Ok, right. But there is a difference.
There is a border check for Switzerland when you enter, even on the train. Customs officers get on the train and might ask for your passport. There is a difference with the visa too, although I don't know the exact details.

There is definitely a difference between Switzerland and the other countries in Schengen, both for visits and for living there.

I used to work with lots of Indians in London, and they choose Switzerland for a holiday destination on the continent, because they said it was easier to get a visa for Switzerland than a regular Schengen visa. I don't know why this was, but most of them went on holiday to Switzerland - it was well known that this was the case.

But with this visa, they could only go to Switzerland, nowhere else. Which was inconvenient for them, since Switzerland is a very expensive country, and they wanted to go to places like Paris and Rome.

I know that it is very hard, even for EU citizens to go to Switzerland to live there - you have to have a job before you move there, and there is lots of bureacracy.

Swiss - German border




Normally, all you see is a sign, like this: