[fruffy]

Most of the locals do enjoy the Oktoberfest (speaking as someone from there). It is a fun two weeks of the year and the entire city enters a special kind of mood.

But it is not surprising that the HN crowd would find it distasteful. People here are definitely not the type for these kinds of festivities.

[mschuster91]

Don't get me wrong: I have no problem with drinking beer, I used to be able to down an entire case of Augustiner in my best days in one night. Personal record at Oktoberfest is something around 6-7 Maß.

The problem I have with Oktoberfest is that it's gotten way out of hand, it's too much impact for the local population for way too little gain for common people - and it's increasingly unaffordable: 15 euros for a liter of beer? That's bloody ridiculous.

[pcl]

> 15 euros for a liter of beer? That's bloody ridiculous.

Better cross Norway off your vacation list, then!

[mschuster91]

People in Norway earn way more money than Germans do [1], that offsets the high taxes on alcohol.

[1] https://www.handelsblatt.com/karriere/norwegen-arbeitszeit-h...

[Gud]

And what about compared to Munich/Bavaria? Munich is very rich by German standards and doesn't seem to be too far off compared to Norway.

[mschuster91]

Munich locals pay the most expensive rents in Germany, and those who have the cash to buy are facing the second-most expensive real estate market in Europe [1].

[1] https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/immobilien-preis-eur...

[dunefox]

> Most of the locals do enjoy the Oktoberfest

Most of the locals certainly don't.