Culturally, debt is looked down upon in Switzerland and is to be avoided at all costs. It's ingrained in Swiss banking culture to pay off credit card debt to $0 every month. At the time we were ...

The Swiss cities of Aarau, Bellinzona, Lugano, Schaffhausen, Thun and Zug are competing to become Switzerland's "Capital of Culture" in 2030.

These have now been laid down in the “Culture Dispatch”. Bachmann grew up in Japan and Switzerland and studied psychology, film studies and international law in Zurich before moving to Geneva.