HongJiang wrote:
do u mean my previous home in Swizterland or in Shanghai? Both I think I can get higher level of money than unemployment benefits,
For Switzerland I can tell you: if you have a RP, or are citizen, and have worked for 12 months in the last 2 years, you will get 70% of your former income for 18 months. If you can prove that you really are trying to get the same amount of work, that is. You are obliged to take any kind of work that is reasonable immediately, and fulfill all requirements, the unemployment insurance deems necessary. I can assure you, that those are considerable, since goal #1 is that you are not needing any help ASAP. Naturally, trips to anywhere that hinder you to pick up work immediately, lead to breaks in the payments, and have to be announced. Except they are producing income, then that income is reduced from the payments. Be aware that a daily travel time to the work-place of up to 4 hours is reasonable and you HAVE to take that job. Also be aware, that they do check how sincere your endeavors to get work are. There is a lot of fine print, naturally, that may or may not reduce those 70%. It is 80% if you care for children. If you are unemployed longer than 18 months you are considered a lost cause, and are reduced to poverty line. That is where one for example either owns a radio OR a tv, because to have both is naturally luxury, therefore the payments might get reduced.
Up to you to decide whether you will get more money in Switzerland, and whether it is worth the considerably higher prices for basic life. In or around the economical center Zürich, after around 1-2 years of intensively searching for an apartment one actually may get lucky and find a 1-room flat below 1'800 CHF (approx. 1'480 EUR). As an employed Swiss tenant, that is. For someone who has a better job the 1-2 years can be reduced to a couple months, if one is lucky. Unemployed, and not even EU... guess somewhere where the trip to any center takes 2+ hours, you might find something. Since apartment houses are held by larger corps, in and around Zürich, and there are near to no private landlords, one meets the criteria, or doesn't. Except some of your billionaire friends cough up some money. Money opens many doors around Zürich, and should you be able to pay 3'000 CHF, and more for 1-room, then you probably have no problem to find something. Not sure, since I never had that kind of money. The estimated times are rules of thumb that are quoted as such, and are along my own experiences, and the experiences of friends, and colleagues, over many years.
In general, IF there is an entitlement to care, that is when one is a small child. After that, one should better contribute to any group one is part of, or why should that group care? If there are contracts with other groups, fine. But otherwise? Human rights are there to hinder monstrosities, not to entitle to leeching.
Edit: minus few polite Swiss mannerisms, and plus adding info about the end of being unemployed
