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You can get a daily SBB/CFF train ticket for cheap by asking your city. Moreover there is a minimal distance you must commute by train every day to make the General subscription (GA or AG) a better deal than buying a half card ticket.
Shops close early in most places and we do not have 24/7 options.
Each canton has its own autonomy which means for instance the education system and other cantonal laws can differ from one canton to another.
You pay different tax % for the same income depending on the canton and the city in which you live.
You can go from a region speaking one language to a another quite quickly. This is why English is most of the time very useful since we have 4 official languages. Rostigraben is the name we give to this concept.
Admin.ch has a lot of information about most of the questions one can have on administrative matters.
Wallis is objectively the best canton. (This a joke don’t kill me 😂)
Wow great summary, thank you.
Bonus: if you know in advance, that your going to take a certain train, SBB also offers savings tickets.
In Zurich on the weekend the 9 o’clock pass is valid all day (oposed to weekdays from 9 o’clock)
Not on night trains though, iirc.
The ticket is not 24h, but until the last regular train which is about 5 am.
But don’t you have to pay a Nachtzuschlag for trains like the SN3? Or was that abolished?
In Zürich, you don’t need a “Nachtzuschlag” anymore, but i’m sure, there are exceptions. General rule of thumb - their gone.
Maybe not a MUST know, but playsuisse.ch offers free TV shows and movies for people living in Switzerland. The library is nowhere as extensive as Netflix or Prime, but it’s completely free to use and has lots of good documentaries.
