Where to live?

[bertusgeert 1]

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the criteria
- i work in finance and value my career vs. other stuff...say...50/50. i have a couple years of solid experience (looking to corpfin/I-banking/PE/Hedge world - not picky)
- i'd love to be able to start jumping again
- have always aspired to BASE
- be close to a place where I can continue paragliding,
- get closer to the ocean to learn to surf, snorkel, scuba,
- of course i love to ski
- where the people are friendly & easy going

Any suggestions for places I should be evaluating in addition?

- Finance jobs - Check
- Skydive - Check
- Paraglide - Check - Check
- Cool place/Cool people - Check

Geneva

And expensive, right?
I spent some time living in Grenoble and REALLY want to find a way to live in France again.

Is it difficult to get authorization for France? Switzerland?

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[shropshire 0]

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- Finance jobs - Check
- Skydive - Check
- Paraglide - Check - Check
- Cool place/Cool people - Check

Geneva

But there's loads of French people so that negates all those CHECKS

[shakes head] - there tends to be more Swiss folks in SWITZERLAND

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[billvon 3,107]

>>But there's loads of French people so that negates all those CHECKS

>there tends to be more Swiss folks in SWITZERLAND. . .

Enough to negate all those Czechs?

[shropshire 0]

Expensive? - Sort of but it's ould be earning all relative... you could be earning loads too.


Authorisation? Not sure exactly what you're asking here - sorry.

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[shropshire 0]

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>>But there's loads of French people so that negates all those CHECKS

>there tends to be more Swiss folks in SWITZERLAND. . .

Enough to negate all those Czechs?

Nope. not that many

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[bertusgeert 1]

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Expensive? - Sort of but it's ould be earning all relative... you could be earning loads too.


Authorisation? Not sure exactly what you're asking here - sorry.

Work authorization - how easy is it for a foreigner to come in and take a job from a local. Usually they have preferable terms for locals, esp. Switzerland from what I have heard.

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[DrewEckhardt 0]

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*DENVER*

you can do everything on your list here except the seaside stuff of course.

Or jump in the winter.

Out of the 11 years I skydived while living in Boulder, Colorado there were no months I didn't jump due to the weather in spite of being a wimp who won't jump when the ground temperatures are below 40 degrees.

Boulder and Longmont get 300 days of sun a year, and the winter day time highs average over 40 with plenty of forays into the 50s and even 60s. Denver is about 25 miles from both.

It's also a dry cold, where 40 feels like 50+ in wetter places like Washington State or California.

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Or do anything worth a crap that doesn't involve a set of skis in the winter...

While there's a lot of snow from big storms, the sun and high temperatures melt it fast and the low humidity means that some sublimates. It disappears fast.

[JohnDeere 0]

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It's also a dry cold, where 40 feels like 50+ in wetter places like Washington State or California.

Thats for sure! I go there normally a couple of times a year in the winter. I leave north Texas with a jacket and when i get there and dont need the jacket. Thats when it is colder there than here

Nothing opens like a Deere!

You ignorant fool! Checks are for workers!

[shropshire 0]

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Expensive? - Sort of but it's ould be earning all relative... you could be earning loads too.


Authorisation? Not sure exactly what you're asking here - sorry.

Work authorization - how easy is it for a foreigner to come in and take a job from a local. Usually they have preferable terms for locals, esp. Switzerland from what I have heard.

Agh .. That's a good question (as I'm going through a similar exercise) .... I still don'y klnow the answer - sorry. Some folks say that I need a degree and others not ... But I'm still looking for a job there (or there abouts) anyway.

Good luck mate and I hope that you find the right place/job for you.

All the best.

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome