Thanks for living here and making this place better!

Videos like this one makes me appreciate having grown up in Sweden. When it's all you've known all your life (like in my case), you don't realise how good we have it unless you get confronted with an outsider's perspective. We really ought to stop every once in a while to appreciate what we have been given. 🙏 Tack för att ni bidrar till vårt gemensamma välstånd, genom ert hårda arbete och sunda värderingar. 💙💛💙

Hello! I just wanted to say hi and that you two are absolutely inspiring and wonderful to get to know. My family and I have a completely different journey, we moved from USA (yes the one that causes all the problems in the world) to Sweden, a little south to you but still Northern Sweden. We came last July, I found your videos very helpful and this one in particular honest and to the point. It's the little kids walking to school scene in the dark of winter even that really tells the story of Sweden. Let's help and hope Sweden can continue being the most amazing place to raise children and good people in the world. Wish you both all the best!

This was great! Tack!

Jaaaa mera 🙏🏼😊

I want more videos like this, it was interesting to me.

Good video! Mutual trust is freedom and its why i choose to live in a rather small town in southern Sweden. Your videos gives perspectiv and is very interesting🙂Keep it up!

Welcome to Skellefteå! Nice to hear that you are enjoying life up here in the north! 😊

@DeyselFarm

11 ай бұрын

Thank you, we are loving it here

Even though I'm not from South Africa, it was still interesting to hear about the things that you consider precious about your home country. Similarly, it was interesting to hear about what surprised you about Sweden. I learned something new about both countries. I think what fascinates me about the North, in general, is this whole trust system. It's just so nice and makes people's life easier! I think I'd like to live in Sweden for a bit to experience that. I've been to Norway, and even though it was a short holiday journey, I could sense the same even in that short time.

we have an maximum one minute engine idling by law ( often broken) by many people😁

"Part 1" in the thumbnail yay. We do not have bargains stores like that. Never heard of. We should. 9:00 What the hell!? Knew you upgraded country but didn't know it was by that much! But in the bigger cities it's gonna be a bit less safe/trust/welcoming.

Pronutro looks like a cereal here in the USA called Cream of Wheat.

Here in Sweden you can haggle at the loppis.

Here in Sweden the sellers would have to run around on the inside of the roundabouts because there are so few traffic lights. And by the way it's actually illegal to leave your car running (or leave it with the keys in in general but that's not as easy for police to spot).

I wonder how many of the differences you notice have more to do with you living in a different country, or living in a really rural area.

@frida507

7 ай бұрын

It's both. In general I guess there's a higher level of trust in Sweden compared to some other countries but it's more extreme in rural areas and maybe especially in the north of the country. Kids walk alone or take buss to school all over Sweden (+ the Nordics, Germany etc) but the box where you take for example eggs leave money is a country thing. I think you can find it in rural areas of many countries. I warned a North Swedish gentleman on the bus not to keep his wallet in his the back pocket of his jeans in Stockholm. :) (Pick pockets in Stockholm are not like in Paris or Rome but they exist so you shouldn't make it too easy, especially as a tourist.) But generally in Sweden I think you kind of assume that people are honest until they prove the opposite, at least with smaller values. Of course, If I buy something for hundreds of dollars from an unknown person on the internet I wouldn't just trust them blindly but use some platform where you can rate sellers and claim your money back.

Time for episode 2?

Durbanite in Stockholm here. I will say one thing I learned while in SA is that a lot of things depend on where you are. For example I find that story about school security shocking, never seen that much security at a school before... But I never really hung around Gauteng ;). Maybe it's the way my brain works but a lot of things weren't a culture shock because I believe its how things should be. I grew up being an outside kid, I remember the transition from not having a fence around our yard to everything being all fenced up in my neighbourhood. Heck you can still see that around the Knysna area. For all of that though I did take a very long pause when seeing kids playing football by themselves in a park at night, those years are formative, they shape you as a person. I feel so lucky that I had that freedom that some kids didn't because I lived in a relatively safe area in Durban before things got too unsafe for kids.

If the shop does not have an engine heater, it is wise to leave the engine on in case the car does not start again or there is a risk of the engine block and oil freezing.

@martinostlund1879

10 ай бұрын

It’s not that cold, even in -25 it will probably be hours before anything around the engine freeze.

maby some south african favorit foods that you miss in sweden??

@DeyselFarm

Жыл бұрын

Great idea 😁

Idling your car more than 1 minute is actually illegal in Sweden but i can understand if people do that in the north of Sweden.

@DeyselFarm

5 ай бұрын

Love your login name!