Whenever I travel anywhere I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent I think.
Certainly anyone whom I've witnessed who has gone through something...
There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.
After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time I was dissatisfied with romantic doom yet didn't see much way around it.