Oh yes...
What's sauce for the goose...
Sniff... sniff... can someone smell something in here?
Don't be ridiculous - I went to a party in Zurich once 5 years ago. Are you effing kidding me?
You're the one who's having a laugh.
Working people are grateful for jobs. Jobs come from commerce. Only upper-middle class twats complain about people actually coming to their towns and buying things. Brings the place down, doesn't it, old chap?
The only person I feel sorry for is the OP. What a way to drag down a decent thread about cheap Christmas shopping.
Yeah, because rich farts who can't behave themselves are stinking up the area. Right, old sport? Let's move the name-calling to PM, shall we?
Rich farts who are spending money, which goes to pay the wages of the less-rich farts who work in the shops, making the less-rich farts a little richer every day.
It's not a difficult concept to grasp, really.
In this WEBsite
http://www.mein-bodensee.com/staedte.../konstanz.html
you can see the expression "praktisch verschont" but NOT "komplett verschont", because Konstanz had to take about two relatively minor bombardments, one of which was witnessed by my Mum when she worked in Ermatingen.
Singen WAS heavily and repeatedly bombarded, and this in spite to its relative closeness to the Canton of Schaffhausen (Thayingen, Stein-a-Rh etc)
The bomber squadrons who attacked Friedrichshafen and places further east each night overflew northern areas of the City of Schaffhausen. In acceptance of this, the HarryTruman administration financed house repairs for houses in the flightpath
Many reports of the time are at least partially wrong. There for example is a video in the internet showing the bombers of 1st April 1944 approaching from the West over the Rheinfall and also hitting the Munot. But they in reality approached from the SouthEAST and the Munot was NOT hit
Few people in Basel mention that the cargo-section of Basel-SBB was bombarded so heavily (in one singe run) that into the 1970ies all rail-cargo traffic in Basel was done via the cargo-section of Basel-Bad-Bhf
Amazing is that Konstanz at night in wartime was NOT "blackened" while Schaffhausen WAS, and police even controlled house per house
ever thought that those poor shop assistants neither want nor need your money as business has been good before already?
Which forum is this?
Agreed. I don't enjoy shopping in overcrowded stores and fighting for parking spaces either. That's why I usually go to Konstanz during the week and/or by train. Unfortunately many people don't have the freedom to go shopping on weekdays.
Buying online works well for many things like electronics, computers, books, DVDs/Blue-Ray discs, etc.
For some people it seems to work for clothing as well. For me it doesn't. Clothing needs to fit and look good on me and to find out if it does I need to try it on.
For groceries it generally doesn't work either. Besides, as far as groceries are concerned I don't just shop abroad for price but even more for choice as I'm fed up to the brim with the Coop/Migros Duopoly.
My money?
I've never been shopping in Constance in my life. Nor have I got any money.
But I reserve the right, as a resident in a free country, to go shopping wheresoever I please. If I want to go shopping in Constance next Saturday, I shall. What are you going to do about it?
Singen and Stein am Rhein are both about 40 minutes from here, so I doubt that could have been seen. My entire family has lived in the Triboltingen / Ermatingen area for the better part of the last 80 years and the only detonations that could be heard was when Friedrichshafen was bombed - perhaps that's what she witnessed. I'm not calling anyone a liar here, btw - just saying that oral history isn't very accurate (but still important). Also, I don't want to downplay the dark area of WW II, either - the Germans used the Kloster Reichenau as an asylum and conducted atrocities there (the screams of people could sometimes be heard all the way to Triboltingen).
So what are you even commenting for here? You can't relate to the situation in any way.
Make sure you hire a range rover when you do.
More space to stock up on things
Also works well for toiletries, I buy those online on a regular basis. For food it does't work, that's true - but you guys at least have Jelmoli, Manor, Globus etc. Choice definitely has suffered in recent years but at least now we also have Aldi and Lidl in the area. Clothes shopping isn't ideal online, but Zalando etc. have good return policies. I usually order my clothes from the US but only because I shopped in brick and mortar stores there before and know the brands and my sizes.
Because someone needed to point out the sheer bloody stupidity of your hoity-toity nimby posh-boy arguments against people going shopping.
Reasons to visit Konstanz ?
- visiting the old city
- eating out in the Graf Zeppelin
- buying books and magazines at a fraction of what you pay in Zürich
- buying wines, slightly cheaper than in Zürich and available in a nice variety. Zürich at the bottom is superior in regard to the choice of wines, but it is OTHER wines in the two places
- drinking beer in one of the Biergärten on the lake
and most people are not over CHF 300 but below the limit
Brown sugar. Are you new here or what?
Yes it does. It is however not forbidden to think of the consequences of said commerce and decide as a society whether one wants it or not in the form it is given. If you don't agree with that, you have to demand the end of Swiss Referenda immediately. In other words, not everybody is a neoliberal or a socialist, so that the existance of different opinions and voices should not surprise anybody. Who is right? I don't care. But there is nothing wrong wondering about the consequences of any action, including Konstanz-Shopping.
I don't mind that at all, but those are exactly the same arguments everybody on the planet uses to keep one's piece of paradise untouch by outsiders, including people you vote for - I don't need to know who that is, they all do it, including Russian communists and Texan neoliberals with anything inbetween.
DEATH TO THE ENVIRONMENT!!!
I suppose because he tit's and you tat, means it's all his fault for responding to you?
Oh, you again.
It's like having my own little puppy on a string.