Contracting in Basel

**NotAllThere** · 11 August 2016, 14:37

Can I refer you to my answer on englishforum.ch?

Forget about a fully furnished house. They are few and far between and very expensive.

**Lance** · 11 August 2016, 15:10

Originally posted by Macaco View Post

I don't know where is good to live and where's better to avoid.

From my experience of Switzerland (not Basel admittedly) there isn't anywhere to avoid really. Unless of course you object to a brothel next door. At that point you may want to look before you rent as they tend not to advertise that.

**NotAllThere** · 11 August 2016, 16:54

The worst places are Pratteln and Birsfelden. But even those are better than most places in the UK.

Binningen, Bottmingen, Therwil, Oberwil, Ettingen, Muttenz, Münchestein are probably the better places. Of those, Binningen has the lowest taxes, and is also closest to Basel city. But hardest to find somewhere.

**FatLazyContractor** · 11 August 2016, 17:05

Life is too short to live and work in CH.

Leave it to people like NAT, will ya?!

**stek** · 11 August 2016, 18:20

We had a terrible time in Basel Airport, seemed 90% shut and the current Mrs stek, who speaks several languages fluently, and I mean fluently, almost native, totally struggled cos French isn't one of them and all the staff seemed to be French with no other language. Never seen her struggle to get understood, was dead funny!

She was asking for the bill and I shouted to her 'L'addition!' and this French couple near me said to me 'See, it's easy'. That was the sum total of their assistance in the matter.

Fukn Frogs....

**NotAllThere** · 11 August 2016, 19:53

There's some kind of work going on at the airport. Not sure what it is though. Recently they shut the Swiss side and had soldiers all over the place. No word in the media to explain what it was about.

Most of the employees are French. They do usually speak German though - doesn't Mrs Stek have that?

When I've had to deal with officialdom at the airport, I have noticed a marked sense of relief from them when I indicate that I can speak French. For some obscure reason, these people working at the corner of France/Switzerland/Germany just aren't fluent in English.

**stek** · 11 August 2016, 20:49

Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

There's some kind of work going on at the airport. Not sure what it is though. Recently they shut the Swiss side and had soldiers all over the place. No word in the media to explain what it was about.

Most of the employees are French. They do usually speak German though - doesn't Mrs Stek have that?

When I've had to deal with officialdom at the airport, I have noticed a marked sense of relief from them when I indicate that I can speak French. For some obscure reason, these people working at the corner of France/Switzerland/Germany just aren't fluent in English.

That was the case when we were there, closed bits and armed proper soldiers patrolling.

Mrs Stek's German is impeccable, but honestly everyone seemed to speak French only! Was worth it just to see her struggling lol! She has almost zero French and I only have schoolboy so I had the upper hand. Little victories! Everything seemed closed apart from two restaurants. Saw a Lockheed Super Constellation on the tarmac though, bonus.

I was convince we drove up to some tiny provincial airport, seems so like non-international......

**NotAllThere** · 12 August 2016, 05:29

For the OP. Without some indication of technology and sector and your level of experience, it's impossible to talk about market rates.

800-1300

**Eirikur** · 12 August 2016, 09:46

CHF 950 per day is the absolute minimum to have a comfortable life in Switzerland. everythingis very expensive, not just alittle bitmore expensive, but a lot more expensive

If you can live across the border in Germany, do that, it will save you fortunes.

Contracting in Basel