Important Differences Between Sweden & The U.S.A {PART 2} | THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT THINK OF!

The laundry room booking system may varry. In my apartment, we have that digital and have had for ~10 years. You book online and use your "digital tag key" to enter the rooms. If it's not your time, the doors wont open. :)

Keeping the laundry room clean is very important to Swedish people, the whole building hates the Erikssons from apartment 35 on the fourth floor because they never take out the fluff from the dryer 😁😉.

Very interesting Ilyssa: The thing about how to lock doors etc. here in Sweden most likely has to do with the fact that the doors you mention are security doors (or safety doors, if you will). The part (bolt?) that locks into the doorframe is much longer so you have to lift the handle for the door to lock properly. I myself didn't get one of those doors until last spring, and it took me a while to figure out how to lock it :-), having been used to the "old" way of looking doors. The shoes off when you visit someone's home is very interesting.. I get that in parts of the US where you always take your car from point A to B dirty shoes aren't really an issue. But for example in a city like New York, where you have to walk dirty streets all the time (where dogs poop without owners picking it up), shoes off should be as obligatory as here in Sweden, but to my knowledge it isn't.

It's so strange when you live here and think everything is so slow and unorganized and then you come here with a whole new perspective. It's nice to see. Cheers

Regarding the tampons. There are two brands that I know come with an applicator, Tampax and Natracare. You should be able to find them both in a regular supermarket (or at least one of the bigger ones) or a pharmacy.

Welcome to sweden! Glad you like it here. About the ac, most apartments dont have ac thats true. However, around 65-70% of the houses in sweden have air to air heating pumps, and of course they have ac mode. Plus the fact that half of sweden dont really have any use for ac, the heat and humidity are only for one to two months, and thats not worth the investment.

Everything you brought up is 100% correct. I enjoyed watching it.

Locking the front door by first pull the handle upward and then turn the key is unusual in Sweden. It's a new thing.

Hi Ilyssa! I have watched a couple of your videoclips, and I love them! This is really fun!

It’s so much fun to follow your guys journey here in Sweden.😀 Great video!

The cost for the small plastic produce bags is typically around $0.05 (five cents). This is mandated by a law. The paper produce bags are normally free.The larger normal bags for your groceries may cost around $1, and you normally must pay for both the plastic and the paper ones.

That laundry system is ancient. Nowdays atleast in Stockholm its via an app or with your gateway tag. But that system does still exist to this Day.

Just watched this video, in the break between first and second period in tonights game (Västerås-Västervik) 😃 I’m from Västervik , and has been following your journey here in Sweden on youtube ☺️

In our apartment complex there was so much conflict about the laundry rooms, they got a digital system that couldn't be tampered with. People stealing each others time, disabling the time lock to use the laundry rooms in the middle of the night, a LOT of angry notes and maybe even a fist fight. The last one is just a rumor I heard though. Yeah, a lot of Swedes take laundry room time seriously, but some don't, which creates issues. 😛

People actually walk in Sweden. i remember when i visited the US and everyone just took their car everywhere, even if it was 5 minutes away. Hardly any sidewalks at all.

Hi Ilyssa! Would be really interesting if you made a vlog about your impressions of Sweden and the Swedish life now that you've been here for a few months.

A thing to consider when it comes to air conditioning is that its used more often in specific areas. As someone from the north of sweden, up here it is much more common to have an ac. Its much colder so its more common to have an ac in addition to underfloor heating and/or a fireplace.

Not sure if you have been exposed to this yet, but if a swede starts mentioning miles (mil), be aware that the swedish mile is ten kilometers. This is mostly used for driving distances, mileage in used car ads, and fuel consumption (given in liter/mil).

In southern Sweden it is not uncommon with air-air heat pumps for heating. And typically they can be reversed and work for cooling as a normal AC. However this is only for single home houses. Larger apartment complexes are often heated via district heating. Possibly fueled with thrash. So no AC.

The food leftovers we sort become biogas, which many buses in the cities run on.