Score for work/travel:
★★★★★
Overview:
Vienna offers world-class infrastructure, excellent Wi-Fi, and a polished, efficient city environment. It’s clean, safe, and packed with cafés and cultural life, though coworking is less vibrant compared to scrappier nomad hubs. Costs are high, but quality of life is among the best in Europe.
Quick Hits:
- Wi-Fi: Fast, reliable everywhere
- Coworking: Available but less dynamic
- Coffee shops: Historic café culture, some laptop-friendly
- Community: Smaller nomad presence, strong professional networks
- Cost: High
- Lifestyle: Safe, clean, cultural capital, gyms and transit everywhere
- Downsides: Expensive, less “nomad energy” than Lisbon or Budapest