It is high taxes, to discourage drinking.
Swedes like the bridge to Denmark, to smuggle cheaper black market liquor back to Sweden.
Starting 150 years ago, one quarter of Swedes came to north America, for economic opportunity, and to escape a strict religious background (state Lutheranism).
I imagine the attitude about drinking is carryover from the religious history.
Big land, small population. Sweden is just 9.3 million people, in 173,000 sq. miles. Contrast with California at 37 million people in 164,000 sq. miles.
“Big land, small population. Sweden is just 9.3 million people, in 173,000 sq. miles. Contrast with California at 37 million people in 164,000 sq. miles.”
- On the other hand, could California of today compete with what is going on in Stockholm in terms of ICT revolutions?
Silicon Valley is a big bore compared to Stockholm of today.