Living in an idyllic setting also has its pitfalls. "It was nice, but above all it was dangerous when the farmer drove around with his big machines," explains Guido Häller. "We had to fence in our garden so that the children could play unsupervised." There were also no other children in the neighbourhood. And to go for a walk, the family first had to walk along an unsecured country road where cars whizzed past them at 80 kilometres an hour. Everything was also far away: shops, doctors, libraries, cinemas, restaurants. The family had to rely on two cars. "We found that ecologically questionable," says Barbara Sommer. Then her mother found a job in Lucerne. They decided to move to the city. The family applied for a flat from the Allgemeine Baugenossenschaft Luzern (ABL) in Lucerne. "A fair rent was important to us. At ABL, we pay exactly the same as our flat costs." When the third son was on the way, a flat became available in which the family has now lived for three years: on the top two floors of an apartment building, just a few hundred metres from the train station, KKL and the lakeshore.

The flat is flooded with light; the living room with balcony, dining area and kitchen merge into one another, with the children's rooms next door. On the upper floor is the master bedroom with a roof terrace and views of the Rigi and Pilatus. Families with a total of 80 children now live in the 87 flats in the ABL TribschenStadt development. This was not always the case. When the development was completed in 2006, the Tribschen district did not have the best reputation, but the neighbourhood is now in full swing.

Nevertheless, not all residents are happy about the new families with children. Moritz, 7, talks about a man who sometimes scolds the children when they are too loud. A short time later, however, the seven-year-old is already outside again, kicking a ball against the wall with a boy. In any case, the grumpy neighbour doesn't seem to have scared him in the long term. Five-year-old Lukas is also playing outside with his friends without being accompanied. Only the youngest, two-and-a-half-year-old Dominik, is not yet allowed to go outside on his own.

The school is just over a kilometre away and Moritz walks there. The new kindergarten, which is located in the centre of the housing estate, was quickly won over by the residents themselves. "The other kindergarten was so far away that I would have had to be on the road with Lukas long before it would have been time for Moritz to go to school. It's almost impossible to organise," says Barbara Sommer. The father works as an osteopath in Zug, 30 kilometres away. He has no reason to move the practice to Lucerne: "It would take years before things were as good as they are now. Besides, I like riding my motorbike or e-bike to work. And even if I take the train, it only takes me forty minutes from door to door." "We really like living here," they both confirm. And Barbara Sommer explains: "I grew up on a farm in the Emmental. I would have liked living in a neighbourhood like this with so many children much better."