As most people know by now, I’m trying to move from Skövde to Stenungsund because I’m changing jobs. However, that turned out to be not quite as easy to do.

It turns out that the apartment market in Sweden is, in a word, terrible – at least here in the Western part. I’ve been trying to get an apartment somewhere around Stenungsund and it takes a long, long time. I may have a chance at an apartment soon here, but there are no guarantees.

And leaving your old apartment isn’t easy to do either. There’s a three-month “notice” period; meaning that you have to leave a note to the landlord that you’re leaving your apartment, but you can’t move until three months later – unless you can negotiate a deal with the new guy moving in.

But if I get an apartment in Stenungsund in February, and I can’t leave this apartment until May… I’ll be stuck with three months of rent for two apartments.

Furthermore, I called my own landlord today and they say that the average waiting for a new apartment in town – any apartment of any quality – is about six to twelve months. For a downtown apartment, eight years.

Let’s just pause here for a moment. Breathe deeply.

Relax. Control your mind, control your spirit.

WHAT IN GOD’S NAME IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY!?!???!!

It’s easier getting an apartment in RUSSIA than over here! And everybody says it’s too expensive to build new homes, so no one is doing it.

So much for free enterprise in this God-forsaken country. If this was America, there would at least be a mobile home I could move into in some oppressed swamp outside city limits. But here? I guess not.

Maybe I’d just as well fix a bloody tent and set it up underneath the freeway.