Höll på att skratta ihjäl mig när du tyckte att de var mycket snö i bilderna från Piteå. Det där är gamla bilder från i början av vintern, nu har vi typ nästan 1,5 meter snö. Jag är så less på att skotta 😂

The Kiruna mine is still very much active and afaik the worlds largest subterranean iron ore mine.

Umeå is pricy for the north... A university and high tech-town.

About moving the houses in Kiruna, houses are actually moved away from the mine nowadays as there is a risk of the mine collapsing.

My best tip for nailing the pronunciation of "Å" is to pronounce it like "aaw" (like if you see something cute) or "awe" as in "awesome". A classic English speaking mistake is to go closer to the ordinary Swedish a-sound. "Ä" is the vowelsound in "air". "Ö" can be similar to the vowel in "a", "an" or the first vowel in "burger".

Swede here, and I think this "white and fresh" style has been done to death. Yes, it's super neutral when you build the house and don't know who'll live there, or in rental, but it's so damn uncozy! Put som personality and color in it!

Dont know i you've covered this already. There goes alot of money into the building materials in swedish homes, to protect us from the elements. American homes tend to be more like cardboard boxes.

Thanks for a great video. Actually, in Kiruna they are moving parts of the town AWAY from the mining area, because the ground is collapsing. We were there a few years ago to see the midnight sun and visited a very historic church that was going to be very difficult to dismantle, move, and then reconstruct.

Thank you for all your frequent updates and the interesting topics! Love it

Both the houses you looked at in Kiruna were actually in Vittangi, a small village of about 750 people in the Kiruna municipality. About 1h drive from the town of Kiruna.

Roligt med jämförelser! Du borde också förklara vad bostadsrätt betyder. Betalar man månadsavgift i US också? Skulle du kunna göra en video där du jämför bostadskostnader?

Most of the big cities in Sweden is around the coast because the traders and such traveled by boat, and multiple other reasons

Love this content...you've putting out some really informative/interesting vids the past few months!

I really appreciate that you show both USD and SEK and, and metres vs feet! I'm one of those who commented about it on your last video with comparisons 😇

Love these house videos, would love to see more!

I live in Kiruna, the mine is one of europes largest mines and is still operating. The mine is underground (about 1 km) and they are starting to dig below the city so we need to "move" a part of the city (most houses are torn down and new ones are built, some houses are transported 3 km away by truck). The mine employs a large part of the town and will invest 400 billion sek to make the production emissions free. A lot of houses are torn down and few are built (a lot is being built though) so housing is pretty expensive. And yes we have a lot of snow and it is cold during the winter, but it is better than the "slask" and ice you have in Stockholm. The winters are not to bad (even though we have a meter of snow and it is -5C to -20C) but the dull summers are pretty boring (usually 10 - 20 celcius but some days it can get up to 30C)

You should do a video on the southern parts of Sweden as well. Like Skåne, Småland, and Halland.

Great video Stefan, you'll have to let me know if you ever come to Piteå! I’m there at the moment, should see a bit more of the town in my videos!

Thanks Stefan for posting this focus on northern Sweden! I just want to clarify something. I did a study abroad program in Kiruna in 2016 that studied arctic societies in a changing climate. Kiruna has actually been in the process of moving away from the mines because of the land deformation due to the mining process. I'm not sure where this process is today, but people are moving away from the mines not towards them. There's also a fascinating situation with Malmberget that has a similar history of mining destabilization for anyone interested in looking into it.

Umeå, Piteå and Kiruna are all considered bigger cities in Norrland, even though Norrland itself is a less populated part of the country. If you looked at rural Norrland (or indeed rural southern Sweden) or just a little bit outside those cities you could find places for even less money. I also think that the term "rural" have different meanings in Sweden and the USA. A town with 15-20.000 people here wouldn't be considered rural. If you want rural here, look at places with about 5-8.000 people. I bet you could find almost similar prices to Piteå or Kiruna within 2 hours drive from Stockholm if you knew where to look.

Rural Sweden! That's where I live, and I love it. I lived in Stockholm for a year when I was just out of the army. The pay was good, but living there for longer was not for me. Go north my friend, that's where the heart of Sweden is! Also, the places like Umeå, Piteå, Luleå, the "å" is silent! Ume, Pite, Lule. Pite is sometimes shortened by not pronouncing the "e". "Pit".

When you buy an apartment or a house like that yellow one (bostadsrätt) i Sweden you also need to pay a fee every month. So you have to include that in your monthly payment plan.

Waaaayyyy higher productioncost in Sweden, compaired to the USA, due to regulations around energy effectiveness in Sweden.

Your channel is getting better and better🌞👍

Thanks Stefan, great video! Glad you also showed houses in Minnesota as cold climate makes houses more expensive to build (I think).

Great video! you should look around on the west coast aswell like Gothenburg an such, maybe south of sweden ;) Keep it up man!

We should give Stefan classical traveling tips for when the pandemic is over, like "Visit Gränna that was and is famous for polkagris candy", "Visit Gripsholms slott that is one of the most famous castles in Sweden", and I had even suggested "Drive down to Tullgarn slott for a fika and then go on to Trosa" that is a wonderful drive. if you take the older roads where you even can enjoy a short ferry ride.

The history behind why there is so many swedes in Minessota is that in the later half of the 1800s sweden was not as great a place to live as it is today. The majority of the population was verry poor farmers and the church was verry strong etc. This combined with several years of bad harvests caused many people to emigrate to the USA and especially Minessota. They probably started going there because of the climate but later it was probably mostly because they wanted to be close to other scandinavina people because it was easier since basically no one in sweden knew english at that time. In the end the large influx of swedes (and other scandinavians) helped take the area from untouched forests to an organised farming comunity since the majority of people moving where farmes used to hard work for little reward.

in Kiruna they say hello and talk with strangers, very interesting place to visit

The length of Sweden is roughly the size from Minneapolis to Austin

15:25 North Dakota even had 36,1% :) And I feel like it's very easy to tell if it's an American house or a Swedish house due to some kitchen/bathroom components and the style. :)

I saw northen light yesterday when I walkt home from my best friend!!😁I have seen it abaut maybe 10 times in my life. And i LOVE it, it is SO BEAUTIFUL! You cant understand how amazing it is until you have seen it!!! (I live in in a city called Skellefteå, it is close to Piteå and Umeå)

Jag tror att de flesta husen i Sverige är lite mindre än de i USA. Men det har också med att vi har kalla vintrar där du ska värma upp huset när det är -30C ute. Sen är vi nog inte lika sociala som amerikaner så normalt har vi mindre antal vänner och familj hemma hos oss. Intressant topic. Tack för en fin kanal Stefan.

the brown kitchens ae indicative of when those homes were built - it was a 80s thing..a little in the 90s

Some comments: Umeå - this is the university town of northern Sweden. So that probably impacts pricing. Kiruna - yes, this is in the arctic but remember that since it’s a mining town there are a lot of people earning very good salaries. A bit like living in some shale boom town in North Dakota. When you compare US to Swedish rural/smaller towns you have to realize that in Sweden commuting far by car gets pretty expensive compared to the US because of vastly higher gas prices.

Can you look at houses in Skåne the next time. Love those videos

North Dakota has 36% and South Dakota has 21%. Scandinavians have chosen that area. If you look more closely at the statistics, you will see that Swedes, Norwegians and Finns have chosen slightly different areas. But the Danes stayed at home.

You need to make a roadtrip up North ASAP! Make it a summer vacay and experience the swedish midnight sun

You can see the Northern Lights from Umeå. I lived there. Beautiful.

My house in the far southeast was SEK 1.4M a couple of years ago. 150 sqm + large basement + a mostly head room attic + a two-car garage and a couple of sheds. Not a very large yard, but still has three apple trees, a plum tree, and a pear tree; four berry bushes, some rhubarb and quite a lot of herbs. 6 rooms, two bathrooms, two kitchen, 5 wooden stoves of the kind you had in Norrköping (kakelugn). And right in the city center (population 13 000 in the actual city)

Will choose Sweden every time! 10/10! Do the video with the houses and we should try to guess! Just do it! Thank you!

As a Minnesotan the farther north you go like up north where I live the more it starts to look like north Sweden minus the polar night and the midnight sun although in winter it gets dark really quick and there is less sunlight

love all your videos buddy

Interesting video Stefan, good work! The cost of realestate is very much depending on how you are able to finance your investment! How does the financing compare between US and Sweden? Back in the early 90s when I looked for my first house the interest rate was 18%. Today there is almost no interest rate, no down payment and no annual payment to reduce loan here. What about in the US?

I live in Kiruna and I can say that none of those houses were in Kiruna but in villages in Kiruna kommun, so not in the city. For comparison my 2 room apartment costs more than those houses

You should really visit Kiruna because it is definitely not a remote village. It is the largest human settlement in a radius of 100km, which means Kiruna has everything you would ever need. It even has a university and I spent a year there studying in the international Space Master program. And the climate is also not that bad. Yes, there is lots of snow, but one gets really used to it and as long as you dress properly, it is really nice. Of course, Kiruna is one of the prime locations for Northern lights. And I paid 230€ in rent per month for a room in the student accommodation.

umeå and kiruna are some off the more expensive places in the north.

I live in Sweden which is kinda like the main city of Norrland. Buying houses here varies a lot depending on how close to the city you live. You can buy/build a really really nice house for cheap if you live on the outskirts.

Hey, that house in Piteå, the second one! I was like "Wait, a CRT-TV!?", then I saw the NES! How cool is that :)

I live further north then Kiruna, and can honestly tell you, it aint that bad. And they can most likely see the northen lights there too! And for your question, the picture was most likely taken recently or before 3 pm because after that its not light outside. (not in Sweeden thou)

Hi Stefan. You could also explain how many people have what they call summer houses here in Sweden. I guess you could call them weekend homes. You can even get them really cheap especially kind of old houses out in the countryside that maybe do not have mains water supply. If you're prepared to spend some money and put some work in you can have a nice country retreat. I moved from England years ago and I think my wife probably loves her summer house more than anything else.

Wow saw my old house in Piteå! Hälsningar från Norrland! And that is not much snow, we didnt have so much snow in the beginning of the Winter but on 2 days it snowed 1,5m of snow!

Don't forget to try the national city dish of Piteå if you decide to move there, Pitepalt and the national traditional Northern Swedish dish surströmming, you need to learn to enjoy that too. It's a big deal to some people up here, It's like holy.

also, TX is a different market because the state is so big. If you look at Chicago or even Miami - it'll be more condos

Kiruna represent! The house at Strandvägen is probably situated in Vittangi. A village 70 km outside of Kiruna. Yes, we're moving the town. Slowly, bit by bit, because of the mine going deeper and further in under the city center. I work at a gym in the city center and we are moving to the new city center next year. You really should pay Kiruna a visit.

A thing worth noting is that having a huge house in the arctic climate is super expensive to maintain, because you need to heat it up all winter long. I guess that is the main reason we have a tradition of not building bigger than necessery. And also why apartments are popular, cause heat is included 😅

Sorry about the spam! When we sold our house in Florida, the realtor complained that our garage only had space for two cars. Really? How many cars do you need??? We looked at each other, me and my hubby and had some not too good thoughts about some of the comments he made (the realtor). The master bedroom was a bit too small. Indeed? It was basically like a studio f*ck*ng apartment! (sorry about the bad lingo but I do swear like a drunken sailor, I hear all the time). Our home looked not like an American home. Really? Could it be because we're Swedish? Or what? Light creamy colored walls (near white), a very modern kitchen and because of that we had to make it more "American" to sell it. LOL! It was too light, it was no dock since we did live by a canal, it didn't have like a guest house etc etc etc. Oh dear! We did sell just in time before the Coronash*t came to visit us and stay. LOL!

I'm here representing Piteå for you.

Piteå quite small. Lulea is the main city of the county of Norrbotten.

Pite represent! My amazing hometown

I live south of Skellefteå (Which is in between Piteå and Umeå and you can see the northern lights here aswell even if it isn't as common, but a big misperception is that people that aren't from "Norrland" think that you can only see the northern lights in the northern most part of Norrland.

I actually live in Kiruna, impressed by your pronunciation. Btw, if you want to buy up homes, you can easily rent it out to students coming for highschool and make a good profit in a few years time, any decent price would be gobbled up immediately.

I would like to see a video explaining how easy/hard it was for you to move to Sweden. Legal-wise and such. Are you an official citizen or do you have some other way of staying there?

I love brown kitchens! I like the more rustic vintage style so Swedish homes bore me with all the white😂 Honestly I get it if a lot of Swedes live in Minnesota to feel more at home, warm places feels like hell to us accustomed to the cold!

You mentioned how moving to the countryside would be easier now that people are working from home, people have actually started doing that! I live in rural Småland (about 30-40 minutes from Kalmar) and we've seen a huge increase of "outsiders" buying houses in villages and smaller towns. It has its own pros and cons; the countryside has a need for people to move there since the population is dwindling but there simply isn't enough houses on the market and as a result some of the locals have started finding it difficult to find houses in reasonable price and condition. However! Many of the houses sold to outsiders are used as summer cottages or as temporary houses for people that have become scared to live in big cities because of the pandemic.

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Good job, Stefan!

About 50-60k USD gets you a perfectly nice little vacation home in central Skåne which is the southern most region of Sweden. You're an hour from jobs in Malmö and 1.5hrs from Copenhagen. That's how several of my friends live, in apartments in the city during the winter and spend about 6-7 months a year in their vacation home. With fiber broadband!

Aboute travel times, i live in Luleå and from the time i leave my home to the time i am at our office in stockholm is less than 2.5h. 5-10min to airport, security and checkin 20-30min, flight 60-70min and then arlanda express in.

Please compare more things between America and Sweden. I can add some information. About 50% of all households are detached houses in Sweden. Apartments are mostly in city centres. Detached houses are oftem hard to find in central towns/Cities. If you find any it is really expensive. If you compare apartments you have to compare total cost. The monthly fee in Sweden is higher I guess. Monthly fee and price is very much connected. If you find a cheap apartment it has a high fee and vice versa.

I live in Umeå and love it here!

Stefan Thyron 11:35 they actually moved the city cause some iron veins reached in under Kiruna, and after some consideration they came to the conclusion that it's worth the cost's of moving the entire city of Kiruna away from that area, in order to be able to extract the iron ore there. They predict that the iron beneath the old city is enough to continue mining in the area for an additional ~30 years.

They are actually in the process of moving the entire town of Kiruna away from the mine since they are now starting to dig underneath the town! Seems like the iron ore never ends and those who work there are paid extremely well. So imagine living there almost for free for a couple of years and just make bank! If I was younger and without a good job I would highly consider this.

I guess it makes sense how Scandinavians would've been the ones to settle and stay in Minnesota since it's so cold! Also, I noticed that a lot of people I've met from Minnesota had Swedish physical features, not sure if that was just a coincidence though

Actually we say "Pite", "Ume" etc in the North (at least in Norrbotten and Västerbotten). Piteå is actually a really nice place to live, you really should go there in the summer. Speaking of Kiruna, they're moving the entire city further away from the mine, the ground is to unstable for it to be safe to live there.

Is still weird comparing houses in colder parts of Sweden to houses in Texas o_O

The apartments and houses in Kiruna are actually really expensive. A couple of decades ago you would practically give away apartments but now housing is a real problem since many people have moved here to work in the mine or on Esrange. The town is also moving away from the mine since the iron vein has turned towards the town itself and it's not safe to mine directly under the town. Oh and those houses that were shown are from outside the main city. In the city you can expect to pay around 2 000 000 SEK for a house. Great video anyways!!

The apartments I am looking at now in the countryside in southern Sweden cost around 100 000 sek.

Småland (Jönköpings län, Kronoborgs län, Kalmar län) and maybe also Blekinge län generally has "norrland prices" but is closer to the continent, closer to Stockholm but Gothenburg is closer. Especially in "rural" areas... As much as they can be rural when it's not far from any place in any direction and there's not as much snow there as the north of Sweden will have x)

Great video! I don't think the US style of interior is horrible, pretty tasty by those pictures actually. I dont like the whole white interior (I'm a swede). The pronouncing of the citys was really good. Kiruna is an old mine city, as you said. They also used to have a ranger regiment there. I thougt I heard you say that they moving the city to get closer to the mine... actually it's the oposite way. They have expanded the mine to the limit were the city are in risk to ram, so they now moving the city away from the mine.

I'm glad you love the Scandinavian style. It's minimalistic and me myself love it. I'm a minimalist and I've become one because 1. I'm freaking lazy and don't enjoy cleaning 2. I had too much clothes I didn't either use nor fit my expanding body (frustrated groaning) 3. I'm less stressed by all the clutter around me 4. I got some money in selling clothes plus donating the rest (felt good) 5. Got two cats = hair everywhere = say no more 6. I love the concept of minimalism (less is more, use what you have etc) 7. Can't remember what else (I'm senile). My parents comes from Northern Sweden. It's lovely in nature. Water means a lot to me, it's calming and can be so beautiful. Yes, you can get a very nice house up north. A classic old typical Swedish home. Can be really lovely. Thanks for a very pleasant video, Stefan! :)

You should look at houses in Örnsköldsvik. There are all sizes, both really expensive and cheaper. Big houses close to the water. A lot of hockey players are from here, MoDo hockey, which have played or is playing in NHL. And they've moved back and built large houses.

Love this!!! You should definitely do either Västkusten or Skåne next!!!!!

They move Kiruna to keep mining. The ground get unstable over the mine and the ore goes under the town. If you are going to live up there you will get sun all night in summer and moskitoes. In winter cold and dark. But the spring-winter in March-early May is nice. Snow and sun. Umeå ant Piteå are pronounced Ume and Pite. They just skip the last "å". The problem living in rural Sweden is you can not just change work that easy. You more have to stick to what you get. I think the area around our "big" cities will be more attractive in a post pandemict world. Work from home 3 days a week and commute into the city for 2 days.

You can find rural and cheap houses in southern Sweden too, just keep away from the coast line (and major cities)

I think ur an imported swede first to america, and now have found ur roots here in sweden again :D Great video Stefan! Very fun

In the mid to late 1800's, a whole lot of Swedes moved to Nebraska for some reason; they even formed their own town, Swedeburg. I found this out tracing my ancestry recently. There was actually a bit of misdirection in tracing my family line initially because two Fredrick Swanbergs both moved to the same town in Nebraska in the same year, one from Kristianstad and one from Slite, Gotland, the latter being my great great grandfather, who was apparently a Lutheran minister in Swedeburg. There's also a Swedesburg in Iowa, Kansas, and Pennsylvania. Some of them are like a Scandi equivalent of a Chinatown or Little Italy type place.

11:00 I actually thought that this was wrong but I checked and it's almost exactly the same distance as driving from san diego to seattle

You should compare housing prices to places like Gävle (where I'm from). There was a list of the best things about Gävle, and the top one was its close proximity to Stockholm, but I can assure you, the best thing about this town is not to being able to get away from it. It's not uncommon for people to make a daily commute to Stockholm(approx. 1.5h) or Uppsala(approx. 1h) from Gävle. Living in England, I really do miss the white Swedish interior, and just the general look of the swedish homes. In the area I'm living, the monthly rent for a 1 bedroom flat is around £800-£1200, and the standard of these are nowhere near the Swedish one. For some reason magnolia coloured walls are very popular amongst the brits. 🤦‍♀️

It would fun with a video guessing the country of origin. Especially if you make it a little tricky and don’t show the houses that typical for each country’s style.

I think we could tell the difference between Swedish and American homes by the bathrooms. Don’t see laundry machines in bathrooms here in the US. I love these real estate videos.

I like how some apartments in Stockholm costs as much as an island in the archipelago outside Norrköping. Example: www.hemnet.se/bostad/villa-3rum-arkosund-norrkopings-kommun-skedholmen-1-16918746 vs www.hemnet.se/bostad/lagenhet-4rum-stockholm-stockholms-kommun-valhallavagen-40,-5-tr-17243896

I would actually recommend Skellefteå, it's between Umeå and Piteå in most senses (including the physical), but within 10 years you'll have high-speed train access to the south which means transportation in general will become far less of an issue.

I’d love to move to Kiruna! ☝🏻 American here from So California however I love the snow and their Northern lights, visited Kiruna 2-3 times now... Probably have another residence because-28C is crazy! 😂😂

The houses in Kiruna are not moved to come closer to the mine, they are moved away from the mine, otherwise they fall into the hole.

Well....thank you Stefan 😎

Nice video!! I think I would stay in Sweden. Maybe move out in the countryside as I get older. But Stockholm is very nice. I might just as well stay here forever.

I had a sauna in the villa house when I was growing up here in Stockholm

One thing that seems to be pretty unique with Swedish apartments is that to us in Sweden, when we move in somewhere, we take it for granted that we will have all the "vitvaror" included. That is a fridge, a washingmachine available, a stove/ oven and of course a shower installed, very often a bath tub as well. You just go south, to Denmark for example, or to United Kingdom. They have to buy all that themselves, 'cause the former owner took that stuff with them. Two other things I think you missed out Stefan: there's a huged difference between the ways houses in Swedish Norrland and South US has to be heated. Of course it'll cost more to have a well-isolated house. Also, the adverts shown from Sweden had people from a selling company, a pro to take all the photos and another one that styled them. I think they are often very boring as they get totally homogenic, they all look the same. I would'nt say they honestly show how swedes really live. By the way, you seems like someone who'd like to follow fashion. Cosy darker colours in wallpaper and furniture are definetively much more trendy, we will see much more of that. Also a mixture of old and new furniture, more "take care of what we have" than buy new all the time. Thanks for your amusing clips!

Ofcause it's higher to the roof in like Texas.. Swedish Houses have often lower, because it cooler here and it takes longer time to heat up if it's high... So lower faster and lower cost to heat up.