Living in Switzerland

Steve, you are so right about the swiss. I have worked here since 1988 (Software development and network engineering) and have from the start desperately tried to integrate - without any success and blaming myself for it. Now I am here with two beautiful daughters and wife in this country with beautiful landscape, mountains, villages and rude people. I can't move away without leaving my family, which is a depressing pain. Everyday the Swiss remind me that they carry deep bitterness and aggression. It starts in the morning train where people reserve additional seats during rush hour and only when you ask they will reluctant and cranky free them but some even just say "no" and tell you to find a seat somewhere else, during rush hour. And no, the seat isn't reserved for someone else to come, unless it is a true exception. Outside the train, if you happen to by accident to bump into someone, it is not at all rare that this someone goes into a tantrum, no self whatsoever and starts screaming and yelling at you. As if the bumping was done on purpose!!?? With first such incident I first I stunned and speechless thought the poor person must suffer from some mental disease or similar only to notice months later that a country can't have that many mentally ill people and besides they seem to keep their full time jobs - so my conclusion: it is "normal" here and it is part of the culture here.