“I was nineteen years old when I first moved from Hudiksvall. I was tired of the small and boring city and wanted to come to something bigger and more cool. I first moved from my hometown to Norway, where I lived for four years. Where I probably would have stayed if it wasn’t for my sister, who had a baby.
In 1998, when I was twentythree years old, I moved to Stockholm, to live in the same city as my sister. To move to a new and bigger city than Hudiksvall was at first very difficult and different. Hudiksvall is a small and cosy city with a small population.
I like having the water close to me.
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Stockholm is very different, it is much bigger and there is always stuff to do and people to do them with. In the beginning I only knew my sister here in Stockholm. But I quickly got to learn more and more people.
Even though I have lived in Stockholm for a very long time now I will always feel like I am going home to Hudiksvall. It’s the best city.
My family and the bigger part of my relatives still live in Hudiksvall, I often think about them and I miss them very much. I sometimes miss the place where I grew up and the place where I have my roots. At least two to three times a year I go home to Hudiksvall to visit my relatives and to spend time with them.
There was a time in my life when I really wanted to move back home to Hudiksvall, I had packed a few bags and I was really thinking about moving back there. But it never happened. The thing that has made me stay here in Stockholm during the times when I have thought about moving back to Hudiksvall has always been my sister and her children who lives here in Stockholm. I have stayed here in Stockholm since I first moved here, in 1998.
Since Hudiksvall is a relatively small city everyone knew each other in the city. It is something that I feel like I sometimes miss. But living in Stockholm where there lives so many other people is also great. I also like to be able to be more anonymous which I can be in Stockholm.”
Lukas 9c
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