A radio journalist's life in malmvägen!

Regnbåge över Malmvägen. Foto: Janet Sibose

After moving between three different living spaces scattered around the royal capital of Sweden, I finally found myself what seems to be a permanent place to live - ironically, outside Stockholm, since it is extremely tough to find anything inside the city, on such a short notice and budget (for now).

Malmvägen, Sollentuna, is my new address. This street hosts massive apartment buildings, built between the 1960s and 1970s to provide homes for people moving from the Swedish countryside to live in the city under a program called miljon programmet. Now these buildings host 2500 residents hailing from 95+ countries.

I am currently living in four room apartment, with one Swedish man and his American wife, and a Dutch-Finnish composer, in what is called 'collective' living. Collectives are as you can observe, flats or houses shared by a number of young people, who share the rent, costs, food, everything, the way a family would, in other words, we help each other out as we stumble upon our different paths.

(UPDATE, I am leaving Malmvägen soon, it just doesn't work out for me to be here. Details to come soon.)