Fool's Gold: The Hidden Price Of Swiss Salaries
On social media, videos extolling the life of cross-border workers keep popping up with the mouth-watering prospect of earning much higher salaries while living in France. A French nurse can hope to rake in three times more if she manages to land a job in a Swiss hospital. The well-oiled machine benefits Geneva, a canton that has become dependent on this workforce. But has the system reached its breaking point? Traffic jams and pollution on the Swiss side, skyrocketing rents and widening social inequalities on the French side: the downsides are becoming increasingly difficult to keep a lid on. An investigation into the dark side of the Swiss El Dorado.
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