American Reacts to Cabin Life in Norway (Hytteliv)

Check out me and my twin brother reacting TOGETHER here:
/ @ryanandtyler
I recently became aware of the fact that many Norwegians actually either own a cabin or enjoy visiting cabins, so much so that you could say that it is a way of life in Norway. That is why I am very interested in reacting and learning more about cabin life in Norway (or Hytteliv) and what exactly that entails. It certainly sounds amazing. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!

[@gamleskalle1]

Not having running water is part of the charm. To walk or go cross country skiing to get it and watch the full moon is quite the experience.

[@annikadamm8885]

Even a lot of workplaces in Norway have a cabin that the employees can use. You can often even get to use it after you retire. One very funny thing about the outhouses is that all norwegians used to have a picture of the royal family in there. When I grew up it was even normal to have that in your home, on the wall in the toiletroom. We had a picture of Elvis and his family since my father considered him to be the King lol.

[@steinarhaugen7617]

Norsk Hydro, for example, has several cabins that employees can rent cheaply. As an employee of Hydro, I have access to these cabins even after retirement age. In addition, I myself own a cabin in the mountains. The working class in Norway lives well. 🙂

[@ahkkariq7406]

The tradition of having pictures of the royal family on the outhouse wall dates back to the time when you wiped yourself with old newspapers. If there was a picture of the royals in the newspaper, of course you couldn't wipe your ass with them. Instead, the picture was hung on the wooden wall.

[@TheMarikatt]

Reason being that people out of respect did not wipe their butts with the royal family, so those pages were torn out. Of course now you won't have physical copies of the news papers anymore and it has just become a tradition afterwards.

[@82lillemeg]

That’s because in the old days they knew the king was full of shit

[@Arbaaltheundefeated]

Our family cabin has neither running water nor electricity. Gas stove (gas from a canister, of course, not piped in), fireplace, oil lamps, outhouse. We have recently purchased a small generator to facilitate recharging electronics when neccessary but that's as far as we'll go, and it's mainly Mom who uses it because she's a social media addict and the alternative was to never get her to come along to the cabin again. And to be perfectly honest, we all turn our noses up at the fancier cabins with their full electrification, satellite dishes and outdoor jacuzzi's and so on. It's not a cabin then, just a second house.

[@hildeandersen2202]

Thats the way i love it, too.....❤️

[@itsoffaboffa1499]

100% agree, the old wood cabins that our grandparents or grandgrandparents made are som much more cosey and a bigger break from the rest of the world when you are there

[@chatrinekvinge813]

Thats the best cabins,just peace and love🥰

[@Arbaaltheundefeated]

​@@chatrinekvinge813 Peace, love and nature. Most days it's only the early mornings and the evenings that are spent actually *at* the cabin anyway, the rest is spent out in the wilds. Whether it's hiking, or fishing, or foraging berries and mushrooms... Or maybe hunting as my dad and little brother do, though I never got into that myself. Staying in touch with nature - and our natures - is a very relaxing, rewarding and enriching experience, and I feel priveledged to have such access to it.

[@Aremeriel]

The ones without running water and electricity are the best. Our family cabin was bought by my grandfather and his brothers in 1934 for 500 kroner, including a rowing boat (nersetter). We had to retire that boat around 1990.

[@DivineFalcon]

My family has access to three cabins: One is a shack on an island as far off the Norwegian coast as you can get, one is an old farm in an isolated valley with the sea on one side and impassable mountains on all the others, and the last is the 300 year old house where my Dad grew up. The inheritance from my Grandma's also included a plot of land for the sole purpose of building a cabin for me and my siblings, so I'm pretty much set for life when it comes to vacation spots.

[@CarolineForest]

oooh, take me with you! I have access to one.. and its the old farm my grandpa grew up on. But its a full house, just kinda isolated. Its one of those family farms in the north, we just use it as a cabin spot as its situated in a beautiful spot... but its so.. crowded. That shack on the island sounds great!

[@steinarhaugen7617]

@@EINAR-zr5to 🤔😰😭😭😭😭🦿🦿

[@MrSyvern1]

It is important to remember that a lot of these cabins were built a long time ago and has evolved through generations. A lot started as very simple and humble "shacks" built a 100 years ago, but has been improved upon through the years as they vere passed down the family. Today you will also find cabins more resembling wooden palaces, but they are reserved for the very rich. Most cabins owned by normal families are old and have been upgraded little by little by the owners during the visits. My familys cabin now has modern standards with WC, running hot and cold water, shower, washing machine and such, but it has evolved for years and years through the labour and cost of my mum and dad and also with help from me as I have grown. Hopefully this will continue with me and my children and the saga continues.

[@AudunWangen]

Little known fact: There's actually some cabins open to the public, for those few Norwegians that don't have their own. If you're a member of the Norwegian tourist association (DTN), you also get a key with access to their cabins. We went for an 8 day walk some years ago, and spent every night in a different cabin, all free of charge, and we weren't even members. They even have volunteers making sure there's firewood available and stuff like that. My parents bought an old house when I was 1 years old, so we use that as our "hytte". It's kind of the only place where other people are "allowed" to show up unannounced, so we usually get visitors when we're there.

[@viktoriamidtmoen7692]

Cabins have gotten quite expensive now compaired to maybe 10 years ago, from what i have heard. I am lucky enough to have access to 5 different cabins. I also believe it is common for cabins to be handed down from generation to generation, so the cabin stays within the family. Which makes it even more special in my opinion.

[@WolfFireheart]

My Grandfather got his hand on a nice cabin in the woods a good few hours away from where we live. When his six kids became adults, he handed it down to all of them, everyone owns a piece of it and pays for repair and upkeep and what not. And everyone can use it when ever they want to.

[@OriginalPuro]

" I also believe it is common for cabins to be handed down from generation to generation" It is the single most common way to own a cabin, through inheritance.

[@kilipaki87oritahiti]

It's not due to being rich, but because traditionally many had cabins, so it's been passed down. So you end up with a cabin by default if your family owns one. I also belive this is again connected to our history of being farmers and fishermen, as every farmstead or farm had a cabin. And the cabin culture now is quite different from when my parents grew up to when I grew up back in the 90's and 2000's. Back then, most cabins where modest, and didn't have plumming, or running water. Some didn't even have electricity. I grew up with an outhouse isntead of a bathroom at our cabin. And I hated it. It wasn't until my teen age years that my parents finally decided to do an add on as well as get a bathroom with a shower in regards to our cabin which my mom had inehrited from her dad. I still remember when my mom went to the nearest camping area to fill up on water ont hese two huge palstic tanks/bag thingies, which we used for cooking and cleaning. No joke. Now people would just laugh if I told them that, as now days, cabins aren't much different from any regular house tbh, often huge and modern. Cabins as far as I know didn't use to be a status symbol, now it is, and everyone wants one. Also it's a luxury to have your own place outside of the city where you can spend the weekend or seaonal vacays for relaxation. Tho in traditional sense that means hiking..., and cross country skiing during winter. Also because we do have poor people in Norway, just not as visible as in 3rd world countries, more now than ever, and many can't afford their own cabin, let alone a holiday home. I love going up to the mountains and our cabin. It's my happy place where I relax in nature among animals lol. Ours is located in a farming ciommunity where also my maternal side of my family hails from on my mom's dad's side, so relatives everywhere. And in Norway you either have a cabin up in the mountains, or down by the sea. The rest usually go south to Spain, and the Mediterranean like italy, Greece and Turkey for vacay. As a kid growing up I felt ashamed becasue whenever we sat down for cirdcle time 1st thing in the morning on a Monday, after any vacay asking where we have had our stay, everyone would say home or Granca (The Canary islands), yet I was the only one who said hytta... ironically this hytte in this video, which is really nice, except the lack of running water, as now days most people here too excpect that as the bare minimum, would be seen as a regular house and not a cabin if you asked anyone above the age of 50. It's a tad too big. And not everyoen are as lucky to own a cabin down by a lake. And we do have those places where there are cabins everywhere meaning people everywhere: ''hyttegrend''. It's like a gated community of cabins, but without the gates, or restricitons. Like a mini village of cabins, which are popping up everywhere these past 10 years, where traditionally people have had cabins. Some would say enough is enough tho. Ruining nature, and the whole point of cabin life, which is relaxation alone in nature.

[@oneandzero6251]

Cabins are becoming more and more modern and closer to what you would consider a house to be in Norway. They are becoming more like secondary homes and have lost much of their magic. My father inherited one of my grandpas cabins in one of most idyllic places for cabins in Norway called "Hvaler". My grandfather built it with his own hands but my father has upgraded it over the last 3 years himself. It has electricity, running water, bathroom and everything a normal house has. But me and my youngest sister have the best memories and experiences from my grandpas second cabin. This was a cabin built in a very classical way with logs and a grass roof. It also had a small storehouse nearby built similar. He built it within an area called "Fyresdal" within the county of "Telemark". We had to get water from a nearby creek. It was clean enough to drink straight from. We had some electricity with solar panels enough to power some small lights. The stove and refrigerator was powered by gas. There was only 3 other cabins nearby and the ones that owned the land did not allow any more cabinbs to be built. There was 3 lakes within short distance. The biggest one was only 100 metres away. These lakes used to be just empty pools of water, but my grandpa had bought lots of trout younglings after the cabin was finished and planted them in all the lakes nearby. These lakes seems to have been a perfect ground for these freshwater trouts as me and my sister in general fished 10-18 trouts with out fishing poles while my grandpa rowed withing a 1 hour period. Unfortunately he sold the cabin on impulse about 15 years ago without consulting properly with my dad if he wanted to inherit it. The reason was because he thought it would be too much of a hassle for my dad, as it took 5 hours to drive to it..... Anyway, the reason I write this is because the trips to that primitive log cabin are unforgettable to me and my youngest sister. There is something about being so close to nature and also acquiring your own food and water.

[@espekelu3460]

My family has had two available cabins, one by an inland fjord, and one up on the high mountain about 1100m above sea level. The inland cabin had both a normal toilet and electricity, but the one on the mountain had neither. But the most popular was the one on the high mountain. Even if we had to fetch water from a well, and even if we had to sit on a drafty outdoor patio. The most important thing is the coziness of such a cabin, candles and kerosene lamps in the evening, with a fire in the fireplace, and when there was no electricity, it was card games or other games. Otherwise, there was good fishing water available around the cabin, so often there was fried trout for dinner, potatoes were cooked on a gas burner. The only thing that made you reluctant to go there was the long drive up there, three hours went by quickly, often four on the worst days. But what do you not do for coziness?

[@zaph1rax]

A lot of Norwegians have a cabin in the mountains where there's guaranteed lots of snow in the winter, usually not far from a ski resort.

[@Yfreyr]

I actually live in a cabin up in the mountain region,done so for a couple years now.Theres a lot of cabins for rent too,for those who dont have their own,and the Norwegian Tourist Association has lots of cabins spread out all over Norway.Cabin life is quality life in Norway.

[@ThorbjrnPrytz]

Having a hytte is such a part og life here, and also bings us closer to nature. In turn making us realize how changing nature will impact us. This is why Norway is so far ahead in enviromental protection and preserving nature, wilderness and animals.

[@oddvardmyrnes9040]

You have no idea on how big Norway is. It is HUGE!

[@steinarhaugen7617]

People from abroad don't understand that. Norway is big! Norway is about 1.3 times bigger than United Kingdom. United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, while Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, making Norway 33% larger than United Kingdom.

[@Ellen210789]

My family has a cabin (Hytte) by the fjord of Drammen, it has basic electricity and running cold water, but no warm water. We have neighbors close by, but still a fair amount of space. But his hytte was a lot more fancy and bigger than ours, and like he mentions they come in all shapes and sizes. The point of them is to decompress and relax, getting away from the stress of normal life and make good memories and connect with yourself or family. In the 60’s to the 80’s, it was popular to save up and by a cabin for the family vacation. But through the 90’s and 2000’s it got more popular to travel to the south of Europe (Syden), so cabins got a bit cheaper. But when Corona hit. “Everyone” wanted a cabin again and the market was booming. Now they are expensive, so just people has a lot of money can get them. I have been lucky to be part of my family’s cabin because I don’t have a high income. And I am really thankful for my possibilities.

[@BelieveNoGod]

The 'cabin' starting at 3:53, are actually a very old building. Maybe it once was a trading station, or the home of a family, herding sheep, goats, or even cows. And of course it's been renovated, and has all the modern facilities inside. Oh, and Yes, this would cost a lot.

[@tonesofiesneve9958]

You can get a cabin in the forrest for 60 thousand dollar. They are small but very nice. Many Norwegian have two cabin one by the ocean and one up in the mountain. 🇧🇻

[@LinaGenX]

I grew going to the family cabin 8-10 times a year. Today we have 3 cabins in my family, none of them have running water, only one of them have electricity, one of them is by a lake, one is in the mountains, and one is in a thick forest

[@John_1920]

10:52 What I think a lot of cabin/summer house owners (based on what my own family) does with the contents of the outhouse is let it dry out over months and years, then they'll dig it out from the outhouse and use the human waste as manure for plants and growing stuff, the same way that you would use cow manure or other animal manure. It's one of those weird ways that we live independent and off of nature, or whatever.

[@espenskeys]

The word "Hytte" means cabin in english. But in Norway and to a Norwegian it can mean anything from a one room 20sqm (approx 200sqft to you Americans) shack in the middle of nowhere that you have to hike two hours to get to, to a large farm with several buildings or a modern architectural gem newly built up in the mountains. The common denominator is that we want our "hytte" to be more primitive than our normal house/life, because we want to limit the amount of stimuli/interruptions/distractions to be able to charge and get back to our selves and feel rested and ready for the normal average day of work, family and all that good stuff that make up a regular busy day.

[@jeschinstad]

It's such an important thing to be able to go and be dead to the world for a while and just live. My grandfather built a cabin that he named The Eye of the Falcon in Dovre, and I spent many summers there as a child and early teens. I was alone as a child, but I never felt lonely. Because the grandeur is so enormous that it subverts your sense of individuality, that the mountains becomes your friends, not because you humanize the mountains, but because they mountainize you. The Norwegian word for desolation, is "gold" and you cannot make Silver from gold.

[@erik_sy]

my grandparents on moth my mother and my father sides have hytter, one is more like this one in the video and the other is more of a mountain hytte. i love both and growing up with 2 opsions has been the best thing ever. acualy, my aunt also has one in sweden that is lovely, we ofter gather the hole family there and celebrate cristmas there, there is a skiing track right outside and a big forest. celebrating cristmas there is the absolut best thing in the world and when the summer break is over celebrating cristmas there is all i can think of. i love all the hytter my family own and spending time with them on the hytter is the absolut best thing in the entire world

[@HaienTwitch]

There are two ways to do the cabin life. Some cabins are super basic, and some are hyper modern. Modern cabins are more like a second house but have the cabin charm and look to them. They have plumbing, electricity, running water, big screen tv, big showers, heated floors and sometime heated driveways because of snow. Then there are purist who have old-school cabins with no plumbing, oven for heat and having to cook your own water for showers etc. Wood oven can also be combined with one thing on the top so you can cook coffee or simple dinners on it. The size of cabins are also vastly different. You can have a super small one or huger ones often combined with a even smaller place called NAUST by the lake for your boat that can combine as a second place to sleep if you have more people over.

[@Ahmad-ahmadi-ahmidius-ahmidri]

My great grandfather built a laftehytte(Cabin made of whole logs) on some crazing land his family owned in Fyresdal. It still runs in the family, as many Norwegians' cabins do. No electricity, no plumbing and basicly no cell phone connection. It truly feels so great to just disconnect from the world for a week, and just enjoy nature, something us Norwegians really apreceate. Many I know, including me even looks down on cabins with electricity, or god forbid a tv. That may be a cabin, but it's not a hytte

[@evahelen3511]

Such a nice video from my country Norway. It was well described how a cabin life is in Norway. The cabin is a great way to bring the whole family or friends together for holidays or weekends. The cabin in my family is a log cabin in the middle of the forest and we also have the same toilet system but running water in the cabin in the summer.

[@emilivar4558]

My father owns a cabin, which is loacted at the top of a mountain about 3 hours away from Oslo, into the woods, with a swamp on two sides of it, with the trees off in the distance. It's a small walk to get to a small lake and it has some amazing hikes. It's not as far away from other cabins (though far enough to be alone) as some cabins in Norway, but that also made it so the most popular hike around the whole mountain, with the hike even being called The Hugo, or Hugoen in norwwegian, named after my father Hugo.

[@HASarpsborg]

Many cabins in Norway are best described as a permanent tent 😄 Then again, many are a second home away from home with all the amenities. And everything in between, depending on your economy and lifestyle. 22 % of Norwegian households own a cabin. Roughly 50 % of the population has access to one. But then there is DNT (Den Norske Turistforening), which you might want to look into. They kind of make cabins accessible to pretty much anyone.

[@Arbaaltheundefeated]

Unless you have a dog... much to my frustration. Talking about the DNT cabins, that is.

[@chatrinekvinge813]

I dont like to go to a cabin that looks like home,our cabin has almost everything,but still is a cabin🌞

[@HASarpsborg]

@@chatrinekvinge813 Likewise!

[@SouthHill_]

My grandfather built our family's hytte. Lovely little place, though the stairs to get up to the second floor were real small and wonky, ha ha. The kids would always sleep up there, ceiling being a bit too small for the adults from what I can remember. After my grandparents passed, it went to my aunt and her family, and a few years back they were forced to renovate it; practically rebuild the whole thing, so now it's practically like a small modern house. A bit sad, but that's how it goes sometimes.

[@andywessel]

Most hytter are by the coast, but also in the mountains. That is for people who like to ski and swim in cold meltingwater in the summer. Our family has a «hytte» at the southern coast. We go for boatrides, swim, fish (alot), the kids live to catch crabs and we take the boat in to small towns close by to shot and the kids get ice cream. These «hytter» are mostly used in summer, early autumn and late fall but can be used year round. It is quite cozy in the winter time warming the place up with wood ovens and enjoying some hot chocolate and play games or just hang with friends having some beers, eating good food and enjoying the gettaway :-)

[@krak3979]

We used to rent a hytte because the owners almost never had time to be there. But then they sold it and we were without a hytte. But, we did have a caravan and a little bit further up the mountain there's a campingplass (campsite) where you rent a spot in the winter season where you get electricity included and common toilet facilities that also has seperate shower stalls with a room to change clothes as well. There's allso an equivelant camp site that is even more popular during summer, usually located not very far from the sea with beaches close by. Luckily tho, my grandmother has a cabin, very tiny, two rooms, no electricity or running water, but with a nice view out front over the Norwegian countryside. Sadly no lakes within walking distance that is good to bathe in, but great for fishing! Could probably bathe as well but would be better to do it from a rowing boat as boat engines are illegal to use in tiny lakes due to just a tiny bit of oil can pollute thousands of litres of water. (Electric ones might be allowed most places, not 100% sure tho)

[@FrankShortt]

Live in Stavanger area - south west coast, and have a cabin down south for the summer time, and one in the mountains inland for winter time :) yes it is a thing here hehe :) Our cabins are like our second homes (or third home).

[@Contentious_Point_]

In this video I think you should've included "The cabin"-by Ylvis, it's packed with tropes and sarcastic observations.

[@Norwegian_Troll]

That cabin in the song is 30 min. drive from my place.

[@NorJay76]

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[@mrnutriator]

as a norwegian fan of you i love these videos and see what you think of norway you are always welcome here :D

[@roarskjelderup5656]

My family's cabin is on the mountain near many ski-resorts and places great for cross country skiing in the winter, and hiking in the summer. 😃

[@TheMarikatt]

Fun fact. Very old cabins also have very old outdoor toilets where you will find a lot of pictures of the royal family. It became a tradition to have it there, but the main reason was that if you wiped yourself with the news paper, you never wipet your ass with the king and queen. So you ripped those pages out and hang them on the wall out of respect.

[@Strykehjerne]

This is obviously my Norwegian experience, I could talk about how we always have had a seasonal farming, hunting, gathering tradition involving moving to the "Seter" in the summer etc.. I think I should mention that I have seen this second, simple cabin type life in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltics and even in parts of Germany (they have them in southern Denmark I know)

[@steinarhaugen7617]

Russia? Less than 2 percent of the Russian population has access to a cabin and even fewer own a cabin. Most people in Russia rent a house or apartment. Very few of them own anything.

[@Strykehjerne]

@@steinarhaugen7617 not true for areas around large cities.. if you have been there, you would have seen miles and miles of Daschas. Okay, they're not exactly like hytter, more like allotments, with the tiny bits of farmed land around, but with a similar use - recreation and simple life.. and many are similar in appearance, laft log construction is not exclusively Scandinavian. Ukraine has a lot too. "Dachas are common in Russia, and are also widespread in most parts of the former Soviet Union and in some countries of the former Eastern Bloc. Surveys in 1993-1994 suggest about 25% of Russian families living in large cities had dachas. Most dachas are in colonies of dachas and garden plots near large cities. These clusters have existed since the Soviet era, and consist of numerous small, typically 600-square-metre (0.15-acre), land plots.[citation needed] They were initially intended only as recreation getaways of city dwellers and for growing small gardens for food." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacha?wprov=sfla1

[@johnnymartinjohansen]

Cabins have changed A LOT over the last decades. In the 70s/80s, when I was young, most cabins were small, had no electricity or running water, and weren't luxurious in any way. Nowadays, people often have cabins that are on par with houses, and fewer have cabins now, since they're of course MUCH more expensive.

[@ann-christinfalkman4625]

Cabin life or hytte life in Scandinavia is a remnant of our nomadic life, when we moved according to the season and availability of food. Autumn fishing by the sea, lake fishing, hunting and berry picking. In the cottage there was pasture for the cattle and they made cheese and butter for the winter and saved the pasture at the winter residence for the winter's needs.

[@geirbyre]

The «cabin» at 4:15 mark is Billingen Seterpesjonat, a place to eat and sleep. It’s 15 min from where I live. Very beatifull there.

[@gamleskalle1]

Playing cards, board games or watching crime series or reading crime literature are typical faves, among Norwegian cabin owners.

[@chatrinekvinge813]

I could live in our cabin for months and not miss anything i have at home🎶🎵🌞

[@solva5085]

You should listen to the cabin, by Ylvis.... that`s a very typical cabin many grew up in, but a lot has changed the past 20+ years or so 🙂

[@mimull1378]

They are often close to a lake a forest or a big slalom-anlegg (spesific place where you can ski) or all of the above. If really like to swim or fish then you would want a hytte near water. If the hytte is mainly used for a hiking or cross country skiing then it would make more sense to have it near a forest.

[@CostaWanti]

My can Cabin was built by my grandparents in 1960 in the mountains. There is a huge lake beside it, but also a lot of other cabins in the area. I inherited it from my father when he died. It not that far from a large ski resort🤪

[@lazygamerz]

There's about 800 000 "vacation homes" in Norway (best translation that includes cabins in mountains as well as vacation homes on islands and rural places). Bear in mind there are about 2 300 000 households.

[@OldNewbie]

You should check out; "Things you need to know when visiting a DNT cabin".

[@lpdude2005]

If you imagine that there are approximately 5.4 million people in Norway - then there are 485,000 private holiday homes or cabins - so most people actually have access to one in the family. In addition, there are commercial ones that can be rented

[@karlerikgrimstad9818]

Some have cabins by the water, some by the sea and some in the mountains. you should see the two videos Chasing Adeline has from Norway. They are American

[@monicaelidaforssell5542]

Cabin life is very common. Some may visit the cabin a lot, others use them for vacation only. You can use the cabin for at most 6 months, after that you need to change your address to the cabin. There are some rules for that. We also had a camping wagon parked by the cabin of some relatives for a while, where we had vacation. My dad and my sister have each their cabin. I almost went for a mini cabin, but chose instead to buy a bigger apartment for myself.

[@lordfredrikbergstrm4850]

To answer your question, Norwegians have like 50% summer (water) cabins and 50% Winter (Skiing) cabin. Both are Great but i prefer the Winter cabins!

[@anneskuse5448]

Most people Have electricity, water, dishwasher very modern. Lots of Norwegian have houses in Spain….witch many use in the winter.those who don’t like the winter🥶also at an ski resort, my daughter has one, very beautiful place two hours from Oslo, it’s like a little village very nice, my son near by a lake an hour from where he lives. My husband is from UK so we never got a hut because we went to the UK to see them. We have pension now so we travel to other places in Europe, Asia, Us, India, Japan many do, specially Thailand. Long flights but it’s worth it 😁👵🏻🥰🍦

[@amelskare6752]

The last time I was on a "hyttetur" I had a great time, eventhough there was no plumbing. There was a hammock right outside too and I spent most nights sleeping in it😂. It was great, one of the best sleeps of my life eventhough it got quite chilly some nights 😅 The cabin belongs to an old family friend.

[@johanfredriksvendsen8482]

I feel like the video left out the fact that it is not uncommon for families to have (access to) two cabins. One by the water and one in the mountains. Typically they would be 2-3 hours driving away from your home. I would say the cabin showcased here is both simple and not. Sure they do not have all the amenities, but that kitchen looks brand spanking new and the cabin itself also looks quite modern. I would say most peoples cabins especially the ones in the mountains are or look older completely out of wood, with a darker colored wood interior and not as modern of a kitchen as well.

[@TTDahl]

Now you really must react to RUSS! That is our graduation. It's our culture and in our bone marrow and veins.

[@veridicusmind3722]

You can have cabins by the lake or in the mountains. People in my family own both, so I get two great experiences with hytteliv. In summertime we go to the one by the lake, in the winter we go to the mountain to enjoy skiing. Sometimes we gather a large chunk of our family to celebrate Christmas in the mountain cabin, which is pretty amazing. I have always taken this for granted tbh, never thought about "hytteliv" as an exclusive Norwegian culture. But evidently it is!

[@telarl.5154]

My family used to have a cabin in the mountains, my granparents a property with several small houses in the countryside, not far from a fiord. The one in the mountains had no electricity, nor water or indoor toilet. Could be a cold experience during winter though to visit the "utedo"😄. Loved them both! Both places room for up to 8 persons. You should try a Norwegian cabin for some time!🙂you would love it!

[@aminasow185]

I love going weekend in the cabin /hytte very cozy relaxing out zone comfort😜

[@neoandlykkecat]

Not all cabins are cabins. It can be a house that your great great grandparrents builded. My family's cabin is just that. A miniture farm that my great great grandparrents used to live.

[@hildeandersen2202]

We love our hytteliv... It would definatively be fun to get you over here abd go one? This would be so nice 🛶🏚🏕

[@Tanjaaraus]

I don't own a cabin (I don't even own a house lol, so let's start with that). But the company i work for own 2 cabins. One out in the middle of the woods, so a quiet get-away that you need a car to enjoy. and one in a small village about an hr away (by train) from the city the company resides in, with a lovely ski resort right next door and a sauna included. Anyone who works for the company can reserve the cabin and only pay a small upkeep fee to use it. And they can also bring friends or family. So while I don't own a cabin per say, and nobody in my immediate family or friend circle own one. I can still get relatively cheap and easy access to a cabin

[@thorarisan]

We have two. One in the mountains, 5 minutes walk from a lake, and one by the ocean. The point is to disconect and get away form the stress of every day life. We go atleast a weekend every month and 3-4 weeks every other summer.

[@luringen947]

let me say this is not a run-of-the-mill cabin. most cabins are much smaller. he in the film is what we call a snob! here in Norway

[@norkannen]

You have the outhouse on top of a lill ravine and because of that you never have to empty it.😎🇧🇻 Bark on top is for the smell.😁

[@krokosmakron1]

3:53 i went past this place a couple of weeks ago. It`s called Billingen Seterpensjonat. If you drive even further west over Strynefjellet you have the nicest view with biiig mountains.

[@espekelu3460]

Cabins in Norway are very different, which is again reflected in the prices of the cabins. You can find cabins down to 50,000 dollars to 1 million dollars and sometimes over that too. The most popular cabins are probably those on the southern coast, which lie down to the sea, and which have their own shoreline, and which have both electricity and water. But you can also find cabins in the mountains that cost up to a million dollars, as these often has Ski in & out, and is of very high quality, often with a garage, and its own sauna and hot tub. I myself prefer cabins without electricity and water, and preferably a little to myself. Preferably near water or a river, and preferably in the high mountains.

[@brukernavn3409]

diverse

[@Mrjosifal]

Recently discovered your channel, love it so far. You should check out how the Norwegian prison is like, would like to see your reaction

[@matthewbergeron3641]

In canada we do cottaging too, but yea we often have cottages close to each other, still separated, but like on little lake will have tons of properties on it. The space around these cabins is crazy. I guess that's what happens when you have less people and land divided up with rivers and such. Also from experience cabins are often on water, or in more populated areas, very very close to it so you can still go enjoy the lake, or beach or whatever. Go swimming, hop in a boat and fish, come back and bbq. Thats really the whole point

[@mimicray]

Your pronunciations are perfect! If it is not to far from your normal content, it would be fun to se you try a smal part of the norwegian duolingo course

[@Skyreon]

Pro tip: when reading the comments after a video, you can zoom in by holding down CTRL and scrolling the mouse wheel, so we can see what you're reading as you're going through it :)

[@mrmeloon6815]

My family has access to three cabins in the mountains one in the forest by the lake one by the sea one in Sweeden and one in Spain

[@AVisInsane]

Do you think you will have a series? Where u try to learn norwegian, would be a fun and interesting series. Would be fun if u got closer to the Norwegian people by learning/speaking our language

[@mari97216]

I agree, he is very likeable. Would be fun if he took it further. His Norwegian words are pretty good at times.

[@lindashortall8761]

Beautiful country ❤️

[@lazygamerz]

Norway is only slightly larger than new mexico. Just FYI. The Mercator map projection oversizes countries away from the equator A LOT.

[@hallaballa07]

The big cabin at 4.00 is a hotel/resturant. Ive been there many times cus its close to put cabin, but most cabins arent as big as that one. And the cabin the video was about, does not look like a "normal" cabin.

[@exentr]

I am Norwegian. Just before the pandemic, it was a cabin for sale in a cabin village in the mountains. It was a hot object due esteemed price only $2M. Pay down in rates over a 20 years period. $2M : 20 : 12 = $8,333 a month + interests. What else do the buyer own? A house, a car and a boat? $8,3K x1,6 is $13,3K a month in loan. A Norwegian lend policy says lend up to 25% of your income. $13,3 x4 is $53,3K income a month.

[@AdaKitten]

Hytte is similar to hut. Hyttetur = well, tour is like a trip, so hyttetur means a trip to your hut.

[@meteerbil2078]

I say its super normal in the whole of Scandinavia to have a cabin. Or as we say in Sweden, a summer house. I live in a apartment in Stockholm. But for the last 40 years ive spent my summers in my house in the country side.

[@pigedehekkan]

You got several remote sites in USA as well. Try going to Maine, or even north New York if your'e east. Or Portland and Washington if your'e west.

[@hallerakerjr]

You should react to Ylvis - the cabin as a follow up to this one 😉

[@omgwerockhard]

There is even a show called sommer hytta where a few couples decorates and build stuff for a larger cabin and the winner get it while the other ones are sold off

[@ahkkariq7406]

If you go back 100 years, most Norwegians lived in the countryside, and when the younger generation moved to the cities, the elderly stayed behind. The properties were often small farms that were not suitable for modern agriculture, so they were converted into leisure properties. New generations built their own cabins on the property, and you got small cabin villages where everyone was related to each other. If someone sells their cabin in such places, it is often family who buys it. We had such a property in my family, with a old farm house, but those who inherited it (my mother and her siblings) were unable to cooperate on further joint ownership. The property was therefore sold off by the family, which is still a painful experience. Unfortunately, I myself lived too far away for it to be appropriate to buy it. It would have been too much work, and at the time we didn't have the finances to take over either. My father's family has such a village of cottages. We spent the holidays with my mother's parents, so my father never built his own cabin where he grew up, on a deserted promontory and grassland between sea and mountains, endlessly beautiful but only accessible by boat. If any of my siblings want to build a cabin on the site, we will probably get permission to do so.

[@buss8009]

No cabin, no caravan, no RV, but I do have a boat though! Stay safe!

[@arcticblue248]

A friend of mine just bought a cabin next to our old cabin (well next to means atleast 500 meters in this beautiful valley 20 km from home), he paid 1.7 million nok for the cabin, that is pretty much almost the same as you would pay for an average house in my town, some have paid 3 million for a house but for the most part average is around 1.5 million nok for a house. And these cabins don't have electricity apart from solar panels and maybe a windmill or so ... but the valley itself do not have electricity so heating is mostly oil, wood or gas ...

[@thenorseguy2495]

I got 2 cabins I can go to becouse my parents seperated when I was young and now they both have a cabin. Both cabin have electricity and water and indoor wc.

[@tonemarieantonsen1597]

My moms deceased husband had a cabin out with the sea .His parents built the cabin themselves. Unfortunately my mom had to sell it after he passed away to much to handle for her. It lay on beautiful a place in South East Norway. 💙❤️

[@luringen947]

Hadde ikke han slekt som ville overta?

[@tonemarieantonsen1597]

@@luringen947 He have son, but he wasn't that keen to take over such big responsibility. It's not cheap having a cabin.

[@luringen947]

@@tonemarieantonsen1597 no, it's not cheap to buy one. It's a shame to lose something like that out of the family

[@thorddespace2773]

Some areas are planted with hytter (cabins) as ants in an anthill 🙂

[@einha19]

You should check out Lars Monsen! He is a Norwegian version of bear Grylls. Might be hard to find English sub thou

[@Thomas_Heinonen]

Tyler, why dont you travel here and make some videos :)

[@mskatonic7240]

Omg, hytteliv must literally mean hut life. Cognates ftw! Of course, these places look nicer than mere huts.

[@Kari.F.]

There's a lot of people living in the US, but it is a huge country. I know a family in Michigan with a cabin by lake Michigan. Simple but really nice. Lot's of cabins in that area. Most cabins with an outhouse are placed in areas where you have to ski or walk a bit from the road to the cabin. It's not possible for a truck to come and empty the outhouse. They have no other option than to dig the stuff out of there and bury it. 🤢

[@tomkirkemo5241]

We don't own a house, we rent one. But we DO own a cabin. :) But our cabin is nothing like this...it doesn't have plumbing, power or cell reception. :)

[@petterheitmann4184]

Acuple of years ago a swedish man died on the outdoor toilet. He was alergic to bears.

[@AVisInsane]

Takk!

[@TylerWalkerYouTube]

Thanks NCocoN, I appreciate it!

[@ErgoDog]

I love my family cabin ❤

[@JohnVoll-kp7qb]

And yes Annika. I have photo of an old royal familiy in my outhouse.... We both sit at our `` thrones `` ....

[@tinenorheimespeset6347]

Hi, in my opinion,this is not real life for most norwegians. The dude on the video saying it's a plain cabin because it's no water,it's redicoulous to me. Back in the day, in the 70's,when the hyttething started,it was completly different ofcourse. Today the consept of a "hytte' is very comfortable. That's fine,but don't get the impression that it's for anyone to buy. It,s millions of NOK. Just needed to tell you about that. I don't have much negative to say about Norway,I'm so happy and lucky to be born here,it's safe in so many ways. I would love to talk more about this

[@declaredjeans7555]

Hytteliv FTW! If you don't own one yourself, one of your friends will always have access to a cabin. Nowadays, cabins are more like houses though, so some of the charm is slowly fading away.

[@MrMafiks]

America is actually only 36 people per square km while Norway is 15. But the majority of people in America live in a very small portion of America.

[@jandmath]

I don’t own a cabin, not because I couldn’t afford a small, simple one, but because I can’t be bothered with the maintenance - I have more than enough with my regular home. However, I have lots of people in my family & social circle that has one, so I could probably spend time at a cabin every weekend if I wanted to. Even the company I work for has a cabin for employees to borrow.

[@JHF80]

Looking at this, thinking this looks very familiar- then that guy fishing at 11:07.. ah i know him.. I live by this lake.. 5 more minutes up the road 😮

[@enemde3025]

A bit like Brits having a holiday home in Spain....but colder !! I need some HYTTELIV in my life.