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> In Zurich, you can rent a whole flat (50+ square meters) for something between 2500-4000 CHF > In Switzerland a Software Developer can easily earn over 100,00
by balfirevic 7y ago
> In Zurich, you can rent a whole flat (50+ square meters) for something between 2500-4000 CHF
> In Switzerland a Software Developer can easily earn over 100,000 CHF (1 CHF is around 1 USD)
So... A little bit cheaper apartment combined with a salary that is half or third (from what I read, I don't live there) of what you can get in Bay Area. WTF is this article trying to say?
Edit: And of course, not to even mention that living in $8000 apartment on $200 000 salary is much better than living in $4000 apartment on $100 000 salary.
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- rmah 7y ago50 sq m is 500 sq ft, which is considered very small in most of the US and on the small end even in NYC. It's just slightly larger than a mobile home.
- balfirevic 7y agoThat's interesting. It is considered a very decent size for a single person or even a couple where I live (Croatia). But then again, I grew up in a family of five in a 45 square meter apartment.
- kotojo 7y agoLooking at places around me (Atlanta, Ga, USA), the second I filter down to < 750 sqft for any 1 bedroom apartment or condo on redfin.com I am left with about 5% of the search results. The average size seems to be about 900 sqft. Before buying a house most places I rented were also around that size, and my house 2200 sqft (204 sq m) with 3 bedrooms.
- GFischer 7y agoIt's decent here in Uruguay (South America) too.