Best City?

Jul 23, 2009 13:36

I'm organizing to study and relocate to Germany and have a few option cities ( Read more... )

kassel, kiel, bremen, cities, stuttgart, 17thgaffer, questions, studying in germany, bremerhaven

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17thgaffer July 24 2009, 11:52:56 UTC
You study in Hamburg! That's one of the big options for me, what is it like studying there?

I went there recently on vacation, but permanently living there is something else, isn't it?

Kiel though sounds really nice.

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17thgaffer July 24 2009, 22:28:03 UTC
I loved Hamburg! It was amazing, I tried to keep a really open mind and not be bias (because its Germany) ^^ , but I couldn't help myself.
The place was gorgoues!

Well with what I want to study, I think they offer housing at the place i'd love to study, they have like 5 schools based around Hamburg.

I'm going to study Midwifery (Hebamme in deutsch).

I love the big city, plus I feel better when I'm in a big city in a country I'm not to familiar with. But Kiel is a place that'd I have to see, just from how you explained it!

Do you know, what it's like in Stutgartt?

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lied_ohne_worte July 24 2009, 09:12:17 UTC
To start with the bad things: Kassel is very ugly. Well, that might be a bit of an overstatement, but not much. 80 percent of the city was destroyed in the WW II bombings because they had some important industry there, and the rebuilding didn't result in a particularly pleasing result. There are some nice places, particularly the old castle, the park and the areas around the river, but apart from that...

The city itself is not that big. I grew up in a rural area about 50 km from there, with Kassel being the only bigger city around, so it always seemed huge and interesting to me. But now, I'm living near Cologne, which is more than five times that big, so that put all of it into perspective.

Whether Kassel is the right city for you really depends on what you like. If you are interested in art, there is an exhibition of modern art there every few years, the documenta, which is quite important. There are also some good museums, a theater and other things.

The Wikipedia article is a good starting point with all kinds of information ( ... )

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17thgaffer July 24 2009, 11:50:46 UTC
Oh thanks alot for that! I think that helped me alot. I've lived in the country for some time now and would love to study perhaps in a bigger city. Especially since public transportation is important for me, I need a place with lots of shops and stuff but where I can get easily around.

The website you gave me is amazing thanks.
I'd love actually to live in Koln or Frankfurt am Main, but there are no midwifery schools there! The closest one to Koln is Bonn.

Therefore the biggest two are either Hamburg or Stuttgart for me.

I wanted to know if the other two were better options.

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17thgaffer July 24 2009, 11:51:20 UTC
BremerHaven is a no-show then LOL?

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t0ra_chan July 24 2009, 18:20:16 UTC
Agreed, Bremerhaven is not only ugly, but small too. I live in Bremen and you couldn't pay me to move there.

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17thgaffer July 24 2009, 22:32:09 UTC
Is it that bad ^^?

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hauntedtonight July 24 2009, 18:49:37 UTC
Aw, Bremerhaven. My grandmother comes from there. It is very small, I want to say like a fisherman's town.

Also, Kassel--personally I didn't think it was so ugly, but I wouldn't recommend that city for you either. It's rather boring.

My vote goes toward Bremen =)

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17thgaffer July 24 2009, 22:32:52 UTC
Sadly, there isn'tone in Bremen. The closet is Hamburg when it comes to the north.

It'd be there or the south.

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myjetplane July 25 2009, 02:01:12 UTC
Bremen is amazing. It's nice and big, but not too big.
and it's home to Beck's beer and werderbremen fussball team .:)
i lived in oldenburg last year, which is a town an hour or so from bremen so i was able to visit there often.
I say bremen.:)

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17thgaffer July 25 2009, 22:21:58 UTC
I really want Bremen. But there isn't one there. It's in Bremerhaven and those two are far apart?

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myjetplane July 26 2009, 01:21:39 UTC
no they not far abart. I knew a girl who lived in bremerhaven as an exchange student (as i did in oldenburg). Bremerhaven, is in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) so I believe it's only an hour or less from bremen.

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17thgaffer July 26 2009, 22:24:37 UTC
I looked at it and it was like separated by another state, or something.
Is that correct?

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