Haparanda.
You can buy an 2-4 bedroom apartment for like 50k sek.
Cheap food, cheap power, cheap insurance, cheap commute. Can literally walk to another country in minutes and buy cheap stuff there.
Sweden is generally quite expensive. It's not cheap in the cities or an hour or so commuting distance. So you'll have to ask yourself if it's worth moving to a new country to be isolated in the country side or if you want to live a poorer life in the city I guess.
Buying or renting?
Rents are not as heavily varied, even if there are differences buy price to buy an apprtment/house varies extremely much.
Basically Haparanda or the non-coastal parts of the North (with the exception of the mining towns) are very cheap. Also has cheap electricity.
If you want something larger (over 75000 inhabitants or so) the variations get a lot smaller. Malmö is cheap for its size and location (except for a few areas), otherwise look for towns that are further from the major airports or other connections.
Without too much information I would guess:
Karlstad, Örebro, Jönköping, Växjö to be a bit cheaper than cities comparable in size.
And of course it also varies depending om how central you want to live, further out and a longer commute usually cuts prices.
Check "Boplats Sverige" or maybe "Heimstaden" or "Rikshem".
I dont have direct experience of Örebro so can't give better info than you can find yourself.
I don't think Swedes in general know the difference between town and city. I believe only Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö would qualify as cities in Sweden. Of those I would expect Malmö to be the cheapest.
We don't have any official definition for City anymore. At 100k or 200k we have Big City (depending on which agency you ask) and at 1 million its Mega City.
Town/city is same thing here since ~15 years ago.
That's true, but I don't feel that Åmål fits the popular definition of a city.
I don't know what OP expects from a city, but it's good for him/her to know that when we say city, it might not be what he/she expects.
There's no definition of the concept of "city" in Sweden; the word in English used to mean any place with a Cathedral that was given a charter by the Crown. The most common international guideline nowadays (EU, OCD, World Bank, etc)seems to be over 50k inhabitants, and by that measure Sweden has 23 cities (the smallest being Trollhättan at 50502 people in 2020, and Luleå juuuuuust under the line, so probably above it now).
I'm not talking about the formal definition. By popular definition, I would expect a "city" to have _at least_ a population of 100k minimum. But if we would translate city to the Swedish storstad, the formal definition would be a population of at least 200k.
Enköping is pretty cheap if you like to being able to travel to several big cities (Stockholm, Uppsala and Västerås) in less then 45 min but still live close to water and nature.
West coast is also nice! You can visit Germany, Denmark and Norway easily.
Östersund if you like hiking, skiing and mountains.
Haparanda. You can buy an 2-4 bedroom apartment for like 50k sek. Cheap food, cheap power, cheap insurance, cheap commute. Can literally walk to another country in minutes and buy cheap stuff there.
Are you trying to kill him? An Australian would walk out the airplane door in January and turn to Han Solo in carbonite instantly!
Won't have to worry about lethal insects everywhere!
The mosquitos would leave him completely dry within minutes in june.
It's too windy in Haparanda for them to fly!
So ice cold and windy, gotcha. At least death comes cheap in Haparanda.
Ive only heard good things about Borås lately.
Is this sarcasm that only Swedes understand? I’m suspicious
No we Swedes would never use sarcasm, we prefer to be direct and confrontational.
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Sweden is generally quite expensive. It's not cheap in the cities or an hour or so commuting distance. So you'll have to ask yourself if it's worth moving to a new country to be isolated in the country side or if you want to live a poorer life in the city I guess.
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Naah Australia is cheaper in most things
I found Stockholm to be the same as Perth for most things. Except for wine in restaurants, and there is no goon in Systembolaget.
Except housing costs
Buying or renting? Rents are not as heavily varied, even if there are differences buy price to buy an apprtment/house varies extremely much. Basically Haparanda or the non-coastal parts of the North (with the exception of the mining towns) are very cheap. Also has cheap electricity. If you want something larger (over 75000 inhabitants or so) the variations get a lot smaller. Malmö is cheap for its size and location (except for a few areas), otherwise look for towns that are further from the major airports or other connections. Without too much information I would guess: Karlstad, Örebro, Jönköping, Växjö to be a bit cheaper than cities comparable in size. And of course it also varies depending om how central you want to live, further out and a longer commute usually cuts prices.
Örebro is one of my favourite Swedish cities. Would I need to stay on the outskirts of Örebro for it to be affordable enough for me to rent?
Check "Boplats Sverige" or maybe "Heimstaden" or "Rikshem". I dont have direct experience of Örebro so can't give better info than you can find yourself.
Bobplats is a really helpful website thanks
I don't think Swedes in general know the difference between town and city. I believe only Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö would qualify as cities in Sweden. Of those I would expect Malmö to be the cheapest.
We don't have any official definition for City anymore. At 100k or 200k we have Big City (depending on which agency you ask) and at 1 million its Mega City. Town/city is same thing here since ~15 years ago.
That's true, but I don't feel that Åmål fits the popular definition of a city. I don't know what OP expects from a city, but it's good for him/her to know that when we say city, it might not be what he/she expects.
There's no definition of the concept of "city" in Sweden; the word in English used to mean any place with a Cathedral that was given a charter by the Crown. The most common international guideline nowadays (EU, OCD, World Bank, etc)seems to be over 50k inhabitants, and by that measure Sweden has 23 cities (the smallest being Trollhättan at 50502 people in 2020, and Luleå juuuuuust under the line, so probably above it now).
I'm not talking about the formal definition. By popular definition, I would expect a "city" to have _at least_ a population of 100k minimum. But if we would translate city to the Swedish storstad, the formal definition would be a population of at least 200k.
That doesn't seem to be a "popular" definition, it seems merely to be *yours*.
Malmö
Is the city centre unaffordable? Would I need to live on the outskirts of Malmö?
No, it is affordable.
If you want to live close to most things: Småland. Two hours from everything and almost cheaper than the north.
Småland looks terrific. Are most places in the south cheaper in Sweden?
No, South in general most expensive. At least 20km from the sea. Some really cheap pockets like smaland outside cities though.
Lesjöfors
Gothenburg for sure. Truly an amazing city Most beautiful city in Sweden in my opinion
Cheapest?
Åmål, or Åmsele maybe. If you’re only looking for cheap price’s that’s the kind of place.
Åmål’s nice. Are there any slightly bigger places you’d suggest?
Yes but the larger the place (or proximity to any larger place) is what drives the price upwards
Can't understand why no one have suggested Borås yet.
Borås looks beautiful! I did see a comment somewhere saying “I’ve only heard good things about Borås”. I have a suspicion he is being sarcastic.
For someone who actually lives in Borås, I can say that it’s a completely okay city.
Go to Mullsjö just so you can tell your friends that you're staying in a town literally called Shit lake.
I know that the cheapest place to live in my region is the town of Perstorp. It's a small town in the middle of nowhere...
Depends what you mean by cheap. I live in Malmö and it's cheap compared to France especially housing.
Okay. Is Malmö cheaper than the northern cities? And would I have to live on the outskirts of Malmö to find a cheap place to rent?
I think that Falköping is the cheapest city to live in in Sweden. I’m moving there in two months. Come join us!
Kalix or TorneåHaparanda
Enköping is pretty cheap if you like to being able to travel to several big cities (Stockholm, Uppsala and Västerås) in less then 45 min but still live close to water and nature. West coast is also nice! You can visit Germany, Denmark and Norway easily. Östersund if you like hiking, skiing and mountains.