5 Things I Noticed After Living In Sweden For 6 Months
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- 🇸🇪 There are more things I noticed after living in Sweden for a little longer than 3 weeks. So I hope this video is interesting for you. Feel free to share your opinion in the comments down below. Enjoy!
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The only free country in the world right now... I have been to Sweden twice in 2020... Spent Xmas and New yr there...
I felt like I was in another planet... It was the same thing like when I went to Sweden in 2019 and 2018...
I hope Sweden continue like that coz I do love that country and its people. The most polite nation world wide IMO.
I totally agree that Sweden is such a kind nation. There is some mention of it in tonight's video, too 😊 Thanks for sharing your thoughts! ❤️
In smaller villages and cities there's even more intimacy in christmas markets, sometimes you can see markets in Hembygdsgård which is usually the oldest part in a village and it's so nice walking into 2-400 year old houses you feel like an elf, definitely try find a hembygdsgård close to you.
That sounds amazing!!
It's been interesting to follow your journey. I've watched your videos ever since "Why I Am Leaving London And Moving To Stockholm" video 7 months ago. Seems like you are finding your place here more and more 😊I also love to hear outside thoughts on Sweden and Swedes. It helps to better understand how others see us and gives a picture of how we may stand out. Then it's easier to also understand people from other societies.
Thanks so much for your feedback! It's very nice for me to hear as well if the videos are useful and interesting 😊 I love talking about living in Sweden 🥰
Love listening and watching you! :-) Thank you! More please...
Thanks a lot for the great feedback! 😊
I still have very fond memories about making gingerbread and lucia buns (saffron dough in S-like shapes with raisins in the swirls) with my mom during winter :) For the busy working mom there are prepared dough rolls that you just put on a plate, flatten with a rolling pin and use steel figurines in different shapes to cut out (although technically it's possible with a knife as well). They tended to become quite rustic and thick, but there's something very special about hot, fresh cookies and buns and the smells around Christmas kitchen baking are amazing :)
Oh, that sounds so yummy! What great memories 🥰
It is always so nice listsening to you. I wish you a happy new year and i hope 2023 will be nice year for you.
Thank you very much! :)
I think you got the hole picture of the situation here in Sweden in just half of a year. That’s impressive!
Yay! Thanks for the feedback! 😊
Interesting video - as always. And it remainds me that it about time we bought a christmas tree!
It is interesting that in english it is just a tree, as well as in german ("Weinachtsbaum") - while in Sweden it is a "julgran", it must be a fir ("Tannenbaum"). I have to admit that I have broken that rule a couple of times and used a pine tree ("Waldkiefer") because that is more likely to be found in the woods around Årsta where I live, and they has the advantage of not losing its needles that easy. But this year I will be a lawabiding citizien and buy my tree on at the village market place. I think...
Our tree started to lose needles 😬 Let me know what you end up buying this year 🎄
Most of what I have heard about Sweden and Swedes came from bigger cities. My boyfriend lives in the countryside and there are less people and much fewer shops and such. I will be living where he was born and raised and they are less modern and prefer the old ways and traditions. People are less accepting of other cultures and lifestyles there and my boyfriend himself is nothing like the depiction of Swedes as far as coffee and the outdoors, so I had to learn not to pay too much attention to what I saw and heard.
Yeh, there's much you can read and you hear from others but at the end it depends on where you live and what people are around you. I can imagine it might be quite different in the countryside. Many people say that Stockholm is not Sweden 😋
I miss Sweden.
When have you lived here?
Flexibility without structure is just chaos. And chaos only benefits the chaotic.
Structure with flexibility is great 😊
I agree!
Its not that we trust any special goverment, but the system, the parliment and the govermental authorities.
The citisism is more like, if the party that I voted for was in goverment it should have bee done faster, better, more economicaly?
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Talking about Christmas, there is a tradition in Sweden to watch ”Kalle Anka och hans vänner önskar god jul” at 3:pm on SVT1 at christmas eve (means ”Donald Duck and his friends wish merry christmas”) the show actually is named ”From all of is to all of you”. Long sentence, but if you are interrested... 😁 I really like your concept! 👍
By the way, I have watched it since I was little ☺️
Thanks a lot for the tip! 👌🏻
I've watched that old Disney show since a kid and I'm well into my seventies. At 3 pm on Christmas Eve, Sweden grinds to a halt. We just can't miss Huey and Dewey messing with Pluto at the Christmas tree.
Yes I think we in _general_ trust our government and that the trust goes both ways.
If a legislation/regulation is rational and logical there's no real reason to protest against it.
A complete opposite would probably be the US.
People there protest just because they don't like to be told what to do, even if it perfectly reasonable and makes sense.
You can _legally_ ride a motorcycle without a helmet in many states but that doesn't make you less of an idiot...
There was a demonstration and the media said it was a couple of hundreds demonstrating but the truth is it was several thousands, always misinformation.
Yes, that makes totally sense. The USA is definitely the opposite. I'm not a fan!
Maybe you should not be too fast calling others idiots.
There's a lot more than numbers of dead people going into helmet laws.
States with helmet laws have way more accidents and way more invalids/disabled people caused by road accidents than the states who don't have them.
And the helmets dampens the senses to the surrondings and other trafic.
The data also shows that in states that demand helmets the speeds are usually higher.
So speaking very crass the helmet laws do save lifes but at a high cost for the system.
@@bullfidde Do you have any studies to back that up?
I can easily find studies and statistics about the fatalities and the differences between the states. All of them promotes helmet wear.
The accidents and how they are divided seems to be more difficult to find.
The requirements to receive a license are also different between the states where some are more stringent than others.
Taking a license in Sweden for example is neither easy or cheap.
About 30 % of all MC related accidents in Sweden are actually cause by people who ride illegally without a license.
They are _way_ overrepresented in the statistics considering how few of them there actually are. So a good education is also a key factor of lowering the risk.
No government is perfect indeed. I would rather say that you should judge a government by how they act when they screw up.
- Do they pretend nothing was wrong and just hope no-one complains too much?
- Do they actively supress any complaints that anything went wrong?
- Do they apologize but doesn't really adjust they way they act?
- Do they fix/adjust things and announce that they have changed the routines/the advice, but doesn't make any apologies?
- Do they apologize and adjust/fix things so it works better now?
These are all good questions and I agree that we always should ask ourselves and the government questions.
God jul igen :)
Tack! Merry Christmas! ✨
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That's my favorite type xmas tree, short needles with long stems. I've never seen them for sale near me.
I'm quite pleased with the Christmas tree as well. So much better than I actually imagined. I got it online and I'm super happy with it 😍
@@LivingSwedish Do you know what species of tree that is? I don't think we have any like that in my country.
@@justcallmejohn2833 I bought the tree from this website julgran.com/produkt/privatperson/ It only really says "Klassik julgran". Not sure if that's a certain type of tree here.
Its the traditional christmas tree - a red spruce. Not used that much anymore because they lose the needles rather fast and are prickly :) But so cozy to look at.
I’ve never understood the fascination with Swedish queuing… how do they do it in other countries? Can someone give some examples were you compare situations?
Queuing at the bus station is a good example for Sweden. There's a famous meme you should check out. And I noticed here that you have these "Take-A-Number System Queue Ticket Dispenser Machines" everywhere. I think Sweden just wants to be fair. Maybe there are other countries where it's similar. Japan for example.
Ordning och reda, dont know of many times my grandmother used that phrase :D. In general there is to much focus in the world on personal freedom and not enough on personal responsibility. Empathy shouldnt be political but for some reason it has.
Very true words! You nailed it! 👌🏻
There's also the saying "Ordning och reda, pengar på fredag" 'pengar' might be substituted with 'löning'. From the days of weekly payment of wages.
Are you gonna film anything from Lucia?, highlights would be fun to see.
Now that you ask I will 😊 Visiting a Lucia concert on Saturday ✨
@@LivingSwedish Oh nice, so they celebrate early then, it's usually the 13th.
Most things are not demands and as a private person you can not be punished as it is now so those who do not take it seriously can do as they please while most follow recommendations. But what I have heard most about the criticism the politicians have made is that they are not restrictive enough and no harsh demands as everyone who has followed the recommendations and been extra careful about it is tired of having to protect themselves and severely limit their routines just for a few do not want to take any responsibility. But it was recently reported that areas with a large proportion of voters were also much more vaccinated than areas with low turnout, but it can also mean that they do not watch the news or what is happening in society.
When it comes to English skills, there is a limit at 40-45 years and older where some are bad at English but below that almost everyone can make themselves understood and answer questions while a little older can almost always understand but do not have the vocabulary to formulate answers, many Those who do not speak English may feel insecure in word choice and pronunciation, so many may apologize for their poor English before they start speaking.
(assuming that you have had Swedes apologize for their poor English if you ask someone you do not know and they do not know it is in English you speak)
I totally know how it is to speak English not very well. I moved to London barely speaking English (what was I thinking?!) but it helped me, of course, to be surrounded by only English speakers. Hopefully, it will also help me a little to start learning Swedish here although many speak English as mentioned before. I would never judge anyone who can't speak English well because I should be the one who needs to speak Swedish 😁
In Sweden it is mostly recommendations.
Absolutely! And it seems to work. Although we now also have 1G which is an interesting development.
I need to point out that government agencies and the government are somewhat separate. Even though the ministers in each government agency is politically appointed, as well as some of the upper management, the rest of the workers are not politically affiliated. In theory, all government agencies should be politically unaffiliated (it's in our constitution), but that's not always completely true. Some parts are deliberately not politically affiliated at all, like the Swedish central bank and our CDC. This is what people put their trust in, not political parties or the government in itself.
Personally, I have complete faith in our current government. I trust them to make life worse for me and probably most of the rest of the country too.
As for the vaccination stuff, we aren't fine with people who are unvaccinated. We tolerate them, like the selfish people they are. While we are very big on freedom, we are also big on helping the weakest groups in society. There are people who can't get vaccinated and will get extremely sick from something like Corona. The anti-vaxxers are hurting those people just as much as they are themselves. I don't respect it, but I put up with it because we're not about to force anyone.
Sorry if I get a bit riled up but it's one of the least sensible movements this millennia.
Thanks for sharing! 🙏🏻
6 months is perhaps not a very long period....
Totally! 😊 Now, we've been living here for 2 years. Time is flying!
@@LivingSwedish Oh, I see (and I probably should have seen.....). So you stayed. What's the greatest change since you moved?
First time I’ve listened. Interesting but quite repetitive at times. 1 minute 30 waiting to get past the same info.
Thanks for the feedback! I just watched it again and I agree with you. I said I live in Sweden for 6 months more than 3 times 😂 Will try to make this intro much shorter in my videos 💪🏻
Not to forget..manners...
Most Swedes are very much grown up with the kind of "Treat an meet others as you want to be treated self by others.."..
And it also include special respect against older, pregnant, women etc..offcourse theres allways a##ho### but very many Swedes are still grown up with this ideals...
Yes, true! I like that about Swedes, too :) Thanks for sharing!
We Swedes always knew this. Lockdown never worked. Therefore we didn't do Lockdowns.
Next time listen to Swedes when we speak.
Yeh, lockdowns are very extreme. I'm not a fan either.
Depends on how harshly you enforce them. Since Sweden was not willing to shoot or imprison people who broke lockdown rules, then yes, a lockdown that is not enforced is useless.
Restrictions and recommendations applied on a voluntary basis works better - if people are fairly well educated and trust the scientists/politicians that put out the restrictions and recommendations.
So it works fairly well in Sweden, with some inevitable grumblings, because even when agreeing with and following the restrictions and recommendations it does wear you down over time.
@@suntiger745 Troll, tyst.
Just want to pop in here that the government did not have the mandates to enforce a lockdown, so even if the government wanted to, they could not have enforced lockdowns without changing the constitution, which would take way too long.
Not that organized? Are you sure you're German? 😉
Digitization in Sweden is 15 years ahead of Germany.
Too much influence of the UK in the past 10 years 😂 But I should be fine now being in Sweden. Back to being more organised hahaha
Absolutely!
I THOUGHT YOU WERE DUTCH THE WAY YOU SPEAK ENGLISH.
Oh really?! I feel Dutch people speak better English than Germans? 😉
Hm maybe trusting the government a little to much sometimes ☺️
Maybeeeee 😉
No, I think it is reasonable and come with the way Sweden governance. You can’t overrun the departments from the politicians in Sweden and that’s why it’s very science based decisions and not populistic. But that kind of decisions is more easy target for the Internet trolls and the brown party of Sweden.
I see it as self-evident that vaccination should be a free choice. I am totally against vaccination passports, and even more against forced vaccination, which I see as a harsh violation of human rights. A large group in Sweden is in favour of restrictions and sees it as obvious to get vaccinated, but also in favour for vaccination passports which I find a bit creepy. Many of us Swedes have a hard time speaking out or protest in general. Even more so, in social context. But in private, many can be quite rational and resonable.
Self evident if it's just about you, but not if your choice can kill and harm a lot of other people through sheer negligence or laziness. We have rules about seat belts and require a drivers permit for the same reasons. I'd rather say the problem was about populism and disinformation really.
I agree as long as your decission only affects you I dont inefere or feel i have to have an opinion. But when your decission - or lack of a decission affect me and the people I care about it’s different.
@@mattiascarlsson5355 Du vet ingenting om mig. Så sluta gissa, tack.
@@michaelpettersson6028 1. I am vaccinated twice. 2. This is a matter of principle. We cannot give away the power of our empowerment to politicians.
It's definitely a difficult topic.