1:52 Dar let me ask you this: would you rather have someone with smelly socks walk inside your home, or someone with shoes he walked in public toilets with, on the street were dogs shit, on the sidewalk where some hobo took a leak the day before, people put their trash cans and so on.....I dunno but soles of outside shoes come in contact with a lot of filth.
Not saying hi (or hej in Swedish) when you are out as Andrew describes feels mostly like a big city complex, like in Stockholm, Göteborg or Malmö. Where I live, if I'm out exercising and meet another runner most often you say a short "hej" to each other.
@@loris-bismar WE DO!? Almost never happened to me, but when it does I'm so uncomfortable and weirded out. Maybe I just don't look very approachable? Always staring at the ground with a dead face, guess I should keep that up, huh 😂
Exactly. It depends how populated your city or town is. I usually wave or say hi to strangers when I'm outside taking a walk or running because there's just not that many people around where I live. If it was a busy street in a big city you wouldn't be going around saying "hi" to every person that walks by. Lol.
@@Illadviced maybe just me then and people feel the need to say hello back to me 😆. But ofc, i dont say hello to everyone on the street, that would be exhausting, but if someone step inside my bubble ive gotta say something. It gets weird and uncomfortable if i dont 😆
I have a recyckling station across the street, there are containers for hard plastic, clear glass, coloured glass, cartons, newspapers, batteries and light bulbs and a building were you can leave furniture, clothing, electronics, metal and toys so it's easy to recycle here.
No one (and I mean no one) wears shoes inside in Finland. Kids at school (at least on elementary level) don't wear their outside shoes into class either, and a lot of offices people change into work shoes or slippers etc. So when you're not in your shoes all day long your socks don't get that funky.
These videos are fun to watch! So interesting how different some things can be elsewhere, but also often how much we actually have in common. 🙂 Haha, true about the coffee here in Germany, too. I have the standard for my coffee, that if you can see the stem of a spoon for more than half an inch below the surface of the coffee, then it's not strong enough. Too weak coffee is called "Blümchenkaffee" in Germany, which translates to "flower coffee", because you would see the flower designs on the bottom of porcelain cups if the coffee isn't strong enough. And it's usually a complaint, when someone calls your coffee Blümchenkaffee. 😅 Definitely shoes off in my home as well, as I don't want all the yucky stuff someone might have stepped into outside on my carpet. If a guest has smelly feet, I'd be so blunt to tell them to go wash them in the bathroom and offer them fresh socks. 😆 As for saying hi to strangers... Hmm, no. I might smile at strangers and some smile back (some don't). If I'm in my neighborhood and see certain people over and over again, we might start greeting each other. But if a total random stranger I've never seen before, say, waved at me from across the street, I'd probably be wondering for the rest of the day whether I've met that person somewhere before and just can't rember it. Or if that person mistook me for someone they knew. I'd be like, what did they want? It would almost be like starting a flirt. 😅 That said, however, weirdly enough this "rule" of not saying hi to strangers changes in some circumstances. If you go hiking, it's suddenly totally normal for other hikers to greet each other, and if you go for a walk in the woods, other people will often also say hi to you there. I wonder, what makes the difference... Maybe it's like, if we're in the woods, then we seem to have a love for nature in common, and that "connects" us enough to not feel awkward greeting each other. I don't know.
So the thing with the coffee is true?! I thought that was just a rumour... I'm Swedish and I'm very picky with my coffee 🤔 It has to be real coffee!! 😉 The Italians and the French know how to make great coffee too. Never been in the US but, maybe I should order tea if/when I get there... 😄
Yeah, it's 100% true! Actually a lot of countries joke about US coffee. Extremely weak, it really is brown water. It also just tastes weird and... well... Bad tbh.
The whole thing about depending on tips is that the "customer is always right" is more noticeable when they're paying your wager. It means that you'll have alot more entitled Karens treating employees as shit. Ofc their will always be some who feel the need to treat people badly but overall i'd say that need would disappear when you dont "own" people with your money.
Recycling ? I've heard that there are families in the USA who no longer eat from china plates at all, but instead use cardboard or plastic plates. They are even said to have plastic cutlery and throw it all away after the meal!
Taking your shoes off makes a lot more sense when you have a lot of snow and rain like in Sweden. I'd say that from october-april your shoes are pretty much a mess.
Do you have ONE recycling bin? What is in that bin? In Sweden most rental homes have at least a few recycling containers since a typical garbage rooms holds a bin for; food waste, batteries, small electronics, metal, paper, cardboard boxes, two containers for plastics (soft or hard) two for glass and one for all the other stuff we haven't figured out a better way than to burn. Cans and plastic bottles are brought to the food store for recycling.
I love Andrews channel on RUclips. He has so much good content and you will find a lot of great stuff there. Take care and be safe. Lots of hugs from Sweden.
Yes we get mad in Sweden bc shows its supposed to be outside your home get sorry you need to clean it alot More if shows inside what if my little brother been in a water like thing or in ditt so you want fort in your house? No thats why we have a match inside to clean the shows if we wanna have then on or just put then away. We do use sandals and slipers and flippers indie tho but the shoe tupés we use inside we dont have outside well some but mostly not but some we do i guess
Do you say "hi" to people you never seen before ? I say hi to everyone who lives nearby . I don´t go in the city and say hello to strangers 😁 ( HI from sweden )
If you want to buy a rifle in Sweden you have to apply for it with the police and declare the reason to getting it - for hunting or target shooting. For a gun it´s the same but then you also have to be a memeber of a shooting club...and also being ACTIVE in the club. It may be harder to get a license if you have been in criminal trouble earlier, depending on what you´ve done, when you did it and how long time since you´ve done it. You also have to keep them in a saftey cabinet and when travelling with it you must disassemble the rifle, keeping the parts in different places. For a gun I really don´t know thou we don´t own one.
Excuse me? We usually take shoes of when we get inside our home but then we take Skippers on usually and keep them on bc we dont want our feets to freeze but if ima sleep direktör when i go home do you guys keep shoes on in bed so dirty like ew but yeh (we like to get waved at it just that People here dont do it nowdays)
6:16 My friend works at a restaurant / pub in Gothenburg and usually earns about SEK 5-8000 a week just in tips. One weekend he received over 10,000 SEK and he is very popular among regular customers. 👍
I got a bit disappointed hearing about the socks argument being funky xD your feet need to breath which it does at home and the smell is limited unless u hold u foot in someone's face. Shoes are definitely more dirty! You're literally walking outside with them!! hahahah makes no sense to me as a Swede. Anyway loveu
But isn't there a high risk that there's poo on peoples shoes from walking outside? Who would want that inside their house? :P Just thinking abour all the bacteria, especially walking with shoes on a carpet.
Yea, the "things that goes boom" are indeed terrifying, but it's more terrifying how many people over there that want to keep them, even though there's mountains of eveidence showing that having less "things that goes boom". We also find it terrifying when such a big part of the country try to ban abortions, and to teach "critical race theory", or how you refuse to switch over to the metric system.
If it's customary to tip 10-15% in the US, why not include that in the price of food and drink? If the service was very good, you can give an extra tip. So here in Germany, the waitresses get minimum wage, sometimes more, it depends on what kind of restaurant it is. And we tip 5-10%. But we don't have to think about how we rate the service every time we pay a bill and whether we want to give her a little more money. What a bizarre point of view! That's why our service staff don't have to put on a fake smile, that's really disgusting in the USA! When I smile at someone, it's because I like them or I'm happy, not because I have to.
To ware shoes inside is 🤮 You walk outside and its soooo much bacteria on rhe ground. Here we dont have dirty socks, we change them, dont you do that?? 🙈
Just curios.. so you rather people come in with dirty shoes with all kinds of shit and bacteria under dragging it all over your floors and carpets? Rather than someone taking their dirty shoes of and comes in with bare foot or socks. Most of us have good hygiene so do not need to worry about stank maybe in the summer but it is not a problem even then i promise you 😅🤷🏻♀️
Healthcare in Sweden is horrible , my mom fell a few days ago and went to Er in Stockholm, she was waiting for 9 hours to be seen by the Dr. and she’s 73 years old . I live in Florida in Boca Raton and is unthinkable to wait that long to get help … u get what you pay for
My mom have survived a brain tumor and two strokes, during the past 4 years. It cost more or less 0. And I have nothing bad to say about anyone helping her. I don't agree that "healthcare in sweden is horrible". Sure some people may have to wait for 9 hours for some stitches.. Been there done that. But when shit really hits the fan, the Swedish healthcare system will be there for you. No matter who you are.
Healthcare is on its knees and lacks people right now. It is not the same as poor care. A guy who spent 5 days in intensive care in Sweden paid 500-800 SEK for it. How many Americans would go bankrupt after 5 days of intensive care?
@@koschmx you cant loose your job for a health condition. At least not in sweden. Im sorry for your wife. Hope she got help in the end. Yes that long waiting is terrable and I hate it. And I wont turn a blind eye to the problems the current system got. However I hope you can se the benefits to? My best friend is diabetic, he lost his job during the pandemic. He had maxed out his 120euro anual medicin cap so he got all insulin he needed for free(yes yes, not free.. tax.. and all that jazz. But you get my point).
Yeah for minor injuries theres long waiting hours in the ER, but for more serious stuff you dont have to wait a second to get help. And the reason why theres a que in our ERs is because people can acutally afford to go there since its pretty much free.
1:52 Dar let me ask you this: would you rather have someone with smelly socks walk inside your home, or someone with shoes he walked in public toilets with, on the street were dogs shit, on the sidewalk where some hobo took a leak the day before, people put their trash cans and so on.....I dunno but soles of outside shoes come in contact with a lot of filth.
For me it depends. I don’t have visitors frequently at my home but if I recently cleaned my floors then yes the shoes would have to come off lol
I usually dont keep socka on either since that disgusting so smekt so gross arterna day with shoes on so yeh
It's so disgusting, specially when people lay in bed with shoes. Like wtf? xD
Not saying hi (or hej in Swedish) when you are out as Andrew describes feels mostly like a big city complex, like in Stockholm, Göteborg or Malmö. Where I live, if I'm out exercising and meet another runner most often you say a short "hej" to each other.
Nah, we say hello to eachother in Göteborg
@@loris-bismar WE DO!? Almost never happened to me, but when it does I'm so uncomfortable and weirded out.
Maybe I just don't look very approachable? Always staring at the ground with a dead face, guess I should keep that up, huh 😂
It is like that in other bigger citys in sweden also.. we do not say hello to strangers it is not always about stockholm 🤦🏻♀️
Exactly. It depends how populated your city or town is. I usually wave or say hi to strangers when I'm outside taking a walk or running because there's just not that many people around where I live. If it was a busy street in a big city you wouldn't be going around saying "hi" to every person that walks by. Lol.
@@Illadviced maybe just me then and people feel the need to say hello back to me 😆. But ofc, i dont say hello to everyone on the street, that would be exhausting, but if someone step inside my bubble ive gotta say something. It gets weird and uncomfortable if i dont 😆
I have a recyckling station across the street, there are containers for hard plastic, clear glass, coloured glass, cartons, newspapers, batteries and light bulbs and a building were you can leave furniture, clothing, electronics, metal and toys so it's easy to recycle here.
No one (and I mean no one) wears shoes inside in Finland. Kids at school (at least on elementary level) don't wear their outside shoes into class either, and a lot of offices people change into work shoes or slippers etc. So when you're not in your shoes all day long your socks don't get that funky.
These videos are fun to watch! So interesting how different some things can be elsewhere, but also often how much we actually have in common. 🙂
Haha, true about the coffee here in Germany, too. I have the standard for my coffee, that if you can see the stem of a spoon for more than half an inch below the surface of the coffee, then it's not strong enough. Too weak coffee is called "Blümchenkaffee" in Germany, which translates to "flower coffee", because you would see the flower designs on the bottom of porcelain cups if the coffee isn't strong enough. And it's usually a complaint, when someone calls your coffee Blümchenkaffee. 😅
Definitely shoes off in my home as well, as I don't want all the yucky stuff someone might have stepped into outside on my carpet. If a guest has smelly feet, I'd be so blunt to tell them to go wash them in the bathroom and offer them fresh socks. 😆
As for saying hi to strangers... Hmm, no. I might smile at strangers and some smile back (some don't). If I'm in my neighborhood and see certain people over and over again, we might start greeting each other. But if a total random stranger I've never seen before, say, waved at me from across the street, I'd probably be wondering for the rest of the day whether I've met that person somewhere before and just can't rember it. Or if that person mistook me for someone they knew. I'd be like, what did they want? It would almost be like starting a flirt. 😅
That said, however, weirdly enough this "rule" of not saying hi to strangers changes in some circumstances. If you go hiking, it's suddenly totally normal for other hikers to greet each other, and if you go for a walk in the woods, other people will often also say hi to you there. I wonder, what makes the difference... Maybe it's like, if we're in the woods, then we seem to have a love for nature in common, and that "connects" us enough to not feel awkward greeting each other. I don't know.
So the thing with the coffee is true?! I thought that was just a rumour... I'm Swedish and I'm very picky with my coffee 🤔 It has to be real coffee!! 😉 The Italians and the French know how to make great coffee too. Never been in the US but, maybe I should order tea if/when I get there... 😄
Yeah, it's 100% true! Actually a lot of countries joke about US coffee.
Extremely weak, it really is brown water.
It also just tastes weird and... well... Bad tbh.
It depends where u get your coffee. Diners for sure, its weak. But there are lots of syrups and crap in us coffee lol
I'm Swedish, visited San Francisco in 2016. Had a coffee in a Starbucks, safe to say it was the first and last Coffee I will ever drink in the US
The whole thing about depending on tips is that the "customer is always right" is more noticeable when they're paying your wager. It means that you'll have alot more entitled Karens treating employees as shit. Ofc their will always be some who feel the need to treat people badly but overall i'd say that need would disappear when you dont "own" people with your money.
Why do you allow everyone to drag outside dirt all over your floors? Shoes off is the answer. And it also gives people a reason to wash their feet...
Honestly it depends on the weather. I have hardwood floors so it’s easier to clean anyways lol
@@darthetraveler I have never seen a home in sweden that does not have wooden floors, except some rooms that has stone floors
@@sofiaandersson6666 yeah most homes in my town has carpet. We personally requested wood floors for my home
Recycling ? I've heard that there are families in the USA who no longer eat from china plates at all, but instead use cardboard or plastic plates. They are even said to have plastic cutlery and throw it all away after the meal!
Taking your shoes off makes a lot more sense when you have a lot of snow and rain like in Sweden. I'd say that from october-april your shoes are pretty much a mess.
Do you have ONE recycling bin? What is in that bin?
In Sweden most rental homes have at least a few recycling containers since a typical garbage rooms holds a bin for; food waste, batteries, small electronics, metal, paper, cardboard boxes, two containers for plastics (soft or hard) two for glass and one for all the other stuff we haven't figured out a better way than to burn.
Cans and plastic bottles are brought to the food store for recycling.
I love Andrews channel on RUclips. He has so much good content and you will find a lot of great stuff there. Take care and be safe. Lots of hugs from Sweden.
Yes we get mad in Sweden bc shows its supposed to be outside your home get sorry you need to clean it alot More if shows inside what if my little brother been in a water like thing or in ditt so you want fort in your house? No thats why we have a match inside to clean the shows if we wanna have then on or just put then away. We do use sandals and slipers and flippers indie tho but the shoe tupés we use inside we dont have outside well some but mostly not but some we do i guess
We say hello aswell to eatchother but you cant go around saying hello to every people you meet... if you go and meet sporadic people you say hello...
Do you say "hi" to people you never seen before ? I say hi to everyone who lives nearby . I don´t go in the city and say hello to strangers 😁 ( HI from sweden )
If you want to buy a rifle in Sweden you have to apply for it with the police and declare the reason to getting it - for hunting or target shooting. For a gun it´s the same but then you also have to be a memeber of a shooting club...and also being ACTIVE in the club. It may be harder to get a license if you have been in criminal trouble earlier, depending on what you´ve done, when you did it and how long time since you´ve done it. You also have to keep them in a saftey cabinet and when travelling with it you must disassemble the rifle, keeping the parts in different places. For a gun I really don´t know thou we don´t own one.
The fact that you referred a hundred dollars as a small fee is terrifying and sad
I never tip even if the service is excellent.
Excuse me? We usually take shoes of when we get inside our home but then we take Skippers on usually and keep them on bc we dont want our feets to freeze but if ima sleep direktör when i go home do you guys keep shoes on in bed so dirty like ew but yeh (we like to get waved at it just that People here dont do it nowdays)
6:16 My friend works at a restaurant / pub in Gothenburg and usually earns about SEK 5-8000 a week just in tips. One weekend he received over 10,000 SEK and he is very popular among regular customers. 👍
Given the state of the US tap water, I'd be more afraid of the amount of lead in anything I might drink in the US...
I got a bit disappointed hearing about the socks argument being funky xD your feet need to breath which it does at home and the smell is limited unless u hold u foot in someone's face. Shoes are definitely more dirty! You're literally walking outside with them!! hahahah makes no sense to me as a Swede. Anyway loveu
It also depends on where you walk
But isn't there a high risk that there's poo on peoples shoes from walking outside? Who would want that inside their house? :P Just thinking abour all the bacteria, especially walking with shoes on a carpet.
things that go BOOM xD
Question do you tip even if the service is bad in the states?
I don't tip regardless, prices high enough as it is!!!
Hi, you are a very good youtuber. I am from Sweden !!!
Yea, the "things that goes boom" are indeed terrifying, but it's more terrifying how many people over there that want to keep them, even though there's mountains of eveidence showing that having less "things that goes boom".
We also find it terrifying when such a big part of the country try to ban abortions, and to teach "critical race theory", or how you refuse to switch over to the metric system.
If it's customary to tip 10-15% in the US, why not include that in the price of food and drink? If the service was very good, you can give an extra tip. So here in Germany, the waitresses get minimum wage, sometimes more, it depends on what kind of restaurant it is. And we tip 5-10%. But we don't have to think about how we rate the service every time we pay a bill and whether we want to give her a little more money. What a bizarre point of view! That's why our service staff don't have to put on a fake smile, that's really disgusting in the USA! When I smile at someone, it's because I like them or I'm happy, not because I have to.
A lot of them don't smile, or give good service and let you know it, & I have never tipped!!
Sweden 31.6 guns /100 person
US 88.9-112 guns/100 person
To ware shoes inside is 🤮 You walk outside and its soooo much bacteria on rhe ground. Here we dont have dirty socks, we change them, dont you do that?? 🙈
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Just curios.. so you rather people come in with dirty shoes with all kinds of shit and bacteria under dragging it all over your floors and carpets? Rather than someone taking their dirty shoes of and comes in with bare foot or socks. Most of us have good hygiene so do not need to worry about stank maybe in the summer but it is not a problem even then i promise you 😅🤷🏻♀️
we should promote love around the world . Are you agree with me ?
#WajahatShah
Im probaly not gonna continue bc its so falsk alot of this things
Love your videos .. but its sound like you have a hot rock in your mouth, like its cool, or maybe you talk like that i dont know 😂
Healthcare in Sweden is horrible , my mom fell a few days ago and went to Er in Stockholm, she was waiting for 9 hours to be seen by the Dr. and she’s 73 years old . I live in Florida in Boca Raton and is unthinkable to wait that long to get help … u get what you pay for
My mom have survived a brain tumor and two strokes, during the past 4 years. It cost more or less 0. And I have nothing bad to say about anyone helping her.
I don't agree that "healthcare in sweden is horrible". Sure some people may have to wait for 9 hours for some stitches.. Been there done that.
But when shit really hits the fan, the Swedish healthcare system will be there for you. No matter who you are.
Healthcare is on its knees and lacks people right now. It is not the same as poor care. A guy who spent 5 days in intensive care in Sweden paid 500-800 SEK for it. How many Americans would go bankrupt after 5 days of intensive care?
@@koschmx you cant loose your job for a health condition. At least not in sweden.
Im sorry for your wife. Hope she got help in the end.
Yes that long waiting is terrable and I hate it. And I wont turn a blind eye to the problems the current system got. However I hope you can se the benefits to?
My best friend is diabetic, he lost his job during the pandemic.
He had maxed out his 120euro anual medicin cap so he got all insulin he needed for free(yes yes, not free.. tax.. and all that jazz. But you get my point).
Yeah for minor injuries theres long waiting hours in the ER, but for more serious stuff you dont have to wait a second to get help. And the reason why theres a que in our ERs is because people can acutally afford to go there since its pretty much free.
Plenty of people DON'T SEEK MEDICAL HELP AT ALL because of insane prices in the US. So, infinite wait time.