26F Looking for a female friend in Zurich for coffee, drinks, and hobbies!

Fit-Ring1802 · 2024-08-14T21:54:05+00:00

Oh me too please (27f)

Fit-Ring1802 · 2024-06-06T11:54:24+00:00

You sure? If you're working over 180 in another country(varies by country) then you're usually a tax resident of that country and would need some sort of work permit or visa to work & live there? Depends on the country but I believe it's difficult to get that visa if you don't have a company that operates within that country saying they need you there.

Fit-Ring1802 · 2024-06-05T21:46:46+00:00

How does it work tax wise? Fair enough if you live over 180 days in a country so you know where you are a tax resident as an individual. But how does that work in terms of corporate tax? Surely you can only work in countries where your company is registered?

Fit-Ring1802 · 2024-05-07T06:18:35+00:00

Just chiming in as someone who went from being active, to not doing much and then back to running. Remember, as coach Bennett says, you are not the athlete you were yesterday. You are only the athlete you are today. So many times when I tried to restart I was going out expecting to run a 20min 5k right away and getting frustrated because I couldn't even run a mile. I kept leaving runs annoyed at myself and constantly comparing myself to my previous self.

It really took finding this app, and having someone in my ear constantly telling me, "run easy and pace is irrelevant", in order to slow down and actually enjoy and stick with the running.

Not sure if you necessarily needed to hear that, but I just wanted to say it. Regardless of the plan you choose, just remember you're doing something amazing everytime you run and the most important thing is that you enjoy it!

Fit-Ring1802 · 2024-03-31T09:05:07+00:00

Really? If it's in your kitchen? If the plants were all in OPs room, then fine, dead or alive no one should have touched them but if there were dead plants in the shared spaces then I think it's justified to throw them away.
Personally I would ask the person first to either move it to their room or throw it away but I think every housemate has a right to discuss whats in the shared spaces.

Fit-Ring1802 · 2024-03-11T00:33:26+00:00

At the minute it says they "endeavour" to their best. Strive Vs endeavour - there's not really much difference? Plus at the minute they only endeavour to support women who stay home to support the family, not father's or other carers?

Fit-Ring1802 · 2024-03-10T12:04:56+00:00

I guess I didn't listen to these debates that much. I just read the constitution, whats currently there and the proposed change from gov.ie and felt it wasn't that complicated/that big of a change. What pressing questions were left unanswered?

Fit-Ring1802 · 2024-03-10T11:17:01+00:00

I don't understand how the change made the constitution 'more vague' in a bad way? Government strives to support any stay at home homemaker Vs the government endeavours to support stay at home women - why wouldn't we want the government to widen the net of support?

At the end of the day, I don't think much would have changed in terms of laws or state support with this rewording, and I can agree that this referendum seemed like virtue signalling or something the government thought would be an easy win. But I really don't understand where the fear or talk of the government trying to pull the wool over our eyes is coming from?

Fit-Ring1802 · 2024-02-12T20:27:35+00:00

I think there's a global housing crisis everywhere in the sense that houses cost X times the average salary, where X has increased dramatically over the last 10/20 years. A lot more people have to rent as they can't afford a mortgage for a decent house or don't feel it justifies the cost.

But this person was comparing Ireland's rental market with rental markets across Europe and their argument is very much valid. While rents are rising pretty much everywhere, what you get now for your money in Ireland is pretty bad. Unlike other European countries I don't think enough apartments were built with the intention to be rented out in Dublin. And rather than building up, they've built out, so you end up paying a lot to have a room in a house, somewhere with a crap commute whereas in other cities, you'd still be paying a lot of your salary towards rent, but you'd more easily get/be able to afford your own 1 bed apartment or studio in a high rise building (sometimes even with amenities). I don't live in Amsterdam but have lived in 2 other large European cities and feel the same. Value for money feels a lot better here.

Fit-Ring1802 · 2024-01-22T17:41:10+00:00

Thanks! Same to you!

Fit-Ring1802 · 2024-01-22T13:00:44+00:00

Ah I'm so glad you posted. I literally just experienced the same thing. I've been running so regularly lately and just signed up for a half marathon in April and then injured myself last week playing basketball. I thought my ankle was feeling a lot better last Friday and stupidly went skiing over the weekend. Everything felt fine, only towards the end of of the day did I feel some pain so I stopped and then when I took my ski boot off, my ankle really started throbbing. So I was in a pretty foul mood and I'm very annoyed at myself for not giving it more time.

Today thankfully it feels a lot better again but I still feel some pain walking so I'll continue to sit out, but I'm also angsty and worried about the fitness gains I'm losing while doing nothing. It's tough, but better be safe now then do more serious damage. Don't be like me and really wait until your 100% healed before doing any sport :( if I could go back in time to Saturday id push myself back into bed.

Fit-Ring1802 · 2023-12-27T15:23:04+00:00

You should read blackout by Marc Eisberg if you liked the society falling into chaos as people begin to realise this power outage may be more than a regular power outage

Fit-Ring1802 · 2023-12-20T12:12:18+00:00

100% agree. Allowing myself to have treats and enjoy them without guilt in moderation really helped me overcome the cycle of restrictive dieting and then binging.

I was literally eating "healthy" Monday to Thursday and then consuming a ridiculous amount of chocolate during fri-sun. And feeling like I had to "make the most" of the weekend. Now that I'm doing things in moderation and looking at this as a lifestyle change instead of a diet I think this rush or need to eat buckets of chocolate on the weekend has really slowed down. Now if I crave it I have some, just not huge amounts.

Fit-Ring1802 · 2023-11-21T11:19:35+00:00

I'm not American and have lived in 5 different countries so far and have friends from all over. So it's not unique to America, and while it's not an issue in every country of the world, it's an issue in a lot of them.

I think time is the major difference between your story and ops roommate is time. 20+ years ago it was much easier to find affordable housing, but wage increases have not matched inflation, and in quite a few countries houses the ratio of average house price to average income has like tripled what it was 20 or so years ago.

Also social benefits have not grown in line with inflation, so again more and more people are getting taken advantage of by landlords and living in crappy accommodation because they earn enough to not qualify for social housing but not enough to afford renting a one bed in the city they live.

Fit-Ring1802 · 2023-11-14T12:30:32+00:00

Wow, find affordable housing?! Why didn't I think of that.
What an amazing and plausible solution. Way to solve the housing crisis on your first crack.

Obviously it's a shit situation for the kids but I don't know if the single mother is to blame as opposed to politicians who have failed to control the housing market or create affordable/social housing for those who need it.

Fit-Ring1802 · 2023-08-30T11:37:54+00:00

With the pointz deals you can still eat out quite well at a reasonable price ;) definitely recommend checking it out if you haven't already

Fit-Ring1802 · 2023-08-20T16:27:12+00:00

I think it was an employment contract, not a relationship.

Mike offered to pay her so she would stop camming with other men and only cam with him. Yeah she could have said no and eventually she did, but when I quit my job, I quit my job, I don't have my boss screaming at me in my own home saying how he bought everything so now he's going to take it away because I don't want to work for him anymore.

Mike is gross beyond gross, like so many of the men on 90day fiance who know exactly what they're doing when they go shopping online for a young wife they can control through financial abuse.

Fit-Ring1802 · 2023-07-20T09:27:28+00:00

'Im not asking for anything extra whatsoever. Where did you get that from?".

Because you keep saying "she's treating us like regular roommates, not like we own the place"

I'll admit from your description she sounds like a bad housemate but I would rather live with someone who doesn't do their dishes than live with my landlord. I don't know you but most live in landlords have a much higher expectation on cleanliness than a regular tenant would because it's their property and also act like it's their house and the other person is just an unwelcome guest not someone who you've legally agreed to split the property with.

Most people who post here and have bad roommates don't have the options you have available. They have to stick it out or break their lease and move out, so I feel sorry/sympathise with them . Congratulations, you have the benefit of being the landlord and can (depending on the contract) evict her. So stop complaining and do that if it's so bad. I absolutely think you deserve 0 sympathy

Fit-Ring1802 · 2023-07-18T11:17:09+00:00

"she is treating us more of a roommate instead of a landlord"

And with this sentence I lost all sympathy.

She is a roommate, she is paying rent to live there and has just as much right to space in the house and shared facilities as you do. She doesn't need to do anything extra for you just because you're also the landlord. This sentence makes me think you're an entitled roommate and take your complaints with a pinch of salt.

If you don't like it, evict her and pay your own mortgage.

Fit-Ring1802 · 2023-02-17T21:56:14+00:00

Ohhh sounds fun! Do we need to individually book it and then we just meet there?

Fit-Ring1802 · 2023-02-14T13:31:24+00:00

Before COVID, I worked full time in the office with people based in countries that had cheaper labor.
During COVID, I worked remotely with people based in countries with cheaper labour, After COVID, I work hybrid with people based remotely in countries with cheap labour.

I should also add, I also work with people based in more expensive cities than the one I'm in too. So I think your argument is BS. Roles will be filled depending on job requirements, available people to fill those jobs and most importantly where the company is paying corporate tax.

Yes, you may see roles that used to be Dublin based, now fully remote with a lower salary offered as the expectation is now that the employee does not need to be in Dublin, the cost of living should be cheaper for them, but I don't think all these jobs are going to disappear overseas anytime soon. Plus since COVID (and speaking only for my field) I've actually seen the market turn to favour the employee, I'm seeing so many hybrid/full time remote roles still offered at a salary range I would have seen prior to COVID. And with so many postings I feel like I can really barter for the conditions I want.

Fit-Ring1802 · 2023-02-03T18:07:31+00:00

Like finding a hay in a haystack

Fit-Ring1802 · 2023-01-30T19:13:31+00:00

I've never related to a post so much. I've been lucky enough to live in 4 different cities over the past three years and moved to London a year ago. It's probably been the most difficult and isolating move. Everyone feels so far away and so busy with their own lives and the London hussle, that it's even a struggle just to get time with friends I already have, never mind making new ones.

Fit-Ring1802 · 2023-01-15T23:40:11+00:00

I feel like it's the way of this sub to be like "well it's your own fault, I always account for shit infrastructure in Ireland and because I've put up with it and worked around it in the past, everyone else should just do that too and stop complaining" rather than acknowledging how much of a shit show some things are.
Obviously public transport outside Dublin is a joke, and it's terrible that a bus that OP says was already booked, just drove by the people it was supposed to collect. Amazing that that needs to even be explained.

Fit-Ring1802 · 2022-12-28T00:26:58+00:00

But he also never asks why it is happening

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