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Welcome to Sweden

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Scott Ritcher 25 October 2010 Featured / Immigration / Sweden / Weather

A couple Tuesdays ago, I visited Skatteverket (the Swedish tax office) to apply for my personnummer. The personnummer […]

The Immigrant

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Scott Ritcher 17 September 2010 Featured / Immigration / Louisville / Sweden / Swedish Royal Family / Weather

A lot of what makes for good writing is having the time to write. After spending most of […]

Alternate Reality Check

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Scott Ritcher 21 January 2010 Architecture / Design / Featured / Food+Drink / Immigration / Louisville / Sweden / Transit

Is this thing on? Can you hear me? Testing, testing… Today’s report is being broadcast to you all […]

Secret Code: Are Swedes trying to keep Swedish to themselves?

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Scott Ritcher 4 November 2009 Featured / How people act / Immigration / Language / Sweden

As I’ve mentioned many times, most Swedish people speak perfect English and they love doing it. It’s the […]

Inescapable Freedom

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Scott Ritcher 13 October 2009 Featured / Immigration / Sweden / Sweden is different than America

Sometimes I feel like a lot of the material I write for this website is the same. It […]

Hervé Villechaize Language School

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Scott Ritcher 26 September 2009 Featured / How people act / Immigration / Language / Sweden

Villechaize taught himself the language entirely by watching television in New York City.

Party Crasher!

Scott Ritcher Velocity Weekly
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Scott Ritcher 3 July 2009 How people act / Immigration / Louisville / Music / Sweden

Awww, Louisville hasn’t forgotten me. Velocity Weekly, one of the city’s entertainment papers, has just published an article […]

Uniquely American

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Scott Ritcher 29 June 2009 How people act / Immigration / Sweden / Sweden is different than America / Technology

Today, I’d like to talk about two huge financial systems in the United States and how they could […]

The American Dream – På Svenska

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Scott Ritcher 31 May 2009 Immigration / Language / Sweden

Back in March, my friend Johanna interviewed me about my move. She is a student at Kungliga Tekniska […]

Allt om mig

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Scott Ritcher 19 May 2009 How people act / Immigration / Language / Louisville / Music / Sweden / Sweden is different than America

Enough about Sweden already. Let’s talk about me. Today’s story has been in the works for more than […]

Back to School with Old Timey Tower

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Scott Ritcher 15 April 2009 Immigration / Language / Sweden

This morning I attended the first of ten 2.5-hour Swedish language classes at Stockholm’s Medborgarskolan. I’m not a […]

Eat my dust

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Scott Ritcher 13 April 2009 How people act / Immigration / Stoopid / Sweden

If I fall gravely ill soon, here’s why: As we have discussed, my chainsmoking Dutch roommate is selling […]

Påsk and Aprilskämt

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Scott Ritcher 2 April 2009 Food+Drink / How people act / Immigration / Language / Sweden / Sweden is different than America

I recently noticed that the Tunnelbana trains have names. A nice touch, I think, although I don’t care […]

Moving again in May

Scott Ritcher 21 March 2009 Immigration / Sweden

After just a few weeks in the apartment, my roommate has told me that he has decided to […]

Everything I own*

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Scott Ritcher 25 February 2009 Immigration / Louisville / Sweden

A couple days after moving into my apartment, I took this picture of everything I own fitting nicely […]

Home sweet Hagsätra

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Scott Ritcher 24 February 2009 Architecture / Immigration / Sweden

After a few days, I moved in with a Dutch guy named Sander in another suburb of Stockholm […]

Malmö, Sweden

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Scott Ritcher 20 February 2009 Architecture / How people act / Immigration / Sweden

My dear friend Emma Pettersson and her cat Skrållan, whose hair is still all over my stuff. This […]

Stockholm

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Scott Ritcher 20 February 2009 Immigration / Language / Sweden / Sweden is different than America / Transit / Weather

A mail train passing through Stockholm Central Station – quite pretty compared to US freight trains.

On the runway

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Scott Ritcher 15 February 2009 Apple / Immigration / Sweden / Technology / Transit

In the months leading up to my departure for Sweden, I had a countdown clock running on my […]

Chicago

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Scott Ritcher 14 February 2009 Architecture / Food+Drink / Immigration / Sweden

Photo booth fun with Mary Regal at the Rainbo Club in Chicago the night before leaving America.

Grinstead Drive

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Scott Ritcher 1 February 2009 Architecture / Immigration / Louisville / Sweden / Sweden is different than America

Cleaning out the apartment in Louisville was delayed almost a week by a crazy ice storm and a […]

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