Dreaming about Finland...

[Hank W.]

Hey I was born in 1970, now that's a good vintage...

[haahatus]

Rahela-Hanna

Your 17 and your friend is turning 18. Not to belittle anyones relationships here but I don't these are known often not to last very long.

My life didn't change too much when I turned 18. It's almost the same. Not a big change really, but of course something changed. The same routine continues. Nothing magic or special about it. Especially if to my knowledge people can take advantage of cars already at the age of 16 there. Drivers licences increase the change of finding work.

If your family sucks then choose not to have too much contact with them. And if you live in a slum then move for gods sake. It hasen't to be Finland. You live in a country of 240 million people. That country has advertized as the land of opportunity. Leave that slum behind. I think you would have it easier there. At the beginning you know the language there and have grown up there. If you can move to Finland you can sure move somewhere nicer inside the Usa. Want to move to Finland then try but I still think it will be easier there.

Public healthcare isn't that great in Finland either because you have to wait long if you need something more important to get it.

I don't I would try somehow to start studying in Finland so you can do something useful while you can't understand the language.

[Hank W.]

Thought of moving to Alaska?
- same climate
- same moose
- same trees, trees and more trees
- same winter darkness

and... no permits required...
+ polar bears and mountains!

[Hank W.]

My life didn't change too much when I turned 18.

You could get into pubs and buy beer

[Rahela-Hanna]

Yes...

[Rahela-Hanna]

Yes...

[ams69]

Before you decide to move to Finland here are some points to take into consideration.

First the language. Don’t let them fool you because it’s no language, but a very well camouflaged division of Mathematics. Unless you’re a Doctor in Mathematics don’t even consider of trying to master this particular science. Suppose you have an IQ that exceeds that of Mr. Einstein and you do manage to master Finnish, it’s of no use because Finns only communicate when they’re drunk. Then they get confused themselves and mix up the set of formulas so the whole thing changes into the ultimate Chaos theory.

Finland is not inhabited by humans but Finns. The male ones are walking alcohol storages and the female ones are icebergs. I cannot warn you enough to avoid the latter group at all cost. We all remember what happened to the Titanic when it ran into a iceberg.

Food is scarce and only affordable by the very rich. This is caused by the fact that Finns keep insisting on growing their own food, which everybody in the world knows is not possible in an environment with an average temperature of –50 C and 24 hours of total darkness.

Summer is exactly one week long and is used by the government to feed her precious stock of mosquitos. All Finns get deported to little wooden prisons in the woods where they serve their country by acting as a meal for the very hungry mosquitos.

Because of the extreme cold, sex can, and is, only performed when there is enough antifreeze liquid in the blood system. Although the Finnish antifreeze is highly effective the side effects are severe. Total loss of speech, legs, brains and ability to feel anything. “When hell freezes over” will get a whole different meaning after you’ve been in Finland.

The author fell in love with one of them icebergs and is therefore doomed to live here and should under no circumstances be taken serious

[Tyttöö]

Finland is not inhabited by humans but Finns. The male ones are walking alcohol storages and the female ones are icebergs. I cannot warn you enough to avoid the latter group at all cost. We all remember what happened to the Titanic when it ran into a iceberg.

[Rahela-Hanna]

Hahaha! That's so funny. But I don't worry too much about food in Finland, because I've grown my own food for countless years. I don't mind being a girl-farmer.

And alcohol is 'absolut' fine with me.

[Susan]

Dear Everybody,

I have decided to move to Finland despite all the things against the country, weather and Finns I've read here for some time.
I will have the experience by myself. If I don't feel happy enough in Finland, then I can always move somewhere else.

[Rahela-Hanna]

Oh, I think that you certainily would be happy in Finland! I still personally think that it's much better there! In a while here, I'll be calling one of my friends who lives in Finland, this very morning...I just hope that I can get a good hold of her. She works so much. I really would like to work as a bartender in Finland. But I heard somewhere that you don't really make as much money doing something like that in Finland, as would probably would in the US. I heard that the going rate in the US---or at least in my state, in the US---is about $400 a night. That's what my friend told me. He used to be a bartender, back in the day.

I don't know, though. I can never be completley sure.

[masao]

Oh, I think that you certainily would be happy in Finland! I still personally think that it's much better there! In a while here, I'll be calling one of my friends who lives in Finland, this very morning...I just hope that I can get a good hold of her. She works so much. I really would like to work as a bartender in Finland. But I heard somewhere that you don't really make as much money doing something like that in Finland, as would probably would in the US. I heard that the going rate in the US---or at least in my state, in the US---is about $400 a night. That's what my friend told me. He used to be a bartender, back in the day.

I don't know, though. I can never be completley sure.

Hi.
According to the same source (see IT salary thread elsewhere) the average monthly gloss income of waiter/waitress is 1778 euros for male and 1636 euros for female. I guess a bartender gets about the same, since most Finns drink beers and a few other drinks. You do not need special skills to mix those.

You may earn $400 a night here if you serve beer all naked and sell something else, too.

t, masao

[Susan]

Thanks Hanna. =)

I have a friend in Helsinki who is a bartender. She works from 10pm to 4am when the club closes, she has to stay later after that...It can be very tiring.

[U]

Dear Everybody,

I have decided to move to Finland despite all the things against the country, weather and Finns I've read here for some time.
I will have the experience by myself. If I don't feel happy enough in Finland, then I can always move somewhere else.

Dear Susan,

I am an Asian and I like it here very much. My husband is a Finn from Helsinki. I've been in and out of this country in the last 15 years for holidays both in the winters and summers. This is a gorgious place!

We moved back to here 6 months ago because we want our children to grow up here, Finlnad is simply the best country for having a family. It is a very safe country, very clean enviroment, good heath care system and good education. And most important is everything works here.
I can give you endless good things about this country and by the way, all the Finns that I met who are very very nice, very helpful. I never met a drunk myself or may be because I don't drink that don't know who is drunk and who isn't. My husband is a Finn, but he never drink unless at the party.
Remembering about 10 years ago, we moved to France in the winter from Finland (in January). Some of the French colleges quoted how cold it must be in Finland. The fact is, I never felt cold here, with all the efficient indoor heating system. I am warm and comfortable whenever I am indoor. But I was freezing cold in our apartment in France where we had electric heating which wasn't help at all since all windows and the door were badly isolated. When we visited our friend's home and it was also very cold in the house and they said because they have turned off the heat when they are not home and it is normal in France that you turn off the heat when you are not home. Of-course it always take a long long time to heat up the house again so when people arrive home it is very cold home. In contrary, here when I arrive home that I have to open all windows at once because it is too hot. It is cold here in the winter, but outdoor, not indoor which is very diffirent. And I never experience anything colder than -15 degree in Helsinki (even in January).

I wish you all the best whereever you are and you hope you would find a good life in Finland.

[Rahela-Hanna]

My goodness, I can really give you countless good things about Finland, as well.

*feels all warm inside and smiles happily*

I can't wait for my first Christmas in Finland, yo!