anyone knows about Linnoituksentie neighbourhood?

[joanmanuel]

greetings, what can you tell me about Linnoituksentie, is it a safe place? a saw that there are a lot of pubs with drunken dudes and a lot of inmigrants, what can you tell me about this place?
thanks

[EP]

Can you tell us where is this Linnoituksentie?

[onkko]

If i read map correctly its in kontula and according to google stay away if you can afford it.

[skandagupta]

Are you referring to hoas student facility?Seems to be a lively place,at least by finnish standards.

http://linnoituksentie10.hopto.org/toas ... =3&tid=141

vaya con dios

[joanmanuel]

If i read map correctly its in kontula and according to google stay away if you can afford it.

why you say that? is it not a good place? could you send me the info that you got?

[joanmanuel]

Are you referring to hoas student facility?Seems to be a lively place,at least by finnish standards.

http://linnoituksentie10.hopto.org/toas ... =3&tid=141

vaya con dios

exactly, I refer to that place, but as in everywhere when one facility is near a metro station is not the safest at all, what do you think?

[skandagupta]

Was that place allocated you by the hoas? Have you checked out that place yet? If so,
have you signed up the contract already? Were i you,would stick to that place anyway as the cheap'
accommodation is hard to come by especially right now, when academic year is about to start. And these drunks,
they`re ubiquitous in these parts. Otaniemi and tkk`s housing will be like that on weekends. And don`t think
that linnoituksentie will be that rambunctious a place during weekdays(let`s hope it won`t )
Besides kontula has good civic services,and furthermore, you`ll be having a good and swifty metroconnection to
downtown and further to tkk. There`s private sector to rent rooms,but it`s fly-by-midnight territory
and best avoided, at least by the students with tight budgets. If you want to try something else than hoas, the only
option worth recommending would be sato (www.sato.fi), but it`s not cheap either(500-700e./month) and the cheapest units would necessitate you to take train(or bus)to places as far afield as Kirkkonummi,Nurmijärvi,Sipoo,Kerava,
Järvenpää, Tuusula,Hyvinkää,Mäntsälä...
If you can cope it,stick to the place hoas gave you,Linnoituksentie. Drunks are annoying at times,in east Helsinki,perhaps
all time but it`s not dangerous. You would`t like ending up having no
shelter when winter really kicks in. And you can ask hoas for changing the places when
the worst rush is over,next spring,more likely.

Buenas providencias!

[Bavarian]

And these drunks, they`re ubiquitous in these parts.

[...]

Drunks are annoying at times,in east Helsinki,perhaps all time but it`s not dangerous.

There was just an article in HS online complete with picture (the Finnish section; I didn't see a translation in the English section) recently. Not that I would have thought this very surprising news. When I first saw this sentence:

Laajan haastattelun mukaan yli 60 prosenttia helsinkiläisistä kokee katujuopottelun häiritseväksi.

My reaction was to figure out the correct Finnish for "Muuta 40 prosenttia helsinikläisiä ovatko katujuopottelut?"

Either that, or think it would be news if the headline were actually "90 prosenttia helsinikläisiä pitävät katujuopotteluista"

(Anybody is welcome to correct my grammar.)

[Pursuivant]

Well if you *get*, a flat you should be in your knees with a big candle in front of the virgin for thanks.

Thren if you ask if you are placed into the ghetto with other dodgy peoples, like foreighńers who do ńot know how to live like proper people - look yourself in the mirror.

[joanmanuel]

Well if you *get*, a flat you should be in your knees with a big candle in front of the virgin for thanks.

Thren if you ask if you are placed into the ghetto with other dodgy peoples, like foreighńers who do ńot know how to live like proper people - look yourself in the mirror.

oh, come on! why you are so rude!, by the way for me there is not any problem at all, I saw worst things in my life, and being in here is like heaven
by the way Pursuivant, have you look yourself at the mirror?

[Upphew]

Thren if you ask if you are placed into the ghetto with other dodgy peoples, like foreighńers who do ńot know how to live like proper people - look yourself in the mirror.

oh, come on! why you are so rude!, by the way for me there is not any problem at all, I saw worst things in my life, and being in here is like heaven

Don't be surprised if a fellow foreigner doesn't know what to do to rubbish and just lets it pile in the kitchen or puts fire to the electric stove (you know: wood+matches=fire, not night snack+last beer = fire). Hmmm... on second thought: don't be surprised if Finnish student doesn't know what to do to rubbish either...

[joanmanuel]

Thren if you ask if you are placed into the ghetto with other dodgy peoples, like foreighńers who do ńot know how to live like proper people - look yourself in the mirror.

oh, come on! why you are so rude!, by the way for me there is not any problem at all, I saw worst things in my life, and being in here is like heaven

Don't be surprised if a fellow foreigner doesn't know what to do to rubbish and just lets it pile in the kitchen or puts fire to the electric stove (you know: wood+matches=fire, not night snack+last beer = fire). Hmmm... on second thought: don't be surprised if Finnish student doesn't know what to do to rubbish either...

yep, you are 100% right

[Rick1]

Well if you *get*, a flat you should be in your knees with a big candle in front of the virgin for thanks.

Thren if you ask if you are placed into the ghetto with other dodgy peoples, like foreighńers who do ńot know how to live like proper people - look yourself in the mirror.

oh, come on! why you are so rude!, by the way for me there is not any problem at all, I saw worst things in my life, and being in here is like heaven
by the way Pursuivant, have you look yourself at the mirror?

I think that is pretty rude too from you, that is the best picture he has from himself

[lavenderdiamond]

Well I'm a turkish girl and I've been living in this shared HOAS flat in Linnoituksentie for 10 days now. I see a lot of immigrants around here, like Indian, Pakistani, African etc...(My flatmates are indian and chinese too) I've also heard that this neighbourhood (Kivikko) is the area with the most immigrant population in Helsinki. As a description, it's like 10 minutes on foot from the Kontula metro station, only blocks of apartments, people jogging or walking their dogs, a few markets, lots of trees and nothing else, namely, a finnish suburb. I don't know about the danger thing since I'm a law student who has to stay home and study and study.