Greetings, if any of you may divulge some information about moving to Switzerland from Germany?
What are some major and minor differences and how to best approach moving there?
As said above me and my wife got a recommendation to move to Switzerland as a better option to Germany, i’m from the Balkans and my wife is German.
The main reason i’m asking is because if i’m moving there then i’m moving with intent to be a permanent resident, i don’t see a reason to make long term plans on a short term opportunity.
I have already seen SO many times Switzerland’s high ratings.
I’ll try to get through all your points:
Work is the main reason i’m going there, but this touches on the second point a little, “highly efficient country” is kinda where i’m a little worried.
Just going to continue from the first point, Germany is kind of patchwork efficiency is how i would describe it and just because i have been able to do good here doesn’t mean it will be good enough for Switzerland, i already made a very long comment on my work history so i won’t bore you with it too much basically every job i had in Germany was different and i had no prior experience, even my current job, textile, sure i used a needle and thread a few times but i’ve never done anything remotely related to textile production and i’m still there 2 years later doing fine but again it might not be enough for Switzerland and i know it’s excellent there i’ve watched a lot of videos about “dream countries”.
Boring? Yes please, i’m not a party animal or thrill junkie, i’m boring af, just chilling the wife, kid (teen), garden and PC i’m about as boring as it gets.
As far as people are concerned i don’t worry about it anymore because people that are on my weird wavelength tend to gravitate towards me after some time.
So yeah again my main concern is if i’ll be efficient enough to be kept around.
Oh don’t worry about efficiency. ReallyZen is talking about the efficiency in the official administrations.
Like getting your driving licence converted to a Swiss one, renewing your passport and stuff like that.
The baseline is that you pay for it but it is done in a minute (driving licence you get it the same day you go to the automobile office, you just wait 30 minutes max and they give it to you. Passport is something like during the week. Not 2 month, one week.)
This kind of efficiency. And don’t worry the workers in those administrations are not overworked at all^^
In the private sector it is somewhat the same, nobody is being pressured for efficiency, you just do you work professionally and that’s enough. Some companies might pressure their staff (because the boss is dumb?) but then they will have a high turnover and might fail in the long run.
Oh well that’s a bit reassuring.
When i converted my driving licence to a German one i think it took 2 weeks, but it’s simply because they don’t want to modernize, even my company went back to whiteboards and magnets because they don’t want to invest into a proper IT department.