[dagw]

If you're willing to deal with short (less than 6 month), not always entirely landlord approved, contracts and can move out on short notice then finding a place isn't too hard. If you want to stay put for a year and have a fully legal contract then it obviously gets a lot harder and more expensive.

[smeyer]

I don't know if this is a cultural thing (I"m an American living and renting in Boston), but I figured the default would be people wanting "a fully legal contract" with a lease of a year or so, not looking to move every three months from illegal sublet to illegal sublet.

More precisely, when I see rents quoted for most cities, I tend to assume that people are quoting rents for standard, legal rentals, not quoting the cheapest rent possible for an illegal sublet.

Edit: I should add I'm not implying anyone in this thread is doing anything odd or misleading or anything, just that it's opening my eyes to how different rentals are over there. Thanks for that.

[fapjacks]

My wife is 25 years old and has been on the queue since she was born. We think that when we move to Stockholm we will be able to get a decent place. This is what they mean when they say "long waits in the queue for housing"...

[smeyer]

Yeah, it's definitely a situation that wouldn't have occurred to me from my background. Around here, you mostly just look around craigslist or get a real estate agent and in a couple of weeks can find a nice, legal rental that meets your needs. I'm sorry to hear the situation is so different there and hope it improves at some point.