thank you,greeting to chicago

ca. bedeutet circa.you don't have that in english,oh well.i want to know if the lifing standard over there is comparable to ours here in a hypothetical situation.before we throw away what we have we want to know what would expect us .if you don't like the question,don't answer it.
by the way zurich would be an option too.
thanks again

oh i forgot ,she has 8 years of fulltime classroom experience a master plus 60 credits and a tenure position and a ny state license.(is that transferable into a swiss license?)we have 2 little kids i take care of until they go to school.then i plan on going back into my business,i am an opera singer.how does it look in that genre.
again thanks for any reply.

my wife makes 75000 dollars as a teacher here in nyc.after taxes and all other deductions (i am the housekeeper right now)we have around 60000 dollars left.a house here costs in the suburbs ca.$300000 in the city of brooklyn ca.$600000.food,clothing and restaurant prices are very low.she teaches 5 times 40 minutes per day,has not many conferences and about 3 months holidays.those are good living conditions.of course we have free health care with no copay and descent doctors .but i don't like nyc and would rather live in switzerland that is somehow a home to me since i am born in wangen am bodensee.
the question to you guys would be:what living conditions( like above named)would apply to us if my wife taught at an international school in either schaffhausen or winterthur.we might want to live in my heimat(freistaat baden,germany) but also consider living in the eidgenossenschaft.i thank you for any reply in advance.