That is untrue for any of the 5 accommodations I lived in since coming here 11 years ago. Sure you can cherry-pick something that happened to you arbitrarily, project it to whole country and have a stereotype (untrue in this case).
But what we do have is general respect for everybody else living here (unlike f*k the rest like in many other places) - which means we for example don't run wash machine during late evening/night in our apartment, within building having some 50+ apartments.
There is also shared wash machine area in the basement, with dedicated time slots for each family if they want, and there are plenty of slots for Sunday, just like any other day. So much for the restriction you faced.
Some might find some restrictions annoying and infringing on their basic human rights, but the general Swiss logic is more about 'your rights end where other's rights begin'. As a parent of a newborn I definitely like this approach.
Now, almost every rule/law in Switzerland is local, so it is definitely possible that you lived in a canton or commune without such rules on the book. I most definitely lived in places where that was the rule.
But what we do have is general respect for everybody else living here (unlike f*k the rest like in many other places) - which means we for example don't run wash machine during late evening/night in our apartment, within building having some 50+ apartments.
There is also shared wash machine area in the basement, with dedicated time slots for each family if they want, and there are plenty of slots for Sunday, just like any other day. So much for the restriction you faced.
Some might find some restrictions annoying and infringing on their basic human rights, but the general Swiss logic is more about 'your rights end where other's rights begin'. As a parent of a newborn I definitely like this approach.