...it's quite remarkable really.
They are also born competitors, they can't not compete. This runs through all aspects of society from what I have seen: sports (even if it's just practice); drinking to driving; conversation (oh you have a witty remark, well I have an even wittier one, oh you thought you had a wittier one, well get a load of this...); cooking; random knowledge; religion/piety - these people need to "one up" whoever they have identified as their nemesis but that MAINLY applies to when they don't know the other person well.
Thatīs interesting to hear. Are you an American living in Poland, or Polish? Itīs really intersting to see the differences of people from country to country.
Your turn please:)
I don't know much about n.j. driving but I know scott stevens is a sonofabithc...the advice I could offer a person for winter (which I know you are free to throw away) is to slow down, i.e. slow down one's acceleration, deceleration, and going in/coming out of turns (completely lost on this bunch here). A person just needs to be aware of what's happening and take a heads up approach. This comes from many years of driving in cities (and countryside) with 6 months of freezing temperatures and snow cover, in those environments the asphalt is what's underneath the packed snow and ice:/ Oh yeah, you're going to go in to a slide at some point, it's going to happen, the best you can do is ride it out for however long that takes and drive sensibly enough to mitigate how far that distance is.
Yeah, I agree. I am a careful driver even in good weather. This comes with age I guess. When I was 16 I was hell on wheels lol Since I was about 25 though, i got very careful. Most likely because I realized I could actually die if I drove like I did.
I was in Apetlon and Vienna.
I never heard of appleton but I found it in google. Why were you there?
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