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Photograph via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 at What is the Meldezettel, and why does everything depend on it? The Meldezettel is Austria’s residence registration form — proof, filed with the city, that you live at a specific address. Almost every other administrative step in Vienna checks against this record, from opening a bank account … Read more
Photograph by Marlene.riedl, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 at How does Vienna’s public transport fare system work? Vienna runs a zone-based fare system operated by Wiener Linien, integrated with regional rail and bus operators through the Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region (VOR), the fare authority covering Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland. One ticket type covers the whole city … Read more
Vienna sorts household waste into four or five color-coded streams — general waste, paper, glass, biological waste and, in most buildings, packaging — collected by the city’s own department, MA48. Anything that doesn’t fit those streams goes to a staffed recycling site called a Mistplatz or into a separate hazardous-waste collection, not into any household … Read more
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