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Re:IKEA’s Crimes Against Cartography by Nursie on Friday October 14, 2022 @05:15AM (#33201309)
The good part about moving your ikea furniture between continents, as I have done, is that when the wheel on your desk chair breaks you can go to your nearest ikea and ask for another!
Re:IKEA’s Crimes Against Cartography by japanuspus on Friday October 14, 2022 @05:29AM (#33201388)
Well, sometimes at least: We moved from Asia (Singapore) to Europe, and while waiting for our movers to arrive, we checked the childrens bedroom in the new house against the dimensions of their beds _looked up on the European IKEA site_: The bed would not fit.

When the movers came with our container, I checked the dimensions on the actual IKEA bed we had bought in Singapore: It was smaller than the European version, and fit perfectly into the bedroom.

Re:IKEA’s Crimes Against Cartography by Nursie on Friday October 14, 2022 @06:04AM (#33201551)
Interesting!

That particular chair I had was the same everywhere. I moved mine from Australia to the UK and got the new wheel there. Pretty sure it’s the same globally as I went to Shenzhen to visit a supplier a few years later and noticed the boardroom had very familiar seating!

(It was a ‘Markus’)