@felulageller
Is having a downstairs bathroom the norm?
How expensive is home gas/electric?
What's the class system like?
Are school classes streamed?
Do you need to drive/own a car to get about?
Are men really less sexist? (A Swedish woman told me this is a myth)
Both houses we've owned have had downstairs bathrooms. I think this stems from the time when upstairs wasn't used in the winter as it was too expensive to heat.
We don't have gas. Some areas of big cities do but most people don't. I've no idea how much the electricty costs but DH never stops moaning about it. Our house is heated through district heating. The council have a giant boiler somewhere and then pipe hotwater under the streets which we use to heat our house. DH never stops moaning about the price of that either.
There isn't really any class system here. Everyone is seen as equal. There's no hierachy ar school or work. DH is very senior but still has to take his turn at cleaning the kitchen area at work just like everyone else.
I don't know what you mean about classes being streamed. All children go to class in Sweden, Homeschooling is against the law. There's no need to stream classes.
I need a car as I'm disabled and live in the arse end of nowhere. But lots of people don't. My DD doesn't have a car, she uses public transport which is cleaner, cheaper and less crowded than in the UK.
I think men are a lot more involved in raising their children, because they're also entitled to more than 6 months parental leave at often full pay. Are they less sexist? The men I know here aren't sexist, apart from DH's boss but he's not Swedish. but the men I knew back in the UK weren't sexist either.