Thanks, but I’m not so convinced. NYC has over 4x more people than Vienna. I think I would find that alone a bit overwhelming.

Vienna is also low (building height) and VERY green for a city of nearly 2 million. Great pubic transportation. Good (not great like NL) bike lanes. Clean air. Clean water. Low crime. Single payer health insurance. I live in a € 600k (very cheap for Europe) condo next door to public housing and we all shop at the same grocery store and get our hair cut at the Ysel’s shop next door. His sister lives in our building and has come to some parties in the building. It is like a small town in the middle of a big town.

Otherwise put, I’ve gotten very used to the VERY high quality of life of a social democratic cosmpolitan big European city. It is like living in the suburbs of Minneapolis of my youth, with all the public amentites of big city Europe — minus the space. Also minus the massive racism, police brutality and incredible wealth inequality that constantly pits Americans against each other fighting for the scraps left by the über-wealthy.