Viby

Viby is a town in Kristianstad municipality in Skåne, with just over 1,200 inhabitants. The town is the church village of Gustav Adolfs parish and consists of the villages Viby and Håslöv. Kristianstad is only a short drive away, under a quarter of an hour, and Malmö is about an hour and a quarter by car.

The main road runs right next to most of the houses, and the field is just as close. The school is within walking distance but not close, while the grocery shop and the train station are a bike or car ride for most people. The railway is within walking distance and Hammarsjön is a little way off, within cycling distance. In Viby there are Viby skola and Gustav Adolfs kyrka, and a couple of swimming baths. Within cycling distance is a retail area with the shopping centre C4 Shopping, City Gross, Hornbach, Elgiganten, about twenty clothes shops and a couple of fast food places. A nature reserve is within walking distance, and a couple of contaminated sites are registered in the town. Kristianstad municipality has an area that the police have classified as vulnerable, but it is in the city.

The area around the town has many young families: over a quarter are under twenty, a third are between twenty and forty-four, and only one in seven is over sixty-five.

Viby suits families with children who want the countryside near the city's shops and a school within walking distance. Anyone who wants to walk to the shop will have to look elsewhere.