A solution to affordable housing... that Americans just don't seem to like.

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72. Oh, of course we have nothing like the worst parts of the US (I lived in LA whilst

reading for my MBA, and have been to NYC (Brownsville is not a nice part of Brooklyn) and Miami multiple times, so saw some areas in South Los Angeles, and NW Miami that looked and felt FAR worse) but in no way would I agree with your Kungsholmen mates about no bad parts of Stockholm and other parts of Sweden.

We have had grenade and bomb (many types of weapons of war came over from the Balkans wars, for instance) battles between gangs, police stations bombed and attacked with fully automatic gunfire etc, multiple mass riots (not lately, thank fuck), etc, so not exactly benign and tranquil at times.

We just set an all-time gun murder high and still had 4 months (basically 3 now) to go when we broke it. It is driven, to a vast degree, by males ages 20 to 30 years old and most involve criminal gang elements, like Vårbynätverket who murdered the arguably biggest Swedish rapper, Einár, less than a year ago, in a posh neighborhood pretty near to where we live). Vårbynätverket are based near Fittja (Vårby is the next tunnelbana stop going into the city from Fittja), but have a reach all across the Stockholm region and beyond.

Sure the gun murder rate here is FAR below the US's insane, tragically out of control numbers (fuck all gun jumpers and the NRA!!!!), but still, it's much, much higher than the EU on average, at a level that is not at all acceptable and rather shocking/dismaying for many of the Swedes here.

The troubled neighborhoods I listed are a major factor in producing the criminal gangs who then are now taking us to new levels of the gun murder rates I just referred to. Sweden has done a horrid job of integration of the people (the vast majority in them are immigrants, mostly refugees or 2nd gen, 3rd gens of them) who live in them. But that multifaceted subject is far beyond the scope of this colloquy.