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Reading this article, I'm beginning to see how Scotland will fit in quite nicely...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/scandinavian-miracle-brutal-tr...
(disclaimer: my tongue is firmly in cheek - interesting to read the comments slaying the writer's apparent sloppiness)

In reply to FrankBooth:

But he does have a book to sell....
(which having read theses extracts I'll avoid buying)

In reply to FrankBooth:

Nice one .

In reply to FrankBooth:

Stop ruining my idea of a snow covered utopia covered in nice colorful houses and inhabited by pretty blondes . I must keep my illusion intact !
Besides , I'm contemplating studying in Norway and need to keep telling myself it is a good idea .

In reply to FrankBooth:
Smiling and nodding in agreement. I'm Swedish, btw.

In reply to FrankBooth:

Quite an amusing little article. Quite liked the short piece on Iceland.

In reply to FrankBooth:

For years my blog and twitter feed has been saying those sort of things about Finland. I guess I should have tried to get a book deal earlier!

In reply to TobyA:


As far as I can tell there is a serious lack of an informed and objective English language analysis of the Scandanavian model. Perhaps you can point me in the right direction? If not, go for it!

In reply to Postmanpat:

Hmmmm! I always put the Scandanavians high suicide rate down to long winters and SAD, but frankly even the Spanish seem to suffer from SAD, I certainly do which is why I would never move to Scandanavia and I'm seriously worried about moving back to the UK!

In reply to Al Evans:

Go winter climbing. It's all about the light hitting the back of one's eyes.

I've not been afflicted since getting out in the hills regularly in the darker months.

In reply to Postmanpat:

On Sweden "Fishing in Utopia" by Andrew Brown (IIRC) is a very nice book (doubly so if you are interested in fishing, which I'm not).

In reply to FrankBooth:

Sooo true, lived in Sweden for 10 years. I moved out of the country as soon as I turned 18, never looked back.