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Local municipalities have veto rights to block development. There are also a bunch of rules, often overlapping, than may stop planning. All planning decisions can also be (and are) appealed for years.

There is also a lack of cheap housing, most houses built today are unaffordable to most low/medium earners. This has become an even more acute problem with the recent influx of refugees. This has lead to overcrowding in poorer suburbs.

The interest rate deduction has been around longer than that. In 1990/1991 it was reduced to 30% from 50%.

Low interest rates, the deduction, no wealth tax and a massively reduced property tax all contributed to this bubble though.

You are joking right?

Syria used sarin gas on civilians. There are few things as terrifying and atrocious as chemical weapons. It is absolute insanity to use nerve gas, never mind the other war crimes committed by the Assad regime.

Snapchat is already big in Europe so it has appeal outside of the US.

This is of course not true for all markets and age segments but SC is extremely popular.

Automattic has over 500 employees, yet they are also "Just a blog platform"

Though I believe they are actually profitable.

>They bought way too much stock, and never worked with size curves, just flat ranges.

Oh dear... I can get bringing in too much stock, It is understandable as a new young company that you overestimate sales of some items but not working with size curves is just plain unprofessional.

That sounds like an utter waste of time for everyone involved.

There are a lot of people who bike all year. Though less than in spring-autumn.

You probably need/want winter tires for your bike and it may be cold but sure, it is possible. The bike lanes are usually cleared quickly when it snows.

For me the biking distance would be 14km or so. A bit further than I personally want to bike but not an uncommon biking route.

About 35 minutes.

5 min walk to the bus, one bus stop then hopping on the subway for 20 min, luckily I don't have to change so I can just relax for those 20 min. Then a 10 minute walk to the office.

Not too bad at all for living in a nice suburb of Stockholm.