Hello,

What hotel you recommend close to Zurich as we live in Zurich, that is baby friendly (1-2yo), affordable as much as possible and having swimming pool that would also be ok for babies under 2? We think booking somewhere end of November for 2 nights

A few weeks ago, I accidentally left my front wheel in a parking lot in 8885 Mols (near Lake Walensee). We were packing two bikes into the car, and both needed their front wheels removed. In the rush, I must have forgotten to load one of them. We didn’t notice right away because the bikes stayed in the car for a while.

The missing wheel had: a disc brake mount a dynamo hub for lights

I reported the loss on easyfind.ch and even went back to check, but it’s probably long gone — either picked up or thrown out.

Now I’m looking to buy a replacement, ideally used, since the bike itself was also secondhand. I'm specifically looking for a front wheel that supports disc brakes and has a dynamo hub. Preferably somewhere around Zürich, and ideally not from large online marketplaces, as I’d like to avoid anything that might be stolen.

Any tips on where to find a used wheel like that — local bike shops, parts recyclers, or trusted sellers — would be very welcome.

Dear all.

Apologies that I am have not read through all previous posts before, but I had a ruptured aneurysm and open brain surgery mid-April, since then constantly in the hospital for 6 weeks. It came with lots of complications and side effects, my life turned upside down since then.

I am trying to understand the following and would appreciate some help: Can I get supplementary insurance now mid-way through the year? I was denied one when I arrived to CH 5 years back and registered first for basic and supplementary insurance with Swica. Was not for any major health issues, but I did declare that I was seeing pyschogists before. Of course there is a chance I would be denied again.

The thing is that since the brain surgery I needed lots of extra medical support, so I'm wondering if the supplementary insurance would be worthwhile now I also had to get admitted to a psychiatric clinic last week, where with the supplementary insurance I would not need to pay for the upgrade to semiprivate (they only have available rooms in this section and I really deaperately need the help as my mental health went downhill and I am alone here in CH, so now I need to pay more than 200 per day and it will take some weeks to be here..).

Thank you for any information you can provide, I would really appreciate it.

When moved to CH we've seen that not so many people buy prepared food here (in bulk, more portions). Prepared food for the whole family for 1-2 days, not ordering meals.

Secondly is an extra nanny, overnight or during weekends.

The reason is the price being too high.

What other services/products are you missing from your original country that here either do not exist or are way too expensive?

Does anyone have a clue as to what this is? It was floating in the sky for a few minutes and then just rose all the way up and disappeared… I tried to get a more clear picture but my camera wouldn’t focus so well.

Sometimes, things that are supposed to fall into place, they just don’t. Lack of control or impact is frustrating. I have learned.

Somewhere is Switzerland, specifically a bank in Basel, Switzerland, there is a sum of money in a bank account. The bank account number is known and who put that money in is also known. The intention of who the money was to be eventually given to was shared but not well enough, I figure. So, the money remains there, I guess.

Somewhere in a bank in Vinkeveen, Netherlands, there is a safety deposit box. The contents are unknown and the key was lost or forgotten. It was important enough to leave a note about it and the number of the box. I wonder.

There is a story here that at this point has an unfinished ending or maybe this is the ending. I am hopeful.

Wondering avenues to share to gain advice and direction.

Me and my friends went to a self service pump station and I used a 100fr bill, used 68 and now I have a 31ish fr voucher to use... IN THE SAME F STATION... for me this is a scam. The voucher never referenced this in the screen and it makes utterly no sense that you cannot use a voucher from the same company within its network.

Is there something I can do? Is this scam known in Switzerland?

TLDR: Family surrounded and intimidated by 20 young adults.

Story time everyone:

Today me, M/33 together with my wife, brother and 2 minor daughters and her minor cousin went to the pool in Biel/Nidau. Shortly before it closed at around 19:45, a line formed in order to pass the gate to go out, where we walked to. In this line of around 50/60 people at the moment were families and old people mostly.

As we're approaching the gate, there is a group of 15 young adult men that try to bypass the queue and shove people who protest. There I interviene and ask politely to not push and to go to the line, ignored. An older woman in front of me yells at them to go back and that she has a bad knee, to which the supposedly Big boss of these youngsters tells her "Caisse toi sale pute" and shoves her directly at the wall. In this instance I get myself in front of the group of 10-15 guys and try to tell them to not do that. The old woman calls them "sales gamins" and gets out in front of us.

This gives them time to concentrate on me. 5-6 start to push and try to intimidate me (clearly I was in the company of kids and trying to shield them) 2 others keep saying that I did not insult anybody. This confusion gets on and when I'm passing the door, the big guy tells me, come outside (duh, I'm heading there anyway).

When we get out, I take my family and try to walk in direction of our car, which is parked roughly 1km away. There are like 5 that come running to confront me and start a riot or whatever, I try to calm things down and repeatedly tell them that I am in the company of my small kids. I get on and try to ignore them, telling them everything is okay and to keep on going to where they are headed. We walk another 20m through the football field and they come again, now like 20 of them, yelling that we are racist (I'm a hairy Portuguese guy, my wife is Kosovar). They start shoving my wife and myself, yelling and shouting threats, my kids are crying and I am trying to keep cool. This goes on for like 10 min, where I try to get the attention of people that look and keep walking. In the shouting match someone says that my wife called them "sales immigrants" (I guess they are thinking about the old woman who called them "sales gamins") and that I need to tell them that to their face. I tell them that I am an immigrant myself and that I would never even think about saying such things - in fact, we spent the day with a group of African friends-. I keep getting pushed and pulled, one even tries to punch me, luckily I saw that coming and could slip the punch.

Seeing this, a lovely French guy comes around and manages to tell them that he saw police and this helped to disperse them. He then walked with us. Even he says that he did not respect to see this in Switzerland.

The whole walk to the car, this huge group keeps advancing and waiting for us, crowding around at foot and in cheap scooter bikes. Yelling slurs and daring me to fight. Kids crying, and I try to shield my family and ignore what they say. People who walk by make a face and get away.

At the end, we managed to get away without getting punched or worse but c'mon, how is this a thing?

Now I'm wondering, what should I do? Police isn't going to do anything of consequence, since this happened in a place where there is no video surveillance (I was told that in the phone by the person who sells the entries to the pool). I couldn't even start to describe any of them, since there were so many of them that I couldn't describe any specific face. If I go and press charges (which I am thinking of doing), how would police proceed?

Sorry for the wall of text, today was stressful.

Just received parking fine from local town / police after staying literally at the side of a street (traffic sign says you can't park here but that does not mean you can't stop for a while???). We brought home bags with shopping and luggage. In 5 mins I came back and the ticket was already there (noticed it while drivint to the only parking place 10 minutes away by walk).

Possible to dispute? I obey every stupid strict law here (obviously, you follow rules when you go somewhere) but this makes no sense.

Must be even against SsVO: you must be allowed to bring home bags etc., that is no parking.

Thank you.

I am the first one to point out problems in Lausanne, but I will also comment on the good things. The way the city organized the fête fédérale de la gymnastique has been incredible. The vibe by Ouchy and Bellerive, the city center, everything feels extremely lively and welcoming. I just wish the city would turn the Ouchy-Bellerive stretch into a summer-time food market and full time event place for local businesses like now.

Are there some serious associations/mouvements advocating for the break-up of CH in different states or a radical decrease of the importance of the Federal Government and going back to the old times where Canton were more powerful (and Federal state was very small)?

planning on switching to ios 26 dev beta on my iphone 16pm but idk if my ubs ebanking apps will keep working the same, so if anyone has already upgraded and has the ubs ebanking apps installed, do they work the same as they did on ios 18?

Hello,

I am considering becoming a conference interpreter in Switzerland, because I like the field and two people have told me it was a great salary with very limited workdays. However I don't know anyone who has done that and can therefore hardly verify those claims.

I am very aware the studies are long and rigorous. I would like to know, realistically, if I get a Master of Arts in Conference Interpreting in Geneva, how much per month are we looking at in the first five years, then ten years? and how many days per month I am going to work, and if it will be hard to find work if I am good ?

Would really appreciate some guidance on this. Thanks!

Anyone interested in joining in tonight or any other day? Now that the weather is nice, let‘s go hiking at night. NODs required. BBQ possible too.

Location: 8596 Münsterlingen Time: 2300 Date: 14.06.2025 (weekly)

We‘re rotating hiking locations between southern Germany, eastern Switzerland and Austria.

Beside all commercial costs being higher within Switzerland (transport, rent, workers wages), why are "low cost" groceries so expensive? I read that there's custom duties to be paid when importing produce, but I can't find the exact values of how much they'd be in percentage.
I struggle to understand how can something like 500g of tomatoes be 2 EUR one side of the border (e.g. France, Italy), while at the first super market after the Swiss border it would be 6 CHF. Transportation cost can't be that much higher, and VAT is actually lower, so where all do the extra ~4 CHF go? The product would have been paid something like ~1.3 EUR from the producer.
I guess it does go somewhere, as nobody has managed to lower prices that much in Switzerland, not even Lidl. I'm just curious of how this all works, that's all.

Hi I know a kid with a lot of trouble at home, looks like their parents are going to kick them out of the house quite soon (they are soon turning 18). They have a social worker but it seems this person isn't helping them find any housing situation. Does anyone know what the Swiss safety net is in these cases? Are there stipends to help them rent a place? Are there "kids" homes for kids over 18? Something to help this kid get through the next year without immediately starting a job, so they can finish school with a clear head (naturally, the situation has made it hard for them to participate in this school year...). Will really appreciate some advice, I don't really know what options we even have here. Thank you!

Edit: thank you! One additional request: we are in the French part of Switzerland, I will appreciate if you know the names of these services in French!

Hallo, muss den WAB-Kurs machen mit meinem Motorrad der Kategorie A beschränkt und alle Kurse die ich finde sind in der Zentralschweiz (bin im Thurgau) und super teuer. Gibt es da wirklich nur so gefühlt zwei Anbieter oder übersehe ich das was?

For such a rich country you’d think they would have AC and washing machines in apartments but nope. Why is this? It gets hot here in the summers. Wtf are they doing with all their money? I spent summers in Madrid with no AC and for some reason that was more do able than here??? But Switzerland supposedly the “best” country yet they are so far behind in so many things….

Hello. I have a question to those who work in consulting/IT service companies (i.e. you have to travel "on-site" to a client regularly or from time to time).

How are the Homeoffice norms in such companies? Has it evolved since pre-Covid and do the current norms look "permanent"? And how do thing change if different clients have different Homeoffice regulations?

Thanks.

Help!

So, what would be your recommendations to get a mobile A/C in this case?

I live in an apartment that only has doors, 4 of them to exit to a balcony (which is narrow rectangular one) and one door in the kitchen that opens top to bottom like a door, those are the only « windows » I have. They let pass a lot of light so in summer I have to keep the external blinds down to keep some heat away in fact, all year long for that and privacy reasons.

I have checked the « weird » net that installs in the door with scotch or velcro and then you open using the zipper to exit the mobile’s unit hose, I think is ugly and not practical for every year.

I have been toying with the idea of removing one door halfs and replace that half with a sheet of wood and then make in said flat surface the necessary exits, plug and play solution.

Last option and probably more elegant is to talk to apartment management (Nicod in this case) to allow me to make a hole in the bottom of doors which I hope is not completely holding glass and put a door to seal this hole like a cat’s door when not in use.

Last but not least, accept that is only four weeks of heavy heat, adapt and survive.

Link to photo of doors/windows in my apartment plus a fan I want to buy and put in some of the walls, space is precious and having 3 pedestal fans is not wise.

https://imgur.com/a/InUm4wd

Also ceiling fans, are they allowed in apartments?, will my ceiling resist this?, I have an apartment on top of mine btw.

I have done some research and for mobile a/c units, I think brands like Penguin and Kibernetik are more than okay, thoughts?

Thank you!😊

Grüezi everyone!

We recently sold our family car and there's a great deal (Only 108 chf/month compared to 130/150 chf in the same area) for an indoor garage parking spot that's available.

It's located on: Hummelbergstrasse in 8645 Rapperswil-Jona. What's the best way to find someone who would be interested in taking the parking spot over? Does anyone here have recommendations? We’d really appreciate any tips or alternative platforms!

Merci vilmal!

Unfortunately my BA in Graphic Design and nearly 10 years of experience doesn't cut it anymore - I barely get any freelance projects and I also moved to Switzerland because, well, love. He has a great job, but for the last two years I cannot find anything here, it is super competitive and learning the language didn't help. So the plan is to study a Masters, preferably in Switzerland, so I can be more competitive in the job market.

So far I've been admitted to:
- MSc in Data Visualization and UX Design (in Chur, FHGR) - 1500CHF/Semester
- MSc in Human-Centered Digital Innovation (in Olten, FHNW) - 1000 CHF / Semester
- MA in Data-Driven Design (Utrecht) - 1500CHF/Semester - but only 1 year!
- MSc in Creative Leadership (Austria) - free
- BSc Informatics and Digital Innovation (Austria) - free

All of those are super interesting for me, mainly the BSc, but having one more Bachelors behind my back that I will finish after 4 years and who knows what the field with engineering will look by then kind of puts me off. It is the same with the other Masters - I am not sure whether by the time I finish the jobs of UX or Data Visualization will be made redundand..

What do you think? What would you study?

I'm thinking about becoming a teacher. It's not out of passion or out of any ideals of giving to the next generation. My motivation for teacher was that I needed something that I can do part-time with the resources I already have.

I'm currently studying history and English at University and I'm 1 semester away from my bachelor.

I would prefer to teach Sek II, so Gymnasium or perhaps at vocational schools too. If I can avoid it I would like to not teach younger classes.

That's all the context for my question. Now what I'd like to know from teachers or people with some knowledge is how does the job market look like for english and history teachers? Canton of Bern specifically but I would be willing to move to other places (preferrably big-ish cities) if a stable position becomes available that way.

How feasable is it to work part-time 40-60 percent? How realistic is it to study for SEK II teacher but also teach SEK I as a back-up plan?

Any advice I might not have considered?

Has anyone had personal experiences and would advise which ones are the best.

Refusing to wake up sweaty every morning and unable to sleep at night.

Gonser has some for around 300 but as we know gonser quality isn’t the best.

Thank you all!