Slight rant, but I hate the communal laundry system... It is the dumbest, most open-to-abuse thing I have seen in a long time...
Allows for ridiculous shit like the bitch from yesterday booking out six hours over the course of two days, and then deliberately only using half the laundry for a brief time, but still complaining that someone impinged upon "her booking" (because again, I got there first, and I was finishing up when she arrived), and then to still fuck with everyone else (like she did with my washing), and keep her stuff in the dryer all afternoon...
Because unfortunately that's the reality of human interaction, and a system like this (plus not knowing your neighbours, because Sweden) opens the whole thing up to obvious abuse...
It feels, no offence, but very Swedish, to me. To just assume that a system like this will work, because "people respect each other" and "that's just how it is". And then to sweep it under the carpet when the "system" breaks down, ugh...
I had an ex who lived in an apartment building with the same system, in Sydney, but that was probably only 20-30 people sharing, so it was slightly less crazy. But yeah, even that experience, of staying with her, was enough to put me off the whole idea, lol.
I really don't understand why the garbage room is locked up, but the laundry is just open to the whole building like that. That's bizarre, to me.
It's kind of more like the opposite, in Aus, for the most part, tbh.
One positive thing I will say, though, is that people massively exaggerate how bad winter is, here (at least in Svealand and south of here. I haven't been particularly far north, sadly).
Like, if this country just embraced Winter more, and didn't attempt to hide from it/close everything for most of the day (lol at 11:00 to 16:00 opening hours), then it really wouldn't be that bad.
The weather is not the problem, IMHO... It's the weird fear of winter that is more "problematic", I feel. At least once you get used to the early sunset, which took me... Maybe one month, to adjust?
But yeah, maybe the "winter is coming" fear made sense for a culture of agrarian people, but not when you live in a city of a few hundred thousand, lol.
I will admit that it was incredibly depressing living out in "proper" rural Sweden for a while, when it started to get dark and cold. So I get that bit I guess. That sucked.
Slight rant, but I hate the communal laundry system... It is the dumbest, most open-to-abuse thing I have seen in a long time...
Allows for ridiculous shit like the bitch from yesterday booking out six hours over the course of two days, and then deliberately only using half the laundry for a brief time, but still complaining that someone impinged upon "her booking" (because again, I got there first, and I was finishing up when she arrived), and then to still fuck with everyone else (like she did with my washing), and keep her stuff in the dryer all afternoon...
Because unfortunately that's the reality of human interaction, and a system like this (plus not knowing your neighbours, because Sweden) opens the whole thing up to obvious abuse...
It feels, no offence, but very Swedish, to me. To just assume that a system like this will work, because "people respect each other" and "that's just how it is". And then to sweep it under the carpet when the "system" breaks down, ugh...
I had an ex who lived in an apartment building with the same system, in Sydney, but that was probably only 20-30 people sharing, so it was slightly less crazy. But yeah, even that experience, of staying with her, was enough to put me off the whole idea, lol.
I really don't understand why the garbage room is locked up, but the laundry is just open to the whole building like that. That's bizarre, to me.
It's kind of more like the opposite, in Aus, for the most part, tbh.
One positive thing I will say, though, is that people massively exaggerate how bad winter is, here (at least in Svealand and south of here. I haven't been particularly far north, sadly).
Like, if this country just embraced Winter more, and didn't attempt to hide from it/close everything for most of the day (lol at 11:00 to 16:00 opening hours), then it really wouldn't be that bad.
The weather is not the problem, IMHO... It's the weird fear of winter that is more "problematic", I feel. At least once you get used to the early sunset, which took me... Maybe one month, to adjust?
But yeah, maybe the "winter is coming" fear made sense for a culture of agrarian people, but not when you live in a city of a few hundred thousand, lol.
I will admit that it was incredibly depressing living out in "proper" rural Sweden for a while, when it started to get dark and cold. So I get that bit I guess. That sucked.
And so I left there, ahaha...