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- Reaction To 10 Reasons Why YOU Should Move to Finland! | Finnish Culture
This is my reaction to 10 Reasons Why YOU Should Move to Finland! | Finnish Culture
In this video I react to an expat who lives in Finland talking about 10 reasons why people should move to Finland
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The most obvious downside to living in Finland is the (relatively) cold and dark winter. So make sure to take your vitamine D and have enough hobbies/activities to make life fulfilling also during the winter months. I have noticed that foreigners tend to stay for a long time, if they can cope with their first winter in Finland.
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Contrary to many other countries, in Finland it is possible to buy a nice house by a lake at a reasonable price.
Funny that she said lakes are all over Southwest Finland, because East Finland is known for its lakes and Southwest Finland is known for its archipelago. 🇫🇮
i have a summer cottage... its by a small lake and it is peacefull there... spend many weekends there over the summer spring and autum... love nature and simple life that cottage gives u
You should absolutely move to Finland or at least visit us at some point! You would be most welcome. Btw, I absolutely love you accent, cannae deny it (see, what i did there:). I love how you sometimes replace L with sort of W - like "well" turns into wew, and welfare turns into "wewfea". It's hard to describe in letters, but it's such a cool accent!
Finland is special! You need to like that, or it's not for you. Every good point of the country has its flip-side. There will be a lot to get used to. Finns are language-savvy, but they didn't get it for nothing - 10+ years of study and constant reinforcement was needed to get to the level Finns have in English. The constant reinforcement is due to no dubbed movies in Finland - they might be texted, so English is heard and understood at a high level. Finns expect you to be interested in Finnish and put in an effort to learn Finnish, why would they not - they are non-hierarchical in their mind-set, so you can do what they can do - so just get started, no excuses, dummy! They wouldn't want to become an English-speaking country. Finnish is a phantastic language, and after some study you'd be impressed.
There is a Finland for everyone. But you need to find *your* Finland - it s an adventure and takes some trial and error. Nobody can find it for you. When you learn more about Finland and Finns and Finnish culture, you can adapt a life-style that really suits, and you will contribute to the statistics of Finland being the happiest country, as has so many immigrants before.The immigrants in Finland are almost as happy as the Finns...
The question is: would you rather live somewhere else? Finns say: NO!
Some reasons that came to mind why someone might not wan't to move to Finland:
- Long dark winters/ cold climate
- Language
- Introverted/quiet people that can lead to feeling alone in a foreign country
- Long border with Russia (at least now during war with Ukraine)
- High tax/ expensive to live in
If you want finnish people to be more extrovert just give em some booze =D
Two official languages, remember that. Live along the coastline, and it's not necessery to learn Finnish, you manage in Swedish, which is much easier to learn.
And yeah, during the very short summer tons of mosquitos, flies etc. Usually raining in summer, almost freezing cold... And then it's autumn.
And loong winter ahead. It sucks
@@susannebrunberg4174 Sure you can manage on swedish and even better on english (lot of finns don't practise their swedish skills and can't speak it well or at all), but having a lot of people speak a language you don't can be unconfortable. I was trying to think from a foreneirs perspective
I am 41 and going back to school. in Finland. No probs
I'm a proud IMMIGRANT living in Finland, and I really hate the term 'expat'. It's justifiably associated with a very specific type of immigrant. The type that won't call themselves an 'immigrant', still refer to their old country as 'home', always whinge about things the new country doesn't have, cannot manage without importing boxes of food products from the old country, etc, etc.
In that case i'm a Prime excample of your idea of expat. A Finnish person living in england. Looks like i'm immigrant, anyhow i behave like a stereotypical expat. Sorry
In finland max working hours a week is 40h. Companies can't make u work more then 40h a week but most people work around 35-34.3h a week
My single mom at her 40ths went back to university to earn doctors degree. She said it feeled right after me and my sister was old enough and she was interested in studying medicine. Now she have been happily working as a doctor for past 5 years
Having been a subtitute teacher on and off for a few years now, I can say that our education system isn't "great" it's good compared to places like the US, but we have large problems at the earliest levels of education, which hurts the system everywhere. The kids are overly active and addicted to their phones, elementary school teachers don't have enough power over their students to correctly teach behaviour.
I had no higher education and after working in the airlines and as missionary. After my daughters were teens I studied to become a registered practical nurse ( 120 studypoints). I graduated a few months before my 50 BD and of course it was for free. My both girls have the degree and they both took an other degree 15-20 years afterthe furst degree. No cost what so ever.😊
I live in the West of Scotland, really enjoying your videos of Finland, used to have a few pen pals in Finland xxx❤
We're going to need some more of that Scottish xxx.
My husband moved to Finland when he was 33 years old, went to orientation school and worked low level jobs during that time. Then he went to univercity and studied completely new occupation after which he was hand picked to work for a large corporation. All this was practically free of charge.
E o frio que faz na Finlândia, provavelmente esse seria um dos motivos de muitas pessoas não quererem morar nesse país.
After working in the military for 12 years, after that working in private security, i decided that nursing is the line of work that i want to pursue. Goverment payid my education
We promote equality of opportunity and we are nice to the people who are nice to us, its that simple. You come here and live in peace, were good, you start fkn around, youll find out.
We do not like people who come here and start telling us how to live. Neither do we like anyone who thinks they are above other people or pull other people down.
When you cross that border and are inside Finland, be good, adapt and youll do just fine. You learn the language, get a job, mind your own business and life, thats it.
Put 80Hz low cut filter on.. I already opened website to check if it is lightning outside, and then thought i should check if it was just low end rumble from your mic... it was the latter..
It's too cold in Finland.
You actually don't always need to work even for 7.5h. Especially in office work if you work some other day like 9hours then you can some other day to work for shorted day only or even have free days. Extra hours will be added to "time bank".
For example in Pori you can access buses, trains and also planes by walking only few hundred meters to enter the stations. We also have a white sand beach in the town center. And, an important fact is, that Finland is the happiest country in the world and Pori is the happiest place in Finland. Do the maths.
Pori is happiest place in Finland becouse they can go to best place in Finland. It is just 50km to south.😁
No. Finland is not perfect, but it is good country.
And i have lived in Finland all my life, over 35 years.
Ill do 8 hours but if its up to that u get paid day money is like 20 per hour and up to 10 hours day is 40 euros per day.+
I always work 8h/day 👋🇫🇮. And I have a summercottage😀👍.
Привет 🙋🏼♂️ Прекрасное видео 🆒️🔝📹👍🏻
I have three degress, just like the change basically
I live and have lived only in Finland. but I think that those who don't like Finland or doubt it. is that many Finns speak Finnish. so it's hard to get along with Finns. but this is just my opinion
Every finn speak finnish. Suprise for to yuo is that 99 % of then speak english ass well.
We do have a lot of overweight people, but obese people are extremely rare in people under 70. I have never seen a morbidly obese Finn who wasn't in that condition due to being severely mentally disabled from birth
Since it is tax funded healthcare system, being obese and overloading the system due to your gluttony is not tolerated well by fellow citizens. The government has a greatly vested interest in keeping its citizens happy, well educated, fit and healthy, since it will lead in to massive savings in policing and health care costs
A big problem for immigrants moving to Finland is that they tend to forget that they have to compete with Finns for any non trivial jobs, and Finns are *extremely well educated,* honest, diligent, physically fit and polyglots of 3-4 languages.
You better be amazing at your job with stellar portfolio if you plan on seeking a high paying job in Finland, since the competition can be extremely fierce for these positions, and not being able to speak the language and not knowing all the cultural practices will already put you in a massive disadvantage
Starting as an exchange student for a full decree and learning the culture and language during these studies is most likely the best way to integrate into Finland and into jobs that aren't in the transportation/service industry
Since you were asking why someone wouldn't want to move into Finland. Well, Finland can be a nightmare for people with any of these traits: extroverted, boastful, bigoted, arrogant, classist/elitist, ignorant, selfish, flashy, materialistic and greedy 😅
There are ofc a LOT of Finns with with those traits, but they are almost always looked upon as very bad traits to have (apart from the extrovert)
You do not see young obese people out and about , because they just sit at home looking at their phones etc.
The one significant thing why they are as such.
Trust me, there are lots of them.
Mentally ill? 😂
What in the world did you took?
Maybe they just are lovers of good food and too lazy to exersize.
@@suomenpresidentti Morbidly obese is different from over-weight and obese. It was a personal anecdote, not a claim that there aren't any. Just that I have not seen them
No, not mentally ill, mentally disabled (very different things)
And yes, many mental disabilities can cause the people to have very low ability for self-control which also affects over-eating if their eating isn't being overseen by someone else. In addition to that, they often have other medical conditions as well that cause them to gain weight
i feel like she sugar coated few things , but then again...i guess compared to other countries we have it better here. O.O' (depends which countries u compare lol)
Unfortunately the current government is trying eagerly to ruin a lot of these things. Let's just hope that it doesnt happen. For example life for immigrants would be more difficult (finding and getting a job + staying in Finland). Also the education system will be much worse if the plans actually come true. Going back to uni as an adult would be way more difficult (but still somehow people would need to learn new working skills). Going from a wellfare state to a... Well, just a state. But as this government is all over the news around the world for its racist talk, its more than probable that goverment will be changed in a matter of time.
Ah, the World Contentedness Report.
The worst thing in Finland in my opinion is our 1340 km long border with Russia. Fortunately we are in Nato nowadays, that helps a lot and ease our minds, but that is one thing we always have to keep in mind as an unfortunate fact.
What language you speak in scotland?
English..
I got my degree as an electrician at the age of 38.
Yes we have obese and fat people as well, but not that type of fat what you can see in TV how fat people there are in UK and US. People here are not fat like John Candy or Chris Farley were. More like Jack Black or Seth Rogen type of fat.
Well there is were one thing that was kind of wrong. If you are unemployed and you haven´t ever been in job, then the unemployments support comes from the taxes. But everybody that are in work has to pay unemployment insurance that your employer takes from your salary and pays to government. Actually employer pays huge amount of that and the part what goes off from your salary is quite small. So if you´ve been working few years and get unemployed, your unemployment support is payd inform of insurance (all people doesn´t even realise this). Some people feel bad and guilty as they recieve that for no reason. They shouldn´t shame that in anyway.
Those were the pro’s in living Finland and as a finn I can relate to them. The con’s I think is a relatively great racism, and the increasing polarisation between people. The education is free for all but if you came from family of low education, you don’t always have a support to rise a higher education level. The society don’t cover all your education cost’s and if your parents dont afford or are not willing to support you, you must work a lot during studies.
Sorry for long post😂
Totally disagree on the racism part, though ofc it depends where in Finland you live. but thats same with every country. Ofc if you look at media you get the picture of high levels of racism, but thats just not true in actual normal life. Regarding polarisation: Again that seems to only exist in social media, not in actual normal life.
I have worked for years in eastern Helsinki and I still haven't witnessed the racism. Everything here works normally, nobody gets racially slurred. I think that people spreading this kind of stuff should step out of their cubicles and smell the coffee.
@@arikauraniemi9383 Are you walking around blindfolded? Or is it that you are Finnish, therefore you don't experience it.
NIGHTWISH!!
This woman does not know whats gonna happen in Finnish politics and landscape. We are slowly becoming more like USA.
We are diving in healthcare, personal economy and wages. Also our unions are in danger. Finland is going to give more power to its employers and kicking the employees in the curb.
The elite wants to get richer and keep the working class down in wages, union help and healthcare, if this continues were fkd, literally.
Now is a really bad time to come live in Finland, we may not survive this change that is about to happen.
Nothing but BS. I can tell you countless reasons why I moved away from my beloved country of birth, Finland.
Unfortunately the latest generation is the lesdt fit ever here, as probably elsewhere in the developed world also. Always on the phone, not moving...
No. Don't move to Finland!
Not that healthy, but healthier than US by far
"Inclusive" is not a word I would use to describe Finland. I have experienced discrimination here quite often, both as a foreigner and disabled person, especially within the healthcare system. Speaking of healthcare, I find the healthcare to be appalling here as well. I genuinely live in fear that I will experience a medical emergency and not be able to get help. I have been in hospital twice since living here, and both times I was left for a long time without food. They literally just forgot to feed me for almost 24 hours. I have PTSD from the experience.
I often think about moving back to my native UK, but the thing that is keeping me here is the childcare and education. Childcare is much, much cheaper than in the UK and the idea of sending my son to school in the UK just horrifies me, following my own experience there. So I guess I am staying here and sacrificing in a few areas in order to have a better family life and a better education for my son.
Finland is nice country but boring.
Finland is a great country,but we do have our problems... high level of alcoholism and i do think we have quite a bit of racism too...
There's some arguments from other side of coin:
- Political freedom: multi-party system. Even that our current government consist on parties from middle-right, they cannot make REAL hard decisions on fixing economical situation (because of constitution board of parliament). Finland is so "social democratic" country. It's hard to success (=make money)... progressive income taxes and vat tax rates are high (as well new "solidarity taxes") ensure that there's quite huge middle-class "pays the bill" of welfare).
- Press freedom: there should free press (one of most sovereign press) but actually our current mainstream media is quite liberal (and against our current government). Few conservative medias are scale of tiny ant.
- Freedom of speech is no more "absolute"
- Finland is now member of EU and NATO. Those two organizations tell us what to do...
As native Finn, I've lived now 45y as part of this society but now I have considering to move out..
Tell us where are you going to move. What countries are better than Finland outside EU and NATO?
This reason i did move out 3 years ago. No regrets and living is way better now. Well cons and pros but not coming back near future.
You won't be missed.
You might enjoy yourself more 100km east of Lappeenranta. Goodbye
@@House_of_Caine especially u i dont so no worry
Immigrants are very welcome in Finland if they contribute for our country. There are many immigrants that just take our well fare for granted and that is frowned upon. But if you go to school or work then we love you. 🙂 Many of these videos have been done by people that do office work. I am a Chef and I usually work 10 hours a day or even more without any breaks or even time to eat so not everyone lives in this utopia of 8 hours.
11. We have now very good right wing parliament and government. Peace/security, prosperity and freedom!
Well our current government (especially persut) is openly racist and alt-right. They are also cutting benefits from people who are in vulnerable positions. IMO, it's the worst possible government to have at these times that we live in.
Zzzz boring