Just a disclaimer, since many of you down here seem to think I am not Swedish. Hejhej, jag är svensk, och den här viden är från en svensk persons perspektiv. Tusen tack för alla kommentarer, ni är alla gullpluttar! ^^
@@FishSlappee Try Moscow. I mean seriously much more freedom than west, from low quality life commie blocks to beauty and posh lifestyle, complete randomness, really much more freedom, until u try to pretend liberal, even LGBT is okay, until you're not showing off.
@@FishSlappee Sweden 🇸🇪 Is Clean! Just Like The Netherlands 🇳🇱 -Excellent Education Systems. -Hardly Any Teen Moms. -Cleaner Air & Water. -Beautiful Affordable Homes. -Aspirational Mentality Through Out. -Great Culinary Delights + Fresh Ingredients. I Literally Could Go On! 😍
Don't be too fooled by the no alcohol and no interactions with people. Because alcohol is so limited here, the Swedes drink like crazy. I live in Prague and often travel between the two countries. The amount of piss drunk Swedes at 7 am in the plane is shocking. About the no interactions. Last weekend I went to a concert on the boat Patricia. It was so goddamn crowded! People pushed and shoved. It was impossible to be anywhere else than all the way in the back and thus not see much. The public transport in peak times is sometimes unbearable. I'm sure that when you live in the middle of nowhere somewhere in the north then yeah, it can be less crowded but then again, dunno how the job situation looks like there.
@kikivondugong1306 I actually live in one of the drunkest cities in America (in Wisconsin) so dealing with drunks isn't anything new to me. I also only leave the house if I have too. I try to avoid over crowded places as much as possible. I swear everyone looks at me funny when I say I love the darker months of winter like I'm some kind of freak. I would definitely love to live in the middle of nowhere away from the hustle and bustle and jave some peace and quiet. Maybe when I retire lol!
Yes, one of the things I couldn't get used to is this lack of eye contact. I lived in a big city and still felled I did not exist. If I needed to have a small talk I had to go to a shop to buy something...I had a hard times there.
🙂If you are into eye contact you should try staying in Germany, or to a lesser extend in Austria for while. Random strangers will give you the charming and warm "germanic stare", and if you do stare back at them, they don't look away as it is common pretty everywhere else, but continue as if you are curious object they are judging. Off course being respectful to strangers is important in every country, but the local definition of what being respectful means, can vary quite a bit. German speaking countries respect privacy and personal space (they all also have laws against loud noise/music after 10 pm e.g.), so being in public the logic there is to move around in your "privacy-bubble" that won't be disturbed by others, like addressing you or sending non-verbal signals/clues including looks. Therefore eye contact with strangers including staring, is n o t seen as a form of communication or making contact. Rather like watching someone on tv/yt or a street cam channel. And especially Germans, who haven't lived abroad are not aware how staring is considered to be very rude in most countries. check out: "Why Germans stare": ua-cam.com/video/5o6ga9IX-_s/v-deo.html Coming back to your comment about the lack of eye contact in Sweden: I found the resulting combination of social norms very interesting: also respecting personal space aka the "Swedish refrigerator" but then combined with the social norm of n o t making eye contact with or staring at strangers in contrast to Germany (in subtiler versions Austria and Switzerland). Could someone please elaborate the logic of the social norm behind that combo? Thanks.
@@Titbitistits becuse the elitists has programmed them to keep each other subservient and slaves, they are beyond pathetic to believe its natural behaviour, its all instilled unto them
If You know Swedish and English - You Are More open than Most of Europeans ! You May talk svenska to Swedes & and The rest of The World with English ! Många svenskar vet att i Finland - talar man svenska också !
@@jonathanlindgren4962 Helt Galen ! Svenskarna har Helt annat historia - efter andra välrdskriget ! Svenskarna spelade tennis - när de andra krigade och stupade !
@@holoholopainen1627 Väldigt få finnar vet att Finland är både svensk och finsk språkigt!! Finnlandsvenskar blir fortfarande förtryckta av finska folke.. Man kan alltid kolla åt andra hållet men det existerar än idag... Vart hatet kommer ifrån förstår jag inte men att förneka att de existerar är o välja att vara blind!!
I've been to Stockholm, Uppsala and a few other places in Sweden and it's probably one of my favourite places ever. Stockholm is actually a big city with a population of almost 1 million people (big for European standards) but you're right, it doesn't feel that way. Probably because it's so spread out and there aren't that many people just hanging out on the streets. Swedes are busy bees and they keep to themselves but they're always kind and helpful. I felt safe at all times and everything runs smoothly, not to mention how clean the city is. The public transport is probably the best in the world, only Japan can compete with it. As a result most people in Stockholm don't even own cars, so there's way less car pollution.What I probably loved most is that it's essentially spread out over these little islands all connected with tiny bridges. There's water everywhere you turn. A beautiful place, truly. Swedes, be proud of your country.
they dont own cars because leftist government tax it so much. its about $2,5 per litre... Why? because they want everyone to move to the city and not live rural because cars "ruin" the environment. Also to get more tax money because they have to travel so far. This country man i swear its run like a business...
Stockholm with its suburbs has 1.6 million inhabitants and Stockholm as a whole(suburbs and surrounding communes) has 2.4 million inhabitants. But yeah, the inner city has just shy of a million.
Having lived 8 years in Japan and 9 years in the USA, I am ready to return to my home country, Finland. In the above video you could pretty much replace Swedish with Finnish, Sweden with Finland, Stockholm with Helsinki, and Systembolaget with Alko and everything would be true.
Yes, it pretty much sounds like Finland, except that queuing system for appertmens in Stockholm. Not sure if got it right though, that have to queue for BUYING one? And systembolaget so much funnier than Alko, and we can get stronger alcohol (5,6%) in supermarkets
Rest of Europe is like sowjet union. in ireland i heard you are only allowed to buy beer after 16 oclock. the have it in the supermarket but the wont sell you before that time :D
I have similar background as you, I am from east Finland, my family emigrated to Sweden, one year as an exchange student in the US and some years later I emigrated to Japan where I have lived for 18 years. Now I am back in Sweden to study more and everything sucks.
I spend lots of time there. You are totally cool to see these things. One time I bought vegetables from a stand. The next day I was walking with my sister in law and I said hi to the vegetable guy. My sister in law was shocked. Do you know him. Well, I do now because I met him yesterday. But you don’t know him. Well, fuck yea I do, I met him when I was buying vegetables. Jesus Christ. You are the next generation Swede. It makes me so happy
I was visiting a friend and her family in Sweden and was taken on a tour by my friend’s mother who by Swedish standards was considered quite eccentric, which every Swede we encountered on our tour took pains to let me know. Namely she talked to strangers, was irreverent and I am sure other qualities I failed to notice because I am from New York and used to just about every form of eccentricity and it doesn’t ruffle a feather. It struck me that her life must have been very frustrating, having her wings clipped at every turn and being branded weird, when in fact she was quite brilliant and charmingly engaging, from my perspective.
@@Feline-philosopher I feel like this is the case in many western European countries 🤷♀, I'm Belgian and honestly feel like Swedish society has a similar mentality (maybe Belgium is a bit looser in some aspects but not by that much I think), other countries like Germany, Switzerland, Austria... are quite rigid too.
I like how you said Swedish cities are small and then mentioned Tokyo, literally the largest city in the world 😂 Interesting video though, I've never been to Sweden and this offers a bit different perspective than I usually hear
Funny honest strait-talk video, so cheers for that. I had a similar love/hate time as an American living in Germany (I had a German girlfriend who I met on holiday in Australia). Germans tend to be more loose and free and extrovert and open-minded when they are out of their country, but fall in love with one of them and follow them back to their homeland and they suddenly become boring and less interesting, go figure. Also it's almost forbidden to make casual talk with strangers, even in a pub, as in you need to be introduced by a mutual friend first. On public transport they all stare at the floor and refuse to make eye contact or smile at each other. During my time in Germany I went to India for three months and returned fully tanned and wearing bright colors and feeling very joyful and extroverted, but no, upon returning to Germany my attitude was shunned and I had to go back to wearing black and grey clothes and shut the f*ck up, stop being so happy dammit. Also the language, for example on a nice evening I would hear the sound of crickets (grasshoppers) and say how lovely it was, but in German, "das ist eine Heuschrecke!" like you just violated some severe rule of law by mentioning it. Ok to be fair there were things I loved in Germany, like Christmas which is done with some great traditions and minimal materialism, and they have great bicycle paths so you can go everywhere under your own two-wheeled power, and ironically despite the uptight social attitudes in Summer you can take off all your clothes to sunbathe and swim in a lake with hundreds of other naked people with no sense of shame whatsoever. And you can drive on the Autobahn at ridiculous high speed as long as your car is up to the task. I could go on and on about the loves and the hates of living in Germany, but now I live in a rice field in northern Thailand which has a very different list of loves and non-loves, but at least I don't hate it, except for maybe the death wish they have on the roads driving like idiots. ;-)
See this is why Berlin is the only place in Germany I'd want to live in. But then Berlin, to me, is one of the best places ever in general. Hopefully I can live there for at least a year in the future. Fingers crossed.
I am first generation American on my mother's side. She cam to the states with her family as a child. I grew up eating lots of Swedish food. I can say my mom was very reserved and didn't strike up conversations with people. She was tough as nails as was her entire family. She was not a hugger . She loved her country . I suffer from depression and couldn't deal with all the dark days.
I do not find Swedes too bad. More reserved but, I find once you make a Swedish friend you have them for life. One, I started talking to again after years of not a lot of contact with each other but it is like, we picked up where we left off.
MDobri2378 nonsense all my friends betrayed me, you don't get them for life at all, is not much different than other countries just go out to bars and whatever i want to meet new friends I unfortunately cant do it in the same way any more as sick with spinal cord injure and FK refuse help me so don't have afford with the costs to not need to live isolated
@@SatanenPerkele In my experience this is just with 95% of people in general as time goes on Swede or not. And vice-versa. Some of my friends growing up and in college it just felt weird of we did not have the same interests anymore or at way different stages of our lives. To me, it was like trying to talk to strangers and I felt the effort was not worth it. I guess, I got lucky though with the two Swedes, I meet although, I am trying to tone it down a bit. They probably think, "That's great you are learning Swedish, we get it." Lol.
It's about your personal taste. I'd die if I lived in a country like that but there are people who enjoy darkness,loneliness and cold weather. Nothing wrong. I spent 3 months in Sweden and 12 in England for an erasmus but...no,it's a lifestyle that I'll never understand I prefer Spain and Buenos Aires without any doubt. There are some people who think living in Sweden is like living in heaven but when these people discover (very soon) they have no contacts there and that the weather is not warm enough for outdoor activities (from october to middle April),they go back on their steps. If you're not from there it's very difficult to apreciate that country.
"Hard to get to know, but friends for life" is nonsense that swedes themselves like to repeat. But since we are generalizing here maybe you are from USA, where everyone says "love yooouu" when they don't?
@@bengillen1287 Actually, I am Canadian and mostly Italian and Slavic so, I pretty much don’t like most people and good at looking like I hate everyone but just want to be left alone most of the time.
I've always wanted to go to Sweden as I live in America and appreciate the beauty of that country... However, your video has given me some gratitude for what I have here... Thank you for having the courage to tell the truth...
@Europe is better than Wow, how very sad... I'm a non-conformist as I have my own mind... I guess, I'll just appreciate it from afar.... America is turning into Babylon however thankfully, not in my neighborhood yet....
This is the problem with americans that I often notice on the internet. You seem to take the advantages of living in your country for granted. I don't really understand why.
I'm from Greece and I want to live in Sweden. I don't know how I could adapt from 250 days a year of pure sun to a darker-colder place but I love cold as well. I adore Sweden, I like the culture, I haven't met Swedes so it would also be a challenge because in Greece we are very open with strangers and everyone. I like Greece for its beauty, places, food (alcohol access everywhere🤭) but everything else, I don't even want to think about it. Living in Greece is more a survival task then anything. I 'm learning swedish, I listen to swedish music, definitely I will move to Sweden.
He is generalising because Stockholm is quite far north. I lived in most Southerly and central/Western Sweden, and there was no 24 hour darkness. It gets dark an hour or so earlier in the winter than other places in Europe perhaps. After 15 years, I got tired of poor job oppportunities and people being terrified of eachother. I now live in the UK. In hindsight, I wish I had moved somewhere else or simply stayed. Sweden is boring, but people are interesting and life was peaceful.
lol you are insane if you move from Greece to Sweden. The only difference is that the economy and your salary will be better, and there's more order when you want to have things fixed. I would never trade Greek weather, nature, archeology and history for Swedish money and order.
@@gulanhem9495 I understand what you say. As it is usual, most of the people want to live in a different place from that they live or are born, that's why we change cities and countries. But, if we neglect the fact that I personally like Sweden from every aspect, economy, order, people, nature, cities, every beauty that Sweden has, living in Greece is more a survival task than actually living. Foreigners look at Greece as a heaven on earth, natural beauty, heritage, food, history, everything, but living here is a total different thing. Disorder and unemployment.
@@ZEE-es3jk my impression is that scandinavian humor is rather dark as well. And he is swedish... :) So I reckon it's hard to tell whether it's british or scandinavian... you're right though... british goes that direction too. I'm not sure yet how the both distinguish. However, I have heard Scandinavians saying that scandinavian humor is actually not funny at all. I wouldn't know since I'm not Scandinavian but I have seen plenty of scandinavian movies and shows and always found them hilarious. The dark kind of hilarious. But maybe they don't actually reflect the scandinavian people. 🤷♂
@@Adrian_Marmy his English accent and the way he talks is much closer to how English people talk (and think) than Swedish people. Probably his mother or father is English, or he has had a significant English influence in his life.
@@ZEE-es3jk I don't think that makes any sense. Yes it's true that he hasn't got a Swedish accent when he speaks English. That doesn't make him any less of a Swede though, does it? He surely is able to talk swedish without an accent as well . :-) but besides that humor and language are not the same. Can't a person have the humor of one culture yet speak another language perfectly well?
@@Adrian_Marmy as a Swede I find this fellow very Swedish somehow even if not typically Swedish. Felix Herngren is maybe more (stereo)typically Swedish, but not more Swedish.
i lived in denmark 2 years , it was boring to death , cold , dark and depressing, and people avoided me like the plague. then i came to london , its crazy but i love it ♥
i live in America and i often felt it isolating. Then again, my roots are from non-western countries where its easy to make long lasting relationships within minutes, so my tolerance level on this matter are the lowest. If you actually want to know what its like to live life, go to Asian or Latin American countries. You'll never feel bored.
Finland and Sweden are incredibly similar in many ways. The ice cold exterior, seasonal depression, restrictions on selling alcohol, not to mention all the social security system and high quality (and cost) of living etc. etc. That's why I find it so strange that Sweden has no 24/7 grocery stores/corner shops. In Helsinki they're now basically everywhere, although they're much rarer in smaller cities.
They are not very rare tbh. There are atleast one in every city with 10k+ ppl. And oh yeah Finland is better than Sweden rn thanks to all of the immigration we've had. Please Finland don't do the same mistake...
Another complete shit thing is "The principle of openness" which mean anyone can get anyones social sercurity number, see their earnings, houses, cars etc.
I am from Russia, and to me Swedes are the best people on Earth. I lived in Denmark before and Swedes are just better. I like that Swedes while respect your personal space a lot, would always engange in some small chatter throwing a joke or two. I think they are very smart, kind and lovely people. I am legit in love with the entire nation lol. I just hope they would stop swooping in people that does not like to learn the language, work and rather go around chain-yanking....
Fun fact: Glasgow in Scotland gets less sunlight than Stockholm despite being further south due to an aggressive amount of cloud and rain, that sunlight can't actually get through during the 6 hours a day that there actually is daylight
The trick to Systembolaget is what I do. We have the same silliness here in Norway with Vinmonopolet closing early, and closed on some days, so I have made sure that I'm prepared for whatever occasion might possibly occur. I have several liters of a lot of all sorts of liquor, wine, beer, cider, whiskey, vodka etc just in case I might wan't something sometime. The backside is I end up drinking a lot more than I would if I could just buy it when I actually need it. 😋
As a Swede: 1. Couldn't agree more. 2. Absolutely true although once a Swede becomes your fried it shifts totally. Also Stockholm is the coldest and unfriendliest city in Sweden. Gothenburg is by far the most European like. 2nd I would say Malmö where I live. 3. Yes, however if you live in Malmö you have very easy access to Copenhagen for culture etc. Also Copenhagen has the best airport in Scandinavia if you want to go somewhere else. Stockholm is isolated and remote. 4. Whatever :p 5.Absolutely hate it. I buy most of my alcohol online nowadays. 6. Yeah getting a rental apartment especially in Stockholm is a nightmare. 7. Whatever. 8. Same as 7. 9. I can absolutely agree when it comes to bureaucracy. For every day life and general order I enjoy it. I explode sometimes when I go to "developed" countries and everything is an organizational disaster. 10. Yes, my god. Hate it.
The best thing about Sweden is that no matter where you go, no matter how remote, everyone speaks English really well. I think that's very pleasant, especially for native English speakers. In Germany, for example, it's much harder, and the supermarkets are also open on Sundays, which is not a matter of course.
I saw a Nigerian exchange student here in Sweden. He looked quite sad and out of place. He probably had a hard time relating to people here. Because if there is one flaw we have its how closed of and exclusive we are. How coldly we treat people out of respect. Yeah we might take care of the poor and give them communal housing. But having all your economic and safety needs met but left to a living death with nothing to look forward to. No social life. No future. No prospects, No confidence. Because we imagine people as happy when left alone and independent. In a more southernly culture like Nigeria. Im guessing communities and friends and family look out for one another and don't keep you boxed in and alienated with tax money as if its doing you a favour.
Have you ever been to Nigeria? Imagine you are Sweden blond guy walking somewhere in Nigeria alone. How would you be treated? Probably robbed and killed?
@@holdenparker179 There's good and bad in every culture. And the lack of safety in Nigeria is not really relevant. I heard a story about a taxi driver being kidnapped by organ harvesters and his taxi driver friends formed a posse to get him back because police did nothing. Because of the lack of safety they had to chip in and have eachothers backs. And even though its unsafe and violent they dont seem to suffer as much from depression and alienation down in sub saharan africa. Because they have more of a sense of community to them. Maybe its a trade off. But I think you should have both.
@@adrianaslund8605 Your propaganda is irrelevant. Go find a job finally and stop wasting our planet’s resources on irrelevant shit. Did you help us become multiplanetrary civilization? No. Did you help us invent AI? No. Then what are you doing? Eating, shitting and saying that someone from Nigeria feels lonely. Just because of such pathetic propaganda we are still literally zero 0 civilization with good chances to be destroyed before we manage to become multiplanetrary. You’d better grow up finally and find a hobby that helps at least somehow to humanity in its mission. But so far you are writing useless pulp fiction that holds us back for decades already. Humanity has 99 problems, pathetic activist has none.
@@adrianaslund8605 in sub Saharan Africa what they predominantly have is more sun. For a black African, dealing with darkness must be quite challenging.
Home is where the heart is. I have travelled all over and have lived all over the world. There are some things done better in other countries than my own. (US) But I still wouldn’t want to live anywhere else permanently. I never begrudge anyone that feels the same about their own native country. I still want to visit Sweden however. It does sound fantastic as I do like the night.
As a person of Swedish descent living in Canada, (Vancouver BC), dark gloomy winters are common here as well....The reluctance of Swedes to interact with people they don't know appeals to me...I rarely speak to people I don't know unless I can't avoid it....I don't see a lot of difference in Canadian/Swedish cultures....I'm one to abide by the book and am not happy with those who don't....Perhaps my dominate Swedish DNA is responsible for this. As for affordable housing, waiting lists etc, I'm sure Vancouver and Stockholm are on an even playing field....As to the rest, I'd probably fit in better in Sweden....Your opinion that Sweden is a horrible place to live is completely opposite to my opinion of the country but to each his own.
I have always thought I'd like to live in Canada one day, it seems like a great country filled with lovely people ^^ If you want a bit more of a positive take on Sweden, you can have a look at my reasons why I like living in Sweden video. Thanks for the comment!
@@beorlingo I wasn't complaining, I was making a comparison... I have family who live in the Svappavara/Kiruna area, up inside the Arctic Circle....I know the differences believe me, but Stockholm and Vancouver are very similar in winter weather, Stockholm being a bit colder overall. I have relatives there as well...
@@lindaberg1695 the "before complaining" part was tongue in cheek -ish. I'm sure winters in Vanc can be as grim, my point being definitely not as dark! I hear you appreciate the geographical circumstances of Sweden well though. No further objections on my part! Får tillönska dig en trevlig kväll (när den infinner sig)!
In my city in Finland there is usually this store called "Prisma" being opem 24/7 except on holidays of course. Prisma isnt next to me but its not too far away, cheap and has anything I need. But I don't really need to go to the store at 2 am
I am danish and I love Sweden and that say’s a lot 😉 I love Stockholm and the people! I always have fun in Stockholm and Swedes are funny when they want to be. Sweden has the most beautifull Nature with so much diversity. Sweden is my second home and I will always come back.
Is that mean Danish and Swedish are very simmular?What in generally and in brief most diference between Finish Dane Sweedish and Norwegian ppl.For rest of world all these nationalities are very simular or even the same.!!..
1:24 This is in Denmark too. I can confirm last 30 years, this is a thing. Interactions with strangers that is. It's like 75% of every day is no interactions from anybody, and if it is, its narcissists trying to get your attention through vocal harassment, which is very ironic, because if you ignore them, they go ape shit, either overtly or internally from being 'rejected'. You have to go out of your way to get interactions really. Making friends is near impossible, because danes already have childhood friends, so they dont want more friends, or they just see it as a momentarily 'friendship' transaction. Being ghosted or never hearing from others is a common ground thing. Because of this too, danes are easily rude, because why not? You're not going to meet that person again, so offloading your internal toxicity onto others is a coping strategy among the danish masses. Have a problem with it? "Freedom of speech!" And Jante law is here too, but its more discreet.
It's like this is in most Western countries, especially in big cities people don't care about strangers at all. This is true for Athens, Barcelona, London, Paris, Prague, Berlin etc. Excactly the same as Stockholmolo.
I am canadian and liquor must be bought in the state store which is very expensive as well. Now I live in budapest where its extremely convenient here and very cheap to live love it here. I bought 4 flats in budapest for the price of one in the most expensive part of Canada. Love it here! I have wanted to visit Stockholm but am fearful re the migrant situation there. I like safe places.
Don't worry, I am Canadian and had to learn English and some French growing up. However, I do not like speaking French because, I think, I sound horrible! I am doing a Swedish lesson after this video is done!
Number 3 (rollerskating banana) resonates. One of my funniest incidents is a newly arrived Swedish student "inneboende" in 2010-ish (from Gothenburg) came back from the local Supermarket stunned there was a girl walking around with green hair and nobody said a word!! Also I worked in Sweden for a while on secondment from the UK for a well-known Telecomms Company along with a bunch of fellow 20-something year old Brit. We loved everything about the experience except "System Bollocks". I naively asked a member of staff for a wine recommendation and got back an icy stare, as if I'd just implied she was an alcoholic.
I heard of Systembolaget. I am not sure, how things are in other parts of Canada, but in Ontario if you wanted alcohol you would have to go to a special store LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) in the 90's and early to mid 2000's. However, this has changed in the past 7 years because now, grocery stores are allowed to carry alcohol.
@@opticalfred4 Hum no, it's not the same. In Québec convenience and groecy stores sell beer and cheap wine, and you get stronger alcool at the SAQ. He said you can't buy anything stronger than 3,5% alcool in Sweden's convenience or grocery stores. You can buy a beer with 10% alcool or a bottle of cheap wine with 14% alcool outside the SAQ in Québec, it is not restricted in that way. It's about the type of products sold, not the alcool content. It's easier to buy alcool in Québec than it is in Sweden.
As a Swede who has lived abroad for a short while I second this video wholeheartedly. I'm conflicted about the Jante thing. I really like it except when I, admittedly rarely, need to say "I am better at this, move over". Every time you need to weigh the social impact.
I will tell you that I lived and worked in Stockholm (Ostermalm) for 2.5 yrs (2020-2023) and I absolutely loved the people. They city is very well behaved and beautiful. Growing up in Minnesota makes Stockholm winters look like Midsummer. I appreciated that 95 percent of the citizens spoke English which made my life easier. Working with your military and affiliated businesses was a treat and they are all very professional. I will always cherish my time there and wish i would have stayed. Cheers.
The bus driver suddenly stopped, and opened his window, and started chatting to two pedestrians. He seemed to suddenly come alive! Smiling and laughing with them. Street vibe! I went up to talk to him as we got into town. What an unusual Norwegian person. I should have known. He was Kurdish and his friends were Iranian,
@@theladiesman.8537 You may be right with your occipitals Mr Man. I will have to ascertain enlarged occipitals before judging, in future. But I have largely given up on discussion with Norwegians . A lady wrote recently that she was no longer responding to me on Facebook as "we have not been introduced." But that's not unusual. I think I got an E-mail reply from one chap, once, but maybe I'm wrong. One woman wrote to me, teminating our friendship, saying "You should not be learning Norwegian!" Though I have studied it for nearly a decade.
I was just in Copenhagen in December 2022 and found it to be hands down the worst locale I have ever visited in over 35 years of travel worldwide. I was reprimanded for whispering on a train. Not since kindergarten and Mrs. McDonald has anyone told me to stop whispering (I am 44). The city is cold and wet, over priced and not really all that great.
2:42 Living in Switzerland, I gotta say Swedish grocery stores have some pretty decent opening hours compared to Switzerland. Most of the Swedish chains are even opened on Sundays and only close at like 10:00 in the evening throughout the week while Swiss supermarkets usually close at 19:00 and ain't opened on Sundays.
@@Kay-jg6tf Are stores closed on Sundays in Norway? In Switzerland it is because of religious reasons I believe but Norway does not strike me as a religious country so it shoulnd¨t be for religious reasons.
As a swede I would have no problem with the darkness if the sun actually showed up during the day. When it is cloudy for weeks I feel like I am living in a bunker
Thanks for making and sharing the video. Living in the Netherlands, I would say that only the winter would be a bit of a disadvantage. But the other points you mentioned, well I would rather qualify them as credits to Sweden. I absolutely love the country and its people! Best regards from the Netherlands
@@slavianalbanovich9025 It is just a matter of personal taste, I guess many Dutch people living in the NL wouldn’t think about living abroad. The sunshine and atmosphere on the Antilles is great (mostly been on Curacao and Bonaire many years ago) for sure. But personally would prefer Sweden if I would ever emigrate. Best wishes.
As a swede i would think that gang shootings, bombings and the massive surge of rapes by immigrant perpetrators would be the worst thing about living in Sweden. But I guess that shops aint open after midnight is pretty bad as well.
It was early Sunday morning and the pavement was narrow and deserted. I saw her pushing a pram, 100m away, coming towards me. She saw me too. We approached each other for 60 seconds. She was Norwegian. I was English. Ten seconds before we crossed paths I stood aside. She turned her head away from me to look at an empty shop window... and I cracked. "GOD MORGEN" I shouted shocked at my own (mannerless) irritation about her lack of social manners. 'God morgen' she replied suddenly. "That didnt hurt did it?" I said out loud as she went onwards, angry at myself that Norway had got to me.
You have to realize, that women are not being rude, when they do not want to look at you or do not want to say hello, good morning to strangers. For a woman it is allmost allways very tricky to make eye contact, saying hello and open a door to conversation or proximity towards men. This planet is very harsh you know. Women know that. They can get in uncomfortable situations very easy, if you know what i mean. So, for women it is selfprotection, so they avoid any interaction possible. It has allways been like that and it will be like that. Only naive women will open up easally and look at a stranger and say hello, goodmorning and so on. Until they learn by experience. A man is mostly not interrested in women. Saying hello is very intimate allready and smells like he wants something sooner or later. And we as women can not be careful enough for many reasons. So men should understand this with emotional empathy and not take it personally.
You basically demanded that someone say hi to you, and then later proceeded to be prissy on top of that. That sounds like someone desperate for attention. I would have given you a nasty reply back. WTF. No one owes you a hello. You do realize that there are also introverted people or neurodivergents on this planet that would rather keep to themselves, right? They do not want interaction forced upon them. If you thought they were rude to you, they likely thought you were rude to them intruding in their personal space. There could also be many other reasons why people keep to themselves.
I have been living in Sweden for about 8 months now. Although there are a lot of pros (e.g. free education, clean) there are also some cons for sure. I am living in Gothenburg and in the last months the weather was pretty bad. It can get very gloomy and greyish. At the same time, although people are very considerate of personal space, i sometimes feel like there are a lot of rules in Sweden and people can be overly protective. If you go out in a club there are usually security guards watching every one. Although it is fairly safe in general. Over all its comfortable but also a bit overhyped sometimes haha
I just want to say your channel is so awesome. But also, the rabbit hole that found me here was literally as random as typing Sweden into the search bar and you showed up 🥺 amazing. I love language, and I found out Sweden made it second on the English proficiency index for countries with English as a second language. I ran across a Swedish pilot watched like all of his videos and couldn't figure out his accent. So of course I found out he was from the cold cold Sweden when I was frustrated cuz his accent sounded "germanic" to my dumb American ears then learned the truth. After all of that I found your adorable video about what you hate about Sweden, and man, you may actually have a worse housing market than America. By may I mean 1000% you do. 😆 loved your video though the random rabbit hole that lead me here was the happiest thing imaginable. 💖
I’ve always wanted to hear a Swedish person talk about the Skarsgard family. They’re considered Swedish royalty (even though you have your real royal family). You’re such a small country it makes me believe that you come in contact with “celebrities” way more than here in U.S. just out of curiosity
That is true, especially in Stockholm. But you won't have people and paparazzi chasing them around like in the US. The people benefitting from jantelagen and the Swedish behavior towards strangers are probably celebrities.
@Europe is better than yea, Hollywood calls them Swedish royalty over here. Just like Brad Pitt and Angie are also known as Hollywood royalty. Probably bc the Skarsgards are an acting family, makes them stand out more.
@Europe is better than what about them? At this point half the American public are fed up with Hollywood. Especially since they’ve decided to politicize themselves. It’s ridiculous.
"Sweden is fucking tiny" 😂 its very true but if you place Sweden with its northern tip on Denmark we reach down through all of europe and i heard ladies like a good length.
All of the reasons you have stated as those because of which you dislike living there are the very ones because of which I want to live there :P Sweden is a gem
well no real reasons to Hate Sweden, first reason for hating the place , is the total unsafety, the numbers a sexual assaults , the openborder politic etc. so, all the reasons why Sweden will be the first country to disapear
I always prefer these "dislike" videos because they give way more accurate picture about the country. For example complaining about weather instead of let's say... safety etc. It's actually complimenting the country. Same way it is generally more honest and people filter themselves less when they talk about things they don't like All in all great video. Enjoyed it a lot
Yeah, this was painfull to watch, like a teen complaining, when there’s tons that would love to live in a better environment, at least be a bit more grateful or less pity.
This guy is a Swede and think´s this a "cool way" to express his point of view / feelings about his home country by swearing . And he prolly think´s that´s the way people do speak on daily basis in the US / GB / Ireland / Canada / Australia / NZ , but it´s not . . . :O) .
Cuss like a New Yorker or Bostonian. I'm a Texan who's lived in Boston and LA and a lot of places. Here when someone starts cussing too much they usually get kicked out of the bar. Their rule of thumb if a person can't control his language they figure he's drunk both here and LA. Boston and NY they talk that way normally. Swedish people are great. Both Boston and New York people are rude obnoxious and cuss almost every other word. The F word is an adjective. Us original Texans are polite and friendly. Mexicans and illegal aliens are rude (unless their born here). LA doesn't put up with the rudeness either. Takes New Yorkers a while figure it out that they don't put up with it.
Yeah well, I hate eyecontact cause that shit's scary - and I have social phobia, but I still agree with you that swedes aren't very social. But I like the idea of systembolaget. I like that we don't get to buy alcohol from absolutely anywhere.
I am born in Sweden, and have lived there over 30 years. 10 years ago I took the step to move away. I must say that is the best decision I have made in my entire life and I will give my reasons. 1) The climate: Having snow and darkness 7 months of the year is unbearable for anyone in the long run. 2) State control: The Swedish government are controlling the individual at every aspect. 3) Immigration: Sweden has had some of the worlds greatest influx of immigrants. This has cause major problems as gang shooting, and ghettos where the concentrate these people. 4) Swedish banks are some of the worse banks in the world. They can block your account for no apparent reason. One small transaction and they will block your account. 5) Swedish people; Sweden is knowns worldwide as a country that uphold human rights, yet the people in itself are some of the worlds biggest racist. It doesn't matter how well integrated you are, if you look like a foreigner you will have a hard time getting accepted. That is why so many foreigners are changing names to a Swedish name just to be able to compete in the same level as native swedes.
Haha as a Finn that was a culture shock that Sweden do not have these 24h suoermarkets.. Malmö do not have anything(not even kiosk or pharmacy) open when the last night club closes at 3am. In Finland we have in every single town some 24h supermarket or at least kiosk or grill(Helsinki has many supermarkets24 and also megamarket Prisma24). When you want to go to supermarket at night in Malmö you have to take a Airport train to Copenhagen🇩🇰.. they have so many 7Eleven24 and even their metro works in Copenhagen 24h!
Funny and interesting to watch! 😁And indeed, it s not that wow to live in Sweden, one would really need to sacrifice many things in order to integrate himself into this society and by the end of 30 years, let s say, of living in Sweden one would really start to think if it is indeed worth it. There is no perfect place in this world, but Scandinavia is not as they used to say or try to portray - in my personal opinion. Here, u can meet both good/bad people, friendly/racist people, people that would try to fool you by thinking that you maybe, being new here, don t know the rules, and so on.
as a swede I can say that Sweden was an easy living place in the 90 s but since 2000--- its getting more square (if possible) less choices in all areas of life, more rules, more individualistic, less trusting and so on... but thats maby a world change, I don't know...
@@adamhenrikson4549 yes! maby its a part of it..I also wonder if all micromanaging rules are creating separation between people , swedes are less tolerant with differences today, everybody acts polis and moralpolis, people are afraid to live life , to make mistakes, its a fear of being punished, being judged and so on. Swedish people are afraid and this shows even in school where more and more kids get diagnosed for being kids as in not wanting to sit still , not wanting to focus, not wanting to be silent or to follow the crowd, if you don't follow the grown ups expectations you get diagnosed and put on medicin.
If you have a crummy negative attitude you take that everywhere you go & people avoid you - hence you yrself ensure that integrating with the locals is harder. I moved to Sweden as a 55 year old & struggled to learn the language & get a job at that age, but the Swedish folks I met were very supportive, kind & friendly. I have never received so much support as here in Sweden.
I remember this one time when I was carrying a lot of luggage and people were staring at me like they were planning to attack me. I don’t know why but it felt very weird. They would always stare at me and I know I’m not the only tourist there who had dealt with a lot of awkward stares. There’s a huge difference between Americans and Swedes. We actually help people out or offer to help when people are going through difficult times. Swedes don’t really do that. They keep to themselves. But they are affectionate in different ways.
@@crabobserver I don’t care if they help me with my luggage. I could care less. I never asked. But when it comes to transportation and how to do transactions yes Americans do help you with that. Me and my sister asked around we were ignored. That doesn’t happen in America we actually help out and not stare at your randomly. If your gonna ignore me when I’m asking for help then don’t stare at me randomly. And no that doesn’t happen in America.
If you hear English each day, even as a foreign language, everything sounds more charming than that. Also, Swedish sounds very interesting among other things because of its "word accent".
You can't purchase alcohol drinks in Australia apart from bottle stores but not supermarkets not general stores. In New Zealand you can purchase win and beer (only) in supermarkets but not general stores.
Ok, but you should know that some areas are really no go zones resulted from psychotic immigration policies and huge difficulties to realise it. Otherwise a beautiful and clean country.
@@robertm3561 even our police think that a “no go zone” is an extremely exaggerated term to describe those areas, the only people calling it that are alt right people thinking that malmö and Chicago have the same crime
Well, it kinda makes sense a Swedish city-person made this video 😂 It's a typical Swedish city-person attitude (and in this case someone who fully embraced jantelagen). People in Swedish rural areas are generally quite pleased with life.
Hahaha you're so right, I don't live in the city and just this morning I spoke to all the day care kids and their teachers that was walking by my house to go play in the forest. I speak to my neighbours often. We have activities and around town all the time and say hello when we meet each other on the street. Ya know, all that good stuff. Oh, and we congratulate each other when we do good, and we don't get jelly over it.
It's definitely a city phenomenon. On the countryside in the villages around the forests we are all laid back, talk to each-other and help out on our farms, go hunting and fishing and enjoy life together :)
I’m Swedish living abroad. The Scandinavian cold weather is not for me so I am very happy I left. I only miss Bregott, lösgodis, swimming in lakes during summer and the bicycle lanes in Stockholm. Jantelagen is horrific and also delusional how we are brought up to believe everything Swedish is supreme in quality.
We have people in our society who are antisocial. We get that ! some people can be diffrent. But an entire nation with no social skills. It's like unbelievable. How do they even make friends or get married.
You are right!! You have nailed most of it. Eye contact is interesting, when I pass by a girl they never look at me but look away, and when I pass by in a car they all look at me because there is no danger doing it. I am Swedish living in France (at a castle) and meet people from all over the world and as you have noticed swedes abroad are nice and outgoing (even without a drink) a different kind of people from the north, the others stay at home looking at BINGOLOTTO
@@chateaudelamotte9527 I know that Swedes are somewhat shy. Read what I wrote. You mentioned girls on the streets and how they react to strangers. Maybe at your French castle the girls from all over the globe are very open and fuck all the guys, but that's a very special case. Those people actively went to another country and the castle-project. But walk the streets of Paris, Athens, Barcelona, Lisbon, New York, London, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Prague, Moscow and Stockholm and it's all the same - all the girls will look away if you seek eye contact. Girls in big cities all over the world avoid eye contact with strange men.
About no:4. If you live in fjollträsk, there are not many option for shopping during the night. But if you live in a normal part of sweden, most smaller communitys have 24/7 shops. Unmanned shops you open with your bank-id and shop whatever you want, whenever you want. Convinient.
Sweden 🇸🇪 Is Clean! Just Like Where I Was Born "The Netherlands 🇳🇱" -Excellent Education Systems. -Hardly Any Teen Moms. -Cleaner Air & Water. -Beautiful Affordable Homes. -Aspirational Mentality Through Out. -Great Culinary Delights + Fresh Ingredients. I Literally Could Go On! 😍
I visited my Swedish cousins in 1988, after some of them had visited us in the United States. Two men my mother's age were surprisingly frisky - always joking. Their children near my age seemed mostly open and friendly. I was there during the summer, and had a terrible time getting to sleep at night with the light coming in the window all night, but that's unavoidable. Trollhattan and Skovde.
Respectfully, coming from the perspective of a Swedish American. These grievances are trivial compared to grievances with the US. I want to go home but SOS we are trapped. Send help.
@@beetlevomiit I am too. I grew up in the US separated from the majority of my family in Sweden, it gets really lonely. I always felt like an odd one out growing up with a culture none of my peers could relate to.
@@SpaceCadette7653 a lot of my family moved in 50s to midwest because they were farmers, and lots of my family followed and we moved to america for me to study abroad in 2017. going back and then leaving from visit is what hurts the most, especially with covid, we only just went back this year. i have yet to meet another swedes in person here and it really is lonely. but even more cuz my parents plan to stay here so i have to save to move back myself so im stuck here until then :( i wish you luck though, välsignelser💖
The reason that IKEA became popular is even more interesting. In the 1920's, Sweden started to standardize everything. First out was the angle/depth.. of stairs (be careful when walking in old stairs). After that they/we made standards for doors (height, placing and shape of the door handle and the letter box..). The standardizing continued and in the 1960's it was decided that tending a home should be seen as work and was hence standardized (hardcore). The oxygen requirements for the person cocking a standard meal was measured to the level that standards for the hight and placing of the stove actually became a law when building new houses and apartments. People was shorter at that time so the standard has changed. After that reshaping of the kitchen, they turned to stuff like (i skipp thousands of standards here) the shape of the forks handle and the size/color... of the plate (don't want your peas to match the plates decorations when using a fork that doesn't function on individual peas). The reason that IKEA became a thing was that they followed the science/standards from the first second they could. UK is known for the steam engine and Germany is known for the car but nobody knows that both inventions require Swedish inventions to build. PS: i collect old science, history and school books. Can't read every book today so I will accept criticism 😇
Believe me no big change would have happened without Ikea. Many other countries know how to make furnitures. Ikea used cheap Chinese manufactures to scale up . Ikea without exploitation of Chinese workers / (slave labour camps) basically won't generate profit or compete with any other country .
I don't agree that Systembolaget is bad, other than that I'm with you. My 5 yo really likes saying hello to everyone he meets and more often than not they don't greet him back. I feel sorry for him and yet I hope he never changes.
Very interesting video indeed. Two things I like about there: 01. Same door color as neighbors. So that everybody feels same as others. Like you are not special! 02. You are not special. It’s universal truth. We are just an animal, we are not special. We came to this planet for few years, don’t feel special. It will keep you calm and enjoy your existence. Thanks!
As someone who loves the cold and the dark, hates eye contact, and loves my personal space, Sweden sounds like a dream country. As for alcohol, it’s the same in many US states. You can buy beer and wine at grocery stores, but you can only buy liquor at the state-owned ABC store. Plus, I don’t drink anyway. So I’m moving to Sweden. 🙂 Also, HOA (homeowners association) does the same thing in many communities in America. I got in trouble for having a window until air conditioner in my bedroom (I don’t like cooling the entire house in the summer, as I live alone) and HOA sent me a letter saying that the houses have to all look uniform from the outside, so I have to remove my window unit. They will also send you a letter and fine you if you let your grass get too long. Do you think Swedish or Norwegian would be easier for me to learn as someone who,is fluent in German and English?
I've heard that Norwegian is easier to learn for native English speakers, but I'm sure you can learn swedish as well if you really want to 😄 thanks for the comment, I hope you make it over here some day! ✨
As a foreigner who moved to Sweden I'll tell you what else sucks. It took almost a year to get a work visa because of the red tape bureaucracy. After finally achieving that milestone it took another month to get all the stupid ids we needed. The next challenge was opening a fking bank account that took another couple of weeks. Some banks were telling us we needed to make an appointment for six weeks in the future. Now I'm waiting on some stupid card that appears lost in the mail just so I can get the dumb bankID to just about anything with other businesses online. Overall the experience has been a complete nightmare and that's not even mentioning the housing market.
Just a disclaimer, since many of you down here seem to think I am not Swedish. Hejhej, jag är svensk, och den här viden är från en svensk persons perspektiv. Tusen tack för alla kommentarer, ni är alla gullpluttar! ^^
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Man. sweden Highest gun crime in Europe driven by immigration and the disturbancw in the drug trade. Crazy. Any thoughts on how to solve this crisis?
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I'm finally here ☺️
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Du ser ut som en tjej 😂🤣🤣
I just spent 9 minutes watching a video on why Sweden is terrible and couldn’t stop thinking about how much I want to live in Sweden the entire time
now I'm interested what would happen if you watch the video about why I like living in Sweden ~ thanks for the comment!
Same lmao sounds like a dream compared to where i live c:
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@@FishSlappee Try Moscow. I mean seriously much more freedom than west, from low quality life commie blocks to beauty and posh lifestyle, complete randomness, really much more freedom, until u try to pretend liberal, even LGBT is okay, until you're not showing off.
@@FishSlappee Sweden 🇸🇪 Is Clean! Just Like The Netherlands 🇳🇱
-Excellent Education Systems.
-Hardly Any Teen Moms.
-Cleaner Air & Water.
-Beautiful Affordable Homes.
-Aspirational Mentality Through Out.
-Great Culinary Delights + Fresh Ingredients.
I Literally Could Go On! 😍
I love the dark, don't drink, don't mind winter and hate interactions with people. This place sounds perfect!
Ha ha ha
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Don't be too fooled by the no alcohol and no interactions with people. Because alcohol is so limited here, the Swedes drink like crazy. I live in Prague and often travel between the two countries. The amount of piss drunk Swedes at 7 am in the plane is shocking. About the no interactions. Last weekend I went to a concert on the boat Patricia. It was so goddamn crowded! People pushed and shoved. It was impossible to be anywhere else than all the way in the back and thus not see much. The public transport in peak times is sometimes unbearable. I'm sure that when you live in the middle of nowhere somewhere in the north then yeah, it can be less crowded but then again, dunno how the job situation looks like there.
@kikivondugong1306 I actually live in one of the drunkest cities in America (in Wisconsin) so dealing with drunks isn't anything new to me. I also only leave the house if I have too. I try to avoid over crowded places as much as possible. I swear everyone looks at me funny when I say I love the darker months of winter like I'm some kind of freak. I would definitely love to live in the middle of nowhere away from the hustle and bustle and jave some peace and quiet. Maybe when I retire lol!
Beside fact that you can be easily robbed and beaten in the street by migrant and police just don't care about it.
Yes, one of the things I couldn't get used to is this lack of eye contact. I lived in a big city and still felled I did not exist. If I needed to have a small talk I had to go to a shop to buy something...I had a hard times there.
🙂If you are into eye contact you should try staying in Germany, or to a lesser extend in Austria for while. Random strangers will give you the charming and warm "germanic stare", and if you do stare back at them, they don't look away as it is common pretty everywhere else, but continue as if you are curious object they are judging.
Off course being respectful to strangers is important in every country, but the local definition of what being respectful means, can vary quite a bit.
German speaking countries respect privacy and personal space (they all also have laws against loud noise/music after 10 pm e.g.), so being in public the logic there is to move around in your "privacy-bubble" that won't be disturbed by others, like addressing you or sending non-verbal signals/clues including looks.
Therefore eye contact with strangers including staring, is n o t seen as a form of communication or making contact. Rather like watching someone on tv/yt or a street cam channel. And especially Germans, who haven't lived abroad are not aware how staring is considered to be very rude in most countries. check out: "Why Germans stare": ua-cam.com/video/5o6ga9IX-_s/v-deo.html
Coming back to your comment about the lack of eye contact in Sweden:
I found the resulting combination of social norms very interesting: also respecting personal space aka the "Swedish refrigerator" but then combined with the social norm of n o t making eye contact with or staring at strangers in contrast to Germany (in subtiler versions Austria and Switzerland).
Could someone please elaborate the logic of the social norm behind that combo? Thanks.
if you small talk with people in sweden they will probably think you have bad intentions or have a disorder. why? culture
@@Titbitistits becuse the elitists has programmed them to keep each other subservient and slaves, they are beyond pathetic to believe its natural behaviour, its all instilled unto them
I'm a sunlight-hating introvert who doesn't drink. Sounds like I should move to Sweden.
Hello Mig nice pic
Sun-light hating ? 😳 you lived in a cave?
Yes but you have like to drink though, its literally one of the most popular ways to pass the time.
I hear you! The entire video I was wishing I could just pick up and move to Sweden!
@@jadeh2699 Ill swap with you. Where you at?
If you replace 'Sweden' with 'Finland' it's still 100% accurate as well
Even more..
If You know Swedish and English - You Are More open than Most of Europeans ! You May talk svenska to Swedes & and The rest of The World with English ! Många svenskar vet att i Finland - talar man svenska också !
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@@jonathanlindgren4962 Helt Galen ! Svenskarna har Helt annat historia - efter andra välrdskriget ! Svenskarna spelade tennis - när de andra krigade och stupade !
@@holoholopainen1627 Väldigt få finnar vet att Finland är både svensk och finsk språkigt!! Finnlandsvenskar blir fortfarande förtryckta av finska folke.. Man kan alltid kolla åt andra hållet men det existerar än idag... Vart hatet kommer ifrån förstår jag inte men att förneka att de existerar är o välja att vara blind!!
I've been to Stockholm, Uppsala and a few other places in Sweden and it's probably one of my favourite places ever. Stockholm is actually a big city with a population of almost 1 million people (big for European standards) but you're right, it doesn't feel that way. Probably because it's so spread out and there aren't that many people just hanging out on the streets. Swedes are busy bees and they keep to themselves but they're always kind and helpful. I felt safe at all times and everything runs smoothly, not to mention how clean the city is. The public transport is probably the best in the world, only Japan can compete with it. As a result most people in Stockholm don't even own cars, so there's way less car pollution.What I probably loved most is that it's essentially spread out over these little islands all connected with tiny bridges. There's water everywhere you turn. A beautiful place, truly. Swedes, be proud of your country.
they dont own cars because leftist government tax it so much. its about $2,5 per litre... Why? because they want everyone to move to the city and not live rural because cars "ruin" the environment. Also to get more tax money because they have to travel so far. This country man i swear its run like a business...
Stockholm with its suburbs has 1.6 million inhabitants and Stockholm as a whole(suburbs and surrounding communes) has 2.4 million inhabitants. But yeah, the inner city has just shy of a million.
Having lived 8 years in Japan and 9 years in the USA, I am ready to return to my home country, Finland. In the above video you could pretty much replace Swedish with Finnish, Sweden with Finland, Stockholm with Helsinki, and Systembolaget with Alko and everything would be true.
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Yes, it pretty much sounds like Finland, except that queuing system for appertmens in Stockholm. Not sure if got it right though, that have to queue for BUYING one? And systembolaget so much funnier than Alko, and we can get stronger alcohol (5,6%) in supermarkets
Rest of Europe is like sowjet union. in ireland i heard you are only allowed to buy beer after 16 oclock. the have it in the supermarket but the wont sell you before that time :D
I have similar background as you, I am from east Finland, my family emigrated to Sweden, one year as an exchange student in the US and some years later I emigrated to Japan where I have lived for 18 years. Now I am back in Sweden to study more and everything sucks.
Really?? I always wanted to visit Finland..
I spend lots of time there. You are totally cool to see these things. One time I bought vegetables from a stand. The next day I was walking with my sister in law and I said hi to the vegetable guy. My sister in law was shocked. Do you know him. Well, I do now because I met him yesterday. But you don’t know him. Well, fuck yea I do, I met him when I was buying vegetables. Jesus Christ. You are the next generation Swede. It makes me so happy
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Absolutely hilarious. I'm swedish born and bread and honestly this is so true hence why I moved to the UK and have been here for 16 and married a brit
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I was visiting a friend and her family in Sweden and was taken on a tour by my friend’s mother who by Swedish standards was considered quite eccentric, which every Swede we encountered on our tour took pains to let me know. Namely she talked to strangers, was irreverent and I am sure other qualities I failed to notice because I am from New York and used to just about every form of eccentricity and it doesn’t ruffle a feather. It struck me that her life must have been very frustrating, having her wings clipped at every turn and being branded weird, when in fact she was quite brilliant and charmingly engaging, from my perspective.
And that is the most depressing thing about Scandinavian countries. The soul crushing conformity.
@@Feline-philosopher In this respect, it is just like Japan.
@@Feline-philosopher I feel like this is the case in many western European countries 🤷♀, I'm Belgian and honestly feel like Swedish society has a similar mentality (maybe Belgium is a bit looser in some aspects but not by that much I think), other countries like Germany, Switzerland, Austria... are quite rigid too.
@@AlineBooneMusic i have spoken to people from new Zealand who say its pretty much the same there. Sad it has to be that way.
The 'weird' Swedes just move to America, Ireland, or Australia where they can be normal.
I like how you said Swedish cities are small and then mentioned Tokyo, literally the largest city in the world 😂 Interesting video though, I've never been to Sweden and this offers a bit different perspective than I usually hear
Funny honest strait-talk video, so cheers for that. I had a similar love/hate time as an American living in Germany (I had a German girlfriend who I met on holiday in Australia). Germans tend to be more loose and free and extrovert and open-minded when they are out of their country, but fall in love with one of them and follow them back to their homeland and they suddenly become boring and less interesting, go figure. Also it's almost forbidden to make casual talk with strangers, even in a pub, as in you need to be introduced by a mutual friend first. On public transport they all stare at the floor and refuse to make eye contact or smile at each other. During my time in Germany I went to India for three months and returned fully tanned and wearing bright colors and feeling very joyful and extroverted, but no, upon returning to Germany my attitude was shunned and I had to go back to wearing black and grey clothes and shut the f*ck up, stop being so happy dammit. Also the language, for example on a nice evening I would hear the sound of crickets (grasshoppers) and say how lovely it was, but in German, "das ist eine Heuschrecke!" like you just violated some severe rule of law by mentioning it. Ok to be fair there were things I loved in Germany, like Christmas which is done with some great traditions and minimal materialism, and they have great bicycle paths so you can go everywhere under your own two-wheeled power, and ironically despite the uptight social attitudes in Summer you can take off all your clothes to sunbathe and swim in a lake with hundreds of other naked people with no sense of shame whatsoever. And you can drive on the Autobahn at ridiculous high speed as long as your car is up to the task. I could go on and on about the loves and the hates of living in Germany, but now I live in a rice field in northern Thailand which has a very different list of loves and non-loves, but at least I don't hate it, except for maybe the death wish they have on the roads driving like idiots. ;-)
wow must be interesting living in far flung places l wish a had the travel bug when l was young.
As a well travelled Canadian who's lived in several countries and now lives in Germany, I so relate to everything you said!
Great post - made me laugh!
See this is why Berlin is the only place in Germany I'd want to live in. But then Berlin, to me, is one of the best places ever in general. Hopefully I can live there for at least a year in the future. Fingers crossed.
@@miketybring4700 It's never too late dear Mike, truly. Hope you get to travel somewhere soon.
I am first generation American on my mother's side. She cam to the states with her family as a child. I grew up eating lots of Swedish food. I can say my mom was very reserved and didn't strike up conversations with people. She was tough as nails as was her entire family. She was not a hugger . She loved her country . I suffer from depression and couldn't deal with all the dark days.
Mama sounds like the definition of “battle ax.“
Do you mean a person with a PhD doesn't know how to spell axe? Lol.. All I can say to you is " yo mamma".
Which "her country" did your mother love, Sweden or the U.S.? Also, having a mother who wasn't a hugger encourages depression in the kids.
@@kerrynight3271 Now we have a psychologist on board? Wow! Lots of brilliant minds here!
@@susanbeckham7236 No, I was a child who wasn't hugged by her mother.
I do not find Swedes too bad. More reserved but, I find once you make a Swedish friend you have them for life. One, I started talking to again after years of not a lot of contact with each other but it is like, we picked up where we left off.
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nonsense all my friends betrayed me, you don't get them for life at all, is not much different than other countries just go out to bars and whatever i want to meet new friends I unfortunately cant do it in the same way any more as sick with spinal cord injure and FK refuse help me so don't have afford with the costs to not need to live isolated
@@SatanenPerkele In my experience this is just with 95% of people in general as time goes on Swede or not. And vice-versa. Some of my friends growing up and in college it just felt weird of we did not have the same interests anymore or at way different stages of our lives. To me, it was like trying to talk to strangers and I felt the effort was not worth it. I guess, I got lucky though with the two Swedes, I meet although, I am trying to tone it down a bit. They probably think, "That's great you are learning Swedish, we get it." Lol.
It's about your personal taste. I'd die if I lived in a country like that but there are people who enjoy darkness,loneliness and cold weather. Nothing wrong. I spent 3 months in Sweden and 12 in England for an erasmus but...no,it's a lifestyle that I'll never understand I prefer Spain and Buenos Aires without any doubt. There are some people who think living in Sweden is like living in heaven but when these people discover (very soon) they have no contacts there and that the weather is not warm enough for outdoor activities (from october to middle April),they go back on their steps. If you're not from there it's very difficult to apreciate that country.
"Hard to get to know, but friends for life" is nonsense that swedes themselves like to repeat. But since we are generalizing here maybe you are from USA, where everyone says "love yooouu" when they don't?
@@bengillen1287 Actually, I am Canadian and mostly Italian and Slavic so, I pretty much don’t like most people and good at looking like I hate everyone but just want to be left alone most of the time.
I've always wanted to go to Sweden as I live in America and appreciate the beauty of that country... However, your video has given me some gratitude for what I have here... Thank you for having the courage to tell the truth...
@Europe is better than Wow, how very sad... I'm a non-conformist as I have my own mind... I guess, I'll just appreciate it from afar.... America is turning into Babylon however thankfully, not in my neighborhood yet....
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@Europe is better than the US as someone living in Sweden, I agree 110%.
@@odim7960 Me too brother
This is the problem with americans that I often notice on the internet. You seem to take the advantages of living in your country for granted. I don't really understand why.
I'm from Greece and I want to live in Sweden. I don't know how I could adapt from 250 days a year of pure sun to a darker-colder place but I love cold as well. I adore Sweden, I like the culture, I haven't met Swedes so it would also be a challenge because in Greece we are very open with strangers and everyone. I like Greece for its beauty, places, food (alcohol access everywhere🤭) but everything else, I don't even want to think about it. Living in Greece is more a survival task then anything. I 'm learning swedish, I listen to swedish music, definitely I will move to Sweden.
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He is generalising because Stockholm is quite far north. I lived in most Southerly and central/Western Sweden, and there was no 24 hour darkness. It gets dark an hour or so earlier in the winter than other places in Europe perhaps.
After 15 years, I got tired of poor job oppportunities and people being terrified of eachother. I now live in the UK. In hindsight, I wish I had moved somewhere else or simply stayed. Sweden is boring, but people are interesting and life was peaceful.
OMG, I want to live in Greece!
lol you are insane if you move from Greece to Sweden. The only difference is that the economy and your salary will be better, and there's more order when you want to have things fixed.
I would never trade Greek weather, nature, archeology and history for Swedish money and order.
@@gulanhem9495 I understand what you say. As it is usual, most of the people want to live in a different place from that they live or are born, that's why we change cities and countries.
But, if we neglect the fact that I personally like Sweden from every aspect, economy, order, people, nature, cities, every beauty that Sweden has, living in Greece is more a survival task than actually living. Foreigners look at Greece as a heaven on earth, natural beauty, heritage, food, history, everything, but living here is a total different thing. Disorder and unemployment.
Scandinavian folks just are the kings and queens of sarcasm and dark humor. I had to laugh quite some times watching this. Love it.
That was obviously English sarcasm and humour, not Swedish!
@@ZEE-es3jk my impression is that scandinavian humor is rather dark as well. And he is swedish... :) So I reckon it's hard to tell whether it's british or scandinavian... you're right though... british goes that direction too. I'm not sure yet how the both distinguish. However, I have heard Scandinavians saying that scandinavian humor is actually not funny at all. I wouldn't know since I'm not Scandinavian but I have seen plenty of scandinavian movies and shows and always found them hilarious. The dark kind of hilarious. But maybe they don't actually reflect the scandinavian people. 🤷♂
@@Adrian_Marmy his English accent and the way he talks is much closer to how English people talk (and think) than Swedish people. Probably his mother or father is English, or he has had a significant English influence in his life.
@@ZEE-es3jk I don't think that makes any sense. Yes it's true that he hasn't got a Swedish accent when he speaks English. That doesn't make him any less of a Swede though, does it? He surely is able to talk swedish without an accent as well . :-) but besides that humor and language are not the same. Can't a person have the humor of one culture yet speak another language perfectly well?
@@Adrian_Marmy as a Swede I find this fellow very Swedish somehow even if not typically Swedish. Felix Herngren is maybe more (stereo)typically Swedish, but not more Swedish.
i lived in denmark 2 years , it was boring to death , cold , dark and depressing, and people avoided me like the plague. then i came to london , its crazy but i love it ♥
denmark solos middon
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Try Russia. Way more better
i kind of tried it , grew up in Bulgaria in the 70's 😀 @@jackhammer5683
i live in America and i often felt it isolating. Then again, my roots are from non-western countries where its easy to make long lasting relationships within minutes, so my tolerance level on this matter are the lowest. If you actually want to know what its like to live life, go to Asian or Latin American countries. You'll never feel bored.
Finland and Sweden are incredibly similar in many ways. The ice cold exterior, seasonal depression, restrictions on selling alcohol, not to mention all the social security system and high quality (and cost) of living etc. etc. That's why I find it so strange that Sweden has no 24/7 grocery stores/corner shops. In Helsinki they're now basically everywhere, although they're much rarer in smaller cities.
They are not very rare tbh. There are atleast one in every city with 10k+ ppl. And oh yeah Finland is better than Sweden rn thanks to all of the immigration we've had. Please Finland don't do the same mistake...
They have many 24h shops in malmö
Another complete shit thing is "The principle of openness" which mean anyone can get anyones social sercurity number, see their earnings, houses, cars etc.
I’m black when I was studying there people avoided me like I was the terminator.
Really? I’m Latin and now I’m thinking twice to vistit Sweeden 😮
@Cat-bt9sh Just like any african country
I am from Russia, and to me Swedes are the best people on Earth. I lived in Denmark before and Swedes are just better. I like that Swedes while respect your personal space a lot, would always engange in some small chatter throwing a joke or two. I think they are very smart, kind and lovely people. I am legit in love with the entire nation lol. I just hope they would stop swooping in people that does not like to learn the language, work and rather go around chain-yanking....
ikr, and if we say anything about it, we are "RaCisT"
Think a lot of us in the northern hemisphere understand this social distance and just small chatter, and that it takes time to know someone.
Disagree. Denmark is much better
@@amdimilker5773 ok your opinion
They dont even feed their kid's friends
Fun fact: Glasgow in Scotland gets less sunlight than Stockholm despite being further south due to an aggressive amount of cloud and rain, that sunlight can't actually get through during the 6 hours a day that there actually is daylight
but the Scots are hilarious and you feel like you can talk and interact with them, Swedes you just cannot.
Yeah, Sweden in "tiny" in terms of population but it is far larger in area than both Japan and the UK.
Sweden is 447 425 km² while Japan is 377 975 km². Far larger? Im not sure you could say that. China or Russia would be far larger than Japan
@I Love Memes thats not correct, Sweden is 450 000 km²
@@leob4403 the Vatican is 0,5 km².
@@leob4403 its still around 20% larger
The trick to Systembolaget is what I do. We have the same silliness here in Norway with Vinmonopolet closing early, and closed on some days, so I have made sure that I'm prepared for whatever occasion might possibly occur. I have several liters of a lot of all sorts of liquor, wine, beer, cider, whiskey, vodka etc just in case I might wan't something sometime. The backside is I end up drinking a lot more than I would if I could just buy it when I actually need it. 😋
I stopped doing that because people have the opinion that it is rude not to offer everything available and it doesn't end up well.
As a Swede:
1. Couldn't agree more.
2. Absolutely true although once a Swede becomes your fried it shifts totally. Also Stockholm is the coldest and unfriendliest city in Sweden. Gothenburg is by far the most European like. 2nd I would say Malmö where I live.
3. Yes, however if you live in Malmö you have very easy access to Copenhagen for culture etc. Also Copenhagen has the best airport in Scandinavia if you want to go somewhere else. Stockholm is isolated and remote.
4. Whatever :p
5.Absolutely hate it. I buy most of my alcohol online nowadays.
6. Yeah getting a rental apartment especially in Stockholm is a nightmare.
7. Whatever.
8. Same as 7.
9. I can absolutely agree when it comes to bureaucracy. For every day life and general order I enjoy it. I explode sometimes when I go to "developed" countries and everything is an organizational disaster.
10. Yes, my god. Hate it.
F*ck Stockholm
-from a guy that lives in the northern hellhole
The best thing about Sweden is that no matter where you go, no matter how remote, everyone speaks English really well. I think that's very pleasant, especially for native English speakers. In Germany, for example, it's much harder, and the supermarkets are also open on Sundays, which is not a matter of course.
There are plenty of people here who barely speak any English, actually.
Aldi is open Sundays here in the US. You would think they would close being a German company.
I saw a Nigerian exchange student here in Sweden. He looked quite sad and out of place. He probably had a hard time relating to people here. Because if there is one flaw we have its how closed of and exclusive we are. How coldly we treat people out of respect. Yeah we might take care of the poor and give them communal housing. But having all your economic and safety needs met but left to a living death with nothing to look forward to. No social life. No future. No prospects, No confidence. Because we imagine people as happy when left alone and independent. In a more southernly culture like Nigeria. Im guessing communities and friends and family look out for one another and don't keep you boxed in and alienated with tax money as if its doing you a favour.
Have you ever been to Nigeria? Imagine you are Sweden blond guy walking somewhere in Nigeria alone. How would you be treated? Probably robbed and killed?
@@holdenparker179 Yeah maybe true to some degree. But that's not really relevant.
@@holdenparker179 There's good and bad in every culture. And the lack of safety in Nigeria is not really relevant. I heard a story about a taxi driver being kidnapped by organ harvesters and his taxi driver friends formed a posse to get him back because police did nothing. Because of the lack of safety they had to chip in and have eachothers backs. And even though its unsafe and violent they dont seem to suffer as much from depression and alienation down in sub saharan africa. Because they have more of a sense of community to them. Maybe its a trade off. But I think you should have both.
@@adrianaslund8605 Your propaganda is irrelevant. Go find a job finally and stop wasting our planet’s resources on irrelevant shit. Did you help us become multiplanetrary civilization? No. Did you help us invent AI? No. Then what are you doing? Eating, shitting and saying that someone from Nigeria feels lonely. Just because of such pathetic propaganda we are still literally zero 0 civilization with good chances to be destroyed before we manage to become multiplanetrary. You’d better grow up finally and find a hobby that helps at least somehow to humanity in its mission. But so far you are writing useless pulp fiction that holds us back for decades already. Humanity has 99 problems, pathetic activist has none.
@@adrianaslund8605 in sub Saharan Africa what they predominantly have is more sun. For a black African, dealing with darkness must be quite challenging.
Home is where the heart is. I have travelled all over and have lived all over the world. There are some things done better in other countries than my own. (US) But I still wouldn’t want to live anywhere else permanently. I never begrudge anyone that feels the same about their own native country. I still want to visit Sweden however. It does sound fantastic as I do like the night.
As a person of Swedish descent living in Canada, (Vancouver BC), dark gloomy winters are common here as well....The reluctance of Swedes to interact with people they don't know appeals to me...I rarely speak to people I don't know unless I can't avoid it....I don't see a lot of difference in Canadian/Swedish cultures....I'm one to abide by the book and am not happy with those who don't....Perhaps my dominate Swedish DNA is responsible for this. As for affordable housing, waiting lists etc, I'm sure Vancouver and Stockholm are on an even playing field....As to the rest, I'd probably fit in better in Sweden....Your opinion that Sweden is a horrible place to live is completely opposite to my opinion of the country but to each his own.
I have always thought I'd like to live in Canada one day, it seems like a great country filled with lovely people ^^ If you want a bit more of a positive take on Sweden, you can have a look at my reasons why I like living in Sweden video. Thanks for the comment!
@@FishSlappee as a Canadian I can assure you that Sweden is a better country lol
Before complaining about dark winters in Vancouver, you should know that Sthlm/Swe is one degree north of Churchill/MB. Just saying...
@@beorlingo I wasn't complaining, I was making a comparison... I have family who live in the Svappavara/Kiruna area, up inside the Arctic Circle....I know the differences believe me, but Stockholm and Vancouver are very similar in winter weather, Stockholm being a bit colder overall. I have relatives there as well...
@@lindaberg1695 the "before complaining" part was tongue in cheek -ish. I'm sure winters in Vanc can be as grim, my point being definitely not as dark!
I hear you appreciate the geographical circumstances of Sweden well though. No further objections on my part!
Får tillönska dig en trevlig kväll (när den infinner sig)!
Thanks for preparing me what's awaiting me in this amazing country for the upcoming two years 😍
Oh, little Darling, would you like to exchange your place in Sweden for a Brazilian life?
Norway its exactly like that, but smaller and more expensive
In my city in Finland there is usually this store called "Prisma" being opem 24/7 except on holidays of course. Prisma isnt next to me but its not too far away, cheap and has anything I need. But I don't really need to go to the store at 2 am
I am danish and I love Sweden and that say’s a lot 😉 I love Stockholm and the people! I always have fun in Stockholm and Swedes are funny when they want to be. Sweden has the most beautifull Nature with so much diversity. Sweden is my second home and I will always come back.
We are now enemies cause gothenburg is better.
For legal reasons thats a joke.
Copenhagen is beautiful and other places on denmark❤
A Dane having fun in Sweden….😂. Talk about a double negative…😂
Is that mean Danish and Swedish are very simmular?What in generally and in brief most diference between Finish Dane Sweedish and Norwegian ppl.For rest of world all these nationalities are very simular or even the same.!!..
@Europe is better than Because we're all the same in Scandinavia? Obviously we can all relate to eachother. We are cold and boring together.
1:24 This is in Denmark too. I can confirm last 30 years, this is a thing. Interactions with strangers that is. It's like 75% of every day is no interactions from anybody, and if it is, its narcissists trying to get your attention through vocal harassment, which is very ironic, because if you ignore them, they go ape shit, either overtly or internally from being 'rejected'. You have to go out of your way to get interactions really. Making friends is near impossible, because danes already have childhood friends, so they dont want more friends, or they just see it as a momentarily 'friendship' transaction. Being ghosted or never hearing from others is a common ground thing. Because of this too, danes are easily rude, because why not? You're not going to meet that person again, so offloading your internal toxicity onto others is a coping strategy among the danish masses. Have a problem with it? "Freedom of speech!" And Jante law is here too, but its more discreet.
It's like this is in most Western countries, especially in big cities people don't care about strangers at all. This is true for Athens, Barcelona, London, Paris, Prague, Berlin etc. Excactly the same as Stockholmolo.
@@gulanhem9495 where are you from??
I was in Odense last week and the lady that ran the hostel we stayed in was very friendly…..but she wasn’t at all kind or nice. Just friendly.
It's getting like that everywhere(narcissism). I live in Romania, and it's not much different, social-interactions-wise.
@@NightinGal89 i agree narcissism has had a serious increase worldwide
I am canadian and liquor must be bought in the state store which is very expensive as well. Now I live in budapest where its extremely convenient here and very cheap to live love it here. I bought 4 flats in budapest for the price of one in the most expensive part of Canada. Love it here! I have wanted to visit Stockholm but am fearful re the migrant situation there. I like safe places.
Don't worry, I am Canadian and had to learn English and some French growing up. However, I do not like speaking French because, I think, I sound horrible! I am doing a Swedish lesson after this video is done!
Unfortunately, in my part of Canada, it gets dark and cold quick. I do like winter but, I have been surrounded by snow for 6 months!
For us from Ontario, Sweden can get very dark.
@Marcus come to Calgary Alberta. It snowed in may.
Good thing in Canada, people tend to acknowledge strangers that they exist. Country people especially.
Number 3 (rollerskating banana) resonates. One of my funniest incidents is a newly arrived Swedish student "inneboende" in 2010-ish (from Gothenburg) came back from the local Supermarket stunned there was a girl walking around with green hair and nobody said a word!! Also I worked in Sweden for a while on secondment from the UK for a well-known Telecomms Company along with a bunch of fellow 20-something year old Brit. We loved everything about the experience except "System Bollocks". I naively asked a member of staff for a wine recommendation and got back an icy stare, as if I'd just implied she was an alcoholic.
I heard of Systembolaget. I am not sure, how things are in other parts of Canada, but in Ontario if you wanted alcohol you would have to go to a special store LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) in the 90's and early to mid 2000's. However, this has changed in the past 7 years because now, grocery stores are allowed to carry alcohol.
Same thing in Québec
Lucky you but i still have to haul my ass to systembolaget just so i can have a sippy and get on with the forgetty
@@opticalfred4 Hum no, it's not the same. In Québec convenience and groecy stores sell beer and cheap wine, and you get stronger alcool at the SAQ. He said you can't buy anything stronger than 3,5% alcool in Sweden's convenience or grocery stores. You can buy a beer with 10% alcool or a bottle of cheap wine with 14% alcool outside the SAQ in Québec, it is not restricted in that way. It's about the type of products sold, not the alcool content. It's easier to buy alcool in Québec than it is in Sweden.
Systembolagat even asks Id for liquor purchase 😅
@@kumarvie LCBO does her too. However, my sister says, "That's good though, it is when they don't need to you know you are looking your age."
As a Swede who has lived abroad for a short while I second this video wholeheartedly. I'm conflicted about the Jante thing. I really like it except when I, admittedly rarely, need to say "I am better at this, move over". Every time you need to weigh the social impact.
I will tell you that I lived and worked in Stockholm (Ostermalm) for 2.5 yrs (2020-2023) and I absolutely loved the people. They city is very well behaved and beautiful. Growing up in Minnesota makes Stockholm winters look like Midsummer. I appreciated that 95 percent of the citizens spoke English which made my life easier. Working with your military and affiliated businesses was a treat and they are all very professional. I will always cherish my time there and wish i would have stayed. Cheers.
The bus driver suddenly stopped, and opened his window, and started chatting to two pedestrians. He seemed to suddenly come alive! Smiling and laughing with them. Street vibe! I went up to talk to him as we got into town. What an unusual Norwegian person. I should have known. He was Kurdish and his friends were Iranian,
1) you could not tell by looking at him?
2) it would be more believable if you said he was arguing with them.
@@theladiesman.8537 Not all Kurds look like Gengis Khan, Mr Man. Many Kurds live in Iran , as they do in Turkey,,identifying as both.
@@andyharpist2938 They all have flat occipitals though right? Surely thats a giveaway that they are not Norwegians.
@@theladiesman.8537 You may be right with your occipitals Mr Man. I will have to ascertain enlarged occipitals before judging, in future. But I have largely given up on discussion with Norwegians . A lady wrote recently that she was no longer responding to me on Facebook as "we have not been introduced." But that's not unusual.
I think I got an E-mail reply from one chap, once, but maybe I'm wrong. One woman wrote to me, teminating our friendship, saying "You should not be learning Norwegian!" Though I have studied it for nearly a decade.
@@andyharpist2938😂
This dude don’t know how lucky it is but you know what they say you never miss something till you lose it
Sorry … is sad to live here
I was just in Copenhagen in December 2022 and found it to be hands down the worst locale I have ever visited in over 35 years of travel worldwide. I was reprimanded for whispering on a train. Not since kindergarten and Mrs. McDonald has anyone told me to stop whispering (I am 44). The city is cold and wet, over priced and not really all that great.
2:42 Living in Switzerland, I gotta say Swedish grocery stores have some pretty decent opening hours compared to Switzerland. Most of the Swedish chains are even opened on Sundays and only close at like 10:00 in the evening throughout the week while Swiss supermarkets usually close at 19:00 and ain't opened on Sundays.
So it's Norway without a coastline?
@@Kay-jg6tf Are stores closed on Sundays in Norway? In Switzerland it is because of religious reasons I believe but Norway does not strike me as a religious country so it shoulnd¨t be for religious reasons.
Switzerland is an infuriatingly frustrating place to live for reasons like this
I’m so glad I live in Toronto
As a swede I would have no problem with the darkness if the sun actually showed up during the day. When it is cloudy for weeks I feel like I am living in a bunker
Thanks for making and sharing the video. Living in the Netherlands, I would say that only the winter would be a bit of a disadvantage. But the other points you mentioned, well I would rather qualify them as credits to Sweden. I absolutely love the country and its people! Best regards from the Netherlands
maybe the Dutch people living in Bonaire, Saba or Sint Eustatius might see it differently from you.😬😬
@@slavianalbanovich9025 It is just a matter of personal taste, I guess many Dutch people living in the NL wouldn’t think about living abroad. The sunshine and atmosphere on the Antilles is great (mostly been on Curacao and Bonaire many years ago) for sure. But personally would prefer Sweden if I would ever emigrate. Best wishes.
As a swede i would think that gang shootings, bombings and the massive surge of rapes by immigrant perpetrators would be the worst thing about living in Sweden. But I guess that shops aint open after midnight is pretty bad as well.
It was early Sunday morning and the pavement was narrow and deserted. I saw her pushing a pram, 100m away, coming towards me.
She saw me too. We approached each other for 60 seconds. She was Norwegian. I was English. Ten seconds before we crossed paths I stood aside. She turned her head away from me to look at an empty shop window... and I cracked. "GOD MORGEN" I shouted shocked at my own (mannerless) irritation about her lack of social manners.
'God morgen' she replied suddenly.
"That didnt hurt did it?" I said out loud as she went onwards, angry at myself that Norway had got to me.
You have to realize, that women are not being rude, when they do not want to look at you or do not want to say hello, good morning to strangers.
For a woman it is allmost allways very tricky to make eye contact, saying hello and open a door to conversation or proximity towards men.
This planet is very harsh you know.
Women know that.
They can get in uncomfortable situations very easy, if you know what i mean.
So, for women it is selfprotection, so they avoid any interaction possible.
It has allways been like that and it will be like that.
Only naive women will open up easally and look at a stranger and say hello, goodmorning and so on. Until they learn by experience.
A man is mostly not interrested in women. Saying hello is very intimate allready and smells like he wants something sooner or later. And we as women can not be careful enough for many reasons.
So men should understand this with emotional empathy and not take it personally.
You basically demanded that someone say hi to you, and then later proceeded to be prissy on top of that. That sounds like someone desperate for attention. I would have given you a nasty reply back. WTF. No one owes you a hello. You do realize that there are also introverted people or neurodivergents on this planet that would rather keep to themselves, right? They do not want interaction forced upon them. If you thought they were rude to you, they likely thought you were rude to them intruding in their personal space. There could also be many other reasons why people keep to themselves.
Me listening to the video and not finding any problem: "hmm, maybe I'm Swedish inside (or maybe I'm just boring)"
Yeah months of not seeing the sun and people minding their own business, this is the life man!
@@Ehxter i met a man who was suposed to be Brown but there is zero sun. Let that sink it
I have been living in Sweden for about 8 months now. Although there are a lot of pros (e.g. free education, clean) there are also some cons for sure. I am living in Gothenburg and in the last months the weather was pretty bad. It can get very gloomy and greyish. At the same time, although people are very considerate of personal space, i sometimes feel like there are a lot of rules in Sweden and people can be overly protective. If you go out in a club there are usually security guards watching every one. Although it is fairly safe in general. Over all its comfortable but also a bit overhyped sometimes haha
I just want to say your channel is so awesome. But also, the rabbit hole that found me here was literally as random as typing Sweden into the search bar and you showed up 🥺 amazing. I love language, and I found out Sweden made it second on the English proficiency index for countries with English as a second language. I ran across a Swedish pilot watched like all of his videos and couldn't figure out his accent. So of course I found out he was from the cold cold Sweden when I was frustrated cuz his accent sounded "germanic" to my dumb American ears then learned the truth. After all of that I found your adorable video about what you hate about Sweden, and man, you may actually have a worse housing market than America. By may I mean 1000% you do. 😆 loved your video though the random rabbit hole that lead me here was the happiest thing imaginable. 💖
I know exactly wich pilot you're talking about - Mentour Pilot. I love his stuff!
This video was too funny. Ha ha.
I’ve always wanted to hear a Swedish person talk about the Skarsgard family. They’re considered Swedish royalty (even though you have your real royal family). You’re such a small country it makes me believe that you come in contact with “celebrities” way more than here in U.S. just out of curiosity
That is true, especially in Stockholm. But you won't have people and paparazzi chasing them around like in the US. The people benefitting from jantelagen and the Swedish behavior towards strangers are probably celebrities.
@Europe is better than yea, Hollywood calls them Swedish royalty over here. Just like Brad Pitt and Angie are also known as Hollywood royalty. Probably bc the Skarsgards are an acting family, makes them stand out more.
@Europe is better than what about them? At this point half the American public are fed up with Hollywood. Especially since they’ve decided to politicize themselves. It’s ridiculous.
@Europe is better than agreed. It’s a cesspool at this point.
"Sweden is fucking tiny" 😂 its very true but if you place Sweden with its northern tip on Denmark we reach down through all of europe and i heard ladies like a good length.
All of the reasons you have stated as those because of which you dislike living there are the very ones because of which I want to live there :P Sweden is a gem
No you are
It’s really boring lol
You should really, start off in a village or town and later move to cities. There is a spectrum of social differences.
well no real reasons to Hate Sweden, first reason for hating the place , is the total unsafety, the numbers a sexual assaults , the openborder politic etc. so, all the reasons why Sweden will be the first country to disapear
The first reason was already enough to convince me not to move to sweden a few years ago when I had the chance to live there with my gf
I always prefer these "dislike" videos because they give way more accurate picture about the country. For example complaining about weather instead of let's say... safety etc. It's actually complimenting the country. Same way it is generally more honest and people filter themselves less when they talk about things they don't like
All in all great video. Enjoyed it a lot
Have you ever said a sentence without "Fuck"? Try it, you may like Sweden a bit more.
Yeah, this was painfull to watch, like a teen complaining, when there’s tons that would love to live in a better environment, at least be a bit more grateful or less pity.
imagine being such a boring old fart where u cant even appreciate a good swear. fuq me, ur boring
This guy is a Swede and think´s this a "cool way" to express his point of view / feelings about his home country by swearing . And he prolly think´s that´s the way people do speak on daily basis in the US / GB / Ireland / Canada / Australia / NZ , but it´s not . . . :O) .
Nu har du skitit i det blåa skapet
Fucking spot on Mr Marcus Cars..
Cuss like a New Yorker or Bostonian. I'm a Texan who's lived in Boston and LA and a lot of places. Here when someone starts cussing too much they usually get kicked out of the bar. Their rule of thumb if a person can't control his language they figure he's drunk both here and LA. Boston and NY they talk that way normally. Swedish people are great. Both Boston and New York people are rude obnoxious and cuss almost every other word. The F word is an adjective. Us original Texans are polite and friendly. Mexicans and illegal aliens are rude (unless their born here). LA doesn't put up with the rudeness either. Takes New Yorkers a while figure it out that they don't put up with it.
0:43 everyone is a dark souls character, I like that😂
Yeah well, I hate eyecontact cause that shit's scary - and I have social phobia, but I still agree with you that swedes aren't very social.
But I like the idea of systembolaget. I like that we don't get to buy alcohol from absolutely anywhere.
I am born in Sweden, and have lived there over 30 years. 10 years ago I took the step to move away. I must say that is the best decision I have made in my entire life and I will give my reasons. 1) The climate: Having snow and darkness 7 months of the year is unbearable for anyone in the long run. 2) State control: The Swedish government are controlling the individual at every aspect. 3) Immigration: Sweden has had some of the worlds greatest influx of immigrants. This has cause major problems as gang shooting, and ghettos where the concentrate these people. 4) Swedish banks are some of the worse banks in the world. They can block your account for no apparent reason. One small transaction and they will block your account. 5) Swedish people; Sweden is knowns worldwide as a country that uphold human rights, yet the people in itself are some of the worlds biggest racist. It doesn't matter how well integrated you are, if you look like a foreigner you will have a hard time getting accepted. That is why so many foreigners are changing names to a Swedish name just to be able to compete in the same level as native swedes.
I had to subscribe. You made me laugh in this video 😂 Your sense of humor it’s something else
Big Papa's dropping spicy zingerinos again
Amazing comment, I expected nothing less from you
@@emelie3627 I'm glad I at least live up to my incredibly high Discord expectations ;)
Blockis please :')
What a poet!
Haha as a Finn that was a culture shock that Sweden do not have these 24h suoermarkets.. Malmö do not have anything(not even kiosk or pharmacy) open when the last night club closes at 3am. In Finland we have in every single town some 24h supermarket or at least kiosk or grill(Helsinki has many supermarkets24 and also megamarket Prisma24). When you want to go to supermarket at night in Malmö you have to take a Airport train to Copenhagen🇩🇰.. they have so many 7Eleven24 and even their metro works in Copenhagen 24h!
Haha
Funny and interesting to watch! 😁And indeed, it s not that wow to live in Sweden, one would really need to sacrifice many things in order to integrate himself into this society and by the end of 30 years, let s say, of living in Sweden one would really start to think if it is indeed worth it.
There is no perfect place in this world, but Scandinavia is not as they used to say or try to portray - in my personal opinion. Here, u can meet both good/bad people, friendly/racist people, people that would try to fool you by thinking that you maybe, being new here, don t know the rules, and so on.
as a swede I can say that Sweden was an easy living place in the 90 s but since 2000--- its getting more square (if possible) less choices in all areas of life, more rules, more individualistic, less trusting and so on... but thats maby a world change, I don't know...
@@nagibanina Probably because of social media/the internet
@@adamhenrikson4549 yes! maby its a part of it..I also wonder if all micromanaging rules are creating separation between people , swedes are less tolerant with differences today, everybody acts polis and moralpolis, people are afraid to live life , to make mistakes, its a fear of being punished, being judged and so on. Swedish people are afraid and this shows even in school where more and more kids get diagnosed for being kids as in not wanting to sit still , not wanting to focus, not wanting to be silent or to follow the crowd, if you don't follow the grown ups expectations you get diagnosed and put on medicin.
its becouse of liberal media.scandinavia is like good place to live and need more MUSLIMS there to be more deserve.wake up people
If you have a crummy negative attitude you take that everywhere you go & people avoid you - hence you yrself ensure that integrating with the locals is harder.
I moved to Sweden as a 55 year old & struggled to learn the language & get a job at that age, but the Swedish folks I met were very supportive, kind & friendly. I have never received so much support as here in Sweden.
In Queensland Australia you can't buy alcohol anywhere except a pub or bottle shop.
I remember this one time when I was carrying a lot of luggage and people were staring at me like they were planning to attack me. I don’t know why but it felt very weird. They would always stare at me and I know I’m not the only tourist there who had dealt with a lot of awkward stares. There’s a huge difference between Americans and Swedes. We actually help people out or offer to help when people are going through difficult times. Swedes don’t really do that. They keep to themselves. But they are affectionate in different ways.
Why would anyone help you carry your luggage?
Isn't America the country of self reliance?
@@crabobserver I don’t care if they help me with my luggage. I could care less. I never asked. But when it comes to transportation and how to do transactions yes Americans do help you with that. Me and my sister asked around we were ignored. That doesn’t happen in America we actually help out and not stare at your randomly. If your gonna ignore me when I’m asking for help then don’t stare at me randomly. And no that doesn’t happen in America.
@@denisezi5055 if what my country brethren did offended you i apologize on their behalf.
@@denisezi5055 and btw its "i couldn't care less"
@@crabobserver Very passive agressive
If you hear English each day, even as a foreign language, everything sounds more charming than that. Also, Swedish sounds very interesting among other things because of its "word accent".
You can't purchase alcohol drinks in Australia apart from bottle stores but not supermarkets not general stores. In New Zealand you can purchase win and beer (only) in supermarkets but not general stores.
This list just makes me want to go to Sweden more!
Yeah but im in sweden
Ok, but you should know that some areas are really no go zones resulted from psychotic immigration policies and huge difficulties to realise it. Otherwise a beautiful and clean country.
@@robertm3561 even our police think that a “no go zone” is an extremely exaggerated term to describe those areas, the only people calling it that are alt right people thinking that malmö and Chicago have the same crime
Are you bloond and rich
Well, it kinda makes sense a Swedish city-person made this video 😂 It's a typical Swedish city-person attitude (and in this case someone who fully embraced jantelagen). People in Swedish rural areas are generally quite pleased with life.
As a värmlänning i have to agree
Then why the higher rates of suicide? The same paradigms exists here in country Australia.
Hahaha you're so right, I don't live in the city and just this morning I spoke to all the day care kids and their teachers that was walking by my house to go play in the forest. I speak to my neighbours often. We have activities and around town all the time and say hello when we meet each other on the street. Ya know, all that good stuff. Oh, and we congratulate each other when we do good, and we don't get jelly over it.
It's definitely a city phenomenon. On the countryside in the villages around the forests we are all laid back, talk to each-other and help out on our farms, go hunting and fishing and enjoy life together :)
Exactly! Måste ju vara en stadsbo som är så negativ!
I live in a small city near the sea and love life and nature and friends.
I’m Swedish living abroad. The Scandinavian cold weather is not for me so I am very happy I left. I only miss Bregott, lösgodis, swimming in lakes during summer and the bicycle lanes in Stockholm. Jantelagen is horrific and also delusional how we are brought up to believe everything Swedish is supreme in quality.
Lol this guy is hilarious 😂 good video! I'm an American and I can see one Swedish person with a good sense of humor.
Isn't he ?! I'm fucking dying. His delivery though 🤣
#8 swedish language sound one of the most beautiful tbh
This is bloody hilarious! Every reason here just makes me wonder why I've put up with this place for seven years...
We have people in our society who are antisocial. We get that ! some people can be diffrent. But an entire nation with no social skills. It's like unbelievable. How do they even make friends or get married.
They don't, they are lonely as fuck
Every single point completely true lol. Especially all Swedes being dark souls characters for the summer, that was so funny haha.
No
Tokyo is open-minded? I almost pissed myself laughing!
Watching this from America and I've always love Sweden 🇸🇪
Ty
You are right!! You have nailed most of it. Eye contact is interesting, when I pass by a girl they never look at me but look away, and when I pass by in a car they all look at me because there is no danger
doing it. I am Swedish living in France (at a castle) and meet people from all over the world and as
you have noticed swedes abroad are nice and outgoing (even without a drink) a different kind of
people from the north, the others stay at home looking at BINGOLOTTO
lol as if girls in Athens, Paris, New York or Barcelona don't gaze in the distance when people pass them by. There's no difference.
@@gulanhem9495 You do not no what you are talking about, in Scandinavia we are very shy and afraid of contact
@@chateaudelamotte9527
I know that Swedes are somewhat shy.
Read what I wrote.
You mentioned girls on the streets and how they react to strangers.
Maybe at your French castle the girls from all over the globe are very open and fuck all the guys, but that's a very special case. Those people actively went to another country and the castle-project.
But walk the streets of Paris, Athens, Barcelona, Lisbon, New York, London, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Prague, Moscow and Stockholm and it's all the same - all the girls will look away if you seek eye contact. Girls in big cities all over the world avoid eye contact with strange men.
About no:4. If you live in fjollträsk, there are not many option for shopping during the night. But if you live in a normal part of sweden, most smaller communitys have 24/7 shops. Unmanned shops you open with your bank-id and shop whatever you want, whenever you want. Convinient.
Japanese people are so much more by the book than Swedish people.
Sweden 🇸🇪 Is Clean! Just Like Where I Was Born "The Netherlands 🇳🇱"
-Excellent Education Systems.
-Hardly Any Teen Moms.
-Cleaner Air & Water.
-Beautiful Affordable Homes.
-Aspirational Mentality Through Out.
-Great Culinary Delights + Fresh Ingredients.
I Literally Could Go On! 😍
Dat petje staat je goed
I visited my Swedish cousins in 1988, after some of them had visited us in the United States. Two men my mother's age were surprisingly frisky - always joking. Their children near my age seemed mostly open and friendly. I was there during the summer, and had a terrible time getting to sleep at night with the light coming in the window all night, but that's unavoidable. Trollhattan and Skovde.
Respectfully, coming from the perspective of a Swedish American. These grievances are trivial compared to grievances with the US. I want to go home but SOS we are trapped. Send help.
Lol do better at life then
same here, i came to america for abroad uni and i am very homesick :(
@@beetlevomiit I am too. I grew up in the US separated from the majority of my family in Sweden, it gets really lonely. I always felt like an odd one out growing up with a culture none of my peers could relate to.
@@SpaceCadette7653 a lot of my family moved in 50s to midwest because they were farmers, and lots of my family followed and we moved to america for me to study abroad in 2017. going back and then leaving from visit is what hurts the most, especially with covid, we only just went back this year. i have yet to meet another swedes in person here and it really is lonely. but even more cuz my parents plan to stay here so i have to save to move back myself so im stuck here until then :(
i wish you luck though, välsignelser💖
@@beetlevomiit Do you feel better in Sweden or the US?
If you like it, in the next video, you could talk about Swedish inventions! What would the world be without IKEA? Thank you, Swedish people...😂😂😂
this is a pretty good video idea, I might just use this ^^
The reason that IKEA became popular is even more interesting.
In the 1920's, Sweden started to standardize everything. First out was the angle/depth.. of stairs (be careful when walking in old stairs).
After that they/we made standards for doors (height, placing and shape of the door handle and the letter box..).
The standardizing continued and in the 1960's it was decided that tending a home should be seen as work and was hence standardized (hardcore).
The oxygen requirements for the person cocking a standard meal was measured to the level that standards for the hight and placing of the stove actually became a law when building new houses and apartments.
People was shorter at that time so the standard has changed.
After that reshaping of the kitchen, they turned to stuff like (i skipp thousands of standards here) the shape of the forks handle and the size/color... of the plate (don't want your peas to match the plates decorations when using a fork that doesn't function on individual peas).
The reason that IKEA became a thing was that they followed the science/standards from the first second they could.
UK is known for the steam engine and Germany is known for the car but nobody knows that both inventions require Swedish inventions to build.
PS: i collect old science, history and school books. Can't read every book today so I will accept criticism 😇
Believe me no big change would have happened without Ikea. Many other countries know how to make furnitures. Ikea used cheap Chinese manufactures to scale up . Ikea without exploitation of Chinese workers / (slave labour camps) basically won't generate profit or compete with any other country .
@@boek2777 why hardly anyone in the world knows about Sweden, and what Swedish inventions do they require to build?
@@Am-kg1ng the wheel and the steel.
I don't agree that Systembolaget is bad, other than that I'm with you. My 5 yo really likes saying hello to everyone he meets and more often than not they don't greet him back. I feel sorry for him and yet I hope he never changes.
what gold mine did i just strike im trying to be all serious researching and this just broke the ice. Love the humour
The all Swedes are basically Dark Souls characters really made me laugh my ass off det är så jäkla sant
Try small town Germany, where almost nothing is open on a Sunday and very little (except supermarkets) on most Saturdays.
Free healthcare and university?
Yes, paid for by 57% taxes. And you still have to pay nearly 4000SEK per year for medicines 💊
ratio
@@TurdBoi-tf5lf ?
Very interesting video indeed.
Two things I like about there:
01. Same door color as neighbors. So that everybody feels same as others. Like you are not special!
02. You are not special. It’s universal truth. We are just an animal, we are not special. We came to this planet for few years, don’t feel special. It will keep you calm and enjoy your existence. Thanks!
As someone who loves the cold and the dark, hates eye contact, and loves my personal space, Sweden sounds like a dream country. As for alcohol, it’s the same in many US states. You can buy beer and wine at grocery stores, but you can only buy liquor at the state-owned ABC store. Plus, I don’t drink anyway. So I’m moving to Sweden. 🙂
Also, HOA (homeowners association) does the same thing in many communities in America. I got in trouble for having a window until air conditioner in my bedroom (I don’t like cooling the entire house in the summer, as I live alone) and HOA sent me a letter saying that the houses have to all look uniform from the outside, so I have to remove my window unit. They will also send you a letter and fine you if you let your grass get too long.
Do you think Swedish or Norwegian would be easier for me to learn as someone who,is fluent in German and English?
I've heard that Norwegian is easier to learn for native English speakers, but I'm sure you can learn swedish as well if you really want to 😄 thanks for the comment, I hope you make it over here some day! ✨
Why is no one talking about how HILARIOUS this guy is🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 love it
As a foreigner who moved to Sweden I'll tell you what else sucks. It took almost a year to get a work visa because of the red tape bureaucracy. After finally achieving that milestone it took another month to get all the stupid ids we needed. The next challenge was opening a fking bank account that took another couple of weeks. Some banks were telling us we needed to make an appointment for six weeks in the future. Now I'm waiting on some stupid card that appears lost in the mail just so I can get the dumb bankID to just about anything with other businesses online. Overall the experience has been a complete nightmare and that's not even mentioning the housing market.
I have grown to love Jante Lagen, I see it more as "dont think your better then anyone else" I think its a good value system for society.