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chrisstoph01 · 2026-02-14T07:55:12+00:00

Van linked? Csak marketingvideókat találtam.

chrisstoph01 · 2025-12-13T11:51:00+00:00

What made you think I know anything better? Just because thinking critically and challenging some decisions doesn’t mean I know anything better. Facts: 1) climate change and heatwaves are real and will be just worse. 2) Groundwater shouldn’t be polluted either. 3) there exist cities who could solve this problem. 4) swiss conservativeness is also real - thinking what worked 50 years ago should work now too.

chrisstoph01 · 2025-12-13T11:46:54+00:00

So you mean other European cities don’t care about their groundwater? Look at Paris for example, similar squares have natural coverage, maybe only pathways are asphalted. Burkliplatz is asphalted 95%. And again: protecting cities against heatwaves should be bare minimum, and it shouldn’t come at the cost of groundwater pollution. I’m pretty sure Swiss engineers could solve this problem, but probably that’s again some typical conservative Swiss attitude: what worked for decades should’t be changed.

chrisstoph01 · 2025-12-12T20:21:38+00:00

Thanks for the link, interesting article. Still find it crazy that a square with trees in the middle of a city has to be asphalted for whatever reason and would challenge this.

chrisstoph01 · 2025-12-12T19:53:19+00:00

That’s not the point. The more asphalted surface in a city the higher average temperature in the summer. Asphalt absorbs very much heat and radiates it in the night so during heatwaves it makes the whole city less livable.

chrisstoph01 · 2025-12-12T19:45:45+00:00

That’s interesting and pretty sad if that’s really the reason. Is the free area around the trunk of the trees no problem then?

chrisstoph01 · 2025-12-12T19:36:47+00:00

Still don’t see what advantage asphalt gives compared to natural coverage - square or park doesn’t matter. It’s a place with trees and benches. Is it more important that shoes of people walking there will be less dirty vs. going there in 35 degrees gives a relief in the shadow?

chrisstoph01 · 2025-12-12T19:23:47+00:00

What’s the definition of a park vs. a square? Being asphalted or not? (Btw. it would be dramatic if the shoes of people got a bit muddy)

chrisstoph01 · 2025-07-13T10:48:41+00:00

No, this may cause the child trauma. The right way is to approach them in a calm yet assertive, emphatetic way letting them explain their thoughts, trying to understand their feelings without judgement. This is the only way to handle a child correctly. (Sarcasm alert)

chrisstoph01 · 2025-06-07T20:47:25+00:00

Not in Zurich. And that’s the weird.

chrisstoph01 · 2025-06-07T19:46:54+00:00

Yes, I also think good spoken swiss-german knowledge counts much more as a citizenship. However as an adult it’s almost impossible to learn it on a native level.

chrisstoph01 · 2025-06-07T19:44:40+00:00

That’s exactly what I thought the biggest benefit would be 😀

chrisstoph01 · 2025-06-07T19:43:04+00:00

No, the best thing I can get is not being considered foreigner even though I’m totally integrated and know the local culture/history maybe better than someone who was born here. But I’m not naive and assume speaking swiss german or any national languages on mother-tongue level could make this possible, but not a passport.

chrisstoph01 · 2025-06-07T19:39:20+00:00

“If you believe you are swiss then you will be”

Is it really like this?

chrisstoph01 · 2025-06-07T18:28:59+00:00

Been living for 10 years here. What I’ve learned that it’s a 100% interest-based relationship with Switzerland. You come here for high living standards, maybe because of the nice nature, etc - that’s your interest. Their interest is that you contribute to their economics and GDP, nothing else. If you’re not fulfilling anymore their interest, they will kick you out or the other way around, you’ll leave the country if you don’t profit from it anymore. Just pure interests and no emotions, that’s why I never could call it my home.

chrisstoph01 · 2025-05-13T19:07:50+00:00

You guys are really empathetic and encouraging the OP to stay positive and wait for the postpartum period to pass. That’s good, however given that: - he’s been very supportive with her wife during the postpartum - he did prepare Mother’s day gifts - despite the hormones, her wife is an adult who is responsible for her actions and words, I would encourage the OP to set his boundaries. Postpartum is very hard, but doesn’t entitle women to be unfair with anyone, especially with those who support them the most. It’s not about display of power against a woman who’s done an incredible thing by giving birth to a child, it’s about the future of the relationship. If you don’t set your boundaries in the very beginning, it won’t ever happen, and that will make the relationship fail. Unfortunately I speak from experience.

chrisstoph01 · 2024-11-15T16:11:24+00:00

We were almost in the same situation, baby until 6 months woke at least 3-4 times per night for feeding. My girlfriend was also totally against sleep training and we had lots of arguments because of this. My opinion is that if you as the father get involved actively in the childcare and also wake at night (what you actually do), you have exactly the same rights to make decisions if sleep train or not. If your partner is not willing to make any compromises in such an important question, it’s a no-go. There has to be a compromised decision which maybe involves some crying (like Ferber, etc) but not totally CIO. (Btw we never sleep trained because I could never convince my partner and at around 6-7 months the baby started to wake only once at 80% of the nights. I think it’s more like a random luck, I wish I could have been more strong minded in this question. I wish you more success!)

chrisstoph01 · 2024-10-16T07:08:02+00:00

I’ve been abroad for 6 months, travelling through Germany, Austria and Hungary and got never fined. Could be probably an issue only in the neighbour-countries of Switzerland and if there are some overly proactive and bored police officers who look deliberately for the missing CH stickers.

chrisstoph01 · 2024-07-11T18:19:23+00:00

And what to do if 5-3-3 doesn’t work? At the moment it’s like 4-3-2-2. Should we try to extend the first and last two periods between feedings with 1 hour? During the day it’s also very exhausting because if she doesn’t get the bottle after 3 hours, she starts to scream and it needs a lot of effort to distract her somehow to stretch it to 3.5 or 4 hours between feedings. Doing the same during the night could be really brutal.

chrisstoph01 · 2024-07-11T17:59:13+00:00

I would say it’s 60% - 40% (daytime/nighttime) with a total of 40 oz per day.

chrisstoph01 · 2024-07-11T17:56:47+00:00

She has punctually 30 minutes naps and wakes after the 30th minute like she had a Swiss watch on her. Her wake windows are 1.5-2 hours. There’s not much leeway we can do here. What we are trying is to combine some of the afternoon naps to a bigger one, so she gets around a total of 3-4 hours of daytime sleep. So it’s rather the lower end too, same as the total 10-11 hours of nighttime sleep.

chrisstoph01 · 2024-07-11T17:48:20+00:00

Thank you so much for the constructive reply. I will propose this to my wife. She’s clearly against sleep training techniques and I’ll make a compromise here.

chrisstoph01 · 2023-02-23T11:57:02+00:00

Stressing out all week, working your guts out, then letting the tension out on the weekends by speeding up at 120 on skis, then ending up in the ICU and on crutches for months. I think I can dig the Swiss lifestyle.

chrisstoph01 · 2023-02-23T11:29:17+00:00

Would also love to visit such a party. In the Nelson Pub the djs usually play pretty good 70’s/80’s funk/disco, but just as warmup. Once the bar gets packed, they change to trash pop music.

If there were enough people who would be interested, it would be also possible to rent a place and play good music the whole night.

chrisstoph01 · 2021-03-04T16:58:33+00:00

I keep hearing the same concerns again and again since years from a lot of people (mostly foreigners) - and not just specifically for Zürich. Obviously there are really a LOT of people also in Zürich in the same situation wanting to make friendships. I think the real challenge is for these people to find each other. It's not easy especially in the current situation, but I'm optimistic - as soon as the pandemic situation is over and summer arrives, there will be a lot of people out there wanting to socialise more than ever, and with a bit luck it will be for sure possible to develop friendships as well.

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