Welcome Mack and thanks for introducing yourself. Your comment really struck me: "It's been a long time since I could go out without an army of armed bodyguards".

So hope you won't find Geneva boring then

I've heard a few people say that Geneva is somewhat boring, but having lived down here for so long, I am more than happy to trade the danger-induced excitement of a day in Baghdad for the more subtle and sublime pleasures of Geneva.  I'm also hopeful that several people on glocals will be happy to lead me down the right path 

Welcome "in advance" Mack to little Switzerland & Geneva. Switzerland is a very nice place where to live & don't forget in the middle od Europe close to lots of nice place !!!  As Rena said ...you won't find Genf boring . Lst but not least you will enjoy go out safely !

Hello !!

Welcome to Genova!!!

And sorry for my bad english...I don't speak very well...

I agree with what you heard about Genova...it's a very very very quiet town...

I come from Paris and i'm used to leave in a busy environment...so it's quite different...But if you like nature and sport activity, it's just so great !!!! And peaceful!

I hope you'll enjoy it !! 

Steph

Looks like someone got their countries mixed up, Genova is in Italy

Geneva...

My english is very very bad ;-)

you're in the good place to improve your english...

You're actually not the first to confound Geneva and Genova,  British aviators, on their way back from Italy, did it during the WW 2...  for our displeasure...

No worries Stephanie, I hear Genova (we call it Genoa in the US) is pretty quiet as well .  Maybe glocals can arrange a pub crawl there and Paul D can show us how to party Liguria style!

Seriously, thanks to all of you for commenting.  I'm really looking forward to getting back to Geneva (which will be in a couple of short weeks).  Nature and healthy living aside, I did have some fun the last few times I was there, so I'm looking forward to attending lots of glocals events!  I've heard that one of the places I really enjoyed when I was there, Alhambar is closed for renovations.  So I'd really be interested to know about the current hot spots.  Any recommendations??

by the way...nice spot Liguaria region

sigh, I give up...

Guys,

I will also move to Geneva on Jan from London. I do banking and I also heard that Geneva is a quiet and boring place. Also I believe that small places has its own charm and warming community life. I would like to be social and attend meetings as possible so glad to meet you all.Any outdoor sport activity is welcome.

Gokalp

I'm looking forward the current spots too.

I live here for 1 month so i cant' give you any recommendations...that's why i'm on Glocals ! 

If you hear something about an event or else, i'm in !

and welcome to Gokalp !

Keep an eye open on the thing to do area of the forum, and if you speak french, give a try to http://geneve.onvasortir.com

really ??

yeah. mainly Carouge, Plainpalais and Champel. they killed 4 persons and made several wounded.

if you understand french : http://www.pionnair-ge.com/spip1/spip.php?article31

But it was *nothing* compared to the swiss-germans towns.

Switzerland was bombarded by both sides and swiss army planes even had  *dogfights* with german planes.

Merci de l'info + article ! lernt something new  ! Je ignorais cet evenement, malgré l'histoire de la 1ere & 2eme guerre mondiale soyient un must dans tous études en Italie (mon pays d'origine) depuis la primaire. 

Did we apologise yet? If not, sorry about that.

I always wondered why planpalais is such a mess.

you apologised and gave a good amount of money