Smelly Swiss Dilettante

[bos]

Had a 1 hour teeth cleaning session last week. 94 euro’s, but covered by healthcare once a year. I try to do it twice

[chenda]

£70/CHF for a scale and polish, but it's covered under a payment plan. It sounds like you could geoarbritage lower costs Jean.

[NewBlood]

It cost me less than 250 in total.
I"m quite glad about it.

How expensive is dentistry where you live?

Cleanings are free every 6 months here (ie covered by national insurance).

[Jean]

The cleaning and polishing was 140.
I'm not sure it's worth going abroad just for it, but it might be worth getting a cleaning when in poland or slowakia.
I wouldn't go to a dentist that wasn't recommended to me.

[chenda]

Cosmetic dentistry is considerably cheaper out east.

[Jean]

I wouldn't do cleaning if it was only cosmetic, i was conviced that the amount of tartar I had was threatening my teethflesh.

[chenda]

That is indeed clinically beneficial.

But if you wanted cosmetic work it's considerably cheaper in Hungary. They have high standards of healthcare as well.

[frugaldoc]

We physicians don't think much about the teeth as we usually leave that to the dentists. But now that a dental department falls under my umbrella I have started to talk to dentists more and learn a little more about their trade. I know our dentist would chuckle (and quickly give me a lecture on the composition of teeth) if I used the word "teethflesh". I may try to fit it into conversation today.

[Jean]

@frugaldoc
When i don't know the english word, and the french word doesn't seem to fit in english, i just transpose the german word.

[chenda]

Zahnschmelz?

[Jean]

Zahnfleisch

Fleisch could also mean meat.

[chenda]

Ah, the gums.

[Jean]

Yes, i checked on wikipedia it seems that most english speaker would also understand gingiva.
That would be really cool to decrete latin as the new european lingua franca.

[chenda]

It really would. It's probably quite easy to learn as well.

[Jean]

I don't know
Latin grammar is a bit more complex than german grammar. But easier than polish grammar.
It is relatively easy phonologicaly.
But as late as the 70's, an educated european traveling to turkey was likely to be able to use latin to communicate with a local teacher. Which at the time was one person per village.
I really like when the language is a second language for everyone.
In kirgizstan, it was great to be able to communicate in russians. But with russians, it was much less fun, because they weren't used to people not speaking russian.
Now we are at the point were a federal english is forming as an european lingua franca, distinct from british and american english. That's interesting to witness.
I wonder if there will be a point when brit and ami will need to learn it to understand europeans talking to each others.

[chenda]

Now we are at the point were a federal english is forming as an european lingua franca, distinct from british and american english. That's interesting to witness.

I've not heard of this, what are it's characteristics?

[Jean]

I don't know. I imagine the most common mistakes that german and french usually did when they tried to speak english are now integrated in it

[Jean]

The cleaning was a good thing.
My gum used to bleed everytime i brushed my teeth since several years. Now they don't, and they have a much lighter color. Which is apparently how they are supposed to look. So they were apparently highly inflamed.
Also, gf made me plan several trip to germany this summer, so cheapest option was to buy an interrail. I bought a slightly more expensive one that should allow me to go to norway. Which i'm very happy about. I love Norway.
This time, I'll explore an area that everyone skips or just drive trough.
There is a sufficient lack of online information to make it fun
Also, first job interview went well.
I said I wasn't planning to make a full career there, and that the job was interesting to me because it would allow me to study to be a vet. The interviewer seem to like that this is great. I think it disabled the fear usually caused by my academic diploma.
I 'm glad that telling the truth and hope that the other will see how the relationship could be mutually beneficial still seems to work some time.
Second interview after my trip.
Also does anyone want to hang out in hamburg this evening?

[Jean]

I am now in sweden.
One very intangible asset i have, i a collection of places accross europe that are easily accessible by train, where i can spend the night while traveling by train.
A lifestyle that could be very nice for a while, would be to have your paper in an european country with low head tax, and not in the middle of europe, and then permanantly interrail around.
The interrail would provide transport and shelter for 3'600 a year.
That's a bit on the expensive side, but the interrail doesn't have to be permanent, whenever one choose to stay sonewhere for a while.
Not in the middle of europe is because the interrail doesn't allow travelling within home country. That makes switzerland very unstrategically located this and the huge head tax that are health insurance and tv tax.

[loutfard]

Your interrail comments triggered a travel down the rabbit hole. The interrail night train rules are more interesting than I thought: https://www.interrail.eu/en/interrail-p ... traveldays . Interrail makes train travel between Belgium and the Baltics much more flexible and slightly more affordable than I thought. Something to consider...