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dave
Username: dave
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - 3:23 pm: | |
Has anyone here spent much time in Sweden? Any ideas about what it's like to live there?
Gillian's defending her dissertation in a week and finishes her internship in may, so...we're planning the next move. We're considering Sweden, but don't know many people with first hand experience living there.
Thought I'd ask here... |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - 4:53 pm: | |
Hi, Dave - like the graveyard after dark round here, isn't it?
Sweden: no, never been. Hugh Cornwell from The Stranglers lived there for a couple of years in the '70s, but found it too blandly tense for his tastes. His main memory was that the government decided everyone should drive on the other side of the road. They changed the signs one midnight, and all the drivers switched lanes as if programmed, without accidents. Bizarre. |
dave
Username: dave
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 3:49 pm: | |
Martin! Sorry for the terribly slow respnse. Somehow I missed your reply, mistakenly assumed that this place was a graveyard... Also, I was galavanting around Los Angeles (weird, weird place...and literally on fire these days) for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Interesting points about Sweden. Though I think blandly tense would be a step up from the open psychoticism of the US. As I understand it the government there is pretty functional. Single payer health care, social democracy, etc. Also, if I go to grad school there, it'll be free. Big plus.
I don't know. I might jus spin the globe and go where ever my finger lands...
Anyway, what's new with you? |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 21, 2009 - 1:23 pm: | |
Hey - happy Christmas!
Winding down at work here, getting ready to spend some time with family, spooked that half of the south-east UK falls over and plays dead because of two inches of snow - and generally wishing I was somewhere else. Maybe we should do a life-swap?
Anyway, I hope 0-ten brings you all you need! |
mjp
Username: mjp
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 - 1:06 pm: | |
Sweden might be a nice place to live. I have been watching the Swedish language Wallander via iplayer. At the moment the temperature there (by coincidence I have just been talking to girl working in Prets who comes from Sweden; she was nonchalantly standing outside smoking away, like some actress in a B movie) - apparently is minus 20. About as cold as parts of Scotland at the moment. You need thermals for this weather. |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 11, 2010 - 11:02 am: | |
I'm wearing them, MJP: I'm wearing them. |
dave
Username: dave
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 11, 2010 - 6:02 pm: | |
I did it again!
I need to remember to check up on this forum more regularly. Sorry.
A belated merry Christmas and happy New Year to you both. How did the holidays treat you?
I think it might be a nice place to live too, MJP. I'm not bothered too much by cold. I could take up cross country skiing. |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 4:40 pm: | |
And Happy New year to you, too!
Holidays were pretty good: I was with family. As you'll realise, the UK is now emerging from what passes for a spring snowfall on the eastern seaboard - in other words, the end of the world as we know it, etc. Anyway, we survive. How are you? On the move to Scandanavia, or still enjoying the Five Boroughs? |
dave
Username: dave
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 2:42 pm: | |
Check it out: a prompt response.
Glad to hear the holidays treated you well. I spent mine with family as well. It was all pretty relaxing and fun.
I'm still in Brooklyn. Will be for a while. Any move to Sweden would be in about a year or so. Gillian's wrapping up her PhD, I'm considering a sort of drastic new direction in order to get to Sweden in the first place, we have to save some money, blah, blah, blah...
Gone by 2012 at the latest though. For sure. ;) |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 4:19 pm: | |
Good luck! And anyway, if Sweden falls through, you could always join the Weather Modification Police Force - or invent it, come to that:
http://sciencesowhat.direct.gov.uk/future-jobs/fut ure-jobs-what-might-you-be-doing |