Sweden is Out of Housing for Refugees

Re:Sweden is Out of Housing for Refugees by estefan on Thursday November 05, 2015 @12:12PM (#10514562)

"It’s as if North Carolina, which has about the same population as Sweden, sprouted a new city the size of Raleigh in three years."

A meaningless sentence to anyone outside the States. Can someone write to Bloomberg and tell them how the Internet works?

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Re:Sweden is Out of Housing for Refugees by pille on Thursday November 05, 2015 @12:25PM (#10514650)

It's pretty meaningless to me and I've lived in North Carolina. I have no idea what it would be like for another Raleigh to spring up there, plus North Carolina is not a nation state.

I think it's just hard to come up with useful analogies for huge-scale events like this. But yeah, it seems pretty phoned in.

Try this: imagine the crowds you have to deal with going to a major mass-market sporting event, now imagine 8 of those, now make it last for three years, and now set the end date to "indefinite".

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Re:Sweden is Out of Housing for Refugees by mc32 on Thursday November 05, 2015 @12:15PM (#10514580)

Well, if you're on Europe, the presumption is you know Sweden. For Asia, a little more than Laos, or you know, use the internet....

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Re:Sweden is Out of Housing for Refugees by estefan on Thursday November 05, 2015 @12:16PM (#10514584)

I get the North Carolina - Sweden thing, but Raleigh...?

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Re:Sweden is Out of Housing for Refugees by prodmerc on Thursday November 05, 2015 @12:16PM (#10514586)

You're on the Internet, Google it :-)

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