What is it like living in Sweden?

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just me

Life is pretty good here and people tend to live long healthy lives. I have lived in Sweden for almost 30 years and it suits me because I know the language, understand the mentality and attitudes of Swedes, have a home and job here. At its best, Sweden is beautiful with warm, but not hot, summers and long days. People enjoy the benefit of month-long summer vacations and often take a week off in the winter ( 27 days of vacation altogether). At its worst, the long dark winters can be hard on the psyche and suicide during the months of January to March is not uncommon. (Suicide is not discussed much here, however.)

Yes, some taxes are high here, but there are a lot of benefits, such as free university education (you pay for your books, though), limitations on the costs of medications (about $300 max per year), etc.

You can read about Sweden at www.sweden.se

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O it's beautiful!! And very nice people!!

uzo bizu

Good food, beautiful people, and nice hotels!

love_me

very beautiful blond guys and tall and with blue eyes I love Swedish boys ( the smaller swedish guy that I know has 1 88 meter) I never was in Sweden but I know a lot of swedish people

Keera

Like others have said, we have a system with heavy taxes, but that also mean a lot of things is provided for us. We don't really have many poor people and we are healthy. Though if you look at suicidal statistics we're not a happy nation.
I heard it said that the norweigan's are rich, the swedish are healthy and the danish is happy. Don't know to which extent it's true though.

Our English is very good. It's normal to read english from grade 3 or 4 to grade nine and through the first year of high school. But the swedish mentality is that "I'll never say I'm good at anything unless I'm truly brilliant at it". I know a lot of my friends who actually know english good enough to have a decent conversation, but are too embarrassed to speak with someone who has it as their first language.
We have pretty cold winter's and hot summers. We have quite a bit of rain though. Winter isn't as cold as it could have been because of the gulf stream but we're also starting to notice the climate changes.
Spring is very beautiful in sweden with a lot of flowers. I like fall a lot as well when the ground and trees are covered in multi-coloured leafs - but then there will be a lot of rain and the leafs will turn brown and the world will be kind of bleak, until snow comes and lights it up.

The summer nights is bright, especially in june, and it the north the sun will not go down at all for a small period of time (don't remember if it's just a day or for several). In the winter it's the reverse and the sun wont go up for a time in the north. Here where I live we'll atleast get a few hours of light even in the depth of winter. There is probably no people on earth who appreciate the sun and the colours of spring as well as us who live in the north.

Sweden is a very individual country and we are in general very reserved towards people we don't know (unless we're drunk I guess...). We don't often talk to strangers on the bus or so on. We can sit hour after hour, and instead of trying to get to know the person beside us, we would just stare out of the window. But once you get to know people it will be a lot easier. But of course there are people who love to meet new people as well.

In response to some things said earlier:
It's not illegal to call someone non-swedish but it is illegal to say things that would turn people against a minority.

And it's not that they call criminals swedes when they're from somewhere else. They don't mention nationality at all, just age and gender.

We are not all tall, blond, blue eyed and hot. There are more people with other hair colours. I happen to be blond and blue-eyed though, but I'm only 5.3 feet tall, and frankly not especially hot.

vjc

not so nice:)

Lizzy K.

arent swedish people supposed to be like the happiest in the world or something?

LPN in NEPA

I've never been to Sweden, but I found this website that may help you out alot !!!

http://awcstockholm.org/sweden.htm

Holly R

its very swedeny

TeutonkÃ¶nig14

Well, I have never been there but I am a little Swedish myself and my cousins are Scandinavian. As I see it, Sweden is a country that has some of the highest taxes in the world, considering it is a socialized nation were the government pays for almost everything. Also the climate is freezing in fall and winter and warm in summer. They speak a simple language but Sweden also speaks good English considering 80% of citizens know English well. They are extremely liberal, more liberal then all of Europe. In Sweden the national flag is almost seen as racist and calling foreigners(there are a ton of them) non-swedish is illegal. This is seriously the truth, writing against non-swedes is illegal and the News stations never tell you the ethnicity of the criminals and just call them swedes.

The women are extremely hot; most people are tall, blonde, and have blue eyes and love Americans with a passion. There food is not that great, but foreign dishes are common. Seafood is popular in all of Scandinavia.

I personally would not recommend moving to Sweden, as I hear Norway or Denmark are far better Scandinavian countries to live in. But Idk.

Arieh

Cold, sauna, sex.

MB Spirit

Hot babes and delicious meatballs. What more do you want?

thinker

swedish people are the highest paid people, but they are on the highest suicide rate.You would think money would make you happy.

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