Thank you for this information you have been very helpful.

I would probably look to rent something in the Bernese Oberland or something up to 100Km south of Basle where you get more for your money i think.

I mentioned all these handicaps in the previous post as i had only after looking around for the past 4 months just getting my head around the fact that i'm having an extremely difficult time finding any detached properties with a garden for my budget. Finding a property is one thing but convincing an owner that i can have 6 dogs in their house is another thing.

Wanting to keep my house in the UK as i would want to eventually move back there, it is my last property so it is a retirement/pension fund property, i have only a minimum budget between 2000-2500CHF as i still have a quite a big mortgage in the UK. This and the fact that i would still need to find someone to look in on my dogs during the day is an extra cost. I recall the law is dogs can't be left alone for more than 5 hrs at a time without being looked in on. Currently i have them in kennels until the weekend in the UK which cost nearly 900 pounds a month or about 1500CHF.

Big decision for me and i think it would be wiser to be sensible and not bring them and turn down the offer from Novartis because of the costs.