Far from home
Hi all,
Apologies for writing in English, but my Swedish language skills are pretty useless. I am from Sydney Australia, and have been here in Stockholm for a couple of years now. I just want to tell you what a culture shock it has been to move here 🙄 Sydney life, in fact Australian life has a very different view on people who like to have a smoke. Laws different from state to state..For example, South Australia you can grow 6 plants per household..Sydney is not so bad..Depends on the mood of the cop that pulls you over, but mostly they have more important things to do, like catching criminals !!!
So to cut a long storey short, moving to Stockholm without really knowing to many people has made a real life change for me. It is not all bad. I have been a down to Christiania many times, and i really like that place 😆 To bad the government down there is going to screw it over..
Why is there such a hard attitude in Sweden for people who like to have a smoke ? I can’t understand what the issue is..Anyway, thanks for your site- 12 Replies
Welcome to Swecan mate! 😉
Nice to have a bloke from the southern hemisphere here with us.
I stayed in Oz for a year, traveling, working, smoking, rollin, have a girlfriend from Brisvegas and we are moving to Brisbane in August….
Just remember to fill up that pipe, relax and Bob’s your uncle!!! :pleased:Well, we haven’t quite figured it out either, it’s probably something to do with old Lutheran values, fuck do I know.
Good to have you onboard anyhow, I’m myself leaving the sinking ship of Sweden to head south, but swecan is a good forum, whether you live inside or outside Sweden.
I hope you will enjoy it here!
Thanks for the welcome guys. Let me know if you need any travel tips if you ever plan to visit Aussie
Welcome to swecan!
@aussie_expat”]Thanks for the welcome guys. Let me know if you need any travel tips if you ever plan to visit Aussie
Travel tips are most wanted, if you want to you could post one in the forum Resor och andra kulturer (Travel and other cultures). As you know by now almost all swedes can read and speak english in various degrees so i dont think a translation is necessary.
Best Regards
Welcome to Sweden, land of the neurotics. 🙄
Weve been, I guess at least, isolated and wealthy for too long. Our poor past is long forgotten and we just LOVE the enlightened Us of A.
Me myself Ive been thinking alot about moving south for a while.. our local wise man DurbanP (above) gave me some info about your contry (the needed 30.000SEK for travel visa, and http://www.mytravel.com for instance), now I wonder about criminal past.. Im have a sentence for growing marijuana coming next week, do you think it’ll be a problem? If so; for a Working Visa or for at real citizenship?
DurbanP gave me the impression that real citizenship was rarely given…Howdy aussie_expat.
Its nice to know there is a new brother in town, chewing bubble gum n ready to smoke…Woah! Australia sounds really nice to me!
. six plants per household! jesus bleeding on the cross!
Peace.Hi Radix, Sounds like a real bummer about your growing rap..I can only imagine that they will try an screw you in a Swedish court…I’m just guessing, i don’t really know..But best of luck anyway !! In regards to a travel visa to Australia, a visitor one only costs a couple of 100 SEK. You can apply for a working holiday VISA online at http://www.australian-embassy.de/visa/visas/holiday/417.html I doubt it would be any problem if you have a criminal record in Sweden, unless it is a violent crime etc..I think the main cost maybe the medical examination..Not %100 sure, but check out the website anyway..I know Sweden and Australia have some special agreement in place for a working holiday visa…Good luck anyway, and let me know if need any more info about Aussie. Oh and yeah..Citizenship is going to be almost impossible…Go down there on a holiday, and grab yourself an Aussie girl. Get married, then you will be able to go for permanent resident, which is the first step. But you will have to leave the country and apply from abroad. And New Zeeland does not count any more 😥
Hi Hippie dude..The 6 plants rule is only in South Australia..not sure how many in Canberra…So if you ever go to Aussie, make sure Adelaide is on your list of places to go..I have plenty of mates who have moved from Sydney to the Adelaide hills, and lets just say that the place fuels up most of the country 😉 On the other hand, Queensland is probably the worst state in Australia to be caught with a couple of grams in your pocket. The funny thing is, everyone up there smokes..They just like living dangerously i suppose..Seeya
As said above: Welcome to the sinking ship of Sweden ,beautiful country with suspicious people.
The main reason for which many are so hard to cannabis is that they have no reason to think any other way. The police for example makes no difference to heavy and light drugs and of course everybody knows what heroin does to you ,soooo if every drugs are as bad as heroin ,then why should they be legalized? Besides that ,how many people have seen a man/woman smoke a joint/pot? Not so many as there is not to much smokers in sweden ,how should they then know how the cannabis affects toy? Sure ,many people have probably met and talked to stoned people but not being avare of it.
My 5 kronor
(my english is not too godd as i have a terrible headache)Haha! it still sounds nice
, i’ll make sure to just go to the southern parts of australia.
Peace out.aaah welcome welcome!!
I’m currently living in your home town, beautiful Sydney, and i LOVE it!
people here are great, and so relaxed compared to sweden!
i find it hard to believe ANYONE would choose to live in stockholm as opposed to here…. she must be gorgeous?
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