Hello, I am 22 years old and struggling with autism. I'm having issues bonding and connecting with people, so I am looking for other autistics that might feel the same in Switzerland.

My interests:

• music (esp. metal)

• books (science, warrior cats, classics)

• board games

• gaming (I'm not good due to dyspraxia, but I enjoy it)

• I love writing letters, gen. hand-writtng a lot things I enjoy

• going for walks

I have met autistic people, but often they were very high-energy and very emotional, this is not the kind of people I can interact very well. I am not a highly energetic person, I like to sit in nature and either read something or have a talk about different kinds of topics.

Do you all also notice guys being shirtless in really unexpected places this summer ? I have seen guys (mostly young ish 15-25) having no shirt on in trains, metros, buses, the city center, inside Migros..
I have nothing against people doing what they have to do when it’s hot outside, but come on now, I don’t want to be in a crowded metro having skin to skin contact with your sweaty back because you refuse to wear a t-shirt when everyone else is doing the bare minimum. This is the first summer I notice this, normally once you left the lake it was really rare to see

My experience is in Lausanne, can’t really speak about other cities in CH

Have you guys tried these? I’m usually a Skyr guy but i’m a fan of these and Coop really cooked with these. They have that tang that i can’t really find in other brands. Great for my cut at the moment

Ps why are actual greek yogurts so hard to come by here?

Hey so I’m an obese teen 16+ living in Switzerland and I’ve been wanting to go to a fat camp ever since I was young. I’ve finally reached a state of being unhealthy (not proud of that but I will change) that my parents are able to see use of me going to one- yet now that I’m allowed to visit one I only ever see fat camps or weight loss (weight management) camps for teens 15 and younger. I’ll be turning 17 soon so I’d need to find one that allows 17 year olds to be in it. Does anyone know any? Please help I’m desperate 😭

I'm from Australia. And I just read a 20 Minutes article, and it is like watching Swiss politicians attempt to rediscover thermodynamics by committee.

SVP says: "Tous les cantons autour de nous ont des politiques moins restrictives. On doit flexibiliser."

That is correct. Geneva's current rules are absurdly restrictive. But simply allowing everyone to buy some inefficient portable monobloc with a hose hanging through an open window is not a serious cooling policy either.

Then we get the opposite side, where air conditioning is dismissed as an "hérésie climatique" and the answer is apparently to renovate and insulate buildings.

Here is the basic concept our politicians appear unable to process:

Insulation is not refrigeration!!

Insulation slows down heat entering a building. Exterior blinds, reflective roofs, trees, ventilation and better windows can reduce heat gains. All of that should absolutely be done.

But none of it actively removes heat from a room.

Once an apartment has absorbed heat through its walls, roof, windows, occupants and appliances, insulation does not magically generate cold air. If it is still 27°C outside at 2 a.m., opening the windows will not produce a 22°C bedroom. Thermal mass may delay the temperature peak, but without sufficiently cool nights it can also store the day's heat and release it while people are trying to sleep.

The Greens themselves admit that air conditioning is "une solution efficace et nécessaire, en particulier pour les personnes vulnérables." They also say that summer cooling should be treated with the same importance as winter heating.

Good. Then follow that logic to its conclusion?

Nobody responds to a freezing apartment in January by telling the tenant that wall insulation should eventually solve everything.

We install heating and improve the building envelope. Summer requires exactly the same approach: reduce the thermal load and provide equipment capable of controlling the indoor temperature.

This artificial choice between "air conditioning" and "renovation" is technically illiterate. A competent policy would cover the complete HVAC system:

• exterior shading, roof treatment and proper insulation
• efficient reversible heat pumps or fixed split systems instead of portable monobloc garbage
• controlled ventilation and humidity management
• enforceable indoor-temperature standards for housing and workplaces
• active cooling in hospitals, EMS, schools, nurseries and other vulnerable settings
• efficiency, noise and refrigerant requirements
• solar generation, grid planning and demand management
• batteries and energy storage infrastructures
• district cooling where density makes it practical

Australia and other hot countries already understand this. Passive design reduces the amount of cooling required. Efficient mechanical systems remove the remaining heat. The two approaches complement each other.

Meanwhile, Switzerland behaves as though every ordinary piece of infrastructure must first be reinvented through fifteen years of parliamentary debates, cantonal exceptions, medical certificates and ideological theatre.

The UDC sees the immediate problem but reduces the answer to easier access to appliances. The Greens see the structural problem but keep presenting load reduction as though it were temperature control. Both are describing half of a functioning system.

Stop debating "renovation or air conditioning."

That is the summer equivalent of debating "insulation or heating" in January.

We need both. We need actual HVAC engineering. We need to stop treating a safe indoor temperature as a decadent luxury. And we need to copy solutions that already work instead of pretending Switzerland can negotiate with thermodynamics.

/rant

Hi everyone,
I’m looking for some advice about a traffic incident that happened in the summer of 2025 in Zermatt.

At the time, I was working at a hotel and driving one of the hotel’s electric vehicles to pick up guests. I was behind a cyclist who was riding unpredictably, weaving from side to side. Eventually, he moved to the right, leaving enough space for me to overtake. As I was overtaking, he suddenly turned sharply to the left without giving any signal.
We came very close to colliding, but there was no contact between the bicycle and the vehicle. The cyclist remained standing on his bike, and neither the bike nor the vehicle was damaged.
I immediately stopped and asked if he was okay. He told me he was a bit shocked but that he was fine and not injured. I then continued to the hotel, where I reported the incident to my supervisors.

Later, the cyclist contacted the hotel asking if anything was going to be done about the incident. He even came to the hotel reception limping and spoke to one of my supervisors, but since there had been no collision or damage, he was told there was nothing the hotel could do.

Some time later, he filed a complaint with the cantonal police. About a month after the incident, I was called in to give my statement. At the end of the interview, because I had an L permit and they thought I might leave Switzerland, I was required to deposit CHF 1,000 as security in case I was later found liable.

It’s now been about a year, and I have never received any decision, letter, or update from the police, the prosecutor, or any other authority. I am still living and working in Switzerland, although I no longer live in Zermatt.

My questions are:
Is it normal for a case like this to take over a year with no communication?

How can I find out the current status of the case?

If the case has been closed, how do I get my CHF 1,000 deposit back?

Which authority should I contact (cantonal police, prosecutor’s office, or someone else)?

Any advice from people familiar with the Swiss legal system would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Post digitises my physical mail (Great tool) Costs CHF 11 a month, auto-charged to my credit card. Operator is ePost Service AG in Lucerne, part of Swiss Post BUT Customer Service is outsourced to KLARA umbrella.

My account has been locked for months. Reason given: one single unpaid invoice. Problem is i cant see this invoice because my post account is locked and there that invoice shout be?

My credit card is charged every month. Probably it once wasn't charged and that lead to an unpaid bill? Why dont they just charge it again if they want my money? Instead they block my account and make me fight for literally MONTHS to try to get it back.

Timeline:

• April 2026: opened a support chat. First reaction was an attempt to push me over to Swiss Post as "not their department". Wrote to 5 different mailadresses no answer from nowhere.
• Phone? Doesn't exist. The support reasoning: they want to avoid hold queues. There is no number anywhere on the site.
• Post phone employees are friendly but cant help either.
• Then months of silence, despite several follow-ups and me pointing out I cannot access my mail.
• 6 July 2026: first substantive reply from a Customer Success Manager. Content: one open invoice from january (I never payed a single invoice becuase all the payments go via credit card), account stays locked until I provide proof of payment.
• I payed manually and am still waiting for unblocking.

The money is not the issue. It's CHF 11. The issue is that a service whose entire purpose is giving me access to my mail has taken that access away, then went quiet for months! Official letters, bills, deadlines, all sitting behind a paywall built on their nonexistant customer service.

Has anyone else dealt with this at ePost / Klara ? How can you neglect customer service so strongly?

Hi, we are considering to move to Zürich Glattpark and would like to ask your opinion on primary school there. Mainly we have two concerns. First, it has very few green in the campus. Secondly, it applies ADL(Altersdurchmischtes Lernen) system which is new to us. It seems very international too but how is the atmosphere? We are non-Swiss living in Kanton Zug for seven years, our child is in second grade, fluent in German. Thank you so much.

My Salt mobile subscription ends mid August. I started getting calls about it in I think early June. I very clearly communicated that I am not interested in a new offer. They kept calling, I kept saying the same. I also ask them explicitly not to call me. As the date approaches they are calling more frequently. We are almost at every other day. I am getting frustrated which I made very obvious in my last two calls. Can this be harassment? I cannot just block the number because they are calling from different numbers… I wanted to share my experience to ask if there is anything I can do and hopefully people find this info useful when selecting a mobile provider.

For decades, the financial behaviour of the Swiss was based on filling their Sparkässeli. Those little metal boxes where people kept their savings even shaped society’s relationship with its banks. Today they remain as contemporary witnesses of a bygone era.

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Hi. A long shot I know and the answer is very likely negative, I assume, but stil asking.

Is there a legal possibility to (temporarily) add one or two seats to a station, normally 5-seater car, by utilising the trunk room?

Obviously I mean in a way approved by the authorities and somehow mentioned in the gray card. And assuming the trunk is big enough to handle it.

Thanks.

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Been working at this restaurant for a few years and moved into the kitchen about a year ago. We are a crêperie so there's like 10 crepe platters cranked at 200 degrees, it gets pretty hot!

We talked about it with the owner and he says there's nothing he can do so the managers gave us a couple fans but that also ends up blowing hot air... Is there any law regarding temperature at work?

Un voleur a cru bon de jouer les acrobates pour échapper à la police dans le quartier des Pâquis à Genève. Coincé sur un balcon, l'homme s'est suspendu dans le vide pour descendre à l'étage inférieur sous le regard des agents et des passants. Sa cascade s'est cependant terminée de manière plutôt comique puisqu'il a atterri directement dans la nacelle d'un camion de pompiers où d'autres policiers l'attendaient de pied ferme. Une fin de course totalement ratée qui a sûrement bien diverti le voisinage genevois.

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Hello all,

There was a post a couple of months ago discussing the Swiss Federal Supreme Court ruling 2C_82/2023 (22.10.2025), which held that the common practice of some cantonal immigration authorities of tying B permits to the employer for whom the permit was originally granted is inconsistent with the FNIA. At the time, however, the ruling was still recent, and it was unclear whether it would become general administrative practice.

As of 30.06.2026, the SEM guidelines for cantonal authorities now explicitly state the following (translation):

“Foreign family members of a Swiss national and the persons referred to in Articles 42(1) and 43(1) of the Foreign Nationals and Integration Act (FNIA) may change employment without having to apply for authorization to do so.

If a residence permit was granted for the purpose of salaried employment, changing industry, changing employer, or changing job function does not require authorization. In Article 38(2) FNIA, the legislature explicitly specified that it is possible to change employment ‘without further authorization’ (in other words, without any additional conditions). Under this lex specialis provision, professional and geographical mobility is considered to be in Switzerland’s general economic interest (see Swiss Federal Supreme Court judgment 2C_82/2023 of 22 October 2025, para. 6).”

Cheers to all who were unlawfully limited by cantonal authorities and can now benefit from the rights stated in FNIA to begin with!

Hi all, we've decided on a project close to Broc, Canton Fribourg, and are planning to sign the contract this November. A bit of background: I've been living in Switzerland for over 20 years now, naturalised, but always in the German-speaking part before. We moved to this area 3 years ago and love it here.

The thing is, it's a new-build - construction hasn't even started yet, planned delivery is early 2028. So this is really about the "buying off-plan" side of things: what should we look out for in the contract, payment schedule tied to construction stages, guarantees if the developer goes bust or delays happen, dealing with the notary, that sort of thing. Never bought any real-estate, so I am easy to scam...

Anyone been through this kind of purchase in Fribourg (or Switzerland in general) recently? Would love to hear what surprised you, good or bad. Thanks a lot in advance!

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Hallo Leute

Will von der RS weg und zum Zivi wechseln. Hab soeben den Einführungstag besucht und den Wechsel bestätigt bzw. halte an meinem Gesuch fest.

Wie lange geht es bis ich entlassen werde? Bzw. wie war das bei euch?

Wie erfahre ich dass ich abgerüstet werde? Informiert mich der Leutnant oder wer?

Gibt es allenfalls die Möglichkeit, den Wechsel zu beschleunigen, falls mir der Tag der Abrüstung zu weit in der Zukunft liegt?

Hi, everyone!
On Sunday, I’ll be taking my first flight from Switzerland with Wizzair, and since this is my first time flying out of Basel Airport, I’d like to get some more information so I’m not caught off guard—I always feel silly looking around without knowing where to go or what to do, lol.
I have a 20kg checked bag and my flight leaves around 2:00 p.m. What time do you think I should be at the airport? Do you think it’ll be very crowded?
How does the baggage check-in work? I’ve always traveled with my bag under the seat, so I’ve never had to go through that process before.
Thanks so much, everyone!

Just wondering whether anyone else has noticed this yet or if it's just me being a teacher who does: we now force kids to bring laptops/tablets to school, then force them to not use them bc they either use it to game or access AI and such. I actually also want to start this (this being them not use a internet connected device in class).

I have a lot of coworkers going back to paper only and at the same time byod is enforced... kind of weird imo.

In case someone is interested in reading the article.

From the article:

The Swiss population is expected to grow by 4% as a whole by 2050. But this growth is mostly coming from the 65+ and 80+ population. Both children 0-14 and working adults 15-64 are expected to decrease by 15.5% and 1.4% respectively.

An analysis of the 26 cantons up to 2050 – based on the "low" 2025 scenario of the Federal Statistical Office (FSO), which assumes a persistently low birth rate (1.25 children per woman), only a moderate increase in life expectancy (to 86.5 years for women and 82.5 years for men) and low net migration (30,000 per year) – reveals varying patterns of demographic change across the cantons. This pessimistic FSO scenario was deliberately chosen because

1. An increase in the birth rate is not foreseeable;

moderate immigration would in no way lead to social or infrastructural strain;

1. Productivity gains in the economy – which are necessary in any case – are an incentive that would bring about the mitigation of the foreseeable labor shortage; and

2. The trend toward longer lifespans and the resulting aging of society is set to continue for the foreseeable future.