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Moving to Sweden
Practical advice on property, paperwork and settling in for anyone planning a move to Sweden.![Should you buy a home in Sweden this summer?](https://apiwp.thelocal.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=webp,width=300,quality=75/https://apiwp.thelocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Stockholm-Adam-Gavlak-Unsplash.jpg)
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'The Local set this off': Small Swedish town's one krona plots go viral
When Götene, a quiet lakeside municipality in Western Sweden, launched a campaign in April to sell plots of land for one krona per square metre, they never could have guessed that they'd be fielding thousands of calls from across the world a few months later.