What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide

Re:What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide by lawn on Sunday April 02, 2023 @01:20AM (#35407435)

The only way to win is to stop playing the game by avoiding the "best" (more expensive) neighborhoods and towns.

If you work remotely, as software developers can, you don't have to give up salary either.

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Re:What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide by arthur_sav on Sunday April 02, 2023 @02:43AM (#35407821)

Bingo.

I moved to a lower tax country and my income almost doubled (no more 50% Swedish tax). Sweden is a bad deal high earners.

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Re:What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide by rullelito on Sunday April 02, 2023 @03:21AM (#35408057)

Can't recommend this more. I moved out of Sweden and worked in UK tech for 7 years, earned a filthy amount of money, and are now moving back to Sweden to settle down.

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Re:What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide by brodo on Sunday April 02, 2023 @03:20AM (#35408050)

What country did you move to?

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Re:What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide by knallfrosch on Sunday April 02, 2023 @05:10AM (#35408621)

Probably Spain. You're destroying their property market, but at least you're on the winning side this time.

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Re:What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide by arthur_sav on Sunday April 02, 2023 @05:36AM (#35408771)

I wouldn't consider Spain low tax. Perhaps lower than Sweden but it's not low. UAE

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Re:What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide by arthur_sav on Sunday April 02, 2023 @05:32AM (#35408744)

UAE

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Re:What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide by 4gotunameagain on Sunday April 02, 2023 @06:29AM (#35409088)

So instead of contributing back to the Swedish welfare state that raised and educated you, you decide to move to a petrodollar country so you spend less on taxes. I get it. Sounds sustainable and not the least egocentric.

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Re:What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide by badpun on Sunday April 02, 2023 @08:56AM (#35410029)

Unless he was an orphan and raised in a state orphanage, his parents already paid a lot of taxes, which presumably covered the education of their children?

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Re:What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide by lawn on Sunday April 02, 2023 @06:35AM (#35409118)

I stayed in Sweden but moved away from the towns and my effective income almost doubled as well.

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