A lot of people use them in high mountain areas . <| sep |> Can Rudy Giuliani apologize to the American people for using 911 for personal gain ? <| sep |> You could just say that some community of people artificially redirected water for agriculture , that ' s the most realistic , yet viable reason I can think of . Agricultural societies did it all the time . <| sep |> Magnum dong moncrief <| sep |> Oh of course , but I never recall it being to this degree . Maybe back in the late 60 ' s , but at least there were legitimate gripes at the time . <| sep |> I guess about half the answers here will be from Zurich , but still . I ' ve been living in Winterthur biggish city near Zurich city all my life boring , I know and really like it here . I often feel like Zurich is in many ways obviously not all ways a microcosm of Switzerland . While most of it ' s population lives in cities , there is nevertheless quite a sizeable rural community . Apart from that , many cultures mix in Zurich since a lot of expats live there and people form all over Switzerland have moved there , mostly for work . All of that has lead to a relatively open and tolerant culture , at least by Swiss standards . At least in the cities that is , because rural and urban areas in Switzerland can never agree on politics , especially in regards to foreigners . As a result , I feel Zurich has probably the most vibrant and varied culture in Switzerland . As for organisation Swiss democracy has always been a controlled mess and Zurich is no different . It ' s also where all the banks and a lot of industry lives , so I ' m sure the is some corruption going on , but as far as I know it doesn ' t really exceed the expected corruption of any government . What else is there . Well , the trains between Zurich and Winterthur can be a bit annoying because there is so much traffic between the cities that one delayed train can delay dozens of other trains , but otherwise I feel the civil services all work pretty efficiently . Your question was a bit open , but I ' m happy to answer more specific questions once I get home , off to enjoy the nightlife around here now . Edit because other people brought it up in terms of politics Zurich is pretty reliably left leaning .