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XXL might be a good option (huge store, in Aleksanterinkatu).

You can fly with only the national ID, no passport needed.

Consider also that most landlords will require a deposit of 2-3 months rent when making a rental contract.

You can only use the PM function after posting a few posts (I think it was three).

Visa is for visiting, residence permit is for residing.

We always did that. Use Google Translator to give a good start, then my wife can read and write enough to complete the job. Believe it or not, they demanded a phone call to test our spoken language proficiency... Written only was not enough. No need to say I wrote straight away to Ombudsman and if ...

Please stop using that silly large font, John_Silver, it is not needed and against the "normal text & behaviour" in the forum rules. Thanks!

íslensk :) Yeah, I agree that if you are planning on living a Finnish speaking life in Finland, you need to get your Finnish levels up! Just put out the Swedish speaking things because the people in this forum tend to forget that Finland also contains Swedish speaking parts and people, and if life i...

Hæ! Finnish is going to be less critical if you move to Swedish speaking parts of the country (eg. area around Vasa) or even to the Åland islands (Swedish-only region). There would certainly be jobs there for a Swedish speaker, not sure how exciting they would be though. Or how easily you would find...

zetorpilot wrote: Why should you expect the "ytk grannies" to speak English in a country where the languages are Finnish and Swedish?

Yeah... it's not like Swedish works either. Or anything out of the norm, even in Finnish.

roger_roger wrote: walking 2.5 kms one way to work is not fine

WTF? Unless you are a little kid and you have Kehä III on your path, it is fine.

What you are experiencing is the difference between the written language and the spoken one. It can be quite huge.

I would suggest that you watch TV, and listen to radio. Just to train your ears & brain in hearing puhekieli.

Also, there are two types of assistance one can get, the residence-based ones and the "you have contributed to the system"-ones. You won't get unemployment money or stuff like that, assistance that is based on first having paid taxes/making payments. As a resident (except student) you are ...

in fact if you read my post carefully, what i got from the police was the registration of the right of residence, with that you go to the maistratti and they give you the SSN or whatever you want to call it,the 2 things are intertwined,let's not split hair please, doesn't make you look cleverer tha...

Tbh it also looks quite weird to me. If that should/could be real love, why the hell would you want to marry already and not go at it like two adults? Oh right, theres the citizenship waiting for u... I'm sorry, but you can't judge our love/intentions/adultery when you don't even know anything abou...