Grooviest places to live in Germany

I look at the news from Germany with its nationwide weather map and wonder about it. I suppose we all think of Munich and Bavaria when we think of what is typical Germany. However, their accent is a bit not to my taste. Some old post mentioned that NRW has the best looking German women. And Hamburgers seem to love it or hate it. Have you all compared and contrasted with areas other than where you settled? What kind of people flock where? If Germany were my cake, which slice should I sit down to enjoy? Danke sehr.

That depends what you can afford and what your occupation is and what your expectations are. Climate is the best around the Bodensee and the upper rhine valley. If you are a nature person that would be a fine choice too. Another nice corner is on the other side of Germany Lower Bavaria around Passau or upper Austria. Climate is not quite as good as SW Germany but still not bad.Flamingos have shown up there last year so it could not be so bad. Google Schaerding and find out what it is all about. Fuessing (+Bad Griesbach) is a spa and 10km to the south of it.A second branch of the Autobahn is on the way so it is an hour drive to Munich airport. Live is easy and golf courses are plentyful. Passau is a University town of 55 000 people.

Thanks for the post, gaberlunzi! NRW look humid to me: lots of rain and temperatures recently of around 15 C. I double that and add 32 degrees to the upmost disdain of many posters here (!) and come up with about 62 degrees...which is fine without humidity. So, NRW is not good for people who can't take humidity? What about other places in Germany? Humid everywhere?

62 and humid is bad?!!? 62F isn't warm... it's not like you're talking 80-85F and humid.

No clue where in North America you are, but some places of Bavaria the weather is similar (on average- some years it varies since weather varies) to most of the Midwest USA except the Midwest has more extremes (colder winter and warmer summer) than Bavaria (Munich area).

I suffer from easily shiny face! I used to go around in a t-shirt in winter in Holland, with just a coat when walking outside. No cool-looking scarf, or I'd get too warm. And forget wearing a sweater with indoor heating.

I've always wanted to be a "cool" chick with cool skin and the ability to pile on clothes. Alas.

Yes, 62 is fine. Without humidity.

I wouldn't equate "warmest" and "best" really. Temperature can hit 105F in the summers in the upper rhine valley and the Breisgau some years (of course we also get -25 degrees in the winter sometimes).

And yes, it rains everywhere in Germany. All the time. Well, at least now in fall. And when it doesn't rain, there's a cutting wind that makes you so not enjoy the supposedly 70F it should hit the next two days. Under a grey skey.

This is a sweeping generalisation & untrue to boot (unless you define "we")...

We in America who look at travel posters at ticket agencies. Yes, a generalization. Guilty.

Is it mostly humid when it rains? Is the rain ever cold and delicious? Hopefully, most of the time? (Fingers crossed.) What do you all with curly hair do?

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Cold, yes. Freezing, even. Delicious, no. Where I live we get the sideways kind.


Suffer.

Are you perhaps entertaining the idea of moving here to be with your Internet Bekanntschaft?

Entertaining, yes. However...

I'm in school here and taking certification exams for probably two years...and that's a long time. One can dream, though.

Me with a shiny face and frizzy hair isn't as nice a picture as a tanned, just out of the water (and therefore cool!) California babe with smooth, shiny locks.

stay in California. Trust me on this one. The typical reaction of Germans when I tell them I moved here from California (San Francisco) is SHEER DISBELIEF, bordering on disgust.

Maybe that's just a reaction to you personally.

Isn't he just the sweetest?

I didn't know you came from California MLovett.One learns something new every day

Just show 'em this Californian garden spot I recently had the "pleasure" to drive through.

The SHEER DISBELIEF was from my side. Toothless overweight trailer-dwelling zombies who, would my rented Mini Cooper have broken down, would have clearly sucked out our brains.

The Germans have this weird complusion for anything that's "schoen warm" ... which is why they'll fly to any spanish shithole, 14 hours to the Dominican Republic, Cuba or that great third-world-country-with-cable-television Florida and put up with anything.

Give me cool and green any day of the week!

Expaticus, you were in the middle of Bumfuck, CA. My condolences. I am actually from San Diego -- better for beaches. But San Frantastico is, of course, the best (and probably most liberal) city in the USA.

He loves me, I just know it.

Yep. When in Europe, I don't say I am American; I say I am Californian. The reaction is usually much better. Hey, we were once a Republic!

p.s. timezoner, my profile says so, *wink*

Move to Vancouver Island. Spring flowers in January Snow and frost twice a year (2-3days each) isolated from the hustle and bustle of everything and rain you have to cope with now and then - sometimes 6 weeks in a row.
For me, I would pick Hawaii.