Re:What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide
by tannhaeuser on Saturday April 01, 2023 @07:35PM
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> all these people want to have a cheap apartment in the same 10 km^2 that's designated as the cool place.
Which, incidentally, is cool because not everyone's living there ;) Don't know about Stockholm, but I guess those places are the same 19th/early 20th century quarters like in every other European city build for renting out to an upward moving middle class and popular exactly because they're meeting the representative needs of their tenants then and now.
Re:What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide
by tpmx on Saturday April 01, 2023 @07:47PM
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There's nothing special about the buildings - the same kind exist all over the country in large numbers.
Re:What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide
by ChuckNorris89 on Sunday April 02, 2023 @01:55AM
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It's not about the buildings themselves, it's about the neighborhood. As always in real estate it's location, location, location.
> Isn't Swedish population also statistically one of the biggest sufferers of loneliness in the world and also one of the largest consumers of antidepressants?
No idea, but it sounds a bit like reverberations from Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1960 speech where he said that "sin, nudity, drunkenness and suicide" in Sweden were due to welfare policy excess, which then quite incorrectly caused americans to correlate Sweden with suicide and depression for many decades.
At the moment there are more suicides per capita in the US than in Sweden but we're relatively similar in this statistic.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-deaths-suicide?coun...