3 Reasons Why It’s so HARD to Make Friends in Sweden 🇸🇪

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• I live in Sweden, my kids were born there, and I came to Sweden at 30 years old man, and it’s difficult to be friend of a Swedish person, I got two very close work friends, we hang out together, we are never going to be clise friends not because of them, because I don’t want to, for me Sweden is perfect in that sense.

• Seems like I need to move to Sweden.

• I remember going to a party thrown by Mexicans coworkers here in California and the dudes making a beer run came back with some random Ukrainian dudes. The guy throwing the party basically found them walking around and asked if they wanted party with us. Apparently they were lost, looking for a specific place to eat and the Mexican guy throwing the party asked them if they wanted Tequila and food, and they just got in the truck. They opened up real quick. It wasnt a problem that they barely spoke english. They were eating a bunch of carne asada, rice, beans, and a ton of alcohol.

  They were refugees from the war, so it was nice for them to experience friendship and hospitality with someone outside their own culture.

  • Love this 😂

  • What did the Ukrainian dudes do away from their duties back home?

• Sweden sounds like my kinda place

• It's harder to make friends in Baltics and Finland. Talking to strangers is considered harrasment here.

  • That's what I miss about da Baltics 🌊 peace n been left alone. 🤭👀

• Omg, so if I sit alone on a bench reading a book no one will approach me, interrupt me, ask stupid questions and all this stuff? Sounds like a paradise😊

• Yeah as a German i would find a lot of friends 😂
  Cant be harder than in north Germany 😂

• Sweden is for me!

• As someone who’s born and raised in Sweden with a swedish family, I wouldn’t agree at all. Sure, you don’t speak to strangers on the bus, but if someone is standing alone in a party or sittning alone you always try to invite them. And it’s easy to make friends here, at least in my experience. You make friends in school, at work, with neighbors, with friends friends etc. Many people dosen’t even stay connected to their childhood friends and find new ones, some people do, just like in any other country. People in Sweden are just as extroverted as people in other places, you just have to understand the culture.

  • ​@@resorbandI'm from Stockholm

  • Thats 90% of sweden. She went to gothenburg and central Stockholm and then made this video. We know it's not true for most of the country

  • I am Baltic Latvian and my Swedish friend once visited and mentioned how quite everyone was on a bus here. Aperently Swedes not as quite as Baltic people or Finns.

• Sounds like a freaking nightmare

  • But it's not true. I'm swedish and I don't know anyone who only have friends from their teenage years. I don't know why this woman like to always put down swedes and scandinavians. She prefers other cultures (she is not scandinavian) but you have to be openminded and respectful if tou are going to talk about other cultures. Joking sbout stereotypes and play aroynd are all fun but be respectful.