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Have you ever wondered if the place, town, country, part of the world you live in is the best place to live and thrive?  Just because you happen to be born and raised in a certain place, maybe that place isn´t the best for you?  Few people move from the place they were born unless forced to. For natural reasons!, here you have your family and friends. Friends you have had since childhood, you know the language, feel culturally at home and safe.

 

But Could it be that there are other places in the world that can offer you a better life, based on your wishes, priorities or dreams?  hmmmm...   

 

Vi are both born in the 60s, and have grown up, perhaps during the best time in human history, with individual freedom, with fantastic material prosperity, with the opportunity to travel to all corners of the world for small money, received free education. We have grown up in a homogeneous society with few ethnic conflicts and low crime rate. We parked the bike unlocked at the bus station, often forgetting to lock the house when we left. With a steady welfare development, most people looked optimistically at the future. Then something happened that began to turn the tide.  With increased wealth and digitization in society, people paradoxically became further away from each other, the physical meeting was largely replaced by meetings in  the digital world, where Facebook became an increasingly important meeting place - the dopamine kicks from real life are replaced with likes on facebook. Covid escalated this development.
 

The welfare development in the last 30 years, has made us even more firmly in the squirrel´s wheel, and most people have to work even more hours to be able to finance their increased consumption and depth, everything from gadgets, furnishings, to trips abroad, higher mortgages to the bank, etc. Sweden´s debt ratio (loans per capita in relation to income) is one of the highest in Europe and has increased close to 100% in the last 10 years!. The majority of the population is not financially free, but with increased lending they are in the hands of banks and financial institutions.  If you, who grew up in the 60-70s, ask yourself the simple question, are you happier today? Has your quality of life improved?  

 

We asked us these questions and came to the conclusion that we live in a society that has become poorer in many other areas despite increased welfare. According to our values, our home country Sweden has gone in the wrong direction politically, culturally and socially with reduced freedom for the individual, with politicians who no longer represent we the people but are driven by their own agendas (that all public power in Sweden emanates from the people and the Riksdag is the people´s main representative who it´s so nicely written in the constitution, it´s becoming more and more a cliché)  With an uncontrolled immigration of criminals where the rulers have lost control, increasing ethnic conflicts. Unfortunately the future looks increasingly dark for Sweden but also many other European countries. As self-employed people, we have struggled to survive, but with one of the world´s highest tax pressures and authorities that put obstacles in the way of small business owners, it is difficult to make it work.  "Running a family business in Sweden – is too expensive, complicated and risky" (quote from www.smaforetagarna.se) 

 

Considering the development in Sweden, we wanted to investigate the possibility of finding a new homeland where we could find a life with a higher life quality, more freedom on all levels, a country with a positive future.

 

If so, what country to choose? There is a big difference between going on vacation for a few weeks and to emigrate.... If you are going to change your home country, there are completely different issues that arise, everything from tax rules, living expenses to social networks, etc