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In Sweden, you'd be stoned to death if someone found out you made $150K, or more, as an engineer.
by smil 11y ago
In Sweden, you'd be stoned to death if someone found out you made $150K, or more, as an engineer.
- tormeh 11y agoYou're clearly exaggerating. You'd only be stoned to death if you bragged about it.
- rehtona 11y ago$150k is really a ridiculous amount of money in Sweden. Not that living expenses are low or anything, but most of life's big expenses are taken care of already: you get a real pension, universal health care, paid for university (no need to save up for your kids), long vacations, 16 months parental leave, cheap child care ($150/month) etc. So $60k is actually plenty. Also, a year or two ago, $60k was $80. The exchange rate is unpredictable.
- smil 11y agoYou probably won't be getting any (liveable) pension and in the near future we may see tuition fees for university studies.
- walshemj 11y agoHaven's above cant have one of those greasy engineers getting over themselves don't they know their place in life is cutting the grass at bag end :-). Obviously the famous "I know my place" sketch works as well in Sweden as it does in the UK.