When The Local launched ten years ago, the idea was to provide an engaging news site for foreign professionals living and working in Sweden. Perhaps you're one of them.
But with more than a million readers a month on our Swedish site (and millions more checking out our news offerings in eight other European countries) and over twenty thousand followers on both our Facebook and Twitter pages, it's clear that there are plenty of people all over the world who are passionate about what's going on in Scandinavia, and want to read about it in English.
Here are six readers who claim they're among the world's biggest Swedophiles. There are some surprising reasons behind their obsessions. Yet not one of them has been to visit their dream home.