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On this happy occasion, let us take a few minutes to discuss some of the benefits of living in Switzerland.\u00a0 To start with, people are polite to a fault.\u00a0 Our family has been treated with the utmost respect the entire time we have been here.\u00a0 In our town, people greet each other in passing with Greuzi, and they say good-bye when they part.<\/p>\n
While the trains run with well known precision, what is not so known is that you can get virtually anywhere in Switzerland through the extensive network of not only trains but also buses.\u00a0 The trains are also kept clean not only by the SBB, but also by the passengers themselves.\u00a0 One need look only so far as the neighboring countries to understand that it is hard to keep the transit system clean, and easy to create a mess.\u00a0 The Swiss have worked hard.\u00a0 Most of what we need is close at hand.\u00a0 That includes two supermarkets, three bakeries, day care, two post offices, several banks, a pool.<\/p>\n
Joanna enjoys swimming, and for a very reasonable amount she can do so nearly every day of the year.\u00a0 How reasonable?\u00a0 What we pay in a year here wouldn’t cover the cost of the service in California for a month.\u00a0 But don’t get the impression that Switzerland is a socialist state, for it is perhaps the least socialist state in Europe.\u00a0 We do not have a social healthcare system, but we do pay a very reasonable fee per month for insurance.\u00a0 When we want to see a doctor, we see one.\u00a0 Not a nurse, but a doctor.<\/p>\n
While I have come to realize that there is no perfect place, Switzerland is even attempting to do away with some of the things I would think of as flaws.\u00a0 Smoking here has dropped dramatically, even in the time we’ve lived here.<\/p>\n
So here’s to you, Switzerland!\u00a0 Maybe next year I’ll recite this auf Deutsch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On this happy occasion, let us take a few minutes to discuss some of the benefits of living in Switzerland.\u00a0 To start with, people are polite to a fault.\u00a0 Our family has been treated with the utmost respect the entire time we have been here.\u00a0 In our town, people greet each other in passing with … Continue reading “Happy Swiss Confederation Day”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,30,6],"tags":[91,89,92,90],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expat-fun","category-humanity","category-us","tag-buses","tag-life","tag-towns","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}