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I hardly "lived" there, but I found the culture to be lacking a sense of silliness and in general less personable. It's like what they say about German comedy, it's no laughing matter.

I still really like Switzerland.



It's important to note that there are 3 different regions (German, French and Italian) which all have their own 'sub-culture'.

Behaviors can be quite different ;)


Plus the Romansh area in Graubünden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romansh_language .


In my experience, Germans (Bavarians, anyway) see the Swiss very much as Americans see Germans ;)


Why would you want people to be silly? Do you mean wasting your time and getting in your way kind of silly or something else?




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