Chris Ebbert a Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design, at the Mid Sweden University has shared these popular misconceptions about living in Sweden .
He wrote:
Over the years, I’ve come to understand that there are a lot of wonderfully crazy misconceptions about life in Sweden that are keeping even perfectly intelligent people out.
And since Sweden isn’t marketing itself as an immigration country the way Canada or New Zealand do, with juicy slogans and TV ads and even a graphic designer pedigree type font, it’s apparently all on me to informally pass the information. No brochures, I’m afraid, just my snapshots and commuter train writings.
My Favorites I’ve heard from people over the years:
1.“Complete darkness for six months every year! I couldn’t handle that. Vitamin D deficiency would kill me.”
2.“The taxes! OMG! There’s nothing left to live on!”
3.“The language is crazy, and more difficult than Russian!”
4.“It’s, like, communist, you know.”
5.“They won’t let me bring my guns, dude.”
6.“They are all atheists. Satan is coming for them soon.”
7.“The people are cold as ice.”
8.“I can’t drive on snow.”
9.“It’s so expensive.”
10.“There’s nothing going on there. Just forests and bingo.”
To all of which I can say, Hahaha! No.
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