[shay_ker]

There's no free lunch. Housing costs are effectively carried by immigrants and transplants: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Setting-the-r...

In general, the Vienna model is very difficult to copy without being in extreme conditions: https://www.threads.com/@__smiz/post/Cxpz28CIkT6

[Plasmoid]

Many people also don't know that Vienna was isolated and divided for nearly 50 years during the cold war. A significant amount of the available housing is due to Vienna having a bad economy for almost a century.

[hackandthink]

Berlin was divided.

Like Berlin, Vienna had occupation zones, but there was never a wall between them.

[eigenspace]

The reason "many people dont know" about that is that it didnt happen.

You just made it up.

[tptacek]

That's a pretty uncivil way to say "you're wrong". People are wrong about things all the time; I'm sure you have been too.

[tomjakubowski]

Huh? I thought that Vienna's partition period following WWII lasted more like ten years than sixty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied-occupied_Austria

[eigenspace]

Vienna was under occupation for 10 years but was never partitioned. There was mostly free movement of people and goods between the zones.