While I know these are 2 of the best cities to live in the world and I prefer Geneva, I feel like Zürich is a lot better in terms of infrastructure, road quality, cleanliness, etc than Geneva. Just to explain the points I mentioned before about what’s better in Zürich: 1 Infrastructure / Road quality: extremely extensive S-Bahn in Zürich, roads in Geneva are just mediocre (for example the Rues Basses are full of potholes), buses are the slowest in Switzerland (don’t remember where I read this statistic) 2 Cleanliness: I find neither city dirty and I’m not saying cleanliness in this sense. I mean the overall look of buildings and sidewalks in Geneva give it a grittier feel. For some reason, Geneva has a different type of sidewalk to other Swiss cities, and even though they are physically clean, I always see a lot of « spots » (such as old chewing gums) that give a rusty impression. Same goes for buildings that look like they haven’t been renovated in 70 years. I do believe Zürich has more graffiti, especially in the outskirts, but even that seems « orderly » I have started researching a lot about the PAV in Geneva because those subjects really interest me. Do you think this refurbishment of a huge portion of the city will « boost » the « prestige » of Geneva in the same way as Zürich is?
- Bonus point: I rarely see people on the internet and daily life talk crap about Zürich, quite the contrary. Everyone glorifies it for being top notch. Geneva, on the other hand, is regularly bashed by everyone (and I never understood why, because I love that city), but there has got to be a reason, I guess submitted by /u/Chemical-Rush-6433
Originally posted by u/Chemical-Rush-6433 on r/Switzerland