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Switzerland is so brilliant. I wish they spoke english, id consider moving there.

polycaster 2y ago
You'd get by just fine. It's not uncommon to speak three languages fluently in CH (given it has 4 official languages), and usually English is in the mix. I lived there for a couple of years and while not speaking French or Italian, I got by quite easily in the respective regions.
- jajko 2y ago
  Get by, yes its often enough. Job search - that limits your choices maybe to 10%, in a job market that is consistently overcrowded (100-500 applicants for any good position, not all are brilliant and with right experience but some always are, whole world tries to get here). You will regularly hit the language wall in places like shops, post office, neighbors etc. where answer in given language if they speak english is consistently "no". Integration outside big cities is a lot about you becoming like them, not vice versa, better keep the differences compared to locals behind doors of your home. Smaller cities, more rural places - forget english outside tourism, many young speak it but otherwise there isn't much will and often neither skill. French part is worse than German part in this (just like French from France are much, much worse when it comes to will to speak english than Germans from Germany are).
rhplus 2y ago
Somewhat ironically, Switzerland has four official languages, none of which are English, but with so many regional dialects within those, English is quickly becoming the… ahem… Lingua Franca: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Switzerland#English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Switzerland#Engli...
esarbe 2y ago
Pretty much everyone speaks English in Switzerland. In big[0] cities you can get by with only English. This should not be a reason not to more there. [0] for Swiss values of "big"
- theF00l 2y ago
  My experience was struggling a lot to integrate without German when I lived in Zurich. Then I learnt German and struggled with Swiss German. Great standard of life but can be isolating for some people. Unless you are happy sticking to the expat bubble, nothing wrong with that.
mordae 2y ago
You wouldn't be able to afford it.

You'd get by just fine. It's not uncommon to speak three languages fluently in CH (given it has 4 official languages), and usually English is in the mix. I lived there for a couple of years and while not speaking French or Italian, I got by quite easily in the respective regions.

jajko 2y ago
Get by, yes its often enough. Job search - that limits your choices maybe to 10%, in a job market that is consistently overcrowded (100-500 applicants for any good position, not all are brilliant and with right experience but some always are, whole world tries to get here). You will regularly hit the language wall in places like shops, post office, neighbors etc. where answer in given language if they speak english is consistently "no". Integration outside big cities is a lot about you becoming like them, not vice versa, better keep the differences compared to locals behind doors of your home. Smaller cities, more rural places - forget english outside tourism, many young speak it but otherwise there isn't much will and often neither skill. French part is worse than German part in this (just like French from France are much, much worse when it comes to will to speak english than Germans from Germany are).

rhplus 2y ago

Somewhat ironically, Switzerland has four official languages, none of which are English, but with so many regional dialects within those, English is quickly becoming the… ahem… Lingua Franca: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Switzerland#English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Switzerland#Engli...

esarbe 2y ago

Pretty much everyone speaks English in Switzerland. In big[0] cities you can get by with only English. This should not be a reason not to more there. [0] for Swiss values of "big"

theF00l 2y ago
My experience was struggling a lot to integrate without German when I lived in Zurich. Then I learnt German and struggled with Swiss German. Great standard of life but can be isolating for some people. Unless you are happy sticking to the expat bubble, nothing wrong with that.

mordae 2y ago

You wouldn't be able to afford it.