Switzerland is also good. Very low taxes, high living standard, well-educated workforce, rule of law etc. Read my story here: "Eight reasons why I moved to Switzerland": https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t... - If you are interested in coming to Switzerland, just shoot me a mail.

Switzerland is good if you are an employee, bootstrapping there is financial suicide.

If you need to hire software engineers onsite, I would not go for Switzerland, that is true.

But it goes both ways. Switzerland is one of the few countries where employees do not need to work five days a week to pay the bills. Some tend to work Monday-Wednesday, because 60-80% of a middle-class salary is enough to live on. On Thursday and Friday one can chill or bootstrap something.

I keep hearing this myth, yet I know plenty who work effectively six-plus days work-weeks and zero doing part-time (at least in engineering)...

Talk to the guys from "Ergon Informatik" for instance - a Java shop from Zurich. Many of their engineers choose to do home-office on Thursday and not work on Friday.

Super high cost of living too, though.

I read your blog post, but it seems that you aren't running a startup in Switzerland, just being an employee.

Switzerland is more company-friendly than Germany and other countries in Europe. That is all I wanted to say. I never claimed that I run anything although I plan to start a consulting business on the side.

Not to mention right next door to Albania there's Montenegro which was getting a lot of coverage for being welcoming to newly incorporating startups (also their cctld is .me which is nice)