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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: vaskidmark on June 07, 2015, 07:37:11 AM
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http://swedenreport.org/2015/06/02/goodbye-sweden/
This is the last post on this blog. I am leaving Sweden for good shortly, and will no longer be following its descent from what was once the third most prosperous country in the world. Frankly, it’s just too damn depressing.
I was born and raised in Sweden, which leaves a cultural mark even though I moved to USA in the 1990s and have spent the better part of my adult life as an American. Coming back for a few years has been a shocking experience.
When I was a child, Sweden was a dull yet very safe place to live. Yes, there was a heavy blanket of socialism and collectivist values covering everything, but there was a core of pragmatism beneath the redness. The intention and goal was always to benefit the citizens, even though they went about things in a backwards manner.
From what I can see, there simply is no plausible scenario where these social tensions and future financial committments will not lead to a downward spiral of hardship and strife. I hope I’m wrong. I really do, because I have friends and family I care about that will remain here to see it all play out.
But I won’t. I’ll be back in the US being mad at Obama for being a lying scumbag. Every country has its problems. USA has its corrupt yokel in office, just as Sweden has Stefan Löfven.
I have seen the future. It's a place I'm not particularly thrilled to be going to.
stay safe.
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Literal translation: "kasta ut!" (throw out). Better would be "avbryt!" (halt!/abort!/stahp!"
I'll read the blog post later and might add some of my thoughts on it.
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Initial thought is (though I've had it for years): get education & leave before my Swedish passport becomes worth nothing more than the fancy paper it is printed on. Last year, 60,000 passports were "lost". Some people were so unlucky that they lost 20 passports as quickly as they could get a replacement for the previous passport. As a sidenote, they fetch about €5000 a piece down in Turkey. I'm sure there is no correlation to be found.
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Last year, 60,000 passports were "lost". Some people were so unlucky that they lost 20 passports as quickly as they could get a replacement for the previous passport. As a sidenote, they fetch about €5000 a piece down in Turkey. I'm sure there is no correlation to be found.
Deucedly unfortunate coincidence, that.
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. . . Some people were so unlucky that they lost 20 passports as quickly as they could get a replacement for the previous passport. As a sidenote, they fetch about €5000 a piece down in Turkey. . . .
I get the sense that you're on to a new business opportunity . . . >:D
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Initial thought is (though I've had it for years): get education & leave before my Swedish passport becomes worth nothing more than the fancy paper it is printed on.
Once again - consider leaving now and completing your education here. Airfare to Mexico, hop the fence and hike to where it has been arranged to pick you up and transport you to your choice of states with large squarehead populations. Register to vote as Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzales y Gonzalez. We can probably get you a Hawaii certificate of live birth that has had the names changed only twice. Get a Social Security number from Connecticut. Sign up for student loans.
stay safe.
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Once again - consider leaving now and completing your education here. Airfare to Mexico, hop the fence and hike to where it has been arranged to pick you up and transport you to your choice of states with large squarehead populations. Register to vote as Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzales y Gonzalez. We can probably get you a Hawaii certificate of live birth that has had the names changed only twice. Get a Social Security number from Connecticut. Sign up for student loans.
stay safe.
Don't forget voting.
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Curious to hear Viking's thoughts. =)