Greetings, if any of you may divulge some information about moving to Switzerland from Germany?

What are some major and minor differences and how to best approach moving there?

As said above me and my wife got a recommendation to move to Switzerland as a better option to Germany, i’m from the Balkans and my wife is German.

The main reason i’m asking is because if i’m moving there then i’m moving with intent to be a permanent resident, i don’t see a reason to make long term plans on a short term opportunity.

  • notsosure@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    22 days ago

    I have lived in Switzerland for several years, the reason why I left is that FOR ME it was too boring, too bourgeois, too dull. If you like rules, regulations, restrictions, critical neighbors and people that stick to one another (but that don’t like to mingle with non-Swiss), you can have a go at it.

      • notsosure@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        22 days ago

        Then I’m guessing Switzerland is not for you. The Swiss have a way to push their opinions onto you, subtle yet stubborn. They can be belligerent, aloof and very unfriendly. Their main party SVP is very immigrant and EU unfriendly too, which says a lot. Unless you are a rich recluse, it can be a tough place to live in.

        • Skunk@jlai.lu
          3·
          22 days ago

          As a Swiss I disagree. It can be the case in some places lost in the German part, they are after all “our Texans”.

          But Switzerland is also French and Italian, cities are mostly leftists.

          This is a country where a dude from Appenzel have nothing in common with a dude from La Chaux de Fond, not even the language nor the food. And yet it works greatly.

          You can’t have an opinion on an entire country because you had shit neighbors in Wädenswill.

        • Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip
          3·
          22 days ago

          You wont find a country with a higher percentage of immigrants in the world tho. Thats not even counting the people that got their Swiss membership in the first generation.

        • Eternal192@anarchist.nexusOPEnglish
          1·
          21 days ago

          That may be so but i’m mainly going there for work and those that don’t want anything to do with foreigners will clear out and those whose opinions collide with mine will clear out and those that remain will be the people i want to keep near me.