living and working is something to buy...the rest you can borrow - ticking along with the swiss 1-3, and there is a new book about living in geneva that might interest you paradiseapparently.com
i read them all - some more boring than others - my favourite (can't remember which one though...) was about the lady that smiled at a girl on a train and the girl asked how she knew she was american...i walk around smiling at people, and really believe that most of them smiling back just cannot be swiss!