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.
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...