Where's a good place for me to live?
Hi all, I am a civil engineering student who's looking to move to europe eventually after my studies, I plan to study a masters degree and stay after. I am also specialising is Structural and hydrological engineering.
I was wondering if anyone could suggest a place based on the following criteria:
- little to no car dependency and good urban planning (this really matters a lot to me).
- Cold weather, I despise the heat and like the rain and snow, I also like winter activities like skiing and snowboarding, but I also would like some sun every now and then because constant darkness would likely get depressing.
- Good urban life and night-life, with lots of stuff to do.
- direct, introverted people.
- Socially liberal.
- Ease of travel to the rest of Europe and the world.
- Good money making opportunities.
- Good Civil engineering opportunities.
So far I really like Switzerland, it seemed like a paradise to me when I visited, but the overly rigid rules based culture is a little off-putting, and its extremely hard even for EU citizens to move there, and I am not an EU citizen.
If anyone can make any other suggestions that would be good, I'm an avid language learner and already speak upper conversational Spanish so I am more than willing to learn languages. Right now I am learning French and German to C1 levels each at minimum.