{"id":2959,"date":"2021-09-24T09:49:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T07:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/experience-our-house-was-moved-to-a-different-town\/"},"modified":"2021-09-24T09:49:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T07:49:52","slug":"experience-our-house-was-moved-to-a-different-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/experience-our-house-was-moved-to-a-different-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience: our house was moved to a different town"},"content":{"rendered":"

We lived in our dream home. Then suddenly a huge chasm split our town. Rather than buy a new home for the move, we decided to transplant the house<\/p>\n

I moved to Malmberget \u2013 a town in the far north of Sweden, above the Arctic Circle \u2013 from a nearby village when I was four. My husband Mikael was born there. Our children, now grown up, were born there. I had a secret wish that we could one day live in the beautiful old house in the centre that belonged to my boss. A big green wooden villa, more than 100 years old, with four bedrooms, a large kitchen, and a rooftop veranda with views towards the mountains \u2013 my dream home. When my boss put it on sale in 2009, we couldn\u2019t believe our luck and quickly bought it.<\/p>\n

Malmberget was built around an important iron ore mine, founded in 1741 and today run by the state-owned Swedish mining company LKAB. Most people living there were employed by the mine \u2013 and as it grew, so did the town. Eventually the mine grew so big that it began to split Malmberget in two \u2013 a huge chasm a kilometre long and 200 metres deep had opened up through the centre of town; it was nicknamed Kaptensgropen (\u201cthe captain\u2019s pit\u201d). As the hole expanded, buildings around it had to be demolished. People were offered money to leave; many went to G\u00e4llivare, another town three miles away. Others moved farther away.<\/p>\n

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\nWe lived in our dream home. Then suddenly a huge chasm split our town. Rather than buy a new home for the move, we decided to transplant the house
\nI moved to Malmberget \u2013 a town in the far north of Sweden, above the Arctic Circle \u2013 from a nearby village when I was four. My husband Mikael was born there. Our children, now grown up, were born there. I had a secret wish that we could one day live in the beautiful old house in the centre that belonged to my boss. A big green wooden villa, more than 100 years old, with four bedrooms, a large kitchen, and a rooftop veranda with views towards the mountains \u2013 my dream home. When my boss put it on sale in 2009, we couldn\u2019t believe our luck and quickly bought it.
\nMalmberget was built around an important iron ore mine, founded in 1741 and today run by the state-owned Swedish mining company LKAB. Most people living there were employed by the mine \u2013 and as it grew, so did the town. Eventually the mine grew so big that it began to split Malmberget in two \u2013 a huge chasm a kilometre long and 200 metres deep had opened up through the centre of town; it was nicknamed Kaptensgropen (\u201cthe captain\u2019s pit\u201d). As the hole expanded, buildings around it had to be demolished. People were offered money to leave; many went to G\u00e4llivare, another town three miles away. Others moved farther away. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We lived in our dream home. Then suddenly a huge chasm split our town. Rather than buy a new home for the move, we decided to transplant the house I moved to Malmberget \u2013 a town in the far north of Sweden, above the Arctic Circle \u2013 from a nearby village when I was four. …<\/p>\n

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