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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Used to live in CH and here to make the same point: as the taxes are low there, alcohol (and, surprisingly, big TVs back then) were some of the very few things cheaper to buy locally. Do not think it changed now. Restaurants, on the other hand, were some of the most expensive in the world there.