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Today we're gonna be talking about why Gothenburg is really better than Los Angeles.
I moved to Gothenburg about a year ago and I must admit the city has really grown on me.
To be honest when I first decided to move here I was not excited at all.
All I really knew about Gothenburg is that it was a small cold and rainy city somewhere in the far north of Europe.
But over the last 12 months the city's really grown on me.
Yeah, I mean it is a great city, you must admit?
So easy, there's plenty of things to do. You just have to find the little-
"Golden corns"
My first thought about moving to Gothenburg just the name alone it didn't sound very inviting.
Gothenburg. I mean...
Gothenburg
But anyway in this video we're gonna explain why Gothenburg really is a better city than Los Angeles.
Should we get into it?
Yes!
Alright, so the first reason why Gothenburg is a better city than LA is because of the LA...
Douchebag.
Yes, the LA douchebag. You probably heard that before.
It basically means someone that's superficial.
Conceited and arrogant. You've seen him in movies.
"Who wants Chinese takeout? I know a great place"
So a little disclaimer, all my best friends are from Los Angeles.
I'm from Los Angeles, and there really are amazing people that are born and raised there.
But most of the people that move to Los Angeles are people that think they're too cool for their hometown.
There's a saying that everybody in LA is somebody or at least that's what everyone thinks.
Everyone's there and they think that they're gonna change the world.
They're gonna be the next big model, the next big superstar or musician.
So what you end up having is a melting pot of-
Douchebags, more or less.
To be honest you are from LA. You have an amazing group of friends.
No one is a douchebag of your friends.
There's the type of people that you don't want to get involved with in LA and those are the douchebags.
When you compare it to a lot of "Gothenburgers" generally people are more down-to-earth.
Obviously not everyone is like that in Gothenburg either. There are the superficial type of person as well.
I feel like most people in Gothenburg are pretty chill, pretty low-key, down-to-earth.
They're easy to hang out with, always down to do something.
Do you agree?
I agree. Most people in Gothenburg are super friendly, super kind, welcoming.
They don't care about what you do for work, or how much money you make.
They just care about the type of person you are and they'll like you for the type of person you are.
Whereas in LA the first thing someone will ask you is "what do you do for a living?"
"Where do you live in LA?" They judge you on everything and you don't have to worry about that in Gothenburg.
The second reason why Gothenburg is a better city than LA is because of the traffic.
This topic, everyone knows about it. It's no secret how bad the traffic in LA is.
Insane.
It is literally the worst traffic in the world. There's studies showing that LA has the worst traffic in the world.
When you talk to a native Los Angeles person or someone that lives in LA and you ask for directions-
-they always say two times, they say with traffic or without traffic. Because it can take-
-20 minutes to go ten miles if there's no traffic or it can take two hours to go ten miles if there's traffic.
There's usually always traffic. That's the bad thing.
There's always traffic in LA.
Even if you're driving late at night there's still gonna be traffic and you're like "where are these people going?"
You don't really realize how bad the traffic problem is until you move to somewhere like Gothenburg-
-where there's no traffic at all.
There's public transportation. There's trains, trams, buses. Bicycle lanes.
We live on one of the busiest streets in Gothenburg, there's barely any cars on it because there's trams taking everyone.
LA traffic cuts years off of your life.
Not only from the stress, but you actually waste years of your life sitting in a car.
I was commuting two hours to work and two hours from work every single day.
That's four hours a day, 20 hours a week, 80 hours a month.
It's insane.
They need to figure that out ASAP.
It can't be like that forever, right?
Sadly, the traffic is probably never gonna get better in our lifetime.
I'm happy here in Gothenburg with the public transportation for now.
The third reason.
Why Gothenburg is a better city than LA is because it's more affordable.
Los Angeles is insanely expensive.
Before, when you lived in LA, he lived in a great apartment with two of your best friends.
You were close to the beach, but you paid 1400 US dollars for a room.
Yeah, 1400 US dollars. One four zero zero one thousand four hundred US dollars for a bedroom.
In a shared apartment. I had a single bedroom in a three bedroom apartment and I was paying 1400 US dollars.
Whereas in Sweden, in Gothenburg, that same bedroom in an apartment would probably cost...
200 euro, maybe, 2000 SEK.
Yeah.
If that.
For a room.
A normal priced apartment like a one-bedroom apartment, one bedroom, one bathroom, kitchen-
-living room would be around, depending obviously but, 600, 700 US dollars.
Compare that to have one room in a house with other people then to have your own space for 6-700 US dollars.
Quite the difference.
And it's not only the rent that's expensive in Los Angeles. It's the cost of living.
It's the gasoline. It's the parking tickets. It's the taxes.
There's a lot of taxes in California that people don't talk about. You hear that Sweden has a ton of taxes-
-but California's taxes are almost as high.
And you have to have a car and car insurance.
Being in LA there's so much things to do which obviously is really fun, it's the positive thing about LA.
But if you don't have a well-paying job, you're not gonna be able to do all those things.
You can't go out for dinner or for nice lunches on the cool trendy cafes.
You can't go see a Lakers game at the Staples Center.
You can't go to the museums because everything just cost so much more than in any other city in the world.
Everything in Gothenburg is way more affordable.
You can have an amazing standard of living and a nice lifestyle for much less money.
You can raise a family here and have a middle-class life and you don't have to be a millionaire.
Whereas in Los Angeles, unless you're making 100-110,000 dollars annually-
-you're not gonna be living the most comfortable life.
There's a huge income inequality in Los Angeles.
You have the richest people in the world there. You have celebrities, moguls, you have tech people-
-you have all of the richest people from other countries of the world moving to Los Angeles-
-or having a house there at least.
Then you have places like Watts in Compton and South Central, that are some of the poorest places in the world.
And Skid Row. There's a ton of homeless people there.
It's really unaffordable. There's a housing shortage there right now.
For now, I appreciate Gothenburg much more. Your dollar goes a lot further.
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The fourth reason why Gothenburg is a better city than Los Angeles is because people in Gothenburg are-
More happy about themselves and satisfied.
It's true, in Los Angeles there's this feeling that you always want more. That you never have the best.
You're at a party but your head isn't quite there because you think there's a bigger and better party-
-further up the hill.
If you have a nice car, you're not really happy because someone else has a better car.
If you have a great house, you want to live in the next city over that's closer to the beach or a bit more exclusive.
You're never really happy with what you have. You always want more and more.
Here in Gothenburg, because it is a smaller city and you can see much more of the city in a smaller amount of time-
-you just feel more relaxed and fulfilled and happy in your life.
A lot of the people in LA are, frankly-
-they're depressed or they have some sort of mental thing going on in the background.
Because they're just comparing themselves with other people.
What those people have that they don't.
I also think it's because people see TV and movies, all the celebrities-
-you see the Kardashians driving around in their million dollar car. Biggest houses in the world.
You just see that richness on TV and you know that you live in the same city as them.
Meaning you're comparing yourself to some of the richest people in the world.
But since Gothenburg doesn't have that richness in the same way, and since LA is so far away...
It's a whole world away.
You don't even know that actually exists. You know what I mean?
You just see that on TV, but you're like, people don't live like that, but in LA you see it with your own eyes.
That people actually drive those cars, they live in those houses.
Which makes you compare yourself to them.
The fifth and final reason why Gothenburg is better than Los Angeles is:
Because of all the green space in Gothenburg.
If you click on Google Maps, a bird's eye view of Los Angeles, there's really no green space at all.
Compared to L.A, 27% of Gothenburgs area is made of forest and woodland.
Just go outside, walk down any street and admire all the greenery in Gothenburg, except for winter of course-
-when everything's dead. But in the summer, Gothenburg has a ton of open space.
You have the ocean right nearby.
You have "Delsjön".
You have "Slottsskogen", which I learned is one of Europe's biggest Botanical Gardens or biggest parks.
You have Botanical Gardens.
You have all of the woodlands surrounding the city not just inside the city.
You have the canals and the moats that are tree lined. If you look over in Los Angeles the only green space-
-you really have are private golf courses and those are reserved for the rich.
Those are reserved for the 1%, the elite of Los Angeles.
Go down to a poor area like South LA and there's not much green space at all.
So although the weather is amazing, no one's doubting that, the weather is perfect in Los Angeles.
But there's just not many places to appreciate it.
Unless you live next to the beach, next to the ocean or you live up next to Santa Monica Mountains.
There's not a whole lot of green space at all comparing to Gothenburg.
You just feel a lot more in nature here and it makes everyone a little bit more relaxed and peaceful.
If you want to go to a green space you have to go outside of Los Angeles.
Like drive up north for an hour and you'll get to the green area.
So those are five reasons why Gothenburg is better than Los Angeles.
If you have a reason why you think Gothenburg is better than Los Angeles or why Sweden's better than America-
-just leave it in the comments section below and we'll respond to it.
I really like Gothenburg after a year here. It's been 12 months and the city is really growing on me.
That sounds like music in my ears.
Although we just said five reasons why I basically don't like LA, we're gonna want to move there eventually.
Yeah.
It's Los Angeles. I mean, it's pretty awesome. No disrespect to you, Los Angeles.
I mean, you're one of the greatest cities in the world and we like to go back there all the time.
I think we can see ourselves living there in the near future.
But first we have a few more years in Gothenburg because right now everything's good and we love it here.
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