considering moving to finland

mumboman · Post by **mumboman** » Tue May 31, 2005 9:51 pm

Hi, I've been offered a position in Kuopio, salary of about 2300 euro,and a free apt. The weather is not an issue as I live in Northern North America, so I am used to the -30 and no sun in winter. Will I be fairly comfortable on the salary? I'm single, and have no one to support. Anyone have any answers

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superiorinferior · Post by **superiorinferior** » Tue May 31, 2005 9:53 pm

Will you be living alone or do you have a family to support?

Do you plan on maintaining a car?

mumboman · Post by **mumboman** » Tue May 31, 2005 9:55 pm

Living alone

mumboman · Post by **mumboman** » Tue May 31, 2005 9:56 pm

and possibly maintaining a car

NinaPinta · Post by **NinaPinta** » Tue May 31, 2005 10:00 pm

Lucky duck. You'll be fine on that salary. So long as you don't go to all the expensive bars every night.

acwan · Post by **acwan** » Tue May 31, 2005 11:04 pm

Good deal especially with that free apartment (which should free up another 30% at least of your after-tax income). Come on over (unless you have a better offer).

haahatus · Post by **haahatus** » Tue May 31, 2005 11:14 pm

The beginning looks good. Now the only question is will you like Kuopio and Finland which is the hardest question. If you want to try something new I would come here

superiorinferior · Post by **superiorinferior** » Tue May 31, 2005 11:59 pm

All Kuopio.

RA · Post by RA » Wed Jun 01, 2005 9:56 am

Good deal you've got there. Free apartment and all.

dusty_bin · Post by **dusty_bin** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:23 am

The picture of the shopping area...

That is on a busy day.

kultary · Post by **kultary** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:40 am

Remember that the apartment isn't really "free". In Finland, it's considered taxable income and will raise your overall tax rate. Thus, your base salary will be eaten away at a much quicker rate.

http://www.vero.fi/default.asp?language ... RO_ENGLISH

-ry

superiorinferior · Post by **superiorinferior** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:13 pm

kultary wrote:Remember that the apartment isn't really "free". In Finland, it's considered taxable income and will raise your overall tax rate. Thus, your base salary will be eaten away at a much quicker rate.

http://www.vero.fi/default.asp?language ... RO_ENGLISH

-ry

Party pooper.

RA · Post by RA » Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:23 pm

dusty_bin wrote:The picture of the shopping area...

That is on a busy day.

Dusty-bin... pleeease. Don't scare people away from Kuopio. How do you know what day of the week the picture was taken? Even Helsinki has scenes of empty market squares. Kuopio is actually a very nice town.

dusty_bin · Post by **dusty_bin** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:55 pm

I don't know what day the picture was taken. Sadly there is no irony emoticon and some are better than others at detecting its absence.

I sincerely doubt that inyone is going to make a decision about changing country based upon a comment made in respect of a single photograph. For the concerned there used to be a webcam of this area. A friend of mine who escaped from Kuopio used to use it to show us just how desolate the place was. I can not find the URL right now though, sorry.

RA · Post by RA » Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:55 pm

Dusty-bin, I seriously don't think a person would actually make a decision on the basis of a single pic. But then again, you never know. I can't find the webcam of the tori either. They must have removed it

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All they have on the Kuopio web-pages concerning webcams is this one unchanging picture of the skijumping thingys and forests, which so much as it is a part of Kuopio, it sadly doesn't really do the town justice http://weathercam.pspt.fi/still.html

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