Life as an English-Speaking Expat in Geneva
I serve all of Geneva and the wider Léman region — Eaux-Vives, Plainpalais, Champel, Petit-Saconnex, Carouge, Meyrin, Vernier, Versoix, Cologny, Nyon, Morges — by WhatsApp, phone or video. Distance is irrelevant; the listening is the same.
Geneva's particular shape of loneliness is turnover. You meet wonderful people, and six or twelve or twenty-four months later they're gone — to New York, Nairobi, Brussels. Each departure costs something, and the next arrival is already on its way. People rarely talk about that tax out loud; I'm here for that conversation.
Sessions in English are the point. You live here, you speak enough French to order at Globus and swear at a bus that's three minutes late, but you don't want to work that hard in a personal conversation. Drop the translation. Say it in the words it actually happens in, in your head.
