Living Among the Swiss :

by Michael Wells Glueck

Release Date: 01 August, 2002

Edition: Paperback

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Not what I expected, very much about banking

This book isn't quite what I was looking for. While the book does offer some useful observations, it really revolves around banking. The author is humorous in a dry kind of way, which makes the book more readable, but it is a bit boring at some points when the author rambles on and on about the banking industry. He assumes that if you're moving there, you must be going to work for one of the banks. He shares his difficulties in finding employemnt due to age and lack of swiss origins. From reading this book my desire to move to Switzerland has waned significantly. I don't know how accurate the book is, but if it's even somewhat accurate, I'd rather just take a vacation, and keep my residency in the USA. He is a bit ethnocentric as the first review notes. He mentions being turned off by armpit hair. That's just the way things are in Europe, and the author just needs to get over it. Don't buy it, borrow it from a library! I'm glad I did.

dissappointingly ethnocentric

If you are looking for a frustratingly ethnocentric book that considers everything non-American backwards while wrapping these observations into poor attempts to be funny - this book is for you!
If you are looking for insights into working and living in Switzerland, and expect an intelligent description, or at least a basic attempt to be objective - don't buy this book!
I was extremely dissappointed by the display of arrogant ignoranz towards Swiss ways of life by the author. In my opinion a waste of money.