Rant

It’s incredibly frustrating how broken the Swedish driving license system is for foreigners, as usual. The driving tests are absurdly strict, but driving lessons are outrageously expensive, easily costing tens of thousands of kronor — yet if you’re Swedish, you can sidestep a huge chunk of that cost by practicing with a parent or friend as your handledare. But as a foreigner with no local support or prior experience, you’re fucked. You’re forced to rely entirely on expensive lessons and navigate a system that feels more designed to filter people out than actually teach them how to drive. And then they fail you because you stalled a couple of times in a car you see first time in your life.