Childcare can be very expensive in this country. We moved closer to my retired parents within the city of St. Gallen so that things would work out better in an emergency/illness and with the daycare centre/kindergarten/school.
This article is about parents who moved to another canton because of the cheaper Kitas there.
_Kita rates in Basel – Favourable rates in the neighbouring canton: daycare closures in Baselland _
1800 francs for the three half days of childcare from August. A lot of money for the small family. "We asked ourselves whether it was still worth it," says Tamara. That’s why she moved to Basel. Instead of 1,800 francs, the daycare costs are now only around 700 francs.
Have you already changed your place of residence in Switzerland because of childcare or are you planing to do so in the future?
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Posted by BezugssystemCH1903
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Our plan is to move closer to our families as soon as we get children. Otherwise one of us would word only to pay for kita
2.5x cheaper daycare just by changing locations…. and daycare people still have the guts to say they can barely make ends meet. I still don’t understand how charging 2.5k per month per kid at 100% makes it hard to survive.
We haven’t moved because the grand-parents help a lot, but otherwise my wife would have to stop working, which means stop contributing to our 1st and 2nd pillars, and we might not be able to afford to live where we are without the 2nd salary. It would be financially debilitating and I don’t think we’d have more than one kid in this case.
I live in Zug and can’t find anything less than 3000 per month. I am still pregnant and trying to figure out how to Manage it, especially if we decide to have another one, a financial suicide!
I heard that it’s a mess in Basel. Of course parents will increase the Kita schedule or even try to move to Basel (especially from city-close small towns like Birsfelden or Allschwil). This with the consequence that Kitas have long waiting lists, Kitas don’t have enough staff, and there aren’t enough 4.5-room apartments for families.
Additionally Basel requires at least 40% kita for benefitting from the income independent aid. Children that were enlisted 20 or 30% until now will increase. Again with all of the negative consequences.