I’m happy to have learned that not all of you get taxed 60% - for some reason I thought it was that high so I’m sorry for the confusion. Also, if you feel like you’re not getting taxed enough you can always contribute to the journey on buymeacoffee.com/adamjmatheson Not sure if I deserve it but it will definitely help me recover from the financial burden that Sweden has inflicted upon me, as well as my personal trauma from the Surströmming stinky fish 🤢🐟 Jokes aside I really appreciate your support and cannot wait to visit Sweden again ☺️🇸🇪
@adamjmatheson I'm part Inuiaq Eskimo & our clan of people are known for eating fermented fish heads. My immediate family forbid eating the stuff. God bless you; thanks for the food laughs!
@@madeswe3165 you forgot all the other taxes and tolls.. and that they make the swedish crown weaker (A kind of stealth tax) ( we have 80-90 percent tax.. plus "inflation"
@@madeswe3165 As a Swede I can tell you that you are wrong, and im 100% sure of that. You don't understand where your taxes are taken from, arbetsgivaravgift is also a tax, and there is others. The tax rate is 60% for workers.
Being from Sweden, whenever videos of a foreigners coming to sweden, I click because its so fascinating seeing what we consider ''normal'' being something foreign to foreigners xD
We have a king and queen! The king is Karl Gustav XVI. The Queen is Queen Silvia. They work at the Royal Palace in Stockholm City. But they live in Drottningholm Palace just outside Stockholm.
I am swedish and don't know anyone who likes surströmming that stuff is nasty af lol. Last time I was near one of those cans like 10 years ago I almost threw up. Respect for giving it a go though, that is more then I will ever do xD
This is easily the best, most genuine, Stockholm vlog I’ve seen. You ended up eating surströmming with the local town drunks. That’s just as real as it gets.
Fika is usually two times a day. The time can vary. But often it's just a cup of coffee or tea. No cinnamonbun every day, more like once a week. The important thing is to sit down, take a break, and talk about everyday things.
I’m glad you enjoyed it but I actually feel like I need more time there. More neighborhoods more people more stories. I’m really blown away by Swedish culture and the society y’all have managed to build. I’m sure it has its downsides which are hard to notice on a brief visit of just a couple days. Anyways I’ll be back for sure - thanks for watching
Fika every day! At least once per day! 🙋🏻♀️ Not always with buns/pastries, though. To defend the 4 dollar fee on the subway, I just want to add that the 4 dollar fee includes going as far as you want in Stockholm + suburbs within an hour.
Fika is Holly 🎉 Sweden is my home since 26 years. I really love Sweden and Stockholm. Sweden I so special! Is has own special character in north ♥️♥️♥️🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Surstrømming is really something! Well done. In Norway we eat " lutefisk" and smoked sheephead. In Iceland they eat fermented shark. Scandinavians are crazy vikings. Lol.
Tack så mycket. We need to hear these positive words. Not always easy to live here like anywhere else in the world. The Royal Palace in the city is the administrative part of the Kingdom. They live in Drottningholm. Fika is not only a break for coffee, it is a productive break very often for sharing thoughts within work and most great ideas are created during Fika. You are brave wit the fermented herring. If you eat more than three, you stink. This food is very salty and stinky. Not for common people.
😂Got a good laughter, seeing you tasted surströmming! I should go with cooked potato and red onion thou, ( still stinky and not of my taste) Thank You for your courage to taste it!
@@adamjmathesonthis could have a similar trajectory like the bald and bankrupt channel. I found his India videos a few years ago probably before he was at 100k.
On weekdays, you usually have coffee twice a day during paid working hours, once in the morning (breakfast) and once in the afternoon. Usually a cup of coffee and a sandwich, fruit or pastry and each coffee break is approximately 15-20 minutes. The coffee is usually paid for by the employer and sometimes also the fruit. Love that you got to talk to a weirdo 😂
At around 3.33 you were not at the most posh part of Stockholm, just the city. At 5.13 though you were 🙂. And fika at work yes, but not with sweats all the time, then we would go fat. Mostly when seeing a friend for a fika outside of work.
Great video, many thanks! 2-3 fika a day, but buns only on the weekend. No, wait, I forgot about evening fika, so 3-4 a day. Most often just a cup of Earl Grey Tea. 60% tax, or there about, is only for the ones with high above average salary, like the top 10%. Most people pay about 30-35%, those with really low income pays allmost no tax.
Oml this old man reminds me so much of my gone grandpa. He was very social, but pretty addicted to exactly that beer and smoking and would lie to himself and us that he was not addicted by saying similar stuff
Surströmming should be eaten outside on a beautiful day in August when the temparture is pleasant. You should not eat the whole filet, but after having rinsed them in water you cut them into small pieces. You then put butter on the Tunnbröd and small pieces of surströmming and boiled potatoes. Put on plenty of chopped onion and maybe a little bit of sour cream. Then you get a balanced meal. Without potatoes and chopped onion, it will not be any good. The small pieces of surströmming should be put sparingly on the tunnbröd. Drink milk along with it.
आपका बात करने का तरीका बहुत अच्छा है और आपकी ये विडिओ भी बहुत अच्छी है और भाई आपको ईश्वर और तरकी दे और आप ऐसे ही वीडियो बनाते रहो और ऐसे ही हमेशा खुश रहो आपकी ये वीडियो देख कर बहुत अच्छा लगा ।
You forgot about social tax, its added by the employer but its still tax on your salary. If you make more than 60k a month you are taxed 66 percent for everything above 60k. And 60k is not a high salary for someone living in Stockholm.
@@andersmalmgren6528 Well but thats not really tax and it is the employer who pays, not you as an employee (it´s not like you woulg get a higher salary without it). Its more like 50% not 66%. So if you have a salary of 80000 sek/month you will pay about 37% in tax.
@@MagnusFoss Dude, there is a reason why the social democrats did what they did , its to get away with it with people like you. There is nothing in the social tax that isnt a tax, some of it might get back to you in form of pension etc, but nothing is certain. And if you make more than the break point for goverment tax none is going back to you, ever. Its 66 percent not 50. Read up my friend. If you make 80k, 20k will be taxed 66 percent including social tax. Btw, if social tax wasnt a thing then the employer would have a bigger budget to give you more salary. Also if you are a better negotiator than your colleagues then you can negotiate your colleagues parts too. But I bet you are the type that let the union do that for you right? Then probably someone else at the company will get that money, thats true. I'm self employed and would get that money. Lukily for me I can take out dividend (utdelning) for 20% tax plus coparate tax. At a total of about 30%
@@andersmalmgren6528Genomsnittslönen i Sverige är ca 38300 kr i månaden. Endast 10 procent av den arbetsföra befolkningen har lön över 60000 kr/mån. Före skatt beräknas görs ett grundavdrag. Storleken på avdraget beror på hur stor lönen är. Den effektiva skattesatsen på en månadslön på 60000 är ca 35,4 %. Dessa siffror är enligt svar från chatgpt som visat noggranna uträkningar.
the Nordics are really the only developed areas so north. unprepared and unproductive can't survive in such cold places like they do near the coast of southern california they have good access to open water sp they can trade
@@adamjmatheson Most Swedes want to be self-reliant. The creative ones create companies. But they also like helping others and never boasting about what they accomplish, or being selfish. Combine that with not liking wasting time and you get a good mixture that leads to a healthy society.
Drinking luke-warm Norrlands Djup and eating Surströmming in the middle of november in Uppsala. That's probably the most sweden experience you could ask for lmao. Cold Djup is amazing, Surströmming is awful, always!
Just gotta say, the idea that Swedes are taxed to death that you mention in passing at 20:04 is essentially a huge persistent myth. It’s a slightly more convoluted system in terms of brackets, but on average most Swedes pay no more than like 30% taxes. In reality it’s less than most other countries in the west. It’s just that the wealthy are taxed a lot more to compensate. And the taxes are spent relatively efficiently.
Well, that is NOT how you eat surströmming lol. You should take the meat out of the fish, because you don't eat the whole fish. Then you have to eat it with stuff, like potatoes and onions and so on, so not only with bread and sour cream.
lol I know unfortunately I didn’t have time to do it properly. I just stopped at the fish store to get some smoked salmon before my train ride to Uppsala and the friendly gent Leonard introduced me to Surströmming. I had no Swedish friends or family to share it with and was limited on the amount of sunlight I had left that day. Luckily enough I met John right after arriving in Uppsala and he got his friends together at the main square to watch me eat it. Hopefully next visit to Sweden I’ll have a proper setup but I gotta admit I don’t feel like eating that stuff again lol.
@@adamjmatheson Understandable. I'm no fan of it myself. I think there are a lot of other things I'd rather eat, and without having to deal with the smell as well. 😄
You do not open surströmming under water but in a plastic bag. You just do not eat old surströmming eather, it should be pink and sturdy., not sloppy . You eat it with onions not red onion, sour cream and potatoes. With tunnbröd on the side. It should be esten outside.
60% tax? I'm swedish and have a well payed, yet fairly normal income and pay around 36% tax and for that get many benefits in a reasonabal well functional nation. So the tax thing is BS
@@adamjmathesonAre you sure you wanna work in Sweden? Think it through first because in Sweden we only get 5 weeks vacation per year, or 6 or 7 weeks if you're lucky with a good employer.
Why dont ppl show you the correct way to eat surströmming :/ It is really good if you eat it the right way. Clean the bones get some potato. Call me next time and I will give you the real experiance. It's more of a northen thing that 08 area.
Man people don’t talk to each other in public you wanted someone to invite me over for surströmming? 😆 Send me a message on Instagram- I’d be happy to come and see how it’s done next time I’m in Sweden!
I’m happy to have learned that not all of you get taxed 60% - for some reason I thought it was that high so I’m sorry for the confusion.
Also, if you feel like you’re not getting taxed enough you can always contribute to the journey on buymeacoffee.com/adamjmatheson
Not sure if I deserve it but it will definitely help me recover from the financial burden that Sweden has inflicted upon me, as well as my personal trauma from the Surströmming stinky fish 🤢🐟
Jokes aside I really appreciate your support and cannot wait to visit Sweden again ☺️🇸🇪
The normal tax is 30-35% and if you make more than 598 000 kr a year you pay 50% tax on what you make over that amount.
@adamjmatheson I'm part Inuiaq Eskimo & our clan of people are known for eating fermented fish heads. My immediate family forbid eating the stuff. God bless you; thanks for the food laughs!
@@madeswe3165 you forgot all the other taxes and tolls.. and that they make the swedish crown weaker (A kind of stealth tax) ( we have 80-90 percent tax.. plus "inflation"
@@johanlindqvist9308 yes I didn’t cover all of it of course.
@@madeswe3165 As a Swede I can tell you that you are wrong, and im 100% sure of that. You don't understand where your taxes are taken from, arbetsgivaravgift is also a tax, and there is others. The tax rate is 60% for workers.
Being from Sweden, whenever videos of a foreigners coming to sweden, I click because its so fascinating seeing what we consider ''normal'' being something foreign to foreigners xD
We have a king and queen! The king is Karl Gustav XVI. The Queen is Queen Silvia. They work at the Royal Palace in Stockholm City. But they live in Drottningholm Palace just outside Stockholm.
Your very cool. Hanging with the A team in a foreign country eating smelly fish. Respect!
I am swedish and don't know anyone who likes surströmming that stuff is nasty af lol. Last time I was near one of those cans like 10 years ago I almost threw up. Respect for giving it a go though, that is more then I will ever do xD
This is easily the best, most genuine, Stockholm vlog I’ve seen. You ended up eating surströmming with the local town drunks. That’s just as real as it gets.
Fika is usually two times a day. The time can vary. But often it's just a cup of coffee or tea. No cinnamonbun every day, more like once a week. The important thing is to sit down, take a break, and talk about everyday things.
when I have been visting the office, there have been cookie-jars and easy stuff like that you can have on the tables for a long time
You missed the coolest part of Kungsträdgården station. You went the wrong direction 😅
What an authentically awesome perspective of Stockholm from an outsider. Really enjoyed this one.
I’m glad you enjoyed it but I actually feel like I need more time there. More neighborhoods more people more stories. I’m really blown away by Swedish culture and the society y’all have managed to build. I’m sure it has its downsides which are hard to notice on a brief visit of just a couple days. Anyways I’ll be back for sure - thanks for watching
OMG, I love you!! I laughed so hard about the fermented fish in the park.
Hahaah it was fun and traumatizing at the same time
You should come back in summer. Then you'll see a lot of people sitting around. 😄
Great video bro, hopefully ill run in to u next time ur here!
I really liked this!! You went to places and did thing that not many youtubers do!
When you open surströmmming, please dont open it under water😂😂
thanks for being open minded about sweden and our culture!
Fika every day! At least once per day! 🙋🏻♀️ Not always with buns/pastries, though.
To defend the 4 dollar fee on the subway, I just want to add that the 4 dollar fee includes going as far as you want in Stockholm + suburbs within an hour.
Fika is Holly 🎉
Sweden is my home since 26 years. I really love Sweden and Stockholm. Sweden I so special! Is has own special character in north ♥️♥️♥️🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Surstrømming is really something! Well done. In Norway we eat " lutefisk" and smoked sheephead. In Iceland they eat fermented shark. Scandinavians are crazy vikings. Lol.
Tack så mycket. We need to hear these positive words. Not always easy to live here like anywhere else in the world. The Royal Palace in the city is the administrative part of the Kingdom. They live in Drottningholm. Fika is not only a break for coffee, it is a productive break very often for sharing thoughts within work and most great ideas are created during Fika. You are brave wit the fermented herring. If you eat more than three, you stink. This food is very salty and stinky. Not for common people.
😂Got a good laughter, seeing you tasted surströmming! I should go with cooked potato and red onion thou, ( still stinky and not of my taste) Thank You for your courage to taste it!
this channel will be breaking 100k soon. i found this channel because i was researching brazil
Hope some of my videos will help or entertain you at least. Thanks for your support! 😊
@@adamjmathesonthis could have a similar trajectory like the bald and bankrupt channel. I found his India videos a few years ago probably before he was at 100k.
Hey, Solna, my old neighborhood. Prettiest subway station, and discovering it is a bit like discovering the mindset of Sweden.
On weekdays, you usually have coffee twice a day during paid working hours, once in the morning (breakfast) and once in the afternoon. Usually a cup of coffee and a sandwich, fruit or pastry and each coffee break is approximately 15-20 minutes. The coffee is usually paid for by the employer and sometimes also the fruit.
Love that you got to talk to a weirdo 😂
Only crazy people and those from Norrland eat sour strömming. We in southern Sweden eat fresh food.
At around 3.33 you were not at the most posh part of Stockholm, just the city. At 5.13 though you were 🙂. And fika at work yes, but not with sweats all the time, then we would go fat. Mostly when seeing a friend for a fika outside of work.
Great video, many thanks! 2-3 fika a day, but buns only on the weekend. No, wait, I forgot about evening fika, so 3-4 a day. Most often just a cup of Earl Grey Tea. 60% tax, or there about, is only for the ones with high above average salary, like the top 10%. Most people pay about 30-35%, those with really low income pays allmost no tax.
Aye bruh, we are not being taxed 60% xD but i get u..
Oml this old man reminds me so much of my gone grandpa. He was very social, but pretty addicted to exactly that beer and smoking and would lie to himself and us that he was not addicted by saying similar stuff
We generally definitely don't eat cinnamon buns everyday.
but we fika everyday ....
Surströmming should be eaten outside on a beautiful day in August when the temparture is pleasant. You should not eat the whole filet, but after having rinsed them in water you cut them into small pieces. You then put butter on the Tunnbröd and small pieces of surströmming and boiled potatoes. Put on plenty of chopped onion and maybe a little bit of sour cream. Then you get a balanced meal. Without potatoes and chopped onion, it will not be any good. The small pieces of surströmming should be put sparingly on the tunnbröd. Drink milk along with it.
Haha… great video, great ending. För Sverige!🇸🇪
आपका बात करने का तरीका बहुत अच्छा है और आपकी ये विडिओ भी बहुत अच्छी है और भाई आपको ईश्वर और तरकी दे और आप ऐसे ही वीडियो बनाते रहो और ऐसे ही हमेशा खुश रहो आपकी ये वीडियो देख कर बहुत अच्छा लगा ।
Thank you my friend your support means a lot to me ☺️
The delivery guy in the beginning is riding an electric bicycle designed for deliveries. Excellent for use in cities.
hahah hanging out with the local drunks is fucking great man, great vid
21:30 That canned fish should classified as a biological warfare agents lol
We are not taxed 60%, the generql taxation is about 30%
You forgot about social tax, its added by the employer but its still tax on your salary. If you make more than 60k a month you are taxed 66 percent for everything above 60k. And 60k is not a high salary for someone living in Stockholm.
@@andersmalmgren6528 Well but thats not really tax and it is the employer who pays, not you as an employee (it´s not like you woulg get a higher salary without it). Its more like 50% not 66%. So if you have a salary of 80000 sek/month you will pay about 37% in tax.
@@MagnusFoss Dude, there is a reason why the social democrats did what they did , its to get away with it with people like you. There is nothing in the social tax that isnt a tax, some of it might get back to you in form of pension etc, but nothing is certain. And if you make more than the break point for goverment tax none is going back to you, ever. Its 66 percent not 50. Read up my friend. If you make 80k, 20k will be taxed 66 percent including social tax. Btw, if social tax wasnt a thing then the employer would have a bigger budget to give you more salary. Also if you are a better negotiator than your colleagues then you can negotiate your colleagues parts too. But I bet you are the type that let the union do that for you right? Then probably someone else at the company will get that money, thats true. I'm self employed and would get that money. Lukily for me I can take out dividend (utdelning) for 20% tax plus coparate tax. At a total of about 30%
@@andersmalmgren6528Genomsnittslönen i Sverige är ca 38300 kr i månaden. Endast 10 procent av den arbetsföra befolkningen har lön över 60000 kr/mån. Före skatt beräknas görs ett grundavdrag. Storleken på avdraget beror på hur stor lönen är. Den effektiva skattesatsen på en månadslön på 60000 är ca 35,4 %. Dessa siffror är enligt svar från chatgpt som visat noggranna uträkningar.
I live in Stockholm and i said to myself, dont get of the boat in that location..hehe...go to sodermalm
Haha I’ve been to sodermalm. Great neighborhood. For some reason I didn’t feature it in the video but I’ll have to go back:)
the cold is a big part of what breeds that kind of culture. and probably the waterways
Maybe but I've been to a lot of cold places where they can't produce 10% of what the Swedes can. Any other contributing factors?
the Nordics are really the only developed areas so north. unprepared and unproductive can't survive in such cold places like they do near the coast of southern california they have good access to open water sp they can trade
@@adamjmatheson Most Swedes want to be self-reliant. The creative ones create companies. But they also like helping others and never boasting about what they accomplish, or being selfish.
Combine that with not liking wasting time and you get a good mixture that leads to a healthy society.
@ love to hear it. Thanks so much for your input and for watching :)
Drinking luke-warm Norrlands Djup and eating Surströmming in the middle of november in Uppsala. That's probably the most sweden experience you could ask for lmao.
Cold Djup is amazing, Surströmming is awful, always!
Just gotta say, the idea that Swedes are taxed to death that you mention in passing at 20:04 is essentially a huge persistent myth. It’s a slightly more convoluted system in terms of brackets, but on average most Swedes pay no more than like 30% taxes. In reality it’s less than most other countries in the west. It’s just that the wealthy are taxed a lot more to compensate. And the taxes are spent relatively efficiently.
Oscars surströmming 👍🏻with västerbottensost, potatoes ,red onion and butter
Our drivers education teaches us not to use the horn while driving unless necessary.
Well, that is NOT how you eat surströmming lol. You should take the meat out of the fish, because you don't eat the whole fish. Then you have to eat it with stuff, like potatoes and onions and so on, so not only with bread and sour cream.
lol I know unfortunately I didn’t have time to do it properly. I just stopped at the fish store to get some smoked salmon before my train ride to Uppsala and the friendly gent Leonard introduced me to Surströmming.
I had no Swedish friends or family to share it with and was limited on the amount of sunlight I had left that day.
Luckily enough I met John right after arriving in Uppsala and he got his friends together at the main square to watch me eat it.
Hopefully next visit to Sweden I’ll have a proper setup but I gotta admit I don’t feel like eating that stuff again lol.
@@adamjmatheson Understandable. I'm no fan of it myself. I think there are a lot of other things I'd rather eat, and without having to deal with the smell as well. 😄
You are so charming, yes, keep up the good work
As a Swede never tried that smelly fish. Well done!:)
You do not open surströmming under water but in a plastic bag. You just do not eat old surströmming eather, it should be pink and sturdy., not sloppy . You eat it with onions not red onion, sour cream and potatoes. With tunnbröd on the side. It should be esten outside.
60% tax? I'm swedish and have a well payed, yet fairly normal income and pay around 36% tax and for that get many benefits in a reasonabal well functional nation. So the tax thing is BS
Key work being it.
Fika is usually 2 times per day on a weekday
That sounds great to me. Can someone get me a job in Sweden?
@@adamjmathesonAre you sure you wanna work in Sweden? Think it through first because in Sweden we only get 5 weeks vacation per year, or 6 or 7 weeks if you're lucky with a good employer.
@@Ahldor it’s probably because of all that fika time!
@@adamjmatheson He is lying. We get 25 payed vacation days per years mandatory by law.
1-2 fika per day during a work day 😤
At work we have alot of fika, its mandatory ;)
Asking people about in Stockholm is not a good idea. You're then ruling out the rest of Sweden when it comes to fermanted hearing.
0.2 % maybe
Too cold to sit around outside.
Only if you are not properly clothed.
hahahaha you are a funny guy :))
Fika is 2 times a day..... 0.9.00 o'clock and 14.00 o'clock.😁
And 11 o'clock!
@@falukropp2000 That is coffe at lunch doesn't count 😁
2 times a day at 10:00 and 15:00. Inte 9:00 och 14:00 då vet man inte vad man pratar om!
@@bengtolsson5436 för en sju sovare kanske...
Proud of you staying away from the booze too. God bless you
Why dont ppl show you the correct way to eat surströmming :/ It is really good if you eat it the right way. Clean the bones get some potato. Call me next time and I will give you the real experiance. It's more of a northen thing that 08 area.
Man people don’t talk to each other in public you wanted someone to invite me over for surströmming? 😆
Send me a message on Instagram- I’d be happy to come and see how it’s done next time I’m in Sweden!
We still have a King, he's pretty cool.