I finally found us a place to live here in Sweden, which isn't as easy as you might believe. One of the things that has made it harder is that Uppsala is a University town, and school just began again, so everything got snatched up the returning students.
Then unlike the States, there are no massive corporate owned housing complexes. Everything is privately owned, so you can't just cruise down to the local apartment complex and choose whichever plan you think suits you the best. You have to browse the blocket.se (Sweden's craigslist, they do have craigslist here, but everyone uses the blocket) and find places to live. Then for every listing, they get a ton of inquiries, so you just have to hope to get in there first most of the time. I did get lucky in that some people were definitely trying to get professionals as opposed to students. But on the other hand, I also found people who were not interested in having kids live in their rentals, so those were out.
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Widows continue to be a problem
After getting our garage cleaned out (we killed almost 20 brown widows), the pest guys have kept it clean since then. We were just cleaning out our back lanai (patio), and we found a few more nests. I grabbed the bug spray and headed out to go to battle. I turned over all of the furniture and checked it out. I found about 10 egg sacks, and killed 8 more widows, 7 of them were pregnant. The bug people are scheduled to come back next Thursday, we'll have to continue this genocide later this week.