Nip across to uk , the debate is much more balanced over there . <| sep |> They are both very different cities . It wouldn ' t be fair to say one is better than the other . It depends on what you ' re looking for . I think we can all agree that people who move from one to the other and won ' t shut up about how much better it was back home are insufferable . <| sep |> My family went on a trip that included Stockholm in the itinerary back in 1985 and the WASA was one of my favourite parts . The restoration was well underway at that point . The room it was in was temperature and humiditycontrolled and as I recall it was VERY humid in the room as they were preserving it using polyethylene glycol sprays . TIL from looking at the wiki entry that the ship was recovered in such good condition in part due to the intense pollution in Stockholm ' s harbour , but strangely out of water , those same pollutants in the wood are now producing sulfuric acid at a rate of 100 kg per year . Thusfar a solution hasn ' t been found and if left unchecked , the hull will break down and collapse .