Favoritner woman tells

“Only four Austrians still live in my building”

Viennese municipal building (symbolic photo)

(Bild: Klemens Groh)

Many of our readers call for a better distribution of refugees across all districts of Vienna in the major "Krone" integration series. A woman from Favoriten talks about her communal building.

I've lived in Favoriten since I was a child, with a few interruptions, but now for 44 years straight," writes Brigitta K. "I live in a council estate where there are almost no people who speak German, let alone Austrians! There are exactly four people living on my floor who are Austrian. We are between 78 and 90 years old."

She is particularly annoyed by the noise in her estate: "A Turkish family with four children lives above me. Although I've often tried to politely ask them to at least keep the children in check after 10 p.m., it hasn't changed for years!"

"Can't speak German"
Many readers are calling for one thing above all: better distribution of refugees and new arrivals across all districts. And German is an issue in most of the letters. Heinz N.: "My neighbors have lived in Vienna for 25 years and neither of them can speak German. The grandchild was born in Austria, but only speaks Arabic and Serbian!"

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