Hi Damara, firstly a warm welcome to Luxembourg. We have been here for many years and moved around a bit. Recommending locations is extremely difficult as there are always compromises but we prefer living in the city (read "sleepy village" compared to London!). Areas such as Bonnevoie and Gasperich are lively and relatively affordable. Limpertsberg and Belair are nice but pricey. Kirchberg and Cessange are completely dead. Best of luck. maclux

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Hi, I suggest you have a look at websites like athome.lu or habiter.lu to get a feel for rental levels in Luxembourg. It's not cheap and if you would prefer a house to an appartment you may have to consider going further out of town. If you have a dog and enjoy walking in the woods, some of the suburbs are worth considering. Niederanven for example has a reasonable selection of shops, a good bus service, excellent sports facilities (including a pool ), close to the woods and there are a lot of anglophones living there. Sandweiler is also nice, although the shops are a bit more scattered. Bertrange has plenty of shops, a large number of foreign residents, excellent facilities and a good bus service.
Remich, on the Moselle has loads of shops (and petrol stations). Because it's a bit further out of town the property prices should be more affordable. There are lovely walks through the vinyards or along the river there.

The only area I would suggest that you avoid is the "Gare" i.e. around the central railway station.

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Hello,

Its nice to live in Belair, Merl, and Hollerich/Gare (parts of these are lovely and others not so much) as you can walk into the city which often has much going on. The traffic is a problem if you live outside the city. Go on
athome.lu. I saw a nice house in Limps for 1700 and an apartment right by Merl Park (there is a dog park there) for 1500 just a couple of days ago.

I have a lab too. There is a great valley near by this to walk your dog from these neigbourhoods straight into town.

Gillian

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I agree with Schuttrange, I have read a lot about how overpriced Luxembourg City is which is strange as it would be no different than if someone was to look for an apartment in Central London! The key is to find areas just outside the city which have very good connections so you can commute easily. I live in Sandweiler and take one bus into work which takes me 20mins, AUCHAN (a big supermarket) is 10mins away. i pay 1400EUR for a 100m² apartment and I used to pay 900GBP for a 50m² flat South West London where my workplace was an hour away! The key benefit of Luxembourg I found was that you didn't have to be bang in the middle of the City to get to work. Like you damara my husband and I don;t care about nightlife we have a lot of fun hiking and going on walks in the nearby woods. Really recommend looking into areas around the City.

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