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Living in Zurich or Geneva, or retirement in Switzerland: ideas that sound enticing, right? The best healthcare in the world, the best roads, splendid infrastructure, and ultra-safe. But there are downsides
In this episode, we will discuss the pros and cons of living or retiring to Switzerland, and some other alternatives.
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So you might be asking how the low taxes are a positive side of Switzerland. Here is the reason: there are cantons like Zug or Appenzel where the income tax is a fraction of that! In Zug, for example, the same 100 thousand francs would be taxed at only 7.5%! Less than one-third of the taxation burden of Basel and one of the lowest in Europe! In France, this same income would put you in the income tax rate bracket of 41%. The second pro to retiring in Switzerland is healthcare. And here we are talking about private healthcare, because Switzerland doesn't exactly have a traditional "public healthcare" system. Instead, they have mandatory health insurance for all residents. Switzerland is above countries like the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, and Israel in terms of healthcare quality. being considered by many to be the place with the highest concentration of top-grade hospitals in the world. The third positive aspect of living and retiring in Switzerland is safety. The homicide rate in Switzerland is 0.5, way below the OECD average. They also have four languages, and that allows for multiple possibilities because every language has a different cultural heritage. There are enormous lifestyle differences between the German part, the French part, and the Italian part (there is also the Romansch part but nobody talks about them really that much). This is what one resident of Switzerland told us (open quote): "If you drive four hours from St. Gallen to Geneva, you drive through at least two different languages (German and French) and at least nine dialects. And you have to consider that we constantly mock other cantons for being different (and nobody likes Zurich, sorry guys). If you one day move to Switzerland, use this wonderful characteristic of this country to learn German, French, Italian, or even Romansch. Well, now that you know the major pros of living and retiring in Switzerland, let's talk about the cons