How different is the dialect spoken in Heidelberg from that in Stuttgart?

Question

(South Franconian from Swabian)

Answer 1

Um.... being German and having lived there for a good portion of my life (and my ex wife ironically having lived in Stuttgart for many years).... the people who mostly will speak in regional dialects over there are either much older people or the kind of people who hang around getting hammered in local bars. Seriously.

I mean most of my family, for example, knows HOW to speak "Hoch-deutsch" but unless the are intentionally speaking it with each other they never use it. I lived in the Bremen area for a number of years and all but never heard anybody speak in any of the regional dialects up there.

Even "Koelsch", a dialect from the Cologne area, is hardly ever used except by somewhat lowlife types who want to impress other lowlife types by how bad-*** they are.

Even Bavarian - which was a dialect that WOULD get used quite a bit when compared to other German dialects, is not used all that much anymore.

Nowadays I think the german people are more interested in being understood properly amongst themselves hences a lot of the regional dialects are rarely used by the current generation of Germans.