20 things to know before moving to Sweden !

20 things to know before moving to Sweden

by Lola Akinmade-Åkerström : http://www.sweden.se/eng/Home/Lifestyle/Reading/20-things-to-know-before-moving-to-Sweden/

In this article:

• 1. Start building your coffee tolerance
• 2. Pick a number, please
• 3. You can probably get by with English for decades, but…
• 4. Get your shopping done before 5 p.m. (if you can)
• 5. At some point, you will squeeze food out of toothpaste tubes
• 6. Daddies pushing strollers
• 7. Camping and hiking and picking berries
• 8. Melodifestivalen
• 9. Many businesses shut down in July
• 10. Try keeping it "lagom"
• 11. Locate your nearest IKEA
• 12. Nice shoes. Please take them off
• 13. Winters are really cold, dark, and can be depressing
• 14. Be on time
• 15. Get your tasty adult beverages at state-run Systembolaget
• 16. Keep that plastic bag
• 17. Special days celebrating food
• 18. It is safe to drink the water
• 19. Business casual means jeans
• 20. Not all education and healthcare is free