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Re:San Francisco to Spend $1.7M to Build a Single Public Toilet by firefoxkekw on Thursday October 20, 2022 @12:07PM (#33276776)
Probably one of the best choices of my live was moving out of S.F to Switzerland five years ago, the culture here is a lot less focused on virtue signaling and way more focused on working, being respectful about no making a lot of noise on your house and public transport, actually having good incentives and culture about recycling and the washing machine, ultra safe place in general.

It only took me about a year of about 2 hours per day learning german as my third language to feel confident enough to apply for a job that was similar enough to what I got in S.F, I was hired in about a week at a financial institution as an applied data scientist in the fraud deparment. Could probably have tried earlier but wanted to be able to integrated decently into the swiss society without feeling I was leeching too much.

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Re:San Francisco to Spend $1.7M to Build a Single Public Toilet by someuser4234 on Thursday October 20, 2022 @12:49PM (#33277394)
Is German or French more common?

I knew someone in S.F. who married a woman from Switzerland roughly 5 years ago and moved out there...did you work at a software consulting company in S.F.?

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Re:San Francisco to Spend $1.7M to Build a Single Public Toilet by firefoxkekw on Thursday October 20, 2022 @01:30PM (#33277949)
Hi,

Is German or French more common? >

It depends base on the canton, but in the overall swiss german is more spoken than french.

I knew someone in S.F. who married a woman from Switzerland roughly 5 years ago and moved out there...did you work at a software consulting company in S.F.? >

Can't be me, I'm a female ^^.

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Re:San Francisco to Spend $1.7M to Build a Single Public Toilet by baby on Thursday October 20, 2022 @09:05PM (#33282924)
Depends where you go in Switzerland, my understanding is that the country is sort of divided into two parts depending on language. Same as in Belgium.
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Re:San Francisco to Spend $1.7M to Build a Single Public Toilet by dgellow on Friday October 21, 2022 @12:32AM (#33284537)
3 parts: German-speaking, French-speaking, Italian-speaking

The ~west speaks French (we call the region Romandie), south-east speaks Italian (canton of Ticino), the rest speaks (Swiss-)German.

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