This SURPRISED ME When I Moved to Sweden! *I was not prepared*
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2022
- In today's video, I'll be sharing some of the things I wish that I had known about Sweden before moving here. I get this question a lot from you guys in the comments to my videos - what is it like to move to Sweden? Is it what you expected? What would you recommend to someone visiting Sweden for the first time, so today I thought I'd answer all your questions in one place. So these are five of the things that you should know before you make the decision to move to Sweden!
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The work-life balance is definitely one of those things for us! It definitely allows us to get out there and see the real Sweden.
Hi Gregg!
I love the ticket machines. I have lived in 5 different countries during my life and has queued in all of them. I have never met a person who likes queueing. With a ticket machine you can continue looking in the shop or sit down and wait your turn, as you said. Elderly people, physical causes, families with small children and others can have a hard time standing in a long queue. Personally I wish all countries had ticket machines.
Another advantage is where there are more than one cashier. With a ticket you never have to be annoyed over ending up in the slowest queue.
interesting to get your perspective Bengt, thanks for sharing! I certainly see the value of it, of course, as you describe, its very nice to be able to prepare in advance and then move on with your browsing! and you make a good point that at least its then clear to everybody exactly who is in the queue and in what order!! thanks for stopping by :)
Made by Qmatic, a Swedish company with worldwide patents. I’ve seen them in the U.K. although they are not nearly as common there. They’ve been quite common in many parts of the world I’ve been to, including Poland, Azerbaijan, Belarus and Singapore. NHS in the U.K. (the Healy service, like the regions in Sweden) use their equipment, for example.
@@RobertClaeson I visited Q-Matic when I went to Sweden. The company I worked for had a relationship with them and we used their printers and tickets.
i find it so weird that people think a ticket machine is some cutting edge innovation. Doesnt every modernized country have those, wtf!
When about the Nordic siblings...
(Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland , equals 'Norden')
WE can say whatever we want about them. Just remember:
Only I hit my brother.
It's a love and hate thing, like quarreling siblings. Mostly best friends ❤️. But, we rarely need help with kicking each other's butts!😂
Sweden has some of the most generous store opening hours in Europe. In many other contries, like Germany or Norway, the stores are entirely closed on Sundays so I am surprised that this is even mentioned as a "thing".
If so, Finland must be on top, since about 90% of all the "1-2-3"-shops along 3 main highways was: 1. kept fully&completely open (no Shell-24/7-inspirated hole-in-the-wall security solution - _meaning_ they must meet the demands of "never fewer than two personell working between 22-06) gott to be presentworking nightsat least at all time) glass all 24h, 7d/week, despite - 2. Finland had a crazy cold & snowy January, on top of 3. Covid still rampaging with Finland much harsher rules&restrictions (especially compared to Swedish anarchy lol) still in place & if not including Norway so throughely controls that loooooong border so effectively as if they're newly-rich from oil controlling-issuesNorway except border Covid from spreading Europe still had much harsher rules & restrictrionsCovid19-restrictions isactive corona meaning they didn't use those smaller, securityglass windows as we do at Shell & OKQ9's 24/7 Although great, it felt so overkill to see two bored personell with nothing to do but paid in full(a Soumi chain of sized-well-above-the-average gasstation-stores that offers (at a minimum) basic food&groceries, fika, tobak, & misc with "well til-taken" restrooms/disability-WC&babycorners with 1+ microwave ovens!
(haha, "Väl tilltagna" helt spikrakt översatt låter fel men kändes ändå liksom rätt, för den där exakta "väl tilltaget"-nyansen som rönt såpass rejält tilltagna framgångar i schlager-sammanhang under så pass lång periodett så väl tilltaget antal gångerdär vi ändå tillåter lite extra flash... Ungefär "Lagom+". But mostly känd around Göteborg as "milleniefödda-stadsbor-lagom" version 2.0 enligt gargongen på Lunarstorm enna?
To me it is more important to know how someone works in, and fits into, a team than it is to know their achievements. They would not be in the interview for the job if they did not have the required knowledge, and
it is easier to learn new skills than it is to learn to be a team player.
If I and my colleagues are to work with someone for a long time they need to fit into the team.
How do you know if they will? You assume? Never assume, it makes an ass out of u and me.
Missing to take a kölapp happens to native swedes too every now and then😄
Most regular shops, like clothing shops like h&m, electronical stores like media market are open 10 am to 8 pm monday to friday. On saturdays and sundays they are ussally open 10 am to 6 pm
Grocery stores ussally are open 7 to 8 am and close 9 to 10 pm and I live in Stockholm, Sweden.
And where I live in Sundsvall most clothing and electronical stores in centrum are open 10-18 monday to friday, with the stores in the shopping area a bit outside of town staying open till 20. Weekends its more like 11-16 in centrum. Most grocery stores are 7-22 or 7-23 all week here tho.
What about the Swedish Pitch Accent? I think this too has a greater impact on the culture than most realise and would love to hear your thoughts about it. From my understanding spoken English generally uses speed and loudness levels to convey pressure and general feeling of a sentence. This differs a bit for Swedish so I think because of the pitch accent we tend to include pitch based information in every singel word instead of the whole sentence.
Still great videos as always of course and I'm already looking forward to the next one :)
Thank you for making this video specifically for me😆. I have told a few friends I plan to move to Sweden, and next time I spoke to them, they said, "you're moving to Switzerland, right?" 😑 I don't even live there yet and I'm already quite offended. The names alone are so different. Great fun video, once again!🤗
Haha no way😆 just send them this video and hopefully we’ll teach people the difference, one by one😅
I am always surpriced about people from a few other counties is complaining about storehours. Who wants to go shoping on a sundaymorning or late at night?
For groceries, I love shopping late in the evening. 😜 But it's really not a problem here where I live, Maxi is open 7-23. 😁👍
Americans??
Good to see #4 make the list!
I thought it was quite funny when we got into that conversation at the weekend, knowing this video was in the works😅
Thanks, my friend for sharing great video and yes, we are different to other countries wich i have heard a lot from my friends i have around the world and i find that interesting.
I am the same way, I don’t really like about bragging about achievements. Like, in Canada for interviews it’s kind of the same but, it doesn’t suit my personality bragging about achievements. I don’t even post awards on Facebook. I feel sometimes, I was born in the wrong place but despite this, I would never leave Canada, I still love it!
I've not spend much time in Canada, but I'd like to!! it looks beautiful! interesting to hear that Canadians take a similar interview approach to, for example, the US!
@@JustaBritAbroad We’re similar to our American counterparts in certain ways but not every single way.
Sweden is different to other countries. It's something we Swedes just have accepted. I can understand why people from other countries have a hard time understanding what is going on
once you learn to understand it though, I have to say, it makes you enjoy Sweden even more🤩
I’m this one who moved from
Estonia to Sweden in December and a bit before started to watch your videos, your videos are very helpful. I was in Stockholm quite many time before moving also. For sure I can say that people in Sweden are very helpful when you try to learn Swedish, just first sentence for me was: jag talar inte mycket svenska, jag bor första månad här ... and after that they talk quite slowly and help to understand.. I’m truly thankful for that. Of course main problem for me is also to find apartment where I can be longer than half year... but for now I am very happy here.
so fun to hear that you've found my videos helpful as you settle into life here in Sweden! glad to hear you're enjoying it so far though, and let me know if I can be of assistance! have a great weekend!!
@@JustaBritAbroad thank you! And have a nice weekend!
Mycket av vad jag gör och gjort är team baserat, jag är ju bara en del av teamet och min del är visserligen viktigt men andras arbete är minst lika viktigt för hela resultatet!
jag håller helt med dig Sina! det är viktigt att se hur man bidrar till något större!
Regarding your comment about us liking to educate people about our cultures...
Yes, that's the understatement of the century I think. :-P
Have you covered the process of Visa card (if you are not European) then personnumer, Swedish ID and finally bankID and how long that can take when you’re new?
The apartment queues are the only way to make it somewhat equal. This way you can actually get a nice location without contacts or a specific status etc :)
Hello. In what town do you live in? Yes, it is true.
About the apartments.
And jobs is so difficult.
Now I rent an apartment in Stockholm. And all judgments, that no one talking about.
I am planning to go aboard and work. So I can provide for myself.
Thank you for talking about this things. Because it is important to have an apartment and a income. I wish you all the best.
Apart from the climate, the shops' opening hours are one of the main reasons why I'm planning to move away from Sweden :D
The interview part is difficult for a Swede in England!
I feel like queuing was big in the 90’s in Canada but it’s kind of coming back due to the pandemic.
really? interesting! what replaced it in Canada, pre-pandemic I mean?
@@JustaBritAbroad Well, nothing really. Unless, you had to go to a government building or see a doctor, after the 90’s, we’re over there wasn’t much queuing to line up and wait at places. You could just go whenever but it seems queuing has comeback.
I have lived in England since 2001 (September).
The last one applies anywhere tbh, you don’t go to Ukraine and talk to them as if they’re Poles, don’t go to Malaysia talk to them as if they’re Thai, and don’t go to Korea and talk to them as if they’re Japanese.
This is true, but I think atleast in europe thats a very "well, duh" thing to say, but scandinavia is often grouped together alot even within europe in my experience. So while on a global scale it might very well be needed to tell, for example, anericans that you cant just treat any neighboring countries as the same country, in europe saying to not just treat scandinavia or fennoscotia as 1 country is the more needed distinction cause we allready automatically distinguish poland from ukraine and Belarus, latvia from Estonia and Lithuania, germany from austria, belgium from the netherlands, but alot of people just go 'scandinavia' rather than distinguishing sweden from norway and denmark - in my experience
Vilken stad i Östergötland bor du i? Jag bor i Norrköping😊
I am slightly jealous because Expresso House looks so good but, I don’t think Canada would ever get one. From what, I read Expresso House is exclusively in the Nordic countries and Germany, I think.
I think you're right to be honest, since there's a lot of strong competition from other actors in Canda, the US, UK etc. so I think they would find it kinda hard to establish themselves. though I can agree with you, Espresso House is great - and they have some really tasty sandwiches and snacks!
@@JustaBritAbroad I have never had Expresso House coffee and snacks but it definitely, looks like a place, I would want to go to. Maybe someday lol.
I have an espresso house at the local commuter train station. I can just walk within about 10 mins, yeah they have good hot chocolate.
@@HannahHäggAutisticTransWoman Unfortunately, I can only imagine lol. Tim Hortons isn't too bad for their hot chocolate but I find it a bit sweet so, I don't get it often.
Tbh I tend to preferr local cafes to expresso house. Yeah, theyre decent but expensive and local cafes tend to have better quality for the same price. Expresso house does have a nice atmosphere tho if you want more of an upbeat vibe to your coffe than the cozy that usually commes with cafes. I also suspect it might have something to do with the roast of the cofebeans too tho, cause Id expect a larger chain to use roughly the same roast coffebeans at all locations in a missguided atempt to create the same experience at every location, but water hardness affects how roasted your beans should be for best flavour. So maybe I just live in a place where the water harndess is poorly matched with the roast of bean expresso house has?
Once again you pinpointed some swedish things!
At first, Sweden is a BIG country whit a small population, our biggest citys is nothing more then small suburbs, compare to London!
We actualy hade those big shops (24/7) in the 70-80s, but there was not enough comsumers to make them get any profit!
In any case, if you live central in at least our 5 biggest cityes, there is always shops 24/7, and often pharmacyes to.
And they have higher prices too!
Nowaday we dont have any regulation about opening hours, its up to every shop owner.. and if he/she think its wort the cost.
The queing culture have its historical reasons, first one qued at the bank if one was a midleclass person, other qued at the postal office, to get there salarys!
After that one qued at Systembolaget and at last in the groceryshop!
It was a social meeting kind of thing, one get to know the last gosips and other importante things!
Even in the small town far up north (population 27k) where I grew up, the grocery stores open at 7 and close at 22 and there are cafes having decent open hours. At least one of the local pubs close at midnight every day (although they are permitted to be open until later).
Hi, I have two questions if possible. If you could rewind time, where would you move to? Sweden, USA, or London. Why?
I dont understand your problem with queue. There are queues so what else to do than queueing. Take a ticket and wait for your number to come up- Whats the problem???
Did you watch the whole video Roger? I actually didn’t say I had a problem with the queuing at all, in fact I said it makes things smoother because you can just take a kölapp and move on with your shopping whilst you wait😅
did brexit affected you britts abroad? or was it just as before?
good question Ola! but I guess it depends in what way you're thinking really, as I'd already moved to Sweden before Brexit, so it didn't really affect me too much, apart from needing to go into another queue when I fly back to Sweden of course😅but I think its much harder for Brits that want to move to Sweden from the UK now, and vice versa!
UK is still so conservative and old fashion
As a Swede living abroad going back to Sweden, the biggest problem is that the country does not feel like Sweden anymore, it almost feel like I'm in North Africa when I'm there. Glad I was able to leave. Some places even has clan wars on the streets, like Malmö and Göteborg.
Oh, so you mean "Sweden" is only three or four tiny areas in the three biggest cities? 🙄 You need to expand your horizons. 😂 (Or maybe you're just the troll your name says you are. 😜)
@@attesmatte oh, and Borlänge too, huge problems with the Zommisar, and, even all the way up in Luleå, and lots of "honor" killings in Östersund, LoL, well on the other hand it's not only Sweden, entire Europe is getting destroyed by the invation.
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Where are you living now Troll?
@@mendamend in a red state in the US
Now hold on a sec.... they don't have kölapp in other countries?
Five biggest cities? Do anyone know which is no 5 this year? and Sweden really only have 2-4 places that can reasonably be called cities. Stockholm and Gothenburg are cities no doubt, Malmö almost certainly are but some would claim it just a large town, Uppsala probably are but more than a few would claim it is just a large town. For anything smaller they should probably be called towns, although since the city definition isn't very strict I guess one could call the largest of them cities.
And the difference between "cities" and "towns" are? By the way therer are only "kommuner" and "tätorter" in Sweden....
I was surprised how multicultural Sweden is!
you were? interesting! is it not so much like that in Canada?
@@JustaBritAbroad Well in Canada and America yes, it’s very multicultural but I never thought how multicultural Sweden is.
Everything is better in the UK.
Culture and heritage? Not so much for a few Swedes. Edited.
Well I wouldn't say that is all true. The way we do things here often rest on solid historical and inherited ground. Like someone's example behind queuing here. And midsummer is something we've celebrated for hundreds of years. We are certainly proud of stuff like letting women vote before another country would and we indeed have a culture wich I think a brit abroad exemplifies well in his videos. True we don't have a strong all Swedish food culture but we have a strong culture in trying out new things instead :)
@@kimhoglund2073 About voting...
We weren't the best in the class.
Here are the years when women could vote on the same terms as men in a number of countries:
Sweden 1921
Denmark 1915 (and Iceland)
Norway 1913
Finland 1906
England 1928
France 1952
Ireland 1018
It's a cluster of nations around 1915 - 1925, the years after WW1, and likewise the years after the WW2.
The worst in the European class was
Portugal 1976
Liechtenstein 1984
and (!!)
Switzerland, where ALL women in ALL counties could vote 1990....
The USA and Canada... Well, racism ruled for a long time.
In the USA all women were given the rights to vote 1920. Pretty good. BUT in the southern states BLACK people weren't aloud to vote everywhere, until the Voting Right Act, 1965, forced the last states to give all people, no matter what color, the same rights to vote.
In Canada all men and women could vote 1918, EXCEPT the native people, who weren't seen as citizens 😖😵💫!??!
And, of course, in a large part of the world men are thinking with their a-es and d-cks, and women have to a certain extent the rights to vote, if it's not too important, of course 💥
And then some countries where women can't vote at all, or only in so small extent that it's not even noticable. Countries where men obviously are a bunch of scarred, hypocrite, "religious" rats.
We do have a strong Swedish food culture, however it's gotten a bit suppressed and neglected by the younger generations. So, be proud and rediscover our home cooking! Sjömansbiff, kalops, kroppkakor och Pitepalt, fläskpannkaka med lingonsylt, fläsklägg och rotmos, tjocka revbensspjäll med potatismos, frukostkorv och dillstuvad potatis....
Food that the KITCHENS OF THE SCHOOLS killed. Made inedible. We, born in the 60s - 70s refused to eat that crap we were served in school, had a hotdog at Sibylla instead, at the same time as the pizza invaded the country, soon followed by kebab...
The only popular food in school was "spaghetti and meatsauce", and that was the turn they had to take in the school kitchens. They had already ruined our Swedish food to the bottom, just mentioning "kalops och rödbetor" (kalops is a rich beef stew, typically served with boiled potatoes and pickled beetroot) made half of the population green 🤢.
Look for Leif Mannerström's channel and get a grip of what real Swedish food is!
@@annabackman3028 Jäklar, vad sugen jag blev nu på inlagda rödbetor!
@@evak1003 Så underskattat!!! I dessa ny-gamla 'inget får förfaras" tider; Pyttipanna med rödbetor.... Och ett stekt ägg, med rinnig gula.🤤