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Welcome to the ultimate bureaucratic nightmare. Büsingen is legally part of Germany, but it is entirely landlocked within Swiss territory. The residents pay German taxes but use Swiss currency, have both German and Swiss postal codes, and rely on Switzerland for their emergency services. It is the perfect place to live if you want the robust rigidity of German paperwork combined with the outrageously high cost of living in Switzerland.
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