Re:Switzerland – Europe's Silicon Valley for Developers?
by pjmlp on Saturday November 28, 2020 @12:35PM
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I have lived half of my life in Germany.
Re:Switzerland – Europe's Silicon Valley for Developers?
by Nimitz14 on Sunday November 29, 2020 @07:06AM
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Let me guess, you were a child so don't really know what the bureaucracy is like there. Switzerland is actually much more progressive (good luck doingt anything online in Germany!!).
Re:Switzerland – Europe's Silicon Valley for Developers?
by pjmlp on Sunday November 29, 2020 @08:47AM
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Quite easy, just use the Bürgerbüro online portal.
I lived in Geneva from 26 to 28 years old, as mentioned in other replies, come back to Switzerland every time I manage to, and have several good Swiss friends.
I also had to help a friend of mine newly moved into Baden in 2018 to settle in, so I know what bureaucracy she had to face until she was 100% done with everything and could carry on with her life having a proper bank account, address, mobile phone, internet, new car registration, the whole package.
That is quite unworldly. I worked on large projects both in Switzerland and in Germany. These are totally different cultures. The number of laws and the degree of bureaucracy in Germany is many times greater than in Switzerland (only surpassed by Italy). In Germany everything is forbidden that is not explicitly allowed, in Switzerland it is the other way round. In Switzerland everything can be negotiated; try negotiating with a German official. Good luck with that.