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yes, and payroll taxes and pension levies (that amount to 30-40% of base salary) -- which are the same thing since it's a publicly run PAYG/Ponzi system.
(Yes, we know the employment effects of that tax wedge are insane.)
Sounds like a decent place to be a semi-retired urban homesteader.
life is nice, culture is decent, nature is pristine.
Do not recommend the wokeness, the bombings, the green mania, and the Trump derangement syndrome
Swap bombings with shootings and it's just like most of the beautiful places in America, just without several taxes.
...and more wealth and higher incomes. Lessnot forget, we Europooreans. Swedish GDP/capita -- or better yet, disposable incomes -- is like one-third below America.
As a hypothetically semi-retired urban homesteader, why should I care about that?
perhaps not. Just the general good stuff that comes with a richer surrounding? (infrastructure, culture, communal buildings)
Just high sales and income, then?