Why Sweden is hell on earth

[Megadorian]

For people like you maybe but in the real world people like you are the minority

[Vrazijadivizija]

Goddamn i ve already knew Sweden was a shit country,but this surprised me even more.

[Cristiano viejo]

Yes they do exist in apartment buildings in Sweden. They can usually be found in the basement of the building and you have to book a time slot to be able to wash your clothes. Personally, when I lived there, I lived in smaller places than Stockholm, and what the guy in the video says that the time slot is 1-2 hours and he had to wake up at 3 AM to wash his clothes, this kind of stuff I did not experience personally. Probably it may happen in Stockholm, but not where I lived. As I said, where I lived, the time slot is like 4 hours (sometimes 5) and there were 3 or 4 slots per day that in total ran between around 7 AM to 9 or 10 PM (like 7 AM to 12 PM, then 12 PM to 5 PM and last one 5 PM to 10 PM). But even with such slots it can happen that one has a lot to wash and may run slightly off the schedule into someone else's slot.

lol, that sounds very Third Worlder. My cousin in 80s was in Russia in a student interchange and told us about that and how was super shocking for her checking such level of poverty. She talked about how all the neighbors of the same floor shared a same bathroom. AMAZING.

[Ygsi]

lol, that sounds very Third Worlder. My cousin in 80s was in Russia in a student interchange and told us about that and how was super shocking for her checking such level of poverty. She talked about how all the neighbors of the same floor shared a same bathroom. AMAZING.

To be honest, I did not find the shared laundry room such a culture shock. I only mentioned it here to give a background on it and say that where I lived (at least) it differs from what the guy says in his video. But on the other hand it can be a bit tricky. You see, you have a key tag with which you can open the entrance door to your apartment building (all entrance doors in that building, not apartment entrance buildings) and also to a neighboring building, because with my key tag I could book a time on 4 different washing machines, 2 located in my own apartment building and 2 in the neighboring one. But farther away you go from those 2 buildings, you can't open doors with your key tag. The tricky part is that there is a limit of 4 slots you can book per month per laundry room, but since I had access to 4 such laundry rooms, I could book up to 16 times per month to wash my clothes. Not really that bad if you think about it.

[rero]

Sorry to be rude but when I think about Swedish men, the word "cuck" automatically comes to my mind. Weak and pathetic. This video proved it once more and again.

[Dandelion]

I used to work for a Swedish company in the Netherlands and the autism was unbearable in the end, because I found it dehumanising and inefficient. Work harder for less result and minimal team work at the expense of your personality. I always attributed it to calvinism, now I'm not that sure. It could have been a combination of calvinism and lutheranism.

Interestingly, there have been protestants too who left with similar complaints to mine. Well, irreligious people of protestant background who left for better horizons.

Combining Swedish culture with Dutch culture is a big no I suppose.

One thing I learned from that experience. I learned to appreciate my own country of Belgium/Flanders. We are a good country despite of our flaws and we certainly do many things better than the Netherlands.

Even for Dutch standard a terrible company regardless. Belgium and the Netherlands both comes with their pros and cons in the end.

[Ygsi]

To be honest, I did not find the shared laundry room such a culture shock. I only mentioned it here to give a background on it and say that where I lived (at least) it differs from what the guy says in his video. But on the other hand it can be a bit tricky. You see, you have a key tag with which you can open the entrance door to your apartment building (all entrance doors in that building, not apartment entrance buildings) and also to a neighboring building, because with my key tag I could book a time on 4 different washing machines, 2 located in my own apartment building and 2 in the neighboring one. But farther away you go from those 2 buildings, you can't open doors with your key tag. The tricky part is that there is a limit of 4 slots you can book per month per laundry room, but since I had access to 4 such laundry rooms, I could book up to 16 times per month to wash my clothes. Not really that bad if you think about it.

To be clear here about what I meant about "opening all doors in a building". What I meant by it was all entrance doors. So if the building you live in has 4 entrance doors (like A, B, C, D) and let's say your apartment is at B, you can use the key tag to open the entrance doors to A, C and D parts of that building also, not just B. Obviously I did not mean that you can just go into people's apartments. Each of the hallways in the apartment building has a door that leads to the basement, where the laundry rooms are and those doors also are opened with the key tag and also the door to the laundry room.

[Dandelion]

That Canadian did exaggerate at at least one point. He complained about the outrageous prices for the plastic bags when doing groceries.

I personally find this weird. Where I live people bring along their own bags which you can indeed buy in the supermarket, but it's practice to only do it for the bags you tend to re-use. I would have assumed Canadians did the same, but appears they are not that different from their US counterparts.

Everywhere in Europe people tend to minimize their use of plastic. At least in Belgium (Flanders) and the Netherlands.

[Ygsi]

Also, there typically are a few doors that lead from outside directly into the basement. I guess those are emergency exit/entrance doors.

[Dandelion]

Little privacy. This is uncommon in Belgium, but in the Netherlands it's certainly very typical too. Many houses even don't have curtains and you can just look inside their living rooms. There's a philosophy behind it. One is forced be to tidy and be engaged in the community and neighbourhood.

Sweden is similar in that department I suppose.