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Q&A ⠇My New Life in Sweden
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- Опубликовано: 14 авг 2024
- Let's take a little hike to the coast while I answer questions about my decision to move from California to Sweden.
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Most cows are kept indoors and when they come outside in April- May they are so happy that people go to Watch this .
I am ready for the cows! 😁
Google kosläpp to see where this happens in your area...it's surprisingly entertaining @@skapaallt
Thank you for being humble that you don't understand allemansrätten yet. Allemansrätten does not apply to someone's yard, even if it is the municipality's yard, the church's, etc. Remember that it applies to natural areas. If you are unsure whether something is nature or someone's yard, assume it is someone's yard. I would not pick moss from a stone wall or in a built-up area. Mosses and lichens are not included in the legal text, so it does not say that you may or may not pick them. It is usually interpreted to mean that you can use your common sense and not pick so much, at least from one place. I usually take a small piece here and a small piece there, so that it doesn't look like a big piece is being lifted away. But pick the moss from the forest. There are recipes on how to make your own that you can google. I think you mix a bit of moss and filmjölk (don't think there's an English word for it?) in a blender and then you can brush it on, for example, stones. But then you have to make sure that it is kept moist at first. Google is your friend.
The orange markings is generally a way to mark out a hike path to follow. Somewhere along the line you tend to encounter an information board with a map showing the path and perhaps some explanatory text telling you the length of the hike path. Often at this information board there are multiple paths shown and in that case they are marked using different colors and/or symbols.
Cool, I'll have to find that board!
The flower you filmed is called snowdrop (snödroppe). 🙂
Ha en bra dag-vi ses!
Kul att höra din svenska också.
Between watching your new channel and another channel I found called Mossy Bottom where a guy just moved to a wildish spot in SW Finland, I am doing a lot of daydreaming about living in a Nordic country. If I had citizenship in an EU country, I would be all over that. I don't know how you feel about U.S. politics, but if Donald Trump gets reelected, we may not be living in a quite so free country anymore and I feel the situation could, in fact, become dangerous for some US Citizens. It really saddens me, but if I had the resources, I might just bail. For now, all I can do is hope for the best and do a lot of dreaming. I've decided to start learning Finnish though and, once I master that- a bit of a joke, if you know anything about Finnish- I will start on Swedish.
Do you see yourself soon exploring different parts of Sweden, or other Nordic countries, or do you think you will spend most of your time between your new neighborhood and California?
Let's hope that Don doesn't become President again, that would be quite frankly terrible.
Thanks for mentioning the Mossy Bottom channel, i am alway on the lookout for similar ones. If you dont know it yet you can check out Roaming Wild Rosie here on YT, she is an english girl who is renovating a cottage in Sweden. Oooor if you want a real treat check out Martijn Doolaard, who is renovating an old stone house in the Italian Alps. Both have great cinematography besides showing their life&struggles.
Nice walk about in your neighborhood which is also made ne since I am one of your neibhors. I live in one of the last houses you pass on your way home. Welcome to the neighborhood!
Coolt! Tack för att du tittade :D
Great video! Fun to see the contrast to northern Sweden where I live. We have almost a meter of snow still and you have some plants already turning green. We are starting to get temperatures above freezing now but more snow supposedly coming tomorrow. I like snow but it is great seeing spring is on its way. Looking forward to seeing more in the future!
Kudos Devin. Great editing and some amazing shots. I guess the weather will just improve from now on, so hopefully we will see your videos more often. Thank you for sharing your great adventure.
I'm immigrant to norway. It is really nice to see you live in the mirror world.
If you want to get a good impression of Sweden here are some tips. Visit Göteborg for the culture, Malmö for the food scene, Stockholm for the dozens of museums, Dalarna is the heart of Sweden, Leksand being the place to be on Midsommer, visit Jämtland for the hikes and skiing, and Norrland for the mountains :D Hope this helps! If you are ever in Dalarna reach out to me, I can show you around!
Also I haven't been able to find your other channel you were talking about, so maybe link them to eachother in RUclips.
It sounds like there's enough to keep me busy and interested for a long long time! :)
Yes! Devin, if you have a bucket list of what you want to experience, consider adding "Vildmarksvägen" to it. Preferably, you need to buy/rent a mobile home and spend at least two days traveling that route. 🤩
It's surprising to me how similar your life is to mine. When I moved to Sweden I kinda bought outright too, Swedes had a hard time believing that since most bascially have a mortgage, it's not common here to own our houses outright, but it is truly freedom, and the houses are still cheap in some rural areas like ours, it's a secret unknown little paradise for sure. About solar panels, if you do get them, you may want to place them on the south side along your walls, because as people in this thread correctly points out - electricity is cheap in the summer, and expensive in the winter. I've placed mine on the wall so that avoids snow plus it actually gives some results during winter, better than those who have it on their roofs and constantly have to clean them or deal with snow, and you get more sun as well.
I have a ton of 3D printers and an electronics lab and a youtube channel which you talked about, how weird is that? Well we can talk about that another time. About allemansrätten - there's a simple basic rule you can follow, if you can see their home then the allemansrätten doesn't apply anymore, you can't just walk willy nilly into someones yard, so keep 30-70 meters distance (or visible privacy distance) from their yard and you will be fine. Also, you're not allowed without special permit to put up video cameras that could see their yard or public areas like roads and neighbors, so keep that in mind as well. As for using drones, make sure you don't film military listed properties and areas (skyddsområden). And you generally need a permit if you're doing areal filming and putting those on youtube, so be careful with that.
As for saving money on electricity, you may want to build a separate backup off-grid system with a huge battery bank system, because then you can store up electricity for later use when it's expensive in peak time, that will save you more money than solar connected grid (which basically doesn't help you during a power outtage since the power you use comes from the power grid which is down anyway for everyone), so an off-grid system is helpful here, and you can get a switch between your battery bank and power grid so you can prepare for those savings.
Your move from California to Sweden makes perfect sense to me, I have a bunch of close friends in California, and they have filmed the area quite a lot so I've seen thousands of hours of footage from their daily life there, and it's for the same reason I moved from my previous big city, all it's problems and busy life, highly overrated, and it comes with so much emptiness despite the massive crowd of people whom are basically just busy with their own situations. You will now have less problems with burglars and you know, the people around you that might not be that fun to be around for reasons you already know if you lived there, so - you''ll be happier overall, I know I did.
Good advice all around. I never considered wall mounted solar, interesting idea!
@@skapaallt There's also a new trend in solar energy of using vertical double-sided solar panels. Even though they may produce less total energy, they produce it at the times of day where the demand and price is the highest, instead of around noon when the demand is lower. ruclips.net/video/LqizLQDi9BM/видео.html
Yeah the Swedish summer is perfect, I don't understand people who go to southern countries in the summer, that's something you should do in the winter when the temperature there is more reasonable, and to avoid seasonal affective disorder. Heard a lot of foreigners complain about SAD, I think most swedes get it too but we're just used to it. There's definitely a bit of a stereotype of people in the south of Sweden being a bit happier and people in the north being introverted.
It's so amazing to see our nature from your perspective! I love it, but there are so many people who don't appreciate it. I'm looking forward to see more nature adventures!
I sometimes go to kolboda to take photos so you have chosen a great and beautiful place. 👍🏻
You should really travel in Sweden for adventure to, the mountains "fjällen" is amazing, the forest etc....
Dude, spring will be such a treat 😊 geeen, everything will be green 😂
What to do with the moss, you could crumble it into some 'filmjölk' (sour milk from the grocery store) and mix, then you paint with this mix on rocks, concrete or wherever, and moss will start to grow there. Nice decoration trick or what! :-) I guess you can vacuum the leaves but it's easier to take the plant somewhere to just rinse them off, the plants will appreciate it.
I'd say you're allowed to harvest moss, there's lots of it in the forest so maybe leave it be at public sites. Consider the beauty of it at that stonewall and leave it be just because of that. It's a shared effort to keep the public room in good shape and protect what beauty there is. Find moss in a place where it's in excess, you'll find it at 'moisty places' at forests, lowpoints where water might gather. Harvest a little here and a little there so that nature soon may heal the "empty spots". And, you can "make your own moss" with the filmjölk trick, from only a small piece of it. Nobody would notice or care if you take just a handful of moss from that wall.
Cows are in most cases living indoors in barns ("cow stables") during the winter but in the spring they are let out. Watch out for "cow release" events ("kosläpp") where people can come watch the cows being released to graze the meadows again. They're so happy! That's the fun thing to watch, their joy of spring and outdoors freedom. It's very popular events so you might have to make a reservation in order to attend in some areas. Google kosläpp, and find out more.
Semla in hot milk divides the population. The bun becomes like snot and you eat it with a spoon. I like it very much, but I guess the consistence of the dissolving bun is too much for some.
Expect "summer activities" to be concentrated to 15 June - 15 August, that's when all things happen. Rest of the year it's like the castle of Sleeping Beauty, nothing going on - at all. In May you'll see the German motor homes cruising the rural areas, thinking wtf, did someone nuke this area or what because it's completely dead! Mid-August to mid-June this country is for the locals/natives, in July it's open to visitors (in regards of the efforts made to welcome tourists).
Think of 1 meter as 1 yard and 1 kilometer as 1000 yards, it's not exactly correct but close enough as an estimate. I don't know vif that helps but I tried :-)
Barbed wire or elctric fence are solely for keeping cattle, you are allowed to cross at all times. The only restricted land is a house garden, respect a mowed lawn or a fence around a garden but that's basically it. If camping, try to do it without sight from a house to not disturb their peace. Consider at least 50 yards away even if you're on "free land". Private roads may be restricted from motor traffic (signs at the entry of the road) and sometimes even have a roadblock but you can walk or ride a bicycle on such roads, also through a farm, if that's where a road takes you. Just wave and say "hej hej" if someone glares at you :-) Then they know you're a decent person. If someone made an effort to put up signs saying "Private" or something, respect it to avoid nuisance, you might be in your lawful right to go there but it's not worth the hassle, just leave the a-holes contained at peace in their little fortress. It's very unusual to find such signs. Sometimes it's just that they have experienced trespassing on their lawn and want to create a "buffer zone".
Swans will protect their little one's, then they lower their heads, spread their wings and hiss at you. Give them at least 15 yards or preferrably more. Keep moving, walk normal, in a direction that is not toward them, and it will likely stay at a warning. If you have a boat they will come and pick with the beak at the sides of your boat asking for bread or other goodies. They're not pests, if you are no pest to them. But they earn some respect, they are big and strong birds that won't be pushed around. Geese are more irritating, more likely to follow you and pinch your heels or legs to force you away. Keep some distnce, like 15-20 yards, and they won't be triggered. You can actually keep tame geese as "watchdogs".
The sign at 26 minutes says no anchoring (at the sea), because of an underwater cable.
Lots of great information, thank you for the detailed comment!
@@skapaallt Swedish wildlife are quite laidback, because most people are as well. We oppose no threat to eachother, although the animals are a bit suspicious, who is a hunter and who isn't? Mooses know which day the moose hunt begins, I used to live in a place where the mooses mixed in with the horses at a meadow, knowing that nobody would shoot at them there. Mooses and wild boars are the only potentially dangerous animals in your area, Moose have poor vision and can only see you move "left to right" but can't apprehend you coming towards it. Move sideways relative to it so it can spot you early on and it will take off. Remember this when driving a car as well, it doesn't understand that you are approaching it until it's "too late", it get spooked and do something drastic. Wild boars and mooses have good sense of smell and will smell you before you see them, but if you're walking towards the wind they might miss you. Don't sneak around, allow for making some noices as you walk in the forest and they'll hear you before you see them and they stay out of your way. But if you accidently meet a couple of boars with piglets on a forest trail, climb a tree as fast as you can. Seriously. The risk for this to happen is very very little but "if", take no chances. They will defend the piglets with their lives just out of suspicion.
Vad roligt att du är i Falun! Jag är från Borlänge!
@@heatherlundquist-buffalo Haha, nej det är jag inte, namnet är ett som kommer från serietidningen Svenska MAD. Men jag har varit i Borlänge många gånger! Och ibland i Falun också!
Fantastic to see a real inspirator move to sweden! That makes you my neighbour! Would love to have you as my guest at our place if you plan a trip to Norway. I live 1 hr from Oslo.
The orange paint om the trees is ”Möreleden” a local trail
The orange markings mean that the trail is part of a larger “vandringsled”. This is probably “kalmarsundsleden”.
I’m envious you’re in Sweden. I can’t wait to move back to Borlänge 😊 I’m tired of Buffalo life since 2009! 😂 I regret suggesting to my Swedes that we move to Buffalo (I’m from bflo) for a bit 😂
When are you gonna start SFI classes to learn Swedish? I did SFI, SsAS, Grund & gymnasie svenska.
With a little bit of water, put the mos in your kitchen blender, and make it like " mossy" like baby food.....then pour it on the stones, and it will grow just fine 🤗
This brings back so many happy chilhood memories. My parentes grew up not far from there, so I was in the neighborhood a lot visiting relatives. It is indeed a beautiful place, I hope you will enjoy living there.
Nice vid! If you want a cat the Siberian cats are very low on the protein in the saliva that makes you allergic. Most people can live with Sibirians even if they normally are allergic to cats
Spring in Sweden is super nice. I used to live in SF but I never miss living there. Hope you enjoy what Sweden offers. You can go pick berries and wild strawberries (smultron) when the time comes.
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Some burglers trow Moss by the Doors to check if you are home
I've been thinking about moving abroad too for the same reason. I've lived in Stockholm all my life but whenever I've moved apartments I've felt more "awake" for a few weeks at least. Talked to a coworker who lived in Malaysia for two years, he said the same thing about it feeling so much longer. Worked there for a month myself and kinda preferred it to vacations, it's fun to just change up your daily life instead of just going sightseeing for a week.
With the moss you just grind them up with nutrients like beer or sourmilk to make a thick paste and then smear it on your rocks. So for a garden wall a bottle of beer, spoonfull of sugar and about a 1kg of moss, for a patio trick is to water them constantly with one part of sour milk and 7 parts of water. You can also pregrow shredded moss in bulk on a wetted newspaper in a shade and then move it if you want a japanise style moss yard. Roofing moss though is different species from a moss that grows on a moist, soggy and shady forest floor so it might do fine with just plenty of watering in the beginning. Also I see that snow is already gone there, here in Southern Finland the snow still lingers and we have -5c at nights but +5c during the day so spring is coming fast and the blackcrows in the near by trees are already getting busy.
Nice! I already have filmjölk every morning for breakfast so I can spare a little for my moss friends 😁
It was smart to go to a EU country if you want the possibility for new experiences. It will be easy to take trips to other countries and see new things every now and then.
The orange marking on the tree (which could also be blue) is done on trees that are being preserved. The forest owner does these markings before logging begins.
hope you have a great summer!!
Actualy you are not allowed to pick moss from
Stone walls but any were else. Love your curage to move here. I 3D print as well love naturen and rockclimb, surf a lite also. Good luck from me Björn on The west Coast.
Of course I would consider the one wrong option! Thankfully I waited for advice :)
Hello. If you eat a Semla soaked in warm milk its called hetvägg (hot wall). Eat a Semla with out milk, is called eating a semla.
19:54 Etymologically speaking “Öland” is the same word as “Island”. The “I” part is cognate with the “Ö”. It has evolved from the older “Ey”. That’s why you find islands with names like Guernsey, Orkney and Jersey (probably Geirrs Ey or Geirr’s island)
Thanks for unother interesting video. You are lucky to have the beautiful pier area in walking distance. It even had a little beach.
Remove the moss on the roof. It just stops water flow towards the down pipes.
You can break down the moss into tiny fragments (blender?) and mix it with sour milk or something other organic, sticky and mildly sour and then "paint" it on the pile of rocks when it's not too warm and sunny and not before rain.
Its a peace lily that plant and a tip is to not water it to much, its easyer to kill it with water than dry it to death.
Create choice of music and generally you're whole channel is fantastic. I'm already always looking forward to the next video!
You might be fascinated by the moss by now but as a house owner myself, I assure you: that will wear off 😂. It's cold for cows for now. Here in Denmark near the bigger cities, there are events on the farms when they set them free onto the fields. As a house owner you will soon get greener fingers automatically 😅 but for now I'd keep the fredslilje (the flower you bought from ikea) inside till there is at least a two digit (Celsius not Fahrenheit 😉) number on your temperature scale. Good luck with all. I've followed your other channel for years and hope to watch many here too 😄
EXCELLENT 📣
You have a talent being in front of a camera. I think you're going in the right direction with your adventure....I wish you all the best.
Hi Devin! So cool to see you taking the step moving to Sweden! Since you love nature, just as I do, you definitely have to travel up north during the summer. Get yourself a tent and a sleeping bag and hike out in the mountains. I do it every single year and i bring my fly fishing rod and stay out there for a week. I never feel as relaxed as im doing up there.
A good place to try it out for the first time is arround Funäsdalen. You can either take your car out on Flatruet and park there, or to Svansjön. Its very close to the Norwegian border and the nature is stunning.
amazing man! From a swede who moved from Stockholm to San Diego and back
Moss attracts water by capillary action, which can lead to roof tiles cracking and moisture penetrating the roof structure. So get on the roof and remove the moss.
Loved the Skapa Allt tattoo!!
The tattoo came first and I decided it makes a fitting logo for the channel 🙃
I've seen the prices for Wettex in America 2x, 3x, 4x as much as here.
Where you surprised by how much (or little) the price was here?
I found you through the article in the local paper, really nice channel you've got here
Welcome, great that you found me through the paper :)
I don't actually remember how much I paid for the Wettex in the US because they last for so long, but it makes sense that they're cheaper here!
Looks like its a very nice area, congrats on your purchase!
Hi up here is still winter i wish it melt soon
Just for safety: it's good that you don't show to much in your videos that can easily locate where your house is. One never knows if somone with bad intentions is lurking around on youtube that wants to break in to your house and steal your stuff. Just to be on the safe side. Take care
If you like soggy Kellogs in milk you will love semla in milk, otherwise not. I take hot milk on the side or just coffee
The planter you made, does it have drainage? Otherwise it will be very easy to overwater your plant and the roots will start to rot.
About the solar, you are correct it is dark a lot, and during summer you usually dont use as much electricity and the electricity prices are often lower then, however you do live in the south so you have the highest electricity prices in the country probably.
Yes, I do have drainage holes 😉👍 Thanks for the comments
maybe you could make a diorama with the moss and some 3d printed miniatures?
That would be really fun :)
maybe freeze-drying some fresher moss will work even better
16:05 you are lucky 🍀 we will have to get a mortgage one day to buy a house in Borlänge.
Hey did you know you were buying a duplex lol!? 😅 who’s gonna rent the other side?
In Sweden we have the Allemansrätten that nobody in the world doesnt have, you can hike in the woods wherever you want in sweden
I think that goes for all the nordic countries. Here in Norway too.
That is someones summerhouse and their baot
Do you have more YT channels?
'Make Anything' is my biggest channel :)
7:25 you need to sign up for free SFI classes for immigrants. Much better than the apps!!!
I am taking SFI classes now :)
@@skapaallt yay! I loved them. So much fun with the other immigrants! Good times!
Friendly tip: Solar is mostly stupid in Sweden, when you need power the most (nov-march) there is almost no solar, and the major need for power is mainly for heat during those cold months. Selling of solar solutions in Sweden is a hoax. I know I will get a bunch of hate comments on this, but it is sadly the truth. MAYBE the very south of Sweden can see a ROI after many years, but I doubt it, unless solar gets very cheap. The only reason to get solar in Sweden (as of now) is to charge your EV, but it still takes a very long time for ROI as summer prices are low. Old powerhungry lightbulbs consume alot of power, guess what, they heat your space too. Replacing them with LED will only make your radiators compensate and work harder = almost no money saved. But for sure with outside lights, go with LED! No reason to burn power for the crows (as we say here). Cheers and welcome to Sweden!
It can greatly diminish ones elecricity bill though. In the summer you sell the excess electricity you generate so over a year what you pay and what you are payed can even out.
You can never earn back or get even by selling the electricity back, solar is still a huge investment. You would be surprised to how many people with solarpanels that are disappointed with how little they get back or save after spending 200k @@Divig
@@TheTinyrobot I did not mention earning back the investment. I said the bills can even out. I know people who go more or less even/earn a few hundred.
Hi, it's Friedy! I love your Video we had the bikes of our tiny house, so we could see the same places as you! Your stonewall is a nice shelter for small animals and insects and the moss will be nice and helpful for them too. It's able to keep water in hot
times!
Thank you for watching! ☺️
10:45 I feel the same about moving from WNY to Sweden in 1997/98. :) love love love Sweden and am tired of the USA, it’s a shitshow 😂
Did you get your power back?
Yes but I still need to hire an electrician to properly replace the cables
hey.. you should get a dog then you will make friends instantly
Devin, the metric system is easy because everything is basically either divided or multiplied with 10. 10 mm is 1 centimeter, 10 centimeter is 1 decimeter, 10 decimeter is 1 meter and so on.