7 Things Normal in Sweden That Would Terrify Most Americans
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In Sweden I live. 0 yrs. Without a car ;) ♥
USA!?
I Lied with the 0 yrs . But i think the world would catch up. Wich that that was the real world.
Sweden probably doesn’t pay for illegals right?
I live in Denmark, but the Scandinavian countries are very similar in many things.
My husband go cancer in 2010. 10 years later - 8 operations, 2x radiation therapy, medicine, special food, check ups, transportation to and from the hospital and so on.
Didn't cost a dime. Well taxes of course. But you don't have to sell your house if you are sick.
There is also a "hospital hotel" in Copenhagen, so if you have an early operation, you can stay there for free, so you don't have to stress through traffic in the morning of your operation.
He also got rehabilitation from the town we live in (free gym and fysitherapi) to get him going. And a paient co-ordinator wo called and asked if he was ok, and if he needed any help with something. Still no cost.
It was also an ENORMOUS help for me a wife/relative/family as well.
Yeah - he's till alve and kicking :-)
Do a video about What terrify swedes in USA.
For me I think shoes inside would be really crazy to handle.
Agreed!
What personally terrify me is all the memorial crosses next to the road everywhere where someone died in an accident. What doesn't terrify me but that still makes me uncomfortable is that I don't know what to do besides feel awkward while waiting for other people to pack my groceries and when I get home I don't know where anything is because there's no system, too many plastic bags, and I miss the pant system. Feels like a sin to trash bottles and cans. What I also miss is walking as a means of transportation. I miss walking culture but cities were built for cars not people. Even the rural areas are built for cars not walking or biking. Tipping still freak me out too, it never gets more comfortable.
Metal detectors in schools.
Healthcare cost would definitely terrify me.
Same, it still baffles me, like.. Why?? You're both dirtying and damaging the floors and the furniture! Just take em off!
You mean your taxes actually go to problems within the country, and not just their pockets???
FREE HEALTH CARE?!?!
Sign me up
Yes.
There's no such thing as "free" healthcare, only Tax-Payer Funded and Bureaucrat Distributed.
Lol.
The healthcare is payed by our high taxes on everything and on top of that er pay fees for medecin and visits to the hospital
No no, with an effective taxrate of 76% there is plenty of money left over for politicans pockets after setting up a few hospitals.
“Sweden has one of the harshest drug laws in the United States.” Love that sentence.
There are like 4 "stockholm" in the US
One of the states reffered to "new sweden"
@@fridenstrom are you referring to Minnesota as New Sweden?
@@commentor3485 new sweden was in delaware
@@bertil3887 I always joked New Sweden should really be Minnesota
@@commentor3485 well, many Swedish immigrants moved to Minnesota during the 19th century but the only Swedish colony in America was in Delaware during the 17th century 😊
I live in America and my father has Colorectal Cancer, he has to pay a total of $12,000 annually for healthcare, and his insurance company doesn't even pay for all of his medical expenses, so on top of paying $12,000 he has to pay even more for medical bills. The American Healthcare system, even if you can afford it, is a total joke, and no one should ever have to experience the hell that it is.
I agree. There really should be reforms on that.
The main strength with the Swedish system is the day you get really sick, if you just go to the doctor now and then for small things you pay "full" all the time, but then one day you are diagnosed with a really bad thing, like cancer and have to go to the doctor a lot.. And suddenly you only pay the first visits to the doctor, then its free, you only pay for the medication the fist times then its free, and if you have to major surgery, that is free too because you already paied when you went to the doctor the first times.
I totally agree!!
I’m getting my degree and then moving. I can’t stand it
@@YamiTheEevee Go for it
You forgot 1 important thing regarding freedom in Sweden compared to USA, and that is the freedom to roam. In Sweden you can walk from the most northern part of the country to the south of it and tenting in suitable places as long as you dont do permanent damage and pick up your own litter, and not break a single law. And yes that means crossing other peoples territories too.
yeah! in swedish that right would be called "allemansrätten"
@@alex-ki9et Dont ruin it! let him find out his own way, all he needs is a little nudge and a wink
Not all private property though. Not close to a house or anything that is properly fenced off.
this is true, you're not allowed to for example go into peoples backyards or into a persons house, youre also not allowed to camp on roads, or paths, anywhere that would block traffic or pedestrians. however those, "trespassers will be shot" signs ive seen all over america since i moved her would be illegal in sweden for so many reasons. so many.
America is not particularly free in general despite most Americans believing we are the most free country, and even the more cosmopolitan types I think would still rank us way higher than we are. Though we are more free in certain ways obviously like gun ownership. Honestly can’t think of much else. Legal cannabis depending on the state I guess which is great.
My relative’s cancer medicine costs 10 000 usd a month, but it’s payed for through taxes, so she gets to live without having to sell her house etc.
The thing is it probably doesn't cost that much to produce, but the companies can charge that, so they do.
@@Cheepchipsable Yeah, they probably want to make a profit from people being sick.
@@Solbrick Or maybe they need to recover the cost to develop the medicine, or maybe make a profit they can reivest to develop new medicine and maybe the people that have invested in the company want to make a profit for the financial risk the took to develop the medicine... Or maybe people are just evil, ye lets go with that....
#1. No in the US pays $10,000/ month, either you have insurance or medicaid. #2. The US offers the most advanced cancer treatment on earth
#3. National healthcare will never offer the most advanced b/c the cost.
@@kinnish5267 Good for you!
I'm from Norway not Sweden, but we have pretty much the same taxes (except on alcohol, nicotine and sugar :P) And i've never minded paying it. Like you mentioned, you actually see where it goes by the quality of public infrastructure and how it helps everyone as a collective. I was also layed-off and jobless for 2 years. It hurt my soul to go on welfare, but it allowed me to go TWO years without a job. But i kept my house, i kept my car, i never had to worry about health insurance or how i would pay for my sons tuition.
I'm more then happy paying high taxes knowing that millions of people have the same peace of mind that i had for those two years.
Sure, some abuse it, but that's the minority not the majority.
Bra sagt, broder!
Edit: Undskyld. Bra sagt, syster!
Edit#2: Jeg beklager undskyldningen! 😁
@@beorlingo Hehe, er en kar bare langt hår på bildet :P . René = guttenavn, Reneé = jente navn, som skuespilleren Reneé Zellwegger. Fransk navn da, så forstår forvirrelsen :D
@@renehoyvik Väldigt liten bild! 🤭
@@beorlingo Hehe :P
@Riley Frost if this is true why did homelessness increase so drasticly during covid? I'm genuinly curius here, i don't know anything about how unemployment welfare works in the US.
As a Brit I was interested to see that petrol (gas) is even more expensive here than in Sweden. It's the American equivalent of $7 a gallon. The portion sizes apply to the UK too. A small coke in an American McDonalds is bigger than the biggest in the UK. In fact, a lot of these comparisons hold good for a lot of Europe, not just Sweden.
I don't know where he gets his numbers but the price for gas/petrol is higher in Sweden than what he wrote. 1L cost about 16.80 at least yesterday when we refuled, that comes out to ~$7,35/US gallon ($1 = 8,65 SEK in todays rate, 1 US galleon = 3,785L).
That comes closer to your prices in the UK.
You can own four weapons for hunting (vapengarderoben för jakt), but really it’s like six hunting rifles, ten one hand weapons for shooting (like target practice and shooting range, so handguns) and on top of this eight other weapons (rifles, bows, crossbows and so on). You do need licenses for all of them and you need permits to own them. To get permits and licenses you need to be able to show that you can handle guns responsibly, that you can store the in a secure way (in a gun cabinet, wall mounted and with the ammunition in another, also safe, place. I have to say I don’t think that is to much to ask, that the one with guns is responsible and registered.
Btw, the car size…American infrastructure was built around the car, European cars has to fit a infrastructure that, often, has been around for a thousand years. So yeah, the cars are often tiny :)
I visited the states like ten years ago and reacted to the sodas. It was like a litre of cola and the they came out and asked if we wanted more. “No…no thank you, the diabetes is doing great”…
@Riley Frost partly true. I got my license in two months and yes, it is for sports shooting. That doesn’t mean you have to be an active sports shooter, it means that the time spent getting your license is training sports shooting. So that you and others know how to actually handle a gun. We have to keep them in a safe, separate from the ammunition. Unlocking and loading takes about 10 minutes, in that time they’ve already gotten your shitty tv. No problem, take it, I’m insured. I’m sure as hell not going to kill someone over stuff.
@@jte5783 you can store ammo with the guns. And you can also have loaded magazines in the safe, so loading takes me 3 seconds... i dont know that you get 10 minutes from.. and what kind of sportshooting do youdo where you can get a gun after 2 months? That does not seem right...
@@taztaz79 my comment got pulled.
I know you can, I was trying to say that it might not be the best idea.
I took an intensive course, it took 4 days. Then waited 6 weeks for my hunters license.
Your "this is un-American man, I need my refill" face is priceless!
A society where gallons of soda (sugar) and shooting guns is a mandatory right but not Healthcare, medicin and overall being supported when you need it.
So agree with this Jonatan!
Of course there are good thing in the US too.Like When we in Sweden rely on the "Swedish society" to help us with a lot of things, the Americans many times create networks to help each others out. And this kind of network do I miss here in Sweden... The old Swedish proverb "Ensam är stark" is so wrong as it can be! Isn't it... Because then you, by yourself, has to fix everything that does not work , but together with others you can solve so much more and at the same time get s lot of friendship!
@@kristinaatgreenmeadowswede6714 "Ensam är stark" isn't really something a lot of people follow, I'd even go so far as saying that most of the time the opposite is true for swedes. Networking in Sweden arises from a _want_ instead instead of a _need_ ... Which root is better in the long run is open for discussion.
You did not mention universities. In America parents save for a long time so the kids can go to school. In Sweden anyone can go to the university.
Don’t forget you also get paid for going to school.
Most of the gas price in Sweden is tax, but on the other hand it finances all the roads, most bridges and tunnels in the country. And 95% of the roads from motorways to rural roads are in really good condition. I prefer to think whatever I pay in gas tax, I probably don't have to spend on car repairs do to crappy roads 😁 I'm sure it evens out in the end.
It finances the political class more than anything, just like all other taxes.
@@herrbonk3635 What then finances roads, most bridges and tunnels in the country?
@@JukkaKakku Taxes of course. But the point is that before the 1970s enormous expansion of the public sector (under Palme and Sträng), most taxes were just a fraction of what they are today. We had roads, free healthcare, free universities and such back then as well. Plus a much stronger military defence, a much lower crime rate and so on.
@@herrbonk3635 the point is that roads, bridges and tunnels ( especially those built before the 70's) need regular maintenance to stay in good condition, and the cost for that is also payed with tax money. Not only the new productions.
@@elainekarlsson8384 Do you really belive the major reason taxes skyrocketed in the 1970s is because we needed money to maintain old roads...? Why would you suddenly need an enormous public sector for that?
_"We often hear of the horrors [of socialized healthcare]."_
This is the thing that just confuses me. Almost every country in the world has some level of socialized healthcare. How horrifying could it possibly be :/
The US had the "Red Scare" where Socialism and especially the more radical Communism was seen as treasonous. And that kinda sentiment is still around. At the same time however in America you basically don't go to the doctor unless you think you're dying or you're wealthy
@@WardenLoveless So it's like the echoes of ancient propaganda? That's pretty sad.
It's horrifying for the health insurance industries and big pharma's bank accounts.
There's a lingering attitude, especially in the midwest where I'm from, of everyone should earn their own way through life. The ideal is if you work hard and well you'll be successful. If you don't you remain poor. It's like financial darwinism.
It also pisses a lot of people off that a huge portion of the Welfare system is abused by people who could find work but don't want to. I'm a factory worker and the revolving door of temps who just want to fulfill their Welfare obligations is criminal. If you can't work that's one thing but if you can you shouldn't be allowed to laze about.
I'm American, but I like the Swedish way of thinking for most things on the list. Nice video! 🤞🍀✌😊
awh
Super interesting hearing an American's perspective on stuff like this! There were some culture shocks for me coming from the UK, but America is a totally different world.
Actually you can own almost any weapon here in Sweden. Especially as a gun collector. But under a collector license your not aloud to use the weapon without permission from the police.
To own a assault rifles you have to be active in competitions.
So I can legally own a Glock, a Katana, a Tomahawk, an Uzi and a Guando at the same time?
Not the UZI. Glock is fine for competionpurpose.
The guns also have to be rendered unusable if you're just going to collect them, such as removing a key item that makes it unable to actually be fired.
You can get in a LOT of trouble if the gun is actually usable and it's not a licensed hunting-rifle.
I've always found it embarrassing, that when someone is "free", the best thing they can think of it to get a gun.
Is that really all freedom means to some people?
You can own functioning guns in Sweden if you have a purpose for them. “Feeling safe” is not an approved purpose. Nor is “self-defense”. Hunting rifles of almost any kind are totally ok, as long as you have a hunting license for it. Pistols and revolvers are only for target shooting (practice and competition), and most are ok if you have a license, AND are a member of a shooting club. Most automatic weapons are considered military grade, (which, to be fair, they are), and reserved for the military and the police. There are exceptions, but those require specific license.
So, all in all, yes, you CAN own guns in Sweden, and a lot of people, (especially hunters), do, but no, you cannot just buy a Glock at the gas station…
Ironically, it's mostly because of the US that Sweden has so strict laws regarding drug related offenses.
To bad the time on each subject is so short, there is so much more to be said. Anyway, good vid as always!
Just the other day, we had 16.69 swedish crowns per liter here on Gotland. That made, on that specific days currency conversion rate, $7.28/gallon. 😱
Regular is hovering just above three bucks a gallon in the NYC metro area.
@@machinist7230 That's what oil company subsidies will get you. Your tax money have already payed for that low price.
We have $8,997 per gallon at the moment. We Dutchies win! ...oh shit wait
383 usd max per 12 month period for all prescription and almost all medical combined.
Love it, also love you used the correct verbiage for pop 😜. My hubby and I are planning a trip back to his home country of Denmark and we were just discussing how we both will have to adjust again for having to pay for each refill, even water (ugh 😩). The small things... Lol! 🇩🇰🇸🇪
That’s a nice way of saying we Americans are afraid of common sense. Listening to all of this with jealousy, I hope we catch up to you guys soon.
My American friends always equaled socialism with breadlines.I lived 50 years in "socialist" Sweden surrounded by "socialist" neighboring countries and I've never seen a breadline in my life.......Until I moved to the US🙈Where due to the pandemic there were miles long breadlines of people in fancy cars that had no food and people are still in food lines over here.Not sure what the lesson here is but......yay "socialism" maybe?Lol
It’s the funniest shit. Literal miles long lines of cars for food. Actual shortages in stores like Americans love to blame socialism in Cuba for. And mind bogglingly MOST Americans blame these supply chain shortages on government giving too much social spending (!!!), or that workers are so lazy and just don’t want to work, so we need to cut unemployment and/or welfare even further. Reactionary cruel idiotic economic views are the absolute norm from the vast majority of all Americans regardless of political persuasion or party, except for the vanishingly tiny, irrelevant, and largely subcultural left.
A friend of mine in my SFI class had to go move to another town to take a 6 month course so she could be a school lunch lady. Much, much more regulation in Sweden than the US.
great as always
95 octane (basicly 93 in USA) is closer to 17,30kr today (8$ a gallon). But still, every summer, people cruise around in their 50-60's landyachts 😊 Sweden and Norway has a big classic car culture, some are mint and very rare
But the cars are smaller there, right? Do you also have different classic/ antique cars than in the USA? Classic/ antique cars in the USA are much larger than most modern cars. And much worse on fuel because of carburetors. I'm curious to know more about this!
And now its's even more. Stefan ta dig i röven D:
@@aaden5823 It's American classic cars so they are big. Sweden has the biggest "fleet" of American cars from the 1950's to 70's outside US.
@@krusbaer11 Actually from the 1940's to 1970's
Hello from Estonia,we have id card and mobile id to. All perfectly normal if you live in northern Europe.
I want to see more videos like this. And vice versa. What Swedes would be terrified of.
It is interesting that despite all the similarities, there are some things that are so different.
I think a lot of them would be tha same. We would be terrified about there healthcare and gunlaws 😜
Aw A sadness. Bat achool. you broken fool. Detta ger mig inte ett öre. Men känns som att ni strålar. Sen går jag på de medvetslösa å skapar egen agenda. Morgonsol: Bing bang bom. Vi har nya kontakter med dessa. Å Så blev vår humor råare å skönare än det riktigta
@@SaganJumJum Tjenare botten hur är läget?
As for fuel price, fuel is taxet a LOT, but it pays for our roads. We have very few tolled roads, and that's mostly done to persuade people to take the bus or subway.
I'm not so sure it pays for the roads: we have a tax on all motor vehicles, that is supposed to pay for roads (but a lot of that money is just put into the governments black hole). Thus the taxes (there are at least two!) on petrol and diesel are more likely to just disappear into the governments budget, without being earmarked for anything.
The cost of building a 4 lane highway is about 35 000$ per meter! EXTREMLY cheap? Not in my part of the universe!
Interesting, always been curious 🤔
Things that would scare Americans: free healthcare. Reeeeee that’s communism reeeeeee 😂😂
Health care is not free. We pay a lot through taxes, it becomes "cheap" because you do not pay the entire cost yourself. But everyone helps to pay.
@@Anders.Stromgren I know. I live here and I love paying high taxes because I think it’s important that people can get the healthcare they need, that they got free education which in turn helps people climb the socio economic ladder and I like that we have a good social security safety net. I used to be conservative, but ever since I came to Sweden, I’m kinda more in the center and I really must say that the Swedish system works.
@@Anders.Stromgren I could be free. But it isnt
@@Anders.Stromgren Why för? :p
I find it weird, since it's an insurance.
They pay for car insurance, and if the guy that hits them can't pay and has no insurance, then the end up being stuck with the bill through premium increases.
By that logic car insurance is socialist.
Great video and T-shirt!! Where did you get it? :D
I was absolutely sure you were going to mention nudity in the sauna or bathhouse shower room 😂
Andrew coming at you in the sauna would be over the top.
@@beorlingo 😂
That's the sole reason I clicked this vid😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.
I'm an American and a social nudist. I never get tired of hearing about how utterly bizarre our prudery appears to those outside of the US.
@@ak5659 The British are with the US on that. I have never seen such judgmental looks on me as when I started to take off my bathing suit in the ladies' shower room at the bath house in England. What's the point of men's and women's shower rooms if you have to shower with your swimwear on?
Sweden is not a socialist country, it follows the Nordic model and has a combination of free-market activity and government intervention. It is a capitalistic country, the only thing is that Sweden like all the nordic "socialist" countries has good worker rights and strong social services that are also public. Sweden just like other Nordic countries has its own economic and political models that bear hallmarks to capitalism as well as socialism. Sometimes it can be referred to as a welfare capitalist state.
Most Americans never really learned much about Social Economic System other then the benefits of the Capitalist/neo liberalist existing in the US. And that “Conservative” Politician’s and Media outlets constantly denouncing any changes or even the existence socially beneficial regulations in Areas like Welfare, medical or employment as socialist or Communist .leads to a wide spread belief that all countries where these areas are Stronger regulated or even fully government controlled must be socialist. Completely ignoring all the other factors involved defining socialism/. Communism. Sweden just like the other scandic countries are best described as social Democratic with a mixed economical system.
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This video is soooo accurate. I visited Dalarna a few years ago and was completely blindsided by the whole personal ID thing. I paid for some food using my US credit card and the cashier asked me to sign my receipt with my personal #. I told her I didn't know what it was and she said all Swedes have one... But I was only there on vacation. I thought maybe there was a language barrier, but now I realize it's probably something I don't have because I'm not a Swedish citizen.
The drink size differences were also a *HUGE* shock to me. I knew American sizes were larger than the rest of the world, but the cups for a large adult meal were about the size of a standard American kids meal. And I can see why restaurants in Sweden limit soda/pop consumption, but I was still thirsty even after paying for a refill on my drink. I would have still been thirsty even if I was just drinking water, because the cups were just so much smaller than I was used to in the States.
You're partially right. If your born in Sweden you get assigned a personal number by our analogue to the IRS when your parents have sent in a copy of your birth certificate. But if you're not a citizen you can apply for a personal number if you're here on a work visa, migrated or are approved for asylum.
If you’re still thirsty after that you must be dehydrated already.
But on the flip side the tap water is generally free in restaurants and it's really good!
we pay about $220 for meds, then they're free for up to 1 year. Then it starts over.
This only makes me want to live in Sweden even more.. 🇸🇪
There is still vacancy
@@Pholiage Vacancy? We are basically overpopulated right now, lack of jobs and decent priced apartments :(
@@Marcusianery Nah, all we need to do is raise the gas taxes, siphon the retirement funding and let violent offenders out early so they'll scare people to leave the country...
@@Pholiage Seems to be the current political mindset. Is that the insane masterplan? One could almost believe that.
I found it funny that Your #1 point (regarding the Person nummer hantering) actually was something that I myself, as an "old Sweed" ;) returning after 10 Years abroad, reacted to on my return. It was the one thing that made me think "Wow this really has changed since I left"... And it still makes me a bit "edgy" when shops and other places ask for Your P.N. just to "make You a registered customer" or something like that, when they equally well could just have used a "random Pin"...
Best regards
Right now, gas prices in Sweden are about 1,90€ for 1 Liter, which equals about 8.50 $ for 1 gallon of gas. 😂😂😂👌
Thanks, really interesting.
@Andrew Austin nice vid. I just want to know where you got that t-shirt from... That is some fresh dala horses style 😊
Saying you live/been to Dalarna, without saying it.. 😆Love your tshirt
Ah, that fantastic t-shirt, I just love it!
JA den skriker 70-tal ♥
Absolutt retro 🤣
Great video! I want your DalaHäst T-shirt
The "Hejdå" was perfect. 👏🏻
Im Swedish watching this video. And some things I had no idea of in USA. like that of gas prices are high here compared to US. I personally never actually thought gas was that expensive here. Like I think its just something that one gets used to yk.
Really good video :)
Great T-shirt! Where have you bought it?
Please rescue me from the United States. This is a genuine request.
Make friends with some Canadians. I'm literally not joking. Most Canadians understand our struggles and want to help us. I have a whole crew of friends in BC working to help get my family and I up there. 💗 Best of luck!
Srry you ar stuck in hell
@@aaden5823 Canada's face in the same problems.
I'm a swede, but I recently lived in California for about a year so I find your videos interesting :)
Good video. I Love your shirt.
OMG, I miss the desserts, like mocha cake and fasslaks bullar. I guess I spelled that wrong 😂
Älskar din tröja! 🤩
Interesting! I've been travelling the US quite a lot. both by car, hitchhiking, boat, trains etc. and seen many parts/met many people. I think the main difference between the countries is in the reason to the tax system. In Sweden it's: redistribution. Sweden's inequality index has risen in recent years, but the tax system is foremost a way to balance whatever differences there are between citizens in terms of possibilities and family support.
The logic of the Swedish welfare system is to enable individuals to emancipate through the help of the collective. I like this model a lot.
I pay 33 % of my total wage in taxes. Other than that there is tax on consumtion. The rest of the money goes to me. I dont pay for health insurance (and about $10 when I need health care/psychologist/physical therapeut, medicine - all this up to $120, the rest is free), university fees (instead there's a state funded loan+subsidies available for all swedes), my kid (as all kids) gets $110/month, roads, railroads, mandatory school for ages 6-15, 16-19 by choice aswell as lower ages (I pay a monthly fee for my kid until 3 yrs age: $110). There are also public swimming pools, sports arenas, tracks in the forests and forrest "parks" runned by either state, region or municipality. The public transportation in the cities are partly founded by taxes (partly by ticket prices). Other than this taxes goes to things harder to see with naked eye, such as: inclusive city planning (hopefully, we fail quite a lot here), environmental plans and inspections, police, fire fighters, ambulance ($30 fee for taking that), social security aid, support homes for kids and others in need, affordable housing for those in need, spare time activities and youth centers, protection of wild life and nature.
The system is not perfect and there is also a lot to question and fight to keep from current reforms and neoliberal ideas. But it's a pretty fucking complex and well developed system, up and running for almost 90 years now (some parts longer than that and taxes longer for sure - not in it's recent - 90 years - redistributionary form though). Interesting indeed
Public transport here in my home town in Sweden is free. Not that many buses every day, true, but they are totally free. The buses needed support to be viable, there was need for school buses, and the town council felt that what the hey. We pay most of it anyway, so why not take it all the way. This is tax funded. So let it show. I kind of like it. Even if I don't live along any of the routes the buses take. 🙂
I like your comment and the tax system in Sweden seems to work well for most people there. I think there’s a common misconception that such a system could just be implemented in the US and it would work the same way. Unfortunately that isn’t true. We have the majority of our population on welfare with a very small number of people even paying taxes. We now have a program where poor people who pay no taxes at all get tax credits- meaning cash from the Internal Revenue Service. I’ve done the math from our census data and our IRS returns data and only 17% of Americans pay ANY federal taxes! Take the size of our country with all the necessary infrastructure and all the 330 million people and there is a tremendous cost to pay for all that. Our top 17% here who pay any federal tax pay 30% and then they pay state tax as well in most states. Add in property tax and capital gains taxes and sales tax and they effectively pay well over 50% in taxes. The media doesn’t report this but you can go to us government websites and do this math easily enough. If we had a collective mentality here vs an entitlement mentality the Swedish tax system might work but we don’t. We also have generations raised on welfare that beget more people on welfare. Our rate of people on welfare hasn’t gone down since any of the programs were implemented in the sixties- neither has our poverty rate. We also have our highest educated people having the fewest children so our least educated people reproduce at a much higher rate the problem is only getting worse here. Eventually it will collapse from too few people to pay for so many on government subsidies……
I know it’s off-topic, but that shirt is awesome! 😊
What scares me the most about moving back to Sweden is that laws are poorly enforced. Even horrible crimes get relatively weak sentences when people are actually convicted.
maby because many of our laws are really old and outdated. But at the same time it is hard to change the laws and it takes time. But i agree they should be harcher. But if you look there is 53 inmates per 100000 people in Sweden and in US there is 751. A inmate per year cost pretty much the same here as there. we have almost 5300 inmates in sweden and there is 2.3 million in the Us. Us has 50 time our population or more so even if you multiply our amount of inmates with 50 we still 10% of how many there is in Us.
What are you talking about? What "horrible crimes" are you referring to? Murder gives you life in jail and only a pardon can set you free. SE is one of the few countries in Europe that still enforce this law.
@@dasu3 "Murder gives you life in jail" That's not true at all. Most of the time, someone convivted of murder will be given a fixed-term sentence. Only if a murder is considered "particularly ruthless" might someone be sentenced to life in jail.
Easy to see you don’t understand Swedish penal institutions. When people are sent to prison in Sweden they are sent to be rehabilitated. As most Swedes know the prisoner won’t be in prison for ever and so they want them to come out able to cope with life without needing to resort to crime. Huge difference to American prisons.
And murdered can only come out after a pardon.
The exorbitant number of prisoners in the US is not something to aim for it is a shame on the US that imprisons without any attempt at rehab for life, disproportionately males specifically black.
@@mikaeljohansson7848 We also had a man that raped a woman with like 5 other men for hours also get paid 100,000 dollars just because he said he was under 18, even though he said before that that he was over 18 :) So you know there's that.
What Fan Gugel said is correct, and when you look into it there are several times where people have walked free.
Like that man that called the police saying he killed his wife by strangling her, walked free because he retracted his confession, and since she had ratpoison in her body they apparently couldn't determine the cause of death.
interesting to learn...to understand my "new" second kusins I have found in USA...I also like your T-shirt👍
I need that shirt!!! Where did you find it? Tack!
Great video and there is so much more to be scared of here in Sweden :))
"lagom" people are scary as fuck.
Where did you get that t-shirt?! It's gorgeous!
Hajajaha it’s so cute
Love the shirt. Where did you buy it?
(Apart from the Dalahästen t-shirt you’re wearing) A Swede watching this, notices, in the background, by your sink, that you have the same brand/color dishcloth as me 😂* A strange thing to notice, but 🙈😂
Another thing that separates and can make Americans nervous (costs) is Sweden's expanded municipal communications. There are trains and buses everywhere.
One point of this is that you can be poor but still have great opportunities. If you have ambitions and drive, you can in Sweden leave a 'worse' area and go to school in a 'better' area. You do not have to rely on cars or non-existent communications.
LOVE THE SHIRT!!!
Love your shirt
Australia, no guns, see what’s happening
As a Dane, with family in Sweden, I know how this is... the laws, etc. in Denmark are much the same. I believe that we even have a HIGHER tax-rate in Denmark, then in Sweden, but do not quote me on that, cuz I'm not 100% sure. And again with the gun-laws... We also have extremely restrictive gun-laws in DK, and fun fact, we do not have many gun related deaths in DK either.... Wonder why..????!!
Great video. Love how it seems that every American, get that big cultural chock when comming to Scanidinavia, but the realizes, that we have it pretty good, despite the higher tax-rates, and gas-prices. And we dont live in fear because we dont have any guns - Because our neighbour doesnt have any guns either..!
And love you comment about our softdrink sizes... And yes... You dont need 2 liters of sugar-filled cola to wash down a small cheeseburger..! (or at leas I dont think so).
Switzerland and Czech Republic have more guns than you Danes, yet they have low gun crime. So it's clearly not the amount of guns that makes a difference.
Never been to the States, but I see in movies how big the cars are, and how wide the streets are for them. I moved from Sweden (which seems normal to me, being born there) to France, and BIG SHOCK - the cars here are sooo tiny, you can question the car-status alltogether. And with that comes the fact that many streets, even in big towns, are so narrow, that a regular car can't pass a pedestrian on the 1,5 foot sidewalk! I call that "tunnel för cyclar" (a tunnel for bikes). Though they don't use bikes much here. And then there is also the French habit of hiding the road-signs really well behind a bush, or the wall of a house... great fun to discover!
@01:36 Some people in the US seem to think, if you're not that sick, you don't need to go to a doctor. "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." However, modern insights have shown that it cost less (in money and recovery time to full health/productivity) if you catch some sickness early rather than attempting to self-diagnose and self-medicate but the traditional thinking still has not changed yet for the majority of some states.
Everyone forgot to mention the SUNSHINE and
Long/long Depressing Winter’s.
I am an American and this video just gave me an even stronger desire to move to Sweden .
Our drink sizes were the same as there's until the 80s it started with the big gulp at 7 eleven stores and that started a race to crazy town.
You dont need a car as much in sweden as you do in US.
Yea
The firearms thing has always been a deal-breaker for me.
I (a Swede) have a friend who lives in an open-carry state in the States, and I asked her "how do you deal with that fear?" ...
... because personally, when I hear about open-carry gun laws I don't think I would feel empowered, safe, or "free" when having to risk
seeing somebody wearing a deadly weapon like an accessory / an instrument of artificial authority, or feeling indirectly prompted to carry
a weapon "for safety" just in case one (or more) of the 500 people in the building decides it's time to spray some lead for whatever reason.
I don't want to risk having to take a life - but even if I would be okay with that, I couldn't arm myself as a tourist. I'd be so worried as a visitor ...
and I'm a pretty mellow guy with a typical Scandinavian appearance, meaning that privilege probably makes me less of a target for violence.
To me, it's one of the reasons that keep me from ever even going on a trip across the pond. :[
(Her answer, by the way, was that "you get used to constant vigilance". Sounds very stressful and limiting.)
You’ll be fine, not everyone in America is packing and wants to harm you. If you are that worried but want to visit, go to a state with stricter gun laws. As an American (born and raised) I’ll say that it’s not anywhere near as bad as you think and that many parts of America are very safe
@@jjpetroleum31 Well, I think we may have entirely different concepts of what "safe" means. That was kind of my point.
Oh, please, the United States is safe overall. It is actually the high gun control cities that are not as safe. Most people do not carry and life goes on perfectly fine. Grow a spine.
Du gjorde en bra video, tackar
Really interesting. So is your shirt😊
The thing with cost for healthcare is that it´s 2000Swedish Crowns / year and then you don´t need to pay more, sometimes you pay the more and then get it back.. so if you end up on that cost on the first month you got 11 free months of subscribed medication and doctors visits.
Most places let you refill for a very low price though, say the price for a regular coke at a place is 20:- then a refill for the same cup would be like 5:-
University for free. Taxes goes to education. To pay for education would terrify me.
As a Korean person when I came to Sweden I got impressed by that with the shoes not inside cuz I thought they were like americans
Western countries are diffrent from eachother :)
I would be interested to hear about the dental care system and costs.
It is very cheap, even braces are.
And thats per year! :) (the prices for health care, one visit is just between 12-20 dollars :)
I lost at life and became sick. I live in TX and I'm not able to make it. I'm on disability and that doesn't even cover my monthly medical expenses. Trying to figure out what in the heck to do with this situation.
Gas is expensive. Our planet earth is important. We are from an early age encouraged to be mindful of use of fossil fuels. Earlier this months the Swedish government has proposed an outright ban on the sale of new fossil fuel cars from the year 2030.
I remember one lecture at our driving school was about when you should take the car and when you should skip driving and take the bus or bike and the damage owning a car actually does to the planet. The whole lecture was pretty much them actively discouraging us from getting a car without being too obvious. I remember leaving the lecture that day debating in my head if i should continue getting my driver's license lmao.
How can you ban gas cars? Electric and hybrids are still luxury cars in the US. Even then most areas in the US still use fossil fuel for electricity, mainly due to the difficulty and costs involved in transitioning to renewable energy. I live in the Midwest where solar energy and wind turbines are unreliable. The best option for my region is nuclear and many people are wary of employing nuclear energy. The other issue is taxation. Taxes have to be voted and people aren't supportive of tax levies for obvious reasons. It's a struggle for public schools to get budget increases let alone the Environmental lobby.
Swede commenting:
1. Personal numbers in themselves have no more merit then your name. To me it's kind of scary that you only need an arbitary number to set up a loan 0.0
4. You can have a gun in your house for example if you are a hunter. But you need a heavy duty safe for it that meet certain standards. I'm not talking about a "safe" as in a locked cabinet, I'm talking about a real safe that is A: Literally nailed to your floor or B: So heavy you basically need a crane or special equipment to move it. C: So reinforced that you basically need serious explosives to get into it.
Fun fact.
When I served in the military all our weapons where locked in a "kasun", I don't know if there is a translaton for it but it's basically a kind of bomb shelter. The standard of a "kasun" was that if you wanted to force the door open with explosives you would need so much that you would destroy the entire building it was in and bury all the weapons in rubble XD
And then criminals found out they weren't as protected underneath, so they dug their way in and stole loads of machine guns and ammo :(
Edit: talking about the military vapenkasun.
@@carlkolthoff5402 Talking about the olden days when guns were kept in the willderness?
@@Vollification yes I do. More specifically thinking about the notorious "militärligan", look them up on Wikipedia or P3 Dokumentär if you're not already familiar with them.
@@carlkolthoff5402 Quite familiar, they where notorious among the old officers XD
@@carlkolthoff5402 Det är skillnad på mob-förråd och vapenkasuner... men det vet du kanske?
"Sweden has one of the harshest drug laws in the United States" I know this was just an error but i laughed so hard.
Haha did not catch that one until after I uploaded. Sometimes listening back I hear what I think I said ;)
@@AndrewAustin Yeah it happens to the best of us ^^
So after so many years in my home country, do you feel you drink more coffee now then in the US ?
Kaffe hela tin
We can have assault rifles, and automatic weapons in Sweden. But it's too much of a hassle, so barely no one does.
What someone thought of guns 250 years ago is not necessarily relevant to our current society.
Me: Stares at ww2 Germany in history book and realizes the police took everyone's weapons before they sent the army in to weaken them. Also me : stares at Cuba and Venezuela and China. Yeah...pretty sure what someone said 250 years ago about the RIGHT not privilege but a right to bear arms still applies today. But what do I know if you enjoy living like you could as a citizen of 1941 nazi germany you do whatever your little heart desires.
@@colinbaugh5091 I would prefer to live in a society where the vast majority of people don't own guns & don't feel the need to, rather than the opposite.
@Riley Frost I'll take a guess that you are failing as a troll. 0.5 for effort though.
@Riley Frost At least you tried.
What about pullies or nails?
Liked your video
you can own a ar-15 and similar guns if you want, legally. Join your local shootingclub and follow the steps(edu, you have to be able to shoot goldseries, answer questions about the diffrent guns, calibers, gunlaws etc.), it will take some time untill you will be able to get a license for the AR.
The personal nr (social security number) is the year,month and day you were born. Then you have 4 extra numbers that are special just for each person. So even if you are born the same year and same day you will have 4 digits that are differentl. Then on the last 4 digits you can tell if a person is male or female.
Now it's 6.86 USD per Gallon in Sweden.
sweden isn't socialist, it just has better infrastructure and universal healthcare
The gas price might seem daunting and it does annoy people that they keep raising it. But for most people it's not something you think about other then when you're at the pump.
That's simply because people here don't drive that much compared to the US.
Our public transport is pretty damn good, except for SJ, and things are close. So even if you have to drive, it's not a long trip.
I live in a small town of 45k or something and own a hybrid. I barely have to fill up every month. More like every 5 weeks. And I drive to work.
Most people live close to where they work and if you don't, people car pool since there are usually others in the same boat. People ride bikes to work or take the bus.
du räknade fel på bensin då det blir 7.25USD/gallon och listan du visa så är det ungefär samma pris på många ställen men lönerna är olika
och priset på vård/medicen är 150USD för vård och ungefär 250USD för medicin om ge går under högkostnadskyddet annars så kan de bli mycket dyrare
Hahaha Ger dig exakt samma prissumma 2020 så fuck it. Det é ju inte så att visöker efter just dig. Go boys! Varför gick ni inte när det var på G... Finn inga andra här. Jag kan saker
Great video, but I'm curious, were you a Michigan boy? I hear you using the word pop and I think we're almost the only ones who use that! Lol!
Pittsburgh
Where did you get this t-shirts