The small chocolate factory Freia was bought by the Norwegian Johan Throne Holst in 1889. The factory grew, and in 1916 he opened the sister company Marabou in Sweden, so you are probably right that it is the same chocolate. He left the management of Marabou to his son, and the companies worked closely together until Freia bought out Marabou in 1990. In 1993, the company Freia Marabou was sold to Kraft Foods, which later separated out parts of the business and gave the company the name Mondelēz International. The Company kept the brand names Freia and Marabou in Norway and Sweden.
It was the same, and is still similar. But Marabou has tampered with the exact ingredients many times since 1916. (I know, because I was one of the "taste testers" in the early 2000s.)
@@herrbonk3635 As a Swede who loves chocolate, I often buy Marabou. Sometimes the taste shifts between being more creamy, sometimes more toffee, sometimes more nutty, but I guess that depends on different batches of the chocolate.
A laundry room is a feature. You don't have to use it. You are usually free to buy a washing machine and install it in your bathroom. I have even seen flats with a washing machine in the kitchen, but I don't think that's very common.
The biggest difference between Norway and Sweden is the location, on opposite sides of the Scandinavian mountain range. Parts of Norway lie east of the mountains, and there both the weather and nature are more similar to Sweden. West of the mountains (ie in Norway) the nature is wild and beautiful, with steep mountains and deep fjords. To the east, the mountains transition into river valleys and forest terrain. Farthest south, the valleys are on the Norwegian side of the border, further north on the Swedish side of the border. The weather is probably much like in the British Isles, when the weather comes from the west (which happens often) the clouds release the rain before the mountains. Therefore, there is more humid weather on the coast in the west, and a drier climate east of the mountains. Sweden's west coast is far to the south, and I would think the weather there is more similar to the weather on the west coast of Norway and Great Britain. Although Denmark is located to the west of Sweden, the country is so flat that it does not have the same effect as the mountains in Norway have on the weather.
We also had a similar word for window in Swedish, vindöga. Ett didn't borrow it from English though, they borrowed it from us, from old Norse back in the Viking's era. There are more than 900 words that went that way: By (like in Grimsby and many other names of villages), husband, gap, flat, steak, take, fuck (!) and many more. This doesn't happen very often these days. I can only think of moped, smörgåsbord and ombudsman. Oh, yes, brädgård (the # symbol), but few English speakers say that these days and most of them never heard of it, so it kind of died.
Swedes typically do not start a conversation of small talk. But if someone else initiates it there are definitely way more doing some small talk than what one may think. :P
In swedish: Rolig is something or someone being funny. (Ove är rolig. = Ove is funny.) Roligt is something fun. (Det är roligt att leka. = It is fun to play.
I think it is a good thing that we have laundry rooms. It does not matter what economy you have. You have access to clean your clothes. If you do not like the laundry room, just buy a washing machine to your apartment if that is not included.. 🤔 I bought a washing machine to my apartment but I am glad I have access to a laundry room without any extra cost. I use it when I need to wash a big pile of clothes, bed clothes or curtains.
@@matsv201 my apartment was built in the 50s with a small bathroom. There was no wash machine when I moved in. A normal sized wash machine does not fit at all. Mine is a small 4 kg machine. And that is even hard to fit. If you get a machine included in the rent or not is up to were you live. Are you renting? Did you buy apartment? Is it a newly built house? And so on. Yes I have been living in apartments with wash and dryer machine included. It all depends on different situations.
Swedish Fjords are called Fjärd. They are similar in the way that they are longish inlets into the mainland from the Ocean, but also very different. The Fjords are usually very deep and have huge mountains on both sides, the Fjärds (to Anglify the plural) are not that deep and the land around is flatter. The Swedish Archipelagos in general are quite flat, foreign sailors are usually a bit afraid of them, since it takes a bit of knowlege to navigate safely there.
@@karsteinmartinsen489 No you misunderstand me completely. We don't have Fjords, we have Fjärd, or Fjärdar in plural. As I said there are similarities, but they are also completly different
What makes you say that? And how can you even generalize whole countries like that... Sure, I would hate to live in an ugly working class suburb in England (there are many), but I wouldn't mind living in a beautiful house in a small town on the English country side... Same in Scandinavia.
@@herrbonk3635 one issue with England specially (not so much Skottland and wales) is that the build permit rules are draconian, so living in a small village might not be as cheap as say sweden. Of cause I'm mot saying the build process in sweden is super simple but at least is not England.
@@matsv201 Well, my phrase _a beautiful house_ would more or less imply that it's *not* newly built :D Rather a hundred years old, or more. I hate almost everything built after WWII, with pretty few exceptions. It's all socialist style architecture.
@@herrbonk3635 i don't really agree. It rather implies that it was not built in the 60 and 70s. Houses built in the 80s actually look fairly nice The issue with a lot of villages in England is that its quite expensive. When a small detached house cost £500k, it's not really fun any more. While in my local village they sold new builds for 2.7M sek last year. And they do look fairly nice
I have almost always had a laundry room. I really like them! I get two big (almost industrial size) effective machines for 4 hours so I can get all my laundry done fast and efficient. For one year I didn't have a laundry room so I only had one normal machine which had room for less laundry and took much longer time! I felt like I was always doing the laundry and I never had all my clothes clean at the same time.
I live in Sweden and I don't like laundry rooms either but I can't prioritise getting a washing machine to my rented apartment. My laundry room is relatively nasty (to some standards, I guess I just want it cleaner then others and usually I have to start my time with cleaning) you're supposed to clean after using it but people don't. I also hate the feeling of other peoples germs and residue when I'm washing. The laundry room is also not locked to others during my appointment (in some buildings you have a slot and you cant get in outside of your timespan which I would appreciate more) BECAUSE I've had neighours doing things like sneaking in on my wash time, or thinking "oh, I'm just drying so I can use an hour of her wash time". I hate it and it feels super rude and I would not do that my self. (Except that one time when I was new here and asked if I could dry my clothes a bit more. She wasn't happy but would kindly let me that one time) we actually have the concept of "washing room drama" (even with funny and snarky notes because some doesn't dare or take the time to actually speak with their neighbours x) ) because it can get a bit messy when strangers share this kind of thing. the upside is of course that it's cheap and easily accessible so I'm still thankful for the existence of this system.
If you buy a washing machine, you can take it with you if you leave the apartment or sell it to the next tenant. Then pretty much all landlords have it so they can install a washing machine, but then they also raise the rent. This is what they have done in Norway and all other countries that have washing machines in the apartments, the rent will be more.
I saw the northern light some nights a couple of months ago. I live 12 kilometers from Stockholm. It was very active in the south of Sweden at that time.
It doesn't get dark very quickly, it gets dark very EARLY. Slowly, but early (in winter; slowly and late in summer). The closer to the equator, the quicker it gets dark. The time that happens though, is more like the same time every day at the equator and the further away you go the earlier it gets dark in winter and later in summer. At the poles there are darkness all day in winter and not at all in summer.
hi from Sweden. Norway, Sweden & Denmark our currency Called krone but we have our own. The Swedish currency was so low compared to Norway and Denmark. So it is therefore very cheap for them to shop in Sweden. But I have heard that diapers are cheaper in Norway than in Sweden.
there are many rules in building modern houses in sweden, that is why stockholm does not have that many modern buildings because it is not allowed to block the view and the buildings are very old so they are protected somehow
Buckingham palace is mutch nicer then the castle in Sweden :) but there is alot of truelly beatyful castles in sweden for exempel Örebro castle, i live in Örebro ❤
In what way? I guess you are talking about the royal castle on Stadsholmen? Have you seen Drottningholm outside Stockholm, btw? That's where the king usually lives these days.
Pay is a LOT higher in norway, and also the tax is lower. Food is insanly expensive in norway, but other gernal stuff is not that much expensive, and housing can actually be worse in sweden. Norway have one major drawback. Transport is really horribel. Talkign third world horrible. Stockholm have simular to paris a region close to the city core where high buildings are banned (there are some built before the ban) but when ypu get outside of those areas there id plenty of modern and high buildings. Stocholm is area vice a absolutly huge city. Most of the core of the city os 3 or 4 floor buldings, and there is lot of villa suburbs. Compare even with other european cities that have much higher population, the area of stockholm is still larger. Castle in english is a so limiting word. There is two main castle in stockholm totally diffrante usage. One is stockholm castle where then king work, its basically a adminastrive bulding. There is just a lot of offcies (thst is the one one the bulding) and there is drotning holm castle where the king suposed live (he kind of mostly dont). At times he lived in a flat in center of stockholm and the crown princes did for many years. Its like huge luxary flatts. But the irony of it is that the main bulding staircase looks like any other house. There is absolutly nothing telling anyone the crown princess lives there. Just a normal looking flatt door. Oslo is not to far south to sea the northern light but its to bright. It have to be really dark. I can se them from my house living about as far north as oslo. While, its rare its vissible so far south By 16 its dead dark. Even 15:30. Around 15 there is a bit of twilight. Of you want full daylight its like 14 or 14:30 Norwegan climate is much milder (specially at the coast) even lofoten that is very far north is actually very mild. (As long as you are on sea level) in sweden, specially eastern and inöand sweden the winters thend to be harcher, but the sumers quite a bit warmer. Finland have even harher winters and even warmer summers... and that goes on in inland russa where then have -40 in winters and +40 in summers. Well.. some times. Crime is for sure more s problem in sweden than norway.but in sweden its very dependent on where you live. Some cities are reallt high crime some have non.
We're more laid back in Sweden and Göteborg is known to be called "Little London"!❤ I don't see the point of working in Norway if the cost of living is triple more! All the Norwegians come shopping here in Sweden!
"All the Norwegians" You do realise not every Norwegian lives close to the Swedish border right? I would have to drive for 10-12 hours to get to Sweden.
The Swedish word roligt and rolig is the same word. You use one or the other depending on the object. ”En rolig dag”, a fun day, ”ett roligt ögonblick”, a fun moment. Rolig can also mean funny, which probably is the reason why Swedes confuse fun with funny. ”Money money money, must be funny” (famous ABBA song). We do have a better word for funny, though: Lustig.
If you cannot afford a laundry machine or you do not have room for one then you can still clean your clothes in a machine instead by hand. That is what this is about not that most people do that.
The cold air and intense physical exertion in winter sports can trigger asthma symptoms. Genetic factors and early respiratory infections might contribute too. Many athletes manage asthma effectively to compete at a high level. And no, having asthma is not «cheating». It's a medical condition that some athletes genuinely deal with. In fact, athletes with asthma often undergo strict testing and medical evaluations to ensure they are not using their condition as an unfair advantage.
They are grand and beautiful. But not "better" if you like to live there (or just have a picknic on the shoreline or the cliffs). Swedish nature is far more hospitable, at least in the southern half.
I have to say this, I've lived in an apartment where you had to book the laundry room and it was closed after like 22 (11pm) and opened again at like 6 (am). Honestly, I didn't like it either. It was such a pain having to book it and it may be that I'm not very motivated for doing chores, but I tend to just ride my productive highs and do all chores when I feel up to it and that doesn't mesh well with booking the laundry room. Now I live in an apartment that just has one big laundry room with about 8 washers and driers each and 3 drying closets (?). It's open 24/7 and no booking. It just tends to be full of people during certain times and pretty much empty other times. As I have a dog, I get up pretty early and it's almost always completely empty in the mornings. I love this so much better and I think it's much more convenient in general.
Speaking as a Norwegian Swede (Norwegian background but culturally Swedish) I prefer the Swedish social climate to the Norwegian one. There's this thing Norwegians do where they constantly passively aggressively insult each other in the most veiled and convoluted way possible. Swedes don't do this, so we're also not culturally socialised to pick up on these constant veiled insults, which is the reason Swedes are generally considered dumb by Norwegians. I've heard it said that even after 20 years living in Norway, some Swedes still aren't aware of this under-the-surface conversation that takes place between Norwegians. And to Brits who read this: it's worse even than your jargon between friends. You Brits are a lot more straightforward in your insults. You may fool an American, but to a Norwegian, you'd be considered crude and obvious. An insult from a Norwegian might go right over your head, or you would sense that somehow you were just insulted, but not quite be able to figure out how. Personally, I just don't want to deal with that kind of crap. If you think you're smarter than me by the thousand ways you can hide insults in everyday words, I'll leave you to it. Meanwhile, over in Sweden, I'll just enjoy being around people who are comfortable with their own level of intelligence and who are genuinely nice to each other.
The small chocolate factory Freia was bought by the Norwegian Johan Throne Holst in 1889. The factory grew, and in 1916 he opened the sister company Marabou in Sweden, so you are probably right that it is the same chocolate. He left the management of Marabou to his son, and the companies worked closely together until Freia bought out Marabou in 1990. In 1993, the company Freia Marabou was sold to Kraft Foods, which later separated out parts of the business and gave the company the name Mondelēz International. The Company kept the brand names Freia and Marabou in Norway and Sweden.
It was the same, and is still similar. But Marabou has tampered with the exact ingredients many times since 1916. (I know, because I was one of the "taste testers" in the early 2000s.)
@@herrbonk3635 As a Swede who loves chocolate, I often buy Marabou. Sometimes the taste shifts between being more creamy, sometimes more toffee, sometimes more nutty, but I guess that depends on different batches of the chocolate.
I lived outside Freia factory for a while, and it always smelled like chocolate going outside
A laundry room is a feature. You don't have to use it. You are usually free to buy a washing machine and install it in your bathroom. I have even seen flats with a washing machine in the kitchen, but I don't think that's very common.
The biggest difference between Norway and Sweden is the location, on opposite sides of the Scandinavian mountain range. Parts of Norway lie east of the mountains, and there both the weather and nature are more similar to Sweden. West of the mountains (ie in Norway) the nature is wild and beautiful, with steep mountains and deep fjords. To the east, the mountains transition into river valleys and forest terrain. Farthest south, the valleys are on the Norwegian side of the border, further north on the Swedish side of the border. The weather is probably much like in the British Isles, when the weather comes from the west (which happens often) the clouds release the rain before the mountains. Therefore, there is more humid weather on the coast in the west, and a drier climate east of the mountains. Sweden's west coast is far to the south, and I would think the weather there is more similar to the weather on the west coast of Norway and Great Britain. Although Denmark is located to the west of Sweden, the country is so flat that it does not have the same effect as the mountains in Norway have on the weather.
Bro is well educated!
We also had a similar word for window in Swedish, vindöga. Ett didn't borrow it from English though, they borrowed it from us, from old Norse back in the Viking's era. There are more than 900 words that went that way: By (like in Grimsby and many other names of villages), husband, gap, flat, steak, take, fuck (!) and many more. This doesn't happen very often these days. I can only think of moped, smörgåsbord and ombudsman. Oh, yes, brädgård (the # symbol), but few English speakers say that these days and most of them never heard of it, so it kind of died.
Swedes typically do not start a conversation of small talk. But if someone else initiates it there are definitely way more doing some small talk than what one may think. :P
In swedish:
Rolig is something or someone being funny. (Ove är rolig. = Ove is funny.)
Roligt is something fun. (Det är roligt att leka. = It is fun to play.
I think it is a good thing that we have laundry rooms. It does not matter what economy you have. You have access to clean your clothes. If you do not like the laundry room, just buy a washing machine to your apartment if that is not included.. 🤔
I bought a washing machine to my apartment but I am glad I have access to a laundry room without any extra cost. I use it when I need to wash a big pile of clothes, bed clothes or curtains.
It's not like wash room or no washed at all isnthe only alternative. In a lot of countries. Like Norway. There simply is a washed in the flatt
@@matsv201 my apartment was built in the 50s with a small bathroom. There was no wash machine when I moved in. A normal sized wash machine does not fit at all. Mine is a small 4 kg machine. And that is even hard to fit. If you get a machine included in the rent or not is up to were you live. Are you renting? Did you buy apartment? Is it a newly built house? And so on. Yes I have been living in apartments with wash and dryer machine included. It all depends on different situations.
@@johnnorthtribe sweden have been much slower in refurbishing apartmentn than Norway.
I live in a house
@@matsv201 how will refurbishing my apartment make my bathroom bigger?
Swedish Fjords are called Fjärd. They are similar in the way that they are longish inlets into the mainland from the Ocean, but also very different. The Fjords are usually very deep and have huge mountains on both sides, the Fjärds (to Anglify the plural) are not that deep and the land around is flatter.
The Swedish Archipelagos in general are quite flat, foreign sailors are usually a bit afraid of them, since it takes a bit of knowlege to navigate safely there.
Swedish fjords, ha ha ha
@@karsteinmartinsen489 No you misunderstand me completely.
We don't have Fjords, we have Fjärd, or Fjärdar in plural.
As I said there are similarities, but they are also completly different
@@matshjalmarsson3008 I think the correct term for what you are trying to say in English is "inlet" or "bay"
@@BiasOfficialChannel I beleive that I said Inlet, bay would in my mind be a wider hmm inlet?
@@BiasOfficialChannel No, it's not correct, it's just English.
The English word inlet in Swedish is inlopp, and bay is bukt.
It doesn't matter whether it's in Sweden or Norway - life is ten times better there than in England.
Well, not in the outskirts of Malmö... my cussin use to live there....well.. she moved.
What makes you say that? And how can you even generalize whole countries like that... Sure, I would hate to live in an ugly working class suburb in England (there are many), but I wouldn't mind living in a beautiful house in a small town on the English country side... Same in Scandinavia.
@@herrbonk3635 one issue with England specially (not so much Skottland and wales) is that the build permit rules are draconian, so living in a small village might not be as cheap as say sweden.
Of cause I'm mot saying the build process in sweden is super simple but at least is not England.
@@matsv201 Well, my phrase _a beautiful house_ would more or less imply that it's *not* newly built :D Rather a hundred years old, or more. I hate almost everything built after WWII, with pretty few exceptions. It's all socialist style architecture.
@@herrbonk3635 i don't really agree. It rather implies that it was not built in the 60 and 70s. Houses built in the 80s actually look fairly nice
The issue with a lot of villages in England is that its quite expensive. When a small detached house cost £500k, it's not really fun any more. While in my local village they sold new builds for 2.7M sek last year. And they do look fairly nice
I live in the middle of sweden (ish) Värmland.
I saw the northern lights for the first time last year. It was fantastic.
I have almost always had a laundry room. I really like them! I get two big (almost industrial size) effective machines for 4 hours so I can get all my laundry done fast and efficient. For one year I didn't have a laundry room so I only had one normal machine which had room for less laundry and took much longer time! I felt like I was always doing the laundry and I never had all my clothes clean at the same time.
I live in Sweden and I don't like laundry rooms either but I can't prioritise getting a washing machine to my rented apartment. My laundry room is relatively nasty (to some standards, I guess I just want it cleaner then others and usually I have to start my time with cleaning) you're supposed to clean after using it but people don't. I also hate the feeling of other peoples germs and residue when I'm washing. The laundry room is also not locked to others during my appointment (in some buildings you have a slot and you cant get in outside of your timespan which I would appreciate more) BECAUSE I've had neighours doing things like sneaking in on my wash time, or thinking "oh, I'm just drying so I can use an hour of her wash time". I hate it and it feels super rude and I would not do that my self. (Except that one time when I was new here and asked if I could dry my clothes a bit more. She wasn't happy but would kindly let me that one time) we actually have the concept of "washing room drama" (even with funny and snarky notes because some doesn't dare or take the time to actually speak with their neighbours x) ) because it can get a bit messy when strangers share this kind of thing. the upside is of course that it's cheap and easily accessible so I'm still thankful for the existence of this system.
If you buy a washing machine, you can take it with you if you leave the apartment or sell it to the next tenant. Then pretty much all landlords have it so they can install a washing machine, but then they also raise the rent. This is what they have done in Norway and all other countries that have washing machines in the apartments, the rent will be more.
The word window comes from Norweigan (Vindu).
I saw the northern light some nights a couple of months ago. I live 12 kilometers from Stockholm. It was very active in the south of Sweden at that time.
It doesn't get dark very quickly, it gets dark very EARLY. Slowly, but early (in winter; slowly and late in summer). The closer to the equator, the quicker it gets dark. The time that happens though, is more like the same time every day at the equator and the further away you go the earlier it gets dark in winter and later in summer. At the poles there are darkness all day in winter and not at all in summer.
hi from Sweden. Norway, Sweden & Denmark our currency Called krone but we have our own. The Swedish currency was so low compared to Norway and Denmark. So it is therefore very cheap for them to shop in Sweden. But I have heard that diapers are cheaper in Norway than in Sweden.
there are many rules in building modern houses in sweden, that is why stockholm does not have that many modern buildings because it is not allowed to block the view and the buildings are very old so they are protected somehow
Buckingham palace is mutch nicer then the castle in Sweden :) but there is alot of truelly beatyful castles in sweden for exempel Örebro castle, i live in Örebro ❤
In what way? I guess you are talking about the royal castle on Stadsholmen? Have you seen Drottningholm outside Stockholm, btw? That's where the king usually lives these days.
Glass in norwegian is glas but in swedish it means icecream😊
Pay is a LOT higher in norway, and also the tax is lower. Food is insanly expensive in norway, but other gernal stuff is not that much expensive, and housing can actually be worse in sweden.
Norway have one major drawback. Transport is really horribel. Talkign third world horrible.
Stockholm have simular to paris a region close to the city core where high buildings are banned (there are some built before the ban) but when ypu get outside of those areas there id plenty of modern and high buildings.
Stocholm is area vice a absolutly huge city. Most of the core of the city os 3 or 4 floor buldings, and there is lot of villa suburbs. Compare even with other european cities that have much higher population, the area of stockholm is still larger.
Castle in english is a so limiting word. There is two main castle in stockholm totally diffrante usage. One is stockholm castle where then king work, its basically a adminastrive bulding. There is just a lot of offcies (thst is the one one the bulding) and there is drotning holm castle where the king suposed live (he kind of mostly dont).
At times he lived in a flat in center of stockholm and the crown princes did for many years. Its like huge luxary flatts. But the irony of it is that the main bulding staircase looks like any other house. There is absolutly nothing telling anyone the crown princess lives there. Just a normal looking flatt door.
Oslo is not to far south to sea the northern light but its to bright. It have to be really dark. I can se them from my house living about as far north as oslo. While, its rare its vissible so far south
By 16 its dead dark. Even 15:30. Around 15 there is a bit of twilight. Of you want full daylight its like 14 or 14:30
Norwegan climate is much milder (specially at the coast) even lofoten that is very far north is actually very mild. (As long as you are on sea level) in sweden, specially eastern and inöand sweden the winters thend to be harcher, but the sumers quite a bit warmer.
Finland have even harher winters and even warmer summers... and that goes on in inland russa where then have -40 in winters and +40 in summers. Well.. some times.
Crime is for sure more s problem in sweden than norway.but in sweden its very dependent on where you live. Some cities are reallt high crime some have non.
We're more laid back in Sweden and Göteborg is known to be called "Little London"!❤ I don't see the point of working in Norway if the cost of living is triple more! All the Norwegians come shopping here in Sweden!
"Little London" is even more cringe than "the capital of scandinavia"... holy shit!!
@@herrbonk3635 Thats what its called! Because the climate and atmosphere is simular!! Cringe is a bit "Harsh"!
"All the Norwegians" You do realise not every Norwegian lives close to the Swedish border right? I would have to drive for 10-12 hours to get to Sweden.
@@peacefulminimalist2028 yes your right :) im thinking of the people that drive over from Strömstad for example :)
All the Norwegians😂😂
I live about 4 hours from the border, and I never shop in Sweden
The Swedish word roligt and rolig is the same word. You use one or the other depending on the object. ”En rolig dag”, a fun day, ”ett roligt ögonblick”, a fun moment.
Rolig can also mean funny, which probably is the reason why Swedes confuse fun with funny. ”Money money money, must be funny” (famous ABBA song).
We do have a better word for funny, though: Lustig.
If you cannot afford a laundry machine or you do not have room for one then you can still clean your clothes in a machine instead by hand. That is what this is about not that most people do that.
Norway 🔛🔝
🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽
@@simonhultgren7778 I’m «not» serious, just a classic teasing comment
Husbond. Bond means boundich (?) To the hous...farmer (?) So husbond is a norse word.
Im from Norway and i dont like far from the polar circle. Have seen the northern lights a couple times. Mostly around christmas times
Har du bare sett Nordlyset et par ganger 😳😳
Jeg bor i Valdres og har sett det mange ganger
@@lillm6874 Ha ikke sett det på over 20 år. Tror det er for mye "light polution"
If u look at wintersports looks they have some problems , lot of the have astma . In Norway
The cold air and intense physical exertion in winter sports can trigger asthma symptoms. Genetic factors and early respiratory infections might contribute too. Many athletes manage asthma effectively to compete at a high level. And no, having asthma is not «cheating». It's a medical condition that some athletes genuinely deal with. In fact, athletes with asthma often undergo strict testing and medical evaluations to ensure they are not using their condition as an unfair advantage.
as a swede, norway is superior without a doubt.
Well our krona is weak atm norway is expensive but they earn twice as much to tho
Well... Norway's got better fjords... ;-)
They are grand and beautiful. But not "better" if you like to live there (or just have a picknic on the shoreline or the cliffs). Swedish nature is far more hospitable, at least in the southern half.
I have to say this, I've lived in an apartment where you had to book the laundry room and it was closed after like 22 (11pm) and opened again at like 6 (am). Honestly, I didn't like it either. It was such a pain having to book it and it may be that I'm not very motivated for doing chores, but I tend to just ride my productive highs and do all chores when I feel up to it and that doesn't mesh well with booking the laundry room. Now I live in an apartment that just has one big laundry room with about 8 washers and driers each and 3 drying closets (?). It's open 24/7 and no booking. It just tends to be full of people during certain times and pretty much empty other times. As I have a dog, I get up pretty early and it's almost always completely empty in the mornings. I love this so much better and I think it's much more convenient in general.
Does not matter!
Sweden🔛🔝
Speaking as a Norwegian Swede (Norwegian background but culturally Swedish) I prefer the Swedish social climate to the Norwegian one.
There's this thing Norwegians do where they constantly passively aggressively insult each other in the most veiled and convoluted way possible. Swedes don't do this, so we're also not culturally socialised to pick up on these constant veiled insults, which is the reason Swedes are generally considered dumb by Norwegians. I've heard it said that even after 20 years living in Norway, some Swedes still aren't aware of this under-the-surface conversation that takes place between Norwegians.
And to Brits who read this: it's worse even than your jargon between friends. You Brits are a lot more straightforward in your insults. You may fool an American, but to a Norwegian, you'd be considered crude and obvious. An insult from a Norwegian might go right over your head, or you would sense that somehow you were just insulted, but not quite be able to figure out how.
Personally, I just don't want to deal with that kind of crap. If you think you're smarter than me by the thousand ways you can hide insults in everyday words, I'll leave you to it. Meanwhile, over in Sweden, I'll just enjoy being around people who are comfortable with their own level of intelligence and who are genuinely nice to each other.
As a Norwegian, I have no idea what you're talking about, and no it's not a convoluted insult. Can you give an example?
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Me neither lol
No sweden is the best for me
First! 😃