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I thought it was swimmin’ pools and movie stars.
It’s not near Norway. Switzerland is not Sweden.
Not part of the EU. You might be able to pay with Euros, but it’s not a good idea.
Not everybody speaks French. German (actually Swiss German, or Schwyzerdütsch) is the main language spoken here, but it’s not the same as German. Even if you speak German like a native, you will have problems understanding Swiss German.
Few Swiss are fanatical about following rules. They just want everbody else to follow rules.
This is a problem not restricted to the Swiss –
Canadians are polite.
As a Canuck I can state definitively that we do have our share of obnoxious, toxic assholes eh?
Canadians are generally polite. Yet I have met several tourists surprised that they were robbed when they left valuables unattended. Many Canadians are not at all polite. Most Canadians are quite opinionated and their opinions differ, sometimes drastically, from whatever your opinions are. These differences are sometimes expressed in polite ways and sometimes are not.
more current (and politically way “hotter”) … and Bolivia as well
you - dame - have never been to Switzerland! … where every single soul is a policeperson with a strong urge to enforce laws.
ALSO, (2 hours later):
Let’s take these $99.00 Chinese watches and put them in a $101.00 luxury swiss faux-leather box so we can legally claim the watch is SWISS MADE and sell it for the apropriate price of 2,990.00 $3,990.00
True.
What does “dame” mean there?
female equivalent of “Sir” 
That’s Seattle, too. Coming from the Midwest, we thought “Good, it won’t get as cold…”, but that wet cold seeps right into your bones. Give me colder but dry with sunshine and a deep blue sky any day.
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An’ he will nae be “okay with it”, ya gommy eejit!
Obligatory…
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
I had a friend in college from upstate NY, and we had the opposite problems: people would assume he was from NYC even though his town was rural. My town had a long Indian name, and everyone assumed it was Canada-adjacent and in the middle of nowhere, even though it was a bustling suburb.