Cost of living 1

I have not touched one of the most important questions when it comes to Switzerland. Prices and the cost of living in the country. Well, as for a start, let me just say it's crazy expensive. Wherever you live you think that Switzerland is expensive think twice. Switzerland in reality is probably two times more expensive what you think.
I will post more on this topic in the future but let me just start with a slight mistake we made without us knowing about. We got a mail from one of the cantonal offices about our insurance and since we have a new address which they did not know about they charged us extra 30 CHF (30$ or 25 EUR) for 'finding' it out. Obviously we forgot to tell that specific dept. that we have a new address but that's a cantonal office that should have our address since it's registered there.. confusing.

Rent in Switzerland

A couple of weeks ago we got a letter from our 'landlord' (which is not a private person but an association) that the rent is changing from 2014. I did not write 'increase' on purpose because it will actually decrease. Hm..strange country, isn't it? (To be fair, the decrease is about 20 CHF but still.)

Happy 2014!