Have them or not have them? that is the question.

Yeah, maybe salaries are not that bad in Switzerland. Maybe better than in a lot of countries in Europe or in the world.

Funny thing is you also spend a lot. Besides the overpriced rents and food nowadays we heard about another thing: a tax you pay because you use TV or radio. Weird isn't it? Where that money goes to? To support the poor TV/radio people. How much is it? Well, I didn't check it out, but I think it is something like 100 CHF per year for both of them, I don't know.

Since we are not much of French speakers and not even German (though I am on the way to it) and we don't have a TV (nor a radio at home), we don't pay it. I just heard from my neighbor, who has been living here for a nice while mentioned that you even have to pay for it if you have a radio in your CAR! Now that is absurd!



She also mentioned that back on the other city she lived before Geneva, something funny happened. She was at home in the early morning (I always listen it happens in the morning), when she listens to somebody knocking on the door. She answers and guess who was it? It was the guy from the TV/radio tax company just making a normal surveillance if people have or not these equipments (they have to be declared to the company, as she explained me) and in case they do, if they are up to date with their payments. Since she had a TV, but the cable of the antenna was far away from it and cut out (she was explaining him that this way he can she does not use the TV), after some problematic understanding, he accepted and left.

I heard the fine you have to pay if they discover you use them and don't pay is quite high, to assure you feel bad for not paying it before. There is a program you use to watch TV online in your computer. Yes, you know which one I am talking about. They also want to make a tax for it or for the computer, because not only you can also watch TV, but also listen to radio. Maybe soon it will be voted...

It can be fun to live here, isn't it? oh, all the things you pay because you just live in Switzerland---