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this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2026
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When I was in Switzerland everything seemed stupid expensive. $15 for a Starbucks coffee. $40 for a hamburger. This was like 10 years ago, so probably even more now.
I was in Switzerland for 2 last weeks. It's stupidly cheap there, when you factor the income of the swiss people.
The median income in Switzerland is 1,5 times that of the US, almost 2 times more than Germany and 4,5 times of Poland (the country I come from).
Yes, Switzerland is 2-3 times more expensive than Poland, but I'd take this deal every day of the week.
I think the prices are more or less the same today.
But we don’t go to Starbucks or fast food often, the coffee culture is the same as France and Italy so not Starbucks. And fast food is often the hangover food so not something you do every week.
Since Covid and inflation worldwide, some prices are actually cheaper in Switzerland. With a Swiss income it is a very perfect country to live in (not with a basic low 4000 chf/month tho, at least not in cities)