Apartment swapped

Moving as a new start “without ballast” at the age of 75

New apartment, new neighborhood, new furniture: for Edith W., this means living in the present and not in times long past.(Bild: Gerhard Bartel)

60 square meters in Vienna's Großfeldsiedlung instead of 90 square meters in the countryside: Mrs. W. is happy every day about this apartment swap - not despite, but precisely because it changed her life when she was already 75 years old.

When you enter Edith W.'s 60-square-metre apartment, it still smells of fresh paint and newly assembled Swedish furniture. She has been living here in Vienna's Großfeldsiedlung for a year - since she decided to make a fresh start and move here at the age of 75, leaving behind things that others would envy.