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@eivekeu I don’t think earning 100k in a high COL part of Switzerland is flexing much… and I literally said I could live the same sort of life on minimal salary

@mart113 I feel that I wouldn’t have to make too many adjustments to my lifestyle to live with 40k income. Of course with only that amount you can’t save up much and you can’t have children on a single income. I also feel that more than 2,7% of people are complaining of struggling here…

@christiansophistry But if you are two parents in your exact situation, you would have 24x2=48k to raise children which is more than enough?

@stevona No I really do want to understand. So far what I’m getting is that people struggle when they have a single income, that is the minimal income and 2-3 kids to take care of. I can understand how one would struggle in this situation. I’m also guessing that this situation is a result from...

@stevona Kits is 20-25k per year if you are using it 5 days a week AND make good money. If you’re a single income household then you don’t have to pay kita, if you can do some work from home then you can not pay for 5 days as well.

@sammac A child in switzerland costs between 10k-15k / year. You get 3,5k in help and ~2,5k less taxes in my case, so the real cost is 4k-9k. Even if I was a single dad of 2 it would just mean that instead of saving 44k each year I would save ~30k. If you are saying that it’s hard if you earn...

@regret_living The numbers were for a single person, but for a couple you could just multiply everything by 2 and then you’d get 3k for housing.

I’ve been reeding a couple of subreddits, including this one and there always seems to be the same types of post of people struggling to make ends meet on a normal salary. I am seriously wondering how this is possible in Switzerland. The only explanation I can see is that people have incredibly...