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Today you’ll learn about the different (mandatory) insurances in Switzerland. How to select them and which ones to avoid. tl;dr: You usually want to go with Assura with the highest deductible (sorry german link, use Google translate).
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Today I’ll tell you my story on how I grew my salary by 31x in the last 17 years. Sorry for the somewhat click-baity title but it is effectively the multiplier between my first yearly salary in 2003 and today!
Continue reading “How I grew my salary by 31x in the last 17 years”This Expat Guide to Switzerland post is about child care in Switzerland. Expats usually are well educated and come to Switzerland to get a well paying job.
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I was asked by several readers how I create the Sankey diagrams in my monthly updates. So I thought I write a quick post about it.
Kudos to Tony whom I asked originally because I’ve seen the Sankey diagrams in his monthly updates and liked them a lot.
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One year ago I started this blog. Let’s see what happened during that year in numbers:
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Welcome to the Portfolio update of December 2020. We are half-millionaires, wohoooo!!
Continue reading “Portfolio Update December 2020 – 500k baby!”Welcome to another new blog post series. I thought about a bit how to add more value for my readers by posting helpful blog articles. Since I’m Swiss and worked with several dozens of expats by now, I thought it would be helpful to write some articles for new arrivals in Switzerland. I’ll take my experience as Swiss person and sprinkle them with the recurring mistakes/struggles of my expat coworkers, which I’ve noticed over the years.
Continue reading “Expat Guide to Switzerland: How to make Swiss friends”Welcome to the Portfolio update of November 2020. I managed to dissolve 4k EUR of my P2P portfolio this month. Net worth grew quite a bit probably due to currency fluctuations.
Continue reading “Portfolio Update November 2020”I recently setup a QNAP Backup for my NAS and realized that the documentation available from Infomaniak for QNAP is a bit outdated. So I thought to write an article about it. Infomaniak offers a product called “Swiss Backup” (affiliate link, I earn a little commission when using this link) where they guarantee that all data stays safe in Switzerland. They have a 90 Day free trial and afterward pretty competitive pricing for Swiss standards.
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In 2016 after breaking up with my girlfriend of that time I started looking into buying an apartment close to work. I’ve seen one being offered for almost 5 months for a reasonable price and in August 2016 I started checking it out. It was a 100sqm apartment in a 4 floor house (plus basement) with 5 other apartments. The apartment I was interested in was kept by the owner of the land as a potential apartment for himself and it was pretty much in a raw state. That means no floors (except for the concrete and heating pipes) and no finish on the walls and no built-in closets. The price: 810k CHF plus one parking spot for 40k CHF totaling in 850k CHF.
Continue reading “7 things I wished I knew before I bought/built my apartment and 6 things I would do again”