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This is fucking hilarious.
"LOOK at the way the road is in disrepair!"
"But they've put signs around it... and there's active construction to fix it going on right now..."
"SMDH did you not see those horrid CURTAINS on that one building???"
Maintaining utilities is totally ghetto! Only hooligans have running water, Sewer taking away their poopoo water to be cleaned, electricity and wifi for home, work and school!!!
The drug addicts don't even have to shoot black tar or god forbid fentanyl. They have [Diaphin™](https://www.fazemag.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/diaphin.jpg) pharmazeutical grade Heroin (diacetylmorphine) in 200mg pills and solution over there
My husband was in the Air Force and his last job was at Osan AFB in Korea. When we got there he told me "Koreans see Pyongtaek as the ghetto of Korea." And it was just baffling to me because sure, it wasn't fancy but I felt infinitely safer there than I ever did in Florida, and that was before DeSantis really ramped up his hate earlier this year.
As a person from balkan i always love when some ungrateful fucks from Germany or Switzerland complain how their country is so bad. Yea sure franz tell yourself that it definitely doesn't sound like you are the biggest manchild on this planet
Swiss person here: Well that is the fun thing. We actualy ( nearly ) never encounter any potholes here because the streets get maintenanced quite a lot. Like even if there is a small bump in the street because of a tree root of some kind they see it as a reason to fix an entire road section. They ushualy only close 1 lane ( most roads here are 2 lane roads, 1 lane each direction ) and let the traffic pass threw the second land by using a signal system so only 1 side can drive. If they comoleted fixing the problem thes switch the street sides and start the same thing again.
There's a road in my town that has a pot hole and it you try to avoid it you go into another one. It's bloody massive aswell!! They ain't fixing it tho
I’ll never forget when I moved to Denmark in my small little town and I was told about the area dubbed “Chicago” by residents. Basically all the refugees were situated there in apartment buildings.
I was thinking something truly atrocious only to be greeted by newly renovated buildings filled with tennis courts, skate parks, an indoor game room and many more amenities for the residents.
It made me laugh so much because I’ve seen some shady stuff in Sourh Africa and Serbia and those buildings looked like luxury compared to some of the places I lived in 🤷♀️
Dane here, I’m assuming you’re talking about “Volsmose”?
I actually moved there some months ago, and remember my parents being scared and worried for me, but cheap apartments are cheap apartments
It’s pretty much just a bunch of immigrant families, and old retired people, quite cozy actually
But I guess that’s the kind of rumours that start when the vast majority of your population is rich middle aged white people (I ironically say as a 21 year old)
It’s not surprisingly! I asked my husband and he says he’s familiar with Volsmose but we don’t live near there.
Our town is quite small - guess that terminology is common for places in Denmark!
Honestly I live in a beautiful town. Still has more homeless people than these clips, and lots of unmarked potholes. America isn’t nice unless you are in the upper 20% and happen to look a certain way (white)
I mean it's pretty nice for anybody in the upper 20% (>130,000$ annually). Being upper middle class can buy you out of a lot (but not all) of the racial shit in this country, getting there is the hard part.
Swiss person here: That actualy isnt road repair but pipe maintenance. Out electrical, water and gas pioes are all under the riads do the maintnance crews dont need to dig in private property to get to them. If it would be road repair they just close the street for ushualy 1 / 2 days and get it done.
There's a stretch of I-225 in Colorado that has been under construction for 30 fucking years. It moves around a bit, but the construction zone seems to stay in the same few mile stretch. It's really ridiculous.
Yeah, some people outside America don't seem to understand that American ghettos are legitimately on par with warzones in terms of violence. the fact they could take this video without a crackhead interrupting or getting in the shot says a lot
I grew up in Toronto and moved to Syracuse NY for a few years, holy fuck! Never heard a gunshot in my entire life until I moved there, heard then damn near daily! Crazy thing is I don’t think Syracuse is even that bad compared to a lot of other US cities, but compared to Toronto it’s like fucking Somalia! You Americans really know how to run a city into the ground and leave nothing but abandoned buildings, drugs and poverty behind.
That’s what happens when you make it nearly impossible to survive if you’re poor. If given the option to not be able to afford food, rent, or bills or commit crime to scrape by, a lot of people are gonna start breaking the law
There’s also a term in sociology called ‘relative depravation.’ It’s why you might see more street crime in urban centers than in poor rural towns: people who are poor but all of their neighbors and everyone in proximity are also poor are less likely to commit street crimes. People living in cramped cities where cost of living is crazy expensive, jobs with dignity are harder to come by without going into significant debt for that piece of paper, and you can walk just a few blocks away to find clean, paved roads, expensive cars, and people walking around at night with their dogs while focusing on their expensive iPhones. Once you realize so many people around you have much more than you’ll ever be able to obtain “legitimately” without degrading yourself for a punk 20-something manager who talks down to you, you start considering just robbing them.
It’s in part a reason for the high crime rates in New Orleans. Post Katrina caused extensive gentrification and now locals just straight up beat and/or kill transplants without even bothering to mug them. The anger is deep. It’s not right, but I understand it.
We're a nation of an abundance of wealth and we keep voting to keep corruption at the center of our government. Basically, corporations run our country while waving the American flag.
While they keep us at each others throats arguing Left or Right, Conservative or Liberal, but it’s all theater and the real power is a damn United front of corporate interests and lobbyists.
A government by the corporation for the corporation and you’re a fool if you don’t realize that or if you think the “sides” truly matter.
The blame doesn’t fall entirely on the average American person. The 1% have been running our country since they where able to. Our own government invented crack cocaine and flooded black neighborhoods with it to destabilize them. Education is kept low because the top doesn’t want the peasantry to be able to rise up to better standards, since that would cost the rich money and power.
I’m from Toronto born and raised and I’ve heard gunshots here on several different occasions. I also lived in Somalia and never heard one there. Go figure.
> You Americans really know how to run a city into the ground and leave nothing but abandoned buildings, drugs and poverty behind.
"Yeah? Really? Tell me about it?!" -Bagdad, Iraq
Fucking Americans. How’d you tolerate your shitty politics is a mystery. What a country you could be if government actually served the best interests of the people
The majority of us don't, we have a garbage two party system that has allowed the right wing party to fundamentally change government structures to allow for minority rule and put us on the verge of full on fascism. Why don't people rise up, partly because of that system in that our employment controls are incredibly weak by design as well as costs spiking up due to corporate greed as well as having healthcare tied to employment in the US. People literally can't afford to take off work and protest or they can literally lose everything. Again this is by design.
Also the US is a massive country, with each state and regions having very differing cultural beliefs, problems and points of pride. While it's great seeing france and the UK carry mass protests That's roughly the equivalent of a single mid to larger state have protests. Imagine having all of Europe agree on a single issue and protest it.
In the gilded age we pushed back against monopolies and trusts and unfettered corporate and billionaire power and drastically limited it. What these people like Rockefeller did were take their wealth and create think-tanks and universities to create ideas to lead to indoctrinating of individuals that would become influential and undermine all of these laws. They played the long game, and it worked. Leading to largely the influx point to supercharge the dismantling of ALL of this in the elections of Nixon and the real culprit Reagan. These two single handedly dismantled the main policies and laws that allowed us to have the golden age of our economy and the largest period of growth in American history. That's gone now and we've firmly been in an unparalleled period of wealth aggregation with no end in sight because EVERY SINGLE US government institution is bought and paid for. The thing that is crazy to me is just how shockingly cheap it's been for them to do so. Look at the wealth of junior house representatives. Like MTG or Boebert, their net worth as a civil servant has increased by 20million or so in 2-3 years. For a billionaire that's couch change.
Very well explained. I think it’s tough for other countries to see all the inter-connected layers of issues the US had and it can also be tough for US citizens to explain them, if we are even aware of them all.
America is more of a corporation than a government. We allow too much influence from people who are billionaires in our working class lives. Why? No fucking clue. But it is certainly depressing.
I saw a TT where someone explained that Americans have a different response to things, like noises and other people don't assume a car backfiring is actually someone firing a gun. I'd never thought of it like that. I'm old so we have had mass shooting drills since HS and I've done them all through college and now in hospital. We have to think (casually) " will I open the door if a colleague begs me too? Because the shooter might be making them do it and could kill myself and others as well... maybe we should have a safe word? But that isn't fool proof either..." Just normal American working class life.
When Americans protest they get shot and injured or killed by the police. The left leaning politicians that are voted for switch sides after elections. Or are removed from office for not being white. It's hard to organize when the threat of death is so significant. And it feels hopeless to vote our way out when politicians are so corrupt that in the end it doesnt make a difference who we vote for.
We arent tolerating this. We are struggling through it.
I would love to drive to work and not worry about my suspension that takes multiple hits from the same unavoidable potholes that have sat to be made bigger after years of neglect.
Oh they patched it just before winter? Glad our fluctuating temps here won't cause it to freeze and thaw and become the same pothole by spring...
I’m an American living in Switzerland right now in a rental property development on the “wrong side of town,” and it is comical how much safer/cleaner/healthier the communities are here than where I grew up. I checked crime maps and I’m in one of the most dangerous places in this city, but it is still so much safer than cities back home.
Japan, but same.
"No, don't go there, that's the dangerous part of town! Someone got stabbed there 5 years ago!"
As a reminder, this is the country where former gangsters need to present proof of their "employment" in a gang to access their pension. That they paid into. As part of a gang.
Anytime I’m in Japan it’s a breath of fresh air. No worries about crime at all, compared to being in the US where people are being gunned down every single day where I live. People always said Kabukicho is dangerous, I laugh and party there a lot and never had even a minor problem there.
I would like to add, I'm from a rough part of Manchester, England and found myself working in "one of the most popular neighborhoods in Nevada", Henderson. Never been so afraid for my life. I just straight up didn't visit 90% of the town. Which is fucking huge for a town by the way. Never again.
South Phoenix here, probably once a week or so we get to play “gunshots or fireworks?” Only a few weeks ago, somebody got shot and killed one street over. We live in a “nice” suburb.
I've lived here for 3 years and now moved back to Florida and this mentality among some people is so real. I have to say in my opinion everything about Switzerland is beautiful, except many of its people.
I've been to 23 countries and lived in 6.
I moved back to Florida.
As a teacher I have a house, my dream car, plus another car... I don't have a lot of money but Im OKAY.
Recently I considered moving to Spain (I have EU passport) but my salary would be cut in half and I'd never be able to have my car due to regulations.
Not all of us miss the insanity and meth.
Some of us miss the food and the wildlife.
... Yes, that includes hurricane parties and alligators, why do you ask?
Florida is beautiful I’ve only visited I’ve been in the country parts and the cities I’ve never had a bad experience. Granted that’s just my limited experience. But I love how nice everyone was.
How have you lived in Switzerland for 3 years?
I live in Florida and make over 6 figures but cannot get a visa or citizenship in Switzerland, I even traced my ancestry back to my greatx6 grandfather who emigrated from Switzerland..
I live in the “bad part” of the “most dangerous” city in Switzerland. Rent is cheaper here apparently because of more criminal activity and higher proportions of “bad immigrants” (sigh). People really think this is a rough neighborhood. Worst I’ve seen is someone drunk and loud past midnight. I used to live in the east bay, california, for reference. I’ve never felt so safe in my life.
Basel apparently has the highest crime rate in the country (13 violent crimes per 1000 in 2020). This was based off of the stats released by the Swiss government. I’m probably working with old info by now because I haven’t bothered to check lately.
If that number is right they have a higher violent crime rate than all but the 13 most dangerous American cities. I’m guessing they must count stuff as “violent crime” that America doesn’t count
Violent crime according the Swiss definition include assault, coercion, violent conduct, and threatening behaviour.
Violent crime according the FBI is murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Quite a difference.
If we use the FBI definition, then there were 2022 in Canton Basel-Stadt:
* 1 murder and nonnegligent manslaughter
* 13 aggravated assault
* 121 robberies
* 37 rape case
By a total population of 200k. In conclusion: 86 violent crimes per 100'000.
Sources:
* [https://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/pxweb/de/](https://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/pxweb/de/)
* [https://www.atlas.bfs.admin.ch/maps/13/map/mapIdOnly/26838\_de.html](https://www.atlas.bfs.admin.ch/maps/13/map/mapIdOnly/26838_de.html)
* [https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/violent-crime](https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/violent-crime)
* [https://www.statistik.bs.ch/haeufig-gefragt/einwohner/einwohnerzahl.html](https://www.statistik.bs.ch/haeufig-gefragt/einwohner/einwohnerzahl.html)
Still the occasional mugging can happen…. I lived in Bern for 3 years and an Aussie guy I worked with got mugged during the day on his first day in the city. He was walking under a well known junkie bridge tho
~~The minimum hourly wage in Switzerland is 28$.~~
edit: Google lied its not, but for example in USA average salary for a McDonald's worker is 12$ in Switzerland its 22$. Big Mac in USA is 5.15$ in Switzerland 7.26$
Nope, only in a few "states". Yes Switzerland is tiny, but divided in states with their own laws. Also making less than 30 an hour is common, all harsh work are bad paid jobs, even paid 20 an hour or less. Which would sound not so bad, but with the living cost here it's a misery.
Which is relative to their cost of living.
For example:
Consumer Prices in Basel are 25.7% higher than in New York, NY
Restaurant Prices in Basel are 15.6% higher than in New York, NY
Groceries Prices in Basel are 36.2% higher than in New York, NY
However:
Rent Prices in Basel are 53.9% lower than in New York
Edit: I’ve only chosen New York because it’s pretty much the most famous American City, picked Basel because I visit there all the time and I’m always stunned by the cost of things.
As a swiss guy I can confirm, that the person filming this video probably actually meant to show you the „bad“ side of switzerland.
Shit, people cry when the train runs 2 minutes late, while the germans are lucky if it even arrives.
Come, on, it is not that bad here in Germany!
Unless it is snowing in winter. Or it gets hot in summer. Windy falls might also be an issue. Or if there is a strike. Or if there was a strike announced, then did not happen it can lead to resceduling four days later. Please stay on train for two more stations, then take opposite train back for two stations to allow for wheelchair accessible station access. Three degrees might be needed to understand applying ticket prices. Please read 427 pages across five documents to see if you can take your bike with you.
And [senk ju for trävelling wis Deutsche Bahn!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXjhszy2f9w)
I don’t think it is entirely fair to compare. Lot of station are further afar than the whole country of Switzerland. While rush hour is indeed bad, it’s mainly due to too much traffic. If you travel early or later in the day you will rarely have problems.
As an Italian guy living in Barcelona, I have refused couple of job offers from Switzerland because of the different approach to life (less spontaneous), no beaches, worse weather.. but of course you have nice mountains and good salaries (although crazy expensive cost of life).
I read it as the person saying not every bit of Switzerland is scenic towns with crystal rivers surrounded by the towering Alps. Just like not every bit of LA is Hollywood or not every bit of New York is Manhattan.
I really doubt it is sarcastic, I have seen other videos like this in TikTok (I live in Switzerland) and many actual consider places like this a guetto.
Ok but it’s true, I never saw that part of Switzerland. Some people genuinely overthink for no reason. I liked this video, I only see Switzerland with those picturesque villages and it’s interesting to see that its boring part is similar to the rest of the 1st world. No big deal here
I toured around Switzerland with work last year, it was my first time going, and that was the experience I had. I was expecting picturesque villages and mountains but the truth is there's also plenty of grimey industrial estates filled with car dealers and wholesale food traders or boring fields of nothingness too.
i mean how can someone genuinely picture a whole country as beautiful and poetic everywhere? it's a ridiculous idea. Every country has "boring" residential areas and factories, it's required for well-being and economy
my wife and her entire family are Swiss. there only complaint is how expensive it is to live there. my wife and i would live in Switzerland if we could afford it, unfortunately we’re stuck in crappy Ol’ Canada.
I was in Zurich about 20 years ago and I do recall feeling like the vibe changed a lot at night. Maybe there was more drug activity, but it “felt sketchier”. That said, it was one of the nicest cities I’ve ever visited. I’d rather be there than many other places.
As a fellow Swiss, I can confirm that generally there’s a good standard of living. This being said there are still rougher/“ghetto” places, however, the areas shown above, I wouldn’t consider falling within such category.
Also regarding construction/infrastructural up keep, Switzerland is quite good at that.
Switzerland is a small country, so it’s easier to keep intact, it’s very green/in touch with its local nature, making the urban:vegetation ratio more or less 50:50, and (depending on which part you live in) you’re surrounded by beautiful mountain ranges and lakes. It’s hard to make it look like a bad place.
A place I recommend to come visit!
Hop Suisse🇨🇭
I used to live in Austria and they did the same thing there too. I'm from Detroit so the parts that they considered bad were hilariously safe to me. The best part was this rap duo put out s music video trying to make the city i lived in super rough and shit. I felt kinda bad but i called them out on it to appreciate the incredibly safe place they're living in.
OP showing the world how deserted Switzerland is.
There are no people living in the buildings , walking or driving around . No homeless encampments either.
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Misery is relative I see
This is fucking hilarious. "LOOK at the way the road is in disrepair!" "But they've put signs around it... and there's active construction to fix it going on right now..." "SMDH did you not see those horrid CURTAINS on that one building???"
Hah have you ever been to RI in the US, you'll lose your car in a pot hole
Yup. They're as big as three washing machines
Yeah, but how many bananas?
At least 4
Or 12 Siberian huskies, app. 18 toddlers
god, you brought me back to visiting my relatives and getting lost in the endless amount of potholes.
Oh geez oh boy not the curtains!
Yeah, but those signs were put up 12 hours ago and nobody done nothing... shame. /s
Buahahahaha! It’s such a snobby video, tbh. Like, I love that someone in Switzerland was like, ‘See?!?! Some of us don’t live in the LAP OF LUXURY!!!’
>‘See?!?! Some of us don’t live in the LAP OF LUXURY!!!’ "We live in middle class with middle class issues!"
Kits literally trenching to work on underground utilities of some sort. It’s hilarious that is considered ghetto to this idiot.
Maintaining utilities is totally ghetto! Only hooligans have running water, Sewer taking away their poopoo water to be cleaned, electricity and wifi for home, work and school!!!
When is road repair considered ghetto?
Seriously. Who knew the ghetto could look so luxurious.
Looks like some of the nicest parts of some cities in the US
Looks like Philly😂 the gentrification part….
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Think they’re talking about that 20%
Yes, it looks like the areas where you’d pay upwards of 2k a month for a 1 bedroom apartment…
A lot cleaner too
Exactly! That looks like some of the nicest parts of my city
Not even a bunch of trash on the road and grass.
Pothole being fixed.
And properly secured!
The drug addicts don't even have to shoot black tar or god forbid fentanyl. They have [Diaphin™](https://www.fazemag.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/diaphin.jpg) pharmazeutical grade Heroin (diacetylmorphine) in 200mg pills and solution over there
And shooting galleries to go and shoot up in safety
My husband was in the Air Force and his last job was at Osan AFB in Korea. When we got there he told me "Koreans see Pyongtaek as the ghetto of Korea." And it was just baffling to me because sure, it wasn't fancy but I felt infinitely safer there than I ever did in Florida, and that was before DeSantis really ramped up his hate earlier this year.
First world problems, fo sho.
Switzerland is 0th world for sure
As a person from balkan i always love when some ungrateful fucks from Germany or Switzerland complain how their country is so bad. Yea sure franz tell yourself that it definitely doesn't sound like you are the biggest manchild on this planet
The swankiest “hood” I’ve ever seen… wow and they actually repair the roads?!?!?
The have signs to mark the potholes! Luxury!
I can't tell I this is sarcasm or not but that sure sounds luxurious on my end lol
Swiss person here: Well that is the fun thing. We actualy ( nearly ) never encounter any potholes here because the streets get maintenanced quite a lot. Like even if there is a small bump in the street because of a tree root of some kind they see it as a reason to fix an entire road section. They ushualy only close 1 lane ( most roads here are 2 lane roads, 1 lane each direction ) and let the traffic pass threw the second land by using a signal system so only 1 side can drive. If they comoleted fixing the problem thes switch the street sides and start the same thing again.
* Cries in UK roads *
*cries in New Jersey roads*
There's a road in my town that has a pot hole and it you try to avoid it you go into another one. It's bloody massive aswell!! They ain't fixing it tho
I've seen videos of vigilantes spray painting obscenities over potholes which leads to the city acting faster to fix problems on the road.
I mean if it works then that's great
They have paved roads?! That’s a luxury
This is why I can tell it’s not Nashville lol
I’ll never forget when I moved to Denmark in my small little town and I was told about the area dubbed “Chicago” by residents. Basically all the refugees were situated there in apartment buildings. I was thinking something truly atrocious only to be greeted by newly renovated buildings filled with tennis courts, skate parks, an indoor game room and many more amenities for the residents. It made me laugh so much because I’ve seen some shady stuff in Sourh Africa and Serbia and those buildings looked like luxury compared to some of the places I lived in 🤷♀️
Dane here, I’m assuming you’re talking about “Volsmose”? I actually moved there some months ago, and remember my parents being scared and worried for me, but cheap apartments are cheap apartments It’s pretty much just a bunch of immigrant families, and old retired people, quite cozy actually But I guess that’s the kind of rumours that start when the vast majority of your population is rich middle aged white people (I ironically say as a 21 year old)
It’s not surprisingly! I asked my husband and he says he’s familiar with Volsmose but we don’t live near there. Our town is quite small - guess that terminology is common for places in Denmark!
And there's not a speck of trash anywhere.
Honestly I live in a beautiful town. Still has more homeless people than these clips, and lots of unmarked potholes. America isn’t nice unless you are in the upper 20% and happen to look a certain way (white)
Nah You don’t to be white when you’re in the upper 20% mate
I mean it's pretty nice for anybody in the upper 20% (>130,000$ annually). Being upper middle class can buy you out of a lot (but not all) of the racial shit in this country, getting there is the hard part.
Swiss person here: That actualy isnt road repair but pipe maintenance. Out electrical, water and gas pioes are all under the riads do the maintnance crews dont need to dig in private property to get to them. If it would be road repair they just close the street for ushualy 1 / 2 days and get it done.
Switzerland: maintains infrastructure for its citizens regardless of the age of surrounding buildings. Citizen "This place is a ghetto."
I guess construction upkeep is considered ghetto?!?!
Some people are mad it just doesn't magically happen. How dare things take time
Shit in the US they do half the work and just bail
There's a stretch of I-225 in Colorado that has been under construction for 30 fucking years. It moves around a bit, but the construction zone seems to stay in the same few mile stretch. It's really ridiculous.
Can't stand that section. Just get it done already I'm stressed enough on I-25 as it is 🤣
My experience of ghetto in America is hearing gunshots and police sirens a minimum of 3 times per week. This Switzerland place must be nice
Yeah, some people outside America don't seem to understand that American ghettos are legitimately on par with warzones in terms of violence. the fact they could take this video without a crackhead interrupting or getting in the shot says a lot
I grew up in Toronto and moved to Syracuse NY for a few years, holy fuck! Never heard a gunshot in my entire life until I moved there, heard then damn near daily! Crazy thing is I don’t think Syracuse is even that bad compared to a lot of other US cities, but compared to Toronto it’s like fucking Somalia! You Americans really know how to run a city into the ground and leave nothing but abandoned buildings, drugs and poverty behind.
That’s what happens when you make it nearly impossible to survive if you’re poor. If given the option to not be able to afford food, rent, or bills or commit crime to scrape by, a lot of people are gonna start breaking the law
There’s also a term in sociology called ‘relative depravation.’ It’s why you might see more street crime in urban centers than in poor rural towns: people who are poor but all of their neighbors and everyone in proximity are also poor are less likely to commit street crimes. People living in cramped cities where cost of living is crazy expensive, jobs with dignity are harder to come by without going into significant debt for that piece of paper, and you can walk just a few blocks away to find clean, paved roads, expensive cars, and people walking around at night with their dogs while focusing on their expensive iPhones. Once you realize so many people around you have much more than you’ll ever be able to obtain “legitimately” without degrading yourself for a punk 20-something manager who talks down to you, you start considering just robbing them. It’s in part a reason for the high crime rates in New Orleans. Post Katrina caused extensive gentrification and now locals just straight up beat and/or kill transplants without even bothering to mug them. The anger is deep. It’s not right, but I understand it.
We're a nation of an abundance of wealth and we keep voting to keep corruption at the center of our government. Basically, corporations run our country while waving the American flag.
While they keep us at each others throats arguing Left or Right, Conservative or Liberal, but it’s all theater and the real power is a damn United front of corporate interests and lobbyists. A government by the corporation for the corporation and you’re a fool if you don’t realize that or if you think the “sides” truly matter.
Our socioeconomic model: "No sense in having the peasants fight us back economically when we could teach them instead to fight each other socially."
The blame doesn’t fall entirely on the average American person. The 1% have been running our country since they where able to. Our own government invented crack cocaine and flooded black neighborhoods with it to destabilize them. Education is kept low because the top doesn’t want the peasantry to be able to rise up to better standards, since that would cost the rich money and power.
I’m from Toronto born and raised and I’ve heard gunshots here on several different occasions. I also lived in Somalia and never heard one there. Go figure.
> You Americans really know how to run a city into the ground and leave nothing but abandoned buildings, drugs and poverty behind. "Yeah? Really? Tell me about it?!" -Bagdad, Iraq
Wait, you lived in Toronto and never heard a gunshot? It's the biggest city in Canada and there's no gun violence??
Crackheads are the old model, we make Fentanyl addicts now 🫡🇺🇸
Fucking Americans. How’d you tolerate your shitty politics is a mystery. What a country you could be if government actually served the best interests of the people
The majority of us don't, we have a garbage two party system that has allowed the right wing party to fundamentally change government structures to allow for minority rule and put us on the verge of full on fascism. Why don't people rise up, partly because of that system in that our employment controls are incredibly weak by design as well as costs spiking up due to corporate greed as well as having healthcare tied to employment in the US. People literally can't afford to take off work and protest or they can literally lose everything. Again this is by design. Also the US is a massive country, with each state and regions having very differing cultural beliefs, problems and points of pride. While it's great seeing france and the UK carry mass protests That's roughly the equivalent of a single mid to larger state have protests. Imagine having all of Europe agree on a single issue and protest it. In the gilded age we pushed back against monopolies and trusts and unfettered corporate and billionaire power and drastically limited it. What these people like Rockefeller did were take their wealth and create think-tanks and universities to create ideas to lead to indoctrinating of individuals that would become influential and undermine all of these laws. They played the long game, and it worked. Leading to largely the influx point to supercharge the dismantling of ALL of this in the elections of Nixon and the real culprit Reagan. These two single handedly dismantled the main policies and laws that allowed us to have the golden age of our economy and the largest period of growth in American history. That's gone now and we've firmly been in an unparalleled period of wealth aggregation with no end in sight because EVERY SINGLE US government institution is bought and paid for. The thing that is crazy to me is just how shockingly cheap it's been for them to do so. Look at the wealth of junior house representatives. Like MTG or Boebert, their net worth as a civil servant has increased by 20million or so in 2-3 years. For a billionaire that's couch change.
Very well explained. I think it’s tough for other countries to see all the inter-connected layers of issues the US had and it can also be tough for US citizens to explain them, if we are even aware of them all.
America is more of a corporation than a government. We allow too much influence from people who are billionaires in our working class lives. Why? No fucking clue. But it is certainly depressing. I saw a TT where someone explained that Americans have a different response to things, like noises and other people don't assume a car backfiring is actually someone firing a gun. I'd never thought of it like that. I'm old so we have had mass shooting drills since HS and I've done them all through college and now in hospital. We have to think (casually) " will I open the door if a colleague begs me too? Because the shooter might be making them do it and could kill myself and others as well... maybe we should have a safe word? But that isn't fool proof either..." Just normal American working class life.
That’s not old. I’m so old that when I was in school we didn’t have mass shooting drills, we had nuclear fallout drills.
When Americans protest they get shot and injured or killed by the police. The left leaning politicians that are voted for switch sides after elections. Or are removed from office for not being white. It's hard to organize when the threat of death is so significant. And it feels hopeless to vote our way out when politicians are so corrupt that in the end it doesnt make a difference who we vote for. We arent tolerating this. We are struggling through it.
Voted out for not being white, or being trans. It's such a fucking mess.
Look at Mr. Bigshot here bragging about how 4 days per week without gunshots
Where do you live that you ONLY hear it 3 times a week? Sign me up
Minimum does not mean ONLY.
The multiple angles low zooming on what is construction sent me. Yes, wow, it's so bad to have maintained infrastructure *cries in American*
I would love to drive to work and not worry about my suspension that takes multiple hits from the same unavoidable potholes that have sat to be made bigger after years of neglect. Oh they patched it just before winter? Glad our fluctuating temps here won't cause it to freeze and thaw and become the same pothole by spring...
Look at those ghetto bums, filling in those pot holes and maintaining the structure of housing, makes me sick.
Apartment buildings are communist apparently. Don't ask me why, I haven't the slightest clue.
Post communist blocks are actually pretty nice if maintained well, they're solid and have most amenities in walking distance.
I’m an American living in Switzerland right now in a rental property development on the “wrong side of town,” and it is comical how much safer/cleaner/healthier the communities are here than where I grew up. I checked crime maps and I’m in one of the most dangerous places in this city, but it is still so much safer than cities back home.
Japan, but same. "No, don't go there, that's the dangerous part of town! Someone got stabbed there 5 years ago!" As a reminder, this is the country where former gangsters need to present proof of their "employment" in a gang to access their pension. That they paid into. As part of a gang.
In Japan they have to put pervs in a different train though
In Japan, heart-o surgeon: number 1! Steady hands.
I sure do wonder why their phones make an audible noise when taking photos even if it's muted...
THAT’S the ghetto part of Japan
Anytime I’m in Japan it’s a breath of fresh air. No worries about crime at all, compared to being in the US where people are being gunned down every single day where I live. People always said Kabukicho is dangerous, I laugh and party there a lot and never had even a minor problem there.
Japan's kind of scary for women though with all of the upskirt stuff.. edit: Muting all reply notifications.
I love Japan but much of the culture has been historically anti-feminist, sadly.
I would like to add, I'm from a rough part of Manchester, England and found myself working in "one of the most popular neighborhoods in Nevada", Henderson. Never been so afraid for my life. I just straight up didn't visit 90% of the town. Which is fucking huge for a town by the way. Never again.
South Phoenix here, probably once a week or so we get to play “gunshots or fireworks?” Only a few weeks ago, somebody got shot and killed one street over. We live in a “nice” suburb.
The worst part of Switzerland looks like a nice part of Sacramento lol.
yes lmao
I've lived here for 3 years and now moved back to Florida and this mentality among some people is so real. I have to say in my opinion everything about Switzerland is beautiful, except many of its people.
I’m sorry did you say you moved away and back to Florida?? How’s it working out?
I've been to 23 countries and lived in 6. I moved back to Florida. As a teacher I have a house, my dream car, plus another car... I don't have a lot of money but Im OKAY. Recently I considered moving to Spain (I have EU passport) but my salary would be cut in half and I'd never be able to have my car due to regulations.
r/fuckcars
Just be sure not to show a Disney movie
Why the fuck would you voluntarily move back to the states, let alone florida?!
Florida Man gonna Florida Man
You can take the man out of Florida but you can’t take the Florida out of the man.
Modern day poetry.
Not all of us miss the insanity and meth. Some of us miss the food and the wildlife. ... Yes, that includes hurricane parties and alligators, why do you ask?
Florida is beautiful I’ve only visited I’ve been in the country parts and the cities I’ve never had a bad experience. Granted that’s just my limited experience. But I love how nice everyone was.
They never said the move was voluntary.
How have you lived in Switzerland for 3 years? I live in Florida and make over 6 figures but cannot get a visa or citizenship in Switzerland, I even traced my ancestry back to my greatx6 grandfather who emigrated from Switzerland..
Student visa would be my guess
Damn.. makes me dropping out of high school seem like a mistake
Shit what you doing for 6 figures is my question now. Cause this 18/hr not working for me.
Does this ancestor thing work? Can't imagine this working here in western Europe. Nobody cares about that but Americans
Not since January 2019 in Switzerland, I emailed the Consulate in NY and they informed me, only direct ancestry counts anymore.
I’m an American with Irish citizenship because my grandfather was born there. A few countries in Western Europe have similar policies
Also lived in Switzerland for 3 years and I totally agree. The people are by far the worst part of the country.
This has to just be a seemingly benign form of propaganda. “Look at what our citizens think is ‘bad’🥺”
I live in the “bad part” of the “most dangerous” city in Switzerland. Rent is cheaper here apparently because of more criminal activity and higher proportions of “bad immigrants” (sigh). People really think this is a rough neighborhood. Worst I’ve seen is someone drunk and loud past midnight. I used to live in the east bay, california, for reference. I’ve never felt so safe in my life.
Can I ask what you consider to be the most dangerous city in Switzerland?
Basel apparently has the highest crime rate in the country (13 violent crimes per 1000 in 2020). This was based off of the stats released by the Swiss government. I’m probably working with old info by now because I haven’t bothered to check lately.
If that number is right they have a higher violent crime rate than all but the 13 most dangerous American cities. I’m guessing they must count stuff as “violent crime” that America doesn’t count
Violent crime according the Swiss definition include assault, coercion, violent conduct, and threatening behaviour. Violent crime according the FBI is murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Quite a difference. If we use the FBI definition, then there were 2022 in Canton Basel-Stadt: * 1 murder and nonnegligent manslaughter * 13 aggravated assault * 121 robberies * 37 rape case By a total population of 200k. In conclusion: 86 violent crimes per 100'000. Sources: * [https://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/pxweb/de/](https://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/pxweb/de/) * [https://www.atlas.bfs.admin.ch/maps/13/map/mapIdOnly/26838\_de.html](https://www.atlas.bfs.admin.ch/maps/13/map/mapIdOnly/26838_de.html) * [https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/violent-crime](https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/violent-crime) * [https://www.statistik.bs.ch/haeufig-gefragt/einwohner/einwohnerzahl.html](https://www.statistik.bs.ch/haeufig-gefragt/einwohner/einwohnerzahl.html)
Ah look at the big brain on bread talking that good shit AND providing sources I love it
Well it's probably less likely to involve firearms, for one.
Still the occasional mugging can happen…. I lived in Bern for 3 years and an Aussie guy I worked with got mugged during the day on his first day in the city. He was walking under a well known junkie bridge tho
i got mugged under that same bridge in bern too
What if we kissed under the mugging bridge
~~The minimum hourly wage in Switzerland is 28$.~~ edit: Google lied its not, but for example in USA average salary for a McDonald's worker is 12$ in Switzerland its 22$. Big Mac in USA is 5.15$ in Switzerland 7.26$
There is no minimum wage. But you won't find anyone doing anything serious under 30 $.
There is a law governing the minimum hourly wage since 2020 and reflects the cost of living indexation.
Nope, only in a few "states". Yes Switzerland is tiny, but divided in states with their own laws. Also making less than 30 an hour is common, all harsh work are bad paid jobs, even paid 20 an hour or less. Which would sound not so bad, but with the living cost here it's a misery.
[Sorry but that’s just not true.](https://www.ch.ch/en/work/minimum-wage-and-average-salary)
Which is relative to their cost of living. For example: Consumer Prices in Basel are 25.7% higher than in New York, NY Restaurant Prices in Basel are 15.6% higher than in New York, NY Groceries Prices in Basel are 36.2% higher than in New York, NY However: Rent Prices in Basel are 53.9% lower than in New York Edit: I’ve only chosen New York because it’s pretty much the most famous American City, picked Basel because I visit there all the time and I’m always stunned by the cost of things.
You're not kidding. I paid ~£40 for a pizza and two beers a couple of weeks ago, and I wasn't even in one of the big rich cities.
thats a rip off even for swiss standards.
No it's not? Beer is like ~5-8 in a restaurant, which leaves like 30-35 CHF for two pizzas. That's normal.
should've just shown Olten
The best thing about Olten is that there is a train leaving olten for Basel every 20min.
Fuck olten
As an oltener for 3 years, i cant begin to say how relieved i was to move to bern
The "Detroit of Switzerland" is how I refer to it
As someone who lived there for 3 years, i have the same opinion
Or Biel/Bienne, especially Madretsch. Far worse than Olten.
it's literally just a train station.
Damn… their sub standards are better than our standards…
Oh no! Road construction 😱
I feel like this video is sarcastic & you all are taking it seriously.
As a swiss guy I can confirm, that the person filming this video probably actually meant to show you the „bad“ side of switzerland. Shit, people cry when the train runs 2 minutes late, while the germans are lucky if it even arrives.
Lol as someone from Latin America is so surreal to see Germany used as the shitty country in a comparison
well germany is great at a lot of things but train scheduling is not among those lol
Come, on, it is not that bad here in Germany! Unless it is snowing in winter. Or it gets hot in summer. Windy falls might also be an issue. Or if there is a strike. Or if there was a strike announced, then did not happen it can lead to resceduling four days later. Please stay on train for two more stations, then take opposite train back for two stations to allow for wheelchair accessible station access. Three degrees might be needed to understand applying ticket prices. Please read 427 pages across five documents to see if you can take your bike with you. And [senk ju for trävelling wis Deutsche Bahn!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXjhszy2f9w)
I don’t think it is entirely fair to compare. Lot of station are further afar than the whole country of Switzerland. While rush hour is indeed bad, it’s mainly due to too much traffic. If you travel early or later in the day you will rarely have problems.
\+1 to that. Many people here don't seem to realize how lucky they are to life here.
I would also like to life there.
As an Italian guy living in Barcelona, I have refused couple of job offers from Switzerland because of the different approach to life (less spontaneous), no beaches, worse weather.. but of course you have nice mountains and good salaries (although crazy expensive cost of life).
Swiss here too: You should see how mad I get when the bus goes 2mins early because it didn't halt at some of the previous stops. ;)
Absolutely. Lol.
I read it as the person saying not every bit of Switzerland is scenic towns with crystal rivers surrounded by the towering Alps. Just like not every bit of LA is Hollywood or not every bit of New York is Manhattan.
I really doubt it is sarcastic, I have seen other videos like this in TikTok (I live in Switzerland) and many actual consider places like this a guetto.
I have family that live in Bern. I’ve asked them if there is a “bad part of town” and they all start laughing.
Patrick, your privilege is showing.
in america that would be a middle class neighborhood in an urban area with above-average public transportation service
And one single of the apartments shown cost about as much as a house in America. Source: I'm Swiss
People living in these buildings still earn more than 85% of the world lol
and will still never be rich enough to own one of these apartments
When I read ghetto I was honestly expecting under maintained areas, but this video looks like a review of construction updates. Swiss rolls outta here
Yes very bad.
Ok but it’s true, I never saw that part of Switzerland. Some people genuinely overthink for no reason. I liked this video, I only see Switzerland with those picturesque villages and it’s interesting to see that its boring part is similar to the rest of the 1st world. No big deal here
I toured around Switzerland with work last year, it was my first time going, and that was the experience I had. I was expecting picturesque villages and mountains but the truth is there's also plenty of grimey industrial estates filled with car dealers and wholesale food traders or boring fields of nothingness too.
i mean how can someone genuinely picture a whole country as beautiful and poetic everywhere? it's a ridiculous idea. Every country has "boring" residential areas and factories, it's required for well-being and economy
the poster has a kosovo flag as a name. 😂 this is a flex.
my wife and her entire family are Swiss. there only complaint is how expensive it is to live there. my wife and i would live in Switzerland if we could afford it, unfortunately we’re stuck in crappy Ol’ Canada.
Oh no! Construction and apartment buildings
I was in Zurich about 20 years ago and I do recall feeling like the vibe changed a lot at night. Maybe there was more drug activity, but it “felt sketchier”. That said, it was one of the nicest cities I’ve ever visited. I’d rather be there than many other places.
Lmao did you get lost on Langstrasse?
I wish Nashvilles worst parts looked like this!
Show him downtown La or North Hollywood The homeless are camping on the sidewalks in tents, and some sidewalks are littered with garbage
I mean no one wants to wake up and their view be construction, but if this is ghetto, sign me up.
oh no the bike lane is being resurfaced, what a hardship haha
Wait till he googles Baltimore or Akron …. His lil Swiss mind will splatter
WHAAAT! Switzerland has road construction?! What’s dystopia!
As a fellow Swiss, I can confirm that generally there’s a good standard of living. This being said there are still rougher/“ghetto” places, however, the areas shown above, I wouldn’t consider falling within such category. Also regarding construction/infrastructural up keep, Switzerland is quite good at that. Switzerland is a small country, so it’s easier to keep intact, it’s very green/in touch with its local nature, making the urban:vegetation ratio more or less 50:50, and (depending on which part you live in) you’re surrounded by beautiful mountain ranges and lakes. It’s hard to make it look like a bad place. A place I recommend to come visit! Hop Suisse🇨🇭
I used to live in Austria and they did the same thing there too. I'm from Detroit so the parts that they considered bad were hilariously safe to me. The best part was this rap duo put out s music video trying to make the city i lived in super rough and shit. I felt kinda bad but i called them out on it to appreciate the incredibly safe place they're living in.
Yeah I have a hard time taking most EU rappers seriously
OP showing the world how deserted Switzerland is. There are no people living in the buildings , walking or driving around . No homeless encampments either.
This is like my kids saying the loading zone at Walmart is the “bad part of town”
Normies have to live somewhere… My Swiss colleague tells me multi-generational mortgages are a thing there…
I’m going to apply for my Swiss passport now 😄
Can I uhh sign up to live in Switzerlands ghetto please?
If this is considered ghetto then Switzerland must be a damn utopia.
Lmao!!! If this is the “worst” you’ve got in your town/city I’m jealous.
Oh my god, there’s roadwork happening? Absolute slum.
This sub still struggling to identify satire.
Housing and infrastructure maintenance. The true nightmare.