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leirza in deutsche_kultur

housing in munich

Apr 20, 2008 23:19

i live in new york city but in a few months ill be moving to germany and hopefully getting some work teaching english. anyways, ill be in berlin for the first month to get my celta certificate but after that im really hoping to move in or around munich. i love the alps and would love to be a short train ride away. a couple other options would be ( Read more... )

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breakingthrunow April 21 2008, 19:27:35 UTC

Please put something in the subject line - thanks.

Do you read German?

If so, here's a website dedicated to vegan lifestyle in Germany
http://www.vegan.de/

And a message board on the topic
http://www.vegan.de/foren/list.php?153

leirza April 21 2008, 22:54:26 UTC

sweet! thanks a lot. sorry, ill fix the subject

arthenadent April 21 2008, 20:50:44 UTC

One great thing about Germany is that it's easy to get organic foods; they're clearly labeled and very popular. Genetically engineered foods are frowned upon in Germany, and food is generally less processed (for example, they use sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup). German laws don't require nutrition information labeling like in the US, but there's usually a list of ingredients so you can see what's in something. Foods are also very clearly labeled; for example, eggs from caged chickens have "EGGS FROM CAGED CHICKENS" printed right on the carton :-) So with a pocket dictionary, you should be able to determine if a food is vegan or not ( ... )

leirza April 21 2008, 22:53:25 UTC

oh yes! i have definitely been expanding my food vocabulary and making sure i can read all of the labels and everything. and im preparing myself for a big difference in food options. i have a vegan friend who lives in a smaller town in austria, who came to nyc and he calls it the "vegan paradise!!!!" but if he can survive, i know ill be ok. i stayed at this one hostel in füssen that included breakfast every morning...and i would come down through the kitchen to leave and they would be like "dont you want any breakfast?" it would be an egg and some other stuff i didnt think i could eat. and i would just say no thanks im vegan and they were like huh?? they knew vegtarian but not vegan so i had to explain it to them so they didnt think i was just starving myself haha

milram April 21 2008, 21:57:03 UTC

Do you speak German? If so, you could check out bym.de - there's a number of things on the website, including a fairly active forum and you could see if anyone over there could be of any help to you. There's lots of people in their 20s on there, lots of people trying to get by with small incomes, lots of different styles, lots of vegan-threads, etc. Occasionally it can get a little bitchy or take off into irrelevant tangents, but often they're also really helpful.

leirza April 21 2008, 22:46:24 UTC

sweet, i do understand a bit of german so i will check it out, sounds cool. thanks!

builtofsorrow April 21 2008, 22:12:49 UTC

On a somewhat random note: am I correct in thinking you're getting your certificate in Germany? What program are you going through? (I'm attempting to look into different programs for something similar... I'd like to work in Poland, but Germany would probably be my second choice.)

leirza April 21 2008, 22:44:38 UTC

hey yea im going to the berlin school of english and taking the month long CELTA certificate course. It's kind of expensive....but I also had a friend who took the course Prague and she really liked it. She recommended it to me :)

dune_drd April 22 2008, 15:44:07 UTC

Just a quick piece of advice: Munich is a bit farer from the Alps than most tourist guides admit, it's a least an hour drive by car, even more by train. Otherwise it's a beautiful city, but I imagine quite the contrast to both Berlin and certainly New York. It's more... provincial? It's hard to describe how a major city can still feel like a village. Getting vegan food in restaurants might be a bit tricky, but you'll certainly get all the organic products you want in the supermarkets.

leirza April 22 2008, 16:01:38 UTC

hey thanks! ive actually been to munich, and füssen as well and i know its about a 2 hour train ride between the two. although i would love to live right in the mountains...i realize that it would be much harder to find a job and i think i should try to stay in a kind of bigger city to ease the pain of not having any friends, etc. also i think going from nyc to munich is probably less of a culture shock than going straight to a more rural town. :)