Originally Posted by Dovster
...If you rent a car, there are two things you can not afford to do with it -- drive it or not drive it. Gasoline prices are sky high and there is absolutely no place you can park it without paying.
...In short, Sweden is a wonderful country but nobody can afford to be there.
Haha, you have found the soul of Sweden in such a short time!!
On top of no parking and gas prices we also have a new thing called "trängselskatter" or congestion fee which runs to $8 per day in Stockholm and you get billed automagically. If you forget to pay within 3 days you get a additional fee of $80 per day so it pays to pay!
About that smuggling its so typical of our alcohol policy - prices are high and you are not allowed to shop anywhere except the designated stores. Instead people are buying hundreds of bottles of beer & wine and end up drinking even more (the "I have 40 cases of beer so lets drink everyday syndrome").