Interesting, just learning about the 19th c. split between Austrian and German philosophy -- motivated by the anti-Kantianism of the Habsburgs, apparently. Which might have mirrored the Wolff/Pietist divide of a generation before. Austria goes positivist, which ends with the holy rota in Vienna, while German lands go from Kant to speculative idealism, and then take Kant back out of their ruck.
Some local resonance. Apparently, Budapest followed Germany, even post-Compromise, because the German philosophy was seen as more enlightened and European (not to mention non-Austrian). I had known that the Shakespeare lineage in Serbia comes from the German, in contrast to Romania, where the French translations were the source, because the upper classes could afford to flee to Paris for a bit (the same roads followed much later by Cioran and Brancusi -- I think Brancusi actually walked there). So that would make for this culturally German corridor just beneath Austria. And might explain why I liked Budapest and Belgrade so much. If I had to jump to here, I'd likely angle to land in one of those two places. Sarajevo is powerful and unique, but just before my last stay there, the city told me that she likely couldn't be of any further help to me, and she turned out to be right. Powerful dreams, though. As for points eastward, there are a few cities in Romania that I like a lot, and it's culturally much more Western, but there's something about the art, music and literature that much more strongly draws me to the other side of the peninsula. I end up reading Kraznahorkai or Andric instead of Two Thousand Years or Carterescu. But this is just idle thinking, as the odds of an avenue opening to any of these places is rather slim, and I'd enthusiastically head to any of these cities (with one or two exceptions) for a longer stint.