But if the time came, would you trust your neighbour to do the right thing? Sweden is a high-trust society based on friends in London and from visits there, especially outside Stockholm. The UK and US are definitely not.

I thought I had read that Sweden had made some changes to military service recently, is that not true?

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victorbjorklund 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I'm from Sweden, I 100% would not trust my neighbors. Sure, maybe if you live in a tiny tiny village in the countryside, but if that's the case you probably have the same thing if you're living in a tiny tiny village in a in the US too. Like that's more of an effect of living in a very small village, not anything about the country.

And regarding the changes to the military, that is still a very small amount of people who are doing the basic conscription service.

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walthamstow 3 days ago | parent [-]

Interesting, thanks. Doesn't Swedish have a word for community responsibility, are you saying that sense is breaking down in modern Sweden, that people no longer feel that responsibility?

Friends in London seem to talk about it as if we don't have it in the UK (I know that's true) but that Sweden does.

	▲	guappa 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		You have to understand that sweden does a lot of marketing but at the end of the day it's just marketing. Things here aren't nearly as great as everyone abroad imagines them to be. Not claiming it's a bad place to live in or that there aren't worse places, but the high trust society thing is a myth. I've had my wallet disappear while I fell asleep on the shore of a lake, in one of those tiny villages where everybody knows each other for example :)

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guappa 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> But if the time came, would you trust your neighbour to do the right thing?

You don't know anything about sweden, clearly. The only people I speak to in the neighborhood are immigrants and homeless people who live in the nearby shelter.

> I thought I had read that Sweden had made some changes to military service recently, is that not true?

Yeah they are wasting time and money with conscription. Very useful.

	▲	walthamstow 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe all the nice people left and came to London to work with me!