Posted on 02/25/2023 2:34:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
One Swiss pol says this looks staged for election politics, since finding housing in this case should not have lead to evicting a long term resident.
The municipal officers of the community say that is not the case because there are relatively high number of refugees to resettle.
So where do the Swiss citizens in the apartments go? To Ukraine?
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They’ll prolly show up at eagle pass next week
To Algeria.
“...he has a very steep hill to climb....”
The Alps tend to be steep. They have no shortage of cog railroads there....
Yes, same tale of easier to find a place for the lone Swiss man than a whole family of refugees.
Hard to tell who is playing politics here, SP or SPV or both. Politicians gonna politic.
Interesting that the municipal council has been flooded with “hate mail” and the council guy has received death threats. Well, “hate mail” depends on the person calling it that and how they define it. The death threats? How totally un-Swiss. I wonder whether those came from Swiss citizens or from “guest workers”.
The Swiss do appear to have their dander up about this. Which is Swiss. They take citizens’ rights very seriously (and citizens’ responsibilities, too).
Good find. Thanks for posting.
Tiny Switzerland has taken in almost as many Ukrainian refugees as we have:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1312584/ukrainian-refugees-by-country/
https://www.newsweek.com/over-82000-ukrainians-refugees-paroled-us-immigration-1766251
“Better 1,000 ukrainians than a single Muslim.”
Agreed, but Germany already did this with Muslim refugees in 2015.
Just wait until the Turks in Germany get replaced.
They won’t be calm like White folks are.
That’s nice. (/s)🙄
“Taking in refugees is not easy for Switzerland, as they have a chronic shortage of affordable housing.”
It doesn’t help that heights of buildings are restricted to three stories. Basement “cages” were provided apartments to store essentials in case of nuclear war.
(At least that was the case, when I was there).
Although I am a student of the German language, Swiss-German remains a totally-alien language to me. My one Swiss relative speaks five languages!
Not sure if one of those languages is Romansh.
Ah, yes, the bomb shelter cages. Everyone used them for storage bins when I lived there. Lots of Swiss used the ones in their homes for wine cellars and joked that at least they’d die happily drunk in case of nuclear attack. Yes, you were supposed to keep them stocked with stuff to survive, but nobody did. There were also jokes floating around that in case of nuclear war, only the Swiss and the cockroaches would survive.
Because the elevator button for the bomb shelter/cage area in the basement was marked K (Keller) we called it K. “I’m going to K to get our suitcases.” I kept the bike I rode to school down there in our cage. All the kids kept their bikes and scooters in the cages.
Swiss-German sounds kinda like Bavarian German as spoken by the Swedish chef of the Muppets, doesn’t it, but more guttural and spittle-producing. School was taught in High German, but the kids spoke Swiss German among themselves outside of class. So I had to suddenly learn both at once (and got them tangled up at first).
And it varies from village to village. There were two butcher shops within walking distance of our apartment, in two different villages, and my mother shopped at both. The butchers loved to tease my mother by pretending not to understand the Swiss-German as spoken in the other village and indignantly corrected her for using the other version. Ask for a Schweinsplätzli with the Schwein part pronounced with a long I? “No, don’t understand. Oh! You mean Schweinsplätzli (pronounced with long E)!” Go to the other butcher and ask for “Schweinsplätzli” with a long E like the other guy taught you, and no, he didn’t understand unless you used a long I. It nearly drove her crazy and made it hard for her to learn Swiss-German, but once she got the joke and got the hang of it, enjoyed joking with the butchers.
Yes, Swiss speak at least four languages. Not all that many can speak Romansh, at least when I was there. It is such a beautiful language. I loved hearing it. I hope it can be preserved. So many languages dying.
Yes, the strict building codes contribute to the housing shortage and expense. And hey, you better plant red geraniums in your window boxes as directed, not white or pink! Or the building committee will call on you. And polish that front doorknob every single day.
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