And while it&#x27;s ridiculous that you can&#x27;t buy cold beer stronger than 3.5% by volume, and can&#x27;t do it on a Sunday, I still wouldn&#x27;t switch to any of the system in any country I have lived in (E.g. Australia, UK). I wouldn&#x27;t mind the prices of beer in a bar to be more reasonable but what can you do.<p>What&#x27;s expensive in .se is the alcohol, not the alcholic products. That makes the price of <i>some</i> cheap products very high, most notably gin&#x2F;vodka etc, which carry a price that may be 3x higher than elsewhere (Worth noting of course is that even at these prices they aren&#x27;t nearly paying their own damages). That is only half the story though, products like decent wine and single malt whisky is actually very well priced, and often cheaper than in their respecive countries of origin. In the uk a crap bottle of wine is £3, in sweden twice that. A good bootle of wine in the uk is £20 and can be half that in Sweden. Prices are <i>very</i> compressed, which makes it an excellent place to be drinking decent stuff.<p>I know you were likely sort of tounge-in-cheek about the alcohol issue, but really there are lots of aspects that are way worse. 
Just take the fact that the day (if you can even call it that) in Sweden today was 5 hours long... That will drive you nuts no matter what the cost of booze is :D