low standards?

Nice, so you are telling our bulgarian and romanian friends on the forum (yes, there are) that their countries are crap.

I can't believe this thread is still running & there are even some proper riff-raff contributing such rubbish that doesn't help in any way. As we already had the OP a few pages back saying how helpful the answers have been, isn't it time to move on?

Canada? .....

never said anything of crap, n you are not getting the point, of what i am saying. i know very well about romainians i have been there n lived there, i very much like the country, its really beautiful.

Foreigners in Switzerland who complain about being here are simply self-pitying. They deserve all the bashing that can be dished out them. There are many who dream of being here. Get yourselves a backbone and do something about your situations. Get lost and leave if you cannot manage yourselves. Switzerland is crowded enough as it is. Make room for those who have something more positive to contribute.

Simplistic, much?

Cannuck, have you ever considered using a good poetry forum?

No, I really like the services and I can assure you I have very high standards.

if you can't be happy where ever you are, may it be CH, Canada, USA, get the fxxx out and leave.

Did you learn BS reasoning in school? Everybody who contributes in a way to Switzerland has the right to complain about it, as Switzerland is not only formed by Swiss (only the voting part).

Like yourself, obviously...

Why are you being so aggressive about it? Life isn't as simple as you would have us believe. People have family or work commitments, they can't just throw in the towel and give up when the going gets tough.

The OP has already said that the advice given in the first two or three pages was helpful and has helped him see a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel, yet here are you and Phos, several pages later, being rude to the OP for the crime of being unhappy and venting amongst - so he thought - friends.

As I said before, a smidgen of understanding wouldn't go amiss. We can't all be happy all the time, and life in a foreign country is often difficult, frustrating and hard. Why kick a man when he's already down?

Cut him some slack. If you don't want to hear someone complain about Switzerland, perhaps you should avoid complaints corner?

Oh somebody close this thread pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease.

Nah. I love seeing Phos reveal his true colours.

Let him continue.

do you have a swiss passport? have you done military service? military service is contributing. if you don't, no you can't complain. the swiss have built their own country, and by contributing no you didn't, they paid you money to work here! and you pay taxes so you can use, like we all do. you choosed to come here.

Really?

I wondered last night why this bothered me LESS than many another rant or criticism on EF. Then it came to me.

It reminded me of myself in the menopause. "Just keep out of my way today kids. Whatever you do is going to be wrong".

Or, depression. It doesn't help to be told that the sun is shining when there is a thick blanket of fog over ones head.

Or, of our youngsters' reactions when a day seemed very grey. Teachers were unfair, the best friend wasn't talking to them, it was raining. They'd left their yellow jacket at school and the blue one had been forgotten at a sports' competition last week. The music teacher moaned that they hadn't practiced and now Mum was on at them and all they'd done was traipse in a little bit of mud...

The very fact of listing everything one hates is, to me, a sign of momentary, but total, frustration.

Maybe in a month or two, maybe the next day, things will look different. But at the moment the OP doesn't want to be told that everything is wonderful and he should be grateful. He's not even looking for solutions - there aren't any anyway.

I don't want solutions, I want sympathy - or, perhaps, humourful reactions.

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Agreed. I think pretty much everything that can be said on the topic has been... we're just going round in circles now (and have been for ~8 pages, truth be told.)

Time to call it a day on this one, folks.