Thursday, November 20, 2008

Not so typical swedes in the news

Not so typical swedes in the news:

Yesterday we learned about two different families in sweden.

One was the head of the postal service in Sweden, his salary was 900000 SKR per month, roughly $112500 / month or $1350000 annually. It seems to be a little to much for swedish standards and even the swedish politicians thought this was a little over the top for one person needs now that it came to medias attention. Does he need it? We'll see what happens.

The other family we met in the media yesterday was an immigrated family who have been living in a run down flat, full of cochroaches and falling apart walls and floors for the last 10 years. They complain all they can but since they do not really understand the ways in sweden there is not much help given and the landlord does nothing to restore the flat. The children cannot sleep well because so many cochroaches wake them up during the night.

These two stories are still not typical tales of swedish lifes but with the current move to make it easier to be rich and poor in sweden maybe this will become the new typical swedish way of life?