Reaction To How I bought a $30K house in Wild Sweden

[@ssirfbrorsan]

I live 10 km off nearest what you would call village. I have fox visiting, inside my house, and hares sitting outside my shed when i am working, as they thinking "what are you doing". Birds are knocking on my window when I forgot to lay out birds food. Reindeers sets of my alarm in winter and moose eat of newborn trees on my yard... love it.

[@Wloppish]

Birds are so intelligent, they pick on my window also when I need to refill seeds😄

[@pergustavsson2424]

Dani Connor is more and more turning into a national treasure for Northern Sweden. Not the least for her constant promotion of the red squirrels. She is fantastic!

[@robertjonsson5750]

Why no life jackets in the canot? Don't over estimate your swimming skills in cold water.

[@saintofspades567]

Swedish Northener here! Its just fascinating to me to see your reaction. I grew up exactly like this so to me its just everyday boredom. 😆 i remember the cold, the darkness and how afraid i was of the vastness of the massive forests as a child. I forgot how beautiful it actually is!! I live in Stockholm now and i love it there too, for being a large city, it has sooo much nature, water, trees and wildlife. Its fairly common to see beavers in lake Mälaren and deer, squirrels and rabbits are roaming freely everywhere. If you want to find work, a lot of towns in the north are simply begging for people to move there to work. If you are a youtuber its also perfect. Just sayin.

[@najroe]

yeah, we are expanding up here, lot of tech and industry (facebook, steelworks, NorthVolt...) looking for thousands of workers. oh snd as result doctors, dentists, chefs, transport (bus, lorry... drivers) and numerous other

[@kingvii7250]

I live in the middle of northen Sweden, in middle nature, the ocean, connected to a valley, high mountains, and a stream. I stood face to face with moose, deer, lynx, foxes, sea eagles. Although I live in the middle of nature, the civilisation is not to far away and thanks to our countrys well developed infrastructure and of course that people want to live in countryside makes it doable to live like this. If course it's not as comfortabel as living in a city.

[@matsv201]

The north of Sweden is basically most of the country. Often people from Sweden call Norrland for "north" with out thinking about a large part of Norrland is actually south of the middle of the country. Sweden have 4 climate zones. Tundra in north and inland. Subartic climate in most of Norrland with ever shrinking trees the closer to the Tundra you get. There is basically no leaved tree around area (some in the southern edge) Sveland that is actually pretty far south, but are often refereed to central Sweden have mostly temperate snow climate with the typical ~20C summers and Snowy winters. This is usually how Sweden in general is depicted, But its only true for this part. The Southern part, basically the part called Götaland (at leas the area close to the coast) is actually temperate warm zones. Warm refer to the winter temperature, not the summer. The summer is still about the same ~20C. But the winter in this area is actually averaging between 0 and +5C in Winter. While it does snow here, the snow typically melts away with in a few days. So most of the winters almost every winter is mostly snow free. It does basically snow every winter even there, but it melts way basically immediately. Of cause, people think of northern Italy, and eastern France, and of cause Austria and Switzerland getting loads of snow every winter. And they would of cause expect Sweden that is far more north to also get loads of snow. Well it don´t work that way. The reason why the amps get so much snow and can keep it is partly because they are inland but also because they are very high. And south of Sweden is not only close to the Baltic and very low land (some part of the south, like Jönköping is quite a bit higher, and they do get the snowy climate). But that is not only it. The proximity to the gulf stream (also true for Scotland of cause) raise the temperature by about 2 degrees. That may not sound like much but that is the diffrance between no snow and load of snow in winter. This is even more true for noway that the western most parts have a climate basically as mild as the southern most part of Sweden. I live in the temperate snow zone, just a hundred km or so from the zone that is mostly snow free. There is really no benefit of going north. The days get shorter, the winters get longer and there are more mosquitoes. There are lakes pretty much everywhere in Sweden. A benefit of living south is that things grew quite a bit faster. You can actually have a garden and plant pretty much anything (well not coconuts), can even have cherries, tomato and grapes (the later two need a bit of shielding). My house costed me about €70k a few years ago (it started biding at €50k but there was a bidding war). It was ready to move in (i have done considerable upgrades) with a big plot and about 10 minutes drive into a town that actually have work. The closest house over, very similar to mine, sold 2 years after mine for €100k so prices was already on there way up

[@annamariaandersson4448]

I would'nt wanna live further south in Sweden, and sertainly not in a hectic crowded city with more cement than nature. My soul longs to 'roam free' in the midst of this beautiful wooded, blue mountain, nature where I belong 😊

[@gangalo68]

€30K for a house is very cheap regardless of where it’s located, especially of that size. For reference my apartment in the central part of Gothenburg is valued at €265 000 at 64 sqm with 1 bedroom and a living room. (Ridiculous if you ask me)

[@user-px3oh1fk6b]

Very nice reaction. I think you should look out Jonna Jinton. She´s an awarded film photografer, singer and artist who lives up north of Sweden.

[@zetsuki4207]

Born and raised in nrothern Sweden, I've lived in and around Umeå my whole life, which is one of the biggest cities in the North on the East Coast. I spent my school years in a tiny village just outside the city and it was so great, a small lake you could swim and fish in every summerday and night. Mostly during the evenings i had the whole lake to myself, just enjoying the sights and the fishing. I live in the city now and we got a LOT of snow just last week, about a meter in just three days. It's dark and cold, but still so very beautiful. As a kid in the countryside we got rides to school either via taxi or bus, depending on how many kids there were in the villages, The bus would only run during the school semesters though, so when it was time for Christmas or summer break, no more buses. lol

[@majskrokenhavsalen8613]

Lynx’s are the coolest Swedish wildlife😻

[@menosproblemos6993]

You can visit and stay a while in places like that really cheap. You can go camping. Just put up a tent where no one's private land is (or just ask the ones who owns the land (afterwards surprise them with 100kr per night you've spent there (just for the friendly lols). Since it's so cold in the winters, there aren't many animals, so it's very few dangerous animals as well. They tend to stay away from humans too. Really, it's magical. Such is nature. And Sweden's got a lot of nature.

[@birchleaf]

Moose (or elks, in British English) tend to be a greyish brown or dark brown. But the calves are a reddish brown. That the one moose almost looked black and white was probably a lighting issue. There are plenty of moose and roe deer in Sweden. There are also fallow deer and red deer, but they are less common. And in northern Sweden you also see lots of reindeer, but they are not really wild, they are owned and herded by Sami reindeer herders.

[@citizenkane4831]

I have followed Dani´s videos since she started and she has managed to capture about all the wildlife in northern sweden eccept for owl´s and lynx. I had hoped she will make a video with lynx

[@apaxtoa]

Has she actually photographed a Järv? Those are stupidly shy from humans.

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

Heating costs can vary a lot. If you have electric radiators it could be expensive, if you heat the house with a wood burning stove, not so much. At least if you have access to wood on your plot (while chopping upp wood takes some time). In general, we have good insulation, so it takes less heat to keep the house warm than in many other countries. It also varies from the south and the north. Sweden is pretty much located at the same latitudes as Alaska, though because of the Gulf Stream, it's not as cold.

[@React4you]

I live in swedens 4th biggest city and i live about 15 minutes with bikes from the city centre. We have tons of nature here even in the big cities. We have a big forest exactly where we live and there are always deers that come to our garden.

[@enriqueGbg]

Thing is, that while the very north is much less populated, you still can find places like that in most of Sweden. Heavily wooded areas and lots of lakes can be just an hour or so away from even the bigger cities. The price of that house though must be exceptional low, due to the selling was in person. I would caution anyone to think that is normal, and that oftentimes houses like that comes with a lot of maintaining costs, which can be hard to anticipate on your own. However my parents have a summer (and winter) house like that, and the calmness and wildlife is really amazing. But while I live in the suburbs less than 30 mins from the center of the second largest city Gothenburg, I’ve seen random elks walking around the houses a few times, so wildlife can be close sometimes.

[@magnuspahlsson3531]

Deni's husband is from Mexico so they have a funny kitchen! She is from brittan but her mother is from Russia!

[@stefankarlsson2250]

To answer a question of yours; they're building a major battery factory for instance. They say it'll need a massive workforce. There's also several techcompanies screaming for staff, as well as healthcare-personnel for clinics all over. There are all kinds of employment-oppertunities as the northern part of the country is developed.

[@birchleaf]

There are many rural areas that are more or less depopulated up north. People move to the nearby cities or to the south to find jobs, so some places there will be several houses for sale but no buyers. In those places you can get houses really cheap. Like she did.

[@elliottandersson3157]

I live in the middle of sweden its a chily -10 to -20°c, (winter)

[@user-mo6qx1ed3e]

Schooling in Sweden is mandatory (up to the ninth grade, 16 yoa) so schools will be provided. When living way out in the outskirts you even get free rides for the children for them to attend school.

[@senchaholic]

The prices in the north are much much lower than in the south and the major cities. A price that'll get you a 1 room apartment in Stockholm will give you a literal mansion with large fields and forests.

[@gunlindblad6816]

If you are looking for a cheap house with a lot of land you need to go north of the middle and closer to the mountains. Then you can find a farm with several buildins on for the prize of a heatpump…

[@Thaerii]

If you like to live in the countryside, I can't imagine Sweden is _that_ different from Scotland. Sure, it's easier to find a house from which you can't see any neighbors as our countryside has more trees, but you can still find one within 15-20 minutes from a medium-sized city/town (whether it's a city or town depends on historical status, not size) without paying through your nose. Up north this means that you can find something for about £100,000 pretty easily, and while some of those will be genuine fixer-uppers, most will be stuck about 30 years in the past decor-wise but otherwise perfectly livable. At £25,000 it's a bit more hit-and-miss but still possible. But do check what kind of heating system this house has and budget for changing it if it's electric radiators. I would not move there for the simple reason that I like living in a flat with a balcony and I can get that here in a place where most of my family lives. I do sort of want those winters though... Edit: As far as "dangerous" predators, they keep away from noisy humans, as will a moose. And children are far more likely to be noisy than adults... Wolves have attacked livestock and dogs, however. Bears and wild boars have attacked humans, but only after they were wounded by hunters, and in the case of bears sometimes people literally fall into the dens they're hibernating in and they're _not_ happy.

[@hakanjonsson1478]

I live in northern sweden and lynx, bears, reindeer moose, golden eagles is pretty common. Still waiting to see my first wolverine 😅

[@nisselarson3227]

Forest and steel is the main industries up north. Lots of forest and mines.

[@najroe]

I live bit north of her and I have roe deer, moose, foxes.... As for work, up here we consider a 80km commute quite reasonable, as there is virtually no traffic jams ... that is roughly an hour each way so not too bad. we have industry up here, mines with the accompanying processing plants to metals (ever heard about SSAB or New Boliden) and then all those trees means lumber --> sawmills... companies like Facebook have serverfarms here as it is cheaper to buy land and build new here than renting a existing building in other areas and Nortvolt battery factory is being built in Skellefteå and so on.

[@igeekling]

Oh and you don't need to go very far up north or far from larger cities to live rural enough to have a lake to yourself or walk for a week or two without seeing another human in Sweden. 😊 I live about halfway up the length of the country. Within a couple of hours drive from a selection of bigger cities, half an hour to a few small towns for work, shops, and the like. Still I have the whole alone on a choice of empty lakes. Not seeing another person for days. Kind of remote rural lifestyle.

[@kbolt1000]

I live 120 km northwest of Stockholm, my rarest meeting with wild animals happened about 2 years ago, I was out in the woods with my Rottweiler when I noticed from his behavior that something was near us, I thought it was a deer so I hooked up my dog ​​so he wouldn't start chasing any animal, that's when I looked up and no more than 30-40 meters from us there were 2 big wolves watching us, they never ran but slowly walked away from us every now and then stopping and look where we were, love my Swedish nature.!!

[@sofiab2920]

I’m located close to Gothenburg (southwest Sweden) and I would move up north in a heartbeat if I could. But because I don’t know anyone up there and because my family and friends are down here, it probably won’t happen anytime soon☹️

[@matsv201]

Its probobly the lack of work that i would say is the main issue. Well.. if you don´t want to live in Kiruna, there is plenty of work. But if you want to live somewhere where its actually are trees that is taller than man... well then work is a issue

[@mikaelnaslund2964]

@saintofspades567. I also moved to town, but quite soon moved back to my home "village" by the Baltic coast in Västernorrland. I feel much safer there with the brown bears and wolves!! I can and will agree that Stockholm has its's perks! But in my most personal opinion...... Solitude in a rather beautiful nature, watching your caught trout being cooked on the open fire and a cold beer in your hand while watching the pink sunset with the black pine trees in the background covering the mountains is quite marvelous!!

[@_Wolfsbane_]

I've lived in the deep countryside, but not in the north. Where we lived there was an extensive system of school couches. I love living in the countryside - it's very quite and relaxing as compared to city life or suburbia. Working from home is still really a thing for work that allows it, so where you live is not as important any longer. Getting outside of the major city areas house prices fall rapidly. Prices where our summer home is is about 1/4 to 1/3 of Stockholm for example.

[@apaxtoa]

When i was in my teens we lived in a house like this up here in northern sweden. We paid 200.000 kr or about 20.000 dollars for it. (20 years ago) It was a village with 11 houses total, and about 20km from nearest "major" village with a school and store. And about 40 kilometers from the nearest town. Just incase you wanted a reference to pricing and distance from society.

[@BerishStarr]

About 68% or Sweden is forested, 7% is farmland and only 3% is developed land. With 85% of the population living in the "bottom third" of the country, there is a lot of remote land 😜

[@nisselarson3227]

Yeah Lynx is the coolest animal we got but they're so rare. Never seen one in the wild. I live 10 minutes outside Stockholm centre and we have tons of animals in our little forest. Deer, hares, foxes, squirrels, badgers and lots of amphibian and bird wildlife.

[@annelieelfstedt3233]

3 years ago I had a real close up with a moose........right before I smashed into it with my car. It was HUGE !! Neither my car or the moose survived the impact. A moose looks better when there is a distance between you and the moose.

[@gangalo68]

Yeah, I prefer my moose in a picture or in a stew 😄 Glad you made it, collisions with moose can be extremely dangerous.

[@evabaxter5396]

Moose can be dangerous, don't get out of the car if you see one! We also have wolves, wolverines, Arctic foxes and many many more wild animals.

[@matsv201]

14:39 she is on a cano, in the early spring in the middle of a lake with out a life jacket? Eeeh, if she falls over, or it flips around, she is dead. Never ever do that. 16:40 She is not alowed to do that. If she knows there is a nest, she is not alowed to go close

[@KryddaFesten]

I realy love your videos, you dont talk just to talk, every thing you say is what you realy thinking and if you have nothing to say you just sitt ther and watsh the video, and I also sitt and watsh with you. So relaxing, love it.

[@w0t3rdog]

There are alot of animals in Sweden. My personal favorite is the Bjärv. A cross between a bear and a wolverine, and meaner than both. ;)

[@PeterDuvdahl]

you can find bjärven behind gammdasset. 😀

[@EmmelineSama]

That is a joke, just to clarify.

[@Hogberg-]

Strax söder om sörbäcken 😁

[@Cookie_moonlove]

it bothers me that they weren't wearing life jackets when in the canoe. It doesn't matter much how good a swimmer you are if you have something medical happen to you or the other person or an accident and you fall in the water or you have to save the other one from the water. Say that the other person fell overboard unconscious. The water is cold, they are wearing lots of clothes and they are pretty far out. It's so easy to just put on a life jacket for canoeing, they don't restrict you but really saves your life if something would happen.

[@matsv201]

If you get inland in Some part of Sweden the houses are dead cheap. This will probobly change the next 3 or 4 years, but its still true today. The reason is that there are no work around, and it have been that case for the last 50 or 60 years. Back in 1900-1930 this part of Sweden was expanded massively with forestry and mining but also building infrastructure and staffing schools and so on. The infrastructure is done, the forest and the mines need ever decreasing amount of employees and there just been a trickle of people moving away. A lot keeped there house as a second house. A generation have past and more and more of them are on the market. During some period it was not even possible to sell a house. Running cost are.. or.. rather was, not to bad. fire wood was dirt cheap and so was electricity. This area have loads of hydropower and the cheap power was blocked in by nuclear power-stations in the south, getting power for 20-30öre/kWh was not to uncommon (about 2-3 cent). But that changed with last government decided to close down nuclear power stations. Now its fairly expensive and as a result fire wood have jumped in price. On the other side, distance working have increased and Sweden have become somewhat of a cheap country. Loads of people moved to those places and there are not many houses left.

[@michaelenglund]

Depends if it interesting of what type of animal and the distance from it. Wolfe, brown bear and wild boar are more scary if close 😉

[@lolfelixlol]

In sweden we have both moose and elk. In Swedish we don't differentiate between the two, we call both "älg". Elk are brown, moose are grey. (Yes, both moose and elk have the same word for singular and plural. Don't ask me why)...

[@Thaerii]

We don't have what North Americans call "elk" in Europe. That's a sibling to the European red deer - _kronhjort_ in Swedish - and it's called "wapiti" in British English, _vapiti_ in Swedish. What North Americans call "moose" is "elk" in the UK, _älg_ in Swedish. I imagine that a Scottish person will use "moose" for the simple reason that it's unambiguous in an international setting, but with fellow Scots it will be "elk". Edit: We also have fallow deer and roe deer in Sweden - _dovhjort_ and _rådjur_ in Swedish - as well as reindeer. Funny thing, moose and roe deer seem to be rather closely related even though they're the ones most different in size here. Reindeer are in the same main branch of the deer family as those two but somewhat more distant, while red deer, wapiti and fallow deer are in the other main branch.

[@user-px3oh1fk6b]

Btw. Love your accent. Wahei Scots! ( was that right spelled? ).

[@bengtolsson5436]

If the children go to kindergarten, going out into the forest is part of the teaching. And learn about plants, animals and insects.

[@rogerlie4176]

You watched Jonna Jinton's video already and Dani's house is in my estimate about 200-250km northeast of Jonna's. Not that many people would want to live this isolated(I certainly wouldn't) so that's a big reason for the house being so cheap.

[@claeswahlin4127]

Tacos are very popular in Sweden.

[@Templarofsteel88]

When I lived with my parents we would always eat tacos on Fridays.

[@EmmelineSama]

​@@Templarofsteel88it is like that in a lot of parts of Sweden. When I grew up it was "chicken on Friday" but then nachos and Swedish tacos took over.

[@evawettergren7492]

I mean... it looks pretty... but all I can think about is how inconvenient everything is. You really have to do everything yourself. Chop wood. Shovel snow. Drive hours to buy groceries... and really pray you have a decent mobile phone and internet connection. I am much too lazy to live in a house like that. I live in an apartment in a medium sized city and can drive to places like that in less than an hour so that is a good compromise in my opinion.

[@kungputte73]

Why not.. If you don't live close to a bigger town you have a problem paying your bills. To far away to get a job unless your financially set

[@magnuslindfors9445]

Såå vackert.

[@Tim_Nilsson]

Houses in northern Sweden have historically been really cheap compared to the south. Houses in the city where I live on the west coast are not massively expensive but finding any object below 3 million kr or roughly $300k dollars is difficult.

[@fredyyfredfreddy]

Well no it isn't not in the country side.

[@matsv201]

I would´t say its historical. It of cause depends on your definition of history. But i would say until around the 1950s the was no cheaper than any other part of the country. What happened around that time was partly that there was no more wild forest and partly a increasing industrialization of forestry. When modern forest equipment came the manpower needed for forestry was cut down by one, if not two order of magnitude. Of cause, that didn´t happen over night, but around the 1950-1960 it reach a breaking point where fewer people was needed. After that time it was basically impossible to sell a house in those areas.

[@Tim_Nilsson]

@@matsv201 Yes I was thinking more about the "modern era".

[@matsv201]

@@Tim_Nilsson well yes, it for sure is a result of modern time. Worth saying is where I live you could as recently as 2019 get a totaly new 134m2 home with 800m2 plot for 2.6M. And that is all in with heating system and everything. That push down old houses to about 1 5-2M. I live just shy of a hour with train or about 1:50 with car outside of stockholm, so it's reallt not like it's in the total wast land. Get the same house in stockholm it's like 6M, and then they still have 35 minutes by train or car to get to down town. You can get a literal castle here for like 10M... well. Pre pandemic. When people start telecomuting the prices spiked over here. Its just sufficiently close to get to the office in stockholm 1 or 2 times a week

[@Tim_Nilsson]

@@matsv201 Yes that was quite cheap not being in the middle of nowhere. Then I suppose many homeowners in your region are happy with the development. ^_^

[@igeekling]

Those really really cheap houses, not just in the extreme north you can find them further south too. Usually they are so very cheap just because of that very reason. There are no or very limited jobs anywhere within a reasonable commute. There are towns up in northern Sweden screaming for qualified people to fill vacant roles. But you will not find that kind of house at that kind of price point within a fair few hours of driving to those towns. So if you want to live that dream, working from home, is the key. Or health care.

[@matsv201]

"There are towns up in northern Sweden screaming" I would call this the far north like Kiruna and Gällivare, possibly Jokkmok to a lesser degree Boden and Älvsbyn. A bit south of that, there is basically just sort of "city jobs" in Luleå, Umeå , Sunsvall and so on. And up in Kiruna the houses is not really cheap, they are rather somewhat expensive. (at least considering the size of the town) And to be frank, the houses are cheap becasue there are no jobs around. Where there are jobs around the houses is not cheap

[@Tobbes-music]

i am from sweden stockholm, i have always lived in the south of sweden and wouldnt move to the north. its to cold there.

[@matsv201]

True.. specially in the fall, winter and spring, in the summer its just chilly

[@chrillemoskajarvi3388]

Houses in Northen sweden is most of the times pretty much cheeper

[@bmxfjolla]

Who the fuck uses a boat oar to paddle a canoe?

[@y.john.]

There are no answers to your questions, as everything is relative. They are different from village to village from city to city Sweden is a very segregated and polished multicultural country. It all depends on what kind of family you were born into, whether you belong to the Sami people, for example, or just an ethical Swede. And about that video you're showing by that girl do not reflect the reality, God it's a movie. Do you believe that Hollywood movies are true as well?

[@MrBergakungen]

look. we are all idiots