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Forum: Scandinavia
May 3rd 2014, 8:33 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 2,498
Posted By edp

Re: Faroe Islands

I have always been interested in visiting. I have a danish friend who went as part of his military service and said it was a very religious place. It sounds quite a cosy place. I think the football...
Forum: Scandinavia
Apr 6th 2014, 10:07 am
Replies: 3
Views: 880
Posted By edp

Re: IT in Norway & Finland

As a fresh graduate without languages I would say your chances are limited. If you are a programmer then you have better chances but admin type IT jobs will require language skills. Finland would be...
Forum: Scandinavia
Mar 25th 2014, 12:51 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 1,027
Posted By edp

Leaving Sweden practicalities

Hi, I have been offered a job back in the UK which I have accepted. Cant say I am over the moon about returning but its a good 'head' decision for the time being.

I was wondering if anyone who...
Forum: Scandinavia
Jan 14th 2014, 6:46 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 6,258
Posted By edp

Re: Is the tax rate really that high in Nordic countries?

What people forget to take into account is the tax allowance. If I earn only £7000 in the UK thats what I get more or less. That is a very handy arrangement if for example you are setting up as self...
Forum: France
Dec 27th 2013, 3:00 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 1,030
Posted By edp

Small town recommendations

I am looking to relocate to France in the next couple of years. I am an IT consultant so not looking to work, per se, in France. I speak French having studied the language at University and worked...
Forum: Scandinavia
Oct 28th 2013, 2:15 pm
Replies: 12
Views: 2,727
Posted By edp

Re: Planning to move to Sweden need advice and Info

Thanks Gordon, its like everything just a question of attitude. The trouble comes when depression sets in through atrophy. I have thought of moving into a cabin in the woods but it would be hard to...
Forum: Scandinavia
Oct 27th 2013, 2:51 pm
Replies: 12
Views: 2,727
Posted By edp

Re: Planning to move to Sweden need advice and Info

Hi Gordon, I live in the centre/north so i think there is some difference to that and a big city like stockholm. My life is a lot better than it was a year or so ago. Now I have some friends and a...
Forum: Scandinavia
Sep 29th 2013, 10:41 am
Replies: 14
Views: 6,258
Posted By edp

Re: Is the tax rate really that high in Nordic countries?

Tax figures are slightly irrelevant in my opinion. Good political devices. It would probably be easier for all when you got a job if you were just told what you will get in your pocket.

The...
Forum: Scandinavia
Sep 29th 2013, 10:22 am
Replies: 14
Views: 6,258
Posted By edp

Re: Is the tax rate really that high in Nordic countries?

If you are good at 'tax' then I understand that you can make swedish taxes work quite well in your favour. I know a couple of examples - that incidentally seem to favour those with money - such as...
Forum: Scandinavia
Sep 28th 2013, 9:49 pm
Replies: 107
Views: 22,832
Posted By edp

Re: Some thoughts after 40 years in Sweden

Aye well its a very personal thing ultimately ugo. I have met a scottish guy here, an ex-accountant, who seemed to walk into a job with a quango-ish business loan company and he seems perfectly...
Forum: Scandinavia
Sep 27th 2013, 1:51 pm
Replies: 107
Views: 22,832
Posted By edp

Re: Some thoughts after 40 years in Sweden

Its not a hard language on paper, its often hard to understand what people are saying and make yourself understood. There are a lot of subtleties of pronunciation that make life hard. I don't know...
Forum: Scandinavia
Sep 26th 2013, 7:41 pm
Replies: 12
Views: 2,338
Posted By edp

Re: British and Scandinavian Food

Like Bill Bryson said on Stockholm 'every meal is another heartbreak'. Swedish food is not great, I agree. Its often a weird combination of things, not that im against originality. Its like there is...
Forum: Scandinavia
Sep 26th 2013, 7:19 pm
Replies: 107
Views: 22,832
Posted By edp

Re: Some thoughts after 40 years in Sweden

I tend to agree with Blackie. Its ok if you are a Swede because the disadvantages that you see as a foreigner besides the obvious problems of being in a foreign land are not seen by the native...
Forum: Scandinavia
Sep 26th 2013, 5:35 pm
Replies: 12
Views: 2,727
Posted By edp

Re: Planning to move to Sweden need advice and Info

Hi Simon, there is probably a market for that sort of business but I suspect you find it hard to compete. I know people who employ someone who does your sort of work for a music competition so there...
Forum: Scandinavia
Sep 26th 2013, 5:24 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 796
Posted By edp

Re: Hello and Help Finding Work!

Hi WelshSwede. Firstly good luck, you will need some of that. I have been here just over two years and have a lot of experience and lots of qualifications. I have never had problems finding work in...
Forum: France
Sep 23rd 2013, 6:43 pm
Replies: 55
Views: 33,345
Posted By edp

Re: Lots of cheap property - why?

...I own a property in Bristol - roughly 170k. My brother owns a property that is ever so slightly nicer in south east london - roughly 600k.
Forum: France
Sep 23rd 2013, 6:40 pm
Replies: 55
Views: 33,345
Posted By edp

Re: Lots of cheap property - why?

i mean, come on...

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-43178105.html?premiumA=true
Forum: France
Sep 23rd 2013, 6:37 pm
Replies: 55
Views: 33,345
Posted By edp

Re: Lots of cheap property - why?

I think that you can't discount the British relationship with bricks and mortar as a way of making money. I live in Sweden and whilst i would class the Swedes as being money obsessed and out to get...
Forum: France
Jul 17th 2013, 8:33 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 1,804
Posted By edp

Re: 5 year plan

Thank you everyone. I think 'business' is inheritently dodgy. I know it sounds like a 'good life' idea but i am fairly confident that i can sell my house in the next few years - the estate agents are...
Forum: France
Jul 17th 2013, 4:37 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 1,804
Posted By edp

5 year plan

I am a British man living in Sweden, I am an IT worker but I aim to sell up in the UK and buy in France in the next 5 years. I speak french and have lived there previously. I still have friends in...
Forum: Scandinavia
Jul 17th 2013, 2:34 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 1,926
Posted By edp

Re: Husband offered a job in Stockholm - will I be able to find something?!

Its a funny old place for sure. they have some spatial awareness issues i think. Its the 3rd largest country in Europe with one of the smallest populations. I dont understand this housing crisis, its...
Forum: Scandinavia
Apr 17th 2013, 6:02 am
Replies: 5
Views: 1,308
Posted By edp

Re: Moving from Oxford to Stockholm needing general and job advice as a hairdresser

Hair cuts are crazy expensive in Sweden. A barber cut where i live is 260kr.
Forum: Scandinavia
Jan 5th 2013, 8:14 am
Replies: 2
Views: 1,391
Posted By edp

Self employment/moms in Sweden

Hi.

I have recently found some contract work for which I am going to sign up as self employed. There are a couple of things I dont really understand..specifically when signing up for f-kasse tax...
Forum: Scandinavia
Dec 28th 2012, 3:08 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 2,906
Posted By edp

Re: Another Moving to Sweden question

There is a guy who posted on here a while back who does deliveries to and from the UK...have a look around the forum..
Forum: Scandinavia
Nov 11th 2012, 2:29 pm
Replies: 1
Views: 1,178
Posted By edp

Re: Maybe moving to malmö sometime 2014

No idea about Malmö. 'They' say that Sweden has the best environment in Europe for entrepreneurialism. I'm not sure how they wangled that one but maybe it is. It seems a lot easier in the UK. You can...
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