American reacts to Stockholm, Sweeden
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Stockholm syndrome is indeed named after Stockholm. There was a bank robbery here during the 70s in Stockholm that turned to a hostage situation. Eventually the hostsge stsrted sympathising for the robbers.
This gives us an idea of what nice people, Swedes are. There even bank robbers are nice and pleasant.
I'm trying to be as polite as possible, but the concept Stockholm syndrome can also be used to describe Swedish immigration policy which has been totally insane and here in Finland is a group of lunatics who want uncontrolled mass immigration of third world people.
@@eerokutale277 as we say in Italy, "we are on the same boat".
That's true and confirmed from another Swede here
@@eerokutale277 Do NOT spread false information on social media! If you don't know anyting about Stockhom syndrom so BACK OFF! And you are NOT polite! You are spreading lis basred on your own racism!
And IF you want to talk about swedish immigrants.. HOW many people has come from Finland .and got help in Sweden? Children who came during the war, familys that cae during Finlands problem with no work And NOW you are critizing Swedan for our immigration... YOU are spreading real crap Eero!
They didn't even show you the Stockholm subway stations that are absolutely beautifully mind blowing and nothing like it anywhere in the world. They are like cathedrals of color in solid rock.
yeah we have exhibitions in almost all of them, with art and historical pieces 😊some are just supercool really far down under mountains
The stations in the Moscow subway is even MORE beautiful and decorated/ornated. At least the 1´s I saw, when I visited. But, yeah, The stations in Stockholm are an art-display
@@peterohlsson7743although more efficient as art galleries than actual travel now a days 😅
That is true i live in stockholm
Hahahah yeah we say that in Sweden defeinetly
Love to see foreigners react to wht we feel is normal, mundane or just average over here. Im not too fond of Stockholm, been there a lot of times to visit fam or work office but watching others being woo'ed of it makes one think twice about it. We have it quite well in Sweden after all 😅
That's so true. I've grown up in Stockholm so I've always taken it for granted but after seeing foreigners perspective of Stockholm I've started appreciating it more. Especially now during the summer when the whole city just feels so alive
I have lived in stockholm my entire life. To me Malmö is the only exotic city in sweden. I really loved it. But yeah, we do have a lot of nice nature and building and stuff so I guess stockholm isn't to bad.
@klankungen I have lived in Malmö for most of my life, so I've never thought of it as an "exotic city". I find it interesting that someone from Stockholm would think it is.
@@KarlKristofferJohnsson yeah. All the forests in Scania are special, especially "bokskogarna". The buildings are so nice, as well as the city squares with their big size and wonderfull art and flowerbeds. Stockholm just feels so cramped all the time and the "nature" this video talks about is artificial and while it's nice and all, it still feels so cramped. It's when you get away from the core parts that the cramped feeling dissapears. The infamous places like Rinkeby/Tensta and vårby and such are way better, but they also lack that exotic feeling that Malmö brings. It felt almost like I was in Greece every time I was there.
I grew up outside Tranås and Borås and absolutely adored Stockholm when I first moved there, but now that I've been to bigger cities like New York and Tokyo it feels underwhelming. I guess a lot of your feeling towards it has to do with how long you've been there and what other places you've been
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Tack! Blir alltid lite avundsjuk på er den 17 maj, ni är sååå mycket bättre än vi på att fira - och att använda era vackra bunader.
Tackar! 🇸🇪
Tack så mycket!
Tackar! Glad 17:e i efterskott
My swedish is not good enough to reply, but I wish all Swedish a joyful National Day!
Hello, I just want to clarify some things because I've percieved some confusion in some of your videos about the monarchies and monarchy in general in Europe. In particular I wanted to say:
1)Most of the European countries are NOT monarchies, they are republics, they have a elected PRESIDENT and a PRIME MINISTER, there is no king nor queen nor a royal family in the majority of the European countries.
2)The countries in Europe that have a king/queen are only: Spain, The UK, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein,Andorra, Monaco and technically the Vatican. And these countries have EACH THEIR OWN SEPARATE MONARCH. There is no king of Europe, there are different monarchs for each european monarchy, which are just a small minority of the countries in Europe. King Charles III is NOT the King of Sweden, but just of the UK.
3) Since these monarchies are CONSITITUTIONAL MONARCHIES, the executive power is held by a PRIME MINISTER but there is NO PRESIDENT, because the Monarch him/herself is the head of state.
I hope you understood a bit better.
Under 2): Only the first 7 have a king or queen. The others have a grand duke (Luxembourg), a prince (Monaco and Liechtenstein), a combination of a bishop and the French president (Andorra) and the Pope (Vatican City) as head of state.
4) Whenever you visit a monarchy, be prepared for the law of Prima Nocta. It means that every royal family member has exclusive right to have sex with tourists during their first night in the country.
Of course, not everyone can receive such honor. Just those who will be chosen by the king.
The queen of Denmark found herself in the headlines after stripping four of her grandchildren of their royal titles.
@@damyr haha nice one. But before any one gets any crazy idea most scholars today are convinced that prima nocta is a pure myth that never existed in reality. Also one would assume quite the uprising against the monarchy if it had ever been proposed in reality.
Not entirely correct. Only Monaco and Liechtenstein are constitutional monarchies. The vatican is absolute, the rest is parlamentary monarchies.
Yes, Vasa set a world record for the shortest maiden voyage that even the Titanic could not beat.
Yes the Vasa museum is a great tribute to failed engineering 😂
@@patrikcederkvarn7910 Yes, a demanding customer, overconfident project management, deadlines and of course lots of money for nothing - some things never change.
@@patrikcederkvarn7910 it is never failed if you learned from it, and they did :)
@@patrikcederkvarn7910 Do *not* blame the engineering department! The brass kept demanding more cannons on top. They were warned and refused to listen.
@@johankaewberg9512 as always...
The royal family they are talking about is the royal family of Sweden. Not the UK royal family as you seemed to think 😅
Too be fair they are second cousins, several times removed ;)
@@EyMannMachHin i think all the royal houses are related to the english (and many to eachother aswell) - it was a lot of princesses and princes around the end of 1800-hundreds that werent going to become kings or queens - so let them marry other of the same social standing and bind the countries together tighter so there wont be a second napoleonic war.
Yeah that worked out less than great...
@@ronnyhansson8713 All of them are also related to Muhammad's descendants and to Carolus the Great, to Julius Caesar, to Mieszko the First...
and escpecially to Kazimierz Jagiellon and his wife, Polish queen Elisabeth of Austria.
@@ronnyhansson8713 Yeah, and now take the usual family squabbles in extended families, only that crazy uncle Will doesn't just have a gun, but the power to send out an army....
During the first world War the emperor of Germany, the king of England and tsar of Russia were all first cousins
I remember being in the medieval part of the city after being on a survival trip in the middle of Sweden for about a week, and we went into a restaurant in a cellar. It had a wonderful medieval vibe to it, with mead and food that you could eat with your hands, and a guy playing the hurdy-gurdy. One of the best holidays I ever had!
Guessing that it was either Aifur or Sjätte Tunnan (The Sixth Barrel), both fit the description.
Sounds like the Sjätte Tunnan (Sixth Barrel) restaurant.
So that's 99% likely to be Sjätte Tunnan. Ive been there plenty of times and love their Mjöd. Even had my wedding dinner there nearly a decade ago.
Being born in Stockholm, that video still only showed a tiny fraction of what you can find there. You could probably spend a week there annually for the next 10 years and still have plenty left to explore, especially if you like historically linked sites.
But even just fringestuff like the subway art in some places or the nice beaches dotting the coastlines of Mälaren, or the Sthlm archipelago...
There's plenty of nice to find.
The coin on the dish was part of the desert. It was the Nobel coin in some form of chocolate or so and was probably a desert during the annual Nobel dinner, which is attended by the Nobel laureates of the year as well as the royal family😊
Kriss, do you know what the fibers on top were? Spun sugar?
@@JM-vp8zc Yes.
Yeah, when I was little I was a member of a club in the Nobel museum. Barnens nobelklubb I believe it was called? You could come to their workshop and do experiments and stuff. And once a year we had a version of the Nobel festival in the museum, different scientists and stuff held speeches.
Anyhow, there we got to eat that desert shown (probably a less expensive version of it?) - the gold coin was 100% edible and the little cloud stuff too. Very nice!
Stockholm is not only beautiful, but being there you absolutely have the impression of communing with the very top of our civilization. I've been there three times and in many other European cities, but in Stockholm everything is solved in a brilliant way. Brilliant public transport and brilliant roads at the same time. A compact city of short distances, but not cramped and crowded. Everyone has a few steps to the water or a view of it from the window and it has never been destroyed. Green everywhere. I can imagine that it could be the best city in the world. This video shows only the very center and some attractions. There are many more great places in this city.
...actually much of Stockholm has been destroyed by fires, its been around 30 larger fires since 1252, some historians say about 60% of Stockholm been destroyed by fires (not at the same time), before 1661 firs was huge problem, in 1759 one of the greate fires many houses was burned down atleast 100 possibly up to 300 damaged, alot of houses was made of primarly wood... parts of stockholm that been burned down has been rebuilt with stone like materials, many houses in 'old town' for example have a core of wood inside covered with stone/mineral materials..
Drottningholm Castle, Drottningholm Theater, Birka, Woodland Cemetary are all UNESCO wourld heritage sites, and 'Old Town' stockholm is considerd one of the best preseved medieval town in Europe.
@@Patrik6920 Of course. I even saw it in a museum. The truth is, however, that there is no a single city in Europe that did not burn down at some point in history. That is why wooden houses are rarely found in the city center.
But by the way if we're talking about wooden buildings, it's worth adding that there is incredible "Skansen" almost in the center of Stockholm that compensate this. For me, it was a shock when my brain cells associated that it was the name of this particular place and not the common name of all open-air museum of architecture. In Poland, all such places are called "Skansen" and hardly anyone knows from where this name come from and that this is a district of Stockholm ;)
@@Pawel_Mrozek yes "skansen" has some extremely old buildings from the time all in wood, its a nice place to visit indeed... im sure Poland has some uniquely places too... basicly neighbours but cant say i know to much about place in Poland.. maby that chenge when we done with the orcs...
The problem is that they don't build the rest of the city like the central parts are built. All the areas they build outside the main city is just apartment blocks around a small, often run down, center or square with a grocery store and bus stops/train station. Some better areas have a small shopping mall, but when they close at 6pm they suffer the same problem as the run down areas. There's nothing to do there so regular people don't really hang out in the area. And it often only takes a handful of people to make those small squares (that are supposed to serve 10s of thousands of people) feel unsafe and drive away citizens and businesses. The new areas that are connected to the main city are way too wide and lifeless. Modernist architecture ruins everything.
@@rumble1925 Yes it's true. Stockholm has massive suburbs scattered around comparing to its size for a European city. This is partly due to the terrain and the number of lakes, bays and islands. All in all, I spent a lot of time in a suburbs in Farsta and there wasn't much to do there. However, it must be admitted that even these housing estates have excellent communication and pedestrians or cyclists can completely avoid the main roads. And there is a lot of public greenery there. Many cities, even in Europe, cannot boast of this. These local centers may not be super lively, but they are, and that's not so obvious to people living in suburbs in other countries that there must be some centers nearby. An elderly person or a child, regardless of where they live in Stockholm, can go on foot to the store, to the playground or wherever they want.
As an urban planner who rather likes to complain, if I was a resident of Stockholm, I would probably find a lot of flaws that need to be fixed, but objectively a city whose main problem is that the suburbs are boring because everywhere only greenery and lakes are the worries of the elite people in first world countries. :D
Sweden is like a very chilled London, 80 museums and absolutely beautiful with great public transport
Thank you for reacting to my beloved home city Stockholm. Here is where I live. In the film all scenes are shot during summer. The winters here is another story.
Hello there! If you are residing in STK these days, can you tell me what is going on with the massive construction Google Earth is showing at the slussen district between Sodermalm and Gamla Stan? It appears to be a complete reconstruction of the slussen structure itself as well as the immediate surrounding.
@@ZakhadWOW You'd be correct. The purpose of this is to refurbish slussen to make it more accessible to pedestrians and cyclists while reducing car traffic They are also building a new water lock as well as some kind of flood protection.
I spent nine days in Sweden, ten years ago... I'll never forget it.
I was in Gothenburg, in the south.
I miss it. Terribly so...
I miss Göteborg 10 years ago as well :D
I cannot belive how blank you were when they mentioned ABBA and the museam dedicated to them and their music. ABBA are the biggest selling pop group worldwiDe after the Beatles. The came to fame winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 (the first band to do so). Here in the Uk alone they had 9 no.1 singles and 8 no.1 studio albums. Last year they released a brand new album 40 years after there last to huge success and critical aclaim. Link below to their Eurovision win.
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I think the Beatles mean exactly the same to Americans. But to justify it, I will say that it is the music of a different generation. If someone asked me about the greatest artists in the world, I probably wouldn't think about ABBA in the first place either.
ABBA was not that big in USA. Many also dont know Freddy Mercury and Queen. Queen was almost forbidden to go there. They were too wild.
ABBA might be thedresscode.
But the Maril streep mama mia movia were a great succes. So they have an "after" wiht the music but not Abba.
Something like that.
Not everybody cares about these things. Chill
He is a young guy im more a but surprised he knew about Stockholm and Sweden at all😂i have that picture in my mind that not every young American would notice a place that has absolutely no impact on his life
As a Norwegian, Stockholm is a must visit city. Been there a couple of times and enjoyed it.
Last time I spotted a mailbox out in one of the canals, out in the water. It’s there so you can write a complaint and put it there. Correct me if I am wrong, swedes.
I visited the Vasa . The reason the ship survived is that the Baltic is more brackish than seawater so less marine creatures grow on sunken wrecks. It's one fifth as salty as seawater . Also it wasn't raised until recently and much more is known now about preservation
Shipworms cannot live in the less salty water, so many wooden shipwreaks are preserved in the cold water and the oxygen free silt at the bottom.
Yes, indeed, the psychology term "Stockholm syndrome" was coined nearly fifty years ago in Stockholm, last week of August 1973, by psychiatrist Nils Beijerot that was assisting the police force during a hostage drama in a bank on Norrmalmstorg in city center of Stockholm.
For six days three women from the bank staff were kept hostage by two heavily armed bank robbers in a closed bank valve down in the basement of the bank. The whole drama was extremely dramatic and violent with gunshots, explosions and gas attacks. Everything broadcasted live on the swedish television with the swedish primeminister acting like some sort of negotiator.
And some of the women in the hostage were interviewed by the media to whom they told: "We're not afraid of the hostage takers but we're afraid of the cops". In order to make the odds better of surviving the harsch reality they found themselves in the women told themselves their hostage takers were not dangerous and threatening their lifes but the cops were the real danger. A true psychological defence mechanism. Which psychiatrist Nils Beijerot, when speaking in the live broadcast chose to name "Norrmalmstorg syndrome" (after the plaza where the bank was).
When this big swedish breaking news spread over the world the foreign news outlets renamed the psychological syndrome, that Nils Beijerot had described, to "Stockholm syndrome" since not many recognized the plaza Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm.
there is actually a really great netflix documentery about the guy who did the robbery called CLARK.
If you go to Stockholm, don't miss the archipialago outside the city. There are ferries from the city center out to many islands. A perfect picknick day or even better, find an accomodation out there and experience the summer evening by the sea. Night swimming naked in the bright nights. It hardly can get more magic than that.
I confirm Stockholm is beautiful. And the video is not exaggerating. Also it's super kids friendly, you can go with a pram everywhere, most museum have a more kid friendly area and you have kids menu on all restaurant. Everyone speaks English and some Spanish or French.
I live in Oslo, but I try to visit Stockholm as often as I can. Love that city ❤
Christiania burned.
I had a girlfriend 3 ears in Oslo even I was living in Copenhagen.
We both loved the easy acces to the nature as well as both sides of the fjord.
I visited Stockholm twice so far (I live in Germany), it's really an outstanding city I want to visit again 😍
You are so welcome back! Not far either from Germany so, just book a trip =)
Yeah you are welcome back here in sweden stockholm its pretty cool
I honestly recommend trying to visit other cities as well. Some of them have existed even longer than Stockholm.
So glad you finally discovered my favorite place on the planet :D You should definitely visit
I am learning Swedish and would love to go to Stockholm one day! I already like to incorporate some swedish traditions in my day-to-day life, like "fika" and Santa Lucia in December.
Toppen! Kul att du lär dig svenska! "Fika" is slang, a word from the beginning of the 20th C. At that time it was popular among "true Stockholm guys" to have their own vocab, and one of the ways to make up new slang-words, was to take the last syllable and put it first in kind of play with words - so from coffee they got fika (from co-ffee they got fee-co, written in Swedish: kaffe - fi-ka - and skipping hyphens!). This phenomen is not only found in Swedish.
@@DNA350ppm Vad kul! I never knew the origins of "fika", tack for explaining!
@@junimondify Jag tycker själv att det är en kul sak att veta! 🙂
@@DNA350ppm Det stämmer, jag gillar dem "fun facts".
@@DNA350ppm Med din förklaring är det troligt att ordet fika kommer från det s k 'Fikonspråket' som studenterna använde i början av 1900-talet. En annan förklaring är att vi gärna leker med orden; och att vi en gång kallade kaffe för kaffi och av det blev slutresultatet fika; ett ord som nu är utspritt över stora delar av den anglo-saxiska språkvärlden. Ett annat exportord är ordet Smörgåsbord.// With your explanation, it is likely that the word fika comes from the so-called 'Fig language' that students used in the early 20th century. Another explanation is that we like to play with words; and that we once called coffee/=kaffe for kaffi and the end result was fika; a word that is now spread over large parts of the Anglo-Saxon language world. Another export word is the word Smörgåsbord.=sandwichtable... :-)
I moved to Stockholm 6 months ago... best decision in my life. Beautiful, full of nature as suburbs are divided by patches of forrest, full of animals, multicultural, mostly clean for a capital of this size, working transport system, playgrounds and parks all over and it is very oriented for after work enjoyment and physical activities.
Welcome to Stockholm - easily one of Europe’s most beautiful capital cities! A great but still human metropolis with loads of things to see and discover, lots of historic sights and beautiful views. A green city with wonderful waterways. And it’s my home!😊
It's a place of wonder for Stockholmers, it's a plight on this green Earth, according to literally everyone who was forced to live under Swedish Rule. We can start with the Roskilde Treaty of 1658. Then the destruction of the Scanian Language, by force, the worst thing to ever happen is the Swedish Army coming down to Scania and Nils Dacke's loss against the Horrors that be Swedes.
@@livedandletdie you have never come over the 17th century?😊
I just came home from an 80 km bike ride to Stockholm and home again. I visited a number of the places you saw in this video. It is our national day today, btw so I was at the Royal Palace checking out the crowds, and also at Djurgården which was packed with people having a good time.
Visited Stockholm❤️ 3 times over the years for the Christmas markets.
Went to the VASA every time.Wonderful city but can be expensive.
Hope to visit again someday.
About crime in Stockholm, it's unfortunatly rather high these days with quite a lot of gun violence. Though If you're not in a gang yourself, you shouldt be too worried. Innocent bystanders are still a rare occurance. And most of the violence are concentrated to a couple of rough areas, mostly in the northwestern and southwestern suburbs.
I have visited Stockholm many times and was robbet there once in the 1990’s. Not very nice experience. I would not walk alone late in the evening on certain parts of the city.
I'd say crime it's definitely lower than on the USA or most latam countries. In general is pretty safe and you can take the subway at night. Some areas indeed might need some care. Downtown, party night and coming back home should be go uneventful.
@@AlmendraBaez Oh, for sure.
There are still about 6 times more murders per capita in the US than in Sweden, so a little perspective Sweden is much safer than the US.
On a green-yellow-orange-red scale we'd be yellow.
Ryan, are you aware of ABBA? You seemed not to notice who they were when the Abba museum came up.
Nah, he's too young for that. And from America
Maybe he just have a good taste in music? ;)
I'm Swedish and visited Stockholm a couple of days ago. I've been there before but I somehow felt like there were more tourists than usual which is really fun to see. Though, I always wonder why? Why here of all places? But yeah, Stockholm can be really beutiful. Especially in the evening. I still remember one time when I visited it as a kid and went to Grönalund. Ater we were done for the day and were on our way back to the hotel, I felt such a calm and cosy vibe while walking past the harbour, the parks and the many restaurants where people were out drinking while 80s music played in the background of said restaurants. Miss that time a lot.
I mean the only thing that's missing is a nuke, and for Sweden to pay back 148000 Ton Nazi Gold to the nations affected by the Germans, Neutral my ass. Stockholm is the beauty built upon oppression, since it's founding to this day, it has been the seat of pure evil. Filled to the brim with the worst scum that has ever walked planet Earth.
And if you think I'm racist against Swedes, you sure bet your ass I am, may they all burn in hellfire, for all their ancestors' sins and for the continuation of said sins. Må svennen brinna i helvetet, och må hans barn födas med bölder i ansiktet. Må all mat han rör vid ruttna, och må han alltid ha kalla fötter. Med Vänliga hälsningar från de enda äkta skandinaverna, Skåningarna.
Samerna, Bottningarna, Dalmasarna och Skåningarna har ingenting för Stockholm och dess kynne, vi har blivit illa behandlade nog de senaste 400 åren.
Hallå från Sverige, glad nationaldag! (It's Swedens national day today, 6th of june) 🥳
Hey, happy Sweden Day :D! (I don’t know what it’s called I’m so sorry)
@@phoenixfeathers4128 National Day!
Not to mention that it is Swedens 500th birthday today as well as our national day!
Sort of 500th. But Sweden existed before that. 500 years ago we formally exited the Kalmar Union when all Nordic countries were in a union with the Danish king as head of state. June 6th 1523 Gustav Eriksson Vasa was elected king of Sweden.
@@hanszickerman8051 We usually talk about the 500th birthday of the modern Sweden! So yes, there are positions for both sides of the coin.
You know why most of non-Western European cities are "established" in 1250's? Because that was the time when pope and emperor started issuing and requiring legal documents for cities even though they existed in those places and under those names for previous 3000years
In the case of Stockholm, the fact that the land rises up from the sea was probably also a factor. Lake Mälaren is today about 1 m above sea level. 1250, and several hundred years after that, it was no lake but rather a narrow bay of the sea where Stockholm dominated the entrance to it. Any spot lower than around 4m above sea level today would have been submerged then.
We changed from citicens to taxpayers. 1/10 tothe Church. 1/10 to the King.
Everything was registrated down to eggs.
Does the holm part mean Island? As the UK has this Viking origin word in use as such.
Yes 😁 Stockholm is a compound of stock “log” + holme, “islet” - Log islet 😄
The coin is most likely a chocolate coin... which is a thing in Europe. Basically chocolate in the shape of a big coin covered in gold metal foil to make it look like a coin. You can buy bags of them. When I was a kid there was also chocolate tools (as in like hammers, wrenches, etc). Maybe they thought it was a way to educate kids. Weird, but delicious.
It's a Nobel Dinner dessert.
gold-foil (not real gold) covered chocolate coin , raspberry mousse, white candyfloss
What do you mean? Is it just a golden coloured wrapping? Because If you want it to be edible, it must be of real gold.
It's fun to see others react to our "boring" little city here :D I live just outside Stockholm, almost never visit the city because I think it's too crowded and not enough nature. But, looking at these types of videos makes me think that it's maybe not too bad after all. And, I have lived in other places and still comes back here every time, so it have to be something that's good about Stockholm for me as well :)
It was named Stockholm syndrome because of a bank robbery that happened in Sweden. The hostages trusted the robberer more than the police (who sort of put them in danger). Clark Olofsson was (one of) the robberers, he said he would help the people in the bank and make them comfortable. Clark was portrayed by Bill Skarsgård in the Netflix series Clark.
I work as a bricklayer and have been fortunate enough to do some work on our Royal Palace, been greeted by the king three times. Twice in the palace and once on another job at a house across the street of Campus Manilla, where his granddaughter goes to school. I stood on the roof and saw him coming, I waved and he looked at me with a smile as if he recognized me and waved back. 😂
Stockholm is lovely! I mostly like the water, specially the promenade along the water between Djurgården and the theater.
Seemed like you had no idea when she was talking about ABBA 😏.
Unfortunately Stockholm (and Sweden as a whole) has quite substantial problems with gang related crimes. Especially shootings and bombings are quite prevalent. Just google "Sweden bombings" and you will probably get quite shocked of how often it happens. For example, during the first 3 months of 2023 Sweden had a total of 50 bombings and in 2019 250+ bombings were recorded. That's quite bad for a country that small, and not something you'd expect in the peaceful north of Europe. In fact, explosions are so common that they were given a separate category
in crime statistics a couple of years ago.
Not all of Sweden has problems with bombings or violent gang shootings. It is mostly in the biggest cities in the south.
It's so funny🤣 that you and other us peoplee often compare real historical sites with fantasy parks/sites, like Disneyland or the Harry Potter castle. It is the other way around!!
You work with the references you have. 🤷♀️ He’s trying. But you are not wrong - it is the other way around.
I keep seeing your vids on my Recommended. Love the content! New sub right here
Stockholm is beautiful,hi from Sweden🇸🇪
Video: beautiful city, narrow medieval streets, river walks, Royal palaces...
Me: this is all very nice but I can get this in London
Video: ABBA museum
Me:... SAY NO MORE! *starts booking holiday*
They didn’t even mention the archipelago of thousands of islands. You can go there for a vacation.
I just came across this video again and had to watch it. I live in Stockholm and yesterday we had an absolutely beautiful late summer day and I took a looong walk around areas just outside the central parts of Stockholm. I passed so many lovely places with small bridges, lush green areas, beautiful houses, glittering water everywhere, small beaches and great walkways and wonderful views of our city. I then really thought about the incredible beauty that this city offers. Everyone should come here and then explore more than the Old Town.
Did you say, you didn't expect the royal family to live in Stockholm because you assume that they meant the british royal family? Sweden also has it's own royal family :)
They don’t live in Stockholm though, they live in Drottningholm. At least the king and queen.
Who talked about the british royal family?
You should come & visit! It's a beautiful city surrounded of water with many islands.😍
The nature is always close to reach. Nearly 2 millions lives in greater Stockholm area.
We are a modern town with an old twist with a lot of activities & culture to explore.
the statue of the fountain in the garden of Drottningsholm palace shows Hercules, the demi god ( son of Godfather Zeus and Alkmene )
fighting with his club against Hydra, the giant monster snake with 9 heads. ( greek Mythologiy )
I used to go aroundStockholm as i was young. I made week or two trips there just to look around. It is really pretty place at summer time. I had relatives living near by so it didn´t cost much for me becouse i had places to be over nights.
Real life Hogwards is in Edinburg, Scotland…check it out..I was flabergasted how Harry Potter that place is
I worked in Stockholm for 6 months, and it's true, Swedish women are the most beautiful on the planet!
"What is the crime in Stockholm like zero" That made me laugh so hard, yes it looks pesceful in this proffesionaly shot footage specifically made for this infomercial, buuuut...... xD
it still good, unless you are a criminal, in a gang or have bad luck (that can happen anywhere btw) you are fine
And the video didn't even mention the AWESOME subway stations we have. If you have a shitty weather day in Stockholm, go on a long subway ride and check out all the cool stations!
You will find some narrow roads or alley ways with cobble stone in old Boston.
How can you compare? 🤦♀️ How old is Boston and how old is Stockholm? And it's cobble stone.
@@annicaesplund6613 Thank you for correcting "copple stone". I'm sure I won't forget again 😏
Boston was one of the first settlements, dating back to the17th century.
Gamla stan of Stockholm started to exist in the 13th century. Houses built with stone were established in 15th and 16th century.
Kingdom of Sweden, Stockholm the royal capitol of the kingdom, Venice of the north. My beloved home. Our king Carl Gustav and I invite you Ryan to please come visit us. For the best experience come between June and August. To day is our “independence day” (nationaldag), celebrate with us, find some were to get a piece of “princess cake”! You will love that “Fika”!
Our royal family is very loved here in Sweden, mostly because the king as very odd figure and extremely weird in a meme way. Also that big ass ship just just as big of a meme. Vasa is and was amazing but in only got like 10 meters of shore and then sank. Something with the balance or something made the ship sink just a quickly as it set off.
Also fika is a must in Sweden. Every work place has like a fika pause, think it's like a funny joke about it being a law lol. You ain't Swedish unless you fika.
As a Stockholm citizen, this was enjoyable watching. I'm half Swedish, half Caribbean and when I have visitors from abroad (including the US) I've taken them to several of these locations. The Wasa museum is one of the most impressive museums you will ever visit and one of the main places I bring visitors. Because of the lack of salt in the Baltic Sea, the several century old ship remained intact without rotting and can therefor be viewed as this museum piece.
Also as someone working in film, I've had the luxury of getting access to several places like the golden hall etc shut off to only us. Some of the most interesting sites are not showcased on the video and I'm quite suprised they left out the Stockholm Archipelago (most densly island-packed archipelago in the world) which tends to be tourists favorite.
Fun to see you react to my hometown! How unexpected and nice!
Stockholm having been around longer than America has been an official country. That city packs history
"What is the crime in Stockholm, like zero?" 😟
We wish. . 😞😢
ABBA didn't die, they just released a new album earlier this year.
Stockholm is a fantastic but somewhat expensive city for tourists. As a tourist I wouldn't be too afraid about experience crimes although there are some shootings and gang wars outside in the suburbs. However, it's nothing that a tourist should be afraid of because it is one of the safest countries in the world.
yeah, as a tourist your biggest risk of crime is probably getting pickpocketed, as in most cities.
It´s The Swedish National Day today 6/6. 🎈✨
it's SWEDEN, not SWEEDEN
The narrator says "Suveeden".
Fun fact at Gröna Lund (the tivoli att about 7:30) there's a music scene and there are several different concerts every week during summer. I've been to Korn, Offspring, and Phil Collins there 😁
11.26 - I love such narrow, old streets. We have lots of these in Poland too. I guess that there were lots of reasons why such narrow streets were build centuries ago. First reason I can imagine is that it was best for protection, when u live in a fortress, be it stone fortress or fortress protected by water - sea or river. Narrow streets help the defenders during siege of fortress. Narrow spaces can be defended longer by smaller group. Next reason could be about weather esp in north areas with heavy winters or heavy winds - like Scandinavia. Its actualy warmer to build houses closer to each other esp when the only material u have is stone and wood. And I guess that in places with easy access to water, like Stockholm u can say that narrower streets and houses close to each other means that you and your neighbours can help each other more easily with such situation like fire when u can make a chain of buckets from the sea or river to the house on those narrow streets without need to approach the burning place from different locations and with fighting against winds from different sides ? These are my guesses. :)
On Swedish national day too! nice timing
Most people don't even realize that the economy is collapsing and there is an increasing rate of unemployment worldwide so take advantage and prepare while things are still on the shelf in the store
Yes you totally should visit if you're able! You would love it. And if you want a local guide reach out and I'd be happy to show you around. Also, thanks for showing us your wonderful curiosity and sweet attitude, you certainly makes me view the world in a better light.
Very few videos talk about the archapelego of Stockholm, it's thousands of islands and is a must for anyone that travel here from late may to early september.
It's Sweden not Sweeden..
I went there last year and when I came back I started learning swedish xd and now I have a 505 days Duolingo streak, I'm originally from Spain but willing to move there once I graduate ( Just for job opportunities I don't really believe that life is better in sweden but maybe when I move there I get convinced )
Here in Spain IT Systems & Networks technicians (my position) barely get 12€/hour, so guess which kind of "job opportunities" we do have over here...
If you have an EU citizenship you can freely move and get a job in Sweden. If you don't it is quite tricky these days. Has become much more restrictive rules the last 2 years. Going there as a tourist for up the 3 months is an easy option for almost all nationalities.
Hur går det med svenskan!?
you know you're doing something right when you have a whole museum dedicated to you. 😊ABBA 🇸🇪💙💛💙🇸🇪
Hi from a swede.
07:39 They have recently found another ship that is supposed to be a sister ship to this one i think. Those ships are called Äpplet/the Apple. They lasted a lot longer on the water than this did. I don't know much more about Skeppet Apple. But they don't have much information about it yet, but hopefully it will come soon.
How cool of you to publish this very video on our National Day! Thank you from Sweden :)
But: you asked about the crime rate, and unfortunately, the city has a lot of suburbs inhabited by the immigrant population from 174 countries. Obviously, there are gangs, shootings, and death - daily almost. So not everything that glitters is gold.
Now you are exaggerating a bit.
@@Xanthopteryx According to Statista, the crime rate in Stockholm fluctuated somewhat between 2000 and 2021. It stood at 20,000 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2000 compared to 21,000 in 2021. It was at its highest in 2016 when it reached 24,000 per 100,000 inhabitants. This was also the year that the total number of reported crimes was at highest during the period.
Some of the most common types of crimes in Stockholm are theft, fraud, assault and drug-related offences. However, Sweden has also received increased international attention due to increasing gang violence in its biggest cities Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. A report published by the Swedish national council for crime prevention in 2021 found that Sweden was the only European country in which the number of fatal shootings per 100,000 inhabitants increased since 20001.
@@annab6948 No. It is not crime rate. It is number of reported crimes, in Stockholms kommun. Even those that after investigation is shown to not be a crime. And it is Everything. Fraud of all kinds, pick pocket, theft, speeding, drunk driving, sexual abuse and so on. Everything that someone reported to the police. Vandalism is really high up with 8.000/100.000. Theft, all kind, is almost 5.000/100.000. Fraud around 1.000/100.000. Crime against freedom and peace (as an example hacking) is around 1.500/100.000.
And so on.
Assault is actually only around 1.000/100.000. Less than hacking.
And once again, this is not actual crimes but Reported crimes, and they are not always a crime in the end. And only Stockholms kommun. 1 of 26 municipalities in Stockholm area, and the rest have fewer reported crimes.
@@annab6948 True, but crimes of violence has gone down in the past 3 decades, it is other types of crimes that have been reported more like pickpocketing, scams and fraud
Unfortunately there are more guns due to the unrest between immigrants and "nationalists" which is due to the political unrest in the past couple decades, but the violence crimes has dropped among younger people which is a good sign that the other generations might take most of the problem with them to the grave
Still I feel safe in Stockholm, even in the suburbs, I lived in several suburbs in Stockholm for a few years and it wasn't different from any other places in Stockholm in regards of safety
I hope we can do something about the drug problem though, too many fall into it too early in life
@@XanthopteryxPlease tell me how its exaggerating?
I want to move there!
I don’t want to ruin you dreams - Stockholm is lovely - but there’s a terrible housing shortage there. I have friends who have had to live there 10 years in second hand housing (I hope that’s the right concept/word) before they got hold of a rental apartment with first hand contract. People often rent their homes to someone else instead of selling it, so there’s not much movement in the market. With that said, with the right amount of money you can of course find somewhere to live. Most don’t have that luxury, though.
If you want to get shot then Sweden is the place to be
You should do a series reacting to every capital in Europe, this was really interesting!
I'm visiting Stockholm this summer, if anyone has any tips you'll be very welcome!
If it's a warm day, then it's a good idea to rent canoes/kayaks and see the city from the water. It's also a better idea than going on the sightseeing boat imo.
Another tip is to take the boats from Nybrokajen to visit the archipelago.
You are so American! Who cares how many dollars worth of pintings are in that room of the Royal Palace? It´s the beauty, not the money.
Yeah that's the first thing Americans do in general, make it monetary
One detail they forgot to say. They completely missed the best part of Stockholm, can't understand how they missed something that obvious... The best part of Stockholm is of course the train to Gothenburg. :)
And also, about there not being that many people there. Sort of true, but you know, they are stockholmers... Yikes. ;)
and the train station!
Sweden has a law against visual pollution. There are very few billboards. Some even historical ones that were kept. Worth looking into
You keep saying there are no bill boards but in all of those narrow streets there are billboards advertising the store they are attached to.
I think he meant billboard advertising for other companies/products not related to that specific building or shop. We do have them here in Stockholm (like in public transport system) but they are very few. And they are most likely not put up on building facades.
Ryan, the only problem with Stockholm is the beer... which is really expensive :)
We fixed that by currently having a really undervalued currency. All our neighbors now go to Sweden for shopping.
Okey, the beers in Stockholm still isn't cheap, it just less expensive for stronger currencies now.
That makes this year a particularly good year to be a tourist in Sweden.
@@Rohan4711 those damn Norwegians have been going here to shop for ages now. I don't hate Norwegians btw
If you ever going to Stockholm (or most of scandinavia honestly) June-August are the only decent months to go. Stockholm is just as far north as Anchorage, Alaska, it's dark and cold most of the year.
Unless you go to ski or so! I'd find winter lovely here. I'm a fan of snow, and there is heating everywhere. Proper clothes are required, and I recommend getting some here on second-hand stores 😀
@@AlmendraBaez Yes, though Stockholm doesn't get the amounts of snow it used to, the average snow coverage have gone down by roughly 60% the last 70 years. Heat island effect and global warming. But it's hit or miss, some winters are nice (my mother used to skii to work when she still worked, and we don't live very far from the city center), others are mostly depressing rain and slush. I much prefere snow, it makes it much less dark.
If you go north, you have guaranteed winter thought.
I have to comment this, this is the Absolutely best commercial movie about Stockholm Sweden I have ever seen. and this is not a lie. Stockholm is that beautiful as shown.. I live in the south of Sweden and can without telling a lie that Stockholm is that beautiful. You wondered about crime,you will never see a crime. and this is only Stockholm we are talking about. I can promise you that the rest of Sweden is the same. Welcome to Sweden Ryan!
Yeah ur promise died last weekend along with the 4-5 people that got murdered... lol
Im born in stockholm but moved to oslo 10 years ago .both are amazing
Stockholm is my playground, where I bring down the stylishness of Södermalm a notch, because I'm just a slob.
During the long, dark winters, we hibernate. And come summer, we make up for it in spades!
About the crime
Maybe it comes as a shock but Stockholm has a overal medium crime rate and its even the highest in all of Scandinavia
There was so much violent and rape crime there its was even called the violent/rape crime capital of Europe.
Sweden has the last years allot of issues.
Gunshots, terrorist attacks, riots, violent crime.
Especially in the biggest cities like Malmo, Lund, Stockholm and Gothenburg.
Also the flood of immigrants probably is a big issue in Sweden.
What are your sources for this because I don’t know how believable this sounds. Would love to look into this…
Biggest cities and you mention Lund??? 😂😂
uhm. please stop. "rape capital" is a myth based on the fact that we count every single rape as 1 crime, unlike some other countries that count all rapes done by the same perpetrator as 1 rape. so 1 man raping a women 200 times in 1 year is just 1 rape in other countries and 200 rapes in Sweden. we have also changed our laws to include more acts as rape, so what they in other countries count as a sexual assault or not a crime at all, we count as a rape. unless you are a criminal or in a gang its fine. also riots? and there is no "flood" of immigrants, its people fleeing from war and in need of a safe home. take your racist crap and shove them.
@@zeventineits all over internet. Just look up
I've been to Stockholm...most awesome experience. Beautiful country...peaceful, organized, efficient, etc.
As a fellow Swede, that happens to live in Stockholm. I am happy to say, that anyone who’s considering visiting, you definitely should! 😊❤
There are canal/ river ships. Get before go there reservation if You want high season ( May until september) vist Stockholm and that is great and no big /high ticket prices for 2 until4 hour canal trips trhu Stockholm.
I think you european vacation is long overdue!! We look forward to welcoming you!
Grew up is Stockholm, fled 10 years ago since it was changing.
The nice cafés, restaurants, and stores were shutting down for more "modern" establishments.
I still love the city, but it's not like it used to be
I live on the other side of the bridge where Drottningholm slott is and I have gone into the kina slott(in Sweden there is a Castle called kina slott that was gifted from China I think) for free because my teacher used to work there and she knew a person who still works there so they let us in. Oh and if u do decide to visit Sweden then I hope you have a great time.
”What is the crime here like zero?” 💀💀💀💀
Hi how fun. Greatings from Stockholm 😊❤
Oh my goodness 😮😮😮 stockholm is super interesting! 😳 They have buildings and rivers 😍 so amazing
I love Stockholm. The city is incredibly beautiful during the summer. Even though I miss California, I love living here.