I arrived in Austria 3 1/2 weeks ago now. I have been overwhelmed with how nice people are here. However, I have also learned you should put limits on people's hospitality.
Especially that of these folks:
That's Tony and Elisabeth, my landlords. If one is not careful and extremely adamant, they will kill you with Vorarlberg hospitality. Perhaps they'll take you on a hike, buy you dinner at a Gasthaus, and then proceed to buy you every type of Austrian alcohol that exists and refuse to take no for an answer. It's dangerous.
They may also call friends after normal Austrian working hours to try to fix your computer.
Tony might just drive you around to get all of the administrative tasks done in an afternoon and help you figure out the new city you live in.
He might also make things really simple for you based solely on the fact that he knows literally EVERYONE in this town. I guess that's what you get for being a teacher/principal for 40 years!
Also (and this is where I draw the line on hospitality), Elisabeth might just clean your whole apartment while you are out of town and wash and iron your dirty laundry.
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