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Well, of course you would suggest that, given your location and your country of origin..
Britain isn't really overpriced at all, outside of London, and I think cities like Manchester and Liverpool are less sterile than Scandinavian or German cities.
Liverpool rocks at the weekends and during the summer. It is now a tourist city.
I can't complain about my life in general. I have lived in sevaral world cities including Amsterdam, NYC, Chicago, Toronto, Florence and Milan and am now stuck in Zurich, Switzerland. It is the dulest place with extremely unfriendly people. You guys have an idea what city I should move to next that come close to the exciting places I mentioned above? Thanks for inputs.....
south of france.. Monaco. Or if you can't afford to live there, Nice. they're only a few hours away from Milan/Zurich.
I can't complain about my life in general. I have lived in sevaral world cities including Amsterdam, NYC, Chicago, Toronto, Florence and Milan and am now stuck in Zurich, Switzerland. It is the dulest place with extremely unfriendly people. You guys have an idea what city I should move to next that come close to the exciting places I mentioned above? Thanks for inputs.....
I'm from New York City and I've been to all the cities you've listed except Chicago and I did find Zurich quite boring. I remember walking around with my friend in the park at 3 AM in the morning and feeling utterly safe with not a single homeless person in sight. We visited the red light district, which I think is just one street, and it was completely underwhelming without even a whiff of sleaziness. It's not that I need danger to be excited but the city just lacked any edge or personality. I'm curious why you think Zurich is boring.
I'm from New York City and I've been to all the cities you've listed except Chicago and I did find Zurich quite boring. I remember walking around with my friend in the park at 3 AM in the morning and feeling utterly safe with not a single homeless person in sight. We visited the red light district, which I think is just one street, and it was completely underwhelming without even a whiff of sleaziness. It's not that I need danger to be excited but the city just lacked any edge or personality. I'm curious why you think Zurich is boring.
Well this is a topic we could discuss for hours... In the end I think it comes down to this point:
There is no solidarity among the Swiss. Believe it or not everyone is too busy working to try to save his/her own life. People are not open for honest discussions about their working or personal lives. Everything is kept a secret (most typical example is you never ask a swiss about salary income). It basically is a very anonymous, but strictly controlled society where you can earn your good money(if you keep your mouth shut), but there are tons of people who end up miserable in their lives as a result of what the system has done to them!!!!
Well this is a topic we could discuss for hours... In the end I think it comes down to this point:
There is no solidarity among the Swiss. Believe it or not everyone is too busy working to try to save his/her own life. People are not open for honest discussions about their working or personal lives. Everything is kept a secret (most typical example is you never ask a swiss about salary income). It basically is a very anonymous, but strictly controlled society where you can earn your good money(if you keep your mouth shut), but there are tons of people who end up miserable in their lives as a result of what the system has done to them!!!!
Please explain. Now we're getting curious about your experience in Switzerland, and your perspective. Sounds fascinating.
btw, I don't know where you were raised, but it's not acceptable in the US to ask someone about their income. I'd hazard a guess that this is pretty common throughout the Western world, and quite likely parts of the East, as well.
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I don't know where you were raised, but it's not acceptable in the US to ask someone about their income.
I would tell you what the typical salary rates are for the work I do, but how much *I* make is none of anybodys business ...
I lived and worked there, and never encountered any Swiss person interested in what I earned in Switzerland. They DID want to know how much they could earn in the USA ... !
What I did find was that it was extremely frustrating to work with Swiss people, with me as an American telling them what they HAD to do and HOW ! They were working under American Contract conditions !!
Sorry people you sign on the bottom line, you do what I tell you !
Otherwise, outside the workplace, they were not half bad ...
Kind of run of mill attitude you find all over the world.
Maybe the fact that I do speak the languages spoken there (except Romansch) helped a bit ?
I have no problems with their local dialect at all.
They found it interesting that a *brownface* could converse with them in their local lingo !
Kind of akin, when I worked in England for a while, to converse with an African, who spoke to me with a perfect British accent ! For an an American that is really strange ...
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