Working in Espoo, but where to live? Advice please!

[cors187]

dont live in vantaa?Vantaa is such a large area,ive seen little bits of wonder all over greater vantaa.

[CH]

Forget Tapiola, Espoo, Vantaa etc,they are basically suburban ghettos (despite) what anyone tells you and kallio do you carry a knife ? (the howls of anguish that will appear here within minutes of this posting) If you indeed have the stated pretax income plus the opportunity of earning more then you can basically choose where you want to live, Kaivapuisto is good as is Eira, Katajanokka, Kruunuhakka, and even Kuulosaari if you don't mind a ten minute metro ride

I guess it depends on what you are used to and cultural background. Because from my native point of view you are full of it... but sure, I guess it depends. And continuing with that idea... it also depends on the OP:s own cultural reference what their definition of "near plenty of greenery/parklands/natural landscape" and "isolated out in the suburbs" would be. Perhaps being near a park in the city would be exactly what they are looking for, when I would guess most natives wouldn't think that that would satisfy the requirements. And vice versa, as a native I would assume Tapiola would be absolutely perfect for their requirements where as it might for them be living in suburbia.

Anyway, I suggest to OP to fire up Google maps and go looking at places via the street view!

[jahasjahas]

(The OP hasn't logged in since the day she asked her question, so I'm not sure whether these answers matter.)

Flossy sort of hinted at it, but I think it would've been useful to say out loud: "I'm a teacher with an EU passport" does not mean that you will find a job. At all.

Anyway, this guesswork is pointless when we don't know where in Espoo the husband's job is. Moving to Kaivopuisto might be fancy, but if it doubles or triples your work commute...

[Lord of Manchester]

Forget Tapiola, Espoo, Vantaa etc,they are basically suburban ghettos (despite) what anyone tells you and kallio do you carry a knife ? (the howls of anguish that will appear here within minutes of this posting) If you indeed have the stated pretax income plus the opportunity of earning more then you can basically choose where you want to live, Kaivapuisto is good as is Eira, Katajanokka, Kruunuhakka, and even Kuulosaari if you don't mind a ten minute metro ride

I guess it depends on what you are used to and cultural background. Because from my native point of view you are full of it... but sure, I guess it depends. And continuing with that idea... it also depends on the OP:s own cultural reference what their definition of "near plenty of greenery/parklands/natural landscape" and "isolated out in the suburbs" would be. Perhaps being near a park in the city would be exactly what they are looking for, when I would guess most natives wouldn't think that that would satisfy the requirements. And vice versa, as a native I would assume Tapiola would be absolutely perfect for their requirements where as it might for them be living in suburbia.

Anyway, I suggest to OP to fire up Google maps and go looking at places via the street view!

I guess we're all entitled to our views and yes, you said it, it does depend on what you're used to, as a matter of interest my comments were meant to be practical not sarcastic, I believe most of the other posters agree with my view personally I prefer to live somewhere with character and history, shall we call it a draw now

[jahasjahas]

I prefer to live somewhere with character and history

= Kallio

[cors187]

(The OP hasn't logged in since the day she asked her question, so I'm not sure whether these answers matter.)

You know no-one cares what the OP wants!