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Most of the locals do enjoy the Oktoberfest (speaking as someone from there). It is a fun two weeks of the year and the entire city enters a special kind of mood.

But it is not surprising that the HN crowd would find it distasteful. People here are definitely not the type for these kinds of festivities.

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Don't get me wrong: I have no problem with drinking beer, I used to be able to down an entire case of Augustiner in my best days in one night. Personal record at Oktoberfest is something around 6-7 Maß.

The problem I have with Oktoberfest is that it's gotten way out of hand, it's too much impact for the local population for way too little gain for common people - and it's increasingly unaffordable: 15 euros for a liter of beer? That's bloody ridiculous.

> 15 euros for a liter of beer? That's bloody ridiculous.

Better cross Norway off your vacation list, then!

People in Norway earn way more money than Germans do [1], that offsets the high taxes on alcohol.

[1] https://www.handelsblatt.com/karriere/norwegen-arbeitszeit-h...

And what about compared to Munich/Bavaria? Munich is very rich by German standards and doesn't seem to be too far off compared to Norway.

Munich locals pay the most expensive rents in Germany, and those who have the cash to buy are facing the second-most expensive real estate market in Europe [1].

[1] https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/immobilien-preis-eur...

> Most of the locals do enjoy the Oktoberfest

Most of the locals certainly don't.

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