Switzerland vs Silicon Valley for Software Developers

Post by iamasoftwaredev » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 5:03 PM UTC

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> 1. How easy/difficult to get Switzerland citizenship if you live and work there? I know someone who was born there, raised there, currently lives there (after a while in North America) and does not having citizenship or want to go through the hassle. From what she says it's a massive pain in the ass.

"How easy/difficult to get Switzerland citizenship if you live and work there" "From what she says it's a massive pain in the ass." This statement is true, but geting citizenship is not required to stay in Switzerland basicly vor ever as long as u have work

Post by Nursie » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 5:09 PM UTC

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> In other big metropolitan areas (Paris, London, etc.), the cost of living is at least a bit lower, but they're still major cities and not that cheap. And there salaries for engineers are even lower. If you want decent pay in London you go contract, not perm, and head for the finance sector. You can make the equivalent of $150k-280k depending on how good you are at landing contracts and selling yourself. AFAICT the…

May I ask where did you find good rates in Austria?

Post by madhadron » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 5:10 PM UTC

Post by sjg007 » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 5:17 PM UTC

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Firefighters can make bank.. overtime and all that. Teachers are underpaid and nurses are probably too but they too can do well working overtime etc...

Firefighters and teachers are normally overtime exempt salary. And it's not really fair to nurses to say "you only get a fair wage if you're putting in 60-80 hours". It's also not fair to their patients, as care quality drops pretty hard when you over work nurses and doctors.

Post by ChuckNorris89 » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 5:18 PM UTC

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May I ask where did you find good rates in Austria?

I've never followed up on any of these because I'm not currently interested in leaving the UK. But a quick search of my inbox shows Graz is where most of the work is, and the latest rate I can find in any of the emails is €70 per hour. If I were to take on this work through my Ltd company it would translate to a salary equivalent of around £101,000 or $130,000 US. What you actually get out of it probably depends on y…