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So is the problem essentially the rising cost of real estate? See I was under the impression that IF you structure your economy correctly and you have net surpl

So is the problem essentially the rising cost of real estate? See I was under the impression that IF you structure your economy correctly and you have net surplus (of money) and IF you draw immigrants from all social strata, surely these people will just continue in the trend? Some will be workers, some employers, some have nots? The only problem would be a country getting cramped so it costs more to build the same type of buildings, roads etc.

mjn 14y ago
From what I've read of it, a lot of it is cultural as well. Outside a few liberal, cosmopolitan parts of society (whether left-liberal or right-liberal), many Swiss just don't want more than a handful of immigrants, and like maintaining a closed, stable Nation of people whose great-great-grandfathers were Swiss. This even (perhaps especially) extends to negative sentiment directed at German immigrants by Swiss-Germans. One paper I ran across (via Wikipedia) suggested that negative sentiment directed at Germans might be due to their similarity: if the objective cultural difference between two groups is not huge, then an influx of immigration is particularly threatening, because it might erase the fragile boundary: http://img2.tapuz.co.il/CommunaFiles/44893554.pdf http://img2.tapuz.co.il/CommunaFiles/44893554.pdf