Hello everyone

My family and I have recently moved from the Boston area to my wife's home town of Sevelen (a nice little town between Buchs and Sargans). Though I have been visiting my wife's family for a number of years, my 7 and 10 year old kids and I have have yet to master the language. It does not help that the extended family, including cousins of similar age to my kids, all speak more English than we speak Swiss! And, though we are getting along with the language, meeting other English speaking families in the area would be great too.



I will be posting a few questions in other forum areas that have shared interests (I am an electrical engineer with several hobbies). In particular, there are those things that need to be attended to as our stuff arrives and there seems to be a good bit of forum knowledge to tap into. It does not help for example that Amazon.de has many items listed but are either not available or not delivered to this region. You can expect me to ask a question or two shortly in what I hope is the appropriate area.

Hello and welcome to the forum.

Welcome

Welcome to Switzerland and EF.

Thanks, I look forward to settling in and eventually meeting a few of you.

Welcome to Switzerland from another Bostonian.

Speaking Swiss is analogous to Swiss cheese, tells you nothing

Welcome! It's worth having a mailbox over the border in Germany for EU deliveries, it's saved me a ton of money over the years and there are plenty of things that are basically unobtainable otherwise.

Speaking to another Bostonian, I have to say, that though we lived nearly out to the 495 loop where the roads were 'better', Swiss roads are immaculate! I am looking forward to cycling along the Rhine when our bikes arrive (1-2 more weeks).

Hah! my wife is fond of telling me, 'but we don't use that word in my part of Switzerland'. It does not help that Duolingo is only high German.

I have heard this. Having been here on many past visits, I will say however that it is getting better

Again, thank you for the kind welcome