Friendships (Part 1 of 3) - The SWL Culture G...

Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got friends. But what happens if you leave them all behind? Uproot your entire life and move to a new country? To Denmark of all places! Where people are notoriously reserved and will do almost anything to avoid making eye contact with ...  Show more

Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got friends. But what happens if you leave them all behind? Uproot your entire life and move to a new country? To Denmark of all places! Where people are notoriously reserved and will do almost anything to avoid making eye contact with ...  Show more

In this episode I'm talking to my friend Soraya who moved from Sweden to Budapest six years ago. As usual I don't use any script and we ended up having an interesting conversation about life in Budapest compared to Sweden, culture, people, making friends, perspectives on life ...

Denmark is a very good place to be a child, and to have children, yet the birthrate is dropping as it is in so many other countries. Some preschools have shut down due to lack of kids. Just this year Denmark reached a population of 6 million – a big landmark - but that's mostly d ...  Show more

If you’ve ever found yourself wondering “where did all my friends go?” or felt like making friends as an adult is impossible, you are not alone. 

In today’s episode, Mel is breaking down the surprising reasons why friendship feels so much harder in adulthood—and, more im ...

What do you love about your home country? What do you think could be better? After moving to America in 2008, Anu began to notice how much more complicated and stressful things seemed to be in the States compared to her home country of Finland. Anu Partanen is a Finnish journalis ...  Show more