>>In Switzerland you pay more than double even for basic stuff like rice and noodles, meat about 160% of german prices and dairy products somewhere in between.
Depending where you are, you can duck across the border into France and pay Carrefour prices. Which is why houses in station towns fewer than 3 stops from Switzerland, are so expensive. Eldest daughter is off on her first big solo adventure there at the moment. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
