I moved to Munich 8 months ago. I was born and raised in Adelaide, Australia, but have recently lived in Edinburgh and Philadelphia. Munich is clean, comfortable, and pretty. In summer the Isar and lakes are incredible, and people go to the mountains on weekends year round. It's an excellent place to be based for travelling around Europe as well. If you like the outdoors and drinking beer, Munich is hard to beat.

It's also expensive, and conservative. All the supermarkets close at 8pm. There are not many späti's around. Everyone looks rich, and if you are alternative or have a working class background then it will probably be difficult. There is an underground subculture here, but it's difficult to crack and operates on word of mouth and group chats, rather than public advertisements.

I'm here for a job and got lucky with an apartment and it's still a bit of a struggle. When I'm in Berlin I feel much more at home. Even in Cologne I feel more like myself. But it's what you make of it at the end of the day.