Your questions on Sweden answered!

TMP said:
I literally started looking for jobs in my industry (CG/VFX) after reading this thread, seems there's not allot on the go unfortunately. A fair few games studios though it seems, do they have decent tax breaks out there for that industry or something?
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My company is actually looking for FX artists...
 
I'm not sure if this has come up already, but my Swedish friend told me that they had a mass sterilisation programme not so long ago:

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In 1997, following the publication of articles by Maciej Zaremba in the Dagens Nyheter daily, widespread attention was given to the fact that Sweden once operated a strong sterilization program, which was active primarily from the late 1930s until the mid 1950s. A governmental commission was set up, and finished its inquiry in 2000.[5]

The eugenistic legislation was enacted in 1934 and was formally abolished in 1976. According to the 2000 governmental report, 21,000 were estimated to have been forcibly sterilized, 6,000 were coerced into a 'voluntary' sterilization while the nature of a further 4,000 cases could not be determined.[19] The Swedish state subsequently paid out damages to many of the victims.

The program was meant primarily to prevent mental illness and disease. In 1922 the State Institute of Racial Biology was founded in Uppsala and in 1927 Parliament began to deal with the first legal provisions on sterilisation.[5] A new draft was produced in 1932, already taking into account sterilisation for general socio-prophylactic reasons, and even without the consent of the person concerned.[5] The draft was adopted in 1934.[5] Another law, passed in 1941, did not include any age of consent limit.

From 1950, the number of eugenic sterilisations under the 1935 legal provisions gradually decreased and between 1960 and 1970 voluntary sterilisations based on the wishes and in the interest of the persons concerned prevailed.[5] As in Canada and the US, racial politics also became involved, as there was a strong belief in the connection between race and genetic integrity among leading scientists and those carrying out the sterilizations. The Swedish Racial Hygiene Society had been founded in Stockholm in 1909, and the 1934 works by Alva and Gunnar Myrdal was very significant in promoting the eugenic tendencies in practical politics.[5] The authors theorized that the best solution for the Swedish welfare state ("folkhem") was to prevent at the outset the hereditary transfer of undesirable characteristics that caused the individual affected to become sooner or later a burden on society. The authors therefore proposed a "corrective social reform” under which sterilisation was to prevent "unviable individuals” from spreading their undesirable traits.[5] In the later decades it was primarily the mentally ill who were forcibly sterilized.
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Damn :eek:
 
Dizzle dazzle for a long time bemoaned the fact that you could not get English tea bags from the shops, until I went to his flat and pionted out the shop window presactly opposite his abode was filled to teh brim with PG tips boxes...
 
Jedeye said:
Dizzle dazzle for a long time bemoaned the fact that you could not get English tea bags from the shops, until I went to his flat and pionted out the shop window presactly opposite his abode was filled to teh brim with PG tips boxes...
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PG tips are my favourite tea bags, so if I do visit I won't bother bringing my own teabags! :D

It does sound like a nice place, I think if this summer turns out to be horrible in the UK, I may see what Stockholm has in store... :)
 
This thread is depressing, it makes me want to leave the UK for a while.:(

Not necessaily to Sweden, not because I don't like the UK, but because I want some adventure again.:(
 
Jedeye said:
I don't have any jobs going, I had 12 but they all went pretty quick.

For my experience, I absolutely woud not rule someone out because they cannot speak the language, and there is more than likely a law against that. But my companys language is English, even though its a Swedish company, as they hire in a lot of outside the country talent.
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Aww, disappointing you have nothing going, but I may renew my search when my current contract expires in Feb =D
 
I tell you something, if Austria doesn't work out for me the next two years, I'm on the first plane to Sweden. Not solely because of this thread, but because of the times I've been there, people I've met there and the country I've seen.
 
Jedeye said:
Nope, but they LOVE Ikea, and apparently it has the best meatballs in all of Swedens restaurants.
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Nah, my stepmum makes the best ones :) They love IKEA only as much as we 'love' B&Q - it's just a major furniture/home brand which happens to be convenient and minimalist...

Jedeye said:
English is everyones second language in Sweden, and they all know it realy well. They start learning from the age of 5-7 usually.
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Well, and also the TV isn't dubbed (subtitled instead) unless it's for children - so English is everywhere and just gets picked up better.

Jedeye said:
Also, as a direct result of this alcohol policy, Sweden has nealry no trouble with "the yoof of today" getting wasted on the swings with a bottle of white lightning. No chavs, no idiots cluttering the streets with their stupidity.
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You can tell you haven't grown up there - there's plenty of that about - but the population in general is sparse over there (9 million people in a HUGE country). You don't get the huuugggee sink estates and closely-packed housing like we do. The packs of teenagers are just smaller and further apart..!

Moses said:
What can you tell me about Lund (and Malmö!) or Uppsala? They are two places I have the option of going to next year, for a year of uni!
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Uppsala >>>> Lund & Malmö

maccapacca said:
If it wasn't for the weather I'd be there working.
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The weather? It beats the UK - imagine nice proper snowy winters, and warm decent summers, with MUCH LESS of the rain that the UK gets! The Swedes are sun-worshippers, there aren't many who don't tan very well over the summer...

[FnG]magnolia;18208095 said:
Is the suicide rate still alarmingly high?
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It is said to be - and supposedly it's because of the lack of sun over the winter! However, it has historically looked higher than the British suicide rate because the Brits were no good at recording suicides until they stopped being illegal...

Jedeye said:
oooh ooh and no chavs!!!! No problem with the youth, that sort of thing. Not even many homeless people either. I hope they are just not homeless instead of being cleansed though.
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You should watch a film called "Show Me Love" (Swedish title "******* Åmål"). Seems you just happen to move in the right circles.

There are fewer homeless people in general, as unfortunately they don't tend to survive the winter.

Nitefly said:
I'm not sure if this has come up already, but my Swedish friend told me that they had a mass sterilisation programme not so long ago:
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Yeah, the Swedes have been known for practising eugenics in the recent-ish past. Not any more thankfully - the whole Western World was rather into eugenics before Hitler turned up and showed them how far it could go. It slipped away after that....

Also, fantastic place to start a family. The parental leave provision is amazing, for both mothers and fathers.

Finally, if you'd like to read about some current affairs: http://www.thelocal.se/

(BTW, my qualification for the above answers is that I am half Swedish, born and lived there until I was 7 years old, go back once or twice a year as father, halfbrothers, stepmother, stepsister, stepbrother, and all their partners and offspring are there. I speak Swedish fluently-ish although my grammar falters at times. I don't currently live out there as I still haven't properly found my feet career-wise, and I suppose my future will need to be compromised with my half German boyfriend... so, Denmark then..!)
 
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sara said:
(BTW, my qualification for the above answers is that I am half Swedish, born and lived there until I was 7 years old, go back once or twice a year as father, halfbrothers, stepmother, stepsister, stepbrother, and all their partners and offspring are there. I speak Swedish fluently-ish although my grammar falters at times. I don't currently live out there as I still haven't properly found my feet career-wise, and I suppose my future will need to be compromised with my half German boyfriend... so, Denmark then..!)
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So... Sara... you speak fluent Swedish and live in Bristol... how much would you charge for Swedish lessons? :p
 
creed said:
This is where u see the real difference in eastern europe and scandinavia, the "average" is just way higher and they dont tend to be fat until middle age/older.
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Agreed.
You get good looking women in pretty much every country. The idea that a 'english hottie' is worse than a 'swedish ugly' simply isn't true. But when it comes to the average standard, that is where places like Sweden win out. An average swedish bird will look better than your average english lass.

I've been to Sweden a couple of times and they definitely aren't all supermodels. But your average girl would probably be classed as 'cute' rather than 'meh'.
 
regulus said:
I tell you something, if Austria doesn't work out for me the next two years, I'm on the first plane to Sweden. Not solely because of this thread, but because of the times I've been there, people I've met there and the country I've seen.
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How do you find Sweden compares to Austria? Wien has been the top city for quality of life in the world for 2 years running, however you might not think it if you hang around Karlsplatz. Of course Austria is a beautiful country though with weather similar to Sweden and plenty of hotties around.
 
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