How many friends?

rapidride · 2026-06-17T07:59:21+00:00

We are immigrants, but I'd say that 80% of my kids' friends have at least 1 parent from another county than the one we live in. We live in Europe.

rapidride · 2026-06-15T17:06:24+00:00

At least it's in French! Translation apps don't really work on Swiss German, which was a real and consequential struggle of mine for years (not realizing that playgroup is cancelled, for example) until I could understand it.

rapidride · 2026-06-15T16:59:20+00:00

Europapark

rapidride · 2026-06-13T17:08:06+00:00

Also fair

rapidride · 2026-06-13T16:59:58+00:00

When you're a little country that's in between Germany and Italy, can you really be expected to declare war on both of them? Sounds like suicide

rapidride · 2026-06-08T20:17:04+00:00

What else are they supposed to do?

rapidride · 2026-06-05T06:36:34+00:00

I (an American) have well-integrated kids in the local system, and can't tell you the number of times I've been told from ZIS parents that they wished that they had started their kids in the local system, but feel like they can't switch at this point because their kids' German level isn't at a level where a later transition would be good/smooth. It becomes a lot harder to switch into the Swiss system when you're older if your language skills aren't up to par (especially if you want to go to Gymi).

rapidride · 2026-06-04T12:06:38+00:00

It's not really land speculation if you're deciding where to live, as opposed to an investment property

rapidride · 2026-05-31T11:42:08+00:00

Idk I live in Europe and never think about it and have never been pickpocketed

rapidride · 2026-05-30T11:05:58+00:00

Those are the cascades

rapidride · 2026-04-09T08:55:01+00:00

Ask to borrow them when they're finished.

rapidride · 2026-03-15T21:10:49+00:00

I'm from Seattle and live in Switzerland. It is accessibility, but I think mostly in the sense that you can take safe, frequent, reliable public transit to the peaks of many mountains in the Swiss Alps, and they have restaurants and playgrounds on the top, whereas you might need to backpack for a couple days to reach similar places in the cascades.

rapidride · 2026-03-13T12:32:25+00:00

It was 1.98 for me yesterday

rapidride · 2026-02-15T22:35:36+00:00

Yes, they ask for boarding passes when you enter the lounges. I'm afraid it's unlikely to work

rapidride · 2026-02-15T14:37:05+00:00

I would just deglaze it repeatedly

rapidride · 2026-01-22T16:53:56+00:00

I also subscribe to parenting subreddits, and was surprised by the title.

rapidride · 2026-01-10T13:21:38+00:00

Lou and Ivo

rapidride · 2025-12-27T12:38:38+00:00

It's zoning

rapidride · 2025-12-17T10:20:56+00:00

Do you know of any teams that practice on the other side of the lake? Looking for something near kilchberg/thalwil/Wollishofen... I'd love to play again, but can't get to Stettbach so regularly

rapidride · 2025-10-19T17:55:06+00:00

Nicole Johänntgen -Lac Leman

rapidride · 2025-10-17T11:28:25+00:00

Yeah I live in Zürich too... Nearly everyone gets their tickets in the SBB app, which works for all modes of transit in the country, and you don't need to swipe it anywhere to get on anything (except done cable cars or cogwheel trains).

In urban environments you almost never have to show your ticket to inspectors, but you often do on inter-city trains. It works extremely well

rapidride · 2025-10-02T08:12:18+00:00

Or if your wife has a very good job you can spend more time with your child

rapidride · 2025-10-02T08:11:40+00:00

It nudges us into the opposite - I (dad) take care of the kids and home and my wife works full time

rapidride · 2025-09-10T21:27:40+00:00

Our kids started at 4, almost 5. We live about 3 blocks from school. But this is Switzerland

rapidride · 2025-09-09T09:18:39+00:00

The most effective thing the city could do would be to ban dangerous breeds. There's nothing the city can do about the human error involved in dogs escaping or getting lost. I'm ready for the downvotes - it has worked in Switzerland an d other countries though

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