About the sauna "not for warm countries" thing. People from Finland who are in UN peacekeeping forces, they do those "sauna tents" in hot countries where it is like 40-50 degrees of celsius at the desert and they warm up the sauna to 80-100 degrees celsius. After that you come out, that 50 degrees doesnt actually feel so bad anymore.. My uncle used to do that with his mates when they were in UN peacekeeping missions in middle east back in late 80's and early 90's
Sauna is an integral part of Finnish culture. It was the first thing to be built when building a house back in the day. They used to be entirely separate buildings from the house, but nowadays they are often inside the house. In winter, it was a good way to keep warm. It was important for hygine and pest control, too. The sick could be nuresed there. We say that if sauna, vodka, nor wood tar helps, then the illness is fatal. ;) Sauna was the cleanest space there was, so people used to give birth there. It was also where the body was washed after death. Sauna is not only for washing , it's also spiritual. It also for relaxing and cleansing your mind and soul in addition to your body. It was believed that it had its own haltija (guardian spirit, but nowadays people tend to talk about gnomes, tonttu) who would, if treated well, ensure the sauna would not burn down and that the heat was pleasant. If treated badly, haltija might burn down the sauna or kill the person who offended it. It's said that you should behave in sauna as if you were in church. The word we use for the steam that rises from the hot rocks when water is poured onto them is löyly. Any other steam is called höyry, only the one in sauna is löyly. This word also means spirit/soul. :)
The material of the floor has nothing to do with not wearing shoes indoors. In the olden times men build log houses on swamps literally and worked with animals on the fields. If your wife would see you wearing your dirty boots inside she would slap the soul out of you. 😄
The real reason is more magical than that. It's because you carry the "väki"(voima) of the outside on your shoes when coming indoors. The indoors and outdoors väki must not mix; thus you remove your shoes upon entering. 😊
A car's windshield doesn't freeze under a roof because the roof prevents heat loss to the cold sky, reduces exposure to moisture, shields from wind, and creates a slightly warmer microenvironment, all of which help keep the windshield above freezing.
@@henriikkak2091 Thats also the reason for some people buying fresh built apartments make the sauna room their work room or smth, but i prefer a personal sauna still :D
It's quite an ordinary apartment/house. I also like that minimalistic style, but some people have more stuff than others. I have a bit more of darker grey and brown tones in my home, but I don't like very colourful rooms either. It was a bit difficult to assess the size of his house, but on average Finnish houses and apartments are among the smallest in Europe. I guess one big reason is the cold climate and the need the warm the houses a big part of the year. Whatever heating system you have, it can be very expensive to keep you warm when it's -30 C outside, so it's practical to build your house just big enough for you to be comfortable in. In the winter, 70-80% of my electricity bill is for heating. Some people have dryers and they can be practical if you have children. I have never owned a dryer because to me it's a waste of money. I just hang the clothes to air dry, doesn't cost me anything.
True. I have a dryer but I still hang clothes to dry sometimes. It's not (usually) because of the electricity bill but because the air indoors is dry in the winter and it helps. No need to buy a humidifier.
@hazeman4755 WOW Thank you very much for this information. A house like this is not common around here. But it makes sense if the house isn't huge, so it can be warm and cozy. In our country electric dryers have never been popular, but lately, some people have been buying this kind of thing. But the dryer (shown in the video) those are really popular here. 😀
@henriikkak2091 Here in Brazil there is a region, the southern region, that is cold, many people there do not have adequate heating, and humidity runs down the walls. I wonder if this could happen there too.
I live in a row house with five apartments and yes, we share a lawnmower and other garden tools. That's the norm in small co-ops like mine or the one on the video. We don't have a gardener who comes in to maintain the communal outdoor areas. We take turns or set a date and do it together. We have a neighbor WhatsApp group in addition to the obligatory housing company meetings for shareholders and the members of the board (we actually call it government). We do, however, pay someone to plow the snow away. It would be way too much work to do ourselves.
We're shocked that this kind of thing is actually common out there. We would never imagine something like this. The Finnish people really know how to balance life. 🥰 ps: we didn't know you used WhatsApp too, it's very popular here in Brazil
Like i've told probably here too, the dish drying rack was originally patented in USA but never put into production. Once the patents expired a women from a non-profit organization introduced it and spread knowledge. The non-profit org. did work for decreasing women's workload at home and to make it more efficient. So, it is a genius invention and someone took it and made it a product but did not do it for profit. That is just amazing. Kind of like Volvo giving away the patent to safety belts because withholding it would've cost lives.
One thing to note when comparing houses etc.: Finns deeply hate bragging and showing off. Even actual wealthy people live in houses that look like higher-end middle class ones. 😅 While the apartments and houses look simple, usually everything is sturdy and works really well (electrics, plumbing, water pressure etc.) plus is very safe to use.
The reason why people hate bragging is because in the olden days, it was believed that the amount of good fortune in the world is finite. So if you had a lot of good fortune, it meant that inevitably someone else as a result had less. Someone might want to steal away your good fortune or curse you with the evil eye or some other spell. Therefore it's always for the best to downplay your good fortune. Without knowing why, people still do this. :) For example, if you compliment a Finn on their outfit, they will likely say something like "it's nothing special" or "I bought it used (i.e. it wasn't expensive even if it looks good)".
As stated before in the comments, a pretty standard home, yes. I have lived my adult life mostly on the poverty line so I've never had the money for row housing here in the Capital region, but my parents are securely middle class (having moved between lower and higher) and I lived my entire childhood in row houses. Now, that they are closing retirement age and will have a drop in income, they will be moving to an apartment building that is currently being built. Also, my friends bought themselves a row house home as soon as they had the money for it. For a row house, the one showed on the video is quite standard. I live in a cheap-ish apartment building and have no personal sauna, but there is a communal one on the ground floor. However, even with this being a low-rent building, some of the apartments have saunas; mine has a walk-in closet where they have saunas. Every house has the drying cupboard, many use it also to store table wear so it is even more practical that just using it for drying. Housing communities are common in Finland, yes. In my complex we have mostly garden tools in the shared storage, but also a communal laundry room and a drying room - although I prefer to do my laundry at home even though it takes some space, I see people using these spaces actively. The complex also organizes days usually in autumn and spring where people get together to do seasonal yard work, grill and have coffee together although my family has never had the habit of participating in those. Also to note is that the price of housing - whether rental or owned - of course varies a lot depending on where in Finland you are. When I was looking for universities to apply I discovered that for the money I paid for my 2-room apartment in the Capital region, I could have rented an entire house in another town a bit farther from any cities.
I'm pretty poor myself but I live in apartment with bedroom, kitchen/living room combo, pretty big balcony with glass windows, shower etc AND sauna, in Finland
Yes, this specific building is relatively new (early 2000s) and screams (or rather whispers) middle-class. However, row houses or terraced houses in general, accommodate all kinds of people: - A small unit in an older and poorly maintained building in a small municipality is legitimately cheap to rent or buy. - In the other end of the market you have brand-spanking new, two-storey units that are in a respected area. Take the metropolitan area of Helsinki for example. Apartments with sea views cost more than entire estates in the countryside there. So I would say lower to higher middle-class and even poor to rich by Finnish standards is fair.
In Finland, almost every home has a sauna. Even in an apartment building, each apartment can have a sauna or a shared sauna, where you reserve a separate time for your family. I don't have one, and I don't use the sauna in the house. My own apartment is also colorful and full of things I like and art. Some of us like a white home, some like a colorful one.
Hello my Brazilian brother & sister! Here is a business idea for you: Start making those kitchens with drying cabins and you'll be a wealthy couple. After phase one (getting wealthy) you can come to Europe and you can make even more videos. Take care of yourselves. I'm really looking to see the husband of my cousin ( a Brazilian guy who teaches capoeira here in Finland) again. He is a fantastic fellow
That apartment is clearly a bit newer, more modern type than average, but still within the middle-glass people's reach. The gap between "rich" and "poor" is not as huge in Finland as in many other places. And even truly oldschool homes often have their own sauna, it's a BIG thing for every Finn. We have like 3 million saunas in the country, most of them private ones. Some cheaper apartment buildings only have a single, shared sauna room for all the tenants, to which you then book (rent) a time slot in advance. And things like the drying racks and such have been common household features for many, many decades at this point.
Oh, and that Finnish pal and his wife clearly live a very minimalistic life. Me and many of my peers tend to have A LOT of stuff. Collecting various things is a common hobby.
That type of home is quite common in Finland. I live in 47m2 at terraced house at area called Kanta-Häme , aprox 110km from Helsinki. And i have a Sauna. Exellent home for 1 person and it is municipal rental apartment with 2 car parking spases. This all 487euros/month (including water fee). So you were asking is that kind housing just for rich people . Maybe , if the house in brand new and in high prise area , but older houses in good condition is in range for everyone. Rentals rates are high but if you own 1 , monthly fees are usually very low.
Always funny to see your reactions towards something that is common and usual here. Keep up doing the good work. I bet that if I were in Brazil, I would gaze things similar ways.
É uma casa padrão. E o Alexandre, não reformando a casa, mas fazendo a decoração de interiores. (Então escolhendo o esquema de cores, tipo de couche etc etc)
I'm not from Finland, I'm from Latvia, it's a nearby country which is rather poor, compared to Finland, but nothing I've seen in video is something you need to be rich or even upper middle class to get. If you are poor, like, working a minimal wage job, you aren't going to have all that, at least not in that good condition, but for an average working person or especially family where both members work it's quite within the norm. May be not in that brand new state, because people don't renovate their houses that often, but there is nothing that I would consider to be expensive there. There is really nothing really fancy there. The most expensive thing is not, well, things, its human work-hours, so a renovation, where you hire people to renovate your house, is expensive - because human work is expensive. Things to put there are generally not.
Yeah, and I've noticed that he said that his boss' wife has designed the place - again, work-hours of a designer are expensive, interior decoration is quite often done by people themselves, without hiring a specialist to make a design project, so it looks worse - because interior decoration is a science and profession, you won't do it as good as a professional, but its a cost poor people can't afford. :)
As for things, machinery, etc inside house - by itself, quite affordable, furniture is mass-produced, so is affordable, and so on. Drying rack for clothes is nice, but definitely on a cheaper side, even I have more luxurious drying rack :))))) Sauna is definitely not cheap, it seems it's a more luxurious part of the house, but, again, nothing unaffordable for a working man if you are into it.
It's really impressive, because even here for a couple both working, it would be expensive to pay for that. Here we have a big problem because labor is undervalued so people earn less than they should, but it is still difficult for us to pay for these services performed by professionals because the minimum wage is also low.
@@3rdworldpeoplereact the question is, of course, why the labor in Brazin is undervalued? The answer is rarely "labor is valued because governments care about people", it's kind of the other way around. :) After the dissolution of the USSR labor in post-soviet countries was extremely cheap, and there was a number of reasons for that, main one being: people were lacking marketable skills. I've lived through it, so I kind of remember it rather well. Generally, in the USSR you didn't need to actually know how to work productively because everyone was paid the same, more or less, so we, in general, didn't know how to make things people in other countries needed. So nobody wanted to hire us (I'm simplifying A LOT here) because we weren't capable to make profit for those who hire us. Long story short, people learned to work and to have marketable skills and to produce things other wanted and that's how we generally became less poor. I wonder why it doesn't work this way in Brazil - for example, there is great demand for meat across the world, Brazil produces meat, so meat industries should expand and hire more workers, to increase profits. It should drain the workers' pool and the labor should increase in value. It's a simplistic description, of course - I wonder what prevents it in Brazil.
I know "third world" is used differently from the original meaning nowadays, but as a fun fact: Finland is also a third world country (according to the original meaning anyway).
Man I do not like how white that guy's house is. It feels very hospital-y. He could have, like, one wall that's moss green or something, or maybe a piece of furniture that's not black or white. (We bought an old house that hasn't had a new interior in forever on purpose. Upstairs landing is orange and red. Kitchen is brown and brown. Hall is moss green. Love it.)
@@3rdworldpeoplereact, yes. :) Believe me: it's a totally different thing to sweat under the hot Sun, outside, than go to sauna to sweat and get freshened & deeply "purified"! ;) :) It really is a freshening experience in the summer, too!
@@3rdworldpeoplereact Yes. Saunas are not a form of "warming up". They are a form of bathing AND relaxation. Think the hotsprings in Japan for example. Sauna's the Finnish counterpart to it. It does wonders to your body and soul, and is often shared by the entire family, or with your friends. All naked. No, it's not erotic in any way.
He has an average house / part of a so called rowhouse. I hate those type of houses. I can live in an apartment in the city center, or in a house on the country side. Currently I have in Finland a big timber house in the middle of nowhere. Yes, here is a sauna, but I never use it. I don't like saunas! I don't have anything grey in my house, I dare to use more colors. I want it to be a home, not a "show off" house. Anyway, it's not a rose garden here in this country. Worst part are those terrible winters, long, dark, cold. An extremely short summer with a lot of mosquitos! I have a hard time coping with the weather
Quite an average finnish row house though looks pretty freshly renovated and is obviously cleaned and cleared for filming, a normal house with kids, pets etc. your home woudn't stay that clean for 5minutes.
Yes, and you can easily get a renovation like that by doing it yourself and buying everything from Ikea, Rusta, Clas Ohlson, Motonet etc., getting the materials relatively cheap. :)
And this question about is these houses for rich, middle class or does everybody have houses like this in the video. Well in Finland, if you have even an decent job you can have an house like this. Me and my wife are maybe upper middle class now since both have pretty good paying jobs. But even when I were unemployed we had apartment with dish washer, induction stove, wooden floors, sauna etc. And we were not anywhere near middle class back then since I was in university and had only student loans as an income
That is pretty ordinary Finnish home. And pretty much all apartments have sauna build in to them. Older apartmentbuildings have communal sauna. You reserve a weekly shift. Every week you have the sauna at the sama time.
Now days people are coarcet to live in big cities and in small apartments by covernment property and business taxes implemented in as of energy cost build up ect. In country side there is no public travel for kids school, work or market. 40 years back there was small schools and a bus market, aka big bus with food you could buy twice a week when stopped near you. All that is taken away by tweaking the law so much so it's just too expensive to have any necessary functions for elderly or people with young kids anymore. Only Hard core "väinämöiset" like me, my family and few 100 thousand people are still managing live like it was only 40 to 50 years ago. Lived in Helsinki for awhile with my future wife, and now we are deep in to forest and happy as anyone😂 Maybe I'll do video for you some day.
All finns use sauna If Not their own apartments buildings have one that every one on The buildings van use im Finnish so i known and use it hot and gold
Nope, that is average. A little above average is a moderate (maybe 100-150 square meters) separate house with own yards etc. Below average are the small flats (30-60 square meters) in old houses with several stories outside the town centers. But some prefer them also, they are very easy to live in, no lawn mowing, no plowing the snow or maintenance work as large units hire companies to do all that.
About the sauna "not for warm countries" thing. People from Finland who are in UN peacekeeping forces, they do those "sauna tents" in hot countries where it is like 40-50 degrees of celsius at the desert and they warm up the sauna to 80-100 degrees celsius. After that you come out, that 50 degrees doesnt actually feel so bad anymore.. My uncle used to do that with his mates when they were in UN peacekeeping missions in middle east back in late 80's and early 90's
Tarzan had a guest this one time... he askel for a cold drink... Tarzan offered him a warm drink... it helps you more than a cold one...
And it is the first thing we build in every camp. Br crisis management veteran
Sauna is an integral part of Finnish culture. It was the first thing to be built when building a house back in the day. They used to be entirely separate buildings from the house, but nowadays they are often inside the house. In winter, it was a good way to keep warm. It was important for hygine and pest control, too. The sick could be nuresed there. We say that if sauna, vodka, nor wood tar helps, then the illness is fatal. ;)
Sauna was the cleanest space there was, so people used to give birth there. It was also where the body was washed after death.
Sauna is not only for washing , it's also spiritual. It also for relaxing and cleansing your mind and soul in addition to your body. It was believed that it had its own haltija (guardian spirit, but nowadays people tend to talk about gnomes, tonttu) who would, if treated well, ensure the sauna would not burn down and that the heat was pleasant. If treated badly, haltija might burn down the sauna or kill the person who offended it. It's said that you should behave in sauna as if you were in church.
The word we use for the steam that rises from the hot rocks when water is poured onto them is löyly. Any other steam is called höyry, only the one in sauna is löyly. This word also means spirit/soul. :)
The material of the floor has nothing to do with not wearing shoes indoors. In the olden times men build log houses on swamps literally and worked with animals on the fields. If your wife would see you wearing your dirty boots inside she would slap the soul out of you. 😄
The real reason is more magical than that. It's because you carry the "väki"(voima) of the outside on your shoes when coming indoors. The indoors and outdoors väki must not mix; thus you remove your shoes upon entering. 😊
@Mojova1 This husband and wife thing makes a lot of sense 😂
@turpasauna What a fascinating and crazy explanation, I had no idea 🤯
@@3rdworldpeoplereact Most Finns do not know this either. 😊 We are not teached our old culture practices that much.
@@turpasauna is that in anyway related to the custom of not shaking hands through door ways, kynnyksen yli, step inside before shaking hands?
A car's windshield doesn't freeze under a roof because the roof prevents heat loss to the cold sky, reduces exposure to moisture, shields from wind, and creates a slightly warmer microenvironment, all of which help keep the windshield above freezing.
Greetings from a hot Finland. He lives in an ordinary home. In the old highrises in the city you do not allways have a sauna in an apartment.
There's a communal sauna in those
@@henriikkak2091 Thats also the reason for some people buying fresh built apartments make the sauna room their work room or smth, but i prefer a personal sauna still :D
It's quite an ordinary apartment/house. I also like that minimalistic style, but some people have more stuff than others. I have a bit more of darker grey and brown tones in my home, but I don't like very colourful rooms either. It was a bit difficult to assess the size of his house, but on average Finnish houses and apartments are among the smallest in Europe. I guess one big reason is the cold climate and the need the warm the houses a big part of the year. Whatever heating system you have, it can be very expensive to keep you warm when it's -30 C outside, so it's practical to build your house just big enough for you to be comfortable in. In the winter, 70-80% of my electricity bill is for heating.
Some people have dryers and they can be practical if you have children. I have never owned a dryer because to me it's a waste of money. I just hang the clothes to air dry, doesn't cost me anything.
True.
I have a dryer but I still hang clothes to dry sometimes. It's not (usually) because of the electricity bill but because the air indoors is dry in the winter and it helps.
No need to buy a humidifier.
@hazeman4755 WOW Thank you very much for this information. A house like this is not common around here. But it makes sense if the house isn't huge, so it can be warm and cozy. In our country electric dryers have never been popular, but lately, some people have been buying this kind of thing. But the dryer (shown in the video) those are really popular here. 😀
@henriikkak2091 Here in Brazil there is a region, the southern region, that is cold, many people there do not have adequate heating, and humidity runs down the walls. I wonder if this could happen there too.
I live in a row house with five apartments and yes, we share a lawnmower and other garden tools. That's the norm in small co-ops like mine or the one on the video.
We don't have a gardener who comes in to maintain the communal outdoor areas. We take turns or set a date and do it together. We have a neighbor WhatsApp group in addition to the obligatory housing company meetings for shareholders and the members of the board (we actually call it government).
We do, however, pay someone to plow the snow away. It would be way too much work to do ourselves.
We're shocked that this kind of thing is actually common out there. We would never imagine something like this. The Finnish people really know how to balance life. 🥰
ps: we didn't know you used WhatsApp too, it's very popular here in Brazil
Like i've told probably here too, the dish drying rack was originally patented in USA but never put into production. Once the patents expired a women from a non-profit organization introduced it and spread knowledge. The non-profit org. did work for decreasing women's workload at home and to make it more efficient. So, it is a genius invention and someone took it and made it a product but did not do it for profit. That is just amazing. Kind of like Volvo giving away the patent to safety belts because withholding it would've cost lives.
It was a beautiful and generous act. We need more of this ❤️
One thing to note when comparing houses etc.: Finns deeply hate bragging and showing off. Even actual wealthy people live in houses that look like higher-end middle class ones. 😅 While the apartments and houses look simple, usually everything is sturdy and works really well (electrics, plumbing, water pressure etc.) plus is very safe to use.
Finnish culture and people are beautiful! 🥰
Here in our country we are having a lot of problems with things we buy that soon stop working.
@@3rdworldpeoplereact Aww, thank you! That's really sweet. 🥰 I'm sorry to hear things get broken easily, that must be very frustrating! 😔
The reason why people hate bragging is because in the olden days, it was believed that the amount of good fortune in the world is finite. So if you had a lot of good fortune, it meant that inevitably someone else as a result had less. Someone might want to steal away your good fortune or curse you with the evil eye or some other spell. Therefore it's always for the best to downplay your good fortune. Without knowing why, people still do this. :) For example, if you compliment a Finn on their outfit, they will likely say something like "it's nothing special" or "I bought it used (i.e. it wasn't expensive even if it looks good)".
As stated before in the comments, a pretty standard home, yes. I have lived my adult life mostly on the poverty line so I've never had the money for row housing here in the Capital region, but my parents are securely middle class (having moved between lower and higher) and I lived my entire childhood in row houses. Now, that they are closing retirement age and will have a drop in income, they will be moving to an apartment building that is currently being built. Also, my friends bought themselves a row house home as soon as they had the money for it. For a row house, the one showed on the video is quite standard.
I live in a cheap-ish apartment building and have no personal sauna, but there is a communal one on the ground floor. However, even with this being a low-rent building, some of the apartments have saunas; mine has a walk-in closet where they have saunas. Every house has the drying cupboard, many use it also to store table wear so it is even more practical that just using it for drying.
Housing communities are common in Finland, yes. In my complex we have mostly garden tools in the shared storage, but also a communal laundry room and a drying room - although I prefer to do my laundry at home even though it takes some space, I see people using these spaces actively. The complex also organizes days usually in autumn and spring where people get together to do seasonal yard work, grill and have coffee together although my family has never had the habit of participating in those.
Also to note is that the price of housing - whether rental or owned - of course varies a lot depending on where in Finland you are. When I was looking for universities to apply I discovered that for the money I paid for my 2-room apartment in the Capital region, I could have rented an entire house in another town a bit farther from any cities.
I'm pretty poor myself but I live in apartment with bedroom, kitchen/living room combo, pretty big balcony with glass windows, shower etc AND sauna, in Finland
we do have dryers here, very popular when you have kids ;)
9:30 It is an ordinary terraced house where all kinds of people live, both poor and rich
Well, poor can't afford that but you can say it is from modest income to middle class. But certainly not for the poor.
Yes, this specific building is relatively new (early 2000s) and screams (or rather whispers) middle-class.
However, row houses or terraced houses in general, accommodate all kinds of people:
- A small unit in an older and poorly maintained building in a small municipality is legitimately cheap to rent or buy.
- In the other end of the market you have brand-spanking new, two-storey units that are in a respected area. Take the metropolitan area of Helsinki for example. Apartments with sea views cost more than entire estates in the countryside there.
So I would say lower to higher middle-class and even poor to rich by Finnish standards is fair.
A house like this would be for the upper middle class or rich. But the fact that it has a sauna would make it a rich people's house
@@squidcaps4308, COULD as well be a rent apartment. ;) Then it's affordable for (quite) poor families, too - hence the general housing allowance. :)
In Finland, almost every home has a sauna. Even in an apartment building, each apartment can have a sauna or a shared sauna, where you reserve a separate time for your family. I don't have one, and I don't use the sauna in the house. My own apartment is also colorful and full of things I like and art. Some of us like a white home, some like a colorful one.
Hello my Brazilian brother & sister! Here is a business idea for you: Start making those kitchens with drying cabins and you'll be a wealthy couple. After phase one (getting wealthy) you can come to Europe and you can make even more videos. Take care of yourselves. I'm really looking to see the husband of my cousin ( a Brazilian guy who teaches capoeira here in Finland) again. He is a fantastic fellow
That apartment is clearly a bit newer, more modern type than average, but still within the middle-glass people's reach.
The gap between "rich" and "poor" is not as huge in Finland as in many other places.
And even truly oldschool homes often have their own sauna, it's a BIG thing for every Finn. We have like 3 million saunas in the country, most of them private ones.
Some cheaper apartment buildings only have a single, shared sauna room for all the tenants, to which you then book (rent) a time slot in advance.
And things like the drying racks and such have been common household features for many, many decades at this point.
Oh, and that Finnish pal and his wife clearly live a very minimalistic life. Me and many of my peers tend to have A LOT of stuff. Collecting various things is a common hobby.
That type of home is quite common in Finland. I live in 47m2 at terraced house at area called Kanta-Häme , aprox 110km from Helsinki. And i have a Sauna. Exellent home for 1 person and it is municipal rental apartment with 2 car parking spases. This all 487euros/month (including water fee). So you were asking is that kind housing just for rich people . Maybe , if the house in brand new and in high prise area , but older houses in good condition is in range for everyone. Rentals rates are high but if you own 1 , monthly fees are usually very low.
That’s a pretty cheap apartment. Not a place where people with money would live.
Who said we dont use drying machines??? I couldn't imagine being without it!! Greetings from Finland! 🇫🇮❤️
You guys are so cute... hello from Finland... all the best for you... ❤
Always funny to see your reactions towards something that is common and usual here. Keep up doing the good work. I bet that if I were in Brazil, I would gaze things similar ways.
É uma casa padrão. E o Alexandre, não reformando a casa, mas fazendo a decoração de interiores. (Então escolhendo o esquema de cores, tipo de couche etc etc)
Obrigado por explicar! 🤗🤗
I'm not from Finland, I'm from Latvia, it's a nearby country which is rather poor, compared to Finland, but nothing I've seen in video is something you need to be rich or even upper middle class to get. If you are poor, like, working a minimal wage job, you aren't going to have all that, at least not in that good condition, but for an average working person or especially family where both members work it's quite within the norm. May be not in that brand new state, because people don't renovate their houses that often, but there is nothing that I would consider to be expensive there.
There is really nothing really fancy there. The most expensive thing is not, well, things, its human work-hours, so a renovation, where you hire people to renovate your house, is expensive - because human work is expensive. Things to put there are generally not.
Yeah, and I've noticed that he said that his boss' wife has designed the place - again, work-hours of a designer are expensive, interior decoration is quite often done by people themselves, without hiring a specialist to make a design project, so it looks worse - because interior decoration is a science and profession, you won't do it as good as a professional, but its a cost poor people can't afford. :)
As for things, machinery, etc inside house - by itself, quite affordable, furniture is mass-produced, so is affordable, and so on. Drying rack for clothes is nice, but definitely on a cheaper side, even I have more luxurious drying rack :))))) Sauna is definitely not cheap, it seems it's a more luxurious part of the house, but, again, nothing unaffordable for a working man if you are into it.
It's really impressive, because even here for a couple both working, it would be expensive to pay for that. Here we have a big problem because labor is undervalued so people earn less than they should, but it is still difficult for us to pay for these services performed by professionals because the minimum wage is also low.
@@3rdworldpeoplereact the question is, of course, why the labor in Brazin is undervalued? The answer is rarely "labor is valued because governments care about people", it's kind of the other way around. :) After the dissolution of the USSR labor in post-soviet countries was extremely cheap, and there was a number of reasons for that, main one being: people were lacking marketable skills. I've lived through it, so I kind of remember it rather well. Generally, in the USSR you didn't need to actually know how to work productively because everyone was paid the same, more or less, so we, in general, didn't know how to make things people in other countries needed. So nobody wanted to hire us (I'm simplifying A LOT here) because we weren't capable to make profit for those who hire us.
Long story short, people learned to work and to have marketable skills and to produce things other wanted and that's how we generally became less poor. I wonder why it doesn't work this way in Brazil - for example, there is great demand for meat across the world, Brazil produces meat, so meat industries should expand and hire more workers, to increase profits. It should drain the workers' pool and the labor should increase in value. It's a simplistic description, of course - I wonder what prevents it in Brazil.
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I know "third world" is used differently from the original meaning nowadays, but as a fun fact: Finland is also a third world country (according to the original meaning anyway).
That house is not for everyones wallet, but there are lot's of beautiful older houses but living is not very cheap nowadays in our nordic countries.
Man I do not like how white that guy's house is. It feels very hospital-y. He could have, like, one wall that's moss green or something, or maybe a piece of furniture that's not black or white.
(We bought an old house that hasn't had a new interior in forever on purpose. Upstairs landing is orange and red. Kitchen is brown and brown. Hall is moss green. Love it.)
Existem 3,2 milhões de saunas e 5,6 milhões de pessoas na Finlândia
Em nosso prédio, todos os apartamentos possuem sauna (77 unidades)
Not all flats have saunas, especially the smaller ones.
And the weahter does not any thing To do with Saunas. Peoples usually heat the sauna More In the summertime
So even in the summer, saunas are used?
@@3rdworldpeoplereact, yes. :) Believe me: it's a totally different thing to sweat under the hot Sun, outside, than go to sauna to sweat and get freshened & deeply "purified"! ;) :) It really is a freshening experience in the summer, too!
@@3rdworldpeoplereact More, In the summer cottage Every evening. Love Ya 🇫🇮😘
@@3rdworldpeoplereact Yes. Saunas are not a form of "warming up". They are a form of bathing AND relaxation.
Think the hotsprings in Japan for example. Sauna's the Finnish counterpart to it. It does wonders to your body and soul, and is often shared by the entire family, or with your friends. All naked. No, it's not erotic in any way.
He has an average house / part of a so called rowhouse. I hate those type of houses.
I can live in an apartment in the city center, or in a house on the country side. Currently I have in Finland a big timber house in the middle of nowhere.
Yes, here is a sauna, but I never use it. I don't like saunas! I don't have anything grey in my house, I dare to use more colors. I want it to be a home, not a "show off" house.
Anyway, it's not a rose garden here in this country. Worst part are those terrible winters, long, dark, cold. An extremely short summer with a lot of mosquitos! I have a hard time coping with the weather
Its every house. Something thats every house for real
Quite an average finnish row house though looks pretty freshly renovated and is obviously cleaned and cleared for filming, a normal house with kids, pets etc. your home woudn't stay that clean for 5minutes.
Yes, and you can easily get a renovation like that by doing it yourself and buying everything from Ikea, Rusta, Clas Ohlson, Motonet etc., getting the materials relatively cheap. :)
And this question about is these houses for rich, middle class or does everybody have houses like this in the video. Well in Finland, if you have even an decent job you can have an house like this. Me and my wife are maybe upper middle class now since both have pretty good paying jobs. But even when I were unemployed we had apartment with dish washer, induction stove, wooden floors, sauna etc. And we were not anywhere near middle class back then since I was in university and had only student loans as an income
That is pretty ordinary Finnish home. And pretty much all apartments have sauna build in to them. Older apartmentbuildings have communal sauna. You reserve a weekly shift. Every week you have the sauna at the sama time.
Ele mora em uma casa comum com terraço, o que significa que todos os finlandeses podem viver assim se quiserem 👍🏻🇫🇮
Just impressive 😯
We semi hate our neigbours but help . We weird things. Cant talk pure but we love who try
You forged talk about heated floors. They are the best (after sauna).
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Now days people are coarcet to live in big cities and in small apartments by covernment property and business taxes implemented in as of energy cost build up ect. In country side there is no public travel for kids school, work or market. 40 years back there was small schools and a bus market, aka big bus with food you could buy twice a week when stopped near you. All that is taken away by tweaking the law so much so it's just too expensive to have any necessary functions for elderly or people with young kids anymore. Only Hard core "väinämöiset" like me, my family and few 100 thousand people are still managing live like it was only 40 to 50 years ago. Lived in Helsinki for awhile with my future wife, and now we are deep in to forest and happy as anyone😂 Maybe I'll do video for you some day.
All finns use sauna If Not their own apartments buildings have one that every one on The buildings van use im Finnish so i known and use it hot and gold
You must mean "hot and cold"..? ;) :)
good in come, not every one has that good.
Just wannabe. Ikea home..if u have money u can get that..not that normal for all finnish people..but good for him✌👍 above average❤
Bog standard Finnish home. On average, Finnish apartments are about 80 square meters in size.
Nope, that is average. A little above average is a moderate (maybe 100-150 square meters) separate house with own yards etc. Below average are the small flats (30-60 square meters) in old houses with several stories outside the town centers. But some prefer them also, they are very easy to live in, no lawn mowing, no plowing the snow or maintenance work as large units hire companies to do all that.