Reaction To What is the Best and Worst Thing About Living in Sweden
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2023
- Reaction To What is the Best and Worst Thing About Living in Sweden
This is my reaction to What is the Best and Worst Thing About Living in Sweden
In this video I react to the Swedish public and foreigners in the country being asked questions about the best and worst things about life in Sweden
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I don’t know what she meant about the service. In Sweden the service is great, but they leave you alone, only coming up a few times to make sure everything is good. They don’t want to bother you too much. I guess, in France, they are more forward and sociable. Maybe she’s not used to the Swedish culture of not wanting to bother people unnecessarily.
We do not have a tipping culture in Sweden. The employees are payed a fair wage. We only tip if the service is exceptional!
I came here to say the same thing. I can only talk for myself but I really don't like to be disturbed when I am at a restaurant. I am chewing my food, leave me alone ffs 😂 If I do need a refill, a new knife, a dessert or whatever I get the waiters attention and just ask for it. Countries where you need to tip will of course have waiters that check up on you every now and then because they have to make sure they get tipped. Also impossible to compare a city like Paris to Stockholm. They have a huge amount of tourists. Of course we have them to but no where near the amount as Paris, Barcelona, New York and so on. Same thing if I walk into a fashion store or similar. "Hi, do you need any help?" Jeebus, Ive been here 3 seconds, give me some space.
I actually do agree with here. Service in Sweden is appalling.. well more so in big cities. In towns its usually fairly good, or at least somewhat good. Going to Asia, UK, north america, even Africa, the service is generally considerably better.
Completely agree, at least in major cities the service is great.
You don't get bugged by the servers, but if you ask for something it's delivered quickly and without any fuss
Service in France is reaaally bad. Well Paris atleast.
@@viikmaqic IDK, I've been to France quite a lot and never had any complaints, I think it's just a different manner/culture from what you're used to.
Sweden doesn't have bad service. It's a mentality to not disturb, suck up to customers. I myself don't want people to disturb me while eating, or shopping. If I want something I'll ask for it.
Many people from outside take these things for granted.
Same.
But we do tho ?do you say we do not have bad service that is. It's abysmal even. everything is slow, they are a bit rude, because they are better than this (in their minds). and after we paid for our overpriced meals & drinks, we are still expected to pay a tip? for what? they get damn good pay in sweden, probably more than me. maybe if you can afford a restaurant in Stockholm with 700+ SEK steaks, maybe then it's fine, I wouldn't know.
The electricy problem is that the EU has a common electricy market. Germany has also recently closed down their Electric producing nuclear power plants. So in the winter time when electricy is needed for heating much of the Sweden produced electricity is sent abroad for a much higher price. Sweden get effect losses and has to shut down consumers urging people to save electricity during peak hours.
Well.. Sweden closed down 2 nuclear reactors really very recently. The last one to be closed down, the R1, was actually closed down AFTER the crisis started.
We're in Jamtland and the winter in our area came early...October, with a full two foot of snow which is now three and still lying. The sun struggles to broach the horizon now and the darkness can be a little depressing, but I cope by lighting lots of candles and a log fire. I read in the news that the gov expect utilities to rise again next year, which is disheartening because our electricity bill, paid monthly, is pretty high already. I get why but it doesn't negate the fact it's getting tougher to cope with. Thrice now nighttime temperatures have reached minus thirty celsius here and damn but you do feel it! My favourite city is Ostersund. In the summer they have a world food market and it was wonderful. Surprised some folks in the vid said "pastries" as I find the pastries here can't get past cinnamon or cardamom. My husband's Belgian and I have fond, fattening memories of the wide range of gorgeous pastries from there. :) C'mon Sweden, try out some custard slices! :D
Wondering if any Swede would kindly confirm, does Sweden have property tax here? I searched online but get conflicting responses, some sites saying it was abolished, others not.
Well, we swedes are reserved and if there is something you ask for it or if you need some help, you also ask for it. I was born in Gothenburg and i love that city but now i live in the northern parts of Sweden and i love it here.
I grew up in Stockholm, but so much has changed over the 50 or so years I lived there, it's a love/hate situation.
Best things are eg Many free museums, (Almost) free healthcare, Free education including Uni.
The worst thing is the social bit, or the lack thereof, as an adult it's extremely difficult to make new friends.
Personally i dislike all large and largish cities. Its so relaxing living in a small city or a town, that have everything you need not no stress, and people are friendly.
And still, if you want to do something special. Typically the larger cities is 30 minutes away with train or so.
@@matsv201 I hear you.
I lived on the countryside for 10 years, but I got a bit bored. (I realize now that it's more like 40 years that I lived in Stockholm), anyways, it's nice to have access to arts exhibitions and music events, and I quite like the fast pace of a larger city.
I suppose it's mostly about how one grew up...
@@matsv201 I live in Stockholm but not in the city center. My apartment is located a 5 minute walk away from 2 different lakes, forests, hembygdsgård and several parks and gardens. I also have a shopping mall 5 minutes away with dentist, doctors, gym, restaurants, cafees and so on. I see foxes, hedgehogs, squirrels and deer almost daily from my balcony. It's usually quiet and very relaxing to live here. People are friendly and helpful, neighbours talk to eachother. Most people that live in Stockholm doesnt live in the smack middle of it.
I live in the country, have done so all my life, can't stand cities except as a short-term guest, I don't experience any problems with electricity even though I live in a very small village, maybe have one power cut per year, never longer than 1 hour it's usually only if the temperature drops below minus 20, it's also regulated by law if a power outage exceeds (not entirely sure but I think it's 24 hours) then you have the right to compensation, of course we have a fairly high tax burden, but with that we have many advantages as well, such as free school meals, if you need a doctor's visit often during 1 year, as a rule, it costs 300 Swedish kronor for a visit, if your costs exceed 2000 kroner in a year, you have all doctor's visits completely free from the date you made your first visits during the year, like March 2023-March 2024, same with medicine, but I believe that you have a free card when the costs exceed SEK 1,200.
I am curious. I hear we are so bad at socialising and that we dont talk to eachother or to strangers. Do the rest of the world talk to strangers at 7am when they are on their way to work? When you buy grocerys, do you talk to the other people that are there to buy milk? And if so, what do you talk about? Deep stuff or just shallow talk about the weather or how expensive food has gotten? Do you add them on facebook/instagram/swap numbers and then activly spend time with them? Or are we just called out for not loving shallow empty small talk? I meet new people all the time and have no problems being social even though I am an introvert. I do however not get to private with strangers and I dont feel the need to have 78676 friends.
yes they do.. and its very annoying.
I'm from Stockholm and my favourite city is Uppsala. It's not as big, it's a bike city, it has it's Fyrisån and overall just a great city (architecture and what not). Best beach is (imo) in Öland - Böda Sand
Sweden produces a surplus of electricity, but as the system works now, it is sold to the European market and then we get to buy back our own electricity. When Europe ran out of gas after Russia attacked Ukraine and a gas pipeline blew up, continental Europe has needed more electricity than they produce themselves. Our electricity thus became more expensive for us to buy back as the price became more expensive. People blame this on decommissioned nuclear power plants without seeing that we don't actually have a shortage of electricity...yet. Europe has a shortage of electricity and it affects us.
That is a truth with some modification. The north of Sweden produce a surplus of electricity due to most hydro-plant being in the north. However it is a huge challange to transport all that electricity down south were most of the consumption is in the country due to the loss of electricity that happens when it is transported over distance. The second thing is that physical infrastructure of the backbone grid is getting older at the same time as it has not been expanded to fit the modern need. So even if there would be zero electricity loss due to transportation over distance the grid is self create such a bottleneck that it would still be a shortage in the big cities.
Part of the problem was the system that was put in place in 1996 due to deregulation of the electricity market (it was govermentaly owned before that). This system sold the regional portions off the grid to private companies. This then basically created regional private monopolies (as the customer can not choose whatgrid company to use, there is only one option). This gave us the worst of two worlds; private monopolies. It is like putting a fox in henhouse to allow private companies whos aim is profit to become the only possible provider of a exicistencial service/product to a subset of the people. In any other business that would be illegal. To build out the backbone grid system cost an insane amount of money, so why do that if you do not earn money on it (as the end customers are in another region controlled by another company so no money would end up in your pocket)? This dysfunctional system is totally constructed by politicians to quickly plug the holes in the state treasurey back in the -90s - so a shortsighted political f* up. Hrm sorry "clumsiness".
This could be fixed (read patched up with glue, wire, and ducktape - and a substacial punch on the side) if the nucelar reactors would start up, even expanded, again. However the current penalty taxes on it and the political insecurity in this question makes companies not really willing to take the risk to make the investments. This really is a political issue not a market issue.
But you are correct that we are bound by threatiesis to export a portion of our electricity. However when we do not uphold that quota (because we are using it inside the country instead) Sweden has to start dirty old backup powerplants that runs on oil. This is expensive and the system is done so that the most expensive kilowatt hour is what set the price for the whole thing even if it is just a tiiiiny percentage. This pushes up the prices ridiculously, especially in the southern regions. That we then have to buy our own, very expensive and dirty electricity back from the european market because the electricity from the north is not reaching the south in enough "volume" pushes up the prices even further. This yet again is a mess constructed be politicians.
And I have probably only scratch the surface on the "political clumsiness" here...
With that said; the shortages in Europe (due to many reasons in a "perfect storm") do not make it any easier for our messy and vunrable electrical system - you are perfectly correct in that.
It's very misleading to say that Sweden has a surplus of electricity.
The politicians (environmental party and social democrats) forced the shutdown of 4 nuclear power plants in Sweden via suddenly raised taxes. "Clumsy?!"
Sweden now has periodic deficits in fossil free energy. Now Sweden has to use fossil power plants when there is no wind and cold.
The deregulated electricity market base the price on international demand - so If the Germans screw up and need more electricity - us swedes has to pay higher prices...
And thats very very bad and wrong, why should we pay from anothers mistake/choise? I would say if Germany now need more E from us they need to pay higher to benefith the people who distribute their demand. Not the other way around.
Interesting that only one person mentioned the taxes. I get the impression all the time that people don't want to pay taxes, but obviously it's not that bad after all.
I don't have a problem with the taxes, by the way, I wouldn't mind paying more, if the money is used properly.
Bad things. Well. My history teacher. We weren't even in the Second World War. She said. It took until 1989. Then a Swede wrote. The first book about our role during the war. Which other countries took seriously. That says a lot.
I agree, the market schools are a real low point when it comes to swedish education. That is something politicians should forbid, but to many of their friends are making millions on it so they won't probably, money goes to the owners instead childrens education.
Swedes are spoiled so now when its not going well for the whole world we tend to complain when we probably should be grateful for having all that we have had for so long. We are really good at complaining, most spoiled people do. We had it good for to long we got used to it.
When he said clumsiness I can only guess that he refers to the system and society not beeing ready for complications so we have backed down on the quality of our social security. We still have a right to all of it but the quality is not as good. We made misstakes in not taking care of people we took in leaving them fending for them selves. That also follows a problem with increasing nationalism, like the rest of europe, and the spiral goes down.
The absolutely best city/town is Visby, Gotland! Also, a place near Örebro is Nora. Two towns. =)
Stockholm is awfuller. The core is way to touristy. And there is a area around the core that is way to expensive. and there is a area around that area where there is way to much traffic. And that is really true for the 3 major cities. for the medium size cities they still have a lot of traffic and crime. You got to get down to the small cities and the large towns, they are generally (not all of them) really nice.
I have grew to dislike the winter, but .. its actually not the cold i dislike, its the dark. When the sun sets at 2 in the afternoon. Its really not nice. And to be fair, its actually don´t get that cold in Sweden. Even where i live inland in the middle of Svealand. Its really only rarely get very cold. We talking 2 maybe 3, some times 4 or 5 days a winter, when its freakishly cold. Most of the rest of the winter its like 0.. or -5 or something that is really not that far of 0.
6:50 This person is clearly a leftist. Here is the irony of it. The electricity problem was created by the left and the left alone. They via different force measures closed down 6 nuclear reactors and partially replaced them with windpower. The issue with windpower is that they work only sometimes. Basically everyone agrees about there is a electricity problem But the left want more windpower, the right want nuclear power, go back to the grid as it was. (and the right wing is in majority since 2022 for the first time since 1916.
8:10 the french lady is very right about the appalling services, specially so in big cities. Its usually much better in small towns.. And of cause, the Lebanese women is also right,l but that is also a big city thing
I agree with the cold, some winter days its even above 0. I am more annoyed with the ice (and the lack of sanding/maintenence) that makes me fall on my butt every now and then 😂
@@MyCatsAreDivas it's really mostly a bike problem. Studded bike tires does exist. And they for sure helps
Favorite city stockholm? Only people from stockholm would say that 😜 Down here in Skåne we call them nollåttor (08) 😆 Regarding clumsiness i would say its regarding the people with political power. All they want is power, they promise this and that but no one can deliver. And when they do make a choice it went south. Bad service though? I mean it differs from place to place, doesn't that apply to wherever you go? I haven't experienced a restaurant with bad service yet and I'm 38. And no tipping requirement what i know of, maybe in the bigger cities?
For me it's the nature. Also the variety, you can't find the nature we have down in south up in the north and vice versa.
I come from Stockholm but my favourite city is Örebro. Such gorgeous city!
Where you blindfolded when you lived in Stockholm?
Or did you live in a suburb outside town?
@@herrbonk3635 I live in Stockholm still, in Roslagstull why?
Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö and the other big city's in the south. Are weak, weak i tell you. They take 10 hours of sun a day, no more than -10c°. Meanwhile me in the middle of sweden far away from the gulf stream, get 4 hours of sun a day, and the temp is usualy (-7 to -20°c
Actually there is always exceptions to the informal rules on how to conduct yourself, by the way what’s your interest in Sweden and the Swedes come from 😊?
Shes french. They got like the best resturants in the world, so if she compares it to other countrys then all will be equaly bad to her.
Stockholm is a hell hole
The clumsiness... just a more polite way of saying incompetence.
Im from Malmö 🇸🇪 👌🏻
pros good education cons snowing
Good education depending on what you compare too. Also the preschool is heading for major crisis. Actually been in crises for years but the politicians aint doing much about it and parents/society doesnt seem to care.
I even get paid to study. I get 8000 sek a month (studygrant, no loan)
@@MyCatsAreDivas you better check that. its maximum of about 4000sek grant /month and the rest is loan.
Preschool is handled by the municipalities. There is no general crisis. There might be a crisis in some municipalities. But certainly not everywhere. And not where i live.
Elementary school in Sweden is actually quite bad. On average. High-school is pretty good, or at least on par with most other European nations, and university is generally better than most European countries (at least technical).
PISA studies have showed that Swedish education despite what i would consider pro Sweden propaganda from the media, is really not that good. Actually rather poor.
@@matsv201 4000 is the default. But there are exceptions from that. I have the higher grant meaning 8000 bidrag a month.
the problem with all these videos "about Sweden" is that every one making them is from Stockholm. that's 10% of people living here, and we all think they are brats from fjollträsk.
"nice that this Lebanese guy found it nice" he was not a recent arrival, he spoke better Swedish than me. you don't have to pay for electricity? us Swedes do? Was it only me and my family that had a hard time when the electrical prices spiked in 2020-2021? guess that isn't a problem when the state pay your family the pension money my grandparents worked for, and got cheated out of..and ultimately died without..let's bring in more! social party, that we can't handle.
if u come from libia and think u can tell if u love sweden as an hamas libian person