I am thinking of moving jobs to work in the Lausanne area, and with a wife and 2 kids (8 and 10) I would like to know a few things beforehand, such as is it worth renting first then looking to buy, what is the schooling position and provision (free or fee), where are the best (quietest) places to live, would my wife be able to find any work etc. ? Still at preliminary stage of things and first tentative applications, so any information gratefully received.

Search function?? All covered already...

If you job is the same as your user name im sure you wont have too much trouble getting work....

This is the introductions area, it is polite to use it as a place to introduce yourself.

Browse the suitably and intuitively named forums for valuable information. After you have exhausted the forums of all the valuable information and can no longer find what you are looking for through the various means of finding information on the forum (see my signature), then ask these questions.

I can guarantee that the answers are already there, the answers and more.

Also, it doesn't help to post questions in the introduction area as not everyone reads the introductions.

Good luck and happy reading.

To get you started...

http://www.englishforum.ch/adverts-h...partments.html
Cost of living in Switzerland? Fact or fiction?
Best places to live in Lausanne?
http://www.englishforum.ch/adverts-h...nting+lausanne
Lausanne events contact list
Moving to Lausanne very soon..and I am a bit scared!
Living In Switzerland
Curry in Lausanne
Intensive French Courses/Language school in Vaud? [Lausanne, Montreux]
http://www.englishforum.ch/jobs/1169...light=lausanne
Resources for those living in or moving to CH...
http://www.englishforum.ch/family-ma...hools+lausanne
http://www.englishforum.ch/family-ma...hools+lausanne
http://www.englishforum.ch/family-ma...hools+lausanne
http://www.englishforum.ch/jobs/3347...hools+lausanne
Lausanne Neighbourhoods
http://www.englishforum.ch/family-ma...hools+lausanne

There's more, but I think this will do for the meantime.

Welcome, and happy reading.

Thanks for the early replies, I didn't realise it was quite so formal but your comments are noted, AbFab. As a 'first time user' the site is a bit bewildering - stacks of info and obviously lots of regular users, but a little hard to find where to go. I will follow the links and hopefully find the information I need from there. Cheers.

Hello there! I, too, am more or less a Newbie, and I appreciate that you find it a bit difficult to sort out the various parts of the site. If you come on-line regularly though, you will see that there are between 10-15 posts asking much the same questions as you asked every day. As Gooner says, if you dig up as much information in the site as possible and then ask specific questions it saves time and you may well then receive the detailed answers you need from members who live in the region, or others who know the law on the matter.
Good luck!