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After taxes and rent, "everything else" is fairly insignificant in practice, even though both cities are very expensive. Also I would be careful about numbers
by hocuspocus 6y ago
After taxes and rent, "everything else" is fairly insignificant in practice, even though both cities are very expensive.
Also I would be careful about numbers from Numbeo, I certainly don't pay $50/kg for beef.
- dijit 6y agothat feels true because those are large expenses, but those little things add up quickly. It's financial death by a thousand cuts.
- seanmcdirmid 6y agoEating out is super expensive, even McDs is what...15 CHF for a meal these days? I actually managed to save a lot of my salary while living in Lausanne because everything was so expensive to buy.
- vinay427 6y agoI moved from SF to Zurich, so just to add another data point to corroborate this, you can live relatively cheaply here while I really couldn't in SF because housing doesn't really have a cheap (and adequately safe) alternative. Meanwhile, here the "everything else" is actually not very high if you limit or more carefully plan eating out, buy groceries with some consideration of cost (budget variants are often less than half the price of "standard" ones), etc. Health insurance can be expensive while for many of the people on HN it would be included in employer benefits in SF, but it's still not that bad. Last time I checked, the average payment in Switzerland for adults was $250 USD or so.