Here and there

Hello everyone!

As I am coming from 6 years and some months of Budapest, you are going to listen to many comparisons all over the posts.

This is a little composition I prepared about Switzerland! A very singular country in the entire world possessing many pluralities. All together 4 languages are spoken here: German, French, Italian and Romansh, though the last one is almost not existing anymore.



A nation of many cultures and yet one country. In the Suisse Romande, as I heard from people who live in the German area, has a totally different life style and it is bit mediterranian. No ofenses. ALthough Frenches and Swisses are found in both each other's regions, I heard they do not really appreciate each other. Do not know why and better not to ask. Even the language is a bit different, Swisses speak slower and have some different ways to say the numbers 70, 80 and 90, specially in the Vaud territory. Also they say that there neighbours have a more salvage driving....ehehe it is almost true!

Geneva, the city where I live in and found at the leftest point of the above map, has only 187 000 residents, but if we count the entire metropolitan area, this number grows to 820 000. Still pretty much smaller than Budapest or Brasilia, respectively 1,7 and 2,5 million residents, not counting both metropolitan areas. Pretty amazing, isn't it? On a scale, Brasilia is larger than Budapest that, on its turn, is larger than Geneva.

With several places that's worth seeing, Geneva surprises for its own culinary, besides several other country's restaurants as well (since 40% of the population is foreigner), its chocolate variety, beautiful cars on the streets (though everybody says Montreaux has more of them), natural beauties like the montains that surrounds it (Jura, Saleve, even Montblanc) and several parcs, negative points are the lac of places to live and places to park and the dirty in the city center.

So if you decide to live here or come by car be ready to spend all the patience you might have.
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