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Augsburg is one of Germany's oldest cities — founded by the Romans as Augusta Vindelicorum, in the Middle Ages one of Europe's wealthiest thanks to the Fugger banking dynasty, and today a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its historically unique water management system. Around 300,000 residents, the University of Augsburg with over 20,000 students, the technical university, the Fuggerei district (the world's oldest still-operating social housing, founded in 1521). A self-contained Bavarian mid-sized city with great history and an excellent quality-of-life-to-cost ratio.

Augsburg lies just 50 kilometres west of Munich but has a completely different mentality. The lifestyle pressure of the state capital is missing here; Augsburgers are friendly, Bavarian-grounded, less selective in the posing sense but more suspicious of polished staging. That shapes the dating scene. Augsburg singles have no interest in profiles that look like magazine covers — they want to know whether someone is real.

talkbeforedate is the app answer to that stance. An anonymous call is a reality check that works faster than any profile description. Authentic people come across as authentic immediately. Anyone playing a role gets exposed in ten minutes. Exactly what Augsburgers value in a first step — even if the app is new, the underlying logic is anything but.