By the way, I’ve noticed people think that they know their language while, in fact, they don’t. Be careful when you choose your teachers, in order not to end up with some funny dialect nobody understands outside da willage.
In socio-economic analysis a cut-off for “poor” is person with an income somewhere around 11000 SEK/month. Cut-off for “rich” is 60000 SEK/month. But that’s a “mechanical” or “functional” definition. Surely, there’re rich people that live under miserable conditions just because they emotionally can’t part with a smallest coin even to safe their own life. And there are poor people that feel as they own the whole planet. Depends.
Hence, without noticing that, we’ve moved to matter of one’s inside world.
Being rather an Asiopean myself, I couldn’t evaluate whether there ever been sentiments of belonging to the same super-ethnos among Western European countries. Among the Nordic – yes, there is such a sentiment, but as I’ve understood, they have a long tradition of cooperation and a lot of similarity in many fields.
The idea was great, those four freedoms: capital, people, goods and, don’t remember the fourth, are to be the resources freely allocated there it’s most economically appropriate at a given moment within the union. (Always had my doubts about the people issue though.) And a lot of people have profited from this policy in one or another way. That we’ve got an enormous bureaucratic apparatus that looks only after its own best in the process… Well, there’s no right without left, and no light without darkness.
Curious to know whether there is any scenario that would allow dissolving, as you call it, the mess in any plausibly pain free way?
Checked my ”Shout-outs” – as dull as the most of the mail I get. Nothing to bother about so much as deleting them. If no one else can’t see them, and you don’t check them yourself – why to care?
No, I don’t wonder why you keep all those things in your car – of course, it’s to make yourself unrecognizable for polar bears. It may also be useful to have skies, a sled and a dozen of huskies on the backseat: when temperatures drop below freezing point for gaz, you can always switch to mechanical power.
But seriously, is there any meaning in agricultural activity at your latitude? You plough and sow and plant, and then everything is destroyed by frost within few minutes. Sounds like too expensive onions.
As to swimming… once upon a time you were swimming inside your mother’s body for months. You just have to remember how to do.
This year we had snow on 3rd May, and no, it doesn’t happen every year. But sea water here seldom warms beyond 20 C even during a very hot summer (and that doesn’t happen every year either.) But we are not spoilt by warmth here, so people utilize every opportunity to take off one or another layer of clothes and get some suntan. Gothenborgean suntan is when your hands and face, and perhaps décolleté, got some colour, but the rest of the body still is light-blue.
And I’m suspecting that what you call “winter”, we here call “summer”.
Yeah… and in my next-next life I’m going to be a crab and live on a beach of always-summer sea.
Though after a second though: here you also can swim even during the winter time – find a polynia, push your way through the seals, and – s’il vous plait! (Insider information: one doesn’t have to be crazy, but it helps…)
One of my colleagues told that someone of her friends swam in Kattegat on 30th April. She isn’t known as a liar, so I thought that was really cool. (In the meaning “bold”.)
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RE: which european country has the best health care system
What is measurement for “best”?