Why Finland!?

[Virginija]

hei Rahela-Hanna

and there are so much good rock and metal bands and so much festival. Here in Lithuania is just some dump pop festivals
last summer i was in Ankkarock festival and it was fantastick

[Rahela-Hanna]

Yeah, yeah, I've heard of that Ankkarock, and I heard that it was awesome!

*does a little dance*

[finnn]

Im wondering why do so many people want to move here..!???

Look in the mirror

its called the "hot blonde syndrome"... (even if its caused by a brunette)

hahahahaha.. and yet so very true... ( im blonde, married to an american:)

[Rahela-Hanna]

I wish I wasn't blonde, man. Most of the time, I can't stand people with blonde hair, but in Finland, to tell the truth, I've found it quite lovely. Maybe because there, the blonde color (for lack of a better word) is pure and usually untained by all this other crap, such as perms, which so many girls here put in their hair.

[JackieO]

I have always wanted to live in Finland. I have Celiac Disease and it is much eaiser to live with it in Finland. Where as, in the United States most people don't understand what it is.

I am from Minnesota, so I can handle the cold and the snow. I think the weather is pretty simlar to here. Plus, I am also part Finn. So, I am fine with -20 as long as there is a sauna.

[Rahela-Hanna]

What is Celiac Disease? If I may ask, that is. I think that one of my teacher-friends has it.

[Salli]

from the Suomen Keliakialiitto ry's website:

( http://www.keliakia.org/view/categories.asp?koodi=eng )


COELIAC DISEASE

Coeliac disease (CD) is a small bowel disorder caused by proteins in wheat, rye and barley. These proteins are called ”gluten”. Because of some genetic factors, the small bowel of a coeliac does not tolerate gluten, upon which an immunological inflammation occurs damaging the villi in the small bowel. Due to the damaged villi, the bowel of a coeliac patient cannot utilise nutrients normally. This may lead to a wide variety of symptoms or signs of malabsorption.

The classical symptoms in CD are diarrhoea and weight loss and failure to thrive in children. However, CD often presents with only mild symptoms of the stomach today , such as pains, loose stools or flatulence. Intolerance of lactose is often present also, because the damaged bowel cannot tolerate the ingested lactose. The nutritional and vitamin deficiencies may cause anaemia, osteoporosis or only tiredness and bad condition in general.

The only treatment in CD is a gluten-free diet, where wheat, rye and barley are strictly excluded. Oats can be included in the adult coeliac patient's diet. When a coeliac patient starts with gluten-free diet, the small bowel villi recover fast, and the function of the bowel and the utilisation of nutrients normalise. This does not mean, however, that CD is cured. To avoid symptoms a coeliac patient needs a life-long, strict gluten-free diet. Thus the condition of the small bowel remains normal.

CD can be screened with different antibody tests in the blood
(gliadin-, reticulin-, transglutaminase- and endomysium antibody tests). For a final diagnosis a small bowel biopsy must be performed to find the villous atrophy typical for CD. Especially the gliadin antibodies are quite unspecific, which means that even a high antibody concentration does not always guarantee CD to exist. Gliadin antibodies may be present also in other diseases.

One should not start a gluten-free diet before the small bowel biopsy investigation has been done. This is because the diet, kept long enough, will spoil the opportunity to perform a correct diagnosis - the villi may have recovered and the typical CD findings can no longer be seen.

The incidence of CD is today about 1:300 in Finland today due to the use of new screening methods and better awareness of the disease.

[Rahela-Hanna]

OH, yeah, so that's it. Damn. I hate that for ya, man, I honestly do...because that one teacher of mine who has that (and that's really what it is, too), I've known that woman for a good ten years already now, and she's almost like a second mother to me, or something like that, and I know that it kills her inside. She could never have children of her own because of that, I think, or maybe it was because of something else? That kills her, too.

[dolphingirl]

why Finland??? well, I could reply...why Italy then?
I am from Italy, have a finn boyfriend, live in tampere and study here since last august and I simply love it here!
It's so greener, cleaner, more polite here than where I come from!
When i tell people that i am seriously thinking of moving to finland permanently they look at me as if i was crazy and ask me why on Earth would I want to leave Italy...well, to be honest I don't think i could ever live in Italy my whole life, 21 years have been more than enough...I'm fed up with the way things work down there, with the criminality and stupid burocracy, with all those politicians, with the cars which are everywhere....and I could go on with my list...i think all places look different when you go there on holiday and when you really live there...even Italy, which many people think of as the most beautiful place on earth, can be a not nice place to live...the good weather (not always! try a november day in Milan, with fog and chilly wet air and you'll miss finnish winter!), nice landscapes and art (by the way...not all the nice places are taken good care of, often there's a lack of funds for restoration and so on..I don't think the goverment is caring so much about all the beautiful things we have in italy) and excellent food (but who says I can't make it here in Finland too?! my boyfriend loves it when I spend the whole day in the kitchen just to get lasagnas done!) are not enough reasons for me...because the negative sides of the country I come from are, from my point of view, even more...I guess it also depends on what are you looking for..so far what i was looking for I have found it in Finland...

[sammy]

I'm fed up with the way things work down there,

Do things work in Italy?

Just a joke, couldn't resist Italy's a fine country but as you said, a tourist perspective (which I have) can sometimes be quite different from a native's.

[Rahela-Hanna]

Hm. Yes, even though I, of course, have never been to Italy in my life, I think I can see why some Italians might find Finland quite a bit more appealing, as far as living standards go, at least...I remember quite well, how back in Finland two years ago, I met a group of young Italian women (and a few guys too, by the way) who had moved to Helsinki. I met them on a cruise boat going to Stockholm, where they were gonna hang out for a day or two, and we actually had a very good and interesting conversation about moving to Finland, residence permits, ect. Then we all got most heavenly drunk and partied there on the cruise ship with a few more old Kaale women. It was fun. One of the young Italian girls, named Isotta (a very beautiful name, I think, and she was very beautiful as well) was kind enough to help me stagger back to my cell...er, room, I meant, on the ship.

[JackieO]

OH, yeah, so that's it. Damn. I hate that for ya, man, I honestly do...because that one teacher of mine who has that (and that's really what it is, too), I've known that woman for a good ten years already now, and she's almost like a second mother to me, or something like that, and I know that it kills her inside. She could never have children of her own because of that, I think, or maybe it was because of something else? That kills her, too.

Yeah, I really don't want to have children too for the same reason. Thanks to my Finnish ancestors

[Rahela-Hanna]

Yeah, man, but that's really awful. She's forty-three, I think, already. How can she live without children? Who in the world is gonna continue her line? When she dies, she'll leave nothing behind. How can anybody ever really live knowing that they've never given life themselves, man?

But of course, that's just my opinion, and everyone knows that I'm a very strange little girl.

[Hank W.]

I'll be probably dead by 45, so if anyone is desperate enough to have kids please contact me before that...

[Hank W.]

why Finland??? well, I could reply...why Italy then?.

Because of la dolce vita

... I could move to certain places like Trieste... My sis used to live in Milano, so I know the...rrr... situation. And driving... che cazzo foi....

But I ask you what is the thing with the mammoni, as we in Finland have the "back-room-boys" as well (I used to be one as well...)