You must not have looked close enough . But I do believe lighter brew is more popular. The only place to get hard liquor and wine in Sweden is in a monopoly run store controlled by the state, which is different from most of European countries where you can pick up alcohol in grocery stores just like in the US.

http://www.systembolaget.se/Applikat...par/InEnglish/

There are actually organized bus tours going down to Denmark and Germany to pick up cheaper alcohol. The good part is that they'll let you drink from the age of 18. Never understood the logic behind "you can drive a car at 16, fight in a war at 18 but not buy a beer until you are 21" . Very backwards thinking in my mind.

As far as home prices in Stockholm it's been debated for quite some time now. There's been a huge run in home prices in general, but more so in Stockholm, for the last 10 years or so. Very similar to some areas in the US. The difference is that, unlike in the US, those prices have not really come down over the past year. In my opinion it's unavoidable that they soon will. A lot of young people have over extended themselves with a mortgage not correlating to their income. They will hurt badly once the interest rates will go up again, and they soon will. You can get a mortgage as low as 2% right now, but it's not possible to lock it in for more than a few months. No such thing as 30 year fixed rates over there.