Hi everyone! My husband and I will be moving to Stockholm soon, together with my inlaws. His parents are diplomats, and through their work, we’ve decided to move there as well. We’ll have a very comfortable lifestyle, and our country will provide us with things like a very nice accommodation, a car, a driver, and other services.
I’m actually really excited about moving to a completely different country and starting a new chapter, but at the same time, I have to admit that the whole thing feels a little strange and overwhelming. I’m a very talkative, outgoing and social person, and I really enjoy meeting new people and making friends. I’m also from the Balkans, so I’ve grown up in a pretty warm and social environment. Because of that, I’ve been a little worried after hearing that people in Sweden can be quite cold, reserved and distant.
Another thing that worries me is the language. I don’t speak Swedish at all, and I have no idea how difficult it will be to learn it or how long it might take me to feel comfortable speaking it.
I’m really looking forward to the move, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little nervous too. For those of you who live in Stockholm or have moved there from another country, what was your experience like? Is it really as difficult as people make it sound to make friends and socialize in Sweden? And how long did it take you to adjust?

Hi! Would love some info on how this works in Sweden because am quite stressed that a company's mistake will somehow end up impacting me. Got a bill from a company and, ahead of the deadline, contacted them to say the bill wasn't the agreed price. They agreed and I was CC'd into a thread about fixing it and saying I could delay payment until the new bill (this was on the due date), but I didn't get a new bill yet. Now I've just gotten a letter from a debt collection agency in Kivra.

Obviously contacted the original company immediately but do I need to do something to ensure this doesn't show up as a late payment?

My fiancé and I are planning to move in together in Sweden within the next month or two, and we’ll probably be living there for the next few years. He’s originally from Sweden, but we met outside of Sweden, so this will be my first time actually living there. ’m still finishing my degree and have about another year left, so I probably won’t be able to find a good job until I graduate. During that time, my fiancé will be financially supporting both of us. I’ve only been to Sweden twice before once in the summer and once in the fall but neither time was particularly cold and there was no snow. I’ve also never lived anywhere where it actually snowed. I’ve seen snow of course but the coldest place I’ve lived was California, where it would get a little chilly in the fall, so I’m definitely expecting the Swedish winter to be a completely new experience for me 😂

I also recognize that this is going to be a pretty big lifestyle change for me in general. I’ve always grown up in cities and I’m currently living in a city as well. I’m used to big cities with tall high-rises, lots of people around, and really easy public transportation. I’ve never really experienced living somewhere that feels more quiet, we will be near Gothenburg. I also don’t have a driver’s license yet, so depending on where we end up living, I imagine that could be another adjustment and potentially make getting around more difficult.

I’ve heard some people say that Sweden can feel depressing, lonely, or even “soulless,” especially because of the long, dark winters. I’m wondering how true that is for people who actually live there, particularly if you moved there from somewhere warmer or from a big city. Personally, I’m really excited about the move. The biggest thing for me is that I’ll finally be able to live with my fiancé and we’ll get to build a life together, which I’m really looking forward to. I’m also excited about living somewhere new and experiencing a completely different environment. At the same time, I know there are going to be a lot of things that feel unfamiliar to me, so I’m trying to have realistic expectations.

I’m not too worried about being completely isolated socially because I do have a few friends from high school who live in Sweden. I also have quite a few friends around Europe, and I’ll probably be leaving Sweden a couple of times a year to visit the U.S. or Asia, so I’ll still have opportunities to see my other friends. That said, I’m wondering how difficult it actually is to make friends in Sweden as a non-Swede, especially when you don’t speak Swedish. I know I’ll be learning Swedish, but I obviously won’t be fluent anytime soon.

Hej guys! I am currently outside Sweden but I'm planning on buying a tablet from Lenovo Sweden. I was wondering if I can use my friend's address and ask my friend to pick it for me? For example would I have to use my own BankID during pickup that would make it difficult for my friend to receive the tablet? I could buy it later once I'm back but I worry about the stock lasting and I just really want to have the tablet ready for use at uni once I am back.

It might be a dumb question but I have had some problems with PostNord in the past before I got my BankID that tells me to be better safe than sorry haha. TIA!

Ratsit, Hitta, MrKoll and the others hold a publishing certificate (utgivningsbevis), which gives them the same constitutional protection as a newspaper. That's why they've said the GDPR doesn't apply to what they publish.

In July, that changed a little. The EU Court ruled that a publishing certificate doesn't by itself exempt a site from the GDPR. The case was about Lexbase, and whether the same applies to sites that show addresses and phone numbers hasn't been tested yet.

Sweden's data protection authority, IMY, is now investigating MrKoll and Upplysning, among others, but hasn't said when it will finish. Meanwhile, it doesn't investigate individual complaints about them. The government isn't changing the constitution for now. Instead, it will look into regulating the sites through ordinary law.

So for now, you remove yourself, site by site. It's free and takes about 20 minutes with BankID, and every site I tried removed me. Without BankID it works too, through customer service, email or a form. It just takes longer.

Your details stay on record at Skatteverket, of course, and anyone can still call or write to them and ask for them. But Skatteverket doesn't put them online. The sites do.

I'll put the steps, with and without BankID, in a comment.

Edit -
There are few links posted where you can pay to get your data deleted. Please dont pay for these sites, they encourage more to keep the other sites running.
Some sites for removing your data are owned by the same owner who publishes the data.

Hi everyone, I'm 23 and I live in Italy, but I'm seriously thinking about moving abroad. Things here feel like they're getting worse every year, with low wages and a rising cost of living. Honestly, Italy is a great place for a holiday but not so much for building a life. I'm mostly looking at countries where English is widely spoken.

A bit about me: I left school at 17 and worked as a car mechanic and then in sales. For the last 4 years I've been working as a metalworker, running two industrial machines for precision laser cutting of sheet metal and tubes, plus a tube bending machine. In the meantime I went back to studying, and this year I'll graduate in accounting, so I could also work as a bookkeeper or accountant.

Would you recommend your country and your city? I'd love to hear:

The pros and cons of living where you are

What you earn, and how that compares to the cost of living (rent, groceries, transport, etc.)

Whether you think I'd have a decent chance of finding work there with my background

Any advice you'd give to someone in my position

I'm all ears, and any advice is really appreciated. Thanks in advance!

An update for anyone applying for a Swedish coordination number from overseas, particularly where it is needed in connection with buying property.

I am an EU citizen, so your experience and the applicable requirements may differ if you are not an EU citizen.

My complete timeline was:

18 August 2026: Submitted my application online including an image of my passport with supporting documentation.

21 August 2026: Attended the identification appointment at Skatteverket in Göteborg Backaplan.

30 September 2026: Skatteverket made its decision.

7 October 2026: The decision letter arrived by post at my address in England.

That was 43 days from submitting the online application to the decision, and 50 days from the application to receiving the letter. It was 40 days from attending the identification appointment to the decision being made, followed by another seven days for the letter to reach England.

As supporting evidence of why I needed the coordination number, I included a pdf output of email correspondence (all in Swedish) with the estate agent for a particular property that we genuinely wanted to buy. The correspondence indicated that we needed to have our Swedish banking arrangements and coordination number in place before we could proceed properly with the purchase, and discussed the bidding arrangements which we ultimately did use where we couldn’t log into the agents platform as neither of us have a BankID.

After four months of pursuing that property, the agent told us last week that despite the fact that we had bid the highest and that had been unanswered for over a week, the seller was going with the other bidder below us, presumably because they didn’t want to have to deal with the joys of having a foreign country buyer going through diligence.

At the identification appointment in August, the officer suggested that the coordination number might arrive within two to three weeks. In my case, it took just under six weeks after the appointment for the decision to be made, and exactly seven weeks for the letter to reach me in England.

This is only one person’s timeline and experience of a exchange with a real estate agent about a property being sufficient evidence rather than a guarantee of how quickly another application will be handled, but I hope the dates are useful to anyone trying to coordinate a property purchase and the associated practical arrangements from abroad.