Why I Could Be Happier In Sweden Than Anywhere Else 

Happiness comes from inside not outside. You’ll see that as you go 👍

Ah yes, the patience! I'm working on it hahaha

Yes, it always depends what your previous experiences were 😊Thanks for sharing! 🙏🏻

How exciting! I'm sure you'll like visiting Sweden 😊

Thank you for following along and sharing your thoughts! 🙏🏻

Thanks for the warm welcome! That sounds about right in Germany hahaha Soo behind...

@@LivingSwedish Germany is one of the smartest people and country in Europe.......sometimes the world.

It is beautiful indeed 🇸🇪Can't wait to explore it!

So I heard! I try to enjoy it the most right now hahaha

Yep, I'm in the middle of experiencing this and having to sort out a lot of stuff 😬

Ah, that is interesting! Thanks for sharing! 🙏🏻😊

Thank you so much! ❤️

Yes, I'm trying to prepare for it 😰And I'm enjoying the sunny days as we speak 🥰

Im a night owl...I dream of living in the far North of Sweden....weeks of solid night and weeks of solid day sound awesome to me. I will be movobg to Sweden, Karlstad so my GF can be close to her family....but when we are older we plan to move way up north.

@@fortheloveofnoise That sounds like a great plan!

Vem bryr sig...mörkret kommer varje år, precis som ljuset....

Top tip to survive then winter. Eat vitamin D. Start In october. Also try to be outdoors around noon every Day. Keeps depesion away

Thanks a lot! Yes, I'm sure some things are different. We will find out at some point hahaha

Thanks for all the tips! Great to hear that not everyone thinks the darkness is depressing and that you can also make the most of it 😊

Thank you, Tobias! There are definitely a lot of great things about Sweden 😊

I don't know enough or heard enough to say anything about it, I'm afraid. I'm very much about equality no matter where anyone comes from or what their skin colour is.

Always playing the victims...

It is beautiful indeed 😊

I’m from Austria 🇦🇹 and I think so too ☺️

Absolutely! :)

Thank you! And yes, I might move somewhere else at some point and I definitely haven't spent much time in Sweden yet. But I kind of like the idea of staying here for a long time 😊

@@LivingSwedish It's in your blood you are a nomad. 100% you will move somewhere else. Good on you. You can work online anyway so why not.

Great to hear! 😊

Just like me 👩🏻‍🦳

Yes 😊

Thank you so much! I really liked Singapore. I had a quite posh lifestyle there so it felt a little unreal at times. Eating out all the time, going on weekend trips and staying in nice hotels. And we managed to find two great friend groups we hung out with all the time. Downside I thought was my job which was really stressful, long hours of work which really destroys the lifestyle a little. Also a harsher work environment, although Germans/Austrians might not be too bothered hahaha One thing I noticed which also bothered me a little bit is that there were no original bands, everything was cover bands. It was a proper expat life! I thought it was great for a short period of time but nothing for long-term, IMO. Hope I could answer your question 😊

@@LivingSwedish you totally did :)! thanks for the in depth answer.

That's interesting! What do they like the most about living in Sweden?

@@LivingSwedish that when you have the "personnummer" and the Bank-ID most thing are little bit easier. They are also impressed about the preschool/kindergarten.

Thank you very much! 😊

Yes, that's true, it seems quite significant for Swedes. I like it 😊

That's the right attitude 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Yeh, this is just the beginning and I will find out more about Sweden and Swedes as time passes 😊 I'd love to see the Pablo Picasso statue so thanks so much for the recommendation. It's on my list now!

Feel free to link to the meta analysis of the studies that confirm this. I'm particularly interested in seeing how they prove that the kids who come from poorer families wouldn't be bullied anyway for not having played the latest Nintendo Switch games, having the very latest and fastest computers running CS:GO or doing some of the more expensive leisure activitities like ice hockey, sailing or golfing. My best guess would be that, yes, that's the motivation for forcing children to wear uniforms, but no, it has absolutely no effect.

Yes, that's the whole idea behind it and it makes sense in theory and maybe it works even with a few but as @Matthias Carlsson mentioned I think reality looks different and there are other indications that a kid is poor or doesn't "fit" in.

Yes, I agree more with your point of view as well.

Yes! 😊

Do you like it?! 😋

i like the typeface poster very much, and Welcome to Stockholm!

@@jens3704 Thank you! 😊

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Precis så

Most people who are crazy about Sweden on RU-vid have not lived here a long time. They don´t know how worse it is today than say 20 years ago and it is only getting worse.

An ordinary Austrian born in sweden ??

Sorry to hear that! Where would you like to live?

There are always some downsides in every country 😉

Really?! That's a first hahaha

But you really do, though. I am a real swede with brown eyes and brown (now gray) hair and easily tanned skin. My wife looks much like you.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! It will be always different for me because I didn't grew up in Sweden and who knows how long I will stay. My point of view is also different from many Germans because I left my home country over 10 years ago and I haven't lived in Germany ever since. It just makes sense that views are different and it's difficult to say which ones are "right" or "wrong".

@@LivingSwedish Thanks for your response - you are of course not obliged to respond to anyone if you don't feel like it. I see quite a few of the starry eyed western foreigners coming on youtube seemingly with a goal to act PR-representatives for the country they recently landed in themselves - and give other prospective travellers a glossy report. Maybe I'm too sensitive since I grew up in an almost perfect country, that later was actively ruined to this state of affairs. "Greta" is a clear sign of how irrational the Swedish establishment must be. A mentally weak 16year old, that looks innocent like a 12 year old, says things that makes Jeanne d'Arc seem grounded. Coached by her celebrity parents (opera diva Malena Ernman) and economically backed by the usual suspects. Orchestrated or spontaneous? Knowing it will cost immense amount of political and economical slashing to rebuild, knowing it will not be achieved in my lifteime - it's hard to stomach report after report of glossy content, completelly omitting the facts why more than a million well skilled and well off and net productive Swedes (statistically with an IQ>115) have emigrated the last 20years. While 2 million complete strangers, mostly without identification, have immigrated during the same time. You have your view; I know what it's like to come to a new country and enjoy everything different but with similar function, enjoying how well it works to communicate with strangers. Being abroad and being appreciated and starting fresh, with all the possibilities, can be arousing. I hope you feel It is OK to "bash" another country too. If we can't take it, it's too bad for us. It may not do wonders for viewer numbers I guess. As a PR-consultant, I'd be starving. I think you might be able to deliver sincere criticism and still make it sound good. There were some of that in your response to me ;) My initial comment was to you, to other travellers in Sweden or coming to Sweden, and some of my country men - analytical enough, but afraid to speak out for risk of social stigma.

@@impalaSS65 wow förväntade mig inte arga foliehattar till en sån här video. Snyggt personangrepp på Greta. Visar vilken typ av människa du är.

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Not the highest, even for the richest. Not nearly the highest for middle to low income earners.

@@E-jit We have 66 percent marginal tax rate in Sweden. Which is all time low since the removed värnskatten last year. It still ranks highest i think, or which county have higher?

@@andersmalmgren6528 Yes, the marginal tax is the highest in the world at 55,5% but the marginal tax doesn’t reflect how much the average citizen pays in taxes per month or year.

@@E-jit it's 66 procent including social tax. You just need to make 43k a month to start paying that tax so it's not like you need to be rich.

@@andersmalmgren6528 Do you pay 66% on your monthly income?

I really hope everyone can be safe and doesn't have to be afraid.

@@LivingSwedish I think this person refers to a biased belief that there are more rapes in Sweden the last 10 years, but in reality part of that increase is due to harsher regulation on what is considered rape, but what makes us really stick out in the statistics is repeated offences, for example sexual explotiation continuing for multiple years. Other countries count that as 1, while we count every occurrence as 1. So those things makes us really stick out. There's also more people who dare speak out these days. Still horrible though, but it's good to understand part of that belief. You can find statistics about any crimes at the homepage of "brottsförebyggande rådet" and full explanations in english.

@@mattiascarlsson5355 Thanks a lot for the explanation and the source to read more about it!

@@LivingSwedish As he said. Even if you are married, if you say no, that is one rape. So if he forces himself on you once a day for one year. That is 365 rapes in that statistics. Our definition of rape is for me/us, normal, but for the "world" extreme and we are the rape center of the world....... While the world think that is..... OK?!

Maybe I have not said that enough in my videos but we both work and pay taxes in Sweden as well. When I mentioned, for example, the lunch is free then I often compare it with other countries. Taxes can be sometimes even higher in Germany and I certainly didn't get free lunch at school 😉

@@LivingSwedish It's unfortunately the sort of nonsensical generalization you hear from some people who are supposed to be amongst the well educated & informed in the world. This free this free that jargon, i assume but perhaps wrong, mostly benefits the asylum seekers. I paid my way through medical school in hungary, worked there for a while as a surgeon, before moving to sweden. Have worked in sweden since 2017, paying 36% income tax, while hardly using any social benefits. I don't for the most part even know what benefits i'm entitled to. Yet one often gets such uninformed generalized commentary. Having said that, the swedish welfare system must be reformed & made better targeted. There are all kinds of people (some native swedes included) who've really abused the welfare system, while people like me pay hefty tax.

@@chimereh.achilefu9176 Like you wrote, it's not free but when you old and can't work any longer and need healthcare you will get it without any big cost, look at the taxes as a insurance. You pay for something you hope you never need to use. If you was born in Sweden and did study in Sweden you would not need to pay and would have paid back now when you working, you maybe have children that's going to study to doctor, look at the taxes as a investment in your children. Yes, there is people's using the system, you should track them down but there is also people's that can't work and pay taxes. The question is it better to give them money so they can live their life or not and they maybe need to do things to get food and a place to sleep that's maybe against the law? What would higher crime cost Sweden and as a doctor how are bad economy effect the health?

@Henrik L Like i wrote, the welfare system should be "reformed and better targeted" to help those who really need it. I didn't suggest it be abolished. Nuance. There are abuses in the system, that only tracking won't do. There must be a disincentive to abuse it. The fear of crime increasing just because some able bodied individual, who abuses the system because he/she doesn't wish to work isn't my concern. I noticed how you deliberately mixed up so many things to distort my meaning, while hiding behind an anonymous name. Besides, why am i the one u've zeroed in on, while certain Swedes like Martin Ericsson are allowed to get away with such generalized prejudice against foreigners?

Idiot