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I have very thin and damaged hair now due to some poorly done bleaching. While I grow my hair, I am looking for a professional who can do really fine baby lights and give me an expensive looking blonde as soon as my hair recovers!

I’ll be visiting France in late November and flying home via Basel to London. I’ve heard it’s a smaller airport but the 2 passport control sections make me think I should give it extra time. I was looking at a train to get me to the bus station at 8:35a for an 11:20a flight. I’m assuming I’ll arrive at the airport a little after 9a. Is this enough time in anyone’s opinion? There’s also a train that will get me there 30 minutes earlier. Thank you!

Are there any bars or venues in Basel that offer live music on weekends? I've been looking for places with live music for quite some time now, but I haven't had much luck finding any. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Hi guys,

I have been admitted to Quantitative Data Science in Tuebingen as well as Data Science in University of Basel.

I am non-Eu. While studying I would also like to find a job. Uni assistant or anthying IT related.

I have heard that both universities are really good in their respective countries, but I still need help to make a decision.

Note: At university of Basel I have some extra requirements I need to take during the 2 years. These are subjects that I have not done during my Bsc but they think I should… I only get one retake, if I fail these exams the first time.

Looking forward to your experiences. Thank you!!!

I noticed since 2-3 weeks that there are sooooo many people out at like 4-5 am in the morning lately. Usually I can easily rule out if they going back home from party or if they going to work but lately it feels people been outside of their homes super early.I do nightshifts that’s why I notice it.
I usually have very silent desert early mornings

Where can you get decent bagels with cream cheese at the main train station? I find the bagels at Dunkin’ Donuts pretty alright, but unfortunately there isn’t a store at the station.

Thanks for some tipps! :)

Hi all,

I have just been offered a Senior Software Engineer position with a company near Basel (south of Basel-Land), starting September. I'd love some honest feedback from people who've made a similar move.

Quick context:

• 9 years of experience in the technologies the company use.
• Gross annual salary: CHF 105,000 (with a review to 110,000 after the probation period of 3 months, contingent on performance)
• Moving alone initially, with my wife and 2 y/o daughter staying in Spain while I settle and find an apartment. Can be months or even a year.
• Planning to live in between work and the city, to be close to work not to make commute too long, but also to be able to go to the city "easily".

Coming from Spain where I currently earn around €70,000 gross, with a much lower cost of living, but worried about the social and political instability and wanting my family to have a better(?) future (at least more opportunities than in southern Spain).

A few questions:

1. Does CHF 105k sound reasonable for this profile in the Basel area, or am I underselling myself?
2. For someone living alone and sending around €2,000/month back home, is the remaining salary realistic for a comfortable life?
3. Can I still benefit from married/dependent-child tax deductions even if my wife and daughter aren't living with me in Switzerland from day one?
4. Any tips on cross-border shopping (France/Germany)? Does that actually make a meaningful difference?
5. What surprised you most, good or bad, about settling into the Basel region as a foreigner?
6. Any general advice for someone doing this "solo for a year" arrangement before deciding whether to bring the family over permanently?

Thanks in advance, really appreciate any honest input, including the "things I wish someone told me" kind.

Before moving to Switzerland, I read EVERYWHERE that if you want to integrate and make friends, you should speak German. I'm fluent, so I thought I would be good. However, my office is over-represented with young people who speak multiple languages (recruiters, sales managers).

I have found that almost ALL of them speak french, german and english to varying degrees. I have also found that if 2 people are conversational in french, the default language of the conversation becomes french. This is the case regardless of whether it is their first language or how many other languages they speak. Has anyone else experienced this? Why is that?

I found most professionals in german speaking switzerland speak at least some level english, so I never felt my German helped me connect with people. However, not speaking french is making me expressively feel left out.

I can get a couple german guys to have a group conversation in english no problem even if we all also speak german. However, I found that if there are at least 2 french speaking people in the conversation, things usually devolve into french at some point.

The most annoying thing is, we don't even service the french speaking customers/parts of switzerland, that's a different business unit. Everyone just also happens to speak french, we don't actually need it for work.

Alternatively, how do I keep french from cannibalizing my office small talk?

Hallo :)

I'm moving to Basel near end of the year and would like to continue my hockey goalie hobby there.

Are there any that would accept a noobie (Finnish) goalie for at least to get trained? I'm 23yo, haven't been in the net too many times but I've played goalie in other sports like floorball and football.

Feel free to dm! I don't speak a lot of German but I'm studying :)!

Hi all, I will start working in Basel about one week a month this coming academic year for a professorship and plan to move next summer to live there full time . I have a 4 month old and need to work out childcare for him in this interim period while we are not yet living full time in Basel. Could anyone please share recommendations for how to find babysitters and if there is any possibility of organising some way for him to be in a kita on a sporadic basis? (I’m assuming not but if so would be wonderful). He will be enrolled in kita in Berlin which is where we live presently.
Thanks so much for any tips!!

Hi Everyone!

I am moving to study in Unibas this fall and I wanted to get the community's thoughts on the best way to find accomodation there.

I am looking through wove, with a budget of 700-800 CHF/month. I was wondering what other agencies I should look through.

I'd be grateful for any guidance. Thank you!

Ich kann nicht mehr - hab alle Läden geschlossen und war tagsüber weg. Hab sogar noch AC Monoblock laufen lassen. Wohnzimmer ist 28/29C jetzt um 23:00. ich will ins Bett und kann nicht.

wie warm ist es bei euch und was macht ihr? danke

Anyone know what happened at St Jakob Gartenbad that caused them to close down yesterday and if it is open again?

Wanted to go swim some lanes yesterday but security closed off the entrance and didn't really explain why exactly when I asked (or maybe I didn't understand) also didn't see any info on their website.

Just curious if it's open again before I venture out in the heat to bike there 😂

Hey happy Baslers! On 9th of September I've got a small private get-together in Basel, with ~15 people coming in from out of town. Afterwards I'd love to surprise them with something fun and memorable, ideally something we can all do together (mixed group, roughly 25–55). Around 14:30…

My first idea was Rhein swim since it's such a Basel thing, but I'm not sure how reliable the weather and water temp are that time of year. So two questions:

1. Is mid-September still realistic for a Rhine float, or is it a coin toss by then?

2. What else would you do? Open to anything within ~30min of Basel, indoor or outdoor, the more unusual the better. Bonus points if it also works as a rainy-day backup.

Thanks a lot!