# Advice about salary/expenses and moving to Zurich

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**Created:** [May 9, 2020, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/advice-about-salary-expenses-and-moving-to-zurich/3818 "2020-05-09T20:34:27Z")
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### Author: ![CryingSofa](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/user_avatar/forum.mustachianpost.com/cryingsofa/32/2498_2.png) [@CryingSofa](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/CryingSofa)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2020, 6:45am UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/advice-about-salary-expenses-and-moving-to-zurich/3818/4 "2020-05-10T06:45:19Z")

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> [@victorvsc](#):
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> Question 2: I can say that I spend 34k EUR in Belgium for both of us (everything included, even holiday trips). Maybe someone has already made a comparison between CH and other European countries, such as Belgium? Some say it’s 2x but I have the feeling it’s not. Someone has lived in Belgium or other EU country and now in CH?

I don’t have any data except for my own. If you want to look at some more, have a look [over  
here in the introduction thread.](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/mustachians-introduce-yourselves/30)

Now to what you can expect for expenses:  
I’m a student and I consider myself to be very frugal, even for being a student on a limited budget. I live with my girlfriend in Zurich Oerlikon in a small flat. My expenses for _one person (!)_ are:

- 650.-/month for rent, water and power
- 100.-/month for public transport (no car, but i have halbtax, the local year-round ticket and travel to family quite often)
- around 350.-/month for insurances
- about 250.-/month for (vegetarian) food + household expenses (if you eat everything home-made you should be able to go to 200/month quite easily. It’s probably not too hard to go even lower.

And that’s the big ones (at least for me). Here’s what you also should consider:

- Taxes. depends heavily on where exactly you live.
- Just for fun expenses. We have a monthly budget of 50.-/month/person and are happy with that. Are you?
- Car. Do you need/want one? I have no clue how expensive that is.
- Serafe/Billag. Mandatory 365.-/year/household bill.
- Childcare. Is very expensive.
- Pillar 3a. Do you want that?
- Move to switzerland expenses. Over the long term not that important, but make sure you have no cashflow problems.

That’s most I think. Good luck!

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