Andrew Austin is a singer and songwriter hailing from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His deep understanding and passion for music led him to become an educator, and brought him to Linköping, Sweden, where he currently resides and shares his knowledge as a music educator. In recent years, he has continued to innovate and explore different sounds. He talks about Sweden on his youtube channel. He adds elements of humor and knowledge to give you amazing content.
I sure hope you're right about this election.Otherwise this Swede in the US might go the opposite direction.Good for you tho to do what feels right for you.Life takes us in all kinds of different directions.Cali sounds nice,the humidity here in TN is a b**ch haha.❤❤❤
Wtf!!! Edit: upon seing the headline and the beginning of the vid I seriously felt like "we've lost a guy!"... But when you said "it's not necessarily forever..." I felt reassured, and thus I want to express my best-of- luck-emotions! Man, aren't you the initiative one! 👏
@@AndrewAustin but ofc! Very excited and looking forward to watching your upcoming content with that touch of reverse cultural shock, genius move (pun) content wise!
I would leave too if i was a foreigner like shootings, crime, rapes, expolsions and so on. But i have no country to flee to Sweden is my home and i will live and die in it. Sweden will get worse, and i will be here to protect that little left thats good about it.
Its this if you ask any swede if they have a choice, live in sweden or california.. most swedes would chose california.. on a vim! Its this that there are probably more swedes living in California then US citicens living in sweden? A big chunk of our musical producers moved to LA.. the rumor says, the swedish producer maffia! Another question I have.. why do any "american" move to sweden, a few do it at a vim.. and get expelled later, but moste move here for love.. then one can coop with the climate as long as one have a spouse in this harch climate.. it actuay can be cosy! Hey Andrew why didnt you apply for a swedish citicenship/dual passport, when you was living here? It can get handy in the future! However.. im seeing forward to your revers cultur schock videos.. being use to sweden for so long! And whatever happen in California, never forget "Swedish fika"! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oRIeytEXGhQ.html
It's fucking incredible! How can anyone, after living so many years in Sweden, want to move back to the USA? I understand that you can long for family and friends, but moving back? I thought more of you! Name one thing that is better in the US!
*Hey Andrew* That’s great news! Even from here in Sweden, I’m glad to see you’re voting blue in the U.S.! 😊😉 I think it’s awesome that you’ve sounds happy with your decision to move back, especially when you talk about having hope for the future with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Every vote really does count-you never know, yours might just be the one that makes all the difference! Wishing you all the best as you settle back in. *Good luck, buddy!* 😊👍
Welcome back. You came back during an awesome time . For all of the people who want to see us fail, they can piss off . We are still an awesome country . We’ve endured a lot since 2016, but everything is looking fantastic now. Before anyone thinks about putting us down, always remember it can happen to you . Thank you for your awesome videos.
I am staying. I'm excited to watch your new life too. I might not be as convinced as you that your country will go with "a unifying option" come election, though. It seems extremely divided over there at the moment. But still, hope is the last thing to die, right. Just...take care will you. Vänta, FAMILJ?! Inte flickvän och katter? Känns som om jag missat mer än "bara" flytten?
well u touched on the subjects of why u left sweden (aka Linköping (also wouldnt have mind to have seen u just cassually and talked or hung out and if u ever do come back im still down for that!)) but i doubt its coz u hate sweden or think america is better! Still understanding u have family in america! But im just wondering if its coz of u being fired or not necessarily fired, but just how the market in sweeden looks like for jobs atm.... inflation and low conjucture and all!
also, i feel like u want Kamahla to be the next "Obama" in a way! i hope for that to! i feel he tried to bring a lot of good parts of the EU to the US! not saying it worked out well or were recepted well by all the oldschool americans, but he tried implementing stuff to move forward and i like that! ofcourse u cant get it all and u have to compromise at an early stage but atleast he tried! hopefully the US get a leader who can see the bigger picture for its country!
1. I don’t really go into why I left in this video here? 2. I have never said I “hate Sweden”. I lived there 12 years. That’s a lot of time to stay somewhere you hate? 3. Fired? I have never been fired from any job in Sweden or in the US ever! I have left every job by my own choice.
Man, you are leaving us?? I feel so scared for you and your family. You may think the Democrats are preaching unity. I disagree. I think the don't care a rats ass for the people. Neither do the Republicants. They may preach unity, but just not for people of the color you and I happened to be born as. So if you have kids, especially if you have boys, I hope and pray you decide to home school them. With A.I. and the internet, it's possible at no cost to give a child a world-class education with what is essentially a one-on-one tutor who has endless patience and knows everything, which is pedagogically orders of magnitude better than the education a child will receive as one pupil in a glass of 25 kids. I really hope all the best for you and your family.
You are right that neither candidate advocates unity. You can't always get what you want. Homeschooling is not an easy thing. Many who advocate it downplay its problems. It might be easy when the children are small. But when they reach junior high school age, statistics say there is no advantage.
As a Swede, go ahead and criticize Sweden. I know many of my immature fellow countrymen get really upset when that is done so give 'em all they can take. 😛
Dear Andrew, you don't owe your YT followers anything - you have shared what you wanted to share, and we engaged when we wanted to. With joy! All the best wishes for this new phase in life! Hope some experiences in Sweden will help you in the huge wild west! Remember Joe Hill, from Gävle, Sweden, and the spirit of doing the right thing! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KeiCuVRZIgY.html
Systembolget used to be closed on saturdays too and you were not able yo buy alcohol of any outside of it. (exept for moonshine). But we are part of the EU now and had to adjust.
When some say one can't compare the US and Sweden because of the difference in size, that's completely bonkers. But then you might argue that the US consists of many states that each have their way of doing it. That's just saying you don't manage to cooperate. Every country is split into smaller administrative parts, that like to do things their way. The EU consists of many countries. There's no problem cooperating within Sweden and within the EU. The US, being one large country and, in fact, being the leading nation on the planet, can't hide behind silly excuses like being too large or too diverse. They need to fix the political problems, such as corporations having way too much power through legal corruption, known as lobbying.
Well, you are in Sweden, and you are giving an opinion. BTW, I have met many Swedes where I live, because they want to see Death Valley, and they are no hesitant in telling me how different in Sweden is from the USA.
I realize that I am 7 years late on this video but I keep going back and forth on whether I want to quit or not. I definitely get anxiety from it and suffer from high blood pressure but I really don't see a reason to quite. I was a pipe smoker before and still am on occasion but it has helped me cut down a ton. If it was dip, I absolutely would try and quit but since the health effects of snus are practically non existent, I can't seem to find a reason to quit.
The Swedish date format is NOT 4 / 8 / 24 (todays date) but is in fact 20240804 you have talked a lot of rubbish, showing your inability to grasp how life here really is. Sorry, but sumbidy has to say it
"When is the meeting this month? It is on 5/8. you would not say oh it's 2024/5/8 in a work setting unless you schedule meetings a year in advance. Not sure how I am speaking rubbish. Most of the communication I am talking about is working in an office and school setting.
Hi Andrew , you may remember me , i was so sure that Sweden would never join NATO . Still think it was wrong decision but you were right and i was wrong and was a bit unnuanced in my denial but time changes and i felt i should drop you a line just to apologize. Swedish is a difficult language to lern and takes a long time but you are doing fine.
Only Pus*** act PC! And you are blind. They clearly show the picture with the hair. It has a track in the background wich the heardresser added..... :)
I love Snus. General is my favorite brand and I can thank my Norwegian cousins for that. But I quit using them because I got receding gums and the bottom line of my gum is turning white. Perhaps it can be something else entirely, but I think it was the snus. There’s nothing better than smoking some weed and popping in a pouch before playing battlefield 1. Now I chew two pieces of orbit gum, then I make it into a pouch and put it between my gum and lips and pretend to have a snus in, and I chew the gum to get the mint and for a few seconds it will burn like the snus would. It sucks to quit, but if you have white bumps on your gums and you find yourself checking your gums all the time and you see that it’s changing you have no choice but to quit or potentially die, what can you do? There were times I threw a full can into the trash, just to fish it out minutes later from the top and put one more in. Gotta love snus. Quitting sucks.
Wait, wuuuut? If you’ve got better insurance in the US, you get seen faster than someone who’s more ill but doesn’t have great insurance? That’s actually really sad. I’m Canadian and our system is FAR from perfect, but I’m glad that I don’t have to worry that I’m gonna be getting slower treatment compared to someone who has more money.
When i was 15 I only been to Denmark (had been there about ten times, 220km from home) and Norway (710 km from home) and only ones in our own capital Stockholm (510km). I still knew about other countries. Since then I been to a several european countries and some asian. But even though I havent been to North- or South America, Africa, Australia I still know were they are and I know about them. So the ”we don’t have vacation” is a ba excuse. Watch some movies and read some books!
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