Hello. I am an engineer at Facebook. My CS degree is from a small school. Our CS department had 5 professors and 50 graduates per year. One of our cafes on campus is called "Living the Dream". That is the kind of people we are looking for. We hire by talent not by school. That said, keep living your dream!
Yes, I spent 2 years by the Swiss border and I went there a couple of times, it seems a fine country but expensive (and the interesting part speaks german, and they are not in the euro area).
They have very good public transportation system, banks everywhere (but I don't know about VC stuff), mountains.
