An American company would sell off everything then disappear with the money & workers health insurance

@SuperPerfectMan

4 жыл бұрын

Bloody Gronk true !

@theextremeanimator4721

4 жыл бұрын

Now not without being called out.

@tommybear1097

4 жыл бұрын

I lived in the non existent town of Picher Oklahoma during the government buyout and even though their offers varied vastly, they took care of everyone which is more than I can say about some of these other places I'm reading about.

@blakesingleton7064

4 жыл бұрын

And that’s why Sweden is good

@blakesingleton7064

4 жыл бұрын

Tommy Bear wow! Where you in the tornado?

American Companies: Oh, the town might cave in because of *our actions*? Ok... *leaves the town to cave in*

@bingoberra18

4 жыл бұрын

For reference LKAB is 100% state owned.

@helicocktor

4 жыл бұрын

@@bingoberra18 meh. Company lobbies government not to do anything, money changes hands, nothing gets done. Result? People die. The American Dream, really more of a nightmare.

@Theghostofpeter

4 жыл бұрын

Oh course it’s America’s fault! Meanwhile Sweden government does nothing!

@maadtee6281

4 жыл бұрын

@@Theghostofpeter what you mean does nothing they have no choice because 9f the mine

@baverfjant

4 жыл бұрын

@@Theghostofpeter They are literally moving the town, was the headline of this video not clear enough for you?

The scenes of moving 100-year-old houses really surprised me. Here in Egypt, particularly Cairo, 1000s of beautiful and historic buildings including palaces, villas, and hotels were destroyed to construct unofficial ugly towers. It is a privilege to live in a country that plans and organizes its urban development. Things have been changed here drastically with regard to urban development and planning, but the damage has already shaped our present.

@PrawnzHD

4 жыл бұрын

we used to do some of that too, look at stockholm back in the 50s to 70s especially - but now we seem to have learned our lesson, it sometimes takes loosing what you love to realize what the great damage you're doing. Luckily we're in a better place now

@liamdavis2387

4 жыл бұрын

I was in Cairo two months ago and it's very lucky to still have so much historical beauty.

@Polyglot_English

4 жыл бұрын

That's what you get when you have a corrupt government

@Tunawesmake

4 жыл бұрын

You need to consider if a house is movable though... Not all are. As we've seen the old lady's house is being demolished...

@baverfjant

4 жыл бұрын

That happens almost everywhere. This is a particular case but they most certainly tear down old classic buildings in Sweden too and replace them with modern skyscrapers or worse.

Let's take Kiruna, and push it somewhere else!

@projectocamero7502

4 жыл бұрын

Investment of 1.6b for town not too bad.

@blacksheep1069

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

“Our house in the middle of the street.”

@kudim3185

4 жыл бұрын

our house in the middle east more like

@breakingballswithtony6897

4 жыл бұрын

Good one and great song!! Made me laugh

Takes the saying "there goes the neighborhood!" To another level...

@chefgiovanni

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent News reporting here. Keep it up. Let's get cooking. #Chefs tip : Eat a lot of Garlic & Cinnamon . Wash your hands. Subscribe for recipes & more tips.

_In Sweden you don't move into a house, the house moves to you_

@aldhyXjumpen

4 жыл бұрын

just some ikea things right there 😂

@laddttt6808

4 жыл бұрын

no.

@HiAdrian

4 жыл бұрын

Should have followed the Russian reversal formula: _In socialist Sweden, house moves to you._

@Bagg-AB

4 жыл бұрын

@Archos Copelin no but they are moving half the town

@Bagg-AB

4 жыл бұрын

@@HiAdrian its not socialist

This seems like that episode of spongebob where Patrick suggested moving Bikini Bottom somewhere else 😂😂

@herasean5720

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought once I watched the first 5 seconds 😂😭

@ellencampbell3921

4 жыл бұрын

You have to know Patrick! Lolol in Canada.

@CarlosBeo

4 жыл бұрын

Or that one time in the Simpsons all of Springfield had to move haha

@marksilva3956

4 жыл бұрын

The krusty krab is in bikini bottom

@matthewwelsh294

2 жыл бұрын

The Alaskan Bull Worm 😂😂

*That means the houses were moving at 2mph. BOOM SMART MATHS*

@bassbassbasser

4 жыл бұрын

How much is it in kph?

@inconspicuousname2925

4 жыл бұрын

Quick maths

@0poIE

4 жыл бұрын

@@bassbassbasser You can work that out if your bothered.

@bharatwajg

4 жыл бұрын

@@bassbassbasser 3.2 kmph

@campkira

4 жыл бұрын

yeah but they had time so... it not like the ground is gone..

My hometown and where I currently live. Fun fact: at one clock at night time they blow up the dynamite they’ve placed during the day every night. It’s a non stop industry. You can very clearly hear and feel the vibrations of the mining going on 24/7, 365 days a year, no rest.

@fugly3573

4 жыл бұрын

I think you are eligible to move to Syria 😜🤪

@aus-li

4 жыл бұрын

@@fugly3573 Syria sounds like a great place. As a tourist, I'd go if you'd pay for my trip :)

@kingpetra6886

4 жыл бұрын

"Well, we're living here in Allentown..." Billy Joel

@AndrewKidd14145

4 жыл бұрын

VoidX I will but I ain’t responsible if you don’t make it back (very likely)

@PrawnzHD

4 жыл бұрын

@paso fino theres butter underneath, the square thing on top is cheese - source: I'm swedish and my grandma makes sandwiches in the same way

*WE SHOULD TAKE BIKINI BOTTOM, AND PUSH IT SOMEWHERE ELSE*

@GeopoliticsDaily538

4 жыл бұрын

Knew this would be top comment as soon as I seen the video 😂

@hendinasution1063

4 жыл бұрын

Man push more

@marksilva3956

4 жыл бұрын

The krusty krab is In bikini bottom

@greatdaneacdc

4 жыл бұрын

Push bikini bottoms off to the side !

@stephaniesparkles

4 жыл бұрын

Just your average Crusader You do know that a sponge 🧽 in a bikini bottom is like a maxi pad in panties right...

Thank you VICE for this amazing journalism, I never thought I would see you fellas in the northern part of Sweden where even I as a Swede have never touched foot. It is truly touching to hear the elderly people and their stories as we often in schools are taught about houses being moved (even back in the 2000's) but not that they are forcing people out of their homes to expand the mine. It is weird that I as a Swede learnt more from VICE in Kiruna than I have ever heard or received information from the government. Thank you for shedding some light for those that often do not have a voice. That is what real journalism is.

Imagine a mining company in West Virginia or something, doing something like this for their town.

@qv8281

4 жыл бұрын

people before profit ? WHAT ARE YOU SOME KINDA GODDAMN CAMMUNIST?

@11donto

4 жыл бұрын

LKAB is a state owned company

@laromai2245

4 жыл бұрын

@@qv8281 They're moving the Communists.

@Tunawesmake

4 жыл бұрын

@@11donto still it's operations have to make business sense, they're not a housing corporation, yet they care for people's housing... State corporations or private, it's doable and worth looking into...

@hdajhdaahha3836

4 жыл бұрын

@@qv8281 Nothing says caring about people than a state owned corporation completely ravaging the ground in a city so badly that houses are caving in and then instead of fixing it passing a law that FORCES all who are affected to have their houses moved into some deserted tundra in northern Sweden so they can continue to completely deplete the ground and sending all the money to Stockholm, making sure the people who lives there sees none of it.

This clip was used on Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick

Favorite part of the video was listening to the man speaking Swedish about the mine lol. This is the content I subbed for tho, not music videos. Really enjoyed this, please more videos like this vice.

@MrApplehair

4 жыл бұрын

Serena D ikr? Swedish sounds so melodic

@ipixz3

4 жыл бұрын

Sometimes i can feel we speak too much English people never hear any Swedish!

@John_Jim

4 жыл бұрын

Really nice for a change to here a Swede speaking Swedish instead of that broken English that many speak and refuse to admit to themselves that they do.

@Pilusajaib

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like his tongue is dancing

@bladesmith5927

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrApplehair Nah, it sounds quite displeasing. I prefer a Russian tounge.

This is honestly beautiful. I live in the US where companies will lay off hundreds of employees to boost their stocks. No US mining corporation would ever dream of giving up 60% of their profits to relocate families.

@hjallest6565

Жыл бұрын

Well that’s because the company is state-owned

@juanaguillon6093

10 ай бұрын

Here in America the government jus burns the land that corporations want and then sell it to them cheap.

@blobblobb2341

9 ай бұрын

ur correct @@hjallest6565

In Brazil there's a company called Vale, they did the same thing, moved people houses to other places, but the only difference is that they had used mud to move them.

@drbreeden4093

4 жыл бұрын

Cristo d. A Brazilian of them...

@bjoardar

3 жыл бұрын

Dude, that is so dark, but I still laughed 😂

That must be a crazy feeling to wake up in the same bedroom, but look out the window and you're somewhere else.

Sweden i love you 🇸🇪 Stay strong my people

@epowers6142

4 жыл бұрын

Marco Tabo Silalahi it’s to late

@mrblackalchemist

4 жыл бұрын

@@epowers6142 why?

@samuelseger7010

4 жыл бұрын

@@mrblackalchemist Nm Elina Powers. Prob som wight wing troll. Thx! You too!

@bleachesbrother6697

4 жыл бұрын

we are being replaced by people who we share no ancestral l ties with

@xXcangjieXx

4 жыл бұрын

Bleaches Brother Say that to the Neanderthals😝

i can really see here how a good company handling things they affected.

@JamesBen937

4 жыл бұрын

@aljanat5 Why? They are paying to move the entire town. Do you expect them to somehow stablize the entire earth below just to avoid moving a town 2 miles

@gustavlantz

4 жыл бұрын

@aljanat5 Oh, another troll post. Hi troll, how are you?

@Sorcerers_Apprentice

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, it was very kind of them to step in and resolve a problem they created. I'm sure they did it out of the goodness out of their heart, not because they are simply unable to bribe the local government into screwing the townspeople over, like they would in some other countries with corrupt or ineffective government. See what I did there? That's sarcasm.

@hitmandahl

4 жыл бұрын

Hey! LKAB gör så gott de kan! Utan LKAB inget fucking Kiruna! Så enkelt är det!

@laromai2245

4 жыл бұрын

​@@Sorcerers_Apprentice > "resolve a problem they created." -- The town wouldn't exist in the first place without the mine. Lot's a Communist whining in that town, and by Vice. I grew up 120 km south of Kiruna, in a town which is ALSO being moved as we speak. Same whining. Same Communist sour attitudes. I'm sick of it. They think that wealth comes from nowhere, only to be distributed. Sigh. So I moved 1000 km southward, just to escape the Communist whining and groaning. Communists = Cry Babies.

if those houses were made here in america they'd break apart the moment you lifted them up

@Pcarnevaaa

4 жыл бұрын

Ye cuz America sucks

@Theghostofpeter

4 жыл бұрын

Pmoose Travern, and yet people keep coming here.. lol

@Theghostofpeter

4 жыл бұрын

Signed someone that isn’t part of the US.. lol

@xalpacazeu1332

4 жыл бұрын

Pmoose Travern No why do people still come. No one can enter sweden because they want educated lmao

@synecdoche8783

4 жыл бұрын

I'm actually thinking of moving countries after this covid-19 shit storm blows over. Our government is a failure, including our president.

World: On lockdown Meanwhile in Sweden:

@johan.ohgren

4 жыл бұрын

What? You're saying a town can't social distancing from other towns?? It's too damned crowded up there in the arctic!

@jessicacharlesson5198

4 жыл бұрын

Tokioka this is old reporting, the city is much more built up, than What it was there. Aka. they aren’t moving now. But possibly building since Sweden is not in courantine

@clasdavid5450

4 жыл бұрын

@@johan.ohgren snygg profilbild

@Flayvfx

4 жыл бұрын

Clas David hahahah

@ElectariumTunic

4 жыл бұрын

The moving is on ongoing process that started in 2019 and plan to finish in 2027

This explains how a government-owned company is generally held at higher scrutiny on standards and ethics and therefore doesn't endanger the long-term sustainability for short-term gains.

@Hans.Dewitt

4 жыл бұрын

that only applies in developed nations lol

@hannaolivia100

4 жыл бұрын

Sweden (along with, I guess the rest of Scandinavia and some parts of Europe) stands out, it is rare that other states would reason like this.

@abo133780

4 жыл бұрын

@bopp9 Lär dom ut sånt på Livets hårda skola?

@blacksebbeth

3 жыл бұрын

Very well said. This should be top post. But let's not pretend it makes a government trustworthy. Democracy's simplest idea is founded on the peoples suspicion of their government, that is what gives people power, otherwise voting is meaningless. The American spell/dream have made people forget that. "People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people." In Sweden things can be as bad as anywhere else at times. But one thing usually rings true. The government usually is afraid of the power of the people, which is good. This is why Kiruna is moving to protect the inhabitants instead of turning into temporary labor camps. Because the Swedish people are strong.

@darkwolf4434

3 жыл бұрын

It moves certain houses that has some history in the Town.

I hate when I have to move my home two miles down the street. So inconvenient and my plates always break.

I want to say one thing as a swede those old people don't comprehend how nice the company is to them and how many other companies wouldn't do the same. I'm kinda mad that Vice opted to interview a group of people that only care about themselves and can't comprehend how good they have it with this deal. In Sweden many elderly don't understand how liberal we are compared to many other countries in the world and that what they have is a privilege so they complain about everything they feel "wronged" about.

Vice makes this more dramatic then it is, sure some residents need to move into flats or other houses but there is no choice in not moving a part of kiruna. Becuse like Gunnar Selberg said LKAB (The mining company) is like a mother to Kiruna. Most people who live in Kiruna work at LKAB and LKAB gives alot of donations too the town. ~ A Kiruna Resident.

@Reflectingparadigm

3 жыл бұрын

I too only realized how dramatic an interview has to be just for the sake of profiting off of the people and VIEWS. They do not cover up the whole situation where such decision is not individual decision but a kommunal decision that translates to; we are doing it because there is (?) no other way. However I agree, they have to give them HOUSES if what they took were HOUSES. Its not fair at all to take their houses and give them money and leave the rest to them, in swedish standards that it almost violated compensation and rude.

My dad worked for LKAB when I was a kid, and retired just when the move started being discussed. After retirement he moved down to the coastal city Piteå, and me myself got myself a job in Stockholm. It's very emotional to see the city you grew up in being so radically transformed, even if none of us visits Kiruna any more.

@tonybaloney8401

8 ай бұрын

I'm one of the descendants of Hjalmar Lundbohm, the original managing director of LKAB, and unofficial founder of Kiruna. It's pretty mindblowing to know that the mine is still in strong operation after over 100 years.

@snigelalva

4 ай бұрын

I feel the same, i cant even visit the new Kiruna. Its not the same.

Me watching this being a Swede not knowing about this 😦

@raeyadmasu1590

4 жыл бұрын

D e lugnt om du går i grundskolan, annars behöver du steppa upp din knowledge

@NWHE

3 жыл бұрын

Det var några som gjorde ett test och intervjuade kirunabor om dem visste om ombyggnationen av slussen i stockholm och jag tror alla visste om det, sen intervjuade dem stockholmare om dem visste om kirunaflytten och dem hade noll koll

Teacher:why you want to leave so early??..Your house didn't go anywhere you know Swedish student:

Mayor posts on KZread: "Why I'm moving my town across town" as the title

Bra jobbat gubbar!

I feel bad for that lady. Being 'forced' to move is fine because of the situation. But her not getting enough money from her current home to buy a new house/flat and instead having to rent. I can imagine it would be frustrating to go from owning your own home to having to rent again.

@thomaskoponen

4 жыл бұрын

It’s more than fair, they are paying market price (rare), + 25% as a minimum offer.

@laromai2245

4 жыл бұрын

@dendo111 Correct., Lot's of whining in those areas. Indoctrinated to always feel discontent. I grew up there (or 120 km to the South). No matter where you go in the world you will know what ideology fostered the whining attitude. You will know even in the Congress in which direction the whiners are leaning... ahum.

@hdajhdaahha3836

4 жыл бұрын

@dendo111 "Should"? She shouldn't have to move at all. The corporation has been aggressively depleting the ground, ruining it completely in an attempt to make as much money as possible. They endangered the lives of an entire city and when caught they realised they will make A LOT more money by passing a law (the corporation is state owned and are therefore backed by the police and military and can never make a mistake or be held accountable) forcing all who lives there to move so that they can continue to deplete the ground until it all caves in and some of Swedes most beautiful landscapes are nothing more but a big crater.

@Fudo94

4 жыл бұрын

@@hdajhdaahha3836 The town was built around the mining operation. It's the worlds largest iron ore mine and it has been active for 100 years. She is less important.

@The93Momo93

4 жыл бұрын

yeah it's a decent deal, she is just picky

Everyone gangsta till the house lifts off the ground

Reminder me with old Simpson episode, where the Springfield city is moving out.

@p.hearting9992

4 жыл бұрын

Lengkong Sanggar Ginaris which episode is that?

@bobbymcearlton

4 жыл бұрын

@@p.hearting9992 (S9Ep22)

@maksarcher7963

4 жыл бұрын

you think season 9 is 'old' simpsons ? dont make me laugh

@Nlify

4 жыл бұрын

@@maksarcher7963 s9 was aired 22 years ago. literally old simpsons

@Jollyman432

4 жыл бұрын

@@Nlify 22 years how is that old?

"Home Delivery"

When they tell you to stay home but you still wanna go places 😂

Damn Vice has been killing it with the content lately. Keep it up and I'll keep watching.

House: Aight I'm boutta head out

cool. i live in a town in northern canada that was picked up and moved from one town and moved to a new one 175miles away on sleighs through the northern bush 100+ buildings moved over 2 winters.

My family is from a small town close to Kiruna. And the same thing is happening there. Every time we visit another part of the town has been swallowed by the huge hole haha... My grandmother will be like ”and just around this corner is where I used to work when I wa..” *almost falls into bottomless pit*

Didn't the Simpsons do this when they moved Springfield? 🤔 I'm onto you Matt Groening, you time traveller you.

@laddttt6808

4 жыл бұрын

MafiaboysWorld no.

@kutter_ttl6786

4 жыл бұрын

@@laddttt6808 Yes

@lS-qp6zq

4 жыл бұрын

Give genius Matt Groening a break. Perhaps he saw the opening scene in Monte Hellman's early '70s film Cockfighter with the late great Warren Oates. Obscure US film reference I know. Imma head out.

@johan.ohgren

4 жыл бұрын

This isn't the first time they've moved that city.

So the corporation is actually responsible? Man i wish we had that in my country

@hdajhdaahha3836

4 жыл бұрын

The corporation is state owned and they wanted to continue to fully deplete the ground, they totally ruined the whole area and they refuse to stop so they passed a law forcing all people who live there to move, they underpay them so they can't buy their own houses back. They are getting scammed worse than anybody have ever been scammed before.

@verozety4040

3 жыл бұрын

hdajhda ahha Kiruna City needs that mine to continue existing. If they closed that mine nobody would continue living there because Kiruna city was built around the mine. Almost every body who lives the work at the mine or has a job that has some relation to the mine

Someone could easily make a house arrest joke

I saw this story back when they started the move but those buildings are unbelievably immaculate having spent a hundred years in the snow. I would have thought they were built in the 90s.

2:52 text is wrong, she’s saying: They tore down city hall a few months ago, and that was tough because then I saw everything

@thsimpsonsguy

3 жыл бұрын

how is the text wrong? lol

Wow thats crazy moving a whole town to mine.

@darkwolf4434

3 жыл бұрын

That mine is incredibly important for the swedish economy. It was the reason why Sweden had to sell iron to the Nazis because they had control over Narvik Where all iron is transported.

The story reminds me of Most in Czechia, where the entire historic center was demolished to give way to a coal mine

@bjoardar

3 жыл бұрын

Man, that's so sad :/

Reminds me of that Simpson episode where home trashed Springfield and everyone had to move.

Governments in Europe: Let's move heaven and earth (literally) to provide for our people. Yank Government: Lol, you have no drinking water. Tough luck.

@philipe1502

4 жыл бұрын

Good Luck with this pandemic aswell! It's not that we were warned months ago, are one of the richest nations on earth and had the infrastructure to prepare.

@Columbakin

4 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Byrne the company is nationalised so it is the government

@jaclpz

4 жыл бұрын

Daniel Byrne - I doubt any company would be doing this all on their own without the government stepping in.

@PrinceZakariyya

4 жыл бұрын

I didn’t know Europe was a country.

@MafiaboysWorld

4 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Byrne You obviously didn't hear "STATE OWNED" meaning government run. 😂

My hometown. The whole block where I grew up is gone. Feels like a part of me is gone.

I get that it's hard to move a whole town. It's either that or your house falls into the gorge from an old mine. At least it's a giant company that is actually taking some responsibility for how the massive mine will impact other people.

@SWEmanque

3 жыл бұрын

The entire town basically only exists to serve the needs of LKAB, so they can't really screw the town over without it hurting themselves. They also must move the town, as without access to new ore they will not be able to operate and then there is no point to the town and everyone will have to move and the town will be dead within a couple of months. LKAB is the town and the town is LKAB, more or less.

@Soilworker

Жыл бұрын

LKAB has got a mine in Gällivare too and that town is more or less split in two because of a huge gorge known as "Gropen" - "The hole"...

I saw this clip on the latest top gear episode (Scandi flick) when the hosts were passing through Kiruna. Interesting to see how mining has affected the whole town and their innovative solution....

Hiiiii everyone! So I actually live in Kiruna (this town) because of my studies I moved there, I'd love to answer some questions if anyone has any about the mine, how it is to live there, what it's like to fall asleep as the blasts go off in the mine etc.

@cheyenneseneca6943

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Evelyn. I am coming to Kiruna next week. I will be there for a few months studying conflicts around the mine. Do you still live there? I would love to meet with and talk to a local on these topics. Maybe we can connect on Facebook? My name is Cheyenne Seneca.

@Pine_Wood

8 ай бұрын

du pluggade på rymd i suppose ;)

Vice, please invest in new background music. This an update on Sweden, not meditation in Cambodia.

@AlvarLagerlof

4 жыл бұрын

haha

Did we ever get a follow up to this story?

I was just reading about Kiruna and now this pops up! Convenient :)

In this case I suggest total removal of mortgage interest rates. I mean just plain monthly instalments for the remaining months since there's no guarantee the homes will be in the same conditions on arrival at the second location .

This happened in a town next to mine in northern Michigan

When you need to go to the grocery store but you can't leave your house

Is Vice under new management? They've had a fair amount of decent videos coming out lately.

How do they connect the pipes and electricity wiring then?

@jewbiden3697

4 жыл бұрын

in Sweden, pipe move you

This is old reporting, honey, this is so old.

I saw this movie. The evil corporation is buying the land but a few won’t move and start to come up missing.

2020 just 4 months down but damnit. Feels like 1904

It is very hard on the inhabitants who live there.

Is this near Falun? I know theres a mine there too

@danielk3919

4 жыл бұрын

No, that's a copper mine. Kiruna is in the most northern parts of Sweden, and it's mostly iron.

@laromai2245

4 жыл бұрын

Falun is located some 1000 km South of Kiruna. Kiruna is located 200 km+ North of the Arctic Circle. Falu Copper mine started some 1200 years ago, Kiruna Iron ore mine only ~100 yrs ago.

@johan.ohgren

4 жыл бұрын

Not even close..

3:25 if you think about it very often then the best choice you can make is moving out immediately. This would stop worrying about it and it saves you months of headache and stress. So stop whining and start moving and keep your mind calm. You need to do it anyway.

I love how the company is correcting their mistakes with their own money and not running away with the money

@verozety4040

3 жыл бұрын

Almost everyone in that town work for the mining company and the company is owned by the Swedish government. So it wouldn’t look good for the government if the just let the town be swallowed by the mine. Because then they never be re-elected.

Beautiful snow.

Music in the beginning?

so it's not that the ground is caving in, they want to extract iron below the town so they have to move the buidlings

I’m swedish and this is old news

@bassbassbasser

4 жыл бұрын

Your asian

@ipixz3

4 жыл бұрын

Guess they shoulda posted this on Vice channel instead. But it's a on-going thing, and he word "news" has been broad since a long time ago.

@moreid202

4 жыл бұрын

acid crayon cheeky

@gustavlantz

4 жыл бұрын

@aljanat5 "Cynical propaganda" Oh you trolls make me laugh. I needed that Thanks!

@laromai2245

4 жыл бұрын

@aljanat5 BS. Strip+ out all the nail of the houses in Kiruna which was stolen from the LKAB company by the workers, and the whole torn falls flat to the ground. Old saying in the "mine fields" of the Swedish North. Yes, I was born and raised there. Whining Communists. Same sour attitudes wherever you encounter them. Cry babies.

Reminds me of what happened in Paradise, Kentucky

It's not hard, the reason the 1964 Anchorage Alaska earthquake was so devastating in terms of property damage was the topography of Anchorage itself. Landfill and tideflats. Seattle's waterfront faces a similar fate..

Its like when springfield moved 5 miles down the road because they had to much trash.

Wheres the footing? How they do that? I human, I need know fast.

Inside the house be like HELLO IS ANOMALY FROM SWEDEN AND TODAY WE ARE PLAYING IN A MOVING HOUSE

Not moving… being torn down. Like my childhood home.

The fact is that the flats for buying or renting, that they are building, are far too expensive for a lot of people. Even with the money they get from LKAB a lot of the elders find they don’t have the money, even for a small flat for renting, sadly enough. That has led many elders to come to the conclusion to move away from Kiruna. Some would have done that anyway. But others would have preffered to remain in Kiruna if there were cheaper flats to buy and if there also were rental flats available that they could afford. As the lady said: ”There are not enough apartments”. They are just moving a few of the houses. A big part of the houses in Kiruna will be demolished. The newly built houses, which will replace the demolished houses, are very expensive. A solution to this problem would be, to not only build these extremely expensive houses, but also build houses with flats that are cheaper to buy and apartments that would be cheaper to rent. It is a shame they have chosen not to do so. At least not to the extent that could fill the demand. So sad.

This is the math for those who must move from an apartment. Let's say the company pays 1755000 SEK for your apartment and you bought it for 50000 sek 20 years ago. This means that you deduct 50 000 SEK from those 1 755 000 SEK, 1 705 000. On that sum you have to pay 22% tax 375 100 SEK. This leaves you with 1 379 900 SEK. To buy a new same size apartment will cost you roughly 2 100 000 to 2 300 000 SEK. If you are lucky you will find an old apartment for sale for about 1 300 000- 1 500 000 SEK. So decide for your self if this is a fair deal.

If I was getting $130k and my friend was doing the same, as well as my whole family. Instead of getting another flat pool money together, making a family business and create your own apartments.

@KristoferOlsson

4 жыл бұрын

You will not be able to build a new apartment for 130k dollars in this region. You probably would need 3-4 times that money to build new.

At least the company is helping because in America they would leave you in the ditch. I do hope families who leave in the flats can find a new home

In any other country, the companies would leave the workers for themselves.

@PHlophe

4 жыл бұрын

its easier for richer countries like sweden to handle this. they get tons of cash from selling weapons to syria etc.. Billions that is.

@Theghostofpeter

4 жыл бұрын

Lechiffresix six, what weapons? Sweden’s don’t have a military..

@PHlophe

4 жыл бұрын

@@Theghostofpeter you don't need to need to own a weapon to contribute to mass murder. www.businessinsider.com/swedens-dirty-secret-they-arm-dictators-2014-5?op=1&r=US&IR=T

One of my adoptive hometowns. ♥

god i love vice

Come to Saskatchewan.....we pass houses on the highway all the time!!

This is how every company should think

I mean, I don’t think they have too much of an option. Either move or go down with the boat. I mean, unless the mining company is speeding things up.

I wouldn't be surprised if the mayor's named Patrick.

Min vän kommer från Kiruna, my Swedish friend comes from Kiruna. I’ve always wanted to visit was going to go before this whole Coronavirus thing happened.

@CruelQuertos

4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget your winter clothes regardless of what season it is lol.

This is like the Simpsons episode where the town was full of garbage so they put every single building on trucks and lorries and moved the entire town five miles down the road.

Fun fact: Mam Moët is a Dutch company.

I watched something about Kiruna on a tv show 4 years ago.

How about Centralia, Pennsylvania?

So this is how Home delivery works

Th-theyre literally moving the houses. And they’re gonna move back??? This is so unreal lmao

I'm sorry the houses are moving I'm sorry

Did homer become mayor and fill abandoned mines full of garbage from other cities?

That was the biggest ”city” in the world by area but definetely not by popultaion.

So Patricks idea was good after all...