Hi my teenager nice is going to attend a summer course 3 weeks at UNIL next month. She is plannng to stay in Planette Bleue at Rue Geneve, Is it a bad neighborhood? If it is, what would you recommend?
Thank you for your advise. I've been in Lausanne for almost 3 years, and still haven't found a 'bad neighbourhood' yet. I hope your niece has lots of fun here. How is there at night? Is better to look for another place for my niece? Umm I find this whole country quite safe. Lausanne is safe as well. I frequently go around that area alone at night walking to my car or to a pub or whatnot.
She will be fine. Shorrick Mk2. The appartments are very cool too. It depends on what you mean by scary. There are no bad neighborhoods in the American sense of places where "middle class" people are afraid to go. There are neighboorhoods, or in the case of Lausanne a single plaza which is overrun by junkies. This is not rue de Geneve. The plaza with the junkies is still frequented by the bourgeois, so I don't much worry about it, and walk through with the kids all the time.
I think rue de Geneve is a little scary because people drive too fast. There tends to be a lot of Saturday night traffic. Other than that it's fine. Usually if I give them a good stare in the license plate they slow down. Anyhow I live just above there on rue des Terreaux, and frankly it's not a problem Lady Switzerland is as safe as it gets No drive by shootings or no go zones here.
Just typical common sense safety precautions one needs to take. I wonder if that has anything to do with the prostitution 'scene' over there, which other posters conveniently forgot to mention so far.
