Respect for the forces of nature. What a profound statement and how rarely observed. Thanks for telling it like it is.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you and welcome :)

@ewmbr1164

3 жыл бұрын

I fully agree and gave this comment a like. Even though the truths presented in this video are very much not likeable at all. A very instructive video, thank you Just Icelandic - and warm regards from Boston (literally, as we have a heatwave beginning today and expected to last through mid-week).

A very interesting perspective. Most Iceland videos I’ve seen show gorgeous geography, downtown Reykjavik, maybe some remote farm or town or more lately, the volcano, geared for tourists. Being a native South and Central Texan I’ve always been interested in countries with snow and have seen a lot of Iceland videos! I’ve wondered why that area had such ugly architecture when I had seen such contrasting beauty like Asgard(lol). Now I know why. Your videos remind that there are people who live and struggle in this beautiful place and that there is no place free from greed, corruption or stupidity. Hopefully those who built the shithole will reap the rightful rewards for their actions.

Really love that you are also showing the ugly side of the coin. I think it's always good for us tourists to not idealize our holiday countries (too much). Watching your channel and reading the Reykjavík Grapevine really helps with that.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic and thanks a lot :)

Thank you for this honest report. Respect of nature elements and beings is of upmost important to thrive

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you and welcome :)

Great video and brutally honest, which I love, even though I'm English living in Iceland. My Icelandic language teacher was always saying 'This is ridiculous' about many Icelandic practices.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Well said and thanks a lot :)

Thank you for your video commentaries. I enjoy your point of view. When I visit other parts of my country I try and learn as much as possible about it. If I make it to Iceland, I will arrive with a realistic, non-touristy point of view.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Well said and welcome :)

Driving between Keflavik International Airport and Reykjavik in 1979-80; there was very little if any construction along the coast road except for the Aluminum smelter and a failed golf course of sorts. Surprised at the level of development. You have done a great job of pointing out many of the shortcomings of concentrating development in this area. It should make for a great tourist attraction as a modern day Pompeii.

Yes and Thank You for covering the ugly urban sprawl you are experiencing in Iceland. I can attest to what has happened to your country since my first visit in 2016 and how much the area around Keflavik had changed within 2 years. While touring your Ring Road in 2019, I noticed how much the towns near Reykjavik had mushroomed into unsightly developments and made a beeline to get past Borgarnes! Sorry for you loss, Sir.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

I can agree that I feel my self free after Borgarnes :) then I'm really in the countryside :) and thank you so much, you seem to understand what't been going on here :)

I agree. I am half Icelandic and usually visit every few years. The building of homes on recent lava fields is worrying. I remember Hafnarfjorthur being a few houses, a church and hardfisk drying racks as a kid.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

The old part of Hafnarfjörður is wonderful, some of the nicest streets in Iceland are there, but they have been blocking it off with concrete boxes by the harbour so the towns image was literally sold away

Your videos may be the best history of these Volcanoes 🌋!

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much and it's way more to come soon :) welcome

Thank you for another great video! The last shot of this video is of beautiful mountains. Is that Northern Iceland? Very beautiful shot! And yes, many local government actors are easily paid off. I've seen it here where I live. Giving false perc tests to your buddies, because they really want to build on an area they shouldn't. Stay safe and well!

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thank a lot, the last one was shot from Húsavík at the north part of Kinnarfjöll mountains, the eastern side of the Flateyjarskagi peninsula. and as for perks!!! For the people in this hood, is smells and looks so...

I have 3 nurse friends whose husband & children were diagnosed with Lymphatic Cancers while even the doctors agreed, the “Singing High Tendon” lines were MOST LIKELY IMPLICATED in their lymph node cancers diagnoses. The kids are still alive, but not the Husbands.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

This seems to be the case, living around strong electromagnetic fields and a part of my concern since I was in the electronic business for a long time and heard more than I want about these things around us...first hand from people who know what they are talking about...so the danger is real for me and good luck to you and your friends....

@GumriRN

3 жыл бұрын

@@JustIcelandic -it’s really bad when you can HEAR buzzing in lines. Can almost feel it!

Keep beating the drum and documenting this. It needs to be seen, and not just by people living in Iceland. It's horrible when builders and politicians are willing to turn blind eyes to danger when money can be made. We have a similar situation in my town (no volcanoes, but protected grasslands) and it is sadly true that the money will always come first.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly yes and thanks you :)

Thank you for digging into the details and history on all the important and buried aspects of this. I am sure many avg Icelanders appreciate the info even more than us intl viewers do. ✅

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Hope so too and thanks :)

The Midsummer images were very spectacular, thank you for all.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

Thank you sir, and respect. An old Sunday School song; The wise man built his house upon the rock (read bedrock) The foolish man built his house upon the sand (read geologically unproven ground) And the rain (read natural disaster) came pouring down. The house on the rock stood firm, the house on the sand crashed down. Enough said.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

It's simple as that and thanks :)

Thank you again for the info; it takes courage to tell it how it really is even though it is not pleasant to hear. My respect for that. :-)

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much :) and welcome

The unfortunate state of the human race is that greed, and the desire for money and success often overides common sense. The world over there are examples of where they should not have built things, but they did. Throw away lines in hazard and safety analyses are common, because they then can say that they did address it, "but how could anyone have foreseen that!" It is hard to prove that level of negligence in the courts.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Well said I must say, excellent and thanks :)

@GoCoyote

3 жыл бұрын

Fukashima Is a prime example.

Thank you for all your great videos! I have learned much more during the volcano started - and we got to see it, than I ever knew before. I am following along this volcanos movements, since I have family on Iceland in the west fjords up north. And, well volcanos have always facinated me, as nature shows very visible strength and you can really only watch from a distance and with respect of the forces of our Earth... Eventhough the vulcano, bad choice of places to build and so on, is'nt in itself cheerfull, I often Find myself in a very good mood after your videos. Love your ironic humoristic way! Best wishes from Denmark🌞

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, I use some of the attitude from the movie "men in tights" where King Arthur asked for the bad new in a good way :) og en hilsen til Denmark

It's the same old story: money first. May be I'm crazy, but I think that beauty should be teached since the infant school, and the more we are educated in beauty, the more we are free. Thank you Gylfi 👍❤️

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Spoken so wisely and great message into my day and thank you so much 👍❤️

I appreciate hearing your opinions on this. Your argument has validity, and I am sympathetic to your opinion. It is sad to see the historic charm of the community change too. But the argument can go both ways. The smelter site is near enough to the capitol city that if a new volcano would erupt nearby-it perhaps could erupt in either place-or perhaps erupt enough lava in one place to catastrophically affect both places (as you demonstrated in this video). I am just talking generalities here-like you. Iceland is on a divergent plate boundary-so in general, a new volcano could erupt potentially anywhere in Iceland. Obviously, an eruption can devastate a locality much more than a smelter-and would cause more pollution than a smelter too (and unfairly bypass local permits-ha ha). A smelter provides jobs and taxes and was permitted by the community. Fortunately your aluminum smelter is not powered by coal. I am not a pro-smelter person, and I know nothing about these localities. My argument is not here to justify the smelter or act disrespectfully to your interesting video. I very much appreciate all the interesting information you put in these videos. BTW-newspapers are often pro-business and pro-growth-because it creates more potential income through more advertising and more subscribers. Or sometimes a newspaper reporter doesn’t do much to write a complete news article.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your valid points, I'm actually pro-industry so the smelter doesn't bother me as such, but the choice of location is not always wise so it should not have been built there I the first place. And we do actually have plenty of "safe places" from lava. But we have useless media here, it writes what the biggest shareholders and advertisers allow and skip the rest :)

Well done

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot :)

Money buys disregard for safety. Thanks for your videos and information. By the way, I love the funny bits of video that you include. Makes me smile.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot and welcome :)

Thank you for your honesty.❤️🇨🇦❤️

@JustIcelandic

2 жыл бұрын

Any time!❤️

Excellent video

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Have you seen the video interview with Professor Thor Thordarson. He was talking about the ongoing eruption on Reykjanes Peninsula. He thinks that this eruption could last for years and also is the beginning of a long period of increased volcanic activity in Iceland that could last for 200-400 years.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Actually not but that explanation is the official one today or what we are preparing for, but not everywhere like on the building land I mentioned, they still have something to learn... :)

Lovely footage and good information. Thank you.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

Those apartments and condos are sleek and modern looking and perhaps some people would not like them. However I"m sure they have many modern amenities and are sleek and modern inside which the young people of today would like. Also note that Iceland does not have much forested land, timber would have to be imported, so it would cost more to give some of those buildings a more American wood architecture feel.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

It's mixed area and fine apartments I would say, and many nice houses but it's just awful location :)

Lol. The 'shithole' as you called it, in the US we call a ghetto. I about spit out my coffee when I heard you call that town that.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, good you enjoyed :)

@garygrant9612

3 жыл бұрын

As an american i say, that area is far from being a shit hole.

Im shocked ! I'm from a southeast european country and let me tell you I can relate to all you've said specially about the toxic relation between politicians and building contractors, municipality and taxes and the lack of total respect for future owners who will in time realize they made twice a mistake...twice, by voting those politicians and buying those apartments... I really though a Nordic country would never behave like a southern European country... Hey humans are humans and politicians are politicians...

Gæti ekki verið meira sammála þér! Er nú sjálfur Álftnesingur en búinn vera erlendis nokkuð mörg ár. Alltaf fundist þetta fáránlegt byggingarland fyrir íbúðabyggð og með iðnarhverfi. En ekki sjens að ég mundi flytjast.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Merkilegt hvernig þeim tókst að skauta framhjá öllu sem vitað var eða 4 hraun á sögulegum tíma en þetta er bara fáránlegt svæði, rokrassgat við hliðina á álveri og malbikunarstöð á leiðinni las ég í vikunni. Segir allt um virðingu bæjarfulltrúa fyrir íbúunum. Og takk fyrir komuna og kveðja frá Íslandi :)

I was wondering if the area is considered "low income," if they even have that type of housing in Iceland. In the US, often housing for poor or working people who don't make much ends up like this area your showing (minus the volcano/lava field). Because more prosperous areas don't want "projects" or that type of housing, it's often built in either vacant areas no one wanted: industrial, polluted, etc., or infill/development in the already established low income area, which, again, is often close to industry/refineries, power lines/substations, train tracks, airports, etc. If the poor neighborhood is on prime real estate, it gets gentrified, and the upwardly mobile take over, pricing long time residents out. In older cities, it can be a cyclical thing, but still those with less money seldom get ahead. Iceland should stop those politicians and developers before it becomes a trend or norm. Like you said, their acts are criminal. Your country is so beautiful and open. It doesn't need that corruption. 💜🇮🇸✌️😸🍀

@playme129

3 жыл бұрын

@@franklin23st How many large cities in the US have you lived in? How many cities with ghettos? I lived in Chicago Illinois for more than 30 years. A Gold Coast studio apartment was much more $ than a family apartment in Cabrini Green.

@2003mandiman

3 жыл бұрын

Australia sucks big time in where or why they place more affordable housing! Actually, affordable has been price pointed out of existence for most of Us, even in the low income areas! But our more affluent Folks are pretty much numb in knowledge based on the neighbourhoods they choose to live! I mean here in South Australia SO many new developments have been placed on recent swamplands, land fill and previously poisoned industrial estate! Yet most don't seem to care until their homes start sinking, they get cancers directly relative to the environment etc. ... having said that, at the times they're created they're done so in a way to entice the "modern" yuppie folks into near city convenience with the suburban eco feel ... I mean I can't blame them really, they're able to get a foot into the modern dream this way! Meanwhile, just imagine where they stick the low income folks if they can 😔💔

@Erik_The_Viking

3 жыл бұрын

Excellent point - I was thinking the same thing. Looks like a ghetto.

@daos3300

3 жыл бұрын

@@Erik_The_Vikingghetto, lol. you've clearly never seen a ghetto, or the soviet architecture referenced in this video. this is a very long way from a ghetto.

In the early 70's I was assigned to examine affects of large power lines near grazing cows. The results, that were Classified, was milk cows had lower milk production or stopped giving milk altogether. The results were never published. This study was implemented by people living near these power structures who complained about various health problems. But instead, we only studied cows.

👍👍

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

Fascinating report, but very sad!

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly yes...

This is happening in my country too. Probably everywhere.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Mostly likely, and thanks for visiting...

I commend you for your foresight and obvious investigative skills. Policy decisions these days are often focused on satisfying various special interest groups and do not not necessarily coincide with the best interests of the majority of the people. Ignoring the risks associated with human development in high risk areas such ocean shorelines, flood plains, avalanche and landslide prone areas, and other geologically unstable areas, has resulted in massive property losses and loss of life in recent history. These days there seems to be a propensity to blame these losses on causes related to process that we think we can control. This attitude is extremely presumptuous, as we are only now beginning to understand the complexity and interconnectivity of the forces involved in the naturally reoccurring process that shape our planet. Risk assessment is a vital consideration and we ignore it at our peril.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

I so agree..We need to rethink risk assessments for the whole country, and the standards behind them as well on the basis of those events and other obvious threats but but here up north, we expect a magnitude 7 earthquake anytime but just built a factory over the fault....Uff and especially since we have plenty of land after all...

@quietone748

3 жыл бұрын

@@JustIcelandic :(

Not shocking at all yet another great video on the background of your place

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot :)

Thank you for this insight! If this new volcano actually turns out to be active for years or decades, there could well be far-reaching consequences for the entire peninsula.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Looks like it, experts are reluctant to make forecasts but those who dare speak of few years at least..

I am curious about understanding where you think any new capital could be built? I know nothing about Iceland other than the basics. I enjoy your travelogue videos! They are so informative, entertaining, and beautiful. You always do a great job. Thank you.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Good point about our city, I have partially answered this in a video before but when you asked now, I had the idea to make complete video about this since things are getting rather serious, and it's a long answer so I'm leaving it for the video about our city..and thank you so much for your inspiring comment :)

I love your sense of humour SO bloody much! ... You'd feel like you're with Kin if you ever choose/have the opportunity to visit Australia! 😂🕊💗🌏

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Deal :)💗🌏

Couple things... Great video as always! Doesn't matter what the focus is, your videos are always enjoyable and interesting. Iceland Christmas trees...that sing! Love that and may use that for here 😉 "Icelandic pollution" to me is an oxymoron! Your PM has been so vocal about adhering to green causes like Norway, yet this subdivision sounds horrific! I think what floored me most was the contractors choosing a "Commie Block" style of building model!! How utterly UN-Icelandic! Back when their plan was approved, did the citizens not raise their voices? After all, in April of 2020 when Parliament did not approve a meager wage increase for nurses working so much overtime due to COVID, the nurses erected a nidstang on the government lawn! And bless them, it worked! (I have one myself as my husband is Icelandic and Swede). How could they approve of those ugly buildings in an industrial area without a fight? I get that money talks, but didn't ANY politician speak up against it?

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot, it's like this all over the greater capital area and it's says a story about the caliber of politicians, first and foremost. They are either accepting money under the table or just stupid, and not working for the people who voted for them. and I thinks it a mixture of both, after all the building industry isn't exactly the pride of the industrial sector, but I will cover that better in future, many stories there that we just can't make up :)

@denni7173

3 жыл бұрын

@@JustIcelandic Wow...I don't know why, but that surprises me and saddens me. I'd love to know how you think your current PM is doing. I've followed her cousin on IG for a long time simply because I grew up on a sheep farm and enjoy seeing how your folks handle the winters in comparison. I didn't even realize for awhile they were related! But I look forward to hearing your take on the shady political dealings as well as how say the regular, working folks feel about dirty dealings like those buildings!

@kafteinn

3 жыл бұрын

His videos are good food for thought but ultimately blaming the politicians and builders is idealistic nonsense. People need places to live. We still had a fast growing population in the 90s and they're adults with families now. Even though most jobs can be done anywhere for some reason there's still enough demand for dense property anywhere near the capital so that building commie blocks in industrial lava fields is most profitable. It meets the demands of the public better than building decent housing in areas that make sense. This is what the people vote for with their wallets. I know people that say they prefer living like insects in blocks to having a real home.

@denni7173

3 жыл бұрын

@@kafteinn Interesting. One question I had was is it not possible to build north of Reykjavik? Because would that not be away from the more active thermal/magmatic sites and still a suburb?

As I understand it, the crust (the plates) move over time, but the “hot spots” (the vents that bring lava up from the mantle) do not move. So you are probably correct about the current eruption being a “continuation” of the historic nearby eruption.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

It somehow looks like that from common sense but I would like to hear it from the experts, and thanks for visiting :)

That type of architecture is called “Brutalist”and it’s really a pity they are allowed to perpetuate it. Perhaps the volcanoes have better taste than city planners and are conspiring to wipe out their mistakes. Your country is so beautiful; and one would think for the long term benefit of the country, better esthetic standards and quality should matter. No one takes tours of the apartment blocks in Moscow or St. Petersburg and the scenic villages of Switzerland are treasured for good reason. Would that the country could impose standards but that’s probably asking too much. Thank you for your wonderful videos and wry commentary, I love learning about new places and the midnight sun in sublime.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot and you are very right, excellent point...way more to come :)

Thank you so much for all that info , so interesting, good and bad. I think the UK could have similar problems building where they shouldn't and wanting to building on green belts. Could your powers to be start thinking of 'moving the capital slowly to safer ground over the next few decades so people are out of danger? You do seem to have oen areas if land that could fit the bill. Carry on what your doing as its good too see from another perspective. Greeting from New Brighton, Wallasey just across the River Mersey, uk

@JustIcelandic

2 жыл бұрын

Hi and welcome :) I have a video about the location of our capital In the making but it's gonna take a while to finish since I still need some drone footage and few other shots...but it's a good question that I really won't to dig into :)

@edda9362

2 жыл бұрын

@@JustIcelandic thanks for replying. I look forward to your videos. I'm slightly hooked on Iceland now so I'll be watching.

A decent wikipedia article and some good photos is worth more than lots of advertising if you want to make a place better known.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thats right, I'm surprised why it's so little there about Iceland, especially in Icelandic..

@adamabele785

3 жыл бұрын

@@JustIcelandic A fellow photographer went to Italy came to a small place, rural area, really old buildings. Took a few pictures, did not think much about it. A few weeks later the earthquake hits the place, and it is mostly destroyed. Turns out that only few people ever took photos of the place. He regrets that he did not take the time to make some more photos.

@RoxnDox

3 жыл бұрын

@@JustIcelandic You could author a really nice article, I bet. In both languages. 👍

I love your way with words. You shouldn't be too hard on yourselves, sadly there are 'shitholes', corrupt politicians and greedy business people happy to compromise the lives of the less fortunate. It is a problem the world over. Even the super rich in LA live amongst some of its most dangerous parts along the San Andreas fault where the next earthquake could be catastrophic. We can only hope and pray that these horrors are avoided before people are relocated.

I totally agree with what 'Daniel Baer' said below, but another problem with modern day thinking is that we do not thing long-term and multi-generational anymore! Not SO long ago ppl. cared about the dying out of their genetics or their family name, because to allow/accept that is putting and end to all you may have hoped and strive-ed for. A King or a Khans' strong aim in life was to expand his wealth and power but NEVER more so than to preserve and to ensure the extension of his genetic line. ☹ 😞

I think its going to erupt just once, but its going to be a long eruption. I also said when it 1st erupted that id be moving if i lived close to that thing... before it erupted, the predictions were clear, any start of activity in the area could last 400yrs, and the way its gradually increased in power through out seems to suggest those pre eruption precictions were correct.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

You might be right and the size of those things is just something we have never dealt with before

You nailed it! $$$$$$ it’s a crime.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

Up north if asked when will the sun set down, we don't look the watch, but the calendar.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

We can get too much of the good stuff :)

That whole island is a lava field on top of a lava field.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

It is but there are hot places and others we have to should build on :) and welcome

@cproteus

3 жыл бұрын

@@JustIcelandic so then me looking at Egilsstaðir og Breiðdalshreppur is a good thing?

I am so shocked at the potential scale of a shield volcano in this location similar to the one in the north, in some ways it would be good if the smelter works got smelted beneath a lava flow, and perhaps also wipe the slate clean by flowing over that estate - such a shame both are built here (and in shithole style). I guess it takes strong thinking to look at building away from the capital, using all that land that is available. I guess bureaucrats want to make Reykjavík a mega city with sprawl all the way down the peninsula...well, nature will hopefully clear the minds of the bureaucrats who appear to have passed the buck of responsibility on to geologists (I don't know any geologists that can stop an eruption swallowing a housing estate :) - I loved the mix of wonderful facts, images and humour, your skills are absolutely fantastic.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thank again so much, the bureaucrats want to pack us all downtown and now they are taking down petrol station to use the land for more Soviet era blocks, all for contractors and again and again we see peoples houses drop in value due to new building in old residential areas, which is criminal in my eyes... Ufff

What about the Hekla swarmquakes? Any background informations?

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

On the way, half way trough a new video about it...

@jacquelinezwahlen6827

3 жыл бұрын

@@JustIcelandic Great! I'm looking forward to that - too. Thanks in advance!

Great video! What do the elves think about this strangely located part of their capital city Hafnarfjörður?...

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

They don't care, they say it's a great place for ignorant people, leaving them more space on the good spots...

@dominiquemanchon9914

3 жыл бұрын

@@JustIcelandic Of course, how didn't I realise that ?... :-)

I suppose it will have same fate oneday as the Leilani estates in Hawaii

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Could be the case yes...

Developers are the same the world over!

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

I think so...yes

Sounds like normal operations in the States.... With all we've learned, it just means we're the only species who'll know why an event occurred when it does. Sometime I wonder if the dinosaurs would have been any happier if they had spent THEIR 200 million years learning this stuff.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Well said....and thank you very much...

Wow thanks for the history. It’s a shame they put money before public health but then most governments do this. It could be 50 years from now before there’s a disaster but they would have already made their money. It will be people that loose out. A real shame.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

It is, and especially since we should be able to fight back in out little market...

That is so sad:( Money talks to the weak political of world! Humans do not enter equation.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

It's right....Thanks for visiting :)

@MikCph

3 жыл бұрын

@@JustIcelandic The good thing about that suburb is that the architectural quality is so low, so a nearby eruption overflowing it with lava, would just be a beautification...

Oh dear, human greed and corruption appears even in your beautiful neck of the woods - it is hard to stomach when you consider the down sides for all the sheep living in those hovels going about their daily lives totally unaware what they are sitting on! Guess what, nobody will stand-up and accept the blame when the shit-hits-the-fan!!! Well done, nice to see somebody cares, keep going at them!!!

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot :)

Iceland is not the only country where greed and weak politicians lead to the construction and sale of housing and development on lands that are prone to natural disasters. Even in the UK, a relatively safe country in terms of weather and other disasters, many developments have been made in flood lands, areas of subsidence, coastal erosion and building in old water courses. In the states it is well known that many areas have been built on that depend on the levies to protect them from the Mississippi river floods. Usually the only losers are the purchasers, normal people who are at risk of losing everything.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly, very right....

If the current eruption keeps going for long enough, the entire valley and the hills around it will probably be under the volcano.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

As for the ongoing eruption, It would have to go on for a really long time to move lava all the way to Hafnarfjörður so I was only referring to the Krýsuvík system in this video, but the other option is also real!

Thank you for that! I thought people in Iceland went through all the boom mistakes and now it is different story. You have sent corrupted politicians to prison and now there are new thirsty the same kind! My dreamy Icelandic model is gone. Sadly, people are the same everywhere. Cheers! 🤪🙈😰

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

"people are the same everywhere" simple as that :)

Iceland's fate is gradually turning out to be the same as that of Atlantis ;-) j/k

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

We hope not :)

So, is this Hafnarfjörður?

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it is..the new part of it..but they are also working on the old town

It is sad that there is such poor urban planning in Iceland. The almighty dollar rules. I have a question: I don’t see any parking garages attached to homes or apartment buildings. Are they underground, or do people park outside in winter? That seems too difficult with all the snow and low temperatures. I’m just curious. Thank you for the videos!

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Parking garages are not by all houses but most of them but I didn't notice it in this hood, I must admit...but I can confirm that we rank lowest when it comes to Tesla milage in the cold here..

In 2018 people learned the hard way not to build houses on the Big Island of Hawai`i where the area had an eruption only 60 years prior.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Yes we have just been to optimistic here, sad fact...

different natural systems but money always makes bad decisions - in the UK a lot of housing has been built on flood planes...and flooded property is becoming a much bigger issue

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing :)

Lovely Brezhnev era architecture … Stack your Comrades 4 Floors high …. Pollution ….sounds like the developers had a truck full of money 💰 …. That’s how it works here in the US

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Aha, the profit margin comes from second and third class land and stacked up boxes :)

Human nature, greed and corruption. Sorry to see that Iceland also has it.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

We have it all...

You're right! That area struck me as the ugliest in the whole of Reykjanes, maybe the whole of Iceland, who knows.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you noticed :)

Money rules, until nature intervenes.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

It might in this case yes, and thanks for visiting :)

Money makes the world go around (apparently), and greed is often at the base of bad decisions, despite of historical facts. Stupid, but many can only think short term :-\

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

I'm afraid it's right, and thanks for visiting...

Politics is always and everywhere very CHEAP ! Politicians are corrupt and manipulate honest people, ignore the good advices and at the end who loose ?...

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for visiting :) sadly it right...

Why would ice land be any different, from any other place on earth, when it comes to land developers?

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

More about the population but we should from that be better able to fight corruption, but we don't...

Shocking! Shows again that money rules the world not brains. Some people think they are immortal

Good to see bureaucracy around the world is so impractical. Yes, I'm being sarcastic. It's like once politicians are elected their good sense disappears.

@JustIcelandic

2 жыл бұрын

I agree :)

It is the same here with building on flood plains. It seems common sense has been banned and replaced with greed.

@JustIcelandic

2 жыл бұрын

Aha....

It all depends which expert (so called) you believe, the bigger the name the less trustworthy is my experience, usually as stated previously down below because they are chasing the Wonga!

I don't think such problems can and should be solved once and for all times. Some people will take the risk and live in cheaper places. You are not forced to live there, if you place priorities on security. And what about Vestmanayer, would you want to force people to leave it, because another eruption might happen there in the future? And finally, the aluminum production: considering the volcano is now producing 10 tons of hydrofluoric acid per day, no aluminum smelter will ever compete with such heavy pollution...

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

We have nothing but land here in Iceland and we don't need to build on places like this was my main point :) and if the real estate market here will get some balance here in future, this will end us as ghetto...

@erinmcdonald7781

3 жыл бұрын

People should not be living in areas with polluting industry or energy production, air or water pollution, high voltage, loud noise, and crowding. This shouldn't happen in first world countries, especially those with land/space such as Iceland, US, or Canada. That area has all of that going on plus the threat of a recently active volcano. Not good. The Brezhnev style housing did get a laugh, though. That was exactly what I was thinking! 😸

@cproteus

3 жыл бұрын

@@JustIcelandic já, and with aviation for such a small country should make it easier for transporting things from east to west. It is troubling to have so much population concentrated on Reykjanes peninsula.

@khala1299

3 жыл бұрын

This is not cheap area to live in Iceland. Problems like this should be solved by not building neighborhoods in places like this. Its all about $$. Everyone should do their own research before buying an apartment or house about area they will live in.

@sarahstrong7174

3 жыл бұрын

Actually a lot of people have very little choice of where they live as they do not have much money. People who cannot afford anything better have to live on flood planes or otherwise dodgy areas.

This sort of development makes me so angry. You have to wonder who makes the decisions and ask yourself - are there environmental and geological studies done to assess the risks? If they were done, no-one in their right mind would allow housing to be built here.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

They somehow managed to bypass everything and this is what they are stuck with today...

How weird to compare capitalistic system to the soviet era with Brezhnev's portrait. Iceland has for decennies been defined as little America which should be known to the "just icelandic" Forgot that former "economic collapse" prime minister Geir Haarde became icelandic ambassador in Washington DC, USA. Notice: not Russia. Building on a ground in a region that is within the risk zone of future lava-fields could be deliberately done as it guarantees further income in constructing houses and infrastructure which is the core of capitalistic agenda in order to profit.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

The "economic collapse" was the work of criminals and many knew it coming for the sake of the obvious risky business going on and we are on the way back there so it's lots to say and little time but this channel is about Iceland and this is fore sure a subject that I will cover in future videos, and thanks :)

An eyesore and a danger to the residents.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Simple as that :) and thanks

You would not be the first ones to have to move a town because of a natural disaster. The town of Valdez Alaska had to be relocated after the 1964 earthquake. You are spending a lot of money trying to build walls around a town that has an active fault running right through the middle of it. Why is the government not seeking a new townsite and spending the funding there? I know there is sentimental value but at some point you just get out of the way.