24 Dec 2024
Work & Money
Essentials Work & Money

The Early Retirement Dream In Stockholm: Here’s Why It Works

While the debate is heating up on the financial independence/early retirement movement, officials in Sweden are reforming the pension system and successively raising the age of retirement to 64 years old by the year 2026. Currently, the earliest age of retirement is 61, but the average age of retirement stands at 64.5 years, according to official statistics. […]

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Finance Uncategorized Work & Money

Working In Stockholm’s Marketing Industry

Stockholm holds the proud status as one of the world’s tech hubs, and as such, that means it’s one of the biggest business hubs – full stop. With business comes marketing, and as such there is a flourishing and incredibly progressive industry within the city which has seen sexist adverts banned recently. Competition is fierce, but rewarding, and […]

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Creative Arts Design Featured Festivals Lifestyle Networking

Gather – Really not your average conference

Gather was back with their second edition and brought along more than 50 speakers for the conference part at Nobelberget, more than a hundred artists at 15 different venues for the music festival part, as well as 15 different innovation labs, innovative restaurant cooperations, and well, even sauna sessions. There was definitely something for everybody. […]

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Essentials Featured Finding a Job Starting a business Work & Money

Co-working spaces in Stockholm – Your office in the city

Entrepreneurs and freelancers are making good use of the many co-working spaces in Stockholm. These inspiring spaces become not only their offices and meeting rooms, but also their social environments and their daily working spaces. If you’re starting a business in Stockhom and you have a budget of 3500kr to 6000kr a month, you can aim at renting your […]

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Community Essentials Networking Networking Starting a business Work & Money

Starting your business in Stockholm? 6 Tips!

Migrating to a new country or city is difficult – it can be a time of adjustment and struggle but it also is a time of opportunity and excitement. For many migrants, finding a job is still one of the biggest challenges for settling into a new hometown. Entrepreneurship is increasingly attractive for many as […]

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Community Featured Volunteering

Linnéa Claeson continues to inspire and wins human rights prize

If you have been following any Swedish media at all lately, you can’t have missed Linnéa Claeson with her rainbow-colored hair and inspiringly strong views on important issues. The latest in line to recognize her influence is the UN Association of Sweden, who chose her as the recipient for their annual human rights prize. We […]

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Banking Finance Money transfers Work & Money

Transfer Money without Transaction Fees

If you need to send money to your home country or elsewhere abroad, let OFX take care of your currency transfers and save you time and money. Your Living City has negotiated a further benefit for you – no transaction fees!   As expats, we often need to use international money transfers on the foreign […]

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Community Volunteering

Climate March Stockholm

The People’s Climate March was held in at least a thousand cities around the world on April 29th and millions joined in protesting and spreading the message of the realities of the climate change. In Stockholm the people gathered first to hear artist performances and speeches by climate activists. We bring you some pictures from Norra Bantorget […]

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Join the Your Living City Stockholm Team

Are you a budding writer? Got it and want to flaunt it? Your Living City is looking for Stockholm’s most FABULOUS contributors – and we mean YOU!

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Finding a Job Networking Work & Money

Magnus Berg on job-hunting in Sweden

People in general, but especially immigrants with an academic background, may find it hard to understand the right way to find a job in Sweden. Advice abounds everywhere, but which ones are worth taking? Who could really help you out? No one is looking for an easy way out, but everybody needs to find the right answers if they […]

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