I like visiting Sweden, but I'm sorry, the Swedes are NOT particularly friendly to a stranger in their midst.
Or maybe it was just something I said.
There is an old joke about Scandinavians:
Two Danes, two Norwegians, and two Swedes were shipwrecked on a deserted island. Ten years later a ship happened by and set out to rescue them. When the lifeboat beached on the shore they found the two Danes had started a dairy co-op, the two Norwegians were having a fistfight, and the two Swedes were standing around with their arms folded, waiting to be introduced.
I used to work for a Swedish national here in the US; he had been here for something like 15 years. Our nickname for him was “Enemy Alien”. He had nothing good to say about the US, substandard education, lousy healthcare, expensive, etc, etc. I finally said “ if you find it so bad here, why don’t you go back to Sweden”? He said, “Are you nuts? I’d have to pay most of my income in taxes!” He never did quit his griping about the US though.
Regards,
GtG
You are sooooooooooo correct!!! I moved back from living in Sweden for four years, and they were almost universally unfriendly and often downright rude. The food and weather were rotten, and everything was expensive as heck. I was climbing the walls to leave, and finally did so a few months ago.
I think this poll must have been taken by Swedes who never travel. Puh-leeze!