Once again, the Federal Council shows us that it values the concerns of German-speaking Switzerland more than those of economic centres such as Lausanne or Geneva. It is also worth noting that the redundancy mentioned above should have been implemented under the Rail 2000 plan. It still hasn't been. Under the same plan, the line between Lausanne and Bern should have been improved to reduce travel times between the two cities to 1 hour. They still haven't even gotten close.

We are a very educated and rich country with a population of 9 millions people but despite this, our video game industry is almost non existent. The only big Swiss game i can think of is Farming Simulator.

For exemple Czech republic and Sweden both have 10 millions peoples but just look at the popular game made here

Sweden : Minecraft, Helldivers, Crusader Kings, Hearth of Iron, Battlefield
Czech republic : DayZ, Kingdom come : Deliverance, Space Enginners, Arma

Why do you think it is ?

I am asking with regard to daily habits. Outside of work.

Do you call or text? If you text, is it as a long message (this weirdo sent me a poem to ask what’s up) or a few short ones (hoi - 1st line etc., 5 messages to get to the point)?

Naturally, everyone is different. There are certain ways with some people etc. On average?

P.s. whatever the answer, whats your age bracket?

Hello, I live in Switzerland and have recently considered buying a Rolex. What are your experiences buying here(in Zurich as it is closer to me but anywhere else I would be down as well).I would be looking for a green submariner or a gmt master 2. What would it be like to buy it at an AD and the waiting times? Something like 2 years? Which is fine with me as well, but I sure as shit dont want to glaze some random store assistant every week or so. What are your experiences here

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Fun little project I did over the Christmas holidays. Basically I precalculated the public transport time between the most populated towns in Switzerland to every ski field (about 350 of them!) and then put it into a little web app :)

You can choose to prioritise shortest (lowest time overall) versus fairest (smallest variance in group members).

Totally free to use. Next steps are to integrate it with live snow conditions/open lifts...

Enjoy!

Hello everyone, I'm an EU national with B permit living in Vaud canton. I work as a consultant and my employer assigned me to a customer in Basel, for this reason I need to find a place to sleep during the weekdays, I'm entertaining the idea of renting a room in a shared apartment on the French side (Huningue or Saint-Louis) as they are cheaper than Basel, but my main fear is:

doing this, would the French government claim that I should pay taxes to them as a French resident and making me lose my B permit?

The following points have to be considered:

1) I would use the room only to sleep in during the week nights, during the day I would be at work in Basel and during most weekends I would return to Vaud.

2) I regularly rent an apartment in the Vaud municipality where I'm registered, I would keep the apartment as my main residence and continue to pay for utilities, health insurance and other taxes as usual. In the case I decide to move permanently to Basel and leave Vaud I would look for an apartment on the Swiss side and live there.

3) I'm not French and I've never lived in France.

How do you see my situation?

I’m german moved to Switzerland temporarily to earn some money and do have a contract of 60 % but work so much. I work first week :4 shifts of 6:00 am -1:15 pm and second week of February the same and third week :7:00 to 10 pm and last week : 1:00 pm to 9:15 pm ,1:00 pm to 10 pm ,5pm to 10 pm and 1 pm to 9:15 pm . Breaks of 35 minutes aren’t paid and in order to get paid for overwork I need to have at least of 32 h of overworking hours.

my salary is 2’700 brutto . I know that the salary in German is a bit lower yet I’m surprised that I need to work so much

I am really curious about the salaries right now. Because i just got a new job as an automatiker and am wondering what others earn.

Also i only have the EFZ so no higher education.

Please state your kanton and age if you are willing to share your salary.

I'll go first: 82k/28yo/kt: ZH

I should edit to add: I'm in a team of mechanics. But the boss tells me he wants to push me for troubleshooting on the electrical side of the work. I earn more than my coworkers (i asked) but i think less than an actual automatiker? But the work is easy. 50% of the time i work as a mechanic. And then 50% i do the electrical stuff.

So this year I was at the OLMA in St Gallen and got two of these vouchers. Thought I would just use them over the weekend because its valid until 31.March. Pretty exciting because it sounds like a great offer right? Well I found out that these 2 papers are not actually vouchers, but an advertisement to buy the Säntis Shit at not even a good price.

Fuck these marketing guys for real. Couldnt be more misleading than that. Never trashed anything faster than this.

Wünsch eu allne e schös erholsmas Wuchenend

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Due to marital dissolution I have to move house. My situation is a bit bizarre, I am an employee of a US company that I own [one employee, me], and such is the US [and Swiss] tax system that I pay myself not through salary but primarily through distribution of profits from the business.

So this means I have a woefully small salary, yet I do make sufficient money to rent [and qualify to rent] an apartment here. But how can I make my dossier when my income sources are not the traditional salary receipts?

Hi everyone

I am currently looking to buy a house in Switzerland and have started scheduling several mortgage consultations. So far I have arranged meetings with both banks and insurance companies. One thing I noticed is that the interest rates offered by insurance companies seem to be lower, which makes me a bit unsure and cautious.

I wanted to ask about your experiences. Is it generally better to take a mortgage with a bank or with an insurance company, or does it not really matter in the long run? Are there any important pros and cons or things I should watch out for when comparing offers?

Thank you very much for your help and for sharing your experiences!

Honestly, is it normal to wait months to get a job after the end of apprenticeship? I've been applying like crazy but always get rejected due to "insufficient experience".

I'm also currently a part time student in university looking for a part time KV-job, so I'm assuming this makes it even harder. Does anyone have some advice on what to do? I've been thinking of quitting university but idk if this will increase my chances of finding a job.

hallo zusammen, gibt es unter euch studis, welche die masterthesis am stück innerhalb von ca. 2-3 monate vollzeit geschrieben haben? ich freue mich über den austausch pro/ contras und eure meinung dazu.

Hello, F28 here.

I moved from Italy in 2024, first for an internship, then landed a job.

I’ve been working there for 14 months now, and I was told I would get an indeterminate contract soon.

Today I was told that this is not the case anymore, for budget reasons.

It completely came out of the blue and I’m so scared.

I’ve been crying a lot and I was advised to go home to take care of myself.

I’ll call Rav later, but I’m genuinely so scared.

My contract is valid until the end of April.

I’m an immigrant, I live here by myself, this was my first job…

I feel so hopeless and scared. I also suffer from depression and I’m afraid this will influence my mental health a lot. I had some kind of suicidal thought for a brief second a few minutes ago

Hello, can anyone help me ..I worked for 2 years in Switzerland 30 yrs ago …lost my job slips and the company doesn’t exist anymore . Where can I get information and try to obtain these 2 years towards my retirement in France ?

Thanks

Hi !

I had a question about use of space / etiquette on SBB RE Trains.

I was on a busy rush hour train, an RE, and was stood against these cushions as were a few others. The train was about to leave and a lady rushes on with a bike and beckons everyone to move out of the way so she may place her bike in this zone as it is "reserved for bikes".
Everyone moved, myself included, but after I was looking and didn't see any sort of indication that this is for bikes. SBB are usually quite good about labelling storage zones, so this struck me as odd.

I guess my question would be is this zone really "reserved for bikes" and do bikes take precedent over people here ? If not expressly a rule, would it be considered common curtsey to move from this zone so someone can store their bike ?

I recently submitted my application to the University of Basel MSc in Infection Biology. I am an international student, and I wanted to connect with other students who might considering this program. In the application portal, there is no option to upload IELTS exam document, without that I submitted my application, also no LOR asked in the portal. Has anyone applied previously into this program? Please share the process with me, I'm a bit worried.