It’s a new year so we thought that we would have our first post of the year be about something really useful: how to deal with garbage in Switzerland! Ah the first stumbling block! You put your garbage bag outside in a normal garbage bag […]
When moving to a new home, people are usually anxious to get all their telecom services up and running and often will become frustrated as the telephone, cable TV and internet providers will not give them a contract until shown an official residence permit (Ausländernausweis).
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Arriving in in a new country is always a challenge, and means that a million things need to be checked, changed, sorted and organised. Within this seemingly never-ending list is the need to convert a foreign driver’s license into the local one, in our case
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First of all welcome! I really hope that you will be able to settle in Luzern happily, here are a few tips to help you. The very first first thing I want to say is be gentle with yourself! Yes, Switzerland is in the heart
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The town of Luzern has launched an English website for newcomers answering many of the administrative questions you may have about living here. This is a project long in the making and many expats have been involved in helping make this happen.It came to life
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In the past months I have been talking with many expats about their experiences here and at some point during the conversation this question will always come up: Do you feel integrated? The answers are not always what I expect to hear and I would
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So you are new in Luzern and you are wondering how you are going to find kindred spirits, fear not there are lots of friendly people living here and we are going to give you some ideas on how to meet them. Online. Obviously your
There’s no place like home Choosing a place to live in a new city is often confusing, especially in a place where much information is focused on the tourists. The following is some information on Lucerne’s suburbs to help you decide where to live in
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On November 10th, 2013, I took over the day to day management and long term vision and direction of Living in Luzern. One of the ideas I had was to introduce various members of the team to the living in Luzern readers with a couple
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We all know that living in Switzerland is expensive but there are ways of saving money on a day to day basis and here are a few tips: Public Transport: The first thing is to ask yourself whether you are better off having a General
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