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International Questions

[(Anonymous)]

List a country you have a question about or a country you can answer questions for.

Re: International Questions

[(Anonymous)]

Azania?

Sweden

[(Anonymous)]

Does anyone know Sweden's towns/cities (and maybe some history) fairly well? Or know where to go to find that kind of information?

Re: Sweden

[(Anonymous)]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Sweden

Each listing for a city has a short section on history, which is a good starting point.

Re: Sweden

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks but my question is a little more complicated than that (I think it might be a translation issue), which is why I'd like to talk to someone.

Re: Sweden

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, good luck on that. It might help if your question was more region-specific.

Re: Sweden

[(Anonymous)]

I am researching my family tree and I have the names of places where people were born but they don't correspond with anything I can find online. I'm wondering if the names have changed over time (these come from the 1700s and 1800s). The person who made this family tree was a little lax on spelling and also converted stuff so that the names appear a little Amercanized (?). There's at least one city I did find, though it was spelled a little differently, so I'm fairly sure the information is mostly accurate.

I'm just trying to get some perspective on how to read this tree.

Re: Sweden

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT
I'm not a Swede (close), but I'd imagine if they have Americanized names that means they might have dropped letters ä, å and ö from the names, which would make them harder to locate?

Re: Sweden

[(Anonymous)]

I understand if you're reticent about sharing details, but it will be really hard to help you if you don't. Perhaps if you could share some of the specific place names on the family tree, someone might recognize them as older spellings, regional names, etc.

Otherwise, this query is about as vague as saying hey, my family came from France, does anyone know anything about the history of France? People would have no way of knowing you need help with French geography and its related history and not, for example, the Royal House of Bourbon, or the origins of Beef bourguignon or medieval French warfare.

Re: International Questions:Norway

[(Anonymous)]

What is it like to live in the bottom of a valley with the landscape always being "up" all the time? What is it like to live on a side spur of that great big fjord too? It looks cool, is it as cool as it looks?

Re: International Questions:Norway

[(Anonymous)]

Fuck Norway, they put sugar in cheese.

Re: International Questions:Norway

[(Anonymous)]

Denmark puts sugar on their potatoes. That's messed up.

Re: International Questions:Norway

[(Anonymous)]

Can they not afford real sweet potatoes, or have they really got something lost in translation? I know the English put sugar on their frosties, and that just seems insane to me. They are already sugar coated you idiots.

Re: International Questions:Norway

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, it's a classic Danish dish, brunede kartofler. The potatoes are caramelized in sugar and butter:

http://scandinavianfood.about.com/od/potatodishes/r/sugarpotatoes.htm

Re: International Questions:Norway

[(Anonymous)]

yeah! Apple sauce is the only thing that belongs with potatoes!! /dutch

Re: International Questions:Norway

[(Anonymous)]

I'm from Kansas and sent a photo of fields (the only thing in KS) to a Norwegian friend. She actually swore at me because it didn't look 'real'. :'D

Re: International Questions:Norway

[(Anonymous)]

you shoulda shopped out the tornado carry the house away, people are always going to have trouble with that who don't live in Kansas.

Re: International Questions:Norway

[making_excuses]

I dunno? I am used to it... I don't really feel "normal" when I go to places that don't have mountains and hills around, I don't understand how you cope only the sea is supposed to stop at the horizon.

And the landscape isn't "up" as such, there are flat bits around you and often trees and stuff, only annoying thing is living up in the damn hills as you have to walk up a fuckings hill every damn day. The view is amazing tho! I'd post a picture from my home if I knew someone would actually see this comment. Also sorry Anon for not replying before now.

Anywhere with free health care

[feotakahari]

Do you have any idea how much of your tax bite relates to health care? And is the quality of care worth it? (I'm paying about $3,000 a year after insurance.)

Re: Anywhere with free health care

[(Anonymous)]

It is pretty evenly spread so the cost is negligible in individual terms. Quality of care is top notch, best in the world in many cases and better rates of return too. Spend less to get more, that is how socialized medicine works.

Re: Anywhere with free health care

[(Anonymous)]

It doesn't quite work that way; tax from all sources goes into the pool of tax revenue and the budget for healthcare comes out of that. Personal tax rates vary according to income etc., while standardized tax rates (e.g. sales taxes, fuel) are the same across the board. Local taxes also go to pay for local services, which may or may not involve healthcare.

The latest comparable figures I can find show that the health services get approximately 27% of the entire tax revenue, but it's impossible to itemize it down to who paid for what.

Re: Anywhere with free health care

[(Anonymous)]

An American analysed the UK's NHS and came to a pretty solid conclusion on complaints about it. He boiled the complaints down to a pretty basic phrase:
"THIS ROLLS ROYCE ISN'T MOVING FAST ENOUGH!".

Turns out it is pretty good VFM and gives pretty damn good care and complaints are pretty ridiculous.
Article source:
http://uk.businessinsider.com/an-american-uses-britain-nhs-2015-1?r=US

Re: Anywhere with free health care

[ill_omened]

"Americans spend $8,362 per capita on healthcare annually, the Brits spend $3,480."

http://uk.businessinsider.com/an-american-uses-britain-nhs-2015-1?r=US#ixzz3adzVA9xj

Obviously people with serious illnesses will really screw with the average for America but I would imagine probably less than you think given the way distributed cost in insurance works.

Re: Anywhere with free health care

[(Anonymous)]

About 10-15%, but it depends on the individual country council/municipality. Either way I think it's worth it. Could it be better? Yes, but after everything I've heard about the American health system I know we have it damn good.

Re: Anywhere with free health care

[herpymcderp]

Canada hurr. Income tax is higher than the USA, certainly, but in terms of health care costs to the average person only a small portion of that is funnelled into health care vs. total social welfare cost. Last time I checked it was something like 6% of total income tax for the median income.

Now, we have a slightly different system in that you can supplement the universal health care plan with extra insurance (it gets you things like non-essential prescriptions, private rooms in hospitals, dental, optometry, chiropractic etc.) so in terms of the overall coverage the basic government medical plan doesn't cover every single health care service you could ask for. However, it means that things like ambulance service, emergency medical care, surgery, essential prescriptions, doctor's visits, hospital stays (even extended), clinic visits, vaccinations for those deemed medically necessary, physiotherapy, and vital health care is always free.

There are waiting lists as a result (which is actually quite bad compared to smaller countries), but the quality of our hospitals and hospital staff is among the best in the world.