we are filming part two to reacting to your  assumptions about living in switzerland

so if you haven't seen part one i will link  it right here and in the description box down  

below basically we took to the community tab on  youtube to ask you your assumptions about living  

in switzerland and we are going to address more of  them today i got so many i had to make two videos  

because some of them are really really interesting  that being said let's jump into it and i'm not  

petting the couch my dog is here i can't help but  it'd be so soft okay first assumption is americans  

are not well received i'm an american living  in switzerland so i can give my opinion on this  

but i'm a u.s american obviously american could  mean north america south america central america  

americans come in all shapes and sizes um but  will you be not well received if you're from  

the americas america no i don't think  that they are going to judge you on that  

at all not at all but if you act in a way that  might be kind of more typical american maybe  

stereotypical but you know what i mean being  overly friendly being smiley hugging people  

um talking in public loud on your cell phone or  something you know stuff that you see people do  

um which is all fine whatever but those kinds of  things in switzerland will not be well received  

so they do not take very well to being overly  friendly to being loud you know and i can say this  

okay don't take offense to this i talk too loud  for switzerland like most of the time for me i  

feel like it's a normal level um but my husband's  always like tone it down a little bit you know so  

they just have a different perception of like what  is an inside voice maybe but anyways let's move on  

next assumption is that everyone who is there  wants to be there and never wants to leave  

this is totally false totally false i actually  know a lot of swiss people that talk about leaving  

they think switzerland is boring and they'd  rather um live in the u.s for example i guess that  

comes up a lot because i'm from the u.s a lot of  people think it's more exciting and more whatever  

there's always people that want to live somewhere  else they want to experience something new and i  

find that actually swiss people are very keen  on learning about new cultures a lot of swiss  

people like to do do uh world trips when they're  young uh they like to travel way more than people  

that i knew growing up in the u.s it's very very  common here to travel a lot and see the world  

but that means that a lot of them will say  i saw the world i traveled switzerland is  

the best place and i want to be here you will  definitely find people that think like that  

but there's a lot of people that are like hey you  know i'd like to live in new york i'd like to live  

in la i'd like to see how it is in florida or you  know maybe they move to another european country  

so definitely not everybody wants to be here  even though it is great in a lot of ways  

there's people looking for something something  different it depends what you're looking for oh  

this one is really interesting and that is that  you miss the ocean if you live in switzerland  

so it's kind of funny to me because i am such  a water person i i love water i always need to  

be near water i want to go in the water in summer  i'm huge into like swimming and just like relaxing  

by water it's like one of my favorite things  to do and i suppose if you look at switzerland  

switzerland switzerland how many times  can i say switzerland um if you look at  

switzerland on a map you probably go oh my  gosh how can you live there it's landlocked  

it's tiny you're in the middle of all these  countries and um you probably missed the ocean

but i don't i find that most swiss cities are  built around lakes and you really i mean we can  

see water from our balcony we have like a little  beach right in front of our house so i'm just not  

ever missing water because i always have access  to it um which is amazing although switzerland  

is landlocked it's uh there's a there's water  that you can swim in everywhere which i really  

really like because when we lived in new york  you're right on the coast right there's lots of  

water there but you couldn't swim in any of it  because it was all disease infested or whatever  

most of it um so i don't miss it at all and it's  not that far if you want to go to the ocean ocean  

i like fresh water though so i really like having  a swimmable lakes close by next assumption is that  

it can be confusing to navigate for an american  who doesn't know the local language love your  

channel i'm from wisconsin too hello wisconsin  um i do not think this is true i do not think  

switzerland is confusing to navigate um and it  says like if you don't know the language because  

so many people here speak really good english  and they're usually very keen on speaking english  

sometimes i'm trying to speak german or i'm  speaking with somebody in german and they can  

hear that i'm american and they'll switch to  english like they'll just want to speak in english  

that happens quite a lot especially if you're a  tourist and you come here and you try to speak  

german or french or something if they can pick up  that you're from the u.s they'll probably switch  

automatically which kind of makes it hard to learn  the language but that's a whole other thing um  

but no i don't find it difficult to navigate  everything here is like also in english so  

if something is listed in german or french  there's probably english on there somewhere  

if you're on a website or if you're you know  trying to get around you'll be able to find stuff  

in english and if not people will be more  than happy to help you swiss people are  

very very used to tourists and foreigners so i  i think it's pretty easy to get around i always  

recommend people that want to come to europe  for the first time to come to switzerland  

it's a great country for like europe beginners  right because it's very very easy to get around  

and compared to neighboring countries for example  next assumption is that you question whether the  

price of living in switzerland is worth it i do  not question this in fact i think with complete  

confidence that the cost of living in switzerland  is a million percent worth it living here i have  

so much peace of mind so much calm i just feel  like everything works my life is a lot less  

stressful in switzerland um because everything  works it's nice to go somewhere and know the train  

will be there when it's supposed to or if there's  an issue you will know in advance and that things  

operate on a certain level of trust in this  country and i just really really like that um  

and it's not the kind of place where you have  to worry that you're gonna get really taken  

advantage of or things like that so i think a lot  of the things in switzerland just make it worth it  

and i don't question whether it is worth  it because one i know how to do it cheap  

and um two i just i do think it's worth it the  things that are more expensive on the micro level  

it pays off because in the macro your your life  can be a lot easier and smoother here so i think  

it's worth it next assumption is that swiss feel  embarrassed to talk in another language i would  

have to say i'm not swiss but in my experience  dealing with swiss people this is pretty much  

not true i guess it depends which language if  matthias has to switch to german i wouldn't say  

he's embarrassed but he's like maybe a little bit  um uncomfortable because he knows he has like a  

heavy swiss accent and stuff like that but i  find swiss people particularly love to speak  

english even when you don't want them to they  will switch to english and they really like to  

to speak languages i think they're proud that they  can speak different languages which is awesome  

i think it's really cool that swiss people are  usually pretty bilingual you know when i met  

matthias he already spoke english german swiss  german and and basic french and that's like super  

impressive to me so i think the language thing  in switzerland is something that most of them  

are are pretty proud of and they like to um to  speak different languages depending i find that  

swiss german people might not like to speak french  for example they might feel embarrassed to speak  

french they'd probably rather speak english  in my experience um it depends if you're swiss  

let me know in the comments down below are you  embarrassed to switch languages and are there  

certain ones um that you prefer to speak next  assumption is that travelers have assumptions  

that switzerland may not be internet convenient do  swiss cafes restaurants and shops have free wi-fi  

if not do visitors tend to find starbucks  or mcdonald's how would you suggest visitors  

solve their internet issues great question  this assumption i'm going to say is more or  

less true we live in zurich and i do find that  it can be challenging to find like public wi-fi  

um it's very switzerland is behind in this sense  compared to a lot of european countries that there  

is no wi-fi on like trains or trams or public  transportation like a lot of our neighboring  

countries do have for some reason they don't have  that which is strange to me because switzerland  

is so small you feel like they could deck it  out with internet no problem i don't know the  

whole story behind it but yeah and also you'll  see in a lot of cafes and restaurants here they  

have no wi-fi available or you have to like ask  somebody and like they have to go find the past