Are there any bad places in Switzerland?

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62,040,610 Idiots

Switzerland is a very safe place in every sense. Property crime and crime against people are both pretty rare. For example, the murder rate is about 1/10 the murder rate of Los Angeles. Also, the most dangerous neighborhood in Zurich, the largest city, has become more of a night club district popular with young people than a red light district.

There are poor people in Switzerland, both immigrants and natives, but they usually are pretty law abiding. There are also criminals, of course, but they are usually only messing with each other.

spanner

Any place can be bad or good, including the place where you live. Because a place appears to be clean and respectable on the surface does not necessarily mean it is safe. It can be chemically-contaminated, for one thing, just like water and contaminated blood.

I personally think that Switzerland is a very weird place to be. It is too clean to be real. It is too still life, in contrast to Austria. It looks a little too neatly manicured, and it reminds me of a Classical Baroque or a Neo-Classical painting where everything is too still and in order to be in line with the action it represents.

Is anyone home in Biel/Bienne Switzerland? I asked a similar question about Sarnen. I was once there for about two hours in daylight and do not recall seeing even one inhabitant on the streets. Even the lake was too still. I do not recall seeing anyone in Bern, the capital city, except for a small number of tourists. I do not think it really gets as many tourists as people think. The people I did see were generally cold. Francophone Switzerland was colder than Canada in the middle of January. I am not talking about the weather.

Before arriving in Biel/Bienne on the train, an elderly man all dressed in black who appeared to be carrying a Satanic Bible started shouting angrily and swearing at me (I presume he was swearing) in German. I had done nothing at all to provoke him.

Geneva is the largest city of the notorious Satanic Triangle about which I have read in the newspaper. The Swiss appear to be very insipid, but I suspect that they are exotic and magical. The psychoanalyst Carl Jung had a very vivid imagination. Have you ever heard anyone say "We're Swiss." They are not referring to their ethnic background because I know some of them.

I think some of the cleanest places are the most contaminated. You go there, like you go anywhere else at your own risk. You might, at the mildest, experience humiliation. LOL

On the other hand, I have a brother who travels to Switzerland quite frequently, and he thinks the place is great. He "travels Swiss", however, (LOL Do you get it?) but he insists that a lot of his friends are Italian.

How long will it be before I get reported to the United Nations or to Political Correctness Tribunal for my answer?

Please note my recent question about Sarnen, Switzerland.

Hey! If you do go to Switzerland:

"Boire en suisse" means "to drink alone".

"Manger en suisse" means to eat alone".

Have fun and get lots of "gemutlikeit"!

lananas1988

Yes there are, but the country of Switzerland tries to keep them hidden from tourists of course. I don't know names or exact locations of any, but there are some really slummy areas near Zurich airport. You can see them when you are driving from the airport into the city itself.

kiwi

not really, as long as you stick to the usual places.

Howling S

yeah.. the neutral ones

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Point Guard

If you do a satellite google of the cities, i found it quite interesting myself.
It is as anywhere. The more populated areas are going to be a ditch but certainly there will be excellence around the next corner.

Besides it all depends on your version of bad.
You could always purchase a Swiss army knife just in case. ha ha

green girl

idk but a really GOOD place is Lucerne {aka Luzern}

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