Hi all,

I was here for over 2 years before even meeting another English speaking person....

99% of my friends are Swiss and I have never had a problem making friends - be it here or back in the UK.

It's true that it's hard to just pop round and see people but then I have very little free time too so I kinda get that.

I have a huge network of friends.

On New Years Eve I was in a club in Vevey and I met well over 100 people that I knew and consider friends! And not one of them was an English speaker.

I guess it all depends on your own personality and how you come to be here etc.

A lot of the English speakers I know have been here for years and can barely get by in French. They work in English, they live with English people, their children are at English speaking schools, they socialise in English, they have sky tv at home....

I work in French, live with a Swiss person, have no children or tv and socialise with my friends who are almost all Swiss....

That's my tuppence worth!