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In other words, not all money held in Switzerland is ill-gotten - they don't care either way.

Sure there are some people who have it better in the US than Switzerland but the people right at the bottom get a lot more benefits from Switzerland than they do from America.

A friend of mine is also getting around 50k in Hamburg, I am moving to switzerland for my job.

Germans living in Switzerland are probably quite unlike Germans living in Germany.

That along with high prices (2 to 3 times rest of Europe) and xenophobia can make Switzerland a fairly miserable place for an immigrant.

I'd agree that Switzerland would probably be considered an outlier and difficult to reproduce.

OK, but if someone who made a fortune in Germany moves to Switzerland and buys a Mercedes, does that not add about $50 K to Swiss GDP?

The discussion, quite correctly, isn't about Switzerland vs.

Living in Switzerland can actually suck.

There are some things that don't transfer so easily between where I live (switzerland, but I think germanic europe in general) and the u.s.: super white teeth, visible tattoos, and piercings.

In other words, if the utopia of Switzerland is so remarkably better than the crap we have here in the US, why is it that Silicon Valley hasn't migrated to Switzerland or that most of the major science and tech companies aren't founded and based out of Switzerland?

I'm willing to bet that there are certain groups of people in Germany and Switzerland who are absolutely crazy about teeth whitening and for whom no shade of white can be white enough – both of us just don't know any of those people.

Unfortunately it's going to be pretty bad for your incredibly insulting "People's Republic of Switzerland" narrative.

There are more people enjoying work-life balance in America than alive in Switzerland That's beside the point, since that "work-life balance" is enjoyed by the overwhelming majority in Switzerland -- whereas that's not true for ANY city of comparable size in the US.

The happiest countries in the world are Switzerland, Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Canada according to the World Happiness index.

Not even Switzerland's neighbours (Italy, France, Germany) with people coming from the same populations can reproduce it.

Switzerland is about to close borders to everyone else, the UK, Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic want stricter immigration control.