Before you consider moving to Finland shut yourself into a freezer (set at -25) for six months and only open the door for 4 hours a day, then move into a greenhouse with giant sprinklers that can operate day after day (for realism, add mosquitoes and try to have a barbecue rather than a barbi doll). while doing the above watch a screen that constantly shows treeslakestreeslakestreeslakes and try to learn Gaelic by reading it backwards. You will then have some idea of what it's like to live in Finland.
Don't get me wrong I enjoy living in Finland, but you need to learn to enjoy winter sports and get use to wearing a tee shirt and shorts while having an umbrella handy.
Anyway you're 21, just do it. I'm slightly older than you and moved here with £600 in my pocket.
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littlefrank
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Thankfully I like a lot of winter sports but ye don't see many on Irish tv really so that's fine but I don't watch much tv anywaylittlefrank wrote:Before you consider moving to Finland shut yourself into a freezer (set at -25) for six months and only open the door for 4 hours a day, then move into a greenhouse with giant sprinklers that can operate day after day (for realism, add mosquitoes and try to have a barbecue rather than a barbi doll). while doing the above watch a screen that constantly shows treeslakestreeslakestreeslakes and try to learn Gaelic by reading it backwards. You will then have some idea of what it's like to live in Finland.
Don't get me wrong I enjoy living in Finland, but you need to learn to enjoy winter sports and get use to wearing a tee shirt and shorts while having an umbrella handy.
Anyway you're 21, just do it. I'm slightly older than you and moved here with £600 in my pocket.
600 Pounds?! How did you do that? Did you have someone there to stay with when you got there or are you like myself just off the KLM Flight
Ry
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>>>600 Pounds?! How did you do that? Did you have someone there to stay with when you got there or are you like myself just off the KLM Flight <<<
Yes, had somewhere to stay, then we hitch hiked round Europe then I came back with nothing, crashed out on someones floor got a cleaning job, and moved in with my girlfriend. Years ago I hitch hiked round France with £40 for two months, helps you appreciate the finer things of life, you know food, cups of tea and a bath. When I'm travelling my idea of paradise is finding a mundane job that pays well, in the Netherlands I was packing printers into boxes. Won't be travelling for a while now, my daughter's 4, so 12 years from now at least, which will make me, I was never good at maths, before I can travel again.
If you really want to know how to live very cheaply here, I'll PM you.
Yes, had somewhere to stay, then we hitch hiked round Europe then I came back with nothing, crashed out on someones floor got a cleaning job, and moved in with my girlfriend. Years ago I hitch hiked round France with £40 for two months, helps you appreciate the finer things of life, you know food, cups of tea and a bath. When I'm travelling my idea of paradise is finding a mundane job that pays well, in the Netherlands I was packing printers into boxes. Won't be travelling for a while now, my daughter's 4, so 12 years from now at least, which will make me, I was never good at maths, before I can travel again.
If you really want to know how to live very cheaply here, I'll PM you.
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Its in shambles... been hauling furniture back & forth all day.Ry wrote: Where exactly is the apartment Hank?
In West Vantaa. Greater Helsinki area. In Dublin terms about as close to the centre as "Swords". Though unlike in Dublin we have public transport actually works, so its a 30 minute ride, depending where you are heading at.
Cheers, Hank W.
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as in "AN elephant or AN ice-cream"?Xochiquetzal wrote:Your "RY" sig looks exactly like the Japanese Katakana for "AN". Perhaps Japan might be a better trip for you than Finland.
Went to finnish embassy today and picked up a load of bits of info on hostels and moving to finland in general so hopefully that'll shed some shred of light on things for me too.
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>>>you like myself just off the KLM Flight<<<
Forgot to say I hitch hiked here, got lifts ok until I got to Sweden, then I was told that Sweden is a nightmare for getting a lift. Though I did get a lift off a Swedish prison Officer, probably thought I'd escaped.
Forgot to say I hitch hiked here, got lifts ok until I got to Sweden, then I was told that Sweden is a nightmare for getting a lift. Though I did get a lift off a Swedish prison Officer, probably thought I'd escaped.
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Heh that was more of an example of how much of a newbie I'll be when I get there since you end up bouncing off countries like the netherlands to get to finland by plane in the off peak season.littlefrank wrote:>>>you like myself just off the KLM Flight<<<
Forgot to say I hitch hiked here, got lifts ok until I got to Sweden, then I was told that Sweden is a nightmare for getting a lift. Though I did get a lift off a Swedish prison Officer, probably thought I'd escaped.
Ry