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RangerRussell
Your first winter in Sweden will kick you in the nuts (hard), but then when you fall in love with Swedish summers you'll understand why people live here.
Generally I've found that people here have more respect for each other and their surroundings compared to the UK. It could be due to that the population of London is larger than the whole of Sweden so there's space to breath here, less of a dog-eat-dog mentally. It is slowly changing for the worse though unfortunately.
Although many Swedes speak excellent English, you should learn Swedish, you'll get fed up with learning it, but keep at it and one day you'll notice it just flows.
Great place to raise kids if that's on your agenda. And health services, although far from perfect, piss on the UK.
Probably not the right forum to mention this but one thing I love about Sweden is the huge American car culture here (I grew up on Dukes of Hazzard and Smokie and the Bandit).