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Can someone here elucidate the downsides to living in Switzerland, over the US, particularly for those in the HN crowd?
The language is a challenge as well, though most people speak English
Smaller houses (and places in general)
A very demanding society, basically https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/11pcs1/while_i_l...
Although Switzerland and America may have very different work cultures and social support policies, that's not the most obvious difference. Consider our per-capita GDPs (2013, nominal dollars)[1]: Switzerland 84,748 United States 53,042 So even if the US passed new employment laws and embraced work-life balance, we would still have only 63% of Switzerland's money to spend on each person. I'm not saying that the US co…
Can someone here elucidate the downsides to living in Switzerland, over the US, particularly for those in the HN crowd?
Can someone here elucidate the downsides to living in Switzerland, over the US, particularly for those in the HN crowd?
It is very expensive
In the US it is easier to have a six figures salary, but still drive over to a cheaper part of town to buy lunch for under $8, or buy cheap stuff from Walmart, ShopRite etc.
Whereas if you live in Norway, you have to drive to Sweden in order to buy cheaper groceries.
Can someone here elucidate the downsides to living in Switzerland, over the US, particularly for those in the HN crowd?
Can someone here elucidate the downsides to living in Switzerland, over the US, particularly for those in the HN crowd?
In regards of programming jobs, sometimes it's like living 40 years ago.
Racism is annoying, but normal here. And you must be proud of being Swiss.
Switzerland is tiny. Finding (and keeping) friends here can be hard, because if you even dare to fart, the whole village knows about it within seconds.
And you shouldn't use your brain too much, so you can keep up with the others. But I'm pretty sure that doesn't only apply to Switzerland, so you may safely ignore this one.
In Europe, many, many people were essentially slaves. They were property of a small class of landed gentry who ruled over them with, at best, patriarchal indifference and at worst homicidal, spiteful authoritarianism. They were peasants. Then, over the course of about 200 years, some of these gentry got their heads chopped off or were stripped of their papal lands or were rounded up and put in front of a firing squad…
what? America had an actual slave class. Also indentured servants.
I stand by my analysis since American slaves were (at the time) a small minority of the country that existed in a fraction of the geography and lasted for less than 90 years after 1776.
No portion of americans were "systematically enslaved and disenfranchised for ... 2000 years" and no majority (or even large plurality) of americans were ever enslaved at all.
I think article skips anything negative. For start "lunch hour" is mandatory and in reality it means you spend extra hour at work. I would rather spend a hour with my kid than eating with my boss. Second the taxation leaves various compulsory "contributions": social, pension, wealth, tv, petrol etc. It is not 5% but more likely 50% of average salary. And third, I have totally different experience with american compan…
I think article skips anything negative. For start "lunch hour" is mandatory and in reality it means you spend extra hour at work. I would rather spend a hour with my kid than eating with my boss. Second the taxation leaves various compulsory "contributions": social, pension, wealth, tv, petrol etc. It is not 5% but more likely 50% of average salary. And third, I have totally different experience with american compan…
Also, my old roommate from college works at CERN now as a researcher. He tells me that he can't afford to go out and eat since it's so expensive. Is this true?