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Swiss slowly pack their bags and leave the Alps
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Beyond the cliché of idyllic snow-capped peaks and the sound of cowbells, living and working in the Alps can be extremely tough and poorly paid.

As more and more Swiss decide to pack their bags and leave the mountains, foreigners are taking their place to look after and farm the picture-postcard alpine pastures.

The Oltscheren Alp in the Bernese Oberland rises like a fortress at the end of the valley.

Wooden farmers' huts are dotted here and there. Cows graze between rockslides as if stuck to the mountains and water can be heard trickling downhill.

But in reality this spectacular alpine setting is becoming less and less attractive to the Swiss.

"The Swiss who grew up in the Alps now prefer the cities to the tough mountain life," Jan Sonderegger, who runs the cheese dairy with his wife on the Oltscheren Alp, told swissinfo.


More here:
http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/feature/detail/Swiss_slowly_pack_their_bags_and_leave_the_Alps.html?siteSect=108&sid=8204376&cKey=1190362904000&ty=st
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

kerekip, interesting, although it is an international trend to have greater urbanisation and small farms all over Europe are struggling. I wonder are the non-Swiss hobby farmers?
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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kerekip wrote:
As more and more Swiss decide to pack their bags and leave the mountains, foreigners are taking their place to look after and farm the picture-postcard alpine pastures.

Ein volk ?

It is not as if they have to worry about Roma or Somalis.
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