spankysparkle

Just curious, but why isn't there a Switzerland section under Europe?
There are thousands of expats in the Schweiz... doesn't anyone on BE work/live there or plan to?

Mitzyboy

Not enough posts I'm afraid to warrant it.

We were asked over and over again to start a Hungary forum (which we did) but now no one posts on it!

spankysparkle

that's a pity

thanks for letting me know.

MikeUK

The English Swiss have there own very succesful forum on the web

Google "english forum switzerland"

I used it as a very good resouce when i looked into moving to switzerland last year

spankysparkle

thanks Mike!

Mitzyboy

Thanks Mike, thats a really good example as to why we cant get a swiss forum running here!

spankysparkle

hahaha i wish that other forum was part of this one :0)

Gremmie

Give the people what they want... not allways what BE whants to give

Mitzyboy

Well .... if swiss expats posted on here we WOULD give them what they want, but as long as they are diverted away from here then ... well ... we wont be able to will we!

Gremmie

Looks like you missed the boat on that one then, as the swiss say " zu wenig zu schpaat"

misplacedheidi

Genau.

But to be serious though English Forum is so much more than is covered here on BE. If you just have look around all the different parts. There are sooo many aspects to living in Switzerland that the standard 3 categories that BE gives just isn't enough. English forum has far more categories because life in CH is just far more complicated.

I like BE and for me in Canada it is just fine but it does make me cross when BE won't accept that it can't be all forums to all people. It would be great if there was a link to English forum to help.

Mitzyboy

I think you are missing something though . At the end of the day, BE is a business, just like the majority of forums in webland. (BTW its not my business, and I dont get paid!)

So .... if you owned a shop in the high street, would you allow the shop down the road in the same line of business to come in and put a placard up in your shop advertising their shop?

misplacedheidi

Not really. There is room for specialized forums as well as general forums. I lived in CH and know what English forum achieves. Perhaps if you spend some time looking around that website you would see what I mean. BE cannot possibly cover all these elements.

Gremmie

Das darf er nid

manwithavan

I agree, there should be a Swiss section.
I'm in Geneva & about 50% of people here are expats- over 10,000 English speakers in this area.
True, there are other ex-pat sites here (OK, I won't name them) but BE can link ex-pats in other countries to those in Switzerland.
A lot of people here didn't come directly from the UK so it would be useful.