[currymj]

Switzerland is like this and is also a real democracy. Although the food is not as good.

[lifestyleguru]

In Switzerland you're not going to rent or buy any housing. If a miracle somehow happens you'll live in hotel room sized studio and your full time job will be rental laws and regulations. With no housing it's irrelevant how real the democracy is there.

[currymj]

I have rented an apartment in Zürich (a hotel-room sized studio as you say, though with high quality construction and amenities). it was indeed pretty frustrating to go through the apartment search, but it is possible to rent housing, as evidenced by the fact that millions of Swiss citizens and residents live indoors.

[panick21_]

The rail system is good enough that you can live 30min from most cities and be in the country side where prices are not crazy.