We've got ourselves a truly international community here with users ranging from Russia to spain, america to asia -basically all over the place.
I thought I'd be nice to get to know eachothers countires (provided you're willing to share) and learn of the context we're coming from. It might just be a welcome break from all the talk about height and surgery.
Oh, and let's see if we can't make the first nation-related thread devoid of typical racism and predjudices on the internet shall we?
I'll start:
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As some of you know I'm from Sweden -a small country on the scandinavian peninsula in northern europe. With roughly 9,5 million inhabitants it doesn't figure much in the worlds collective mind but what it is famous for is mostly some exports (Ikea, Volvo, Skype, Spotify), the characteristic "nordic look" complete with blonde hair and blue eyes and for being a rather progressive and affluent place.
Overall it's a calm Country with long cold winters but also suprisingly pleasant summers. The geography is mostly forests, meadows and mountains, a low population density means there is plenty of nature occasionally interrupted by smaller towns. Highly urbanised most of the swedes live in cities such as Gothenburg, Uppsala, Malmö or Stockholm these are comparatively large for such a small population -more than 2 million live in the Stockholm metropolitan area.
The Swedish society is well-run and rich, based on social-liberal principles. There is little crime, no real poverty in the true sense of the word and in general very high standards of living. However before you book your flight remember that income taxes are quite high (though they're considerable lower than they used to be), the labor market is saturated and the swedes themselves are known -quite rightly- for being rather introverted and conformist, I must say this is probably true.
Feel free to tell of your own country or to ask me anything.
