“The coffee shop played a big role in Vienna of 1900. Rents were sky high, housing was difficult to come by, your apartment probably wasn't heated, and so you went to the coffee shop. You went to the coffee shop because it was warm, because it was great Viennese coffee, and you went for the conversation and the company.” BigsDifficultCompanyRolesSkyConversationWarmCoffeeShopsApartmentHousingViennaCoffee ShopSky High Author:Eric Weiner
“Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many musicians that in apartment buildings people had to come up with a schedule - you practice at 5 p.m., I'll practice at 6 p.m. That way the music didn't collide with one another.” PeopleWayFactsPracticeAirBuildingMusicianCome UpApartmentSchedulesClassical MusicViennaCollide Author:Eric Weiner
“So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build walls, literal and figurative, around ourselves. We move from a teeming college dorm to an apartment to a house, and if we're really wealthy, to an estate. We think we're moving up, but really we're walling off ourselves.” PeopleIfsThinkingDoeMovingHouseCollegeSourceWallWealthyApartmentEstatesLiteralDormsSource Of HappinessMoving Up Book:The Geography of Bliss Source: The Geography of Bliss
