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I saw something very interesting today in a newspaper.

A former military building for sale, located in a mountain (think a "vault" from the Fallout games). It is built to withstand nuclear blasts. ...

I have aquired a bike from "Posten" (Swedish Post) due to their change to electric vehicles (Club Cars). This postal bike, when equipped with all three "bags/panniers" is very good as a cart bike, bik ...

"Is it possible to live without a car?"

I do not own a car, I either commute by bus or car pool to work. In the summer, it is possible to bike (30 km total distance) but it is too dangerous in the ...

thanks for the link, could you tell me what crops are commonly grown in your area?

Here is a link where you can see the climate zones in Sweden. I live in zone 4. The site is in Swedish only whic ...

Here is a link to a site which has a lot of information regarding climate, soil and vegetation in Sweden.

http://www-markinfo.slu.se/eng/index.html

The statistic data is from 1961-1990. Not real ...

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Locations are pretty cheap in the northern parts of Sweden, but be aware, they will rise in the future.

Here is an example, a property located 70 km from where I live.

Price: 1,1 milli ...

Location: middle of Sweden, town with 10 000 citizens in the core, another 10 000 in the surrounding area.

FOOD 1.4
MOBILITY 0.1
SHELTER 1
GOODS/SERVICES 1

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 3.5

Normally, where I live in the middle of Sweden, we used to have at least 40-50 inches of snow and about 5 deg. F in December. The place where I live can reach rather cold temperatures, the lowest I ha ...

My work fellow, 20 years old, would pay about 25 000 SEK ($3700) per year for his Volvo S40 T-5, full coverage. There are three levels of insurances in Sweden. The mandatory "traffic insurance". Then ...

Thanks for the feedback!

I have learnt a lot from this forum regarding gardening, rifles/guns
and other things. Hope I can share a bit from my perspective,
experience and also cultural matters. E ...

Regarding the resources... well, yes, if China and India will continue building up a growing internal market and expand their middle class as the western countries did in the beginning of the later ce ...

[align=justify] It is possible to live without a car, even if one live in middle of Sweden, in a city that belong to the more rural kind of classes. I have never owned a car, but do have a drivers li ...

I have been visiting this forum and others for some years as an anonymous guest, gathering valuable information and thoughts. Short presentation about me, my localization and my future plans are below ...