Among friends who lived outside Nyon: “Above the snow line, and below the fog line”—as being the place not to have a house. Living in the overlap was a challenge: you didn’t have the view, but you had to deal with the snow. Ah, but the beauty of living above the fog line! Seen here.
The conclusion I have come to is that you need to live at altitude during the Swiss winter because it must be very depressing to be under that cloud all the time!