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To: Taro who wrote (357211)	11/6/2007 12:33:15 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574852

If the relatively poor in Stockholm are not homeless, than that would support the idea I put forth - that "if your in poverty, and aren't expecting to get out soon, that poverty isn't as bad in Sweden." Of course there are other factors involved. Stockholm is less than a tenth of the size of NYC (NYC itself has almost as many people as Sweden, and the NYC metro area has somewhere around the same number of people as all of Scandinavia). Also in the US many mentally ill people where deinstitutionalized, the difference in homeless might have more to do with different levels and forms of mental health care than with levels of poverty. Or maybe in Sweden they are better at getting homeless people in to shelters or temporary housing. Also see below. NYC winters are as cold as Stockholm BTW. The lows for the coldest three months average over 5 degrees warmer in NYC. The highs for the same months average about 10 degrees warmer in NYC. weather.com weather.com