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Why Austria and not France or Spain ?
- Austria is an all year round location
- It is not expensive as you may have
been led to believe. Diesel is now about
1 € a litre. (March 2010) Bottles
of drinkable wine cost from 2€-3€.
Food is cheaper. Property is not expensive and has fallen
relatively in price over the past few years, but has stabilised.
- French &
Spanish property prices have been volatile in recent
years. So has the cost of living there.
Austrian property prices have remained
steady.
- It is a clean,
safe country in which to live. There is
little crime in country areas. The hotels,
restaurants and tourist attractions are
invariably spotless. The lakes and rivers
are maintained at "drinking water" quality.
There is no litter anywhere, and strict
recycling laws are in place to keep the
environment safe.
- The population
is only 8 million so things are generally
less complicated.
- It is so
central to everywhere else - Prague, Venice
and Budapest are
in very easy reach.
- Public transport is
excellent. The busses
are regular and clean, no smoking and air
conditioned. Transport is properly 'joined up' -
the busses connect with the railway stations
etc.
- It is rich in
culture. Mozart, Lehár, & Strauss - to name
a few, all came from there. The Austrians
really know their music.
- There is skiing on
the doorstep and there are 100+ major winter
sports resorts in Salzburg province alone.

- For amusement
there is walking, skiing, skating, sailing,
tobogganing, langlauf, riding, cycling,
scuba diving, hang gliding, swimming,
climbing, golf, potholing, paragliding,
water skiing, rafting, concerts, thermal
baths, theatre, operetta, cable cars,
mountain railways, horse drawn sleigh rides
. . .all within a few miles.
- The summers are
quite hot enough with 25-35ºC on many days
during the summer months, this is punctuated
by thunderstorms which are very welcome and
freshen things up. It's hot enough but still
nice and green. Winters are a wonderland
paradise of ice and snow when the skiing, skating, cross
country, curling etc all get into full
swing.
- The meadows are
full of wild flowers. There are fields of
orchids, and the woods are scented with the
perfume of wild cyclamen.
- The health
service is excellent.
- Motorway access
through Germany or from Italy, Slovenia or
Hungary is straightforward.
- Salzburg,
Graz and Linz
airports are serviced by cheap flights by
Ryan Air from London Stansted making even weekend breaks
affordable. There are also flights to
Klagenfurt, Vienna (Easyjet) and Bratislava.
- A holiday
property can be put to full use all the year
round and is of interest to all ages.

Could you escape to somewhere like
this ?
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