Posts made in April 14th, 2009

A short note about our new life in Austria

Posted by vienna on Apr 14, 2009 in Home and Family | 5 comments

One of the most annoying things in life is when you need to decide something immediately but you don’t have what you need to make the decision yet. We arrived here on the 30th of March and as expected, we started laying out stuff based on how our life’s here going to be but the thing is we don’t know a lot of things. We are not sure if my husband’s company will offer him a good position here in Austria or send him to work somewhere again. Under normal circumstances, he can insist to stay in Austria but in times where there’s an ongoing crisis, who have the guts to go against his/her employers’ will?

Then there’s the question of whether it is good to spend money now or we should wait. Interest rates in banks are getting low so your money is just kind of sleeping there. Maybe it is good to invest it on real state but what if the economy doesn’t pick up soon or what if it gets worse? In such case it is definitely better to have the money at hand.

Those are the big things but it is a chain reaction. You see, because we don’t know if we are going to stay in Austria for a long time, we can’t decide whether to get a 24-lock-in internet or phone contract. It would such a waste if we are to move somewhere else in a few months or so. Prepaid internet is not an option because it is extremely expensive and “no internet” is NOT an option at all.

Risk is not my favorite thing so you can imagine how these things are driving me crazy.