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The guy forgot to mention that Finland has four very distinctive seasons. Not many places in the world can say that. It means that if you don't like the weather, wait for a bit and the next season is already on its way bringing a drastic change to the landscape. This is also convenient for tourists who can choose the season they're most interested in and plan their trip accordingly.
This^^
Definitely one of my favorite things about the climate. I don't have a favorite season, they all are beautiful and amazing in their own ways!
(although, the darkening of fall is kinda rough on some years)
Yeh Winter, Spring, Warmer Spring and Fall
I am Finnish. I hate the winter in the south though. One day it's -20C , +5 the next, and then -20 again, so you cannot survive here without studded shoes.
Yep 3 winters..and 1 summer with only little snow..
Beware though that yes, Finland technically has spring, but it's just brown. The trees stay bare until sometime in May.
Personal debt and countrys debt are different things, people often forget that, unintentionally or intentionally.
The richest country in the world has trillions of dollars of debt.
While Finlands debt is 59,4% of its gdp, the UK has a debt of 85,4% of its gdp.
Not saying debt is good, but you need to put everything in perspective.
Upper second education means highschool or vocational education. And actually nowadays it is mandatory to attend either one (or at least try to attend the school until one turns 18).
About bears... I live mid forrest and nearest neighbour to me is about 0,5km from me. He said that bears come every summer to his old field to hang out with their cubs and he enjoys watching them.
When I am out I always have my dogs with me because they hear and smell better than me and when my dog gets his ridge up and starts to bark, it is my mark to leave. I always play audiobooks on loud volume so bears can hear me and have an opportunity to dodge. I see their poop and scrachmarks on trees all around me but I just think that I have chosen my home to be near them and try my best to honor their space. :) Needless to say, I never bring anything food-related to our bins, I compost our biowaste in bokashi.
Basically only way to get killed by Finnish bear (brown bear) is to a) surprice it: you need to be very quiet and walk below wind => they would not hear all smell you. Also, b) probably you would also need to walk between a mother and a cub. Then the bear would attack you.
Otherwise, the bear will run away without you even knowing that they were even close. They are extremely shy and are mostly on plant based diet. Even most experienced foresters might never see bear as they will not stay around if they smell or hear you.
If I remember correctly, last time a wolf killed someone was 1892. Cows kill more people than wolves. Public transport is awesome in Helsinki, Quite good in other bigger cities and crap elsewhere. I lived in the countryside for awhile. There were few busses per day to get kids to school but not after 6pm. In summertime there were 2 busses on Tuesday and 2 busses on Thursday. Overtime is possible to do but it is not admired like in some countries. On the contrary, we feel sorry for the person doing it. Situation with nurses is just as bad as you had. Nurses are overworked and underpaid. The more masculine the staff in the workplace the more better are the conditions. Finland is quite equal compared to other countries but definitely not perfect. For example fathers still usually have better salary and therefore haven't used their parental leaves, so things change quite slowly.
1882. Back then there was one problem wolf that killed 20 or so people. Between 1689 and 1861 bears killed approximately 25 people (some guesswork involved) so bears were not a real threat even back in the old days when the bear population was much larger and people encountered bears way more often. Someone was killed by a bear in 1998. The last time before that was 100 years earlier. So Dwayne, wolves and bears are not a problem. If you want to be afraid of an animal, be afraid of ticks. And seagulls. The ones prowling Kauppatori (Helsinki downtown Market Square) are vicious, but only in summer and only if you happen to be holding a tasty snack.
@@nea1854 From what I've heard in nature documentaries and such (and learned in school) bears are only dangerous if you get too close, or between a bear and its cub! Most of the time humans make too much noise, and the bears (and other dangerous animals) keep their distance. The recommendation where I live is to talk or sing when walking in the woods.
And seagulls during "baby season" are truly scary!
Thanks for great reactions video, Dwayne!
Parental leave can be 100% dads as well, it is not gender specific.
I have been stay at home dad for all my 3 kids.
I divorced 10 years ago, and minor kids live nowadays with me.
..so you were spot on with that bonding stuff. I would say to you all that spend as much time as you can with your kids when they are young, I will never regret that.
Take care. Cheers.
Indeed, to it's not a fixed thing. Part of parental allowance is dedicated to only the mother and part of it is I believe only for the father. Majority of it can be split on how the parents agree. It should also be noted, that I recall these were modified (greater allowance) not too long ago. Sweden does however still grant longer cumulative parental leave (I recall it's like 1.5 or 2 years).
There are also other animals that can kill you like moose and wild boar, but that too is rare. Dogs and ticks are probably the most dangerous animals in Europe. As for natural disasters, they have definitely increased and the weather has become more extreme since I was a child in the seventies.
We have a popular children’s song about bears, with some lines more or less: “He’s not that dangerous, if only you are cautious…” This is very true. The great brown would rather eat blueberries than you. He *could* though. They are huge and omnivorous.
He did say it MIGHT be the best decision to move to Finland, not that it WOULD be one 😉😄
Also he said that you can divide parental leave as you wish, the six months/three months was just example of how someone might do it. It can be even that father uses all nine months of the parental leave. It's expecially possible if there is difficulties on breastfeeding or the couple chooses not to for some reason
In our Finnish company, you may be able to do some overtime, but typically you need permission for that from supervisor. It is not quaranteed you are allowed to work overtime and typically it is not encouraged. Only in rare occasions of high workload for team, volunteers might be slightly encouraged to do some overtime if they choose so. More common is to do some extra hours and take those as leave than taking those as money...partly due to the company policy.
My close relative just died and we needed to reorganize some of my work to colleagues. My manager said to me: "Remember, life is always more important that work." I also will get paid leave for funeral day.
Move from Sweden to Finland 3 years ago, best thing i have done!
You need to visit Åland!!
we do have wolfs, bears, lynx and moose (yeah they are probably the most dangerous of this list).
Just remember that everyman's rights doesn't give you a permission to go another people home yards (that is considered harassing
domestic peace)
If it's anything like the Swedish version, you also can't do anything to the land that causes permanent damage (picking berries is fine but cutting down a tree is not), disrupts the area (like leaving cattle gates open) and you can only go camping or light a fire if certain conditions are met (depends on the land owner, but things like where/how the fire is, what type of land it is...).
The tick is probably the most dangerous animal, if you consider the number of people who get sick after being bitten.
He said it COULD be the best decision, not that it WOULD be, big difference there
The snake is NOT poisonous, it is VENOMOUS!
Thank you I was comming to comment that, but I suspect that they only have one word for it and thats where the comfusion commes from. like in Sweden we only have one word "giftig" that means poisonous but can be used for either.
And for all you wondering "but whats the difference?
One over simplified way to remember it is :i f it´s poisonous and you bite it you are going to have a bad time.
If its venomous and they bite (or sting) you, you are going ti have a bad time.
@@hypnotherapy69can confirm this: Finnish languange sadly doesn't differentiate those two.
Hello, Dwayne! I'm not all that familiar with why we have that much debt at the moment, but one huge reason is the extra borrowing Finland had to make in order to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, previous governments had borrowed more than usual. With just a few exceptions, Finland has always done its best to avoid debt so, yes, the current amount of debt is unusually high, but still much lower than that of many other countries. And we have a reputation of always honoring our debts. After the Second World War, it was commonly known that Finland was the only country that paid its debt to the U.S in full. All the old folks knew this. Finland was not one of the European countries which received the so-called Marshall help from the U.S., so this debt must have been some other one. We also made some war reparations to the USSR, and those were a really heavy burden on us. Even that payment was made in full, I believe. After our two wars with the Soviet Union at the time of WW2, our war restitution consisted of lots of heavy metal industry equipment, for instance. This turned out to be a 'blessing in disguise', because we were forced to industrialise very quickly and the Finnish metal industry grew and prospered as a result.
In Sweden 3 months is earmarked for the father. And then you can of course split the rest of the months (,you can get a maximum of 480 paid days,) between the mother and the father but those 3 months can only be used by the dad. Its designed that way to encourage fathers to take an active part in their kids life, which also is benefits the womans career-possibilities.
3 months are also earmarked for the mother (even if that's usually not an issue).
Re: State Dept, every country is in dept :D Capitalism and Market systems, it just works like that. Finland just has a situation were the government has forgot that they actually should be managing that dept somehow. Could go on a rant about that, I'll spare you the details
Re: Maternity Package, Scotland actually did adopt that from us a few years back and it has been working great as I hear it
Nice reactions as always!
The Finnish general upper secondary is, on average, a three-year education, equipping students with transversal general knowledge to continue either at a University or a University of applied sciences or vocational training. General upper secondary education is based on the general upper secondary education syllabus. During general upper secondary students complete 150 credits in total. Matriculation exam is completed at the end of studies.
If you have family, kids and what not, or planning to start a family, then yes, moving to Finland is one of the best decisions you can make. And when you retire, then move to Spain. Hashtag perfect life choices.
I often think, how incredibly safe our nature is. It has been filmed, that when people move near an area, where a bear is walking, the bear walks away if it hears the people coming. So you should be noisy in the woods. :D But bears live mainly in the eastern and northern parts. The animals here are so boring and nice, that every summer some magazine has to create a story about some dangerous "killer pike", that perhaps bit a swimmer.
One thing I really love: there are practically no tides. I can walk to the beach and swim any time of day and the beach is the same, there are no dangerous currents and I don't have to know about times and tides.
Correction: All countries are in debt, Finland too. But Finland's debt per GDP is less than that of US and UK for example. 😳
Romania paid it ´s debt one time, but they might have of course get new debt since then.
@@ivrishcon-abarth38 "Romania recorded a Government Debt to GDP of 47.20 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2022."
@@MikkoRantalainen Thanks! They´ve joined the rest of nations.
You can do overtime. And it’s paid more. And for sundays, double salary
Not salary but hourly wage. In Finnish there's only one word - palkka - that is then used for tuntipalkka=hourly wage or kuukausipalkka=montlly salary or vuosipalkka=yearly salary.
You can work overtime if you want. When I had my child, I had to stay in hospital two weeks since my child my was in intensive care. The bill was 46€. All the doctor visits etc.are free. The public transportation here in Helsinki works really good.
Finland has borrowed money since the 19th century. By borrowing money, Finland has financed investments in sectors such as infrastructure and gained more room for manoeuvre in fiscal policy. Wars, economic crises and demographic trends have also impacted Finland's debt levels.
As a Finn, I'm happy to talk to strangers but I'm not the one that will start talking. But I'm not going to do small talk even if the stranger starts the discussion - talk about something interesting or just stay silent. Staying silent if you don't have anything important to say is perfectly okay and it is not considered rude.
I've noticed that in business culture, there is now small amount of small talk. Basically if somebody says anything about the weather, it should be interpreted as "I'm happy to start discussion if it's okay for you. If you want to stay silent, that's okay, too."
Iceland is in Europe and they have had many volcanic eruptions in modern times that has affected the whole world. Also bears and wolves are not vicious, if they have cubs they will protect them but if you get too close to one in the wild that is your own fault. Always make noise when in the woods. Upper secondary is a three to four years of education following basic education.
There is a bigger chance of getting killed by a moose than i bear or wolf
@@2xtreem4u That stat includes road accidents so it is a bit misleading, but still true.
still getting killed.@@Mojova1
@@GibbetooI said "Still true".
Yes paternal leave, and Finland is not the only one with generous rules
Lithuania
Japan
Sweden
Estonia
Iceland
Slovenia
Norway
Canada
France
Portugal
among others, even in the Uk you can get up to 2 weeks
Overtime depends on the job, some places it’s common, in others not so much.
In many places you can do extra hours which are then put into an hours bank and you can then use them later for time off.
You can do overtime and it's was common in my working days (now retired) because of the fact that some jobs don't give you enough money to support your life style whether you like to spend a lot or want to get retired early to live with your earnings. Overtime was great, one weekend gave you full weeks pay and major holidays even better than that.
Two of my collegues are on parential leave, they love it and we see it important for the fathers to bond with the kids too, and to know how to take care of them. Its just a plus that both parents get the time with their children.
Yes you can work overtime in Finland if you want but employers can't force you to do it. Also our agreements are way that generally employer don't even want to ask unless they really need it. Generally you are paid +50% more for first extra hours and +100% after that per day. Also you get +50% more in saturday and 100% more on sundays. So working on sunday overtime might get you +200% hourly salary. Thou depends a bit on "collective agreements".
In Sweden the parent can split maternal/ petarnal leave and be home equal time.
Fun fact: there are roughly 32 civillian owned firearms per 100 people in Finland
Upper secondary education means basically high school or vocational school.
16:10 It should be mentioned that "jokamiehenoikeus" allows going to any forest and to swim in any lake but it doesn't allow walking to garden or yard of any house and you cannot walk on sown fields. And you have to use your own muscles - jokamiehenoikeus doesn't include any kind of motor vehicles.
No country in the world is without debt. The US has by far the largest amount of debt, but they are also the richest, so...
The US is in spot number 7 (GDP per capita), when it comes to riches countries, which in some ways mean more than just their GDP (where they're the richest).
My husband took 8 months of paternity leave with our son, so that I could continue running my business. He is in permanent employment, so he has some protection, while I am self-employed, so there is nobody taking care of things while I am gone. Plus, I'm the higher earner. It just made sense to do it that way, but we would never have been able to do it in the UK where I'm from. For me, it's a big plus that he is a competent parent and I never have to give him instructions how to take care of our son. They have an amazing bond. It should be the default, but I know many women don't have that in a partner!
If you do overtime at saturday and sunday, you get one weeks extra salary
You can work overtime if you want, but then you will be paid the normal hourly wage. But if the employer asks to stay overtime, overtime compensation will be paid. In general, overtime is not done on the weekend if it is not part of the job description. Let's enjoy our free time. 😊
In every city our public transpoint Works really well.
40 years in Finland and I've only seen bears and wolfes in a zoo.
Nothing is free in Finland, but it could be without fee.
Why Finland is so secure for kids? That is because we are so few here. All of those kids are OUR kids. If someone is in trouble we ALL will help. This is Finland
We love to talk with strangers. If thay start that talking. If they dont, we dont star neither. 😅
12:24 I get comments about how im not a" typical" Finn because how social im😅😂
Finland has a lot of debt, but we actually owe most of that money to our own central bank. Also, we have huge amount of money in our social welfare/pension funds, a lot more than we owe as debt...
Overtime is a thing if you wish it to be.
You have to live in larger cities to have good public transport. I live at smaller city, 50k, busses work but only once per hour.
People are dangerous to bears and wolves... both of them will definitely avoid us in any cost. Anyway there are very few in the south and west, probability to see one even faraway is almost zero. At the autumn I was at the eastern border of Finland with tent in full forest about week, and even in that area there was three known packs of wolves, I never saw a glimpse of them... In north-east of Finland few years ago we came across a bear but that was only because we had a dog with us, and the dog found and stopped the bear. It was close to us (something like 50 m), but without the dog we would've just walk pass without ever knowing, though we also saw his poop and a clawed tree... :)
All countries are in debt, it is a global investment system based on interest rates, he doesn't understand government debt that is nothing like personal debt.
Finland is at the highest possible credit rating, which means it can borrow money with very low interest rate (super low risk) and then invest that money into businesses (Finland owns a MASSIVE amount of wealth and global investments via the pension investment system and government owned shares and companies) and re-lends it to other countries
Then there is also the dynamic with inflation, that makes old loans( with low interest rates less) less costly.
Most people talking about the government debt in Finland, even in media and in the parliament have absolutely no clue what they are talking about
School is organized into three years each of lower, middle and upper basic school. Then high school, 3-4 years. Then university. Much the same, yes?
I am different kind off Finnish Person. I hate sauna and coffee. I speak to all strangers. I loved the years, when I lived in Spain. Much more my kind off people.
Debt in Finland..24k per capita ..
Just for perspective...UK has 45k per capita..
Here in Tampere we have quite good transport so i gave away from car 2019. But in my home city of Kokkola the public trasportation sucks big time.
But if you like to go with bike Kokkola is better place than Tampere. It have won the best cycling city award at least once. There is good lanes for bikes and you can even bike to neibourg city 30km with safe lane away from cars.
Well becouse of strong unions emploees don´t let you work for extra if you ask becouse it is very expensive for them to do that. And if there is no need why employee would pay you for workin overtime? Ususally employees might even to courage to have the freetime and rest. Some companies might even give some amount of treats for culture, spa, gym or something that makes you feel that you are important and needed in the job.
But if you want to make extra you can propably work part time in some other company. Like some people might drive taxi for weekend nights to get little extra (you do need permit for that and it costs quite alot these days).
In all Scandinavia we get that!
Currently Finland is in the greatest debt it has ever had since becoming an independent country because of corona, very small birth rate and slowing economic growth. We are having huge debates about our quite recently chosen parliament and this year we have presidential election.
there is more like center an right leaning politics that fixed 90's financial crisis with "cheap" debt, then the taking loan for cheap continued and then comes covid and war in Ukraine.. all this spiraled Finland in vortex of increasing interest. now new gubment have to take more debt than any gubment before. not good for anyone.
Debt will always rise. That's the world we live in.
The government's debt is also rising nicely due to continuous immigration. All those who come to the Finland (refugees or criminals pretending to be refugees) immediately get all the same benefits as those who have worked here for 30 years and paid taxes. And they are not required or even asked to, for example, learn Finnish to enable employment.
You just shouldn't talk about this because then you're a racist nazi.
yeah. it wont stop@@Jantzku
We have debt some reasons. Maybe the biggest reason is business with Russia or because we do not have it any more. Sovjet Union buy almost everything we made here, business was good. Sovjet Union fall down 1991 and all business ended for long time. Today ... well we know what is situation with Russia. Our neighbourg is big country with 150 000 000 people and we can,t do business there. Everybody knows reason why.
Yeah, ye can do overtime, but bosses dont usually want people do overtime, because they have to pay the overtime-extra for those employees who do.😂😅💸💰💶💶💶
Finland has lots of debt because the government has too many populists which are not willing to cut expenses even when income is going down during recession.
Why we are in debt? Because we haven't found oil 😆
The Scottish government has a similar baby box scheme
I'm from Finland. Winter is all time dark, cold, not sun at all. Summer is full of moskitos, short, no shine blue water anywhere.
Most suicides in western Europa. Coverment try to clean it, they don't count every week somebody drive car in front of truck. When have asked Finnish : are you happy?, 2/3 answer NO !!
World most happy country is about : school, healcare ( witch is not so good), and other things, what don't make you happy. People move work to Sweden ( 30-50% more money), Norway ( twice more money same work, and easier). Nurse get 2700€/ mounth in Finland, taxes about 800-900€, very high. Living is expensive, Helsinki 30m2 "home" in downtown 1000+€/ mounth. Food is expensive, used cars are about two times more expensive than Sweden or Germany, cause very big taxes. Middleage Finnish cars is 17 years, most in western Europa, we drive other countries using cars.
If i have money, i move to Spain or Sweden,Norway, Denmark, Germany. Fresh air is in Siperia too, and clean nature. 100t Finnish old people have move to Spain, they know, that's lie, how good Finland is. Nobody western Europa move here, only Africa and Irak, so we have lot of new streetgangs. Most killings in western Europa, drinking and knife, every week some dies.
This is NOT GOOD COUNTRY!!!!!
The thing is that many Finns don't care about those things, like how many square meters your home is if it is sufficient or how old your car is if it works, neither how much more you can earn, than what you need. Finns are relaxed in that way. Finns absolutely feel free to move abroad, but they tend prefer not to. A typical Finns likes all seasons, mutters about winter, but hates the heat of the summer in other countries. But of course some do want to move abroad. You don't need money to move, just a job permit within EU. Finns are well educated, so it is not that difficult. People rather tend to want to move away from Helsinki and to more quiet and natural places, still in Finland. But the taste is personal. There's huge freedom of choice in Finland. And of course Finns love their language, their saunas, their seasons and customs.
Well put! 😊
I had a same feeling, that most of the listed matters were material.
Ofcourse if you are permanently having health issues and you can not work, then your income and choices are very limited.
But in Finland you are even in that case taken care of by the social security system, which is not the case in most countries in the world. It is not an easy life, but you anyways get along and are not thrown out from your home to live in the streets, if you even partly take care of your commitments.
We finnish people MAKE TOGETHER this society.
Each one of us decides, what kind of society and surroundings we live in here in Finland and how we are all getting along mentally - and otherwise.
WHEN was the last time YOU greeted your neighbour or YOU started a conversation with some stranger in your local grocery or in public transportation?
When did you open the door for someone and gave a stranger a warm gaze and a smile?
YOU and I make Finland a better place to live,
not "the other people".❤😊
@@maariatamminen454 I like these points. But in Finland you are not forced to agree with anybody's opinions. As far as I know you are free to take your Finnish old age pension with you if you move abroad, too.
not lots of countries, its all industrial countries except usa wich is like poor africa
You love to ride your bicycle, you love to ride your bike? 😊
Every country in europe is in debt. Even Norway. That's how the world rolls.
White man talks about safety 😂
He's not american white man, but a finn.
It is the same thing for everbody here in Finland, no matter what "color" or sex you are. Its strange to even write about someones "color". We are all equal, human beings. It's just the tone of skin, it doesent define you.
Its almoste the same in all Nordic countries!
The only question is.. why isnt it the same in all other rich countries?
Take the oportunity to stay home and take care of ones child, letting ones spouse get back to work, share child care equal!
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