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Life in Finland
Wrinkles
I would like to hear your experiences living in Finland. I'm planning to move there and don't speak the language. Thanks.
Wrinkles
maa
stiig om buurd ,wringel.fine country in deed.Hello Wrinkels
the place to find out about life in Finland. I'm sure You can find more info from the books. I myself have moved away from Finland 37 years ago and do not have any idea whats going on there. 2007 I am planning to visit for a month. I hope that I'll be pleasantly surprised.Don't worry
You won't be pleasently surprised. Finnland is nowadays the promised land for the rich, white and the healthy. Please stay where ever you are, and charice the good times and memories in Finnland.Sorry
I just realized I'd spelled 'Finnland' instead of 'Finland'. Hope you accept my apologizes.Don't worry
"Finnland" is common mistake as its the German for Finland. And you see it every where.But they say Finland has changed a lot recent years. Sad thing is that the worst sides of Anglo-American culture are adopted most easily. People used to be modest and courteous esp. in conversation. Today shocking and abusing is used by young folks to get attention at any prise. That is due to the right wing education policies and (neo)liberalistic ideology of government and media.
Welcome!
Please feel like you are at home.You will found out that that we we´ll make your being here as comfortable as we can. Once again WELCOME TO FINLANDMore activity
on this website?http://www.finlandforum.org/bb/index.php
As a Finn I'm probably not qualified to answer this enquiry (I'm one of THEM..) Hope you'll like it here.
vittu
it is a dumb idea, these people are pretty fucked up in their heads. Oh well, atleast I get a lot of pussyI am
about this kind of behaviour. I get the feeling that this 'Travis' is a foreigner and as you can see, the only one that's stupid over here...Calm down fucker
A little bit of respection or go to your own "paradise land" asshole.hey
Hey!Where are you moving here? Are you going to study or work? Are you moving alone or with your family? I'd love to give you some more information and answer your questions as well as I possibly can :) You can mail me: popovitch14@hotmail.com
It depends..
It depends on where about in Finland you are planning to move to. If it's Helsinki you don't have to worry as it's quite cosmopolitan. But I would advise you to stay away from Häme (especially Lahti and surroundings!) as it is not a good place to live. Not even worth a visit!I`m sure
a swedeHelsinki
Helsinki is not cosmopolitan, I am so sorry.compared to the other cities
it is!Abot Finland
1. Winter last's about 6 months in finland (unless your moving to south)so make sure you have something warm to wear.2. When you visit in finnish home- take your shoes off before you enter. (weather is usually bad and people wont be happy if you walk around the house with muddy shoes...)
3. Don't try to wear a svimsuit in sauna. In sauna, everybody will be naked. Don't worry, nobody will look at you "that way" in sauna...
4. Do not try "small talk" to strangers unless they'r drunk. (Sober Finnish person thiks that your some kind of crazy or something, if you don't know them and start to talk about the weather or else...)
5. Don't get me wrong. Finnish people are very warm and nice. It just take some time before they let you close and let you know them.
so true
i would like to emphasise hint #5 in vebber's post above : "Finnish people are very warm and nice. It just takes some time before they let you close and let you know them."That might be about the hardest lesson to learn in the beginning. You might get the feeling that we don't like you, but trust me, that is not the case.
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Hi Wrinkles
I advise you to move to one of these largest cities we have: Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa or Turku (the best weather) or maybe to Tampere.As someone already told (in a rougher way), it may be hard to find sophisticated company in Finland. And the list of 5 tips that somebody wrote earlier on this conversation were facts.
If you're a black person or nether a christian nor an atheist I wanna warn you: unfortunately many finns are rasists :( luckily not all. Even if you weren't, finns can be really rude. (Well, nice and helpfull too :))
About you not speakin English. If you speak English or Swedish, you'll be just fine.
Well, I've said few bad things about my dear home Finland, so I'll now give you 5 good things about it:
1. Good public services such as nursing and school system etc.
2. Beautiful summers, which have lately been really warm, and when I say warm I mean it.
3. Many unnecessary festival days like "vappu" or "juhannus", when boozing is the word of the day.
4. Finnish is a safe country.
5. In the end, Finland is a great place to live :D
helloooo
first of all: hellooo, Finland is not that safe. Well, again, it depends where you go but be aware there is assholes everywhere. And second, no I don't think Finland is that great place to live in especially if you're foreign.People in Savo
than some of the rest of Finns. But even they may need some time to get to know you first. After a Finn decided he or she likes you, you'll be treated like a friend. We are rather simple in that way - we have close frineds and then there are the rest - strangers and enemies. Be patient. Learn a few words of Finnish, and your attempts wil be appreciated. It sounds so cute to hear a foreign accent, speaking Finnish!Young people are more keen to talk with you, I suspect, and their English is usually better than the older folk's.
I hope you'll enjoy it here.
If you want to take a huge risk,,,,,
and waste your life. Finland is a semi-agrarian society and very hard to integrate in. Many foreigners get insane in Finland, they get shut out from the opportunities available and get marginalised.Think 64000 times before you come to Finland!!!
Regards
not that friendly country
I agree with you Mao.I can`t wait to get out of this country. least once in a week I have to force myself to think..."don`t worry, just one more year in finland and then you can continue normal life wherever I will be living"
and I am not the only one who thinks that way. in our school there is about 30 foreigners and they all think the same way :S
I don`t know what is wrong with finns but they all seem to hate vit*n ulkomaalaisia (f*cking foreigners).
I have heard that phrase quite a lot :(
I believe that here are also normal people, but I have meet just few of them.
I have never whitnessed a xenophobic insident in this town. Except once when an asian guy got pissed and kicked a guy in the head.
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much good for nothings, everywhere playing their everlasting plying. Yes, Where are the workers, real workers - seem as the young peoples, and elders - too, just are looking for some easy and fast, not want anything else.The leasiest country in world.
How pay that all?
-- So you're an exchange student in finland? "then you can continue normal life.." You are young, inexperienced person who has credulous thougths about life abroad (out of Finland), i mean you blame finnish society because of your own personal frustrations? You are just frustrated because your expectations does not meet with the reality.
As I know many of european countries due I've lived in those countries, I know from my own experience Finland is a VERY good country world wide, I guess the best country in the world for me.. So what would I say to you: try to change your attitude and be more open-minded to Finns, also be more tolerant, I guess after all we Finns are very gentle and frendly people.
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It has taken more than 2 years to integrate, and still going on ...
I would advise you to think twice, perhaps to take a visit first, and then to think whether you wish to live in a country like this or not.
the weather is harsh, no daylight during winter much to speak of, people very closed and odd in they own way, lots of drunken people everywhere, a phenomenon which I have not encountered anywhere in this scale. I live in Helsinki and am scared to move around.
Of course, the above is a statement which is a general picture. Smaller towns and countryside is absolutely beautiful, and the people different.
Helsinki is a small city, but people think it is a huge metropolitan city.
In my honest opinion the Finns are very very self centered, and some of them do not really know what is going on in a real big world. The news are not update on political issues, such as media broadcast in newspapers and internet.
One has to read elsewhere, to get to the bottom of an issue.
Surveillance cameras are everywhere, and honesty, one does not feel sort of free anywhere. Big brother is watching.
People drink too much, women show their cheap side, it is really sad, fights everywhere, not to talk about the climate.
Most of my friends have, nearly all of them, diabetes, they are depressed.
If you are white you are OK, any darker colour shade will not even give you a possibility to find a home to live in. Rasism flourished everywhere. The helth care sucks. Politians corrupt.
I cannot wait for a day when I can finally leave this country for a better one.
Welcome to the Paradise they advertise.