When an American Visits Scandinavia

[@jacobriis7859]

Bikes have bike locks. And that is very necessary. Our country is safe, but an unlocked bike is very tempting for some!

[@svum.1]

Habibi come to Dubai!!

[@sorenalmeida]

إن شاء الله

[@Defferleffer]

With a name like Soren, do you have Scandivanian heritage?

[@sorenalmeida]

I have Finnish heritage, but Soren is a Danish name.

[@Defferleffer]

@ Yeah I thought so, Søren is a very common name in Denmark.

[@DONTHASSLETHEHOFF]

@@Defferleffer And Sören in Sweden, but it's more common amongst older people here.

[@jacobriis7859]

You don't pay 50% in taxes. Only the income over about $100.000 is taxed so high. The first money you make is not taxed. So it's difficult to say an exact tax rate. This is normal for many countries.

[@sorenalmeida]

Thanks for the clarification

[@DONTHASSLETHEHOFF]

Well, you don't pay 50% in income taxes, that's true. But you pay a lot more than 50% when you look into sales taxes and other fees and include them.

[@cazzandra]

Malmö being the biggest multicultural town in Sweden, Malmö being the most dangerous town in Sweden. Make what you will with that information

[@JayFarfan]

Life anywhere is more challenging when you mix different cultures, as people think differently, act, and socialize differently. However, mixing cultures is the best way to get great food, music, art, fashion, entertainment, and the best-looking people. Make what you will of that information :)

[@bubble0]

@@JayFarfan Replying to an objective fact with subjective opinions.

[@Fluxwux]

As a Malmö resident, Malmö has the last couple of years been pretty chill in terms of crime and violence - as said in the video criminals go to jail and violence stops. Been more stuff happening in Stockholm/Gothenburg recently (Malmö has actually been Swedens SAFEST major city since 2020 or so). And as all with all cities with these issues it is 90% happening in a few select segregated suburbs at night towards other gang criminals - so regular people don’t really notice it, it’s only on the news (from my experience). My hypothesis why crime is going down in Malmö besides more strict penalties in Sweden now and more incarceration is that Malmö is the OG immigrant city in Sweden and from my view integration has gone further here because immigrants have lived here for more generations, we were already “full” during the refugee crisis in 2015 so we didn’t really take anyone in back then and therefore the immigrant communities here have been here for much longer than the other Swedish towns that started getting lots of immigrants back in 2010-2015 and had to start integration from scratch, while Malmö has done it since the early 90s.

[@cazzandra]

@@Fluxwux pretty sure I read about a bomb or two just blowing up in malmö a week ago or so, and some shootings aswell, but sure if you believe its a safe city, you do you, the evidence is evidence nonetheless

[@Fluxwux]

@I never said Malmö was perfect - but shootings happen in pretty much all European cities and that bombing wasn’t like a terror attack - it was someone threatening someone with criminal connections and nobody was hurt which has been a thing in Sweden since like 3-4 decades. But that’s a weird attitude towards describing safety - I know a friend that was assaulted and robbed in Tokyo a few years ago - but never experienced a robbery when backpacking in South America. So Tokyo must be more dangerous than all South American countries he visited, right? We obviously have to look at the big picture and statistics overall and where/who is affected by crime and violence. Malmö still has a murder rate, robbery rate and crime rate lower than tons of European cities and even lower than the countries of Latvia and Lithuania as a whole per capita. I don’t want to minimize anything, but crime happens everywhere in the world and the same ridiculous argument about Malmö being “a super duper dangerous city with shootings and terror attacks every day” can essentially be made about any city in the world, even Tokyo. I suggest you visit Malmö for yourself and paint your own opinion rather than reading right leaning media.

[@jacobriis7859]

There is LEGOLAND and LEGO House. The land is mostly for families, the house is a bit different. Not a theme park.

[@jacobriis7859]

Oh, you visited both. I understand now