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I am an electrical engineer. My offers in Switzerland were ~120k CHF. I didn’t look at Zurich because of the crazy rental prices. My C# colleague got 160k CHF proposal in Zurich , that sounds okayish. But he wasn’t convinced seeing kindergarten cost of 3000 CHF monthly.

[hiq]

I admit I don't know how you end up when you factor in the price of kindergarten, it's significant indeed.

> I didn’t look at Zurich because of the crazy rental prices.

That's also where you have the highest salaries though... With the same reasoning nobody would work in the SV. And as soon as you start looking outside of the city center you quickly find cheaper accommodation.

But I think the main difference is really the taxes.