Zurich has become a hub for international companies like Google who have set up their European headquarter and expats moving to Zurich can draw on a wealth of resources about moving here. One popular website that caters to the big expat community in Zurich is called englishforum.ch. The website features forums that discuss issues like how to get divorced in Switzerland, how to bring a bike into Switzerland, how to get a diaper changing table or even how to do your taxes. But there are also some spicier issues discussed question if Swiss could be racists. This answer triggered almost 2’000 replies, some of them not very charming for the Swiss as most foreigners are shocked to learn that the Swiss tend not to be very politically correct when it comes to ethnicity or nationality. Swiss make demeaning statements about foreigners to another foreigner and then say, "oh, we don't mean you when we talk about foreigners, you aren't like the others". It has not gone unnoticed by foreigners living in Zurich that particularly people from former Yugoslavia are frowned upon by Swiss. Interestingly over a third of Swiss men nowadays marry foreign women.
http://www.englishforum.ch/complaints-corner/172-swiss-racist.html
Here are a few other websites aimed at expats living in Switzerland:
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