Today I really miss my old hometown Västerås where I lived between 1999 and 2004. I only lived there for five years but those years were the best of my life for so many reasons. Today I miss Västerås mainly because of all the fun I had there but also because it was a so much better city to live in than this shithole I’m currently residing in. You see Västerås with it’s approximately 107 000 inhabitants is Sweden’s fifth most populous city. Compare that to Hultsfred with it’s 5000 inhabitants. Jeez, there lived more people and there were more stores in a god damn suburb in Västerås than the entire Hultsfred!

The only thing of worth we have here is the rock festival that takes place in june every year. But one week of fun does not in any way make up for the remaining fifty-one weeks of the year. This is a terrible town to live in. I’m not kidding you when I tell you the best shop in town is Coop Konsum. That’s a grocery store! But they do have some make-up and they do have some movies. And oh boy, even some decoration ornaments! This is the reason to why I buy most of my clothes, movies, books, technical gadgets, well pretty much everything online. Or go to a close-by town like Linköping, Växjö, Västervik or Jönköping. Ok I just realized there’s one more good thing about this town but that’s nothing special for this town but common in all small shitholes like this. It’s easy to find a apartment. And they’re cheap. It took me one month to find my apartment and it was actually the first and only apartment I looked at. Nobody but me was interested in it either so the same day I had a look at it I also signed the lease contract. That would never ever have happened in Västerås, or any other big city for that matter unless you’re rich or have connections. Nevertheless that doesn’t make up for living here either.

In the weekends there’s nothing to do here but get drunk and go to the pub. At least when you’re drunk you might fool yourself into believing that the pub is fun. Which it really isn’t. Like I’ve said before the only thing that keeps me from getting the hell away from here asap is a few good people, including my family. It’s a pain to move to another city and start all over.