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This discussion is flawed as it assumes Switzerland is like the rest of Europe. The buying power here is at least two times the buying power of people in UK, Ge

by s3nnyy 10y ago

This discussion is flawed as it assumes Switzerland is like the rest of Europe. The buying power here is at least two times the buying power of people in UK, Germany or anywhere else in Europe. It did not take part in both world wars and did many strategic things right in the last 200 years. You can read more about Switzerland in my blogpost "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in tech": https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-to-switzerland-to-work-in-it-c7ac18af4f90 https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t... Full disclosure: I am well-connected tech-recruiter in Zurich and if you're thinking of moving here and getting a coding job, feel free to contact me - you find my email address in my HN profile.

thesimon 10y ago
> This article is two years old but most of the things are valid still today. Would you say the salary levels are still accurate? Just making a back-of-the-envelope calculation using your numbers for food, immoscout24 for rent (used a 2.5 room in Oerlikon) and lohncomputer.ch (http://imgur.com/iWXaJSC http://imgur.com/iWXaJSC) makes (junior) dev salaries in Germany look ridiculous low.
- s3nnyy 10y ago
  Yes, even after the Swiss unpegged the franc from the Euro (http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/01/economist-explains-13 http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/01/ec...), salaries are stable.