Geneva guides
The rest of this section answers “which area”. These answer the questions that come before it: what things cost, how renting works here, how the transport network actually behaves, and what to sort out in which order.
6 guides
Moving
Moving to Geneva from the UK: permits and the paperwork
You cannot apply for your own Swiss work permit, and almost everything else waits on it. The order things happen in, and why.
9 min read
Money
Swiss health insurance, explained for someone arriving from the NHS
The largest cost British arrivals fail to budget for, and the deadline that backdates it whether you signed up or not.
7 min read
Moving
Living in France and working in Geneva
The biggest housing decision in Geneva is which country to live in. What you gain, and what you take on.
9 min read
Money
What you need to earn in Geneva
Swiss salaries look transformative from the UK. What they clear after tax, insurance and a Geneva rent is a different figure.
8 min read
Renting
Renting in Geneva: the dossier, the régie and the deposit
Geneva does not let flats the way Britain does. This is the file you need, the rule that screens you out, and the deposit that never touches the landlord.
8 min read
Transport
Getting around Geneva without a car
The canton is small and the network is good, but it is built to funnel everyone through the centre — which matters enormously if you work at CERN or Plan-les-Ouates.
7 min read
Every checkable figure in these guides carries a source and a review date, and the tables inside them read the same datasets as the rest of the site, so a rent revision updates the guides in the same deploy. Where a figure could not be corroborated against a source we were willing to publish, the guide says to check it rather than quoting it.