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Why I moved to Switzerland to work in IT (2014)
- junto 11y agoAnyone know if there is much of a demand for .Net developers in Zurich?
- s3nnyy 11y agoAuthor of the article here. Just contact me via the mail in my HN-profile.
- PopsiclePete 11y agoSwitzerland is great. But I'm surprised at the "relatively cheap life" bit - everything there felt 2x as much as what we were paying in Germany, especially food. Restaurants were obscene. Many locals eat at the cafeteria at the local Migros, which was like the cafeteria at Whole Foods, just more expensive and not as good. Having said that, it's also very safe, very clean, very pretty, and city infrastructure that makes the Midwest feel like Kabul. Software engineer salaries in most of Europe are quite low compared to what you get in the US. In the US, I make about $110k before the perks kick in, and someone like me might make 50k Euros in place like Amsterdam, if lucky, so it's good that Switzerland is competitive.
- s3nnyy 11y agoDue to the high salaries, things that are related to human labour are expensive. As a tourist you get a biased view of the country since you experience mostly the service industry.