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Disclaimer: I’m familiar with the French-speaking part, not the German one.

Work: you can’t live there long-term without a working contract, which comes with a residency permit if the employer goes the extra mile of justifying why they are hiring foreigners and certifying they can’t find a Swiss candidate. Many foreigners work in Switzerland, but some employers won’t bother with the extra paperwork (may not apply to every type of job but applies to me)
Admin: Switzerland is a highly organised, highly functional country. When you are in, it’s freaking good (I don’t know Germany). The level of services, from public infrastructure to social support is excellent most everywhere.
It’s safe. May be “boring” but frak it, not having to worry about crime most everywhere is just cool.

It can be funny when you are in what Swiss people consider a “ghetto” or a “high crime area”, you’ll be like wtf, it’s just some kids smoking weed is all. Our daughters going out at night in Geneva didn’t have a curfew or any limitations.

People. People may not be the warmest in big cities but privacy is highly respected - people won’t bother you… Under as long as you follow the rules. Making friends may take time, but as everywhere else, insert yourself in like-minded communities and you’ll meet excellent people.

And disclaimer again, I live in France right next to Geneva, I work there from time to time, I have friends there but I never lived in Switzerland.

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Skunk@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Salut voisin

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- reallyzen@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Hey Skunk, how’s stuff flying? I was working in Grottes last March/April and gosh what’s wrong with people… That’s what you call a bad neighbourhood??? Lol (with a subtle hint of racism 🤢).
  
  Come have a drink on me at “the office” this summer!
  
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  - Skunk@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Hey I’m fine and you?
    
    Les Grottes is a bad neighbourhood??? lol that’s the first time I hear that, for most I know it’s a nice little alternative place, but never bad. Maybe the shooting place next to it but they are not bad people, just sad and sick.
    
    I could try to come to the office yeah, never been there in my life even if I passed it some many times while living in the PDG. But nowadays it will be with Léman Express to the train station and then I’m fucked^^
    
    I’m a con de citadin, I have no car :)
    
    PS: Last time I went next to your office was to go flying at the airfield, there is a 100% french bakery next to it and I was having orgasms on just a baguette + beurre + saucisson sandwich. Almost stayed there eating instead of going to fly (priorities y’a know…). It’s amazing as how close France is but we cannot have good bread and stuff without crossing the border…
    
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Eternal192@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I have already seen SO many times Switzerland’s high ratings.

I’ll try to get through all your points:

Work is the main reason i’m going there, but this touches on the second point a little, “highly efficient country” is kinda where i’m a little worried.

Just going to continue from the first point, Germany is kind of patchwork efficiency is how i would describe it and just because i have been able to do good here doesn’t mean it will be good enough for Switzerland, i already made a very long comment on my work history so i won’t bore you with it too much basically every job i had in Germany was different and i had no prior experience, even my current job, textile, sure i used a needle and thread a few times but i’ve never done anything remotely related to textile production and i’m still there 2 years later doing fine but again it might not be enough for Switzerland and i know it’s excellent there i’ve watched a lot of videos about “dream countries”.

Boring? Yes please, i’m not a party animal or thrill junkie, i’m boring af, just chilling the wife, kid (teen), garden and PC i’m about as boring as it gets.

As far as people are concerned i don’t worry about it anymore because people that are on my weird wavelength tend to gravitate towards me after some time.

So yeah again my main concern is if i’ll be efficient enough to be kept around.
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- Skunk@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Oh don’t worry about efficiency. ReallyZen is talking about the efficiency in the official administrations.
  
  Like getting your driving licence converted to a Swiss one, renewing your passport and stuff like that.
  
  The baseline is that you pay for it but it is done in a minute (driving licence you get it the same day you go to the automobile office, you just wait 30 minutes max and they give it to you. Passport is something like during the week. Not 2 month, one week.)
  
  This kind of efficiency. And don’t worry the workers in those administrations are not overworked at all^^
  
  In the private sector it is somewhat the same, nobody is being pressured for efficiency, you just do you work professionally and that’s enough. Some companies might pressure their staff (because the boss is dumb?) but then they will have a high turnover and might fail in the long run.
  
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  - Eternal192@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Oh well that’s a bit reassuring.
    
    When i converted my driving licence to a German one i think it took 2 weeks, but it’s simply because they don’t want to modernize, even my company went back to whiteboards and magnets because they don’t want to invest into a proper IT department.
    
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