An Entire Swedish Town Is Moving Because the Ground Is Caving In

[@she3esh]

An American company would sell off everything then disappear with the money & workers health insurance

[@SuperPerfectMan]

Bloody Gronk true !

[@theextremeanimator4721]

Now not without being called out.

[@tommybear1097]

I lived in the non existent town of Picher Oklahoma during the government buyout and even though their offers varied vastly, they took care of everyone which is more than I can say about some of these other places I'm reading about.

[@blakesingleton7064]

And that’s why Sweden is good

[@blakesingleton7064]

Tommy Bear wow! Where you in the tornado?

[@michaellyden2580]

Let's take Kiruna, and push it somewhere else!

[@projectocamero7502]

Investment of 1.6b for town not too bad.

[@blacksheep1069]

Yes

[@MrDeeb-ii7oj]

The scenes of moving 100-year-old houses really surprised me. Here in Egypt, particularly Cairo, 1000s of beautiful and historic buildings including palaces, villas, and hotels were destroyed to construct unofficial ugly towers. It is a privilege to live in a country that plans and organizes its urban development. Things have been changed here drastically with regard to urban development and planning, but the damage has already shaped our present.

[@PrawnzHD]

we used to do some of that too, look at stockholm back in the 50s to 70s especially - but now we seem to have learned our lesson, it sometimes takes loosing what you love to realize what the great damage you're doing. Luckily we're in a better place now

[@liamdavis2387]

I was in Cairo two months ago and it's very lucky to still have so much historical beauty.

[@Polyglot_English]

That's what you get when you have a corrupt government

[@Tunawesmake]

You need to consider if a house is movable though... Not all are. As we've seen the old lady's house is being demolished...

[@baverfjant]

That happens almost everywhere. This is a particular case but they most certainly tear down old classic buildings in Sweden too and replace them with modern skyscrapers or worse.

[@officerbeenadd]

American Companies: Oh, the town might cave in because of *our actions*? Ok... *leaves the town to cave in*

[@bingoberra18]

For reference LKAB is 100% state owned.

[@helicocktor]

@@bingoberra18 meh. Company lobbies government not to do anything, money changes hands, nothing gets done. Result? People die. The American Dream, really more of a nightmare.

[@Theghostofpeter]

Oh course it’s America’s fault! Meanwhile Sweden government does nothing!

[@maadtee6281]

@@Theghostofpeter what you mean does nothing they have no choice because 9f the mine

[@baverfjant]

@@Theghostofpeter They are literally moving the town, was the headline of this video not clear enough for you?

[@Synthwavu]

“Our house in the middle of the street.”

[@kgm96]

our house in the middle east more like

[@breakingballswithtony6897]

Good one and great song!! Made me laugh

[@ModestMang]

Takes the saying "there goes the neighborhood!" To another level...

[@chefgiovanni]

Excellent News reporting here. Keep it up. Let's get cooking. #Chefs tip : Eat a lot of Garlic & Cinnamon . Wash your hands. Subscribe for recipes & more tips.

[@BLACKLIGHT_NL]

_In Sweden you don't move into a house, the house moves to you_

[@aldhyXjumpen]

just some ikea things right there 😂

[@laddttt6808]

no.

[@HiAdrian]

Should have followed the Russian reversal formula: _In socialist Sweden, house moves to you._

[@Bagg-AB]

@Archos Copelin no but they are moving half the town

[@Bagg-AB]

@@HiAdrian its not socialist

[@Mmvexxx]

This seems like that episode of spongebob where Patrick suggested moving Bikini Bottom somewhere else 😂😂

[@herasean5720]

Exactly what I thought once I watched the first 5 seconds 😂😭

[@ellencampbell3921]

You have to know Patrick! Lolol in Canada.

[@CarlosBeo]

Or that one time in the Simpsons all of Springfield had to move haha

[@marksilva3956]

The krusty krab is in bikini bottom

[@matthewwelsh294]

The Alaskan Bull Worm 😂😂

[@takakhetocharles8782]

My hometown and where I currently live. Fun fact: at one clock at night time they blow up the dynamite they’ve placed during the day every night. It’s a non stop industry. You can very clearly hear and feel the vibrations of the mining going on 24/7, 365 days a year, no rest.

[@fugly3573]

I think you are eligible to move to Syria 😜🤪

[@aus-li]

@@fugly3573 Syria sounds like a great place. As a tourist, I'd go if you'd pay for my trip :)

[@kingpetra6886]

"Well, we're living here in Allentown..." Billy Joel

[@AndrewKidd14145]

VoidX I will but I ain’t responsible if you don’t make it back (very likely)

[@PrawnzHD]

@paso fino theres butter underneath, the square thing on top is cheese - source: I'm swedish and my grandma makes sandwiches in the same way

[@0poIE]

*That means the houses were moving at 2mph. BOOM SMART MATHS*

[@bassbassbasser]

How much is it in kph?

[@inconspicuousname2925]

Quick maths

[@0poIE]

@@bassbassbasser You can work that out if your bothered.

[@bharatwajg]

@@bassbassbasser 3.2 kmph

[@campkira]

yeah but they had time so... it not like the ground is gone..

[@GustafLUX]

Thank you VICE for this amazing journalism, I never thought I would see you fellas in the northern part of Sweden where even I as a Swede have never touched foot. It is truly touching to hear the elderly people and their stories as we often in schools are taught about houses being moved (even back in the 2000's) but not that they are forcing people out of their homes to expand the mine. It is weird that I as a Swede learnt more from VICE in Kiruna than I have ever heard or received information from the government. Thank you for shedding some light for those that often do not have a voice. That is what real journalism is.

[@randomknight2585]

*WE SHOULD TAKE BIKINI BOTTOM, AND PUSH IT SOMEWHERE ELSE*

[@GeopoliticsDaily538]

Knew this would be top comment as soon as I seen the video 😂

[@hendinasution1063]

Man push more

[@marksilva3956]

The krusty krab is In bikini bottom

[@greatdaneacdc]

Push bikini bottoms off to the side !

[@stephaniesparkles]

Just your average Crusader You do know that a sponge 🧽 in a bikini bottom is like a maxi pad in panties right...

[@lilstarship34]

Favorite part of the video was listening to the man speaking Swedish about the mine lol. This is the content I subbed for tho, not music videos. Really enjoyed this, please more videos like this vice.

[@MrApplehair]

Serena D ikr? Swedish sounds so melodic

[@ipixz3]

Sometimes i can feel we speak too much English people never hear any Swedish!

[@seethrough_treeshrew]

Really nice for a change to here a Swede speaking Swedish instead of that broken English that many speak and refuse to admit to themselves that they do.

[@Pilusajaib]

Sounds like his tongue is dancing

[@bladesmith5927]

@@MrApplehair Nah, it sounds quite displeasing. I prefer a Russian tounge.

[@tithund]

Imagine a mining company in West Virginia or something, doing something like this for their town.

[@qv8281]

people before profit ? WHAT ARE YOU SOME KINDA GODDAMN CAMMUNIST?

[@11donto]

LKAB is a state owned company

[@laromai2245]

@@qv8281 They're moving the Communists.

[@Tunawesmake]

@@11donto still it's operations have to make business sense, they're not a housing corporation, yet they care for people's housing... State corporations or private, it's doable and worth looking into...

[@hdajhdaahha3836]

@@qv8281 Nothing says caring about people than a state owned corporation completely ravaging the ground in a city so badly that houses are caving in and then instead of fixing it passing a law that FORCES all who are affected to have their houses moved into some deserted tundra in northern Sweden so they can continue to completely deplete the ground and sending all the money to Stockholm, making sure the people who lives there sees none of it.

[@cristod.1835]

In Brazil there's a company called Vale, they did the same thing, moved people houses to other places, but the only difference is that they had used mud to move them.

[@drbreeden4093]

Cristo d. A Brazilian of them...

[@bjoardar]

Dude, that is so dark, but I still laughed 😂

[@voyager8187]

Sweden i love you 🇸🇪 Stay strong my people

[@epowers6142]

Marco Tabo Silalahi it’s to late

[@mrblackalchemist]

@@epowers6142 why?

[@samuelseger7010]

@@mrblackalchemist Nm Elina Powers. Prob som wight wing troll. Thx! You too!

[@bleachesbrother6697]

we are being replaced by people who we share no ancestral l ties with

[@xXcangjieXx]

Bleaches Brother Say that to the Neanderthals😝

[@harunsamuelsitumeang7565]

i can really see here how a good company handling things they affected.

[@JamesBen937]

@aljanat5 Why? They are paying to move the entire town. Do you expect them to somehow stablize the entire earth below just to avoid moving a town 2 miles

[@gustavlantz]

@aljanat5 Oh, another troll post. Hi troll, how are you?

[@Sorcerers_Apprentice]

Yes, it was very kind of them to step in and resolve a problem they created. I'm sure they did it out of the goodness out of their heart, not because they are simply unable to bribe the local government into screwing the townspeople over, like they would in some other countries with corrupt or ineffective government. See what I did there? That's sarcasm.

[@hitmandahl]

Hey! LKAB gör så gott de kan! Utan LKAB inget fucking Kiruna! Så enkelt är det!

[@laromai2245]

​@@Sorcerers_Apprentice > "resolve a problem they created." -- The town wouldn't exist in the first place without the mine. Lot's a Communist whining in that town, and by Vice. I grew up 120 km south of Kiruna, in a town which is ALSO being moved as we speak. Same whining. Same Communist sour attitudes. I'm sick of it. They think that wealth comes from nowhere, only to be distributed. Sigh. So I moved 1000 km southward, just to escape the Communist whining and groaning. Communists = Cry Babies.

[@Tokioka]

World: On lockdown Meanwhile in Sweden:

[@johan.ohgren]

What? You're saying a town can't social distancing from other towns?? It's too damned crowded up there in the arctic!

[@jessicacharlesson5198]

Tokioka this is old reporting, the city is much more built up, than What it was there. Aka. they aren’t moving now. But possibly building since Sweden is not in courantine

[@clasdavid5450]

@@johan.ohgren snygg profilbild

[@Flayvfx]

Clas David hahahah

[@ElectariumTunic]

The moving is on ongoing process that started in 2019 and plan to finish in 2027

[@MardTheTard]

Bra jobbat gubbar!

[@standwiththeoppressed7030]

This explains how a government-owned company is generally held at higher scrutiny on standards and ethics and therefore doesn't endanger the long-term sustainability for short-term gains.

[@Hans.Dewitt]

that only applies in developed nations lol

[@hannaolivia100]

Sweden (along with, I guess the rest of Scandinavia and some parts of Europe) stands out, it is rare that other states would reason like this.

[@abo133780]

@bopp9 Lär dom ut sånt på Livets hårda skola?

[@blacksebbeth]

Very well said. This should be top post. But let's not pretend it makes a government trustworthy. Democracy's simplest idea is founded on the peoples suspicion of their government, that is what gives people power, otherwise voting is meaningless. The American spell/dream have made people forget that. "People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people." In Sweden things can be as bad as anywhere else at times. But one thing usually rings true. The government usually is afraid of the power of the people, which is good. This is why Kiruna is moving to protect the inhabitants instead of turning into temporary labor camps. Because the Swedish people are strong.

[@darkwolf4434]

It moves certain houses that has some history in the Town.

[@infrared7759]

This is honestly beautiful. I live in the US where companies will lay off hundreds of employees to boost their stocks. No US mining corporation would ever dream of giving up 60% of their profits to relocate families.

[@hjallest6565]

Well that’s because the company is state-owned

[@juanaguillon6093]

Here in America the government jus burns the land that corporations want and then sell it to them cheap.

[@blobblobb2341]

ur correct @@hjallest6565

[@f.a.s4250]

Vice makes this more dramatic then it is, sure some residents need to move into flats or other houses but there is no choice in not moving a part of kiruna. Becuse like Gunnar Selberg said LKAB (The mining company) is like a mother to Kiruna. Most people who live in Kiruna work at LKAB and LKAB gives alot of donations too the town. ~ A Kiruna Resident.

[@Reflectingparadigm]

I too only realized how dramatic an interview has to be just for the sake of profiting off of the people and VIEWS. They do not cover up the whole situation where such decision is not individual decision but a kommunal decision that translates to; we are doing it because there is (?) no other way. However I agree, they have to give them HOUSES if what they took were HOUSES. Its not fair at all to take their houses and give them money and leave the rest to them, in swedish standards that it almost violated compensation and rude.

[@based3399]

That must be a crazy feeling to wake up in the same bedroom, but look out the window and you're somewhere else.

[@Masp89]

My dad worked for LKAB when I was a kid, and retired just when the move started being discussed. After retirement he moved down to the coastal city Piteå, and me myself got myself a job in Stockholm. It's very emotional to see the city you grew up in being so radically transformed, even if none of us visits Kiruna any more.

[@tonybaloney8401]

I'm one of the descendants of Hjalmar Lundbohm, the original managing director of LKAB, and unofficial founder of Kiruna. It's pretty mindblowing to know that the mine is still in strong operation after over 100 years.

[@snigelalva]

I feel the same, i cant even visit the new Kiruna. Its not the same.

[@synecdoche8783]

if those houses were made here in america they'd break apart the moment you lifted them up

[@Pcarnevaaa]

Ye cuz America sucks

[@Theghostofpeter]

Pmoose Travern, and yet people keep coming here.. lol

[@Theghostofpeter]

Signed someone that isn’t part of the US.. lol

[@xalpacazeu1332]

Pmoose Travern No why do people still come. No one can enter sweden because they want educated lmao

[@synecdoche8783]

I'm actually thinking of moving countries after this covid-19 shit storm blows over. Our government is a failure, including our president.

[@MrMatt-cm6do]

I hate when I have to move my home two miles down the street. So inconvenient and my plates always break.

[@MarcusGomesFIFA]

I feel bad for that lady. Being 'forced' to move is fine because of the situation. But her not getting enough money from her current home to buy a new house/flat and instead having to rent. I can imagine it would be frustrating to go from owning your own home to having to rent again.

[@thomaskoponen]

It’s more than fair, they are paying market price (rare), + 25% as a minimum offer.

[@laromai2245]

@dendo111 Correct., Lot's of whining in those areas. Indoctrinated to always feel discontent. I grew up there (or 120 km to the South). No matter where you go in the world you will know what ideology fostered the whining attitude. You will know even in the Congress in which direction the whiners are leaning... ahum.

[@hdajhdaahha3836]

@dendo111 "Should"? She shouldn't have to move at all. The corporation has been aggressively depleting the ground, ruining it completely in an attempt to make as much money as possible. They endangered the lives of an entire city and when caught they realised they will make A LOT more money by passing a law (the corporation is state owned and are therefore backed by the police and military and can never make a mistake or be held accountable) forcing all who lives there to move so that they can continue to deplete the ground until it all caves in and some of Swedes most beautiful landscapes are nothing more but a big crater.

[@Fudo94]

@@hdajhdaahha3836 The town was built around the mining operation. It's the worlds largest iron ore mine and it has been active for 100 years. She is less important.

[@The93Momo93]

yeah it's a decent deal, she is just picky

[@sheikhOfWater]

This clip was used on Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick

[@MAG320]

Mayor posts on KZbin: "Why I'm moving my town across town" as the title

[@BDeka-vx8fw]

"Home Delivery"

[@archilles5037]

I want to say one thing as a swede those old people don't comprehend how nice the company is to them and how many other companies wouldn't do the same. I'm kinda mad that Vice opted to interview a group of people that only care about themselves and can't comprehend how good they have it with this deal. In Sweden many elderly don't understand how liberal we are compared to many other countries in the world and that what they have is a privilege so they complain about everything they feel "wronged" about.

[@dmal9589]

Me watching this being a Swede not knowing about this 😦

[@raeyadmasu1590]

D e lugnt om du går i grundskolan, annars behöver du steppa upp din knowledge

[@NWHE]

Det var några som gjorde ett test och intervjuade kirunabor om dem visste om ombyggnationen av slussen i stockholm och jag tror alla visste om det, sen intervjuade dem stockholmare om dem visste om kirunaflytten och dem hade noll koll

[@mementomori3195]

Reminder me with old Simpson episode, where the Springfield city is moving out.

[@p.hearting9992]

Lengkong Sanggar Ginaris which episode is that?

[@bobbymcearlton]

@@p.hearting9992 (S9Ep22)

[@maksarcher7963]

you think season 9 is 'old' simpsons ? dont make me laugh

[@Nlify]

@@maksarcher7963 s9 was aired 22 years ago. literally old simpsons

[@Jollyman432]

@@Nlify 22 years how is that old?

[@MafiaboysWorld]

Didn't the Simpsons do this when they moved Springfield? 🤔 I'm onto you Matt Groening, you time traveller you.

[@laddttt6808]

MafiaboysWorld no.

[@kutter_ttl6786]

@@laddttt6808 Yes

[@lS-qp6zq]

Give genius Matt Groening a break. Perhaps he saw the opening scene in Monte Hellman's early '70s film Cockfighter with the late great Warren Oates. Obscure US film reference I know. Imma head out.

[@johan.ohgren]

This isn't the first time they've moved that city.

[@MrCman321]

Damn Vice has been killing it with the content lately. Keep it up and I'll keep watching.

[@MaxTerm000]

Teacher:why you want to leave so early??..Your house didn't go anywhere you know Swedish student:

[@edr.2642]

Wow thats crazy moving a whole town to mine.

[@darkwolf4434]

That mine is incredibly important for the swedish economy. It was the reason why Sweden had to sell iron to the Nazis because they had control over Narvik Where all iron is transported.

[@davinator_peepo2102]

House: Aight I'm boutta head out

[@adrianstoness3903]

cool. i live in a town in northern canada that was picked up and moved from one town and moved to a new one 175miles away on sleighs through the northern bush 100+ buildings moved over 2 winters.

[@reaperr6357]

Someone could easily make a house arrest joke

[@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791]

Governments in Europe: Let's move heaven and earth (literally) to provide for our people. Yank Government: Lol, you have no drinking water. Tough luck.

[@philipe1502]

Good Luck with this pandemic aswell! It's not that we were warned months ago, are one of the richest nations on earth and had the infrastructure to prepare.

[@Columbakin]

@Daniel Byrne the company is nationalised so it is the government

[@jaclpz]

Daniel Byrne - I doubt any company would be doing this all on their own without the government stepping in.

[@PrinceZakariyya]

I didn’t know Europe was a country.

[@MafiaboysWorld]

@Daniel Byrne You obviously didn't hear "STATE OWNED" meaning government run. 😂

[@gabem17]

When they tell you to stay home but you still wanna go places 😂

[@we-drive]

Everyone gangsta till the house lifts off the ground

[@darsdm]

The story reminds me of Most in Czechia, where the entire historic center was demolished to give way to a coal mine

[@bjoardar]

Man, that's so sad :/

[@alexgerrits349]

I saw this story back when they started the move but those buildings are unbelievably immaculate having spent a hundred years in the snow. I would have thought they were built in the 90s.

[@gaevlebocken]

My family is from a small town close to Kiruna. And the same thing is happening there. Every time we visit another part of the town has been swallowed by the huge hole haha... My grandmother will be like ”and just around this corner is where I used to work when I wa..” *almost falls into bottomless pit*

[@Qce-i6d]

I get that it's hard to move a whole town. It's either that or your house falls into the gorge from an old mine. At least it's a giant company that is actually taking some responsibility for how the massive mine will impact other people.

[@SWEmanque]

The entire town basically only exists to serve the needs of LKAB, so they can't really screw the town over without it hurting themselves. They also must move the town, as without access to new ore they will not be able to operate and then there is no point to the town and everyone will have to move and the town will be dead within a couple of months. LKAB is the town and the town is LKAB, more or less.

[@Soilworker]

LKAB has got a mine in Gällivare too and that town is more or less split in two because of a huge gorge known as "Gropen" - "The hole"...

[@Reakted]

3:25 if you think about it very often then the best choice you can make is moving out immediately. This would stop worrying about it and it saves you months of headache and stress. So stop whining and start moving and keep your mind calm. You need to do it anyway.

[@satriaamiluhur622]

So the corporation is actually responsible? Man i wish we had that in my country

[@hdajhdaahha3836]

The corporation is state owned and they wanted to continue to fully deplete the ground, they totally ruined the whole area and they refuse to stop so they passed a law forcing all people who live there to move, they underpay them so they can't buy their own houses back. They are getting scammed worse than anybody have ever been scammed before.

[@verozety4040]

hdajhda ahha Kiruna City needs that mine to continue existing. If they closed that mine nobody would continue living there because Kiruna city was built around the mine. Almost every body who lives the work at the mine or has a job that has some relation to the mine

[@commandoslayer]

Reminds me of that Simpson episode where home trashed Springfield and everyone had to move.

[@captaineurope6564]

In this case I suggest total removal of mortgage interest rates. I mean just plain monthly instalments for the remaining months since there's no guarantee the homes will be in the same conditions on arrival at the second location .

[@theirine17]

Vice, please invest in new background music. This an update on Sweden, not meditation in Cambodia.

[@AlvarLagerlof]

haha

[@Armando620]

Is Vice under new management? They've had a fair amount of decent videos coming out lately.

[@evelynburke6821]

Hiiiii everyone! So I actually live in Kiruna (this town) because of my studies I moved there, I'd love to answer some questions if anyone has any about the mine, how it is to live there, what it's like to fall asleep as the blasts go off in the mine etc.

[@cheyenneseneca6943]

Hi Evelyn. I am coming to Kiruna next week. I will be there for a few months studying conflicts around the mine. Do you still live there? I would love to meet with and talk to a local on these topics. Maybe we can connect on Facebook? My name is Cheyenne Seneca.

[@Pine_Wood]

du pluggade på rymd i suppose ;)

[@vermillion4916]

Patrick: “Push!” The town: “ahhhh!” Patrick: “Push!” The town: “ahhhh!” Patrick: “Push!” The town: “hooray!”

[@danicalifornia505]

Did we ever get a follow up to this story?

[@TheGamingHarryTGH]

I love how the company is correcting their mistakes with their own money and not running away with the money

[@verozety4040]

Almost everyone in that town work for the mining company and the company is owned by the Swedish government. So it wouldn’t look good for the government if the just let the town be swallowed by the mine. Because then they never be re-elected.

[@idealfather3547]

My hometown. The whole block where I grew up is gone. Feels like a part of me is gone.

[@silvialogan9226]

It is very hard on the inhabitants who live there.

[@jessicacharlesson5198]

This is old reporting, honey, this is so old.

[@marcustrelle4898]

This is like the Simpsons episode where the town was full of garbage so they put every single building on trucks and lorries and moved the entire town five miles down the road.

[@pjanoo6973]

When you need to go to the grocery store but you can't leave your house

[@sinfuldebauchery]

Beautiful snow.

[@google_was_my_idea]

I saw this clip on the latest top gear episode (Scandi flick) when the hosts were passing through Kiruna. Interesting to see how mining has affected the whole town and their innovative solution....

[@lawfullysuspicious1225]

I'm sorry the houses are moving I'm sorry

[@annikaranestal7084]

The fact is that the flats for buying or renting, that they are building, are far too expensive for a lot of people. Even with the money they get from LKAB a lot of the elders find they don’t have the money, even for a small flat for renting, sadly enough. That has led many elders to come to the conclusion to move away from Kiruna. Some would have done that anyway. But others would have preffered to remain in Kiruna if there were cheaper flats to buy and if there also were rental flats available that they could afford. As the lady said: ”There are not enough apartments”. They are just moving a few of the houses. A big part of the houses in Kiruna will be demolished. The newly built houses, which will replace the demolished houses, are very expensive. A solution to this problem would be, to not only build these extremely expensive houses, but also build houses with flats that are cheaper to buy and apartments that would be cheaper to rent. It is a shame they have chosen not to do so. At least not to the extent that could fill the demand. So sad.

[@Ritaaw1]

I was just reading about Kiruna and now this pops up! Convenient :)

[@QuasiTraction]

It's not hard, the reason the 1964 Anchorage Alaska earthquake was so devastating in terms of property damage was the topography of Anchorage itself. Landfill and tideflats. Seattle's waterfront faces a similar fate..

[@hungkhodang2071]

So this is how Home delivery works

[@blasalvice]

This is how every company should think

[@jtkiruna]

This is the math for those who must move from an apartment. Let's say the company pays 1755000 SEK for your apartment and you bought it for 50000 sek 20 years ago. This means that you deduct 50 000 SEK from those 1 755 000 SEK, 1 705 000. On that sum you have to pay 22% tax 375 100 SEK. This leaves you with 1 379 900 SEK. To buy a new same size apartment will cost you roughly 2 100 000 to 2 300 000 SEK. If you are lucky you will find an old apartment for sale for about 1 300 000- 1 500 000 SEK. So decide for your self if this is a fair deal.

[@Maurazio]

so it's not that the ground is caving in, they want to extract iron below the town so they have to move the buidlings

[@alleycat2697]

If I was getting $130k and my friend was doing the same, as well as my whole family. Instead of getting another flat pool money together, making a family business and create your own apartments.

[@KristoferOlsson]

You will not be able to build a new apartment for 130k dollars in this region. You probably would need 3-4 times that money to build new.

[@Mogul_inthemaking]

2020 just 4 months down but damnit. Feels like 1904

[@heyitsme9258]

At least the company is helping because in America they would leave you in the ditch. I do hope families who leave in the flats can find a new home

[@lkgpuanimho0349]

How do they connect the pipes and electricity wiring then?

[@jewbiden3697]

in Sweden, pipe move you

[@HugeDisgrace]

Hello Grand Tour viewers with media proficiency skills

[@AugustDH]

Haha 😂

[@Knox-yk1cc]

i work for a company here in norway that deliveries ventilation tubes to kiruna alot and i thought that LKAB was helping the people more then this wtf

[@HensonLoggingCompany]

Reminds me of what happened in Paradise, Kentucky

[@exactinmidget92]

Its like when springfield moved 5 miles down the road because they had to much trash.

[@phil_5430]

So Patricks idea was good after all...

[@kramberries8328]

god i love vice

[@ccze7963]

Det betyder att vi kan flytta skåne

[@ccrozz99]

In any other country, the companies would leave the workers for themselves.

[@PHlophe]

its easier for richer countries like sweden to handle this. they get tons of cash from selling weapons to syria etc.. Billions that is.

[@Theghostofpeter]

Lechiffresix six, what weapons? Sweden’s don’t have a military..

[@PHlophe]

@@Theghostofpeter you don't need to need to own a weapon to contribute to mass murder. www.businessinsider.com/swedens-dirty-secret-they-arm-dictators-2014-5?op=1&r=US&IR=T

[@brynnaloznak1209]

This happened in a town next to mine in northern Michigan

[@han-fq1si]

I’m swedish and this is old news

[@bassbassbasser]

Your asian

[@ipixz3]

Guess they shoulda posted this on Vice channel instead. But it's a on-going thing, and he word "news" has been broad since a long time ago.

[@moreid202]

acid crayon cheeky

[@gustavlantz]

@aljanat5 "Cynical propaganda" Oh you trolls make me laugh. I needed that Thanks!

[@laromai2245]

@aljanat5 BS. Strip+ out all the nail of the houses in Kiruna which was stolen from the LKAB company by the workers, and the whole torn falls flat to the ground. Old saying in the "mine fields" of the Swedish North. Yes, I was born and raised there. Whining Communists. Same sour attitudes wherever you encounter them. Cry babies.

[@mrjonko4705]

I live in kiruna

[@charlesdemeary]

I mean, I don’t think they have too much of an option. Either move or go down with the boat. I mean, unless the mining company is speeding things up.

[@donb2527]

2:52 text is wrong, she’s saying: They tore down city hall a few months ago, and that was tough because then I saw everything

[@thsimpsonsguy]

how is the text wrong? lol

[@johnspinelli9396]

We dont we just take that town, and push it somewhere ELSE! -Patrick Star

[@mihadalzayat6957]

It’s kiruna time

[@snigelalva]

Not moving… being torn down. Like my childhood home.

[@erikmansson7087]

I get that some people don´t want to move. But to have a mine that is the sole reason that the city exist give them 2 option. Either they stop mining, the people don´t have to move and city economics cruble which will leave the city a ghost town in a few years or decades or they move some of the city to a new safe lokation and keep the mine opened. To give a perspective, its the largest iron mine in the world and was valued around 2 trillion dollars in 2010.

[@drbreeden4093]

How about Centralia, Pennsylvania?

[@wiiretime3704]

25% over market in the USA it would of been 25%under

[@wiiretime3704]

@maentzify same situation happened to my aunt a few years ago not with he mine but with a company buying her land and moving her on the grounds of urban development she could have sold her house for 150k not a huge sum but it was hers now these ppl come along and give her 50c on the dollar take it or leave it who's gonna buy when they know they gotta sell again

[@qwertyd5331]

Absolute madness

[@na6241]

Greed > Life

[@aguywholikesbrownstripes4634]

Looks like someone took patrick's suggestion literally

[@sundawg911]

The thing is the company will make back the money easily. Although it seems like the company is investing in the move of the town, the main reason they are doing it is because it serves their interest first. Expanding their ability to mine ore. I get why people are reluctant because if you lived there all your life you're seeing a company take over and change completely the environment you were born and raised with. A company forcing you and giving you two years to move does not sound like a fun time, especially if you've never considered it. So I get the reluctance.

[@zoom5024]

They have 2 choices in reality. Dont move and close the mine, which stands for like 70% of jobs and brings money to the town = town would become wasteland anyways. Or get your arse in the new town and make a profit while doing so, since they said that they will pay 25% over market value.

[@rx58000]

Don't worry if anyone needs Iron the company will open it's shops