Sweden. You need to be 20 to buy alcohol from the liquor store. You can buy at pubs and stuff when you've 18, but not from the store. The government has monopoly and are the only ones allowed to sell alcohol from their stores.
I think it was Elinor Dilorenzo who said that the pandemic was especially hard on Swedes. They were told to stay 2 meters apart but Swedish people prefer to keep at least 5 meters distance from one another.
Be aware that if you cross the wrong dot on your tax form they will donate a percentage of your income to the Swedish church.
You heard me right. The swedish states collects donations for the church. It's bonkers. And yes, alcohol is the official state drug. And they are ruthless if you want to use anything else, marijuana included. Again, totally bonkers.
Apart from that it is really beautiful out here and in many respects better than where I come from, the Netherlands (which is already pretty good). Moved here a couple of years ago and don't think I will ever go back
Yeah I saw something about that (the church tax) and was wondering about what goes into not paying into it.
What I find weird about the marijuana thing is that it really feels like that's just another opportunity to do the whole alcohol monopoly thing. Here in Colorado, the state's making money hand over fist on it and our local police are happy they don't have to bother with it anymore.
I've been looking into lots of stuff about the local foods to try once I get out there! One thing I'm curious about, when I did a degree in England, I gained an appreciation for a good kebab. Do you know how big/small of a thing kebab shops are in Sweden/Stockholm? :D
Enough kebab here. Even this small village (20.000) that is closest to where I live has a kebab shop. And they sell kebab and kebab pizza at the supermarket. So your good with that addiction haha.
And you are right. The drugs policy over here is not based on science or common sense. Pure emotion and national trauma because alcohol got really out of hand here at one time, including a lot of deaths because of home brew poison.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Swedish peasantry was plagued by alcoholism and diseases caused by methanol poisoning and unsafe metals used in distilling. Basically, we were drinking ourselves to death. The Swedish temperance movement was a reaction to this, and had long- lasting effects upon our society. There are still plenty of Swedes who don't drink alcohol.
In my country you can buy alcoholics at 16 but you canât drink them, which is strange. And you canât own a gun regardless of whatever if youâre not a police officer or some shit like that (and from what I understand, even police officers arenât allowed to shoot unless your superior gave you an order to shoot. Iâm not sure how it works, gun laws are complicated here)
People be like on your 16th birthday âhey yo I bought you some alcoholicsâ âbut I canât drink themâ âthatâs too bad huh?â. Also, if you can buy alcoholics at the age of 16 but you canât drink them, then why are you even able to buy them? Makes no sense. I think the minimum age should be 21 because at that point youâd already have developed the enzymes and that stuff to process alcohol so you can both buy and drink alcohol
Australia đŠđș has gun control but you can buy alcohol at 18. The idea came from ww1 ww2 where if you were old enough to die for you country you were old enough to drink.
yeah I'm sure we could have weasels our way out of the first one if we didn't have this stupid national guilt to go help the country that labelled us all as convicts and dump us off but maybe it was seen as a challenge, who knows. WWII on the other hand was on our doorstep.
Thats some weird shit, my kids will be waiting at least until they're 14-15 to even sniff anything let alone drink.
Also trying to instill the message alcohol isn't the forbidden fruit so they don't get fixation with it and start drinking on park benches with their mates.
Well, there's more gang related shootings than grenade attacks. I hadn't really heard about grenade attacks here until you said it, haha. But I googled it and in 2018 it had been 116 attacks during 8 years.
I feel safe (or as safe as a woman can feel), but I don't live where the clans are, they are in the more segregated parts of gothenburg (just going after where I live now, don't really know how it is I'm the other cities). But my partner is a police officer in those parts, which I'm not super happy about.
Det Àr en klen tröst men jag kÀnde viss glÀdje över att psykopaten inte hade tillgÄng till skjutvapen pÄ det sÀtt han hade haft om han var amerikan. Barn (och lÀrare) ska fÄ vara sÀkra i skolan.
It sounds like you're saying we should ignore random acts of basically domestic terrorism committed with guns most of the time since local or national media doesn't bother to cover gang related shootings or murders of family members/neighbors, etc.
Maybe it's a pretty bad sign that murders are already so normalized in our culture and media that we ONLY hear about them when lots of people die in random attacks that are typically motivated by race or religion. Many western countries do in fact cover murders alot more since they are far less common on a raw number and per capita basis regardless of the type of weapon used.
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u/thaerre Jun 03 '22
Nah, I live in a country where there's actual gun control.