Why I moved to Sweden from the US.
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He said "I'm from pennsylvania" I was just like huh what ;o
I live in Pennsylvania and I wanna move to Sweden soon ;))))))
Her Daddy small world!
Same lol
Her Daddy, your're welcomed here :)
dont. you will regret it, trust me I've lived here all my life.
There was a lot of swedish settlements in Pennsylvania.
So inspirational 🙏🏻
Glad you found it to be helpful
Thank you so much. I really appreciate your insight and sharing such a cool story!
Tatiana Flores Glad you enjoyed hope you come back for more videos!
If you can, would share some tips how to find a job/job fair from US? Thanks~
excellent video Andrew
I used to work in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania travel down from New York on a contract job also maybe looking in the relocating to Sweden after my retirement so I'm not a burden to the country
Nice story, thanx for sharing. Hope you are doing fine wherever u are.
I am doing ok and thanks!
I love Sweden and the people of Sweden are beautiful
Way cool man. I really liked your video/story. Sweden is the same destination where I want to end up when I graduate (one year left). I have so many questions. I was wondering if I could ask your more about it.
Check out my channel and ask anything that you need help. Just hit that sub butten ;)
The first time I flew to Sweden we had several connecting flights and I was awake for 36 hours too. It was exhausting! I slept for 15 hours after we got there 🤣🤪 After that I was good to go.
det är sådana som dej vi vill ha i sverige ,hoppas det går bra,Robban
Robert Nilsson det håller jag helt med om:)👍🏻
Nice story, and glad to have you here :)
Thanks Patrik!
This is about the same experience I had when I was seconded from the Swedish subsidiary of a large American company to work in the US. The difference is in the details.
Stay safe in Sweden!
Great video! I just wanna mention that "lagom" does not come from the Viking age. It is instead an archaic inflection of the word "lag", meaning law, with the approximate meaning of "according to law/the rules" or "proper measure".
Wow lag law. I should have figured that out. Thanks so much I learned something new!
Where did you get that from? Lagom comes from "laget om" (Laget runt). Has to do with food from the beginning. You don't take too much or too little. The food needs to last for all present. Has nothing to do with laws. Then it's extended and basically means "not too little , not too much". Lagom.
I’m trying to study abroad in Sweden and hoping to permanently move there soon
Sounds fun
Intressant! Välkomen :)
Haha tack
Interesting to read your experiences, very nice to see you are open to other experiences in other countries. I looked at Google and Pennsylvania has a border with Canada so I bet you live somehwere in the SE. 500 km is not that far I think but Canada is not that different from the US either. Good job on the videos!
Thank you for sharing.
This makes me want to go to Sweden more. Maryland is my home but I want to see new things. I love and enjoy the Swedish culture, I was so interested in Sweden that I even learned a small bit of Swedish. I'm only 17 and I'll graduate Senior year of high school in May of 2018. I'll graduate high school before I even hit my 18th birthday. I plan to study music production/audio production but at the same time I don't know what I fully want to do, I have many dreams and interests. Definitely doing music production though, love music. I have my earbuds in all through the school day doing "most" of my work. I'm trying to find out so much about moving to another country.
Welcome to the channel check out my music links in my videos. I would love to hear what you think of some of my music.
Pcc b are you sane?
there was a terror attack in stockholm in 2017.
people are scared to go outside.
I live in malmö.
I see both the pretty and ugly side of it and the government we got is really trying to hide the ugly shit they turned our country into.
Sweden is the rape capital of Europe which makes it not safe in Malmö or Stockholm.
Basic Facts.
Pcc b if SD doesnt win we'll be going into another dark 4 years
Not facts. Lies. Sweden is NOT rape capital of Europe. Educate yourself.
www.snopes.com/crime-sweden-rape-capital-europe/
Per-Gunnar Eriksson Sure thing, Its not like I hear sirens every single day outside and I hear screams of women and Its been more than 5 times that some random migrant has threatened me when I was on my way home.
You were very fortunate to have been able to leave the US, and especially fortunate to land in Scandinavia. I'm in my 50's and I'm stuck here in the land of greed and oppression.
How weird is that two countries, Sweden and Turkey, which are two far in distance to each other have such common words in their languages. Futhark alphabet (predecessor of Runic Alphabet) is known to have the same origin with the ancient Turkish (the current Turkish has been intermixed with Persian language a lot in the recent history). If you want to compare the ancient Turkish with the Futhark language you can check the Gokturk Alphabet.
Odin, the Viking God, was brought to light as the "Turkish Ancestor of Swedish People" by Prof. Sven Lagerbring in his book (you can reach this book from Royal Swedish Library: Bref till Cancellie Rådet och Riddaren, Herr Joh. Ihre om Svenska och Turkiska Språkens likhet, 1764, Lund University). Here what he concluded, given with his words: "Our ancestors are Turks who are comrades of Oden. We have got enough evidence on this subject. There are people who want to fool you into thinking they are Goths. I don't care whether it will be discrediting for me or not. Oden and his comrades were Turks."
Some words:
English: Ancestor
Turkish: Ata
Swedish: Ätt
English: Oil-lamp
Turkish: Kandil
Swedish: Kyndil
English:Lake
Turkish: Göl
Swedish: Göl
Interesting fact isn't it?
History is falsified....
No problem. the truth should be told....stay blessed
Wow that sounds like a really awesome thing. I've heard from other foreigners that it is very hard to get a job without knowing Swedish or being an EU citizen. Did you apply directly to a company in Sweden or did you apply to a company in the US that placed you in Sweden? I am interested in how you made that work..
Tack :)
Directly to a company.
THANK YOU!
You are welcome!
Think you got Jante-lagen wrong. That law is that noone is more special than anyone else. What you are talking about is "lagom" wich means that the vikings passed their drink around and it was supposed to last for everyone. Meaning noone should drink more than the other so it would last for the last guy.
Which is exactly what he said, refering to "lagom". Listen again, he doesn't talk about "Jante-lagen" he just mentions it, then moves on to mention "Lagom" and explain that.
But that is not the origins of the word "lagom" - from "laget om". That myth has been debunked on numerous occasions. No matter, nice vid anyhow.
Yeah, I know that the origins from our splendid word is debated and that it doesn't origin from the drunken vikings beeing kind to the next of kin, you are absolutly correct in this.
My response was only towards dahlski because he totally mis-listned what was said. And, I just felt it was abit void of respect to "correct" someone, when the thing getting corrected didn't exist in the first place. Even more so, the correction was exactly what was already said.
You are correct in that the meaning of the word is something else than what was explained in the video. But dahlski just made a mis-correction I felt like pointing out.
Toodles fellow ancestor of them vikings.
Welcome to Sweden buddy:)
Thanks Bro!
Jag är svensk! #Nordic
Jag är Amerikan men Jag bor i Sverige.
ok
Grattis?!
Jag är också svensk
Valhalla
Sweden or canada ? Who is the best in salaries ???
I was like "Lagum? Hmm, what's that? ... OHHH, YOU MEAN LAGOM!! XD"
I did my best :)
My husband and I are moving to Sweden for teaching jobs in June. Do you have suggestions for the move?
Samantha Bennett Cool Can you ask a few questions you have? I can make a video in the near future.
We will be moving from Texas to Skane. What are some of the cultural mishaps you stumbled in to? Are clothes and other items like that as expensive as people say they are outside the US? Is it as easy to get around using public transport as people say? Generally how do busses v.s. trains run? What about the cost of transport? What sorts of food delivery can you get in Sweden? Do they have Dr.Pepper? What American things do you miss? What American things that you were surprised that you don't miss? What is the youth culture like? ( teens/pre-teens) Do they behave similar to American children? Is there a nerd culture that is easy enough to be part of? Is the darkness hard to get used to? Are Swedes really that hard to make friends with? How do you suggest to go about apartment hunting at a distance? Where would be a good place to try and find like-minded friends? (video games/ comics/ movies/ tabletop gaming/ artists/ ect) What is the culture facing Americans? How difficult is the time difference for communicating with family and friends back home?
I am sure I can come up with more but these were the ones that came to mind!
Those are a lo of good video Ideas I can make in the future. If you sub to me, you can keep watching. I have a playlist of things about Sweden. I will try to answer most of your questions in the future.
Andrew Austin I ready appreciate that! I was even considering creating a Vlog myself about teaching in Sweden.
some of your questions were answered here!
I'm also from Pa looking to move to Sweden :p I plan to move to be with my swedeheart haha
Sounds like a fun time. Good for you and I hope you come back for more videos!
A nice little video! I cringe when you pronounce it "la-gome" (lagom) but I forgive you. For your information, you probably really did see a moose from the train. I see them rather often from the train, especially in forest clearings at daybreak before the sun comes completely up. Welcome to Sweden!
Thanks!
🤣 I knew it! Pittsburgh proud!
How many years of experience did u have ib your career back then?
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ua-cam.com/video/DhIYQN-AF4g/v-deo.html I answerd your questions here.
So, did Stefans video increase your subscription base? =)
It did't hurt :)
Nice video. Im leaving the united states too within the next two years. im currently 24 and im ready to leave and learn a new language somewhere.
Sounds great!
How did you move your personal belongings to the US...freight co?
Mitchel Fredricks I brought a large suit case to Sweden and left most of my stuff in the states and started over. From my experience stuff is only stuff. There is something freeing about leaving most of it behind. I don't ship too many things to myself from the states. My friend once shipped a car here haha
I live in Sweden but compared to USA petrol is cheap af in USA and I love cars that drinks it on buckets
It sounds like you dont know much about the downsides of USA, here let me get you up to speed:
No universal healthcare, corruption, police brutality, persecution of minorities, highest incarceration rate and little to none rehabilitation, destroying the environment, violence, gangs, shootings, twisted experiments on people, using too much resources, inefficient spending of budget, overall stupid and ignorant population because of bad public schools, a capitalistic society that that makes the rich richer and the poor poorer and ofc Donald Trump.
Henrik ty this helped... but i heard in some USA cities there's pretty warm smiling open people. Is one of the cities like LA? Or is the people in USA negative and not warm against others from outside in general?
I dont know, im Norwegian :p ive just learned a lot about USA over the years, bet i know things that most Americans dont know. Like how USA spends more tax money per capita on healthcare than UK, Canada, Netherlands, Australia etc. Yet you always hear: "I dont want to pay for others healthcare" lul
Henrik ty for all explanations :p
No problem, like when i was a kid and teenager i wished i lived in USA, now im really happy i dont. Most people dont know all these downsides of the country, the only know the glorified image they see in media etc. And like i said lots of Americans thinks that its normal, they think its the best country on earth.
Were in Sweden do you live? Have you learn some swedish yet?
I live a few hours from Stockholm och ja lite!
I have family in USA, and you come to Sweden, so we share countries :-)
That is super cool!
As a swede I can say that you made the best choice. Because of a couple of things like, even though the police here take way too long to arrive most swedes doesn't want to have a gun since most of us doesn't consider that necessary, we don't have to pay a small fortune for healthcare, our goverment haven't made the deision to make everything illegal like rainwater collecting or running a juice stand and of course paid parental leave.
Actually you do pay a small fortune for healthcare. It's called taxes, something a swede should be familiar with.
+Biff Smith
Actually we don't. We pay a small amount through tax which is an avarage by most of the population. This means that if something happens that would cost lets say 100'000usd for a single individual. We instead share the burden on our entire population and so each individual within our nation pays 1/100 of a dollar each. Including the unlucky person who was unfortunate enough to get in that possition.
We have no problems with sharing the burden with our fellow Swedes. This is also why so many have been really raging at our media and politicians when they keep pushing open borders and no limit immigration. Because the whole system is depending on the fact that most of the population is working and contributing to the system.
I would also add that because we have these shared safety nets we save TONNES of time on filling in forms and such. Ofcourse forms still exsist but they are very commonly already mostly filled in and you can read through and make adjustments if something is incorrect or they are very easy to understand and only requests basic information.
Sonny Knutson id still rather keep more of my own money and not have the government in charge of everyones personal health. That communistic in my opinion...
I feel that it's more convenient that it's free than paying 150000 kr for a broken leg
coffe bens I think keeping more of my own money is convenient... and who pays the doctors if it's free?
The most obvious change in his personality is calling football, football instead of soccer.
haha I did not even notice that!
What about the Swedish citizenship? Is it difficult to take out?
I have not taken the steps to get it, but I do have a permanent residency.
You live in Sweden? Because that's not the case, lol.
Welcome to Sweden! In what city do you live Andrew?
People are still trying to figure that out :)
Welcome to my channel
hade du val om var du ska åka? varför Linköping
I just wanna say; A HUGE welcome to Sweden!! (way to late, but anyway..) I really like migrants that have a true interest for Sweden and the swedish way of live and think (just be yourself, free to be whoever you are, live like you want as long as you respect and dont harass others -that is what I find "swedish living" just not a religious extremist gayhater/lovehater that like death sentences or wanna marry away your daughter when she is 16-18, and other crazy or violent things..) But those who hate swedish values- why are they wanna come if they dont wanna speak swedish or english or feel uncomfortable with equality? Lots of swedes are like that, that is VERY unswedish, like the sweden democrats that stand for hate of the unknown, exactly as some of the people they say they hate.. Strange.. well, well you seem to be a nice guy so wish you everything well here:-D greetings from sthlm
that is what I find "swedish living" just not a religious extremist gayhater/lovehater that like death sentences or wanna marry away your daughter when she is 16-18, and other crazy or violent things..) But those who hate this is not real we dont do this
You don´t have a clue I can tell. Sweden and U.S are pretty close to each other when it comes to ppl that working. But the unemployness in U.S are very often hidden in the statistics. Among ppl 20-34 there is almost exactly the same amount of people that have a university education, and among older there are actually a little fewer in Sweden that have been to uni (even though its free here). Its so dumb to think like you do, I was unemployed for only six months 10 years ago, I had my rent payed and little money for bills and food. But I became depressed! The most important thing is to have a place to go to, where you are needed, where you feel you are doing a good job and pay something back to society. maybe cause lots of Swedes think that way we can have our benefit system? People from other places, where you are fat and lazy maybe would accept to live like low lifer without job and have no money left when bills and rent are payed? Sounds like you would? No ppl wanna have a job to go to, and they who cant cause of disease, psychic illness or other problems deserve a suitable lifestyle and a place to live anyway! Dont you think that sounds humane? And what the fuck is wrong with equality??? I can´t understand it! Please tell why equality are wrong? To progress equality are needed, or are you a mulla who´s scared of strong women?
Oh, wow. Linnie G, you sound like a very nice person, I'm so very, deeply, sorry that this guy responded to you. There are people like him here. They think of you're not suffering or causing others to suffer, that you are weak or something. I don't understand them and don't want to. It's wrong to mean to someone so kind, please don't let people like this get to you.
I am an American that lives in Sweden. It's my observation that those who come to Sweden and are how you described above, are Refugees and Muslim. Muslims tend to want every place they go to conform to their expectations. It's not just in Sweden. It's unfortunate that there are people who come to Sweden and the government pays them an income that is more than the average Swede makes and they don't have to work or do anything for the income. They get everything for free. But, it is not Lagom (Jantalag) to look at that and to openly dislike the situation. Swedes can dislike it, just not openly. Because no one says anything about it, no one does anything about it. The government decides, and no one says anything. They just put up with it and try to tell themselves that it's okay because no one is better than anyone else. Swedes even give money to the "Economic Tourists" because they feel they are expected to even though the economic tourists don't contribute in any way to the Swedish Economy and way of life.
Don't lose your country don't be weak minded they are trying to push whites out
😇
:)
My uncle did that too
Your Uncle must be cool :)
Hi Andrew, that's a nice video, I am Emmanuel from Ghana but I study in Czech Republic and I am planning to move to Sweden to work and do my master after school. I am currently looking for someone to advise me and give me more info about Sweden. Great Video and very inspiring
Well I am happy the videos can help you!
Great
Manchester United supporters are much welcome to Sweden :D.. Anyway.. what information do you want about Sweden? Cheers
djperryboy that’s the best team in the world I can’t be happy without them especially where I am now.
Hey Im From Sweden Where in Sweden Do u live?
I will go into this in my video tomorrow!
UA-cam.. please... stop telling me to watch this.
I feel your pain!
Where do you live?
Somewhere in Sweden haha. I talk about it in my newest video.
I'd rather live in Sweden than in the UK
Basshunter
:)
I live in sweden
me too!
Andrew Austin Im born in Sweden send me msg IF u need help
Will 81,000$ a year be enough to live well there’s?
It's not how much you make, its how much you save,
Andrew Austin I’m retired and no interest in saving money just living comfortably I gave away over 350,000$to my son kept 146,000$ plus 6,700$ a month pension 81,000$ a year doesn’t go far in Orange County California
I am sure that is plenty, but there are much cheaper options with nicer weather such as Spain or Portugal.
Ernest Sanchez 81k a year? Yea... That'll get you very comfy.
Average swedish salery is about 300-350k swedish crowns, one USD is like 8.7 swedish crowns(ish) so you'd land a hefty 712k SEK a year in Swedish crowns... More than twice the average working swedes income... At worst youd be upper class.
No idea how or even *if* taxes influence your case but even in a worst case scenario youd still have more money than the average swede.
I was expecting some GOOD reason why you move to Sweden . You are describing your first flight alone without parents , that is kind of childish. SO you got a " JOB " in SWEDEN , so what now >?
I’m Swedish
Great!
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Jag bryr mig inte heller
boy did you make a big mistake, its 2018. better open your eyes
Noo noooo why you moved to sweden
Man I live in Sweden but am a US citizen and been 7 years here and I think the immigration making it hard to me stay and I think I’ll move back to US but the funny thing is I haven’t been in US just born in US so it’s kind hard
:D
:)
i live in sweden
mooses aint so rare
:)
Avicii rip
Because of your degree from college it was possible for you to move to another country??? Seriously, what kind of ignoramus believes that he has to have a college degree to move to another country? I'm a junior high school drop out and landed in Europe back in 1961 with only $60.00 dollars in my pocket. I then spent the next five and a half years traveling all over the world. I worked in Norway and Iceland in the fishing industry, washed dishes in Germany, worked on a Kibbutz and in construction in Israel, taught English in Vietnam and Japan, and worked in construction in Australia. I also have seen more of Scandinavia than any Scandinavian and could have easily settled down there had I wanted to. Regarding Sweden; I'm glad I saw it when it was Sweden back in 1961/62/63/64 and later in 1968. Because when I went back there in that hot summer of 2006 I could see that it was fast losing its cultural identity. In fact, Sweden is fast becoming an Orwellian nightmare where truth is treason and punishable by imprisonment or a heavy fine, or both. So bear in mind that Swedes are decadent to the point of applauding their own extinction.
I replied to this in a future video of your questions answered. Thanks for the feedback!
You're a one-of-a-kind polite dude, Andrew. Honestly don't know many people who'd take the time to respond to this form of "wisdom"; respect mate!
Marcfj ignorant
Bruce Wayne - Oh come now, don't keep us all in suspense; do articulate an intelligent rebuttal to whatever it is you disagree with -----------------if it wouldn't be too taxing for your intellect.
Dipendra Kundu, the only thing that is dumb is your inability to intelligently refute any part of my initial statement. After all, any halfwit can make disparaging comments about it but trying to disprove it would most likely be too intellectually challenging for you. In fact, I called Bruce Wayne out on such matter but, as you can see, he turned out to be a paper-tiger.
I might be a bit late but, please don't come here. We have no jobs, no housing, and there is nothing to gain by living here. I love Sweden but at the moment we can't take more migrants. And you seem like a kind person and kicking you out after you already moved is rude. It's nice to see that you are adopting the Swedish ways of life. Still, don't come here...
This is not an asylum seeker you idiot. You can move pretty much anywhere in the world if you can support yourself financially. Also, don't tell me there are no jobs. I'm Swedish, lived in Brazil for a few years, and when I landed in Sweden again on a Wednesday I already got a job interview for Thursday, I was hired on Friday and began working the following Monday. My ex-wife, being Brazilian, got a job and an apartment in a few weeks time only after moving to Sweden at a later time. Sweden's economy is one of the best developing in Europe right now.
[jojj0] You mean yourself?
14 years old probably :), dont listen to Sebastian.
Its only the muslims I dont want here haha.
not true, its actually a really good place.. dont trust these fucking keyboard warriors trying to ruin society
You will regret moving to Sweden. Just saying "bro".
TheNewsHater Why do you say that?
Mathilda N Ah you don't know about the immigration problems right?
Ooo boi this agan
? so what it is true and you can't change it.
You're not wrong. Housing is an issue. You will end up living in migrant-dominated neighborhoods, as do many of our swedish students. We hope we are on the right track now with rising nationalism and busting the international-liberal cultural-marxistic fake news. Actual nazis have registered a parlamentary branch and entered into the democratic system just in time for the election now in 2018.
The nationalists cannot avoid forming a majority government without getting backstabbed by the moderates and the christian democrats(if they make the 4% cut). It would take every other party combining into a soup that would damage them all, from which they could get nothing done and a re-election favoring the nationalists would result. Or a coup. Or a rebellion, worst case civil war. Not likely.
Long story short, the nationalists will start to seriously implement changes. This will pave the way for the actual nazis, who will likely reach the needed 4% to become a support party in the near future of 2022 or 2026, if things keep going the way it seems!
That said, things are improving EVEN with a red-green non-majority ruling coalition at the moment. Applying for asylum a second time after hiding(and collecting welfare payments even though lacking identification) from the government to avoid expulsion, has gone down from a 61% acceptance rate into a more reasonable 5% acceptance rate.
There was a honor killing recently, a man was abducted and killed for having an affair with a married woman. Out of the six people sentenced, five of them were given life sentences(said woman included), while the sixth was sentenced to 18 years in prison and expulsion upon release.
We don't have the death penalty, 18 years is the harshest prison term barring life. Paying for all this is a shitfest, costing millions of SEK for every perpetrator just in their appointed defense. But given the current legislation, things are going IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
We need to wait until 2018 until we start to see the REAL changes. Like massively boosted police force and secret services to enforce all the migration-related administration we need them for, things like revocation of residency permits and citizenships that were granted on false premises, things like revocation of said residency permits and citizenships upon entering into crime, of expelling criminals in every case assuming they have a second citizenship or residency, of properly logging the biometrics of every perpetrator/migrant and of properly following up and identifying every one of these 'paperless' migrants, such as nationality for relocation purposes. Hell. Follow up even the ones that provided identifications! We won't miss anybody that did not enter the nation through the correct channels anyway. We already have proper migration policies after all. Kick out every asylum seeker if able. Hell, have them apply for 'normal' migration. No sense in wasting people who come here with a work ethic that we would lose anything from.
Today... Today some municipalities and cities grant things like welfare payouts to people even without proof of residency or anything! But they pretty much have to... The city of Malmö would collapse if they didn't. It's our southern-most major city, and migrants prefer warmer more urban environments after all. It's good to have most of them collected in the same area. Pity about the daily shootings, though. They mostly fight with their own kind, so it's not a super bad situation. Not even a massive enough drain on the state as they could be, as it is impossible to police the infected neighborhoods. Not to mention that things like ambulances, fire trucks also get rocks thrown at them... They have access to assault rifles, but so far they haven't really used them against our social elements. Or against each other. But the time will eventually come. Not quite favelas just yet. But we're getting there.
Things are bleak, but they ARE improving. Gotta look this shit in the eye, not take comfort elsewhere with the PK trash that we are fed. Just keep calm and carry on. Democracy is a slow process. At least until we elect the nazis, but by then i feel that we would have most things sorted out.
Just leaving the union would solve most problems. Just gotta get to work ranking down on that 'thegoodcountry.org' listing. Hell, if nothing ELSE told you that there is a huge problem, that index does!