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To be creative in a language that is not your mother tounge is difficult. I was gonna write something here about our new apartment, which we moved to a couple of weeks ago, but I got stuck on the first word!

See, we bought this apartment. In Swedish it's called 'bostadsrättslägenhet' and it's very diffrent from just renting. You have to get a big loan from the bank (which you will not get if you're not creditworthy enough) and you buy in to a co-operative tenant-owners' building society.

According to my English dictionary we now own a co-operative building society apartment.

It sounds much more complicated than a 'bostadsrättslägenhet' :-)

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Hey Stef, you didn't tell me about your new apartment. I hope you like it.

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