I know this is very confusing. I live in Denmark. The small country next to the beautiful country Sweden. Sweden is full of mountains and fields and animals - here in Denmark, it's just plain boring and not as nice as Sweden at all. I feel like ... like all Swedish people are so nice, beautiful, happy, they've got it all. But I'm so extremely jealous. I have a horrible self esteem. I wish I could just grab my family and friends and move them to Sweden. I don't know if this is normal, and what can I do to be happy about where I live? It gets worse every once in a while I read a bunch of Swedish blogs, and one of them feel the same way as me. I just don't understand her - why would she want to leave Sweden? It's not like I could move to Sweden, I'm a teenager, haha ...
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Sweden only looks better because its not what you are used to. If you moved there you would eventually feel the same way about living there that you do about living in Denmark, take it from someone who has roamed around for years trying to find a place that feels "right" for me. I eventually learned that contentment comes from the inside and can be found no matter where you live, you just have to learn to be happy with yourself and look for the positives in any environment.
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some people are born to just want to have change i think you just need to step back adn notice whats really around you notice the little things you love because i can guarantee that when you move away you will notice that its not the same as before, i live in the US and i used to live in wisconsin and now live in colorado... yes it has everything but i miss who was in wisconsin and the lake and alot of other things if you want to move do it but just notice wat ur leaving behind first so you don't make any rash decisions
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Here in America we have a saying "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence". I've been to Denmark, I thought it was a beautiful country. There's always something that will be attractive about being some other place.
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Yes, I have envied Sweden for several years as well :) I am planning to move there while studying... I read a lot of statistics, and I looked at list of all the things I thought was important (equality, freedom of speech, helping the inviroment, happiness, etc) and Sweden was the only country in the world who was in the top 20 of every single list, so statistically, it is better :) BUT: I've heard from a lot of Swedes living in Denmark, and Danes living in Sweden, that they have more racism. I do not tolorate that. And also, Systembolaget: Strict rules on alchohol, either you drink thin drinks with 3,5% or you have to be 20, and even then there are limitations, and enourmous taxations. I am not sure I could do that. But, Sweden is not far away, you could get a dorm room in Malmø, and go to Gymnasium there?
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Well, the grass is always greener, as they say... Luckily for you it won't be difficult at all to move to Sweden. You could just move across the bridge if you want to be close to friends and family. Or you could move further north since you point out you're bored with Danish landscape. Further north in Sweden it's less flat and very different from Denmark. And you'd still be relatively close to your family and friends. But I think you're simply bored with where you're at now. Sweden and Denmark really aren't that different. You can try living in Sweden - even if you don't like it then you'd know that for sure. But I suspect your situation is just caused by boredom in general. Perhaps moving to a new city in Denmark after school ends would be an option? But if you truly feel like living in Sweden then do for a while at least. Lots of young people (in Sweden as well) feel the need to travel and discover new things. Sometimes it takes experiencing something different to help us figure out what we truly want. Good luck!
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