A friend of mine is working in bern and his salaray is 7400 franken. Minus taxes that are nothing (10% or so) and health care ( insane 120 franken.. i pay 600€ in germany) there is much left. Apartments are around 1000-2000, food etc is another 1000… blablabla point is he can safe much more money per month than more german workers make after taxes.