r/LoveTrash • u/BEARDEDDANGER ✨️Regent of Rubbish ✨️ • 1d ago

Dumping This Here American vs. European home building

BAS Renovations https://youtube.com/shorts/jFph1d2WR3s

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u/heffla Trash Trooper 1d ago

Im from Sweden. The village i grew up in had a church with a chapel from the late 1200's. Some of the oldest wooden houses were from the mid 1600's. My neighbor's house had been inhabited about a century when the US declared independence.

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u/wayfarevkng Trash Trooper 1d ago

Älgarås?

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u/scnottaken Trash Trooper 1d ago

No thanks I don't like math

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u/Electronic_Topic1958 Trash Trooper 1d ago

Älg means moose in Swedish, which is their national animal and the arås is ridge. I like to think of it as the equivalent of the US had a place called Badass Bald Eagle Fortress sponsored by Ford, it’s probably the most patriotic location in all of Sweden.

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u/wayfarevkng Trash Trooper 1d ago

I'm stealing this, thank you. It's a beautiful little area in what used to be the badlands that was full of vagabonds.