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Beautiful nation and strong developed european country.

Jantelagen is a societal rule that says that you shouldn’t brag, because everything you brag about can be taken from you. It hasn’t anything to do with being outside of the “norm”.

I live in Sweden. I can see a doctor the same day, even on weekends (though clinics that allow weekend visits are extremely rare, my local clinic does allow it.) Getting a referral to a specialist is easy, but sometimes you need to wait about 3 months to see the specialist. Having private health insurance through your employer allows you to skip the wait.

Very good idea that Sweden imposes heavy taxes on tobacco and alcohol. These 2 things create alot of problems which means alot of expenses and it makes perfect sense that the consumer is made to pay for them.

The law of Jante, in my opinion, perfectly explains why Sweden is such a great country. People must be so humble there, and not so full of themselves. Here in the U.S. all you see is pride pride pride. Proud to be an American. Proud to be in the army. Proud to be a woman. Proud to be whatever. And while none of those things are inherently wrong, the problem is that people here think they're better than everyone else, and try to find more and more ways to prove such, even to the point of people constantly looking for ways they can be considered "prejudiced" or a "minority group." And while some of them are very very real and true, like POC or other minority races, Women, Veterans, etc. people will even find ways through those identities, or identities they make up, to complain and get offended by other's opinions in order to either feel better about themselves, or get special privilege because of it. And when everyone, and I mean, nearly everyone, looks themselves in the mirror with the attitude that I'm special or better than everyone else, and I'm proud of who I am, everyone sees everyone else and thinks they're trying to take that pride away, in which you can imagine leads to a lot of chaos between groups. And yes, this is even true in politics, which explains why it's best to just not even say a word on the topic here in most settings. People here think that in order to respect or to love one another, you have to agree with everything they say and believe, and not doing so is to "hate" them, and to strip them entirely of their dignity and identity. And no, that's not an exaggeration. And when you live in a place like that, many decide to just follow along and agree with their peers, hoping it's the right thing. And to be honest, I don't entirely blame them. For a country that supports free speech beyond anything else, we sure to get triggered when someone decides to give their opinions about things. Anyways, I want to move to Sweden now. I think I could use a little peace in my life from all this chaos over here. And while it is manageable, just typing it out now makes me realize how much stress people feel just on this truth alone. People are very stressed here, and most of us don't know what to do with it

It sounds like the gang violence/mass shooting in Sweden is the highest in all Europe. There're also many gang activities and teens recruited in Malmo and Gothenburg. The longest turf war in history of Sweden is in Gothenburg. You should be careful

As the 'famous' old saying goes: "Man cannot live by rankings alone".

As a Swede, i fully agree. our crime rates are also a downside 😅

The high Taxes also pay for health care and school . A visit to the doctor is 170 SEK, about 17 USD and school is free up to university, where you have to pay for books, but the courses are free.

The problem is not when it's a real winter it's wonderful, but when it's clean and stays just above freezing. You get a lot of that weather in Southern Sweden, they are shit. However, the summers in Sweden are fantastic. The taxes are super good, it makes more people actually get rich. A big disadvantage is that it is very difficult to find rental apartments, buying is very expensive (at least in the more popular cities) and don't be fooled by the price that is stated, it is a bidding process and sometimes the price is double the price that the bid is asking for.

The problem of finding a job as a foreigner is a sad reality, even if you studied at KTH, which is their top school. Source: my experience

Tell me you’ve never been to Sweden without telling me you’ve never been to Sweden

I lived in Sweden most of my life but migrated about a year and a half ago. Just the last year alone, there were shootings, bomb detonations, robbery, vandalism, rape-attempt (towards my wife), the list goes on and on. The sad thing is, it was predictable but with such incompetent leadership over the past decades it had to go down this way. I think this video is over-simplifying a lot. Regarding the climate. Some years in the far south of Sweden never even experience any snow or just for a day or two, while in the north there might be a full blown winter. Also, the Swedish school education system is very questionable. It has been known to the public that Sweden has systematically improved the PISA scores by excluding low-performing students from taking the tests. This goes on on many levels and not just the PISA tests. I compared the knowledge of math between a 12 year old Swedish student (following a Swedish curriculum) and a student of same age enrolled in a Cambridge International curriculum or IB-programme, and the difference is massive. Absolutely astonishing. The Swedish curriculum is so far behind in math, its ridiculous. The result of it all is scary. The Universities and Collegies are lowering the qualification bars to keep the fundings. This means that the students that now (or tomorrow) graduate will be less competent and not be able to compete with international students. This is when Sweden will go really south. And its happening right now slowly but surely. There are reports about this, books published in recent years describing the issues but the government don't want to admit the issues. And how can you solve a problem is you can't admit it exists?! I would also like to comment about the IT-job market in Sweden. I work in IT for years for Swedish companies and I have never heard of any IT professional with 5 years of experience take many months to find a job in IT in Sweden. The Swedish market is in very high demand of IT professionals right now and will be for a significant amount of time. A funny thing that you mention is that once the person changed the name, the person in question started to get interviews. I believe there might be some merit into that, but not in IT in Sweden. For other unqualified jobs, I am sure of it. I have seen that with my own eyes on countless occasions and various situations, but far less of that in IT and among experienced professionals. It's very easy to pull the rasist-card here, but the IT-market does not care about skin color as much as people seem to think. Sweden needs competence and Sweden don't know how to gain it. All in all, Sweden is facing many challenges. I would never ever call Sweden for "one of the world's most developed countries". For me Sweden used to be something worth calling Good (or maybe even great), but has fallen into decay that began over 4 decades ago. I see more and more skilled workers leave the country. I see companies (like I did) leave the country, due to many many reasons. The above mentioned things is just the tip of an iceberg, sadly.. A comment to @Kjell Eson, what is it that you think Sweden is so successful about? The Nazi gold made Sweden rich, and once we abandoned the German school system, Sweden began a slow decay. The politics changed a lot during the past decades, leading to this, idiocracy. The old generation that had skills and competence built many successful businesses in Sweden, that really put Sweden on the map. That pushed Sweden on the horizon. But then what? These people are retiring and many of these companies struggle or have changed ownerships. Just look at our neighbor countries. Why do you think, many American or Chinese companies establish offices in Denmark for example? Why not in Sweden? Because the setup in Sweden for running business is really bad. Its contra productive. It kills creativity and entrepreneurship. And any profit made by the company is devoured by the government and haunted by the people... No way, I am gonna stay in Sweden and put my son into a Swedish curriculum. NO WAY!

Never ever heard of anyone having problems with the laundry

Wow! Is this what you call downsides? We have the best possible roads, clean and tidy in our cities. This is a little of what our taxes go to. We have green parks and lots of playgrounds. Free school and school meals. Almost free healthcare. Then we have much, much more that is free or cheap that our taxes go to. We Swedes get used to everything, high food prices and expensive petrol. We care for ten minutes. We continue to live just as usual. I wonder if it is not the case that it is newcomers or people who live abroad who think that Sweden is expensive. I myself have an average salary and can live life with at least 3 trips abroad a year, without becoming poor from it. There is work for everyone. Stop talking about our high taxes, we Swedes have money and as usual we can get by. This is of course my own opinion. We have no beggars or people living on the street, everyone who is a Swedish citizen has the right to social benefits and a roof over their heads. That's our law. Everyone you see begging or maybe sleeping under a bridge is not Swedish.! ps, if you see a Swede begging or sleeping outside, then he/she has made a personal choice to do so. d.s

2:24 The most recent years I don't mind it so much. But some years ago (2020) I did not like when it got brighter outside.

When I travel to Sweden, I see that almost everyone speaks english in Sweden.

That first point isn't dissuasive - Det finns inget dåligt väder, bara dåliga kläder.

1:53 I don't find it depressing. I actually like when it is dark.

According to statistics from the OECD Sweden has a higher ratio of billionaires per capita than any other country in the OECD.

But i gotta say that living in stockholm is beutiful. Yes there are many winter months but the summer gets more hyped and more fun! And it i pretty warm in the summer bc of the gulf flow but i dont recommend malmö

The wellfare system is not good. it was but now you have to have insurence if you want to meet a doctor. everything is going private. and the salaries are going down, nature is beutifull 2 months a year but in summer it mostly rains and in winter its dark and coold

I was working with four Americans in Asia. They all had two jobs back home and earned good money, but worked 10-14 hours a day, leaving almost no time for family friends ore children. I work 8 hours a day five days a week in Sweden. And we compared our Lifes and income. The Swedish way came out on top in every aspect. We had lower costs, welfare healthcare and so on dispite Swedens high taxes. I had more money left in my wallet at the end of the month then any of the Americans. I have time to play with my children, my wife only need to work 50% , and we had no health issues. We will never ever move to the great country in the west. Never. Welcome to Sweden

Your economic ideas are completely different to the UK, in London you are never far away from someone who lives in a million pound house and someone who is completely broke.

I was born in Sweden and feel good here. Those with the jantte law are not not from the Swedes, but come from the 0.2% people from the middle east. Sweden is inventive and creativity is on the right, but patents are too expensive, the same thing, the rents for apartments are 0.2% of the people from the middle east. It is the 0.2% people from the Middle East who have made life hell for the Swedes.

If you need to know the downsides of living in Italy I can help you

4:20 The tax revenue as part of GDP is not the same as tax pressure. That is what the government get in, not what the people pay. If we compare emplytax, income tax and VAT, Sweden have slightly more tax then Denmark, not less. This is largely due to much higher base deduct and threshold of tax increment. Even if again, procentage is larger in Denmark, because the tax deduct is higher, you pretty much pay less tax regardless of how much or how little you make. There is just a few places where tax is actually lower in Sweden, and one of those is VAT on food, Food is generally actually fairly cheap in Sweden 1:20 the diffrance in Climate between Stockholm and very south of Sweden is much larger than people think. Specially so at daylight hours in winter. Also, while the odd snowstorms does happen in the very south, the snow typically melt away in a week or two, while it in Stockholm typically stay put for 3-4 month. On top of that, the south have generally temperatures above freezing in the winter, and it barley ever get under -5C, While in stockholm there can be one or two weeks with a solid -15 most normal winters. In the summer the diffrance is really small, and it might even be warmer in Stockholm 2:30 living cost is really not that high. The issue is that a lot of people confuse Stockholm for sweden. Stockholm is pretty freaking expensive. So is Göteborg and Malmö to a degree. But go to any of the mid size 20 cities, its really not that expensive. I just checked Norrköping the other week and there was flats avalible for €500-1000 for 1-3 room 5-10 minute walking distance to the city core. Combine that with the relative low price of food and power, its really not that expensive. Sure of you compare to southern europe it's still way higher, but so are vages... But of cause, if you earn a normal paycheck. Denmark and norway is for sure better. If you make a intenet living Sweden is quite a bit better. 7:00 the access to healthcare is sort of kind of right. but there is a caveat here. It depends on what region you are registered in. Some region the healthcare is quite good, some region its absolutely auwfull. This seams to depend more on administration than budget. 7:50 Finding work in Sweden is hard in general. Not only for foreigners. To a degree, it might be harder for people from Sweden, or at least that was the case prior. There is also quite a bit of education inflation. When everyone have a masters degree, nobody got a masters degree. There is pretty much no education that will give you a heads up in Sweden (possibly a MD)

And people complain in the USA about taxes 😎

Ok. So in many videos about sweden on YT the taxes are brought up as a negative. You can't talk about taxes without talking g about what you get. Sure. The taxes are high but you don't have to save If your kids want to go to university You don't go bankrupt if you get very ill and you don't have to pay for an ambulance. When you talk about high taxes you need to compare into what it would cost you to save for say a university education for you child Or how much you need to save every month in case you need to go to the hospital for a week etc The taxation isn't a problem And you pay 50% tax on the amount over around 4000 dollar.

The jaw of jante is something my music teacher made my class follow. I'm not even swedish

Very very clean country ++,uppsala city

About the sallery… really depends. Avarage is about 20-30 000kr AFTER taxes. So not that high of living standard to be fair

Jantelangen was written as a piece of satire, literally making a mockery of small-minded people in small towns, and their xenophobic tendencies towards "outsiders". Aksel Sandemose wrote his books as a warning about the repressions of society. some point in the 90's some idiot decided that these should've used as a way to live your life. if you do, your life is a joke.

You forgot to tell the no go zones of Sweden.

On the whole, relatively correctly described, albeit without context. If you talk about taxes, you also have to talk about what they finance. It is true that Sweden does not have that many ultra-rich, but on the other hand, most people here (and in the other Nordic countries) live significantly better than in the majority of other countries. The so-called jante law is quite exaggerated in the article, there is some truth in it but it is far from an unofficial "law". One thing that bothered me quite a lot throughout the article was that it is very Stockholm-centric! Stockholm is not particularly representative of the country as a whole. The cost of, for example, renting or buying a house is very much lower in most other places in Sweden. In principle, you can say that as long as you stay outside the central parts of the biggest cities, the living costs here are very reasonable compared to most countries in Europe. And especially when compared to the US. As far as the so-called "wave of violence" is concerned, it is, like most political issues currently on the news, quite one-sided and with a clear political bias. The actual crime statistics speak a rather different language. Compare, for example, with the debate surrounding "illegal immigrants" in the US - as if that were America's biggest problem at the moment 🙄🤦🏻.

Idk if this is everywhere but one time I was playing football with my friends and a guy came up to us and said if we would sell drugs of 1000kr we said no ofc

With an average salary of 40€ you stated with taxes of 60% in sweden. I'll stay in the US with my 100k salary and 30% taxes . Im fine with visiting Sweden a few times of year. Thanks 😊 as for doctors visits I pay 20$ to see a doctor in US and pay 190$/month for insurance. Our health insurance system in the USA isn't as horrible as people think .

Law of Jante 😂😂😂😂 what a joke. What even is this rubbish law?

For a country that claims to be so advanced no access to washers and dryers is a deal breaker for us

There are downsides in most countrys😐

Well researched and good video!

❤ Sweden is still good country with all its +ves & -ves 😊 love it Nordic (Scandinavia is different from rest of Europe 🌍) we need to understand the model of Scandinavian countries. ❤

You seems to not Been living in Sweden! We have snow in south. We had last year have Been up to 40 degrees in the summer. Turists that comes get get chocked! Sweden is a very long country so big difference. Prices of living is hughly dufferent in Sweden. If you live in big cities like Malmö,, Stockholm and Göteborg. And taxes! We have no inherritage tax, no gift tax. no housetax. Only tax on work. Mainly you pay 35-40percent. Its easy to put up business and have business taxreductions. There is much bigger problems and disvantages you don’t talk about. High crimes for ex. And if all looking for Jobs in bigger cities it Will of course take more times than in smaller comunities. Analfabetism has gone up in Sweden too. I live here and i can for sure say that my country has big issus here that are bitter than those you take up. To have to pay 6-800 euros for an ordinary house elektricity every Month is a big problem.

Please iceland next

If you love life dont move to sweden

This was the worst generalization of a country on all of KZfaq. First of all, if you are moving to Sweden, you may have to find out what the climate is like. 3/4 of Sweden is Arctic climate. Then it's dark. 40 Km north of the capital Stockholm runs one of the world's most famous latitudes. Latitude number 60. It goes across northern Siberia in Russia, continues through Norway, Sweden and Finland. The latitude continues through the southern part of Greenland, then comes north of Labrador in Canada, through southern Alaska and then comes back to Siberia. How then can you make a video where everything that touches 60 latitude is crap. Darkness, cold and more. What did you expect? You don't know that there are eight growing zones in Sweden. You don't know that daylight differs across eight zones. You don't know it's summer in southern Sweden while it still is is winter in northern Sweden. You have no idea that Sweden is Europe's longest country from north to south? South of latitude 60, it is significantly brighter than it is north about latitude 60. Do you have any knowledge that the Arctic Circle goes through Sweden? When you came to Sweden, did you perhaps think that it would be the same climate as in Florida? Move from here and read up on Sweden. Then you might be able to move back. But preferably not. We don't want negative people like you. If we Swedes were as negative as you are, we would not be so successful. You will never be successful in Sweden so pack your bags and go home!

Very informative

High tax makes caring for all citizens possible. And the political system despite current left or right government . Is built on the trust we have in our system. That for an example the high taxes we pay is used as good as possible to everyone. And we also get proof back continuously of that. Even if left or right voters may disagree of whats most inportant. But comparing to US we are extremely much better taking care of. And the tax pays for free education free healthcare and extreamly much more stuff thay for an example Americans have to pay for themself. So adding all the costs of thay and the ones I didnt mention. Its actually much more expensive in the US. And in the end of the day this includes everyone. Not only the rich who can make it anywhere.... Amd caring for everyone and the whole society I gladly to throu my tax. In US this is sometimes called evil socialistic ideas... Well if you rather want to live in a country where only the rich people succeed, where abortion and gun laws are stupid and theres only 2 extreamly bad choices as leaders for the country. Where you dont have parental leave (I was home 1 year with pay with my daughter) where people have to die cause they dont get financial help that they instead must ask strangers online for. For treatment that you get get for free in Sweden, eat lousy food have lousy waste handling, lousy busses and trains so everyone must own a car not drinkkable water.... Phu.... well I could go on for a few pages. But yes theres absolutely not a single reason I would like to live in the US. I will never forget when I as a young man first visited Chicago. We where singing in different churches. When we came to the first one we heard gunshots not far away... Even then I decided I never ever want to live in a country with this gun violence and the stupid idea that its every mans right to carry a gun publicly. I am very proud and happy to live in Sweden. That actually is a paradise compared to many other country's. Lets not forget that. And hopefully if you dont agree you are probably rich and can make it anywhere or you haven't really been around. Many countries in Europe is good. When it comew to life quality with all counted in Sweden Finland Norway and Denmark are allways within the top nations. And ifvthe weather bothers you ..Swedish summers are often actually fantastic. And in the darkest winter mounth you may do as many Swedes do. Take a trip to a warm and lighter place.... Annyway this is my and many others opinion... /J

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Freezing cold. Not worth it.

Stockholm isn´t Sweden...

You forgot to mention Social democrats

I’ve never been so grateful to be born and live in America.

You are so negative that you give thumbs down to all countries

Theres no way sweden has cleaner water than germany

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Sweden? Isn't that Gaza Major?

BS... Do not make videos for places you do not know, mate. That s fake news!

Not a word about en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulnerable_area