The Big Differences Between Life in Sweden and Scotland - Just a Brit Abroad with Archie McCallum

In this video, we explore how life in Sweden compares to life in Scotland? Are Sweden and Scotland similar places to live, or is the experience totally different? To help me explore this topic further, I'm joined by musician and TikTok star Archie McCallum. We'll be breaking down what life on the country and in Glasgow was like compared to when Archie moved to near Sundsvall, in central Sweden.
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[@ansi9164]

Looking forward to this episode!

[@JustaBritAbroad]

Thank you Ansi, you rock!! The full video will be coming on Saturday afternoon, so I'll be looking forward to hearing what you think when it drops🤗 thanks for following along🤩🙌🏻

[@gruu]

Really interesting stuff! Can't wait for the next part :]

[@JustaBritAbroad]

Thank you!🤩🤗 so fun to hear that you enjoyed it! The full video will be hitting my channel on Saturday afternoon! Excited for you to see it, and to hear what you think!

[@finemange]

It´s not strange scots like Göteborg since they were in the town council (2 of 12 ) as early as 1624 , and the city is founded 1621. The most famous Göteborgare are from Scotland, Kennedy Chalmers Dickson Keiler and Campbell for example, and they were also the biggest benefactors for the city. I´m sure you heard the saying, (Alla heter Glenn i Göteborg). it routes from Scotland, nowhere in Sweden boys are named Glenn and Morgan as much as they are in Göteborg. Even dialectal we have the scottish R.s. Göteborgs is called Lilla London but more appropriate would be Lilla Glasgow. thanks for this episode, and yes i subscribe ;)

[@JustaBritAbroad]

I had no idea that there was such a history between Scotland and Gothenburg, thanks for sharing!🤩 so fun to learn more about the history. and I'm so pleased to hear that you enjoyed the video🙌🏻 and thanks for subscribing!! there's another podcast interview coming next week if that's the kind of thing you enjoy🤩 have a good weekend Magnus!

[@finemange]

@@JustaBritAbroad Thanks and same to you

[@leeroden7900]

Glenn grejen har ingenting med Skottland att göra.

[@beorlingo]

I'm like bewildered here. This a teaser of sorts? Will you upload the full length conversation here on YT? Sure hope so, cuz the two of you seem to be goin in an interesting direction here. Now, if this all is solely in order to lure me into entering/becoming addicted to a variety of social media, I feel the need to say: Fook off! Hope for the best here, skål!

[@JustaBritAbroad]

haha sorry for any confusion beorlingo😂 yes indeedy, this is a teaser trailer for the full video, which will be hitting your screens tomorrow afternoon at 15.15 CEST🤗 Tomorrow's video is an episode of my "Just a Brit Abroad" podcast, a discussion-based series where I bring in somebody to talk about their experiences living overseas and this week's guest is Archie. But I always put a short highlights clip out ahead of time for those that aren't so interested in longer-form KZbin content and prefer my shorts instead. That way, they can still experience some of the fun, without having to sit through the whole video if they don't like to. So no danger here, you're totally correct. The full video is coming to KZbin, free of charge, so there's no lure going on here😊so I'll be looking forward to hearing your comments on the full, longer form episode tomorrow afternoon. Hope you were right and you enjoy the way we take the conversation. I think its a really good one, so I'm looking forward to hearing your comments🙌🏻

[@beorlingo]

@@JustaBritAbroad oh man, looking forward to it! If the full conversation lives up to the teaser, I'm sure you'll be reaching JBP level! If not, my compliments on editing the short clip into something really intrigueing! You made my day lad, hasta la vista, and may you have the best of weekends!

[@JustaBritAbroad]

@@beorlingo is it bad that I'm not sure who JBP is😅hehe but I'm so pleased to hear you're looking forward to catching the whole episode. Its out now by the way! Maybe you know already from your subscription box, but if not, head to my channel and you'll find it in its entirety ready for your enjoyment🤩 Hope you have an awesome weekend too!

[@beorlingo]

@@JustaBritAbroad No it's not bad, cuz that was maybe a tad bit over the top. I was referring to Jordan B Peterson! 😊 Haven't watched the full episodes yet, but will do, will do!

[@JustaBritAbroad]

@@beorlingo I thought that might be who you had in mind, but I wasn't 100% sure, which is why I thought I'd check😅 eeek nice, cant wait to see what you think!

[@Calistarius79]

I was in Glasgow some 15 or so years ago, was there to meet a friend from Canada, and my experience there was good. But... there was one thing which could have at least made the first day there a bit.. complicated... for me. XD I had just stepped out of the local airport outside of Glasgow, and reading the signs and timetables for the buses I had figured out which bus I thought I had to take to go to the main bus station in Glasgow (where I was supposed to meet my friend), and stepped onto the bus when it arrived. To make sure I was on the right bus though I asked the busdriver, a guy who looked to be in his 50's, if this was in fact the bus that would go to the main bus station in Glasgow... and... well... what came out of that mans mouth was literally unintelligible to me... I could hear that he spoke English, but not a single word he said triggered my brains recognition of English words. XD I of course asked him to repeat himself (don't recall exactly what I said though), and he did... and once again my brains English language section only reacted to that I was hearing English, but again not actually recognizing any of the words he said... XD At this point I was starting to get embarrassed... but I managed to ask him to once again repeat what he said... and yet again, the same thing happened. I could just not understand what this man was saying, what so ever. I was now very embarrassed. I am a fairly to very shy person really, and social interactions has never been my strong side. And with this situation, where the busdriver had already answered me three times, and I had not understood him what so ever during any of those three times... my brain did the only thing it could... run away. XD Of course, how this manifested it's self outside of my brain was after the busdriver had answered me the third time I just went _"Oh, ok... thank you very much..."_ and then walking into the back of the bus and taking a seat, and basically flipping the coin on that I was in fact on the correct bus... which as it turned out I was. I guess you could say that I am "fluent" in Swedish Public Transportation, and as such could pretty easily understand the British one, I just wanted confirmation that I was in fact on the right bus... XD As I sat there in the bus I was thinking to my self that it was a pretty bad idea to put that busdriver, with one of the thickest Glaswegian accents you can find, as the driver for the bus route that went by the airport... considering that a fair amount of the people who would use that bus route would be people who has little to no experience with thick Glaswegian accents. XD Amusingly enough... during that entire trip to Glasgow, 6 days long, out of everyone I met and talked to there, from the locals them selves, to the people with foreign backgrounds who lived there (for example the kebab restaurant I bought food from one late evening on my way back to my hostel.... the kebab tasted great by the way... :D ), or some of the foreign travelers who stayed at the same hostel as me that I met... that Glaswegian busdriver was the only person I was unable to understand at all during that entire trip. And it was not a matter of me getting used to the Glaswegian accent or anything... he just happened to have had a MUCH thicker Glaswegian accent than anyone else that I encountered. XD

[@JustaBritAbroad]

oh no😳🙈 I'm cringing just reading your story haha can totally understand how you must have felt in the moment!! well done for muscling through and making it out the other side💪🏼 I'm impressed that you could understand so many of the other Glaswegian accens though😉 that's something even us down in the south of UK struggle with sometimes😅 when I was first in Glagow, I felt like they were speaking a different language too haha

[@bosse1998]

Very interesting! I love Gothenburg! I have always seen Glasgow as very boring! Congratulations to 1290 subscribers! Amazing!

[@JustaBritAbroad]

Thanks Bosse! S fun to hear you enjoyed it🤩 yep, I'm also a big fan of Gothenburg, its a beautiful city! and as for Glasgow, I've heard others with the same impression, perhaps because of the history and heritage of Edinburgh. But its well worth giving a second shot! I've been there a couple of times and I must admit, Glasgow's won me over. Its a very "liveable" city, despite the size and hustle and bustle!

[@bosse1998]

@@JustaBritAbroad Edinburgh is great. Gothenburg is great. I have never heard a positive word about Glasgow?

[@JustaBritAbroad]

@@bosse1998 Ah really? I'm aware Glasgow has quite a reputation, and it put me off too, but I have to say, after visiting a friend there for a while, it does have a charm about it. You just have to dig a bit deeper! I've only been to Edinburgh once but I got a really good impression there!

[@attesmatte]

As a Swede living in the north (or as he mentions, actually in the middle of Sweden 😜), I need to know where that guy lives! 😁

[@vulc1]

Jag tror att han bor i Östersund

[@attesmatte]

@@vulc1 Ha ha, är Östersund "a small community"? 😂 Ja, kanske det... 😜 Jag som tycker att min stad är alldeles lagom stor. 😜 😂

[@JustaBritAbroad]

hehe when I was editing this one I thought it might spark your interest Sara😂😂 he talks more about it in the full episode, which comes out on Saturday, but he's actually staying in Fränsta 🤗

[@JustaBritAbroad]

ganska nära till där faktiskt, som jag har förstått!

[@JustaBritAbroad]

haha de flesta av oss skulle tänka det är ganska litet men jag förstår det är kanske inte som ni som bor ännu längre norrut se det😅 Östersund är nästan en stor stad eller hur? 😉

[@Bleckman666]

Aberfeldy. It's a nice dram.

[@JustaBritAbroad]

its certainly a nice part of the world! have yuo explored up there much?🤩

[@Bleckman666]

​@@JustaBritAbroad I went on a fantastic roadtrip around Scotland back in 2015. I think we managed a total of 13 distilleries in 2 weeks! (though sadly not Aberfeldy)

[@JustaBritAbroad]

@@Bleckman666 haha wow, I'm impressed! you certainly got around a lot of distilleries didn't you! sounds like you had a terrific time😉😅

[@orginalet69]

I love Scotland! Tured around for a week and juste Loved it

[@JustaBritAbroad]

its beautiful isn't it! what was your favourite place?

[@orginalet69]

Isle of sky I think. And We had a great day at the edradoure distillery. The landscape is amazing. And the people are super friendly

[@JustaBritAbroad]

@@orginalet69 ahhh i really want to visit Isle of Sky! its right up there on my bucket list, it looks beautiful!

[@hjartansfrojd]

It works both ways...you don't have all the nuances in swear words of another language...I remember Tony Irwing saying "pattarna" instead of "tuttarna" on Let's dance. Far too coarse a word to use in polite society, but hard for him to distinguish. (F:tta and k:k would not be on mainstream Swedish television either I think). It is also strange that foreign swear words to us, seems somehow less offensive than our own.

[@JustaBritAbroad]

yeah, you make a good point Claes! You can't really understand the nuances of the language unless its your own, as much as you try right! And I guess that's perhaps why foreign swear words dont feel as offensive somehow, because they don't carry the same weight when they're not your native ones? Just an idea though! I hope you enjoyed the video though! If you did, I just uploaded a longer version, where we get even deeper into this conversation, that maybe you'll find interesting to check out!