Click for more. Anne Garellick and her estranged husband are Swedish. We sublet our apartment and I took a one-year leave of absence from teaching. We loved California from day one and never wanted to move back. Another contrast Anne found was that there seemed to be less class consciousness, more acceptance, but she feels that has changed in Sweden too, by now.
People here are more open and friendly with strangers, at least in California.
However, between two modern Western countries, there are too many similarities to enumerate. Anne hasn't decided exactly what kind of volunteer work she wants to do in her retirement yet, but she is emphatic about doing some. So five or six years ago I learned, got hooked and bought one for home use too. I heard SeniorNet mentioned on a PBS program. Also, now that Anne's retired, she plans to do some travelling to visit old friends in LA, and to go to a few SeniorNet bashes.