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As long as you are very clear about the "rules" I guess its ok to just bring your own food. But I have never experienced that - normally everyone share everything.

i'm proud to be born and raised in söder :)

Highly recommend Midsommarkransen, Telefonplan, Hägerstensåsen, Aspudden if you want close proximity to the city center and cultural life (lots of cafés and local artists in these areas, also multiple cinemas, theaters and parks). If you're looking for a slightly bigger flat then Blackeberg or Bagarmossen are perfect for families, with lots of nature.

Interesting what you mentioned about food, when I grew up sometimes neighbours would bring out tables, and everyone brought food, and we ate from everything. So it may just be a local thing. Although I don't see neighbours celebrating together that often anymore, maybe if you live in houses and people know eachother well, which was the case when I grew up. But back then the naive swedes didn't always lock their doors cause nothing ever happend.

I'm swedish, my honest opinion is that midsummer eve should be our national day. It's almost like a christmas celebration but it is in the summer with your community. 6th of june is quite new, and it's like "what should I do? Maybe hang out with the family and eat something unhealthy". To me midsummer is more about the nature, community etc, to me it feel a lot more like something that should be our national day. We hang out, drop our rationality, jump around frogs etc. It's honest and a bit naive. When I speak to friends I know from other countries that have participated with us, they're like "what have you been smoking?!", but they still participate and laugh.

Midsummer probably is the Swedish holiday that have the most following counting all age.groups. Yule may win among children, parents and older people, but not by much. And the group left, teenager and young adults midsummer wins out by a lot. When young Swedes start to get more interested in partying and the other sex than family the fact that midsummer in its core is a fertility rite starts to hit home.

THANK YOU for sharing this! I wish I knew of a Swedish community over, near my. I really would like to experience all things Swedish!

Never heard of only eating your own dish. Mostly everyone brings something and everything is shared (it is called knytkalas and very traditional). But maybe there were a lot of people with specific demands, maybe vegans, allergies etc. More and more of those things these days but it is not traditionally swedish.

There is a big midsummer celebration in New York City. Flower crowns to make, lots of singing and laughter and of course the maypole!! I never knew about this before. I live 4 hrs away but it was definitely worth the trip. I do plan to visit Sweden during midsummer. When is it celebrated? Thank you for the video😊

Okey.. another "swedish concept" to learn.. and that is "knytkalas".. I think its more common out in the countryside.. becuse I did spend many years of my youth on a farm! In anyway, those farmers lived a distance frome each others.. but they liked to attend typical swedish festivitys! Like in good old days, when they meet there spouse! In anyway it was "knytkalas", bring your own food and and the "farmers comunity" did the rest! Another concept that is "normal" in sweden.. bring your own wine/beer/alcohol, to a party.. especialy if one is young.. becuse any alcohol in sweden is f''''ing expensive! There is more going on in the "swedish mindset".. one of this is "debt of gratitude".. its kinda work different.. its kinda people avoid you/your party, becuse they think they cant "pay back" by invite you to there own celebrations/parties!! It still trickle down to how much one know each other.. its kind of the same as in Stoneage. mothers talk to each others and the males get to be football coaches for there kids team.. especialy if they is born in UK!

For every midsummer I have ever been too (I'm over 50), someone organizes but do not actually make all the food beyond some of the basics like bread. Instead everyone attending gets to bring a different dish or snacks to complete the whole feast. And that goes for the lunch as well as in the evening. And then everyone shares. Usually the only thing people bring for themselves is the alcohol. Which is almost always the case in Sweden since it's expensive :)

Nice video! Do you also know the history behind Midsommar? 🌸 P.S. Skansen is actually a outdoor museum - the first in the world! And it also has a zoo. A long history of Tivoli at that place. 😊

Hej Uli. Jag har aldrig hört talas om detta beteende. vi har alltid delat maten och även spriten och drickat. Detta är någon nymodighet p.g.a pandemin och de stigande priserna, Om man skall göra på det viset men då kan man säga eller skriva det i inbjudan att det är( Knytkalas) detta innebär att man står för egen förning (mat). Jag skulle personligen skämmas om jag gjorde något dylikt. att inte bjuda mina gäster. Skulle man mot all förmodan tvingas till att göra på detta sätt skulle jag hellre dela notan . Ungdomar brukar medföra eget och det är ju naturligt eftersom de oftast inte har ett arbete och går i skolan. Knytkalas har funnits i evigheter och innebär att du medför något till bordet , precis som spanjorernas tapas luncher eller middagar. var och en köper en rätt ställer på bordet och alla tar av allt dricker och har kul. Knytkalas brukar bero på liten kassa eller att vederbörande värd inte har möjlighet eller tid att laga all mat. Är det t.ex. kräftskiva kan man bestämma ett visst märke på kräftorna för att tillagning mm skall bli lika , en del kanske köper Jumbo och andra tusenbröder. Jag blir förfärad av att se att de bjuder in gäster oftast utländska som inte vet och förstår kulturen och lämnar dem därhän. På sådana kalas har vi i min krets alltid satt värd och värdinna nära sådana gäster för att kunna förklara saker ,seder och bruk och vara allmänt behjälplig, att lämna sådana gäster för sig själva i en bordsände och inte bry sig är skamligt och okultiverat. Oftast gör man upp vilken som ansvarar för nästa års kalas och då har man tid för planering av allt. Är jag så snål att gästerna äter prinskorv och jag själv grillat då ska jag inte ta på mig att vara värd, Svenskar är ett givmilt och kultiverat folk , inte ett grottfolk Hoppas jag rätat ut en del frågetecken åt er.Mvh:KJ.

I have never heard about not sharing food...but I'm only 66 years old. What do I know? I know we have something called "knytkalas" where everybody brings something to share!

I think it's more common that you bring a specific thing to the buffet, rather than bringing your whole lunch. Never experienced that you keep your lunch to yourselves like that.

Seems strange when you are invited to a party not to share the food, never heard of it. The difference is if you gather together unplanned that everyone eats their own food. It happens when we are out with the boat in the archipelago and eat together with friends on the rocks

The lunch thing sounded wierd to me. Usually the midsummer buffet is for everyone to take and eat from.

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What about in Brevik. Thomas Sewell wants to buy a house in Brevik. He had a close friend there named Anders.

Nice name

Do Swedes think it would have been the same in Sweden 100 years ago? I mean I have never been to Sweden. But I have a theory - perhaps completely wrong - that people in the West are generally just more socially lazy without even realizing it due to the comforts of modern life. It may have been that 100 years ago people were more interdependent and more sociable out of necessity and its not as necessary to be sociable and make friends nowadays. Obviously, there weren't people travelling around the world to such a great extent as todays and there are obviously differences in people's personality from one nation to another; but i hear often that in one country or another its hard to make friends - how do we know it is nothing innately cultural but just social laziness and other demographic reasons (such as smaller families, etc). And I am not judging anyone, I am no better in this respect than anyone.

We are considering moving to Germany or Sweden from Australia. Can you compare living in Sweden and Germany

I was guessing professional hitman, but it- info buisness sounds interesting too.

Dobin a nutshell,is Sweden better in terms of bringing up young ones and getting job for foreigners moreso black?

ya got me

Is it true they force children to take classes about lgbtq?

What bank do you believe with only the personal number is easy to cope with (as an individual who is looking for a job) ?

Wow! Very affordable! No catch? Move in and redecorate or are those vacation homes you have to refurbish to be allowed to live permanently?

that was fairly short

16 " 神爱世人， 甚至把他的独生子赐给他们， 叫一切信他的， 不至灭亡， 反得永生。 For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Ugh, everything is stark white ,zero charm . Its "Swedish charm" has been thrown away 😢💔

lycka för er alla från Sverige Jag bor i Brasilien men har en nyfikenhet för Sverige

lycka för er alla från Sverige Jag bor i Brasilien men har en nyfikenhet för Sverige

Any body knows the weather in gettysburg sweden during july ?

I've lived my entire life in Sweden and I honestly wouldn't want to move to another country. However I wouldn't mind moving Sweden to the Mediterranean or somewhere similar. Winters here truly suck

I disliked most of the fancy house new houses because they lacked character. The exception is the Gotland house which had “his and hers” bathtubs; the plan was unique (uhhh maybe the drawbridge was too unique 😆 ) but the fixtures where high-end and well placed by a designer and architect. The Gothenburg house looked like it was designed for new money, American taste (very common here in Los Angeles and very barf 🤮 ). I would like for you do a video list with median-priced homes $200 to 800k homes. IF YOU’RE SWEDISH AND READING THIS: PLEASE STOP PAINTING YOUR INTERIORS WITH INSTITUTION GREY AND TITANIUM WHITE 🤪😘

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The comments here talk more about similarities between Sweden & Germany than differences, in the sense that both people focus on petty matters and both people care so much about alcoholic beverages, notwithstanding the fact that things are organised differently in each country. In my own experience, the biggest difference is that Germany, as a State, is super-bureaucratic, following more or less the same patterns as Greece, my home counry, renown for its nightmarish bureaucracy, where Sweden is probably the least bureaucratic place that I have even been to. Also, the Swedish "uppfostran" to never bother and not invade others is quite unique and I miss it when I travel to other countries. However, with mass immigration in recent decades, the "new Swedes" now dominating city life in places like Stockholm, that fine principle is for ever gone, I am afraid...

So basically, for a non college educated 45 year old man with a 6,000 USD pension would basically have to hit the nightclub as soon as he arrives and ask the first woman that he sees to marry him and have a child with him just so that he can find a place to live..🤔

I love these videos ❤. All these houses were too big and bland and bleak furnishings 🤢

I am so jealous of Sweden. They have such good neighbours. 😉

Nice vlog...Wow 3 Yrs! Congratulations I hesitate to bring this subject up because your videos are positive with pleasentries and very informative ... but unless you live under a rock ...the global news and on RUclips, there's frequent reporting about Sweden having a serious a gun violence problem. If you care to share info, l just want to ask you is it rampant? or is it contained, or confined within the so-called no go zones? Does it spill out and /or is it a problem for all communities? Where is all this violence happening ? They're saying the problem is the worst in the EU..What happened??? Many vloggers on sm, who chat about moving to Sweden, paint a picture of mostly idyllic living and rarely address this topic. I hope it's get fixed... I hope you and family get to remain in SE. BTW!... I picked up quite a good bit of Swedish watching the reality series Wahlgrens Värld🎉 Allow that show to become white noise as you work etc .. 😂

I would love to visit Sweden again.

Hi I m Javed from Pakistan. I have a friend in Stockholm, soon we are planning our marriage. Is this easier or not ??