Does anyone currently live in Kartanonkoski, Vantaa or close to it? I am thinking of moving there in the future and wanted to know a little about it. Is there any problems with Neighbors. Is it a good place to raise children. How is it for commuting to Helsinki Center if you have to take the train and metro?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I currently live in Finland. Somehow my post ended up here in the moving to Finland section.
Living in Vantaa
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Kartanonkoski is a very new area.guyver1000 wrote: Kartanonkoski, .
It is still being built.
3 years ago it was open fields.
So everything is new.
It is close to the Airport and the huge Jumbo shopping centre.
There is an International School there also.
There are frequent buses to Helsinki and to the railway stations.
IF you put HAGELSTAMINTIE into search (hae) on this map, click on the street that it finds and it will zoom in to the area.
http://kartta.hel.fi/opas/main/
People do not become more irritable as they grow old - they simply stop making the effort to avoid annoying others.
Re: Living in Vantaa
Hi, I have lived in Kartanonkoski about a year now and I really enjoy to live here. My two sons got many friends on a first day we moved here, so here's a lot of young families with children. Maybe that's a main reason this is nice and quiet area - I mean you'll hear children playing outside whole day, but after 9-10pm when they go own homes - it will be very quiet. My opinion is that this is very good place to raise children.guyver1000 wrote:Does anyone currently live in Kartanonkoski, Vantaa or close to it? I am thinking of moving there in the future and wanted to know a little about it. Is there any problems with Neighbors. Is it a good place to raise children. How is it for commuting to Helsinki Center if you have to take the train and metro?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I currently live in Finland. Somehow my post ended up here in the moving to Finland section.
I can't tell about other houses, but in this block of flats i live, neighbors are just great!
If you don't have own car, busses are only public transport to Helsinki, but at least for me bus connections are good enough.
Now I remember you(Because I am a kid)!
You can practise at least written English here. That is what I am doing.I have been only once to Kartanonkoski. I got lost and found myself from there. It looked nice.
Espoo, Vantaa, both have nice areas and a little less nice areas. But nothing one should avoid.
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Green package (Espoon Auto) vs. Yellow package (Vantaan Liikenne) in the olden days 
Both are sprawling suburbias with a speckle of highrises, industry, horrid cross-town traffic and no "real centre". Vantaa has two, Espoo maybe six, if you calculate the "centre of nowhere" in as well. Shopping malls dictate the traffic rather than city areas. (Tikkurila and Tapiola are more or less similar attempts of something resembling a town centre)... So basically the only "package" difference is that Espoo had a green bus pass cover and Vantaa a red one...
Of course theres a slight difference as Vantaa can't really boast with anything like Westend, and Japanese tourists aren't carted to see the toilet tile architecture of Myyrmäki, but both cities are composed of a mishmash of "areas" - as is most of North & East Helsinki, so one really can't say just by the city if someone is living in a "better" or "worse" area without knowing the exact neighborhood - as the suburban sparwl has spilled over through to the surrounding counties as well.
Both are sprawling suburbias with a speckle of highrises, industry, horrid cross-town traffic and no "real centre". Vantaa has two, Espoo maybe six, if you calculate the "centre of nowhere" in as well. Shopping malls dictate the traffic rather than city areas. (Tikkurila and Tapiola are more or less similar attempts of something resembling a town centre)... So basically the only "package" difference is that Espoo had a green bus pass cover and Vantaa a red one...
Of course theres a slight difference as Vantaa can't really boast with anything like Westend, and Japanese tourists aren't carted to see the toilet tile architecture of Myyrmäki, but both cities are composed of a mishmash of "areas" - as is most of North & East Helsinki, so one really can't say just by the city if someone is living in a "better" or "worse" area without knowing the exact neighborhood - as the suburban sparwl has spilled over through to the surrounding counties as well.
Cheers, Hank W.
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sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.
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Sounds like Moorhead, MN or Valentine, NE or Costa Mesa, CA or Framingham, MA or Grand Forks, ND or Elk City, OK or... but I hope these 2 are more "inhabitable" anyway.. 
I am staying wiht a Friend in Tikkurila, seems very nice here, only been here less than a week though. kinda qiuet. getting into Helsinki is a breaze maybe 20mins on the train if that. they are really regular so not had any long wait as so many trains pass through here going in and also for way our many of them pass through. did it for first time in the car tonight and even that was not too bad at all really.
for kids it would seem great as streets are empty and have seen loads of them around on there bikes and stuff.
for kids it would seem great as streets are empty and have seen loads of them around on there bikes and stuff.
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So you didn't get all exited by the shooting in Herpes Pub? I'd expected Old Hat to be the place for troubles but not there. Just need to watch those "kids" in the train underpass so they don't roll you... Yeah, the train is the best - it pays to wait for the fast ones, an I is torture... If you get time go visit Heureka. Its not all "kids stuff". BTW best chinese in town is Wing Lung across Prisma. Never mind the chavs on the terrace, the takeout next to the diveshop in front of Calypso used to be decent too. The curry place looks like it moved.
Cheers, Hank W.
sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.
sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.
WHAT? i must of missed that?!? is that somewhere local?So you didn't get all exited by the shooting in Herpes Pub?
we had chinese form we place along Peltolantie tonight set back from the road.
tasted good but i have nothing to compare it too here.
and have you really had trouble with kids in the underpass?mm old break there leg trick maybe worth remembering! tis good shock tactic in a group situation!
If its muddy, Can I drive it?