No it takes 1 hour by car.

Who are you? where are you from? Your background aso. had been more interesting to know.

I havent been travelling for a number of years. I wanted a holiday this year. It looks like Sweden is off the list i wanted to visit,

Stockholm området är ju mycket större än vad du kollar på. Även så kolla tex Knivsta med som det tar samma tid att åka ifrån med tåget/ bil som om man bor längst ute på tex Värmdö mm. Norrtälje och runt där är det billigare. Som politikerna har ju planerat förr att från Uppsala till Södertälje ska vara Storstockholm för länge sedan.

Yihaa- congrats on the 10K subs!! 🙂 Interesting comparison of homes!! It could turn out to become a habit... .;-) Trevlig kväll!

You should start using chapters in your videos 🙂

I think you need to explain "Brf", for your international audience, me best translation is a "Condominum association? One buy the inside of ones appartment.. or rather pay the "topplån", top loan for it, the rest of the loan is on the association! Old apartments have been renovated many times over.. inside and outside, its this that its the associaton that pay for the external maintaince. And the last comes at a monthly fee.

That charge for the Gamla stan apartment was crazy. The BRF must have some crazy loans

Gothenburg is very tricky with the distances- you think about Stockholm and how the instruction is made and how easy is to get anywhere. With Gothenburg is close only on a map. We were at Sweden during September/October 2024 because we are moving and wanted to see for ourselves the suburbs around Stockholm and Gothenburg. We got spoiled really quickly, as in Stockholm is super easy to get anywhere, the suburbs are really linked to each other and the public transport is a gem. Coming to Gothenburg was shocking. There aren't trains in Gothenburg, only buses and trams and get from one suburb to the other took forever, as every suburb is linked to central Gothenburg, but the suburbs are more often than not pretty disconnected unless they lay on the same route to the center. The southern part, maybe maybe, but there is a river flowing through the northern part and the suburbs at the northwest and northeast just across the river - they are not connected at all, no public transport available. You need to go to the center and then back up to the other side. Super ineffective. Also, the Gothenburg is very hilly, the route is uphill, downhill all the time and you can go from one suburb to another by bike or scooter, but it's a crazy exercise 😅😅😅 after one day in Göteborg we were like - no way in hell, we would never live here, the weather is really dreadful and comparing everything to Stockholm, it was just not enough. But to be fair, we were warned, that everything except summer it's pretty dreadful in Göteborg (by our Stockholmer hosts) and they were absolutely correct. Stockholm was just right, cold but just as right cold, the humidity is just as right, the wind is just as right, the parks, nature, lakes, everything is just as right, just as we need. Gothenburg is wild, built near very wild sea and the weather is just wild. The wind, the humility, the humid cold and salty air... Viking level harsh. And so much lower convenience :( so property is one thing - interior, you can do it by your taste, but you can't change the area where you live. So there's a huge convenience in finding the properties on Hemnet and then to go look by yourself, to see whether the overall ambiance is just right for you and your family :) :) thank you for your videos and all your informative content! If everything goes smoothly, I would be happy to go for a coffee sometimes during the spring/summer 2025 :) we will be moving to Haninge as well (but the municipality is huge, so we probably won't be neighbours unless you live in Handen or Västerhaninge). Thanks again for making this type of content for us and updating us with various details! It has been very informative and helpful in my own research doing :) :) take care, hej då! 😊

I lived in Östermalm when young. We should have kept our appartment to sell today... (not really feasable, but still). It wasn't far from Strandvägen 7.

When looking for a home in Sweden's 3 largest cities, DO NOT buy in the city center, but look outside the city. My little sister and her husband, tried to buy an apartment in central Malmö, but the bidding was high at already high starting prices, they wanted a 3-room apartment that was around 75 square meters. I told my sister that for the high prices for an apartment in Malmö, you get a house outside Malmö. So they bought a house outside the city of Malmö, at a lower price than for the apartment in Malmö. The house they bought is 130 square meters, the plot is 1200 square meters and there is a double garage in the yard. So their dog can move freely in the yard. Think about omni buying an apartment, there is usually an additional cost for a parking space which is expensive. What you MUST count on if you now buy an apartment or house. or just rent a home in one of these cities. Is the high electricity price. The cheapest place to live is in Norrbotten as the electricity price is the lowest up here, and cheaper houses and investment units compared to these 3 larger cities. The fact that Stockholm is losing its population is that people no longer want to live in Stockholm. They want to live where it is quieter and cheaper. For Stockholm, it is very expensive to live in. If we take the person who made this video, they would save a few thousand Swedish kronor a month. If they had chosen to live in Norrbotten compared to the suburbs of Stockholm. Secondly, the equivalent house in Norrbotten is a million cheaper to buy than the one they have bought. This means that the monthly cost of the loans is lower. Since the price of electricity is lowest in Norrbotten than the rest of Sweden, so the cost of the increase in Stockholm compared to Norrbotten, you save a few thousand Swedish kronor per year. So the total cost is lower in Norrbotten than Stockholm, Malmö and Gothenburg, but also other cities. Depending on how efficient the cities are.

1,5 miljon people if you count the greater city, including the suburbs, I believe. 1 miljon if you count only the city itself.

Congratulations for reaching 10 thousand subscribers! 🥳🥂🎆

It once was like a utopia, but is rapidly turning into a dystopia. I wonder what happened to Sweden...

City sizes are very imprecise. How do you measure it? Take London City, it only has 1100 inhabitants. København has between, 600000 and 2 million. It all depends on how you chose to count. When I went to school, København had a political area called "Storkøbenhavn", it had 1.1 mill IIRC. If you measure by public city transport, København is around 1.8 million. You decide yourself the size of Stockholm.

Do they come furnished? or is it just how it looks now or are they 3d renders?

10000 prenumeranter!!!, Grattis. House prices are clearly on the negative side of the starting price. Here in Norrköping (ninth largest city in Sweden) there are predominantly negative numbers on the sales price for villas. In the area where we live, it varies a lot from -15 to +10%. Our neighbor had to drop the price from 4.6 million to 3.8 million SEK to get the house sold. Their house was, in my eyes, too highly valued from the start.

It is not just Östermalm, that is quite posh, that apartment was on Strandvägen and that is with no doubt the most posh place in Sweden .

The roughly 1½ million for Stockolm is pretty accurate, for the city of Stockholm (Stockholm 'tätort'), the just under one million is the just the Stockholm municipality in itself. 2½ million for the whole Stockolm metropolitan area.

Grattis till 10000 prenumeranter! 😊

Good morning Uli.🌹

This comes much of that we have a right wing government now, what stands in the knee of military and the weapon industries. Nowadays have this kind of politicians wind in the back and I’m also convinced that they also would like that Sweden goes into a war with Russia “like in good old days”. I hope for the sake of Sweden, that this kind of government will disappear after our election next year!

For us in UK this lush is such a bargain for this price 🙂‍↕️😂 lovely place tho hope you had a good time there

One of the holy grales, is that if your highest motivation to work isn’t earning money, but the happiness in new successes in your work. Then it’s easier to succeed as an entrepreneur. I don’t think either that Sweden is any utopia. I feel so because Sweden has went in the wrong direction of many parts and nowadays we very often find many things that is better in other countries. Most importantly is off course environment issues that we now a days have too be very jealous on the other europian countries.

Sweden is as close to Utopia as it gets. But never ever take it for granted!

Which real estate companies or websites would you recommend as I am looking to sell up in the UK and to retire to Sweden? I am looking to but a property valued at around £50K GBP or SEK 650,000. Thanks.

Not freakin' true. Born and raised Swede who immigrated to the US. She is speaking of Sweden from 30 years ago. The reason you see "happiest nations on earth" from the Scandinavians is because you're indoctrinated from birth to be happy with whatever shit you're given. Just be happy while the corrupt rake in the money. You are wrong, there is a huge STIGMA on wealth. And no, grew up through the 70's, 80's, and 90's and then I got the F out! What a load of BS.

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Jantelagen (Janteloven) is a Danish thing, the Swedes also have adapted. Janteloven blev skrevet af den dansk-norske forfatter Aksel Sandemose. Han formulerede Janteloven i sin roman "En flygtning krydser sit spor" fra 1933. Romanen beskriver hovedpersonen Espen Arnakkes opvækst i den fiktive by Jante, hvor de ti bud i Janteloven afspejler en social norm om at ingen skal tro, de er bedre end andre.

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It's difficult to get complete thoughts into a single comment, so bear with me. I feel like I understand why a lot of people outside of Sweden have this idea that Sweden is a utopia, and I feel like her video (the one you are "reacting to") is a great example of why people feel this way. In my time here in Sweden, I feel like most people describe things how they would like them to be versus a more realistic view of how things really are. Furthermore, I would be surprised to learn that the "vast majority" of people here do not ever worry about money. I certainly can say that the "vast majority" of my friends here do not seem to be this way, but saying that to - let's say - an American audience would sound like she is from some other planet which is a utopia. This has been clear to me for many years. I think the portrayal that woman is putting out about Sweden is harmful to the real Sweden and is part of what has created this warped view that others have of this place. I can remember people in the US asking my (Swedish) ex-wife questions about Sweden and how things worked here - with genuine curiosity that I often see in Americans, but which can also be received as negative or "challenging" questioning from people here in Sweden. Her answers always sounded like things are so nice and no one worries here - which to an American perspective is some sort of dreamscape but was also very much not true - not in a malicious way, but moreso because it would have been awkward for her to describe the reality. The difference can be down to perception and how people like to relate to others, which, even when both speaking English are VERY different from a Swede versus an American, on average - and this can be awfully confusing. It is not BAD! It is just a difference I have noticed, which fascinates me. I am in NO WAY complaining about Sweden and I am happy and thankful to live here. I would love to have the sort of life where I never worry about money and feel like I am free to decide what I want to do for work but that is definitely not my life. While I was not born and raised here, and I do believe there must be some people who do feel this way, I will say that their lives are probably very different from mine. She, nor her surroundings, even remotely seem to describe or depict any person that I know here in real life - even those doing pretty well. I worked in some restaurants for a while and none of those people seemed to be doing well or saving money. In fact, since it was a side job for me, I ended up loaning (well, giving in most cases) money to a lot of my co-workers/friends because they were not able to make it on their salaries. Say what you will but that was my real experience - and this situation seems to continue. All of that being said, I think things were a lot different even 20 years ago. Even in the last - let's say 10 years, things are significantly more expensive here - I mean everything from everyday things like groceries or fuel, but also niceties like a phone or fancy car or even a home. I speak to some people my age about their first home purchase and some of them are 10-20% of the cost of my small flat, in the same area. So, that must have an impact. It fascinates me that on my visit 20 years ago, not everyone had a car and a lot of families had one car that they used sometimes. Now everyone has at least one car, and some have multiple. This is also reflected in the parking areas of new construction which anyone can easily see. Why this is, I am not sure. Lastly I do not believe that a utopia exists. I believe that every place has a set of pros and cons, and it is important for us to find the set that we like the best.

Sweden is a very sick place!

No country is an utopia. A country is ruled by humans and the human mind is different between different persons. What one person believe is not what another humans believe/think/want etc. Personal emotions, principles and opinions getting in the way to get a "perfectly equivalent" way of life. In my opinion Sweden is better than most other countries due to our common mindset as told in the vlog but it is not perfect. Some errors in "society" can give you some hard times and your own mind can also make life hard. I think, at least when it comes to money and way to live your life, you have to really think of what you really value in life. I have been struggling with my health and the healthcare so we live on one salary, we manage but life could have been a little better due to economy if I could be able to work. On the other hand we have learn a lot about life; human relationships, how to do a lot of things like reparations, growing food and so on. Yes, it would be lovely to be able to travel and see other cultures but we also love (and mostly prefere) to go visit friends all over Sweden or just being out in the nature, fishing, hiking and so on. You know, set a goal and be happy if you get halfway. Give yourself some time really think of what you already have instead of longing for new possessions. In Sweden we have a pretty good life, we are free to speak up our mind, we have a very secure society compared to other countries, education and healthcare are over all good, we are free to roam in nature, and we (still) have (quite) good social emhathy!

This brochure is a good thing to get and should be taken seriously, you never know what is going to happen in the future. I am lucky to live up north with still quite severe winter 5 months/year, also in a tiny tiny village with a long way to stores etc. Earlier we often had no electricity for 2-3 times in winter due to snowstorms and that has given all of us experience how to manage for a while. We have our own (village) water well and we live beside a river with good water. I grow veggies in my garden, supplying us two for 1 year and we grow a lot of potatoes togehter with the other villagers. My hubby hunt, we fish in the river and foraging for berries, mushrooms and greens benefitting nutrition and health in summertime. We have 4 freezers filled with food and also a big pantry and a cupboard with dried goods + a cople of root cellars in the village. All inhabitants in our village has the knowledge of this and also baking and cooking on open fire. All of us also have two posibilitys to warm up our houses For hygiene we have the river and can also quickly set up a common sauna and couple of outhouses in the village. 3 hunters in the village, probably 2 going to civil defense also I and one of my daughters can manage a rifle but with a farm we can get both meat and milk if we help out with the animals. Two of us are caretaker and nurse with some knowledge in health, we all have big houses, being able to take in family living in town or other refugees needing shelter. There is 2 teachers living here, being able to take care of the children while the rest of us work. With the war in Ukraine we have become even more prepared. It is a little scary sometimes...war, climate change...worrying for the young ones. But I know I still have it much better than people living in towns. As a friend down south once said in our group chat with other friends; "If there´s gonna be a big crisis I think NN and NN will manage best of us". But you can still do a lot of things living in town, it it just a change of mind.

War is very serious business. Hope it never happens there.

Even if we consider that those cheap house have no severe structural problems, you're going to have to bring your friends and your community along with you. There is nothing in the places those houses are? There's probably no jobs, no community, basically you'll be all alone with your vitamin D pills, then what?

French guy living in the US since 1990 here. Maybe you can help me understand something. I keep hearing in the media that Swedes are incredibly happy and fulfilled, that everyone is content, and that Sweden ranks very high on happiness indexes. Yet, we also know that Stockholm and other major cities in Sweden have significant gang problems, particularly with gangs involved in drug trafficking. It seems clear that these gangs aren't operating in Sweden just to sell drugs in Greece or Tel Aviv-they're deeply rooted in Sweden and are now reportedly expanding their operations into Oslo and Copenhagen. This suggests there's a substantial market for drugs in Scandinavia. So, here's my question: If Scandinavians are supposedly so happy and enjoying a perfect work-life balance, why is there such a high demand for drugs? The market must be sizable enough for these gangs to thrive. Can we truly say that a population fueling such a robust drug market is genuinely happy? Is Sweden perhaps a country projecting an image of happiness while masking underlying issues?

Der amerikanische Traun ist große Armunt für die Mehrheit der Leute und unendlicher Reichtum for die Plutokraten. Wir müssen dafür känmpfen, daß wir unsere Indeität als Europear und unsere Demoktriewerten nicht verlieren. Eine Geselschaft mit Wohlstand auch für die Armern ist eine wahre Demokratie und nicht umgekehrt. The american dream is a nightmare. For sure Sweden set an example and that’s why I ‘ve always loved the scandinavian countries . Hugs from Milan

Hi🙂I'm Swedish😇 I was laughing😂 at the picture showing people at the bus stop standing in a long line😅I have never seen that myself thogh traveling with busses now and then🤔However it's true that swedes don't want to sit on each other's shoulders 😐at the bus stop🤨

As a person who lives in Ukraine I must confess that war is probably one of the worst things that can happen to anyone anytime. But, the best way to be prepared before it happens is to make sure that you have ability to get food without without grocery stores and also that you have enough of water and other things, also it's good not to live in a big city during war if possible. Peace to everyone ☮

Warning for a lot of german tourists

39 is nothing for a child. i have four children . never had problem with the healthcare.

Utopia's doesn't exist.

As a Swede growing up during the cold war, when we where close to war against soviet I kind of got in the breast milk who is the enemy. We have a somewhat unique and strange relations to Russia. It's a bit schizophrenic. I can't explain it no other way. All we ever wanted was Russia to become one of us, but those hopes that we nurtured have gone up in smokes. Now it's back to truly bad again, and with every action Russia is going further away from ever getting back on track with that. I see it as nearly impossible now. What could have been...i dont think I even ask myself that question anymore.

Sweden, Norway, and Finland have recently updated versions of our respective booklets, updated civil defense bunkers, and are getting fully back to the readiness we had under the cold war. I surprised myself when the bomb shelter signs reappeared after being home for a long time. The situation in the World both with regard to climate, and political crisis brings us back to, and beyond the dangers we constantly faced during the cold war. Emergency drills, and so forth. The requirements/and recommendations be prepared for 5-7 days with emergency supplies went out in Norway, and Finland too. All three countries have the same total war doctrine with the entire population being prepared, and mobilised. Still not all do think it is needed but unfortunately I think with an aggressive Russia, and a collectively insane US we better prepare in Europe for hard times to come. It is strange to me that the rest of the NATO members are not preparing. Better to be ready, than not.

Sweden has nothing to worry about because Russia has to come through Finland first to get to Sweden and we Finns don't allow that. Hälsningar från Finland, oroa dig inte

Better Safe than sorry 👍

We have already imported crimes and terror that is protected by disinformation from our media. Do anyone really beleive that any Muslim asylum person would defend Sweden? If they get weapons they would create terror for the civil population with raids and r-a-pes. If we resist and don't like it, we will lose our job and yt-channel. In short, most Swedes has already given up the idea of freedom.

The Swedish government want a war badly, mostly because they are ordered by NATO//US.

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