Happy New Year to all of you. Thank you from the heart from a Dane and his wife living and working in your beautiful alpine nation. This was my/our first full year here. Through 2025 I have grown a very deep love for your culture, your camaraderie, your principles, respect amongst each other, your history, and of course your people. I spent my evening watching Swiss history documentaries with a glass of champagne. You debate amongst each other on so many topics, and while that’s of course both healthy and important, I just wanted to say that you get so many things right. Throughout the cantons, the Swiss I’ve met have all been inviting, inclusive, welcoming, and interested/interesting people. You’re really not as cold as you get “credit” for. On the contrary. I feel welcome, appreciated, and yet a sense of expectation of me that’s honestly inspiring to want to live up to. 2026 will be the year I get my Schwiizerdütsch somewhat in order, I’m practicing all I can at the moment - but do please bear with me if I still mess up the grammar at my local gemeinde or at social gatherings. Guets Nöis! submitted by /u/inphenite
Originally posted by u/inphenite on r/Switzerland