Thread 2806557

What am I in for expect mountains and Germans

>>2806557 (OP)

Boredom, an empty bank account and and the most fucked up dialect of whatever language you half ass studied.

subhuman albanians, the worst kind of germans and lots of old people. enjoy :^)

>>2806557 (OP)
Extreme boredom. Feminists. Passive aggression

>>2806557 (OP)
Only reason to go to Swiss is to fold your tongue and push it into some blonde 19 year olds bubble gum pink butthole

>>2806557 (OP)
>Gonna study in Switzerland in a month
>What am I in for expect mountains and Germans
really depends on the location

most "cities" in Switzerland are, as others mentioned, indeed quite boring in itself

Switzerland is awesome if you like /out/ stuff though
just pick up hiking, mountain biking, Paragliding or hang gliding, skiing, sailing, wind boarding, climbing, bouldering etc.
and you'll never run out of cool things to do

again really city dependent
St. Gallen will be an entire different experience than Zürich

if you intend to travel a lot, get a
>Generalabonnement
which gets you an unlimited use all (almost) all trains

>>2806557 (OP)
Save you time and mostly your money and go study in Austria, basically switzerland and you will be closer from Prague and Budapest

>>2806557 (OP)
Everything being expensive.
Everyone being boring and nightlife ending at 9 either because everyone is old OR because everyone has to be up early for another day of working overtime.
Passive-agressive, condescending people.
The best thing you can do in Switzerland is run away from the swiss and go /out/ where you won't see anyone. Excellent country for hiking, not so much for camping because every other canton or even city has its own rules ranging from "anything goes because we're at a high enough altitude so it's not 'camping' but 'bivouac' and thus unconditionally allowed" to "you will be fined if you have a gas can or an unfolded chair"

>>2806893
>Everything being expensive.
honestly it's not as bad as portrait online

remember salaries are high as well
Switzerland actually scores pretty good for Salary to CoL ratio

and as student you won't buy housing
which, together with eating out, is the only thing that really is actually outrageously expensive

rents are okay outside the biggest city centers
trains are reasonably affordable
food is fine as well (or if your near the German / French border you can just hop over to get it cheap)
and everything imported is cheap

>>2806895
I keep going back there for work and it's pretty bad if you don't live there and therevore don't have a swiss wage (which isn't that great either because your nominally high wage is before taxes, healthcare contribution and other such fun little expenses. At least in the Neuchatel and Geneva cantons.
>t. works in the watchmaking industry

>>2806557 (OP)
Boredom.
Nights out in the form of one beer and back to bed before 8.
People calling the cops on you if you make the slightest peep after 10.
Sticks up the ass so far you'll wonder how they don't come out the mouth.
Everything being either interdit or verbotten.

If I'm rich is there anything interesting to do there other than the /out/ stuff and banking?

>>2806557 (OP)
I'll just say I've never experienced so many crazy people as I have in Switzerland. Multiple times crazy people have whipped out their dick and started pissing in broad daylight

>>2807037
>If I'm rich is there anything interesting to do there other than the /out/ stuff
is going to Jungfraujoch or Rhine Falls /out/ stuff for you?
or renting a boat?

in any way, lots of cultural / art stuff as well
and shopping, especially watches

there are some really cool niche watchmakers where you customize every bit
did this a few years ago, the whole process took like 2x 3h, got the watch ~8months later and I think it was around ~10k€

and the cities are exceedingly nice just for living
if you have the money, there aren't many places in the world nicer than Zürich or Geneva to live in

>and banking?
we're not in the 90s anymore anon
London or Frankfurt are the places to be in Europe for banking

>>2806899
>swiss wage (which isn't that great either because your nominally high wage is before taxes
taxes are low
and health care contributions are not a % of your salary but fixed, and not very high either

again
if you live and work in switzerland
your disposable income to Cost of Living ratio is pretty good (this is measured always by NET income, after taxes and other deductions)

not sure what you make
but regarding travel, Switzerland is not really more expensive than other western European cities
only eating out is stupendously expensive

>buying housing
>childcare
are the things that are a lot more expensive than anywhere else

>t. grew up in Switzerland, now in Germany, but still got family there

>>2807224
I haven't worked there directly but
>watchmaking
so half of my colleagues and friends in the field have or curently do and the verdict is typically that it's not as good as anyone would think, especially if you're a border worker (which you often are because the watchmaking towns are overpriced compared to the factory wages and that's IF you get available housing in the first place)
>not a % of your salary but fixed, and not very high either
It was pretty high at least from all the peeps I've heard from but that may very well just be a Neuchatel canton thing since it has one of (if not the?) lowest minimum wages in CH so the watch factory workers are on that level for ages because the work culture in this particular field sucks. They hire a whole lot of french, belgian, german and italian watchmakers with a salary that seems astronomical but after taxes, healthcare, transportation and what have you and most importantly housing, the remaining disposable income is pretty much on-par with what they'd get in their own home countries for similar position in aftersales/repair (since there are no active watch factories in these places aside from Germany). It's particularly disproportionate because the cities in question are not large cities but have prices on par with some major EU cities. I remember friends complaining that rent is far higher neat Le Locle than in Lyon despite Lyon being the second largest town in France and a very active hub while Le Locle is a dead factory town.
Again though, with cantons setting a lot of their own rules on taxes and wages, that may absolutely be a Neuchatel issue specifically.

>>2807236
>minimum wages
yeah that might be a difference
Switzerland, compared to France or especially Germany is not a great place if you make (close to) minimum wage
e.g. paying health insurance by percent of salary instead of fixed is typically a very good deal if you make below median wage

my perspective is from "ambitious" STEM grads or researchers (both mostly comp sci / electric eng / math / physics)
and typically these are left with quite a bit more money after taxes, rent, everything in Switzerland

>rent is far higher neat Le Locle than in Lyon
to be fair, the bigger outlier here is France
as they build a lot and housing is overall pretty affordable

but yeah otherwise you're right
for traveling that's less of a problem though