Posted on 04/06/2010 1:51:30 PM PDT by WesternCulture
Close. It’s Finland.
Good to hear from you.
Closest I get to Stockholm is watching House Hunters on cable TV. Looks really beautiful, though. Would love to visit in the flesh some day.
Oops, that was the Dutch total tax package. But I bet the Swedes’ isn’t far off.
The suicide rate of Sweden is higher than that of the average nation, but it isn’t extremely high.
Paris is supposed to be pretty nice, but then most of the troublemakers live in the surrounding communities that we would call suburbs. Kind of the inverse of what we have in the States.
- While Paris, Rome and London, for sure, are more captivating cities than Stockholm, the Swedish capital well deserves to be ranked among the top 20 cities of Europe together with Prague, Florence and Copenhagen.
Those Swedes have avoided the real military costs of the last century because they sloughed the costs onto America.
PS Swedes have Malmo, the city where Muslims can rape fearlessly. And they do.
“Paris is supposed to be pretty nice, but then most of the troublemakers live in the surrounding communities that we would call suburbs. Kind of the inverse of what we have in the States”
- I visited Paris for the first time in my life last year. Like you said, the central parts of city was very calm, relaxed and safe. Very much a contrast to stressed up cities like London, Hamburg and Stockholm.
I did not visit the outskirt ghettos of Paris.
It wouldn't work in in Malmo either...Malmo, Sweden, that is.
I’ve been to Stockholm. It’s a damn nice place. Native Swedes are wonderful, well-educated people who are burdened by an overriding socialist/leftist mentality. My prediction, however, is that you’ll see a reactionary snap when the welfare state gets totally out of control, as it is destined to do, and they realize the folly. The pendulum is always swinging.
Ya get what ya pay for over there.
“Have the Slavs that have immigrated to Sweden since the 1960s intermarried or stayed apart as an ethnic group?”
- I don’t know what the answer to that question of yours is, but I do know that most ethnic groups that have immigrated to Sweden have found a better life here.
For instance, take the people from the Balkans, Iran and South America that came to Sweden 20-30 years ago.
They had university degrees but were forced to run pizzerias.
My uncle and I recently took a stroll in his neighborhood where people like that recently had built very impresssive residences.
Immigrants like that I approve of. The ones who are Muslims are Muslims in name only.
“Native Swedes are wonderful, well-educated people who are burdened by an overriding socialist/leftist mentality”
- True indeed. However, we Scandinavians are beginning to rethink, hope you’ve noticed. Socialist thought won’t hold back Scandinavia eternally.
It is high taxes, to discourage drinking.
Swedes like the bridge to Denmark, to smuggle cheaper black market liquor back to Sweden.
Starting 150 years ago, one quarter of Swedes came to north America, for economic opportunity, and to escape a strict religious background (state Lutheranism).
I imagine the attitude about drinking is carryover from the religious history.
Big land, small population. Sweden is just 9.3 million people, in 173,000 sq. miles. Contrast with California at 37 million people in 164,000 sq. miles.
“Big land, small population. Sweden is just 9.3 million people, in 173,000 sq. miles. Contrast with California at 37 million people in 164,000 sq. miles.”
- On the other hand, could California of today compete with what is going on in Stockholm in terms of ICT revolutions?
Silicon Valley is a big bore compared to Stockholm of today.
“as long as US taxpayers are paying for their defense... they will continue to enjoy their socialist paradise.”
- I admit my country is sickening in many ways, but we actually pay for our own defense.
Although we don’t enjoy the advantage of having a large population like Russia and the US does, we can keep up in vital areas, watch for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khaa3y0i87s
- True indeed. However, we Scandinavians are beginning to rethink, hope youve noticed. Socialist thought wont hold back Scandinavia eternally.
Sweden must be doing something right....because their economy and living standard, with all the high taxes, is one of the best in the world.
Count me as another who wants to visit Sweden....except for Malmo....so many good things about Sweden
You seem to have a long track record here on FR of promoting your country as better than just about anyplace else, especially the United States.
Got a news flash for you: the way things are going, Sweden and the rest of Western Europe will be under the control of the Muslims. Get back to us in a decade and tell us how your immigration policies have worked out so well.
Maybe your Muslim overlords will let you keep some of vacation property, though.
We don't need to put missile interceptors in Europe to protect us, we need them there to protect Europe.
We are the worlds police force, be we don't get to tax the world for the safety we provide. The token armies that most countries have are a joke that would be swept aside in hours if they faced a real threat.
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