One of the official language isn't used in the daily life despite having the larger speaker base. People use dialect.
These dialect can vary a lot between regions or even towns.
People will be angry and rant if the train run 5 minutes late.
The biodiversity is actually bad.
You can legally urinate on a UNESCO monument.
Switzerland
Don't forget that making a spliff out of your train ticket, ink and all, is a thing lol
Edit: There are also pockets where the police won't go because they recognize they're full of crime and drugs, but as long as it stays within those couple of streets, they're happy to let things stay as they are so it doesn't spill out.
Oh and over a quarter of the population consists of immigrants.
And there's free water everywhere.. hiking, in towns.. just bring a water bottle and find a fountain that's always running. The water is ice cold year round too.
It's also the home of H.R. Geiger (Alien design fame) in Gruyère. You can go to the town of Gruyère, which is gorgeous, and see the museum, go to the Alien-inspired café, see how they make the Gruyère cheese that you probably know, and even visit the Cailler chocolate factory, which has a Willy Wonka-type tour with infinite chocolate tasting at the end.. mmmmmmm..
Some others:
Half of the people with swiss citizenship have a foreign background at some level.
The majority of immigration went from permanent to temporary. People come for a small amount of time.
Despite being one of the most neoliberal country, people of the city of Berne voted to allocate money to the self-managed cultural center. This can be explained by the city-countryside political divide.
Switzerland doesn't have direct democracy but a semi-direct democracy.
Appenzell Innerrhoden and Glarus still have a Landsgemeinde where people vote cantonal level legislations using show of hands vote.
Corruption at the local level is high.
There are more unwritten rules than laws.
People keep their friends during the entire life. As a side effect, people can be seen as unfriendly. It can take up to 10 years to make a local friends.
You can reach 95% of the country by public transportation.
The Habsburg dinasty originated from the small town of Habsburg in the Canton of Aargau.
Rather amazingly, set into its outside wall on the street is a pissoir. The "Herren WC" sign is a little misleading, as there is neither WATER nor a CLOSET."
How wonderful!
This is actually misinformation and misleading. The sign says like on the picture.
My link was for the illustration.
I don't know what "Herren" means, but WC stands for water closet. It sounds to me like there isn't any running water or stalls.
Herren means "men". "WC" means toilets, the place, in this case. I get the pun but it's not the best one.
People are racists on a town to town basis.
One of the official language isn't used in the daily life despite having the larger speaker base. People use dialect.
These dialect can vary a lot between regions or even towns.
People will be angry and rant if the train run 5 minutes late.
The biodiversity is actually bad.
You can legally urinate on a UNESCO monument.
Switzerland
Don't forget that making a spliff out of your train ticket, ink and all, is a thing lol
Edit: There are also pockets where the police won't go because they recognize they're full of crime and drugs, but as long as it stays within those couple of streets, they're happy to let things stay as they are so it doesn't spill out.
Oh and over a quarter of the population consists of immigrants.
And there's free water everywhere.. hiking, in towns.. just bring a water bottle and find a fountain that's always running. The water is ice cold year round too.
It's also the home of H.R. Geiger (Alien design fame) in Gruyère. You can go to the town of Gruyère, which is gorgeous, and see the museum, go to the Alien-inspired café, see how they make the Gruyère cheese that you probably know, and even visit the Cailler chocolate factory, which has a Willy Wonka-type tour with infinite chocolate tasting at the end.. mmmmmmm..
Some others:
Half of the people with swiss citizenship have a foreign background at some level.
The majority of immigration went from permanent to temporary. People come for a small amount of time.
Despite being one of the most neoliberal country, people of the city of Berne voted to allocate money to the self-managed cultural center. This can be explained by the city-countryside political divide.
Switzerland doesn't have direct democracy but a semi-direct democracy.
Appenzell Innerrhoden and Glarus still have a Landsgemeinde where people vote cantonal level legislations using show of hands vote.
Corruption at the local level is high.
There are more unwritten rules than laws.
People keep their friends during the entire life. As a side effect, people can be seen as unfriendly. It can take up to 10 years to make a local friends.
You can reach 95% of the country by public transportation.
The Habsburg dinasty originated from the small town of Habsburg in the Canton of Aargau.
Which monument is this you speak of? :o
The Zytglogge in Berne is the UNESCO monument you can urinate on.
How wonderful!
This is actually misinformation and misleading. The sign says
like on the picture.
My link was for the illustration.
I don't know what "Herren" means, but WC stands for water closet. It sounds to me like there isn't any running water or stalls.
Herren means "men". "WC" means toilets, the place, in this case. I get the pun but it's not the best one.
The water is accessible on the front by the way.
I think I must not understand what the pun is.