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Title: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: TDAS04 on August 23, 2014, 12:43:51 PM
Well?


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Gustaf on August 23, 2014, 12:44:36 PM
Obvious answer is obvious. ;)


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Хahar 🤔 on August 23, 2014, 01:00:41 PM
London has a more temperate climate and a far larger Bengali population.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: They put it to a vote and they just kept lying on August 23, 2014, 01:12:18 PM
London.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: TDAS04 on August 23, 2014, 01:20:14 PM
I would choose Stockholm.  Slower pace, easier access to nature, lots of water and islands, but still a city with lots of culture.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Tender Branson on August 23, 2014, 01:28:07 PM
Definitely Stockholm.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck on August 23, 2014, 01:30:47 PM
London.  Because these two live there.  

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Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Simfan34 on August 23, 2014, 01:41:13 PM


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Boris on August 23, 2014, 03:08:18 PM
London is nice, but you'd have to be an absolute moron to not take up residency/potential future citizenship of a Nordic Country.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese on August 23, 2014, 05:57:39 PM
London of course. :)


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Goldwater on August 23, 2014, 06:52:12 PM
London (sane)


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: memphis on August 23, 2014, 07:15:22 PM
London has a more temperate climate and a far larger Bengali population.
Has expressed a preference for a location near his own people. Teh racismm!!!!!11


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Ban my account ffs! on August 23, 2014, 07:16:54 PM
Stockholm. Though either would be a nice place to live given proper financial resources.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Franzl on August 24, 2014, 12:57:49 AM
Stockholm by far.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Badger on August 24, 2014, 08:21:16 AM

:o

4 realz SWEDISH Cheese? ???


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Badger on August 24, 2014, 08:27:22 AM
London is glorious,  but I don't know much about Stockholm, so.....

Plus some language barrier.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Mechaman on August 24, 2014, 08:45:09 AM
Considering that I currently don't know a lick of Swede, I guess it's a default London vote.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: politicallefty on August 24, 2014, 09:44:07 AM
London. I'd actually like to live in the UK, there's no language barrier, and the weather is reasonable. However, Nordic countries do have a number of appealing qualities.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Hash on August 24, 2014, 09:45:32 AM
The city of Icona Pop.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Boris on August 24, 2014, 11:56:22 AM
The percentage of English speakers in London and Stockholm are probably about equal; the latter almost certainly has a higher percentage than, say, LA or Miami.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Gustaf on August 24, 2014, 12:16:40 PM
Yeah, basically everyone here speaks English. My Australian friend just received his citizenship but his girlfriend had to translate the letter for him. :P


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Tetro Kornbluth on August 24, 2014, 12:37:26 PM
The percentage of English speakers in London and Stockholm are probably about equal; the latter almost certainly has a higher percentage than, say, LA or Miami.

Actually I'd say it's probably higher in Stockholm.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Foucaulf on August 24, 2014, 12:40:06 PM


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Хahar 🤔 on August 24, 2014, 01:18:08 PM

He's not from Sweden, he's from Scania.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: DemPGH on August 24, 2014, 03:17:50 PM
London, absolutely. I'd do a lot of visiting battlefields and rummaging around in meadows. I'd visit York, Bosworth, Tewkesbury, Eltham manor, stop at Harrods, visit Senlac Hill (Hastings), and really do a hell of a lot of touring, yeah.

I have my passport but have never managed yet to get to England. One day!


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Tetro Kornbluth on August 24, 2014, 03:44:27 PM
London, absolutely. I'd do a lot of visiting battlefields and rummaging around in meadows. I'd visit York, Bosworth, Tewkesbury, Eltham manor, stop at Harrods, visit Senlac Hill (Hastings), and really do a hell of a lot of touring, yeah.

I have my passport but have never managed yet to get to England. One day!

Some of those places you listed are a bit far from London.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Simfan34 on August 24, 2014, 03:45:26 PM
They are closer than Malmo, however.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: DemPGH on August 24, 2014, 03:56:30 PM
London, absolutely. I'd do a lot of visiting battlefields and rummaging around in meadows. I'd visit York, Bosworth, Tewkesbury, Eltham manor, stop at Harrods, visit Senlac Hill (Hastings), and really do a hell of a lot of touring, yeah.

I have my passport but have never managed yet to get to England. One day!

Some of those places you listed are a bit far from London.

I wouldn't mind. That's actually good - I've traveled all over the States. And, they'd be a lot closer to me than where I am now and a lot closer than in Stockholm!

Yeah, then there's weather.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Gustaf on August 24, 2014, 04:37:00 PM
Are the Americans aware that Stockholm means passport free travel in Europe? ;)


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: politicus on August 24, 2014, 04:45:43 PM
London, if I had a lot of money, otherwise Stockholm because of all the beautiful nature surrounding it.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese on August 24, 2014, 05:46:00 PM

HE.LL YEAH! :D :D :D

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Anyway, to clarify, I already live in the greatest city in Sweden, so if I were to move it certainly wouldn't be to the backside of the country, but to some new exciting place like London. :)


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Frodo on August 24, 2014, 05:48:23 PM
Definitely London -if I could afford it.  Stockholm would be nice as a vacation stop (especially during the winter), with some really good skiing resorts nearby. 


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Gustaf on August 24, 2014, 06:02:16 PM
Definitely London -if I could afford it.  Stockholm would be nice as a vacation stop (especially during the winter), with some really good skiing resorts nearby. 

Huh? Going to Stockholm for skiing makes no sense. The closest halfway decent resort is still like 6 hours away. The time to be in Stockholm is the Summer!


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Badger on August 24, 2014, 06:11:39 PM

HE.LL YEAH! :D :D :D

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Anyway, to clarify, I already live in the greatest city in Sweden, so if I were to move it certainly wouldn't be to the backside of the country, but to some new exciting place like London. :)

Ah, so you come from families of conquered Danes. :P

How from Scania's perspective is Stockholm the "backside of the country"? Again, I don't know Stockholm, but my assumption is it's the NYC of Sweden culturally, artistically, business-wise, etc.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Mopsus on August 24, 2014, 06:20:11 PM
London, absolutely. I'd do a lot of visiting battlefields and rummaging around in meadows. I'd visit York, Bosworth, Tewkesbury, Eltham manor, stop at Harrods, visit Senlac Hill (Hastings), and really do a hell of a lot of touring, yeah.

I have my passport but have never managed yet to get to England. One day!

Some of those places you listed are a bit far from London.

By American standards, no place in a European country is "far" from any other place within that same country (with the exceptions of Russia and Norway, Sweden, and Finland).


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese on August 24, 2014, 06:36:53 PM
How from Scania's perspective is Stockholm the "backside of the country"? Again, I don't know Stockholm, but my assumption is it's the NYC of Sweden culturally, artistically, business-wise, etc.

Well lets assume Stockholm is the NYC of Sweden. That would make me a guy from the rural Texas of Sweden currently living in the Austin of Sweden. There right there should explain it all. ;)   


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Filuwaúrdjan on August 24, 2014, 06:42:21 PM
London, absolutely. I'd do a lot of visiting battlefields and rummaging around in meadows. I'd visit York, Bosworth, Tewkesbury, Eltham manor, stop at Harrods, visit Senlac Hill (Hastings), and really do a hell of a lot of touring, yeah.

I have my passport but have never managed yet to get to England. One day!

Some of those places you listed are a bit far from London.

In particularly I would like to highlight York (!!!!) which is indeed a very nice place but is literally at the other end of the country.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: politicus on August 24, 2014, 06:55:07 PM
London, absolutely. I'd do a lot of visiting battlefields and rummaging around in meadows. I'd visit York, Bosworth, Tewkesbury, Eltham manor, stop at Harrods, visit Senlac Hill (Hastings), and really do a hell of a lot of touring, yeah.

I have my passport but have never managed yet to get to England. One day!

Some of those places you listed are a bit far from London.

By American standards, no place in a European country is "far" from any other place within that same country (with the exceptions of Russia and Norway, Sweden, and Finland).


Ukraine, France and Spain are bigger than Sweden, Norway, Finland. Germany is roughly the same size as Finland.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: DemPGH on August 24, 2014, 07:05:15 PM
Some of you guys are funny. :)

I've driven from Pittsburgh to Miami twice and Pittsburgh to South Dakota (Rapid City and Bad Lands) and down to Arizona once back in 2009.

London to York? Nah, too far [sarcasm].


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Mopsus on August 24, 2014, 07:09:24 PM
London, absolutely. I'd do a lot of visiting battlefields and rummaging around in meadows. I'd visit York, Bosworth, Tewkesbury, Eltham manor, stop at Harrods, visit Senlac Hill (Hastings), and really do a hell of a lot of touring, yeah.

I have my passport but have never managed yet to get to England. One day!

Some of those places you listed are a bit far from London.

By American standards, no place in a European country is "far" from any other place within that same country (with the exceptions of Russia and Norway, Sweden, and Finland).

Ukraine, France and Spain are bigger than Sweden, Norway, Finland. Germany is roughly the same size as Finland.

True, those countries are larger in area. But my post was about driving (or taking public transportation) from one part of a country to another, and it would surely take longer to travel from one extreme of Norway to the other than it would to do the same in France, Spain, or Germany.

Although even under this criteria, I was wrong to leave out Ukraine. My mistake.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Vosem on August 24, 2014, 07:11:51 PM
Stockholm seems like it would be nicer, but unfortunately I don't speak Swedish and do speak English. So London on balance :(


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: 🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸 on August 24, 2014, 08:03:56 PM
Are the Americans aware that Stockholm means passport free travel in Europe? ;)

Do you need a passport to travel to London?


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Franzl on August 24, 2014, 10:02:26 PM
Are the Americans aware that Stockholm means passport free travel in Europe? ;)

Do you need a passport to travel to London?

There are border controls as they're not Schengen, but it needn't be a passport.


Title: Re: Would you rather live in London or Stockholm?
Post by: Frodo on August 24, 2014, 10:36:47 PM
Definitely London -if I could afford it.  Stockholm would be nice as a vacation stop (especially during the winter), with some really good skiing resorts nearby. 

Huh? Going to Stockholm for skiing makes no sense. The closest halfway decent resort is still like 6 hours away. The time to be in Stockholm is the Summer!

Well ideally it would be Oslo, but that option wasn't presented here.  And compared with the British isles, only Scandinavia has the mountains and snowpack that would remind me of the Cascades.