<story><title>Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters</title><url>http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/results-votes-june-5th-2016-in-switzerland/42153620</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akerro</author><text>As already mentioned, you&amp;#x27;re ignoring a fact that even by working there for 10 years, it&amp;#x27;s close to impossible to buy a part of land and build a house anywhere near a city. Land and house prices are too high to stay there for live. It&amp;#x27;s only profitable to live there, make savings and buy 2-3 houses in Uk&amp;#x2F;Germany for it. Like two of my co-workers did.</text></item><item><author>s3nnyy</author><text>Switzerland is the only country in the world that implements direct democracy. You can really feel the difference to the rest of Europe. Swiss more often than not stand behind decisions made by their government. When talking about their politicians, the Swiss say &amp;quot;WE decided that ...&amp;quot; whereas e.g., Germans say:  &amp;quot;THEY decided that ...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;If you look for a coding job in Europe, Zurich is a great place to live and is the only place where net-salaries are on par with the Bay Area: You can expect to get 7000 - 12000 CHF &amp;#x2F; month after taxes. If you are from the EU and thinking to move, you find my email address in my Hacknews profile. Also you can read here why I moved to Switzerland to work in IT: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@iwaninzurich&amp;#x2F;eight-reasons-why-i-moved-to-switzerland-to-work-in-it-c7ac18af4f90#.fnug055jh&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@iwaninzurich&amp;#x2F;eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>funkyy</author><text>Or you can buy studio in the city and huge farm house with land 1 hour drive away... Then weekends spend in your farm house and weekdays in your studio... It would be close enough to pop in in week days also. 1 hour drive aint bad.</text></comment>
<story><title>Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters</title><url>http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/results-votes-june-5th-2016-in-switzerland/42153620</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akerro</author><text>As already mentioned, you&amp;#x27;re ignoring a fact that even by working there for 10 years, it&amp;#x27;s close to impossible to buy a part of land and build a house anywhere near a city. Land and house prices are too high to stay there for live. It&amp;#x27;s only profitable to live there, make savings and buy 2-3 houses in Uk&amp;#x2F;Germany for it. Like two of my co-workers did.</text></item><item><author>s3nnyy</author><text>Switzerland is the only country in the world that implements direct democracy. You can really feel the difference to the rest of Europe. Swiss more often than not stand behind decisions made by their government. When talking about their politicians, the Swiss say &amp;quot;WE decided that ...&amp;quot; whereas e.g., Germans say:  &amp;quot;THEY decided that ...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;If you look for a coding job in Europe, Zurich is a great place to live and is the only place where net-salaries are on par with the Bay Area: You can expect to get 7000 - 12000 CHF &amp;#x2F; month after taxes. If you are from the EU and thinking to move, you find my email address in my Hacknews profile. Also you can read here why I moved to Switzerland to work in IT: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@iwaninzurich&amp;#x2F;eight-reasons-why-i-moved-to-switzerland-to-work-in-it-c7ac18af4f90#.fnug055jh&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@iwaninzurich&amp;#x2F;eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enraged_camel</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve never understood why people believe&amp;#x2F;feel that buying land and&amp;#x2F;or a house is the pinnacle of... something. Sure, it gives the person a feeling of control and stability. But rooting oneself in one labor market (vs. being mobile) decreases one&amp;#x27;s employment options and therefore their salary. It&amp;#x27;s also very risky, as it&amp;#x27;s the equivalent of putting one&amp;#x27;s eggs in one basket and leaves their financial wellbeing in the hands of the real estate market.&lt;p&gt;Renting is, unfortunately and quite inaccurately, viewed as &amp;quot;throwing money away.&amp;quot; The real estate industry does a great job brainwashing people that they should buy, buy, buy, that buying a house is a great investment and a very good way to build wealth. İt&amp;#x27;s probably one of the greatest lies perpetuated in modern times.</text></comment>