Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and today We have a haul video a try-on haul video from Timu you guys know I love Timu I typically place an order every single month and today's is a full-on Summer haul not only do I have tons of fun summer clothing. I have Summer accessories jewelry and I even have some kitchen gadgets and I picked up a few things for the dog So if you're excited to see a what I ordered versus what I got from Timu and is Timu worth your money Give this video a big thumbs up Subscribe if you're not because I upload five videos every single week and like I said I typically do a Timu haul once a month They're pretty regularly here on this channel because you guys seem to love it just as much as I do Don't forget to check out the description box down below where I will link all of the items that I share with you today from Timu I have a really exciting new deal for you from Timu All you have to do is download the Timu app use the code pick four four seven five and you're going to receive a hundred Dollar coupon bundle. That's a hundred dollars of coupons on the already super affordable Timu website Simply download the app do your shopping and use the hundred dollar coupon bundle I'm excited to share with you everything that I picked up. We had some wins. We had some fails So let's jump in first. Let's talk about what I'm wearing today I should preface this video with the fact that about three and a half weeks ago I had cosmetic surgery for excess skin removal and I'm still required to wear a Support garment from the medic from my surgeon. So you are going to see some of the straps of the support garment There's really not a whole lot I can do right now typically I would wear a thinner strapped bra So that you wouldn't see it so much in the try-on haul, but with recovery This is something I'm required to wear at least for about four to six weeks. So with that being said Let's first talk about my outfit today I'm wearing one of the outfits from Timu from head to toe from jewelry all the way to my top my shorts and my shoes So first let's talk about this top this top is seven dollars and ninety seven cents It comes in eight different colors in sizes small through extra extra large I picked mine up in a size large and I love this. This is so incredibly comfortable. I love this little gold detailing I think that really adds a lot to the top elevates it dresses up a little bit It is really soft material nice and comfortable I do appreciate the wider straps especially right now as I'm recovering and it's very very figure flattering I love this I could see myself wearing this with a skirt with denim shorts with jeans Speaking of denim shorts. I actually am pairing this with a super cute pair of denim shorts You know, I love Timu's denim shorts. You also know that I love leopard print anything I wear a ton of animal print leopard print items So I thought that what better pair of denim shorts to add to my collection than a pair with some distressing With a little pop of leopard and actually it pairs really cute with this top These are the leopard patchwork denim shorts. They're $13 and 47 cents They come in sizes small through extra extra large now I picked mine up in a size large, which is a US 8 to 10. These are pretty tight on me They have virtually no stretch. So I actually would recommend sizing up. These are Uncomfortably tight. I'm wearing them currently. I am still a little bit swollen from my surgery So I'm going to hang on to these to see if they fit a little bit more comfortably Once I once all of this swelling goes down But I would highly highly recommend sizing up, but they are really nice quality and then my earrings Oh my gosh, I love these. I love Timu's jewelry You guys know that I have so many pieces from Timu and I thought that these were quintessential summer earrings These are the Lotus stud earrings bohemian style. They're a whole 57 cents I have the Lotus and they are a two-piece Earrings so the stud is is detached from the actual drop-down But once you put the back on it makes a cohesive earring. These are really pretty I feel like they're neutral enough that you could wear them with almost everything and they're really good quality very heavy duty for 57 cents. I've really been into Anklets or ankle bracelets this year I have a really cute one from Timu that I shared in a previous haul It has little rhinestones on it and I love that I wear it all the time But I wanted an inklet that had a little bit of color and this one spoke to me I thought this was absolutely beautiful. It's perfect for summer with those bright fun colors This is the 14 karat gold-plated copper water drop tassel inklet. It is a dollar fifty-two a dollar fifty-two And it fits perfectly. I love the teardrop drop downs on the inklet I think it just adds a little pop of color it adds a little bit of style and it fits very very comfortably I have a few notches to spare and I would say that this is a one size fits all ankle bracelet And I feel like it would fit most ankles and it's absolutely Adorable and perfect for summer and like I said my shoes are also from Timu I have really been impressed with their shoes honestly most of the sandals I own if not all of them have come from Timu They're super affordable super nice and these are so cute. These are the gold open-toe buckle sandals They're $11 and 57 cents. They come in sizes all the way up to a size 10 I picked mine up in a nine and a half which is my typical size and they fit perfectly. I love the gold I think it's shiny and pretty and it goes with everything and it definitely ties in with my outfit today with this little gold Piece here as well as the leopard shorts. They're very very comfortable. They don't go in between your toes I know that that's an issue for some people and they're just a beautiful sandal perfect for really anything that you want to Wear this summer next up.  This is the coconut tree print tank top It's $7 and 19 cents comes in four different colors I decided to pick mine up in blue in sizes small through extra extra large And I went ahead and got mine in a large and it fits me perfectly I have several of these tank tops like I said They're just very flattering and very very comfortable. These would be perfect to wear to the beach You could wear these to an outdoor barbecue over your bathing suit. I really like the quality of these tank tops They're an excellent excellent length and like I said just buttery soft and super comfortable I wanted to get a little bit more of a dressy tank top as well I think that I could wear with a skirt or with a cute pair of denim shorts or even to more of a family style event or A cookout or even a girl's night out. This is the ruffle trim v-neck cami top It is only $5 and 39 cents and comes in sizes small through extra large I did pick mine up in a size large and I like this. I don't love this now since I had cosmetic surgery in this area They're still falling into place They're still becoming what they're going to be and I feel like this is a little tight in that area Even though it's very flattering and very flowing on the rest of my body. I love this kind of camel color that I picked up I love the ruffle design. I like this. Like I said, I don't love this I could see myself wearing this maybe with a denim coat with a cute little denim jacket over it I think it would be really cute with a skirt or even a nice pair of black jeans So I'm excited to can I'm excited to wear this again See how I feel about it with other with matching it with other pieces The quality is really nice and I do overall like the design and then I bought some lounge wear because I love lounge wear I live in lounge wear, especially during this whole recovery process and I love team news lounge wear Sets they typically are two to three pieces and everything you need for the perfect set of lounge wear This is the indulge in comfort three-piece waffle robe pajama set It is $19 and 29 cents for all three pieces comes in five colors I have mine in slate gray size is small through large. I picked mine up in a size large now This is very flowy very oversized very comfortable The top is cropped but it sits pretty close to my waist So you're not seeing a lot of stomach or skin with the cropped top You could wear the rope not wear the rope the pants are so comfortable They have a drawstring waist that's very very nice quality and I love those robes Those really lightweight ropes perfect for summer on those little bit of cooler summer nights And I love that you can buy these sets from team you don't have to worry about pairing things together It's all done for you. I really like this. I will be wearing this a long speaking of lounge wear I had to get some pajamas as well. I live in Arizona. It's hot here all the time In fact, we're almost at 100 degrees already So I wanted to get a tank top in short set and I fell in love with this two-piece set pink with stars This is the star print pajama set the set is only $5 and 79 cents comes in sizes small through extra large I picked mine up in a large fits perfectly. I love it. It is super soft It is this really soft cotton material the shorts are really flowy with the drawstring I love the tank top and I just love the pink with the stars I think it's so girly so fun and perfect for summer speaking of summer I have been wanting a pair of paper bag loose style pants something really lightweight kind of like a linen pant And I saw these on team was website and I was like that's exactly what I've been looking for and they certainly didn't disappoint These are the casual loose lace up pants. They're $11.87. They come in about 10 different colors I picked mine up in black in sizes small through extra extra large. I picked mine up in a large They're beautiful. They fit beautifully. They are so comfortable. They're those nice loose-laked pants. They're very very flattering They don't hug any areas that you don't want to be hugged and I love the kind of ruffled I love the ruffled elastic waist with the tie so cute These would be adorable with a bodysuit or even to put over a bathing suit or to wear with a bikini top Or even one of those fitted camis for summer Absolutely love these pants. They were everything I was hoping that they would be and you cannot beat the price for the quality I also fell in love with this tank top You know I love leopard and I love blingy in general and I was looking for something that I could wear on date night That I could wear to girls night out I am going to visit my mom in Spokane in September and we're going to a wedding that has a Rehearsal dinner and I thought that this tank top would be really cute with a fun skirt for that rehearsal dinner I just fell in love with it when I saw this. This is the rhinestone v-neck tank top It's only four dollars and eighty seven cents It comes in black in sizes small through extra extra large Mine's in a size large and it fits like a glove and I love the rhinestones on it It is so pretty so you can see that they're more of a silver stud than a rhinestone And I love the v-neck of this with the smaller smaller stones at the top This is just so cute so soft so comfortable I this is another piece that I plan on spending a lot of time in this summer speaking of leopard print speaking of those leopard print Shorts, how cute is this color block? T-shirt with the little pop of leopard. This is the women's leopard print t-shirt It's seven dollars and nineteen cents comes in five colors I picked mine up in the pink in sizes small through extra large I have a large and it fits perfectly it isn't super oversized where it makes me look bigger than I am or more boxy It fits perfectly the material is really nice the length of this is nice And I love the black up here with the leopard and then the pink on the bottom and then the back of the t-shirt is all black It is just so cute and it pairs perfectly with these denim shorts with that pop of leopard and I live in t-shirts I live in them around the house I live in them running errands and this is a t-shirt with style and I really love that now I did pick up a pair of jeans you guys know I love Timu jeans and I love a button fly like I said I've been really into button fly jeans I love just a little bit of distressing in my jeans. I love a skinny jean. I love a fair flare leg jean I don't discriminate on my jeans I love the wash of this the dark with that little bit of stone wash and not distressing These are the women's slim fit distressed jean. They're twelve dollars and nineteen cents They come in a lighter blue and this darker blue in size is small through extra extra large Now I picked mine up in a large and they are tight and like I said, I am swollen a little bit still from my surgery I can get them buttoned, but they are not comfortably buttoned So I'm going to again just kind of wait and see what happens with my recovery Am I able to wear these down the road a little bit more comfortably? If not, I will definitely donate these to my local women's shelter, but the length of these is perfect They are such a nice quality denim all of the denim from Timu shorts skirts jeans are perfection You guys know I have so many pairs of jeans Honestly, I don't know that I have jeans from any other brand because you just can't go wrong with the price and quality from Timu And these are equally as nice of quality. I just wish I would have sized up to an extra large So then I bought this bohemian dress now when I tried this on I absolutely did not do this correctly I was like this fits really weird. It's a very low cut on the sides You'll see all of this in the try-on haul if it's weird. It's drapey in the back It was user air and once I figured out how to wear it. It is so cute I was gonna come on here and tell you do not buy this do not recommend highly recommend You just have to put it on right. This is the bohemian halter dress It's only $4 and 49 cents comes in sizes small through extra extra large I have mine in a large and like I said in the try-on portion. I didn't wear it correctly I was thinking oh, this will be great as a swimsuit cover up. Maybe that's what it's designed for. No Here's the issue that I didn't see with this dress along the back here There are these two pieces of material all you do is pull those to adjust it for the halter to fit your body That's all that I would have had to do and then it wouldn't have been so long on the sides It wouldn't have been so open in the back since trying this on I actually have worn this dress and I love this I love love love this for less than $5. It is very lightweight very flowy Super super super cute cute with these gold sandals cute with this cute little bohemian ankle bracelet I love this so I would highly recommend this dress highly recommend it Just don't be like me and figure out how to wear it right the first time speaking of dresses I have a repeat purchase sort of in a different color and that's this little dress right here Now I actually have this dress and I it I wore it. I tried it on in a previous team Timu Hall In fact, it's on my thumbnail. I've worn it a million times I absolutely love it and I thought you know what I'm gonna go pick up another color because I really love it that much This is the v-neck sleeveless striped dress with drawstring. It actually comes in about 10 different colors It's only $5.87 in sizes small through extra extra large I have a large it fits me perfectly and this time I went purple. I went purple You know, I've been loving purple and it is so fun for summer that bright fun lavender and deep purple This dress is seriously one of the most comfortable things that I've ever worn the length of it is perfect I love that you can adjust the drawstring waist to kind of bring in the smallest part of your body It is so comfortable highly recommend it would be great for a cookout for a beach wedding You could even wear this to the beach over your bathing suit Sense it comes in multiple colors You may see this again because I may have to go pick up another color because It's honestly one of my favorite little pieces for summer and then I grab this halter top now When this came I'm like that's gonna fit a toddler, but it actually is very very stretchy I love that it has kind of the thinner strap that goes over your head I love the v-neck the sweater style of this these sweater style tank tops are super popular this summer Now I will say that this is definitely a top that you need to wear a strapless bra or a stick-on bra Because you could see that you can see all the bra straps all my bra strap It's even though this is support garment even with the traditional bra You're going to see that and you can even see the actual bra on your chest area because it is a little bit more low cut So I am excited to wear this with maybe a stick-on bra this summer or like I said a strapless bra would be perfect Because the back of it is a little bit low cut as well So you are going to see your bra strap, but I do really like this. I think for less than five dollars It's a really good deal and it is that really soft ribbed sweater material Which like I said is really popular this summer and I love the bright pink and last but not least a workout top I can't wait to start working out again. I actually have started walking which has been really great I feel much better just moving my body that little bit every single day And I love a good workout top good workout pants And I have fallen in love with the eye active brand on the timu website. I have several of their pieces I'm talking lulu lemon quality for a much more affordable price And this tank top does not disappoint. This is the crew neck mesh backless yoga tank. It's only seven dollars and 59 cents Comes in five colors. I pitch mine up in black sizes small through extra extra large I have mine in an extra large I always size up in my workout tops because I want them to be flowy and not clinging to everything when I'm working out, but what I loved about this besides The length of it. It is this really soft sweat wicking material is I love the back that it has that fun mesh panel So you can see your sports bra through it And I think a fun colored sports bra would just give a pop in the back of this this fits beautifully I definitely could have sized down to a large but like I said I really like my workout tops to be a little bit more flowy and comfortable and for the price You cannot beat it. I highly recommend the eye active line I also picked up three more jewelry pieces. I always say how much I love the jewelry on timu And I mean that the jewelry is so fantastic for the price And I went ahead and decided to grab another inklet It's a dollar 18 and comes in three different colors. I did decide to go ahead and get mine in silver I love the little drop rhinestones This I thought would be perfect for a beach wedding a date night out a girls night Just adds a little bit of fanciness to your look. I love this bohemian inklet that I'm wearing today But I wanted to like I said, I wanted to get one that was a little bit more fancy And I love this. I mean the quality of these are so nice and it's a dollar 18 I actually have been wearing my hair pinned back pulling this piece of my hair over in a braid or just twist And then pinning it back with a barrette and I saw this and fell in love with it I love how it's a little bit blingy. This is the glamorous rhinestone crystal hair clip. This is 71 cents 71 and it is really nice quality and I love the rhinestone the glitter I picked mine up in the black They have several different colors and like I said, this is perfect just to add that little pop of bling to your looks I only ordered one because I wanted to see if I liked it if I like the quality and it's really nice I'm going to go ahead and pick up all the other colors Because it is just perfect for that little bit of extra something with your summer hairstyle Then I picked up one more pair of earrings. I love these these are the evil eye acrylic drop earrings They're a dollar 29 and I have mine in the deep blue I wanted a pair of blue earrings and I love the whole evil eye aesthetic They have quite a few things on the timu website. They have inklets rings necklaces I'm going to be picking some more evil eye pieces up in the future. It just symbolizes protection and I love that I think these are absolutely beautiful and how fun are these for just that pop of blue and something a little bit more dramatic and fun And then this is another repeat purchase. These are the sweat wicking headbands. They're a dollar 29 I have several of these. I think I have two or three of these. I love these when I work out What I appreciate about these is not only do they wick sweat I've washed them several times. They wash beautifully, but they don't slip down and that's really important for me I don't want the headband to slip this way or slip this way during my workout And these are fantastic and for a dollar 29. You can't beat it They have several colors and I I was going to grab a couple colorful ones And then I'm like nope just get black because it goes with everything So I decided to buy two more because a dollar 29 and these are some of the best wet wicking Workout headbands I've ever used in my last timu haul I hauled some sunglasses and every time I wear them in my instagram stories You guys are like, oh my god. I love your sunglasses They're from timu and they are of such good quality and I want to say they were just over two dollars So I decided to go ahead and pick up a second pair of sunglasses These ones are really fun. The last pair that I have is kind of a smoky gray color I'll link that other timu try on haul down below if you missed it So I decided this time to go with these irregular shaped kind of rose gold sunglasses I mean, ooh, these are nice. It makes everything really bright and can we just talk about how fun these are? They're a really fun shape. They're very very flattering on the face They are a dollar 17 a dollar 17 for these sunglasses They come in multiple colors. Like I said, I went with more of the gold frame with the rose gold lens They actually come in about six different colors. I really like these I like these just as much as my other pair and like I said, I wear my other pair all the time And what I also appreciate is that I can break these lose these scratch these and not feel bad about it because they're a dollar 17 And then I picked up a couple things for the dog. So palmer loves a good frisbee He gets very excited about any dog toy, especially balls and frisbees and I saw this one on timu It's more of a flexible rubber frisbee. That way he can chew it. He always has a million teeth marks in the frisbee It has kind of a ribbed design on it. It's a dollar 39. It comes in multiple colors. I picked mine up in purple I wanted to see what the quality of this was and if palmer liked it This is really nice quality for a dollar 39. And if he loves this, I'm going to pick up a few more But you can't beat a lot of the prices of the dog toys on timu. I actually picked up another dog toy for him This is a repeat purchase. I bought a couple of these in the past just different animals this time I got the cute little kind of raccoon style. These are two dollars and 95 cents. They come in three different animals They have squeakers. I'm not going to squeak it or we'll have palmer in here But they have a squeaker in the tail and a squeaker in the head These sell for five six seven dollars at ross and tj max and over 10 dollars at pet stores So when I saw that this was under four dollars I picked a couple of them up for him in the past and he loved them So I decided to get him one more. So palmer now officially has two new dog toys And then we needed a new night light for our hallway the one that we had actually stopped working So I just thought let me see what timu has and of course they have everything So they had these super cute plugin night lights. They actually come in multiple different colors I just went with white just neutral goes really well with our hall with our paint colors So this is the actual light itself. It is a plugin style. This is the smart led night light for a dollar 48 So when you plug it in this outer rim lights up and this has been perfect It gives just enough light in our hallway. So when we're coming into the office or using the restroom We can see where we're going and I you can't beat it for the price I'm gonna take you outside for just a moment because I did pick up a solar light for my front yard I love this actually yesterday. I was speaking with I was talking to my neighbor out front and she said, oh my gosh I just love your solar light. I did decide to go ahead and just hang it from a shorter Shepherds hook in my front yard. This is the waterproof solar led lantern. It's 11 dollars and 58 cents This is so cute. I love how it reflects the pattern at night on the ground It's really really nice quality for less than 12 dollars I may pick up a couple more But I thought that it just added a really nice touch to my front yard Picked up an onion keeper because I'm so tired of opening my fridge opening up my vegetable drawer and smelling Onions. I typically never use a whole onion I usually have at least half of it left over and I saw that they had this onion keeper and I thought That's genius to help alleviate the smell and also keep your onion fresh This is only two dollars and 48 cents. It is a two-piece set onion goes in here Lid goes on no more stinky onions in the fridge and I thought Genius, this is going to definitely come in handy another thing that I thought about over and over again Is there has got to be an easier way to cut an avocado than with a knife and slice it and dice it? And I had an avocado slicer again. Where has this and the onion keeper been all my life This is only 88 cents. It comes in multiple colors. Of course I picked mine up in pink one end of it actually has the knife to slice the avocado And then this piece actually just goes into the avocado to cut it for you There's a guard for the knife part. It is definitely not sharp, but I love I appreciate that there's a guard for it I mean Why have I not bought this sooner because I love avocados and this really does make cutting your avocados so easy We've been doing a lot of fresh salads for lunch and I've used this several times And love this highly recommend for 88 cents. This is another repeat purchase for me as well I actually have a pink one of these.  They come in about a dozen different colors. These are fantastic. They're a nice hard plastic It's still a flexible cutting board, but they're a really nice hard plastic I've used mine so many times you guys have seen it in videos I've watched it in my dishwasher So many times and for a dollar 68. You can't beat it. I picked up the green one I am going to buy a few more because Troy even Troy made a comment yesterday when he was slicing up an apple That he really liked this thicker smaller cutting board. So Definitely recommend like I said, this is the second one that I've purchased now This was a little bit of a I don't need it, but I want it purchased and I'm not mad that I bought these This is a measuring spoon and measuring cup set, but this just isn't any set This is absolutely beautiful a pretty these are so this is the one cup measuring cup It is gold size of the measuring cup is on the handle So you have a one cup a half of a cup A third of a cup and a quarter of a cup and I love it. I love the gold. I love the wood handle. This is such good quality I mean it is heavy heavy duty and it comes with a matching measuring spoon set And I love the measuring spoons. You can see that they're just a little bit different style You have your table spoon all the way down to a quarter of a teaspoon and again Everything is printed on the wood candle both of sets for 15 dollars and 88 cents for the measuring spoons And the cups and these are so heavy. I mean the quality I was blown away on the quality of these. I cannot wait to use these I'm actually going to be meal prepping here in a little bit and you can bet You'll be seeing these in that meal prep video But these are so so so nice and both the measuring spoons and the measuring cups for less than 16 dollars This would probably be 40 or 50 dollars at a kitchen store Obsessed this is another thing I've wanted for so long and never bought I've seen it over and over on the timu website and finally I was like, you know what I'm going to get this I'm going to try it out See if it actually works if it's all the rage that it claims to be this is the portable mini sealing machine It's only a dollar 68. It comes in about six different colors. No surprise to anybody. I got pink What's cool is there's a magnet on the back so you can make this Magnet this to your fridge and basically how this works is it seals your bag So chip bags produce bags one thing I really wanted this for was bags of pre-cut up lettuce This works really well Troy uses this to seal up his popcorn bags our chip bags our pretzel bags our bags of lettuce I mean really anything this works like a dream for less than two dollars You can't be that it takes two AA batteries and like I said, it works like a charm Another thing I wish I would have bought a long time ago and last but certainly not least is this beautiful thing right here This is actually a bamboo pop mat. It's a dollar 98 It comes in multiple colors multiple shapes. I have the round kind of flower design This is can be used as a trivet for hot pans. This can be used as a decor piece How cute would this be with a candle sitting on top of it? I could just see this being used in so many aspects of your home and for less than two dollars This is really nice. It's a nice wood bamboo back looks very similar to the front I put it on my granite counter and it doesn't slip around I'm going to be buying all the other shapes and colors of this because this is really nice for a dollar 98 This would also make a really nice Gift something you could throw into a gift bag, especially for someone who loves kitchen things and home decor pieces I can just see this being used in so many different areas even outside How cute would this be with a plant a potted plant on top? Love this. This was definitely a good decision. And like I said, I'm picking up all the other ones So that is everything from tea moo. We have lots of fun summer clothes shoes jewelry kitchen gadgets Outdoor decor and some really great pieces that blew my mind Especially in some of this kit, especially those measuring cups and spoons in a lot of The kitchenware and the shoes. I love the sandals. I've worn them so many times. They're honestly super super comfortable You just can't be a team move the prices are amazing And don't forget to use the code pick four four seven five For that hundred dollars worth of coupons You can't beat it and you do have to download the app to claim the hundred dollar coupon bundle So get the app on your phone. So whenever you're feeling like it, you can do a little shopping on the tea moo website Like I said, I had some wins. I had some fails overall I love everything as always that I picked up from tea moo And if you enjoyed today's video, give it a big thumbs up again Subscribe if you're not and everything is linked down below for you As well as all of the details with the discount code and what you need to do Downloading the tea moo app to get the hundred dollar coupon bundle. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time


Do you guys know that the arms and the stick of a hockey player actually make a lever? And levers are simple machines, and simple machines help us do work. Oh, you mean like my homework? Not exactly that kind of work, unfortunately. It's a different kind of work that we do in science. Oh, I know which work you're talking about. It's the force times the distance. Exactly. Okay, so like if I move an object, if I use a force to move this object, and I move it a distance, then I've done some work. Exactly. That's awesome. So why don't we try an experiment then? Sparty, would you like to help us out? Awesome. Okay, we're going to use this hockey stick. This is for you, and we're going to use this bucket full of hops. So, Sparty, what I'm going to get you to do is hold that hockey stick at the very end with your hands, and try to lift this bucket using only the hockey stick. Do you guys think that Sparty's going to be able to do it? I don't know. We'll see. Okay, ready, Sparty? Go. Little, but that's been really hard. So I think I know what the problem is. Sparty, if I didn't give you any instructions, how would you lift this bucket with the stick? How would you usually do it? Oh, I think you'd be an expert. Point in the middle that you use to help you lift the bucket. And that's what hockey players do with their sticks, too. So to help us to show how levers are used in hockey sticks, we have Senators Ford Kyle Tourist here. He's first going to take a shot on that, putting both of his hands at the very end of the stick, and then we'll see how he does it properly. So go ahead, Kyle. Power in that one. Let's try again with the lever. Here I have a giant lever, and with it I would be able to do work, and so lift things I wouldn't be normally not be able to lift. So who should I lift? Hmm, I think I should lift you, Sparty. Okay, so we're going to have to get on one end of the lever. Okay, so who thinks I'd be able to lift him with this giant lever? Let's find out. Three, two, one. Sparty, you're too heavy. What did you eat for breakfast this morning? Hmm, a lot, apparently. All right, but I know how to fix this. I'm going to move the fulcrum of the lever towards Sparty, so my end of the lever will be longer. All right, who thinks I'd be able to lift Sparty now? Three, two, one. By using a simple machine, I'm able to do a lot more work than I would normally be able to do. Thanks, Sparty. Are you afraid of heights? I hope not.


The development of cities has led to urban congestion being nearly unavoidable for most large-scale cities. Road planning is an effective way to alleviate urban congestion, which is a classic NP-hard problem and has become an important research hot spot in recent years. A K-means clustering algorithm is an iterative clustering analysis algorithm that has been regarded as an effective means to solve urban road planning problems by scholars for the past few decades. However, it is difficult to determine the number of clusters and sensitively initialize the center cluster. To address this issue, a novel K-means clustering algorithm based on a noise algorithm was developed to capture urban hot spots in this paper. The noise algorithm was employed to randomly enhance the attribution of data points and output results of clustering by adding noise judgment in order to automatically obtain the number of clusters for the given data and initialize the center cluster. For unsupervised evaluation indexes, namely, DB, PBM, SC, and SSC, were directly used to evaluate and analyze the clustering results, and a non-parametric Wilcoxon statistical analysis method was employed to verify the distribution states and differences between clustering results. This article was authored by Xiaowan Ran, Xiangbing Zhou, Mulay, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Hello, what's poppin'? We are on Twitch. We are live. So you can come join us if you want. If not, that's cool. Just leave a like, comment, subscribe, turn on your post notification bells. Let's continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK and all around the world because we taking a trip today.  Patreon Monday through Friday. And we also got merch, got mine on. We're going to Sweden though. This is a question that I've always had. How did one of the safest countries on earth develop a huge gang problem? And I hate to say this. Ah, this is one of the rare times that I'm gonna contribute music to it. Music had to be some of the reason. Music has to be some of the reasons that Sweden developed a gang problem. I love Sweden, RIP in here. But I ain't know y'all for, I've known y'all for grassy plains, a field, you know what I'm saying? Sheep, nice looking women. I ain't know nothing. But let's get into it, talk to me. Who is this by? Hold on. Wait, first of all, this is by World Graphics. Okay. Salute, Gango. It's just a few short years ago. The word Sweden brought to mind positive stereotypes, stuff like flat-pack furniture, abber and enlightened social democracy. From afar, the country seemed a quiet paradise, the sort of place where crime was low and people really might keep their doors unlocked tonight. Of course, the reality was always a bit more complicated than that. Biker gangs and far-right thugs were active and the police were so laid back, they once failed to solve the assassination of their own prime minister. By and large though, Sweden was seen as calm and safe. But note the key word in that sentence was because today the word Sweden brings to mind not positive connotations, but relentlessly grim ones, stuff. No, no, no. It still brings to mind positive connotations to America at least, but maybe not out there, but like, American stuff in Sweden isn't exactly that sweet. But talk to us. Of like firearm homicides, grenade attacks and staggering levels of gang violence, stuff like 13-year-old killers and houses destroyed in bomb blasts. Stuff that, in 2023, is threatening to tear this once-placid nation apart. With gang warfare so out of control that the military has been called in, it now feels like a good time to ask, how did this happen? How did the land of IKEA and Nichols become Europe's gun-murder capital? And more importantly, can things ever go back to how they were before? Looking hard to support your family, but never getting a... Now, the first thing to know when talking about gun and gang violence in Sweden is that it's still far below American levels. If you're watching this from a typical US big city, just know that you are way more likely to get shot dead within a few miles of home than you are visiting Stockholm or Gotham. Hey, chill. You're right, though. That's why I keep a guard very close to me. Continue. Fuck. That said, by European standards, Sweden's firearm crime rate is crazy high. Across 2022, this Nordic country of 10.4 million recorded 391 shootings resulting in over 60 deaths. Per capita, that ranks Sweden as the joint worst EU nation for firearms murders alongside Croatia. But it's only when you start to compare... Croatia? Croatia be having a blitz? Sweden and its cities to peer nations that it becomes clear just how bad things really are. In the same year that over 60 people died in Sweden from gunshot wounds, the combined total for Norway, Finland and Denmark was just 10. In the capital of Stockholm, the per capita gun murder rate is almost 30 times higher than that of London. As the Economist wrote, summing up the findings in a 2018 study, a man aged 15 to 29 in Sweden is 10 times more likely to get shot than in Germany. Again, if you're watching this... But you see, in Sweden, like, I can bring the blitz. The blitz can be outside. You know, I feel like they can. In London, they can't. But like, Sweden maybe? While sat in a large US city or in certain nations in Latin America, you might now be thinking along lines of 60 gun murders in one year. Please. The difference is that gun on the sides are really... It's funny that you say that, sir. I'm from the city of Chicago. So to me, that does sound like, but I've been doing this for a long time and I know that it's not like for Europe. So loop to that block right there, laying on that table like that. Continuously rare across the whole EU and used to be almost unthinkable in Sweden. In 2003, the nation had one of the world's lowest gun murder rates. As recently as 2012, it could be listed as one of the planet's 10 safest countries. It's now dropped to nearly 30th place. Just before we continue with today's video, I do want to sh... ...begin... ...re-a-nger... ...I... ...wall-a-d-e-n... ...out-j-i-s... ...pl-a-swi... ...eat... ...ice... ...very... ...br-a-swi... ...so don't worry, they're got... ...person-life... ...will never... ...is-cree-trop... ...exrupt of... ...the graphics... ...you could worth falling to a survey... ...across most of the rest of Europe... Oh, yeah! ...council for crime prevention. This video is now back to it. According to a survey done by Sweden's National Council for Crime Prevention, while shooting deaths in their nation have been spiking, across most of the rest of Europe, they've been falling. Clearly, modern-day Sweden is an outlier, both on the European continent and within the... Shit, look, beautiful. Look at this. What's them yellow... ...them trees, the yellow things? ...on decks to its own post-war history. The obvious question, then, is why? Why does Sweden, in 2023, feel like a real-life Scandinavian remake of Escape from New York? One answer is that it's the nation currently awash with guns. Thanks to 3,218 kilometers of coastline that's utterly empty and unguarded for vast stretches, smuggling weapons into Sweden is easy. According to police estimates, Stockholm alone contains over 3,000 illegal guns. As Vice News notes, that's around three times the number thought to be in London, a city with around 10 times the population. The majority of these guns come from the Balkans, where weapons left over from the 1990s conflicts are still readily available. Although they're being brought to Sweden for use by criminals from former Yugoslavia, at least not exclusively, rather these imported guns are being sold to a dizzying array of gangs. The exact number of gang members in Sweden is hard to determine, and estimates vary wildly. Police chief Anders Thornberg has publicly estimated about 13,000, while the government has claimed it's more in the region of 30,000. One reason it's hard to be sure is that many of the gangs are so small, even their members probably wouldn't consider themselves part of an organized crime group. Speaking of ICE, crime reporter Kim Malmgren explained, most of them wouldn't recognize themselves as an organization, but more as a group of friends who grew up together. But while it's hard to class... So a clique. They don't recognize themselves as members, they just a clique. A clique of homies, you know what I'm saying? Moving, making money with each other. The five, the exact number of gangs in Sweden, their effect on society can be seen all too easily. Back in September, a single 12-hour period saw a teenage rapper slaughtered outside a football pitch as children were playing, a grown man shot dead, and a young woman killed in a psalm when her house was destroyed by a bomb erroneously left at the wrong address. All told, September was the worst month for homicide in Sweden in four years, with 2023 already on track to exceed 2022 in the number of shootings and bombings. It was against this dark background that Prime Minister Ulf Kristensen made a rare televised address. In which he told the nervous public that, quote, Sweden has never before seen anything like this. No other country in Europe is seeing anything like this. An address in which he also pledged to call in the army to help stop the bloodshed. Whether it will work is not a matter. With police chiefs briefing that this is Sweden's worst security crisis since the Second World War, it seems naive to think that it could be quickly solved. Rather, the current situation is the result of decades of accidents and missteps that are finally added up to a national catastrophe. The Word on the Tracks If you ever need a real-life example of the law of unintended consequences, look no further than what happened in Sweden in 2020. That year, as most of the world was trapped indoors by the pandemic, European police were quietly at work breaking the codes of EncroChat, a communications network favored by organized crime. The result was a wave of arrests across the continent. Thousands of gangsters who talked freely on the surface about smuggling drugs or ordering a hit were thrown behind bars. In Sweden alone, 400 criminals went down, including the heads of multiple gangs.  Yeah, you would think so. But the thing about that is, when people go to jail, all at once, they talk. They talk. They click up. They grow. So, we'll see how this blade is. It's only in retrospect that breaking EncroChat's codes seems like a dangerous mistake. Speaking to the independent Swedish journalist Darman Sully, who described how, quote, the arrests led to chaos, where very young gang members are now fighting for dominance of the lucrative drugs market. One of the key words in that sentence is young. With the old... Yeah, that was probably a power vacuum. A generation of crime bosses gone, Sweden seems to have become a playground for children acting out their gangster fantasies. The only difference being that these gains have deadly consequences. A 2021 Swedish police report into young gang members found a low threshold for lethal violence, as well as, quote, lack of respect for human life and the indifference to the risk of harmed third parties. You can see all these translates into real world harm just by looking at some of the recent stories to come out of the country. In 2023, a 13-year-old was shot in the head execution style in a stock on suburb. Back in 2020, two teenagers were tortured and raped in a cemetery as a form of punishment. Often, these brutal crimes aren't even committed for money or control of lucrative drugs routes. They're more linked to teenage obsessions, issues of respect or of showing dominance. It didn't used to be like this. While Sweden has always had gangs, they tended to be structured more like traditional cartels, biker gangs, or crime empires linked to the Middle East with stripped hierarchies and bosses controlling everything. This is the model you'll still find in other European countries like Germany, the Netherlands or Belgium. To be clear, it's not a model that we want to romanticize. Belgium is going through its own crisis of gang violence linked to transnational cocaine cartels and anyone who thinks such cartels can't be brutal has, well, obviously never watched Narcos. In the Swedish context, though, the old bosses at least tried to avoid civilian casualties, knowing that it would harm business. The young new... Yeah, casualties always harm business. Once there's an M around, there's more police around. And they're investigating and things that are becoming uncovered that don't want to be uncovered. Upstarts, by contrast, have developed a habit of trying to kill family members of anyone they have beef with. This has led to multiple innocent people being shot or blown up in cases of mistaken identity. A cycle of violence fueled by having so many small gangs competing for finite resources. Police in Stockholm alone have counted 52 such organizations. Police chief and head of intelligence for the greater Stockholm area, J.L. Polderevius, has even gone on record saying the current crisis is more like low-intensity warfare than a crime problem, a perception undoubtedly fueled by the authorities' failings. The Economist reports that only around 20% of Sweden's gang-related murders are ever solved, nor are the police often able to react in real-time. Back in 2020, Gothenburg was parallel- I'm not surprised police are being slow, okay. Eyesed by a gang war so intense, it saw rival organizations setting up roadblocks and ambushers to capture their enemies. Although the police intervened to dismantle the roadblocks, they didn't arrest anyone. The violence only ended when the gangs themselves agreed a truce. If that sounds unbelievable, rest assured that you've not heard the half of it. Cyber a quick dive into one of the major causes driving Sweden's gang wars, the legal roadblocks stopping the government. You know who he remind me of? What kind of sound like? What's the dude from the UK that be doing all the, the ones, like he used to do, he did the King Von documentary, it was like three hours, what was his name again? Oh my God. Of him from doing anything about it. What if I told you for young guns? As we just mentioned, one of the unique features of Sweden's gang problem is that many of those carrying out shootings and bombings are extremely young. Like, not even in the sense of 18 year olds with little life experience, we mean kids between the ages of 13 and 15. Speaking to the Telegraph, Swedish police acknowledged the existence of around 1200 so-called... Man, it's like they model and they gang stuff after Chicago. The current state of gang stuff after Chicago's current state of gang stuff. Child soldiers. The children are also said to make up the majority of those arrested for gang and defences. And this is where things start to get really problematic. In Sweden, the age of criminal responsibility is 15. Anyone who commits a crime below that age cannot be sentenced to any punishment. This contrasts with nations like England which set the criminal responsibility age at 10. But Sweden goes even further. The recent law... It's 10 in the UK? In England? I didn't know that. Order agreed that those under 18 should only be arrested as a last resort, while those under 21 should only be imprisoned in exceptional circumstances. The goal of these legal changes carried out last decade was to improve the rights of offenders and make it easier to rehabilitate young criminals. As an idea, it's definitely laudable. An attempt to remove the lifelong stigma that petty... Okay, where did they get this clip from? She got a full face of makeup, full set of nails. Hair done. ... teenage crimes can carry in places like America or the UK. Sadly, that attempted enlightened policy has now hamstrung the police dealing with vicious teenage gangs. And those remaining gangs still run by older men have been incentivized to recruit kids. As appalling as that last sentence was, there's a cold logic behind it.  Under Sweden's lenient system, the teenage murderer was sentenced to less than three years in a youth care home. Even other Scandinavian countries disagree with this approach. When Swedish gang members, all under the age of 18 crossed into Denmark to carry out a hit, the Danish authorities locked them up for 20 years. A center-right MP, Johan Fawcett, pointed out to the Economist, if they'd committed the same murder in Sweden, the maximum penalty would have been four years in a social institution. For gangs, there are other advantages to using... Are you years and two years? I don't even think that's a... I think like you get locked up. If you hear and you do something at 13, you're gone. You're gone to a president, at least until you're 18. You're still getting some... You're still getting seven years that a young offender is a president of some, right? Children, homemade bombs inside thermos flasks look less suspicious when carried by a kid. Such kids are also easier to manipulate. Really, though, it's the justice system's inability to convict young offenders that's driving the trend. As former chief prosecutor Lee Stam complained to the Telegraph, we protect the integrity of criminals and ignore the victims. A statement that's hard to argue with when you realize that, until very recently, Swedish police weren't even allowed to tap criminals' phones. Still, the current problems aren't solely a byproduct of the two that's hard to argue with when you realize that, until very recently, Swedish police weren't even allowed to tap criminals' phones. Oh, man, you was out... Hey, they was out there being able to do whatever they wanted to. I know some of the more established members and organizations are upset that these young kids were ruining it because it's going to get that slowly but surely they're going to tighten up. Still, the current problems aren't solely a byproduct of an extremely lenient legal system. Despite a 75% increase in budget in recent years, Sweden police forces are still comparatively underfunded and undermanned. As recently as 2020, the country could boast only two police officers per thousand residents compared to three in Germany. Within the EU, only Denmark, Finland and Latvia have fewer police officers per capita. Admittedly, these figures are now slightly out of date. Sweden has been on a police hiring spree, not yet visible in Eurostat data, with a goal of adding 6,000 new front-line officers by 2024. But even this increase is below where police chiefs wanted to be. The chief of the Gothenburg... This is a very well done... Police has asked for 10,000 more cops to be added. So, yeah. It's fair to say that the entire legal apparatus in Sweden is facing challenges. Challenges that have helped fuel the escalating crisis. Even so, we still haven't answered our title question. How did things get so bad? Okay, here we go. This is my prediction. To do that, we're gonna have to return our attention to another key ingredient in the nation's combustible mix. An ingredient that many Swedes find too controversial to even talk about. A failed set of immigration policies. Now, the trouble with discussing immigration and crime is that it can effectively sweep away all nuance, reducing what is an extremely complicated topic into just another front in the never-ending culture wars. However, it's also a topic that we need to at least try and broach. According to the economists, some 50% of Sweden's gang members were born abroad. Even those born in Sweden are highly likely to have parents who weren't. 85% of those involved with gangs have what the magazine termed an immigrant background. In most cases, that means Iraqi, Somali, Lebanese, Turkish, Syrian, or Balkan heritage. For some on the right, this is as far as the discussion needs to go, further proof that immigrants are inherently criminal. Yet, to stop here, it would be to ignore the fact that this is unique to Sweden. As the telegraph, hardly a bastion of lefty wokeness has written, yes, the 2015 asylum wave saw Sweden import all kinds of criminality among the record numbers of people it took in. But Germany took in even more and doesn't have such problems. So what then is it about the Swedish immigration system that has led to so many young men with foreign backgrounds turning to organized crime? At least a partial answer comes from the last two prime ministers. According to Sweden's current center-right leader, Ulf Christensen, quote, it is an irresponsible immigration policy and a failed integration that has brought us here. Before Lisbär in 2022, his center-left predecessor, Magdalena Andersson, had meanwhile declared that we now have parallel societies in Sweden. We live in the same country, but in completely different realities. It's in those two quotes that we can begin to get a sense of the true root problem. An absolute failure to ensure peoples of wildly different cultures have any means or incentive to integrate. And the issue is tied up in housing, or perhaps more accurately, housing and a lack of forward planning.  I feel like that's always the reason. Pendlessly diverse. While its population is roughly similar to that of the Czech Republic, the 2021 census found that fewer than 5% of Czech residents were born abroad. In Sweden, that number is more like 20%. While its population is roughly similar to that of the Czech Republic, the 2021 census found that fewer than 5% of Czech residents were born abroad, like this guy. In Sweden, that number is closer to 20%. Much of this has been fueled by Sweden's self-image as a humanitarian superpower, a place not afraid to take in those fleeing conflict or persecution. Trappler Ross, who am I? Trappler Ross, the way he's narrating it. Between 2012 and 2022, the number of foreign-born residents rose by 680,000, in large part driven by refugees. Unfortunately, Sweden's welcome often doesn't extend much beyond opening the door. Swedish crime reporter, Diamond Sala, who himself born in Kosovo, has described how the only housing often available to migrants is in suburbs far from cities where, quote, the schools are poor, there is high unemployment, and many do not speak Swedish. An approach he said makes people outsiders. A typical example of this might be Husby outside Stockholm. 80% of the population of immigrant backgrounds, mostly Iraqi, Somali, Syrian, and Turkish, so deprived is Husby that the government classes it as one of 22 extremely vulnerable areas. But as Salihu has said, poverty isn't the only problem, or even the main one. Rather, it's a combination of factors that leave residents untethered from wider society. Harsh labor laws, for example, mean it can be near impossible for newcomers to find legal work. That's created a gap in unemployment rates between natives and non-natives that's the worst in the developed world. Nearly 15% of immigrants in Sweden are out of work, and there are 4% of the local born population. Teenagers, too, have limited options. Undefunded and underperforming schools mean boys often give up on education. Local youth centres have been often taken over by gangs. Board and lacking direction, teens can wind up joining for the sense of respect and community. None of this is to excuse the violence committed by these young men. The majority of people with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden do not join gangs. They do not murder people despite suffering the same lack of opportunities. To not acknowledge this would do, law-repiding newcomers a disservice. Still, these factors may at least explain why these communities are such fertile ground for gang recruiters. Speaking to the independent Darman Selihu summed up his thoughts on the issue of immigration and gang crime in the country, thusly. Both the conservatives and the social democrats who have governed Sweden for decades have been passive bystanders to an ever-evolving problem of segregation and lack of integration. Maybe it's not the migration, but the lack of planning for a new society that is the culprit. Whatever the truth, the problem exists today is undoubtable. The only question is, can anybody solve it? As we're working on this piece, Sweden receives some unexpected good news. Gang leader Raul Majid, known as the Kurdish fox, was arrested crossing the border from Turkey into Iran. As a resident of Turkey, Majid had spent years directing criminal activity and murders in Sweden from abroad. To say his arrest is a relief is probably something of an understatement. A war between Majid's fox-dropped gang and another has helped fuel 2023's surge in violence. Nonetheless, it's hard to believe, given everything we've outlined in this video, that the arrest of one gang boss will bring Sweden back to stability. No. Of course not. Like I said before, it's gonna be a power struggle. You... It's like Hydra from Marvel. You arrest or take one person out the streets. Two will pop up and those two will war together and it'll split more people in half and become just a snowball effect. To change the nation's trajectory is gonna require much deeper fixes. Thankfully, the real and coalition already has some ideas. The only problem is no one is sure if they're gonna work. One of the basic steps the current government is taking is to try and make the criminal justice system tougher. That means staff-like increased sentences for gang crimes tied to parole conditions and double... Yeah, good luck, man. Even if the... Even if... Even if that happens, Sweden got some of the most nice... They got some of the most nice jails that I've ever come across. They be having whole careers, fireplaces, you know what I'm saying? Toilets with baudets in them. Convenient stores in them. Leaving the minimum penalty for gun crimes. It also means the creation of new youth prisons. As we mentioned earlier, a 16-year-old murderer in Sweden will currently serve less than four years in the youth care home for his crime and with the new bill, 15 to 17-year-olds who commit a serious crime will be sent to something closer to an actual prison with the first ones laid to do open in 2026. While they won't solve the... Oh, I can't wait for the documentary. ...closer to an actual prison with the first ones laid to do open in 2026. While they won't solve the problem of the high age of criminal responsibility, it will at least hopefully create some deterrence. At the same time... Because right now, there's no deterrence. Four years and I'm gonna... Like, that'd be the attitude.  I ain't doing that in any way. I don't even like going to school. My parents are already doing them out of here. Watch this. And then on top of that, they're going for four years to somewhere that's probably better than their home situation. The number of prison places for criminals over 18 will be doubled. For victims of teenage gangsters... Go back. ...and their responsibility, it will at least hopefully create some deterrence. At the same time, the number of prison places for criminals over 18 will be doubled. For victims of teenage gangsters, this step will undoubtedly offer comfort. But it's not totally clear whether it's going to work to lower crime rates. Wait, what did you just say? Over 18 will be doubled. For victims of teenage gangsters... For victims of teenage gangsters... This step will undoubtedly offer comfort. If you already a victim, ain't no comfort in the victimization. I'm already a victim. I could be a DEAD victim. How am I comforted? But it's not totally clear whether it's going to work to lower crime rates. Professor in Criminology and Department Head at Stockholm University, Felipe Estrada, did a long interview with his faculty's website where he cautioned that Sweden's narcotics market is so lucrative that gangs will likely have little trouble finding new recruits to replace those imprisoned. He also expressed reservations about another tool police will be given, the power of stop and search. Stop and search is a measure whereby police can create a temporary zone inside of which anyone can be searched without the officers needing to prove they suspect them of a crime. Bro, it's crazy that Sweden has none of this. Sweden was so nice at one point, they didn't need no rules. Oh, stop and search is already a thing? Crime. Such powers are already used widely in England and Wales where they're extremely controversial because of the disproportionate way that they target minorities. A practice which some argue increases friction between officers and the communities that they serve. Still, these powers can also lead to the discovery of weapons or serious drugs, thereby hopefully discouraging criminals from carrying either. The final major new tool Sweden is considering is something known locally as sluta skujut, which translates to stop shooting. However, American audiences are more likely to know by the name Group Violence Intervention. An American idea. First and foremost, salute to the crib, this lakeshore drive right here. I don't know what time of day you around here getting this footage. I don't know why it's empty, but continue. Pioneered in inner-city, likely to know by the name Group Violence Intervention. An American idea. Pioneered in inner-city neighborhoods in places like Chicago and Boston, GVI subjects known gang members to mandatory call-ins. At these sessions, they are confronted by victims of gang crime and then offered pathways out. If they don't take the exit ramp, they're warned that the police will crack down on them remorselessly. In neighborhoods in Boston and Chicago, GVI led to drops in youth homicide of up to between 37 and 63%, nor is it an idea completely alien to Swedish culture. Things got so bad in the city of Malmo that a pilot program was launched in 2018 and later integrated into regular police work. The results seem to speak for themselves. In 2018, Malmo suffered 12 fatal shootings. By 2020, it was reduced to just three. Although it spiked back up to five in 2022, that was still fewer than in 2018 or 2019. According to Radio Sweden, under the program, quote, the number of shootings and explosions in Malmo has gone down by 40 to 60%. However, there was one major caveat. According to the National Council for Crime Prevention, it's not certain GVI was solely responsible for this dipping crime. It could be that other factors were at play. Still, these new programs and police powers, a mixture of progressive and conservative approaches, may be the best chance Sweden has. If anybody wants me to react to anything in the chat, please send a link. Don't tell me a name of something. It's in the link. At reducing its stratospheric gang crime rate, we can only pray that they work out. At the end of this video then, it's hopefully clear that Sweden's is an extremely complex place. A place where good intentions and a culture of tolerance have accidentally given rise to a spate of bombings and shootings that leave people feeling unsafe even in their own homes. To be clear, we're not saying the country is some sort of crime-ridden hellhole. The overall crime rate remains about the European average. The US government's Sweden travel advisory notice doesn't even mention gang crime instead focusing on the threat of terrorism inspired by a recent spate of Koran burnings. If you fly to Stockholm tomorrow, your experience will almost certainly be common enjoyable. Nonetheless, within the context of its own post-war history, the fact remains that Sweden is experiencing a level of gang violence is never seen before, a criminal wave that has left ordinary citizens feeling helpless. Well, my advice is, if it's so miniscule and small at this moment, I hope you all take the right steps to nip it in the bud.  See, I love you, but like, comment, subscribe, turn on your post. Don't go on, man. Appreciate that. Appreciate the bits.


Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. I want to record a video today about my feelings on what I like and what I dislike about living as an immigrant in Israel. So the first thing to say, I'm recording this video blog today because it's been almost two years since I wrote an article on medium.com and that article was called the pros and cons of living in Israel. That article actually ended up being one of my most successful, if you will, things I've written in recent years, according to my medium statistics, 43,000 people have read that article, which is like a lot of people. I think it's like a third of the size of the time that I grew up in. So given that, you know, I've got emails about it from people and it's definitely, I'm glad to just have my sort of experience out there. And to be honest, it's been almost two years since I wrote that piece, but nothing really has changed in my perception. I think there are amazing things about living in Israel. There are a couple of things I think are not so good. And I thought that given that I've reached almost a two-year milestone since publishing that piece and almost a seven-year milestone since I moved here from Ireland, I'd record a video blog just to share those thoughts again. The first thing to say about living in Israel is that the reason that I moved here and this is the thing that supersedes everything for me is because it's the only Jewish country in the world. So I grew up in Ireland and I literally made Aliyah. That means immigrated to Israel from a city, Cork, in which I was like one of the only Jewish families. I think there were like two or three other Jewish families. When I grew up in Cork, when I went to high school, as Americans call it, I didn't have a single Jewish friend. I didn't know anybody else there. So I grew up in a really non-Jewish environment. All my friends were non-Jewish. They still remain my really close friends. And for the most part, I actually really enjoyed living in Ireland and it's still a big part of my identity. Nevertheless, from a Jewish standpoint, I always felt kind of like the odd man out, I guess, because I kind of was the odd, odd man out.  I find it pretty uncomfortable. And that's totally aside from the strong anti-Israel feeling, which is a really different point. But that also made me feel uncomfortable living in Ireland. So when I first moved to Israel or did a trip here at the age of 16, for the first time, I experienced living in a place where I wasn't an oddity, where my cultures, my traditions were the norm.  But for the most part, it's actually been pretty good. Now, leading up to the Jewish Festival of Passover or Pesach, which we're about to celebrate starting next week here, there's just facilities and there's just a feeling that you wouldn't guess anywhere else in the world of being in the right place. And that's a feeling that I had when I first made a trip to Israel, a really, really strange feeling that I've heard other people describe of you are in a country that once is foreign, it's a language that when you move here, you don't you might not read so well, you might not speak. And yet there's this part of you that feels so at home. And that's kind of what that connection that I get here, it's the Jewish homeland, the only Jewish country in the world. And that for me is reason number one, why I enjoy living in Israel on a practical level. It makes stuff like keeping kosher super easy. It makes stuff like observing a Jewish lifestyle easy. But there's a much more spiritual significance to it that I'm trying to get across. Now I want to say one more thing on this point. And that's that Israel is I'm not oblivious to that to this fact a very, very touchy political subject. I think a lot of people assume that if you are a Jewish person who moves to Israel, you automatically endorse everything that the Israeli government does and you become a sort of a propagandist for the government. Now, I definitely don't feel like that's the case or needs to be part of the deal. I think it would be a bit weird to move to Israel and to really oppose the country. But Israel is definitely a thorny political issue. And I am aware of the fact that in the Jewish people reestablishing their presence in their homeland where they originated from that cause suffering and displacement to another people. My personal politics is I think that it's very hard for the two sides to live together in harmony and there needs to be some kind of a separation and amicable. You guys have your state, we have our state and we agree to sort of take a bit of distance from one another. But I definitely don't endorse everything the Israeli government does just as someone who lives in Sweden or someone who lives in Ireland or Belgium. Just because they live there doesn't mean that you're like a government spokesperson. So that's just wanted to add that as well. So that's my number one reason and it really goes against all the other negatives. And I'm going to mention those here that keeps me in Israel because I get a sense here that I'm participating in a mission, the return of the Jewish people to Israel that's bigger than myself. That gets me a lot of fulfillment. And it's really nice to live in a country where I feel like this is the right place. It accepts my traditions. It accepts me for who I am. And I can be my best authentic self here in Israel. Okay, so moving from that kind of heavy reason to much more kind of surface level stuff that also may be applicable to people who are not Jewish. And there are lots of non Jewish people who live in Israel, some who converted to Judaism, some who are living here temporarily. So that's that in Israel. The weather is really good. So coming from Ireland, you know, it was a very, very gray climate. And in Israel, yeah, it's super sunny. It does get really, really hot during the summers. But it is a beautiful country. And something that's really, that really sort of impresses me about Israel is that where I live, Jerusalem, it's a very sort of cramped urban environment. But you just drive like a few minutes out to the countryside, and you're surrounded by green. So hiking is actually a really popular pursuit in Israel. And after living here for enough time, I actually totally guess why because Israel actually has a really, really high urban density. And it's definitely kind of a heated stressful place. I'm not just talking about the temperature. I'm talking about people's temperament. If you've ever spent time in summer like Italy or Greece, I spent a little bit of time in Italy. I'm told they're very similar culturally, kind of a hotheaded culture. So people like to get out into the nature. And Israelis are actually really big into traveling internationally. And I think that that also makes sense given when you actually look at a map, how tiny Israel is really, really small country gets a bit claustrophobic, especially during COVID lockdown. So people do like to take advantage of the new cheap airfares that companies like Reiner have brought, and they take trips out of Israel. And I'll get to another point about that fact just in a bit. Next pro for Israel is that the food is super good. So there's actually a lot of different cuisines here because Israel is kind of like a melting pot for the Jewish diaspora, right? There is people, there's actually Jewish families that have been living in Israel for a long, long time, pre the foundation of the state. And then you add to that different Jewish communities who moved to Israel and brought with them their cuisine. One of the cuisines I've encountered since moving to Israel, and it's now literally my favorite food is Ethiopian cuisine. It's really, really good. If you've never been to an Ethiopian restaurant, I highly encourage trying out their food. And because there's lots of Ethiopian Jews, there's lots of Ethiopian restaurants in Israel. You wouldn't expect it, but it's true. Besides Ethiopian food, there's a course, shawarma. There's, you know, all the kind of food that's traditional to this part of the world, like falafel. And in general, food in general, Israelis like really fresh ingredients and don't like to use a lot of preservatives. So when you buy bread in Israel, you will notice that it goes off in a frustratingly short amount of time, like a day or two in the summer. And that's again got to do with preservatives. So Israeli cuisine is very heavy on veg. It's very heavy on fresh ingredients. And in general, it's just really, really good. Next positive about living in Israel is technology. The technology sector and the startup sector is really, really vibrant here. Israel is also known as silicone wadi. I believe wadi like means valley in Arabic. And that's because there's such a high density of startups here. In fact, I believe it's the highest per capita rate of startups in the entire world. I have some stats in front of me here. So I'm going to just move my eyes slightly over to my screen. Apparently 2021 was, according to startup nation central, like the biggest year for Israeli tech that's been on record 25 billion dollars worth of equity was raised and there are now 53 Israeli unicorns. So if you are looking, if you are involved in the tech space somehow, you're an algorithm engineer, you're a software developer, you're into data somehow, you're going to be pretty well set in Israel financially, probably, but definitely from an employment standpoint. And that would be my number one advice. My background is in marketing and communications. I have degrees in law, journalism. I sort of ended up actually working in the tech sector just through being kind of geeky and liking stuff like Linux and cameras. So I've been kind of pulled into it, but definitely my earning power, and this is just being totally transparent, is not going to be anywhere near as high as a software or firmware or hardware engineer. And while there are lots of jobs, my advice to anybody thinking but moving in Israel, if you are involved in computer science, if you like computers, just nurture that hobby because it's going to serve you well in Israel, not just now, but for generations to come. I think it's a really future proof career. There is a new trend in Israel of these things called startup boot camps. They're also becoming really, really big. So it's never too late if you do want to reskill or upskill to launch a tech career in Israel. Israelis call it high tech.  It just means basically what we call an Ireland information technology, the software industry and related industries that are distinguished by their technical basis.  Next great thing about Israel as an asthmatic, allergy sufferer, etc. The healthcare in Israel is really, really good. It's very impressive. Israel relies very heavily, uses very heavily something called electronic medical records or EMRs. So all the systems are interlinked and there is a great amount of systems. The kind of center of the Israeli healthcare system is what's called the Kupat Holim. That translates to English as Health Maintenance Organization or HMO. Every citizen in Israel has to be a subscriber to one of the four HMOs in the country. But there's also urgent care and there's emergency care on top of that. And what always strikes me is that the systems are really well linked. So if I, God forbid, have an asthma flare up and I need to be put on a nebulizer, I present my magnetic card and they'll have all my medical data, what prescriptions I'm taking, my pre-existing diagnoses, my weight, my heist, everything. So that's something that's really, really good. Again, I'm looking at my screen for a second because I wrote down if you know to this video, medication is also really affordable. So how much does health insurance cost? So I personally pay 52 shackles per month to subscribe to a plan from the insurance company called Maccabi and I'm not even on the top plan. That gets me basically everything that I personally need. It gets me access to specialists. It gets me access to family doctors visits. I book everything online and it's really, really straightforward. The second thing to say here is that medication prices are cheap. Again, looking at my screen, I'm paying 28 shackles for my asthma inhaler and I'm paying 18 shackles for 30 tablets of ameprazole, which is Nexium, a PPI for stomach acid stuff. So obviously the exchange rate between shackles and whatever your currency is, euro or dollar is going to be different depending upon when you watch this video. But basically we're talking like five, ten dollars. So it's really, really cheap. Now, I know some countries like the UK do have these unlimited prescription plans, so they're also cheap. But still, it's a really, really good value and it definitely takes a huge weight off my shoulders that you know, if I again, God forbid, have an asthma attack or feel otherwise unwell, I don't need to think about can I afford it before I go to the doctor. One thing I want to say while I praise the health care system overall is that when it comes to mental health, it's not quite as good. I've been open on this YouTube channel about the fact that a few months ago, started taking an SSRI medication, which is for anxiety and depression. Now, so I've experienced the mental health care system as well as the physical health care system. And what he would say is that mental health care is not as good as physical health care here. If you need to see a doctor for a broken bone, you're going to see see some on the next day. If you're suffering from panic attacks, your family doctor can get you started. But if you need to see a psychiatrist, the waiting time can be months. Also therapy stuff like CBT isn't included in the in the service package. It is included, but it just doesn't work well. As I was saying, the systems are generally very well interconnected. Unfortunately, the mental health care system is not as well linked up. So there's definitely room for improvement in mental health care. Also, Israel's suicide rate amongst immigrants, Olim is tragically much higher than the general population. And the National Crisis Center for Suicide is really understaffed. So this is something as someone affected by mental health, I personally really care about and advocate for. And I hope that the systems are better connected and that mental health care is better resourced in coming years. Okay, I hope I've given you guys a sense for what's good about living in Israel. This all comes very much from the heart as a Jewish person, I feel at home here. And that to me is basically what's kept me in Israel, despite the negatives, which I'm going to go on and cover now. But there are there now some people are really, really opposed to discussing things that are not so great in Israel. And they do that because they think that, you know, enough people in the world bash Israel and we have to attract the next generation of immigrants. I am personally a major supporter of Aliyah Jews moving to Israel. Nevertheless, I don't think that Aliyah is actually served by suppressing information. Some people object to this on religious grounds. I'm just being trying to outline the contours of this argument in the Jewish world. I don't take that view or interpretation, but just to put that out there. So I think that the pros are still better than the cons, but the cons definitely exist. Okay, the major con about living in Israel, from my perspective, as a 33 year old immigrant making a middle class salary, working in marketing communications, is that this country is way, way too expensive. The cost of living here is an enormous struggle. I've personally known multiple friends who moved to Israel when I did in 2015 and have since left the country because they basically couldn't afford to live here. They couldn't make ends meet. Now, when you say this, there's a constant discussion back and forth in Facebook groups about this and people will say, well, you should live out in the country or try not living in a city. So there are people who have retorts for this. Personally, I think that it's unreasonable that getting a cheese sandwich should cost like 12 dollars. I recently went out to a neighborhood cafe and you eventually stop like converting prices into your home currency. But every time I do it, I'm astounded by how expensive everything in Israel is. And unfortunately, this is the one thing during the course of my seven years here, I'm not seeing getting better. I'm not seeing it taking a central place on the political agenda. It's now more than 10 years, I think, since the cottage cheese protests. And there's really been no major social push. There's been a lot of people complaining into cameras like I'm doing right now. But there hasn't been an organized campaign now. The Bennett government did seem to be sort of prioritizing this to a greater extent than their predecessors. Unfortunately, today, very, very disappointing news that the coalition whip has pulled out of the government. And now we're looking at electoral stalemate in Israel again. So yeah, Israel, according to multiple surveys, has one of the highest cost of living in the world. I read in one article that the real income, in other words, when you adjust what you earn versus the cost of living and you look at purchasing power, Israel was the highest country in the OECD. The most expensive, that's not a good thing, except for Japan. So you just see it everywhere. You go buy yourself a beer in Israel and you're paying like 10 bucks for your beer. You buy yourself a cheese sandwich in Israel. You're paying a lot of money. You're paying more for petrol. You're paying more for consumer goods. You're paying more for food. And that would be fine if Israel was a high earning country. The crux of the matter is that for 90% of the population not working in high tech, which is again the IT sector. And it's great that Israel makes a big deal. There's lots of high tech here. Unfortunately, the statistic when I last researched it was that 90% of people in Israel are not working in the high tech center because let's face it, not everybody's born to be a programmer or whatever. So for so many people, it's an enormous struggle. Consequently, Israel has, I think, the highest poverty rate in the OECD. There is an enormous amount of people living under the poverty line here. And there's an awful lot of people being very reckless with their finances and living in debt, what Israelis call living in minus. So it's an enormous problem facing Israeli society. Now there's a second site of this issue that's also really frankly depressing and I use that word advisedly. And that's the staggering price of property in Israel. The Times of Israel, I'm going to put links to my article and their article in the description here. They did an excellent piece on Israel's real estate bubble and they included one figure, among many figures, that I found particularly mind-boggling. And that was that people looking, I'm quoting again from my computer screen, so we don't have a teleprompter yet, hopefully soon. So excuse me while I look over here. People looking to buy an apartment nowadays must come up with roughly 840,000 shackles. And when that article was published that translated to $261,140 in order to buy an apartment. Apartment. And I emphasize that because in Israel the standard dwelling is not a house, it's an apartment. So basically, let me just explain that again. Property in Israel is so expensive the minimum down payment is so high 25% set centrally by the Bank of Israel. So when you multiply a big figure by a high multiplier, you get a you get another big figure. And that figure is that if I want to buy a property in Israel for the down payment, I need to come up with more than a quarter of a million US dollars. I don't have that money. Most people don't have that money and most people millennials, I don't think have a way to get that money. I mean, if you're making, again, this comes back to the cost of living and salaries I was talking about.  So yes, this is a global millennial issue. Unfortunately, the dynamic in Israel is exacerbated. And frankly, that makes me feel feel very, very bleak about my future in Israel that I'm kind of working living month to month. I'm earning an average salary. Thank God I make enough money to be able to afford my tech toys like the camera that I blog about on this YouTube channel. But it's very hard for me to envision a long term future in a country in which I can't see any realistic prospect of getting on the property ladder. And that's at 33 years old having been in the workforce since I was in my early 20s. Okay, the second the second kvetch, which means in Yiddish complaint I'm going to air about living in Israel is that customer service is often really, really shoddy here. And that's something you'll visitors will often remark upon. I think it's becoming less of a thing because Tel Aviv has become this kind of tourist city. But it's always important, I think not to judge life in a country on the basis of a seven day tourist excursion. And Tel Aviv is much more internationalized. I think it's fair to say than the rest of Israel. So what do I mean by lack of customer service? It's really hard to put a finger on it, but it's just something put like this. If I can avoid buying something in Israel, I generally avoid buying it in Israel for two reasons. One, it's cheaper and two, I know I'm probably going to get better customer service outside of Israel than inside of it. Some people might find that a generalization. You might disagree. It's also very a very frustrating dynamic is that Israel has super strict defamation laws. So it's actually very risky to write a negative online review even if you had a terrible borderline abusive or actually abusive experience with a store. There's been cases in which people have been successfully sued just for writing online reviews because Israel doesn't really have American concepts of the First Amendment and freedom of speech. So that's, it's a problematic situation. And one thing I would say about living in Israel again on the negative side is that it often just feels like it's just much, it's needlessly difficult to live here. Sometimes you just run into these bureaucratic hurdles. Like for instance, I got a driving license. I passed my driving test a number of years ago. And now for no reason, I don't have any points on my license. Israel has decided that I need to go through a driving theory three night, three night course after I've got my license. Now that would make sense to me if driving, if Israel had high driving standards, Israel has terrible driving standards. And it's just another frustrating layer of bureaucracy that's going to make my life slightly more difficult. It's going to cost me more money and you sometimes just wonder why. In general, I would say living in Ireland was a more seamless experience from a customer service standpoint, from a bureaucracy standpoint, from a ease of doing business standpoint, even running a small business in Israel, can be a frustratingly bureaucratic experience. And it often feels like the government is just trying to make your life as difficult, as difficult and complicated and expensive as possible. So that's definitely a frustration I feel and I see a lot of people have about living here. Okay, I'm going to come on to driving now and this might seem like a small thing, but I'm actually find it really, really stressful. Driving in Israel is very stressful. There is a kind of disturbing amount of aggressiveness in Israeli culture. I'm not quite sure where it comes from. Israel, Israelis have a reputation for being rude. Sometimes people are just being direct. They're being more, a bit more blunt, but sometimes people are actually being completely rude and it's definitely a feature of society here. My personal theory is that people are under a lot of financial stress. Another common theory is that a lot of people here have PTSD from their time in the army. Whatever the explanation is, there's definitely kind of something a little bit edgy about Israeli society that's not nice. People snap way too easily here and the worst of this is when you're driving. And there's this kind of me first culture. I want to get ahead of you. Driving here is just not like driving where I come from in Ireland, where people are considerate and give other motorists a ride away and generally people are pretty easygoing and there's not like constant honking. I literally find driving in Israel so stressful and I did mention that I'm on the anxious side of the spectrum slash I have anxiety. I find driving in Israel such a stressful and aggravating experience that I literally avoid doing it whenever possible. I will actually take the train to Tel Aviv and not have to deal with road rage and traffic jams and other stuff like that. So that's kind of I haven't mixed feelings actually because I'm interested in sustainability and I think that are you know the level of traffic in Israel is totally unsustainable and public transport is just better. Nevertheless it would be nice if people were just a little bit more chilled out on the roads here. Okay final negative about living in Israel is that relative to Europe just to add to the kind of frustrations about the cost of living and all that the vacation days actually here are very low. They started 12 days per year at mandatory versus 21 for EU member states and that's another sort of fast of Israel that just feels like why is it so difficult here? Working hours are also long 45 hours is a standard work week versus 40 in Europe and bank holidays don't roll over so if public holidays falls on a Jewish day Jewish religious festival during which the public transport is essentially shut off you just kind of have to be home that day so if you're not religiously observant that can be super frustrating you feel like you're kind of cheated out of your vacation days basically and that's it now the final point I would say and I added this to my notes for this blog was kind of trepidation politically this is really going to depend upon your orientation now if you're thinking about moving to Israel I think it's probably fair to say you are you tend towards the more pro-Israel side of things but nevertheless Israel definitely in recent years has been shifting towards a more right-wing conservative nationalistic direction and Haaretz had a really great piece on this about how a lot of sort of the more educated Israelis the more left-leaning Israelis were leaving Israel because they found it very uncomfortable I'm not sure where I fit on the political spectrum I have views that are from the left views that are from the right but I do find it very disturbing that the Hebrew word for a left-wing person which is smallani has become almost a curse word in Israel I find that really disheartening I think that BB's nationalism had an awful lot to do with that and again if you are right-wing this may be your cup of tea if you tend towards the left and you don't want to live in Tel Aviv which is really a sort of bubble of tolerance you might find all this really really frustrating that's pretty much it in terms of my pros and cons of living in Israel video again this is just sort of a reiteration of what I wrote in that blog post two years ago given the fact that I don't really have anything to add to it I think it's pretty much my feelings about Israel I will say this that I think Israel I always get the sense that this country is progressing at a really really quick rate I just mean that in terms of technological advancements I was hoping the cost of living would come down bit of a bummer that the government is now falling apart I think overall Israel is a good country given the fact that it's been developing A. it's so young B. it's been developing versus the setting of almost constant warfare I think that what it has achieved in that amount of time is spectacular so don't get me wrong I'm not underestimating Israel's achievements I'm just saying that as someone on the ground here I don't live in the Jewish diaspora I actually live and spend all my time in Israel when people sort of look aghast when you point out these problems I find it a little bit hypocritical because yeah if you live here come live for yourself you will find that they're I believe you will find there are some difficulties here but that's the case for any country and this is what I think about the pros and cons hope this video was of interest to you if you do want to subscribe to the channel feel free to do so but the caveat is that this channel is a complete mess it's as disorganized as my mind of stuff about Israel technology video there's a whole bunch of topics here so increasingly I don't just talk about Israel but if you do want to get more videos from me feel free to hit that button thank you guys for watching if you have comments please leave them below and until the next video


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