An adult swan with four young swans, not yet white, on Lake Geneva in Lausanne, Switzerland. For a city of its size, to have so many museums and so many theaters must have nearly no parallel.
You do not need a car here, even if you want one. If you live here, you can buy transit cards that help with the cost. Even then, the cost is high. And lonely. The city gets very quiet outside of the bar-and-nightclub scene after work hours, quite early on Saturdays around 6 p.
A lot is, indeed, happening in Lausanne at any given moment, but where and what and when is spread all over the place in different media and you almost need to know where to look or have someone tell you about some cool thing ahead for you to know about it.
Switzerland in generalβ and Lausanne is no exception βis an expensive city to live in, aside from just the public transportation as mentioned above. Though the salaries of people working here are higher than they might be across the border in France, where life is cheaper, the salary levels here are not commensurate with the increased cost of living.
In other words, even at Swiss salaries, the cost of living in Lausanne is high. As a smaller city than some in an already small market, Lausanne especially has fewer options when it comes to products and even service providers.
