Daily Life – Live in Sweden

Sunlight like during Swedish summer

Mrs. Mona Roberts I — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 17:30:54 +0000

There’s no greater moment than the sunlight in Sweden during summer months. The most amazing thing is that during the season, it never gets dark. The experience is something you’ve never seen. In reality, you’ll experience sunlight in 24 hours between late May and, July.

Swedish Lapland

First-time visitors will enjoy a breath-taking experience while at Swedish Lapland — the world of the midnight sun. The sun is visible the entire day and gets into the night, providing an extraordinary feeling. However, you need to be careful because it might ruin your sleep pattern.

Abisko, Sweden

Abisko town in the Northern part of Sweden is the epicentre of aurora experiences and the Aurora Sky Station. During summer, the town experiences 24 hours of sunlight every day. It’s one of the places near the north arctic circle. It experiences a wonderful phenomenon: the midnight sun.

Conclusion

Nordic destinations such as Swedish Lapland and Abisko, which are close to the arctic circle, experience an important seasonal phenomenon known as the midnight sun. This is because of the way the Earth orbits the Sun on a tilt. To learn more about the sun in Sweden during summer, read more here.

Selling your flat in Stockholm

Mrs. Mona Roberts I — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:05:33 +0000

The real estate market in Sweden is strange and in particular in Stockholm. It’s like no where else and you’ll be surprised, I can promise that. The real estate agents have managed to create a backwards competition for clients. Rather than trying to find buyers the primary job for a real estate agent in Sweden is finding sellers. The reason for this is that you get tied to one agent when you are trying to sell, they’ll force you into signing a contract making them the exclusive agent for the property. There is no way around this and you’ll have to do that.This is not as bad as it sounds, in any other part of the world it would be but not in Sweden. You see, all flats are sold and there will be buyers, there is no lack of them as they all search themselves in the local listings on Booli and Hemnet. The problem though is that you need to find out beforehand which realtor you want.

There are online real estate offer services

The solution here is to find an offer service and there are a few. Our recommendation is going to Stockholm Real Estate Service and just fill out the form if you have trouble reading the Swedish (they are asking for Name, Email, Phone and the Adress of the apartement/house). What they will do is they will contact all the realtors and ask for a quote for you. They wont charge you anything and you’re not commited to anything (until you actually find and sign with a realtor). Another thing that is important, Swedish law is rather tough on real estate agents and you want to select only from the authorized ones, this service does that.

Systembolaget – the only store for Alcohol in Sweden

Mrs. Mona Roberts I — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:57:12 +0000

Living in Sweden is sometimes complicated. The Swedish relationship with alcohol is extra strange and it takes its shape as Systembolaget, the only store selling alcohol in Sweden.Every town has one, every city a few and every Swede visits Systembolaget at least a few times per month. This is completely reasonable as that’s the only place to buy a bottle of wine or a Swedish schnapps. To understand why this is the case we need to know the Swedish background and history.Sweden is situated in the “Vodka Belt” together with Russia and a few more countries. The stronger alcoholic drinks have always been favored by the Swedes that were early with making purified potato and barley spirits. You have to know that there are hardly any Swedes going for a beer after work, on weekdays the stay all stay sober. What they do however is get absolutely pissed on Friday and Saturday.The reason for this is the strict alcohol policy in Sweden. Back in the 19th century they used to get absolutely pissed every day, saw mills for example would give employees up to 3 dl of Vodka every morning before work and there was always the choice of getting paid in Alcohol instead of cash. It’s easy to say that Sweden tightened up on the drinking after that.Systembolaget is the last that remains of a Swedish probation time during which all Swedes had a Motbok (refered to as the Bratt System in English). The Motbok was a booklet with room for stamps allowing you to buy a bottle or two per week depending on gender and social status.Systembolaget is closed on Sundays and the always close rather early on all other days. You have to be 20 years old to purchase alcohol in Sweden and be preperad to show ID card if you are below 30. More information can be found on Systembolaget.se.