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Great video! ❤

I love how you are very honest and upfront you are about your thoughts, even on sensitive topics. That is very refreshing and interesting to hear especially from a Swede.

Lovely video and very realistic and honest feedback, thank you so much

I stumbled upon your channel whilst just looking for videos to admire about Sweden haha! Thanks for the tips you made about avoiding scams and generally being such a great tour guide. I’ve been dreaming of going to Sweden since I was 8, and I personally won’t stop at nothing to go there, so till then, I’ll be binging your channel❤

Loving your videos :)

You are informative and funny! Thank you for all the information : )

Haha! I actually saw you filming this on Igelsdammsgatan yesterday, I was sort of hoping you were filming another episode of "Worst Stockholm architecture" and including the new apartment blocks they have built at the top of that road...

Thanks I enjoy your content 😊 ❤

And even after that list i still would love to live in Sweden

My boyfriend and I are making plans to move to Sweden in the next couple years and your videos are a great source for us. You are funny and provide a fantastic point of view. You deserve MANY more views. Thank you so much for your Swedish content, we will be watching everything you have. 😁

Well said! And real facts

I guess nowhere is perfect. I left the UK many years ago because of the lousy summers and ended up in Turkey where, despite the many negative issues, at least the summers are good and the cost of living is affordable (for those of us with a foreign income at least). Thank you for running through your list of gripes. No alcohol anywhere to be had here today either (but only because it's Election Day.... let's see where this country is now headed.) Cheers!

Great video. Fascinating. Hit on some interesting issues. A culture of conformity is pretty alien to me in the US. I've only been to Sweden once, but I still remember eating at the house of a family friend and it was an amazing, memorable meal. Very luckily, they didn't serve surströmming. 👍👍👍 Also "an indecision of Swedes decided nothing at all" is a great sentence. Sounds like a headline for The Onion.

You´ve done a great list! I can´t make a list myself, but I can agree to some parts here. I stop working around 27+ celsius so, the weather is pretty great.

Been living in here for 3 years. You are so on point.

Is Sweden a place where I can use Swedish currency or is everything cashless? I'm traveling to Stockholm next month

love your videos! the "swedish dream" and the consensus culture sound lovely though - maybe we need another round of discussions about the pros and cons of consensus culture, until we can decide whether or not one should not like it ;) right now my job is to coordinate the work of volunteers helping refugees and new immigrants in germany. are there comparable jobs in sweden?

Great video. :) We moved here to Jamtlands lan over a year ago. I'm Scottish so am used to rougher weather than we get here. My husband is Flemish, so he fits in more with the European vibe here. We're in a very small village and the people, with only a few exceptions, have been kind and actually friendly to these two old incomers. I'm with you on Postnord! Oh gosh, the sheer number of parcels we don't receive, argh! And the cost of living...in just our one year, food prices have risen appallingly, along with utilities such as electricty. But our income hasn't gone up accordingly, so it's tougher living here than elsewhere perhaps. For all that, I just spent a beautiful winter hand feeding red deer that came to visit us daily, enjoying the snow (believe me, in my Scottish Highlands we used to have the same snow for the same length of time. A couple of decades ago it seemed to vanish overnight and I missed it!) and just bought my first set of skis. Which was probably stupid as I'm almost totally blind and over sixty..... Nowhere is perfect. Sweden is a beautiful, almost mythical and often breathtaking country. The people are who they are, and we as incomers have no real right to expect them to change to suit us. (I speak as an introvert here too) but as with all countries now, the politicians seem to be the thorns on this particular rose. My number one gripe would be the technology love in Sweden...all Swedes seem to adore tech. But I'm an anti tech, emf sensitive, wannabe off gridder. That's hard as we bought a home filled with smart tech (unknowingly) and I'm slowly getting rid of it. I suspect that is frowned upon here. :)

Great video, very honest video. You should come to Panama so I can give you a huge list with no end.

My wife and I had a few days in Stockholm a while ago and because it was done on a shoestring, we took some snacks with us from our home in UK. Just as well! We had one fairly simple 2-course Swedish lunch and the bill nearly broke our budget completely. Yes, I realise we should have saved up a bit before we travelled but snacking was the most logical thing to do in order to stay fed. (Ironically, a large part of the snacking was from Swedish Vasabrod, bought at our local UK supermarket! Coals to Newcastle syndrome or what?)

The first rule about Sweden, you don't talk about politics. The second rule, you don't talk about politics (this is also about avoiding disharmony and keeping everyone happy I guess). It was an interesting video, thanks for the inside view! My family and I moved to Sweden 1.5 years ago och vi trivs mycket här. As someone who came from Germany, I always had the impression that there is absolutely no integration policy in Germany (with all the bad consequences you mentioned) and I was surprised about how well nyborgare at least get the offer to learn the language for free (and I did and even passed grundläggande kurs B recently). So from a Swede's point of view, you might think that's not enough, but it's hell a lot more than in *many* other countries. (About the crime thing: I think it helps to stop reading the media -- that media campaign brought Sweden the worst government in history). But yes, I agree on many points and now I'll head for the video what you love about Sweden ;)

Pretty much same here in Finland. We have alcohol monopoly as well, but at least Alko is open from 9:00 till 21:00 from monday to friday and saturdays they close 18:00, but as in there sundays those are closed. Of course in finnish markets sells beer, cider, longdrinks and etc. that are maximum 5,5% strong (9:00 - 21:00) every day. Also gasolinestations and smaller kiosks can sell those too. Same problems with immigration and right wing politicians always warns that it will be like in Sweden if we don´t start to do something about it. So we don´t have as big of a problem yet, but it is getting closer all the time. But mostly all other things are about the same here with little differences. Postal services sucks and our trainsystem operating by VR have trouble to keep up. I have to use train every month and i´m so sick of it that most of the times there is delays at these days. I go same track little bit over 300km and it should take from 2h 10min to 2h 40min depending how many times the train stops at the way. Many times the train is delayed over a hour and that´s alot.

Great video. I agree about most of it, except the weather. Generally I like the Winters, although this one lasted a bit too long. The Summers since we moved to Sweden 2 1/2 years ago have been fantastic though. We can sit outside nearly every evening throughout the Summer without getting cold. On the British island that I come from there were one or two evenings throughout the whole Summer where it was almost warm enough to sit out until 20.00. The biggest issue I have (in Gävle) are the mosquitoes. There’s a few about already and they’re huge, like something from Jurassic Park! SFI and Svenska som andra språk try teach immigrants about Swedish society and traditions from my experience. Unfortunately after that it just stops.

I can relate. I have lived in Sweden for 8 years and even speak pretty good swedish, but I haven't managed to make any swedish friends, I froze my ass off for the most part of the year, I got charged 90kronor for a bread, lettuce and cheese sandwich, and invevitably, when covid hit, I got a major depressive episode which drove me to move the hell out of there to Spain, where I've been happily living for 2 years now. Now, don't get me wrong, it's not that Sweden is bad. I love some things about it, like Allemansrätten, safety, endless green nature and blue lakes everywhere, but those are thing that make this country good for visiting, not for living. Sweden has way too many restrictions and I just never felt free there. High salaries is not at all what makes life good. Thank you for the video.

As a Finn one culture shock is that Swedes do not have 24h culture at all. In Finland every single city has 24h supermarket / 24h pharmacy & Gas station with some grocery 24h. Malmö which has 344000 residents do not have any of those what I just mentioned. You have to take a train to Copenhagen if you need to buy something from grocery or pharmacy in middle of the night.

Hej, As someone from a warmer country who moved to the north of Sweden, I see different things than what you said. We used to have seasons in southern Europe when I was little 30 years ago, but now it's only 35C+ and during "winter" it might rain for a day or two and might snow for 1 night and it's back to 20C+ in December-Feb. I quite like having actual 4 seasons. I really missed the snow and being able to wear anything else but a T-shirt. As for racism and discrimination I am also blond with green eyes, so I don't see that immediately, but when I speak Swedish with an accent they ask me where I'm from and change their attitude no matter that I look like them or speak Swedish. So you are mostly right, but also things are a bit different 4-5h drive north from Stockholm. Thank you for the video! Greetings from the High Coast! 🌲❄🦌🌞

awesome

I admire the beauty of Sweden and I love the winters, the menfolk are a bit cold and reserved, that's true, and the cost of living is high, but the amazing sights and the sounds of Swedish, Svenska, just please me immensely.

5 stars of Awesome.

Great video and hats off to your honesty. A lot of people otherwise sugarcoat things. There are of course many good points and I’m currently in Sweden because of those points. But since this video is about list of things to hate, I would like to bring another point “Health Care”. It’s very hard to get medical access except for emergencies. Also the emergency definition is quite subjective…

This guy is awesome! Poor introverted bastards had me rolling

Bars close at 11pm, which is unthinkable for other countries , especially in Southern Europe. That's a big minus really.

Not aiming too high seem to be a winning concept. Happiness is increasing with wealth, but only up to a point. Over that more wealth starts to make you more unhappy. It might be boring, but what do you prefer? Boring and happy, or extreme and unhappy?

Systembolaget is a good thing! Good prices, good selection of wine, beer and spirits. They know their products and you can always discuss what ur going to serve for dinner and what wines could be suitable. Do some planning mate! Never woke up on a sunday and felt... shit I need beer this afternoon!

You are Sweden so of course you would like your culture. So I think an foreigners is better suited to analize Swedish culture

I had the wonderful opportunity to visit Stockholm last year. What a beautiful city and so nicely maintained. I ate lunch at Östermalms Saluhall. Finally had my first meal of smørrebrød. (I know, it’s Danish 😊 ) I was on a cruise so my visit was very brief. I finally ordered surströmming when I got home to the USA. I actually liked it with tunnbröd and potatoes with sour cream.

as a Scotsman living on a lump of Granite in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of England I love Sweden. Stockholm in Particular. Im learning Swedish and planning a visit to Göteborg and Varberg in the near future. loving your videos.

This was so entertaining. I cannot imagine how disgusting the fermented fish would be, but what clever way to preserve protein in the old days! It’s surprising then, given modern refrigeration! I would love to visit that special one week in Mid~Summer! It’s almost like Tasmania, Australia :)

While I have more ties to Sweden than my wife, she loves the thought of a place where it's acceptable to not make small talk with people or expect demanding friendships. I CAN be that slap-happy, "Hiya!" American, but for me it's always been more an acknowledgement of the existence of others. I think, were nods and hellos not expected, I could adapt to that rather quickly. Texas doesn't allow liquor stores to open on Sundays...and hard liquor can only be purchased between 10 a.m. and 9 p.m. So Systembolaget wouldn't seem too weird. We CAN now buy beer and wine on Sundays...and anything at a restaurant or bar with the proper license. But, like you, I remember when things were just shut down, here...which was weird when I moved to Texas from the Chicago area, where you can buy liquor at the grocery store.

thank you for this video. there are not a lot of content like this explained for english speaking audiences…hence the persistent cartoon image amongst foreigners consisting of just abba and the muppet chef 😂

Most thing i hate is the competition between neighbours. when i drive with my lawnmower or whatever it is , the neighbours will do exactly the same 10 min or an 1 hour after.

Being a Sweden that's now been living overseas for over 20 years I have to say that besides from the alcohol monopoly (and yes, I remember when you couldn't buy anything on Saturdays either), the rest of the items aren't really much of a deterrent and I actually miss the winters. Luckily I now reside in an area of Australia where the snow fields are only an hour away so I do get some winter and snow, however I still haven't gotten used to celebrate Christmas in 35-40C weather. Looking forward to travel "home" to Uppsala this September for the first time in 15 years and introduce my kids to it all.

Snail mail. Here, I thought it was only an epidemic of its own here in the US where our postal or shipping companies would lose mail, it would get destroyed or stolen in transit, or porch pirates would steal it. I stand corrected. Here the only way for us to cut down on the theft is to have a post office box, or some kind of locking container for the mail. Unfortunately, companies are requiring addresses outside of the post office to ship products to and that gives the porch pirates more things to steal unless we own a home and install a locking box to receive the packages. But this isn't possible for apartment renters. However, those that do live in apartments can occasionally have these packages sent to a carrier like UPS, FedEx, etc to be held for pickup. I wonder, is there an alternative carrier option like this in Sweden?

I hate i have to pay to use the bathtoom at certain places. And pay for parking to shop at local grocery store. Also hate that mayo cake with shrimp and other things in it.

I would sell an organ (or 2) to be able to live in Sweden 😂 I've been applying to jobs over there, even though I know my chances are incredibly low (and I'm applying elsewhere too). We often take our home life for granted, and after I've explained to a few of my Swedish/Finnish friends why I'd love to move somewhere in the Nordics/Scandinavia (particularly Sweden), it really opens their eyes and they've often admitted they have it really well over there/forgotten just how lucky they are. But of course, no place is perfect and each has its own issues. Great video, as always! -A sad American lol

I have a feeling a more liberal systembolaget can solve all the issues mentioned :-P your videos are simple yet fun to watch. Keep up the good work!

Some of the things I don't agree with at all. Herring is good, for example, Systembolaget is also a good thing, as we cannot handle alcohol and there is quite strong evidence that this system leads to fewer people ending up in abuse. Partially agree that we don't mix immigrants and Swedes that much, but I still have quite a few friends who are immigrants, so I guess I don't completely agree. When it comes to crime as well, you have little chance of encountering it unless you are a gangster yourself, but of course there is a culture of silence, no one dares to testify against them. The weather being what it is, I agree that it's often crap, but when it's good, it's often very nice here.

My grandmother Emma from Sweden took a trip from her US home back to Sweden. On her return trip to the US she accidentally ended up on the maiden voyage of the Lusitania out of the UK. I have her Second Cabin Tea Menu dated Monday September 9, 1907. The menu says Kippered Herring, Hashed Mutton, Broiled Beefsteak, Fried Onions, Mashed Potatoes and more items served cold. Enjoyed the other video too about what not to do there so if/when I am able to visit I will know what not to do, except I can't promise I will not speak well of Trump, like I mentioned in my comment on your other video about Gothenburg. I notice you did not comment on my comment about Trump, most politely on your part. Also I do consider myself to be Christian and religious and will be wearing a cross my mom used to wear before she passed in 1976. I am sad to hear Swedes tend to be agnostics or atheists. I like to think my little cross first belonged to Emma. How can you experience the glory of a new born child or marvel at every feather God gave an owl without sensing the wonder of God's creations and blessings for us? No need to respond if this made you feel uncomfortable. One thing I was wondering about is if equality and conformity are valued, how can you live under a monarchy, which is placing some WAY over others simply because of their family ties? Again no need to respond....

Jag lika sill med knäckebröd. I love herring. In the Netherlands, I love the herring stand.

Kom ner till Mullsjö så bjuder jag på surströmming och Karhut 😉

When it comes to my profession (welder), I found that the salary in Sweden is significantly worse than what you'd get in the Netherlands or Norway. Also, both those countries tend to be ok if the applicant can only speak English and they also often provide shared accommodation in their job offers, so that you can actually save money and not be slaughtered by the insane rents. On the other hand, Sweden seems to be remarkably uncompetitive. Offering significantly lower salaries, requiring both Swedish and English, and not offering any accommodation (effectively decimating your take-home pay). This makes them very uncompetitive when trying to attract international talent for positions they're unable to fill domestically (like carpenters, plumbers, mechanics, welders, machine operators, etc..). I just thought I'd mention this since you talked about Sweden having high salaries.

My grandmother and grandfather immigrated from Sweden ~1905. They taught my father sill making. I will be serving sill to my grandkids tomorrow. My second cousin immigrated ~1990. He does not brag. 8 of my relatives are engineers. I have 3 adult male relatives that are not engineers, but they do some engineering in what they do. I have owned 3 Saabs. I have 8 relatives with drinking problems.

As someone who is working in Sweden and with Swedish people for over 10 years now, I can say that there's just one thing I don't like about it - Swedes are too polite to tell you directly if they don't like you / your service/product / if something is not going to work out! Finns and Norwegians, interestingly, don't have that - with them, you always know if there's a problem. With Swedes - you always have to guess or pick upon tiniest of hints :D Otherwise, though - Sweden and Swedes are just great :)))

Life is pretty good when the major thing to dislike is the weather

You are my brother couldn't agree with you more Pinpointed the problems 100 %.

Hi! How are you? I have been watching your videos all this week and now that you mention the immigration problem i want to ask something. I heard that due to some immigrants the crime rate went up, and i wanted to ask if i go there (i am trying to learn from your culture and language before going) would i be accepted? I dont want Swedes to look at me and think "aaa f*ck, another anoying latino" Thanks a lot for your videos!! Keep the good work!! :D

The food thing isn't really true. There's always a extra plate if you happen to be around at mealtimes. And of course I'll do the same. I don't really know where this rumour came from. I grew up in Stockholm and now lived in the countryside for 22 years. It's been the same everywhere.

I do not like to live in Sweden....they do not like to argue,they never complain if something is wrong...

No place is perfect in reality. Sweden is beautiful, I fell in love with stockholm when I went in 2016. I wouldn't live there, since I'm Mexican I have different lifestyle and personality. But I'd visit at least once a year. Some day 😅

The things I hate about America is all these ads all over the place every 2 minutes. I forgot what this video was all about with so many interruptions!

Went for a Fica instead xD I think Sweden is similar to Japan - very beaurocratic where nothing gets decided for a very long time. And the conformity aspect as well..

The swedish dream is the international dream it seams. Greetings from Tunisia.

There’s actually a good point with the consensus culture (in a certain case). Let’s say you are into a project and you disagree on certain basics and have your objection noted in the protocol. Later on, you have to make new decisions based on the basics you dismissed. Maybe this new issue have your approval,but said NO to the fundaments this issue is built upon … “You voted NO to a nuclear plant being built but you voted YES to have it painted green, blue and yellow ….so are you pro or against nuclear energy?”. I must point out that this is a case mostly in boards dealing with constructional projects, but may appear elsewhere.

Staying for a short few months as a tourist..and loving it here..didn’t experience r*c*sm as a brown skinned..and I find swedes too friendly being an introvert myself😂

You know…I subscribed to your channel because I plan on moving to Sweden, and then you drop this lol…I’m not frightened though, ive lived in Ukraine, Sweden can’t be worse than that

‘A noun for a group of Swedes should be an ‘ Indecision’. Hahahahaha! Actually, carefully discussing and coming to a broader held view is actually refreshing in the hyped (egotistic) world of today. To a point ofcourse. As a dutch Frisian, where a certain consensus culture meant the difference between life and death in times of need, it’s what we need more globally. On the other hand: ‘two Frisians meeting is joy, three Frisians meeting is a row’ (old proverb).

Im a swede

I made the mistake of moving to Sweden from Germany. Never experienced so much ignorance, irresponsibility and lack of independence in comparison. Just frustrating...

Actually the warmest and funniest friends were the " so called cold nations" English, Scandinavians, Swiss...", because I'm like them, I need my safe distance, but open to the attractive interesting people alike, if there is enough time and chemistry. And the so called warmest mediteranean nations are în fact for me the cold, superficial and selfish ones 🤔

Are you that "ask a Swede" dude?

As a Canadian considering moving to Sweden, it sounds like a lot of the same problems we have here. Privatisation making life harder, healthcare is being defunded/made less attainable, insanely high rent and food (Australians have a hard time with our pitiful minimum wage, for example), the country is becoming more hostile to "Others", and crime is surging due to all of the above.

i wish to live there someday with a loving swedish man ❤❤❤❤❤

Swedes complaining about the weather is always funny to me because i've often considered moving from Iceland to Sweden for the dry and warm weather and almost complete lack of wind. You people basically live in the tropics comparatively. You can even use umbrellas because your rain is vertical not horizontal. Also because everything is cheaper and less corrupt.

I always dreamed about Sweden, until i visirted, in the same time i didnt like Denmark, until i visited. When i was in Sweden i like the nature, but the criminality is very high. My friend was attack by group of ,,not sweden guys´´ in the gamlastad 1st day he arrived. On the other side Denmark has no mounties but its far more safer.

I’m not for the conformity thing, that would drive me crazy!

very calm and "peacefull" cities, makes me want o go to bed and be lazy..

So funny 😂 i love that swedish have this hearing instead of nuclear power. ❤🎉

As an American, except for the fish, I would suggest using a word like dislike instead of hate.

As a Swede i experienced more racism from immigrants than i have heard of other swedes being racist. Edit: and the comment about weather seems like it's 20 years old or experiences from far up north. The summers keep getting longer and hotter than they used to and in some parts of the countries like the south the temperature is just barely under 0 during the winter and snow is almost non-existent in some places.

whos the girl to the left at 11.28 sitting in the grass with light dress?

"Swedish food": proceeding to show lahm bi ajeen disguised as pizza

What I hate about Sweden is you get labeled as “racist” for being proud Sweden

IN short you are hate any negative opinion abuot abolished destructive phenomena. As can be found in basic math. 4 minus signs cancel inte a big PLUS. Eh?

I love Sweden I've been going there since 2009 but its a shame about the crime and the racism .... but the crime mostly Integration is a big problem but some immigrants should also focus on standard of living and Education where the level is very good

They are great for meeting and discussing issues but no one take decision that is very right 👍 . You should try in the meetings little alcohol and finger food if you want them to take decisions. I don't think they are rasist but scientists that are expertising in different cultures because they can study all ideas and cultures and find the ones that they like to adopt maybe in their society ....in a cost of course . Well only women are very noisy men seams are very busy by what car or latest electronics will own!! Love you !😅❤😅❤

Most of these are basically British problems, especially #1!

yes but i think emm michael jackson died from illness or something like that but maybe heartattack but first i wanted to see if the queen of england was dead but i think she is bc emm she like not there so i left and never came back

As a Brit living in Denmark who visits Sweden VERY often there is only one thing that I hate about the country - it's the immigrants from certain countries who are destroying what was perhaps the most perfect country in the world.

I think Sweden has better wages for non college educated workers( even after taxes). And the USA has higher wages for college educated workers. More even society. I am ok with snow ,i love cross country skiing. If i could work outside, I would be ok, regarding the short days in winter.ill avoid the sewer fish can🤮🤮. 😆😆

"Weder" is #1

Ladies and Gentlemen! I'd like to annonuce, the most heavy inflation of europe. The winner iiiiiis: Huuuungaryyyy! I'm so sorry, but I have to take the "most high inflation in europe prize" and give it to Hungary. This years top was 25% and it is only the official annoucment, some products prices are went up 50-60% especially the grocieries.

of u wan to nice to sweden be rich no por

I live in Thailand with my Thai wife. We are moving to Sweden when my wife gets her long time visa. I am 83 years of age ...

Hate's a strong word.

I am surprised that Lars doesn't see the connection between one of the things he "doesn't mind" (high immigration from 3rd world countries) and high crime, which he hates.

I love you

🐟🐟🐟 reviewing your old video about Hating things from Sweden🐟🐟🐟🇸🇪🇸🇪..

dude all the complains about Sweden are you just trying to impose aggressive Anglo behaviors on them. A britt telling swedes that they are racist is the most offensive thing on this video.

Without restrictions Sweden wont be so good and well organized. Look at southern countries where you can do whatever you want... its.a.mess.and stress