Advise on rate in Switzerland please

[psychocandy]

Aint it like £20 or so for something like fish and chips takeaway?

[darmstadt]

Last time I worked there it was CHF900 daily plus CHF400 daily expenses and that was at a DIY chain (think Homebase but with cuckoo clocks.) I also didn't need to pay any tax there, which was nice. As has been noted, there have been numerous threads about working there so use the nicely provided search link from NLUK: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ra...m=122&ie=UTF-8

[CoolCat]

Quite a lot of people stay in accomodation in France and cross the border every day for work. Accomodation can be a lot cheaper across the border.

[aoxomoxoa]

Quite a lot of people stay in accomodation in France and cross the border every day for work. Accomodation can be a lot cheaper across the border.

When I was working at my pharma clientco in Basel, large numbers of their permies did just that.

And also, when arriving at BSL airport, it's worth knowing that it's significantly cheaper to rent a car from the French car rental booths at one end of the arrivals hall than from the Swiss equivalents at the other end. The only downsides being (a) a couple of miles further to get back into Switzerland, and (b) the possibility that the car woldn't have a Swiss motorway tax disc on the screen.

[edison]

Aint it like £20 or so for something like fish and chips takeaway?

It's ridiculously expensive. I've been in Basel a few times recently for a client and one time bought a small takeaway lunch which would have probably been about £6-7 in somewhere like Pret in central London and it was the equivalent of £16. I'm not sure you could survive on less than 1000 Euros a day.

[stek]

Aint it like £20 or so for something like fish and chips takeaway?

That was me, admittedly Zurich Altstadt, touristy and dearer, £23 for fish and chips (not takeaway) cos I fancied and missed home and missed my mum and....

Wasn't even Cod or Plaice or even Haddock, guy told me it was Obscurefish or something to be fair. It was horrible. Chips where like oven chips done well rank and I'm not even lying. Peas not even mushy and the piece of resistance, no fecking gravy, no pea wet or anything moist whatsoever...

[Old Greg]

So you are saying it's a complete **** up which ever way the OP intended to go?

whichever

[Old Greg]

That was me, admittedly Zurich Altstadt, touristy and dearer, £23 for fish and chips (not takeaway) cos I fancied and missed home and missed my mum and....

Wasn't even Cod or Plaice or even Haddock, guy told me it was Obscurefish or something to be fair. It was horrible. Chips where like oven chips done well rank and I'm not even lying. Peas not even mushy and the piece of resistance, no fecking gravy, no pea wet or anything moist whatsoever...

No wet??? Heathens.

[DirtyDog]

That was me, admittedly Zurich Altstadt, touristy and dearer, £23 for fish and chips (not takeaway) cos I fancied and missed home and missed my mum and....

Wasn't even Cod or Plaice or even Haddock, guy told me it was Obscurefish or something to be fair. It was horrible. Chips where like oven chips done well rank and I'm not even lying. Peas not even mushy and the piece of resistance, no fecking gravy, no pea wet or anything moist whatsoever...

Scraps?

Mmmm - scraps and pea wet for free

[Old Greg]

Scraps?

Mmmm - scraps and pea wet for free

I'd forgotten about scraps. It's a bit Dire Straits.

Wet for nothing and the scraps for free.