> High housing prices are great for those who already owned houses...
Not unless you are ready to sell, otherwise it kind of sucks to have your property taxes go up 10-20% every year.
Not unless you are ready to sell, otherwise it kind of sucks to have your property taxes go up 10-20% every year.
Also no inheritance or gift tax. Very good place to live if you are wealthy and don't make money the peasant way of going to work.
Ingvar Kamprad moved to Switzerland in 1976; in 2014, when the abolition of 2007 had survived one election cycle, he moved back to Småland.
Björn Borg moved out of Sweden already in 1974 at age of 18, perhaps more because on 90% income tax than property taxes.
There is also a tax on property transactions which can be considerable.