[jeduardo]

> To me Hamburg seemed exceptionally road/car heavy. Munich in comparison seems much more sane and European

That's an interesting perspective. I've been living in Hamburg for more than 10 years and visited Munich many times in the past 5 years or so for work, and my observation was always the opposite (and similar to the article's author).

I never felt the need to get a driver's license while living in Hamburg, given the broad coverage of the U-/S-Bahn network. It goes _really_ far. And most of the people I know who have cars usually prefer to commute by train and save the drive for weekends or evening events.

I've entertained the idea of moving to Munich for many, many times, and one of the deterrents for me always was that I found Munich to be too much of a car-oriented city; U-Bahn/Tram coverage seemed limited to a more central area where rents were quite high. Farther away, where most of my friends live, is covered by buses or S-Bahn with long, long journeys. And that's it, it's either a long commute on trains that look a bit old, or having a nice drive.

It does look like rent prices are not as high in that central area as they're used to be, which sounds nice, because living in the nice area with good public transit coverage looks lovely.