eyup, last winter the hill I reside on ..it just felt like they were waiting for that 3rd or 4th call about someone with broken wrist or leg BEFORE they actually come and hastily work it to somewhat walkable x. x (got lucky enough for not to fall over last winter myself, or am just getting used to it.. -shrugs-)
Last winter HEL in total chaos because too much of snow. 6 months before that they actually bragged about the good handling. Surprise? No. Even Oulu had trouble.
As a Finn living in the UK, I actually prefer the way parcels are delivered in Finland. What if I'm not home in the first place? What if my neighbours take the package and I will never get it back (hasn't happened but you never know haha)? Whereas in Finland I know where it is and when I can pick it up in my own time. Although I have to say I will miss Amazon a lot when I move back :D
I so agree with you! I'm never home when they try to deliver something. Sometimes they call and ask in advance when you want your parcel to be delivered but sometimes they don't, they just leave a note that you weren't here, call and set a date. If I know they gonna come at 4pm I'm there waiting, and waiting, and waiting... and the parcel arrives at 7pm and I've just wasted 3 hours of my life for waiting. A Posti parcel point is on the opposite side of the street where I live and I can get the parcel from there when ever I want.
yeah, the delivering hours they are willing to deliver usually suck, but some companies are willing to deliver your package to your workplace which is great.
+LILO Ah, don't worry: As some have already said, the Amazon-service indeed has and still allows deliveries to Finland (and this goes with the all Amazon "pages"; I've made orders from the Japanese-localised / language-edition Amazon also). But just like say with "eBay", it all depends on the store / person selling the item(s). --- With my latest Amazon-order, it was "DHL Express" that drove my package to the designed address (within this past month). And the courier even allows changes to be made to the delivery methods also. For example I was first meant to receive my package at home (the delivery time was uncertain). And when i got the call, I was few kilometres away from home. So I asked if they could have brought the parcel there. And they said yes, and then they drove there. Best thing was that they made the phone-call well before even leaving to my home, so in reality their delivery-distance actually was much shorter than originally. So there is quite a lot of flexibility when it comes to Amazon-delivery-service. Also yes: "Express Delivery"-service functions also, even if there might be some mix-ups with the communication between the couriers and Amazon ( E.G. Amazon tells me that delivery is on Wednesday; Courier sends message delivery is on Friday -> I'll get a message on Wednesday that my delivery is arriving ). --- --- ---
One thing great about Finland (or being Finn) is that the Finns can go to any country and if they want to have a private conversation they can speak in their own language and there will be high chances of no one will understanding them (unless their Finn or maybe Estonian?) at the same time being multilingual (the majority) and Brits have the disadvantage of having many people understanding English (generalising here) so private conversations are not as possible. This is also an obvious advantage as English is commonly known throughout the world. The reason I bring this up is that growing up in Australia, whenever I wanted to say something I didn't want other people to understand, I would speak in Japanese to be more private. I didn't notice this was an advantage until I was in Poland where even if I'm speaking English I know that many of the people will understand what I'm saying. In Summary, the Finnish language is like Morse Code in other countries :)
Well.. when I was a kid in a foreign country with parents I noticed a guy with a broken leg and a leg brace. I told my mom to look at his him and then the guy turned around! He was Finnish and explained to me what happened to his leg..
Once I was on holiday trip with my family in Canari Island and we spoke Finnish. Then some random old guy heard us and said ”Suomi...ihana!” Meaning ”Finland...wonderful!” And he said ihana like he was Italian 😂
I was like 10 years old and in Slovenia. This old dude startet speaking French to me and i panicked and said something to my brother in finnish. That old guy knew how to speak finnish as well. Never ran so fast before that nor after that. Mum thought it was fun though 😂
True and false at the same time. I've noticed so many times that at least Finns are everywhere in most common tourist places so have to be careful what you say generally. For example, you don't say something really bad and loudly in Finnish of someone's outfit etc.. Once sat down to same breakfast table in Bulgaria at the first morning with Finns who were even from the same hometown. Have turned around so many times in UK to realise someone next to me was a Finn. And also once whilst shoping in Germany I heard two older lady speaking basically their whole list of medical problems quite loudly to each other at the store so I didn't bother to reveal I was a Finn too. I was there with my British friends so in other hand none of the Finns really realised it cos I was speaking English all the time... XD
I think it's DHL (certainly not UPS who say "on Tuesday") that send you a text message offering 4 hour slots for the delivery and you send them a text message back (A, B...). As one of those slots is in the evening, that system caters for you as well as for me (pensioner!). It is though *usually* no problem to collect from the nearest post office / post delivery point / automatic box but recently I had a 20 kg box from England that was impossible to carry from the post delivery point (a supermarket) so I had to unpack it in the supermarket and divide it into four 5 kg bags in full view of other customers. In that case I would really have welcomed not having to collect it. [They said they always deliver to a collection point if its less than 25 kgs!]
I have to disagree on the Amazon one. As a normal working citizen in Finland, I'd rather order the packages to those stations in supermarkets. More often than not the deliveries are on office hours and it's not always possible to be home to receive the delivery. And it's way cheaper too. p.s. Ouch. That hurt
Yeah, you should not flush those. The people on water treatment plants have said they clog up the filters and end up costing money with the repair costs and stuff. A very good marketing campaign on the company's side though
They seem to disintegrate so well in the water though, much like basic loo paper. Are they really that much of a problem, or are people just flushing some unflushable ones down the toilet?
I hope you understand that Alko is like the only reason why you can get fancy wines and forgein booze everywhere in Finland. Without Alko, Finland’s most popular wine would be Pirkka-viini. I know it can be hard to walk few kilometres or take a buss but without alko it would be a lot longer way to get decent alcohol for a big part of Finland. (e.g. for me probably about 200km?)
Alko also has way bigger assortment of wines than most liquor stores or regular stores overseas. Edit : And oh the staff is way way better trained too, so you can actually ask wine recommendations (and you should because that makes them happy). I know finns rarely ask recommendations but yeah maybe we should.
--- Well it all depends on the store. Heck, some of these stores won't mentioned anything about home-delivery so you might get s sudden phone-call if you're at home (now or around some time of clock). And depending the area where you live, you might encounter some post-delivery-individuals in person who recognises you and simply hands out the parcel to you once you have shown the ID-cards for the "beeper" and signed the parcel-card. And in case you aren't home in the end when they deliver the parcel, they'll take it to the closest post-office or "parcel-box" as mentioned. Most annoying delivery-"choice" in my opinion is the one in which they only, and only deliver to either closest "R-Kioski" or like in case with "Post Nord", they only (and only) deliver to closest "K-Market" (or whichever building used to be a "Siwa"-store several years ago). Well, hey, both of these "closest" things are only +25-kilometres away from me...but in all honestly it's a inconvenience to everyone (especially when the store /+ courier won't even consider home-deliveries, or they're offering one for like at least triple the amount in comparison to "+25-kilometres-self-induced-travel"...). (( On a random "joke": if I could choose between "Post Nord" and related couriers or delivery-services; and the home or post-office-delivery by "UPS"... I would go all the way with the "ups"; at least then I would not need to beg for a lift and in the "worst-case", I could ask for a refund or "another print" ("begging" since there is no busses going to town during this (summer) time of year plus the bus-ticket costs ~7€ one direction here). )) --- --- ---
In Finland you can usually choose how to receive your order from places like amazon. You can order it via the post so that they'll keep the package safe for 2 weeks in their nearest office or in a supermarket etc, but you can also have them delivered straight to your door. It's simply a matter of convenience, as people aren't always home when the package arrives, so it's smarter to just have it kept safe until you have time to pick it up.
Having different store for both high % drinks and low % drinks prevents under aged people from stealing strong drinks from store when go to Alko most likely they ask Ids right away when go there if you look young
I spent a week in Scotland a few years ago and the only thing that really irritated me, was the fact that every single store (in Edinburgh) was closed on Saturday and Sunday AND they closed at 7pm on normal weekdays :o whyyy?! I spent whole saturday eating hard candy 'cos i didn't know about this beforehand :D
Must have been some kind of holiday because I lived in Edinburgh for several years and never experienced this! Restaurants are open every day of the week usually, major shops too
I spent 6 weeks in Scotland recently and I have to say that the biggest thing that stuck to me was the amount of litter I saw around when I was there. Especially bottles and cans. In Finland we recycle those and get some money back when we return them to the stores. I really wish other countries would implement that same strategy to make the environment cleaner.
The rent deposit really varies a lot in Helsinki, from zero to 2 months, a large company called Lumo has a standard 250e deposit. One very Finnish (and practical) thing: In a bathroom there usually is an extra shower head next to the toilet seat, for your private parts :) Yeah internet works great in Helsinki, I only have shared mobile wifi at home too. Actually Finns use more mobile data more per head than any other nation, good networks and relatively cheap.
Yeah, Lumo and SATO are awesome. We moved into our first home in Finland and didn't need to pay any deposit, or first month rent until 2 weeks after we moved in. It was awesome.
Also, if you go to the movie theater in Helsinki called "Tennispalatsi", they have all kinds of different snacks there, sweet and salty. Give it a try.
Regarding packages - I would NOT want some random person knocking on my door with a package at a time that I don't specifically know beforehand. Maybe that's because I'm a night worker, and sleep during the day, but I think most Finns tend to want their private space to be theirs, and aren't very happy with random people showing up uninvited. Even if I kept normal hours like a regular person, I think I would prefer to get my package from the local supermarket's post lockbox.
id hate it if the package would be delivered o my door. the drop out spots are usually at a convenient place anyway so i dont feel its any sort of extra burden
- m u s t i k k a - As a Finn, i cannot imagine myself living outside Finland. "Finland is a fine country. It's the best country for us Finns. It's a country worth defending and it's only defender is the Finnish nation." -General of infantry, Adolf Ehrnrooth
Internet connections here in Finland are so good and cheap compared to other countries. Still people complain about them. We should live a couple years like in England or USA...
Omg nothing infuriates me more than the separate taps 😤 but THANK GOD we now live in new built flat and it has the mixed taps 🙏🙏 and even such a rarety as a dishwasher. 😂 when you live in England, you need to appreciate the little things! 😅
Im a delivery guy at the finnish postal office, and we definetely do home deliveries (since i would have work if we didn't) its a different story if the site you are ordering from has it available. its also quite customer friendly i drive from 13:00 to 21:00 and with every single package the customer has been called and asked when the delivery is possible and we give them a 2 hour window in which we deliver the package.
The alko thing is mostly for safety purposes cuz teens steal alcohol but they can't go to alko so they are at a lower risk of alcohol poisoning and such
Oh man you aren't kidding about people in the UK (or London at least) not giving a shit about pedestrian traffic lights. The first time I was over my coworkers accidentally left me pretty far behind because I stopped and waited, while they were just weaving through lines of cars waiting on intersections etc. It KINDA worked there, because there were just so many cars that they queued up everywhere, and people are used to random pedestrians darting about, but in Finland you'll promptly get yourself killed if you try to behave the same way.
The eighth point and most important is Finnish accommodation, all houses are well insulated and very warm in winter. You can wear just underwear indoors and will be fine. When I lived in the U.K., houses were crap and cold
Dunno if you have dishwasher or wash your dishes by hand, but the dish drying cabinet is something I've missed in UK & Ireland and pretty much everywhere I lived outside of Finland. No mess or fuss just put your dishes up into cabinet and the water will usually drop down to sink. No hand drying or anything required, the stand you have in the UK is decent but in my opinion not the best solution
Pubs. England-Finland 6-7 😀 Toilets in pubs, 6-8 to FIN. In England there is always one or more toilets broken. Every. Single. Time. AND toilet doors! Why do they always open inside the toilet?! It makes no sense!
Dave Cad I heard that is exactly why toilet doors open inside in England. Because lock will get broken anyway you can hold door closed with yor feet while doing your business. In Finland we would just fix that lock but each is own...
I feel that I go for Luxury holiday when I visit Finland from Ireland. Mixer taps, hot water on the tap on demand, warm houses (no coal openfire as a heating system) and everything works! Great customer service everywhere and just SO MUCH EASIER life!!! Often I miss my amazon baggage as Postman knocks on the door too quietly or I'm in the work when he comes around so I end up going to the post-office to pick up my baggage anyway....(But sometimes because this is a village in rural Ireland if the postman knows where I work he brings it to my work if he did find me from home :D )
First: Video was nice like always! But i have to say something about that rent / deposit thing. For example i had 1 month deposit and actually i have heard that usually it is 1 month, so you just had bad luck with that i guess :D Or if the apartment is new / just renovated then i think landlord may ask 2 months just to secure themselves.
I keep reading (and hearing) about Finns waiting for green lights before they cross the road. My own experience is that this, as you say, applies in *Central Helsinki* and also in the countryside towns (where life to someone from the Helsinki area seems to go at half-speed anyway) but that it doesn't apply quite so much in the areas around Helsinki such as Espoo, Kauniainen or Vantaa, nor indeed in areas of Helsinki a fair way from the centre. Yes, some people wait, but many don't *provided the road is clear and you can just stroll across (rather than needing to run)*.
Last time I was in London, I'd adopted the London way and was crossing the street on a red light when I noticed 2 cops across the street walking towards me. Of course being a typical (normally) law-abiding Finn, I almost pissed myself cos I thought that they'd give me a fine, like they would here in FIN, but nah, they just crossed the same road on the same red light and didn't even look towards me. :D I do question the point of the red lights here in FIN when its late at night and I see someone standing at the lights when there's literally no one else around except us two.. Just cross the bloody street, you're not endangering anyone.
alko is there because of high steal rate of strong alcohol, it prevides young people stealing strong stuff like koskenkorva or vodka and getting rushed to hospitals because of alcohol poisoning and i think it's actually pretty great that it's a thing. basic beers that have 5,2% alcohol percentage or lower are still one of the most stolen things in shops in finland
I think Nordea charges if you're over 26, and employed. Students don't pay fees at least. I'm a student and a Nordea member and they don't charge me anything.
FINLAND IS BETTER !!! I live in the uk.finland is the best country on earth !! The only thing that takes it down a slight notch is the over taxation but that keeps most undesirables away so definitely a plus
I remember when I was volunteering in Africa and heard my fellow British vols complaining how they were craving for sweet popcorn. I couldn't then nor can I now understand that. Sweet popcorn??? Oh hell nahhh! 🙅😂
I don't like popcorn or drink alcohol so those points are kinda "whatever" for me. I lived in Glasgow for a little while myself and was genuinely puzzled that separate hot and cold water faucets are actually still a thing (this was six years ago). As for having to pay for internet banking and debit cards - I think this is solely because of Finland's small population. The banks simply can't make a profit with people having normal bank accounts so they have to charge for these services.
Banks can make a profit without charging depositors. In fact, historically it's been the standard model, they actually pay you interest for holding on to your money. This is because banks lend out the money they hold, and charge borrowers for those loans. That's how banks make money, enough to cover their own costs and the interest offered to depositors. Does offering internet banking cost money? Sure, but they can save a load by sacking all the staff who used to man bank branches, and selling (or just not renting) the sites for branches they shut. Ultimately, banks will get away with charging you to use your money if you let them. They don't have to.
I can't stand how in UK coffee shops the majority of the the time you have to buy your water. It is getting better with more places offering a jug at the side, but on the continent you get your coffee and a glass of water.
This is so informative. Thank you for this info. I fell in love with Finland through Finnish movies, but you don’t get all the little details in a movie. I’ve been to England (which I love) and hope to visit Finland on my next trip across the pond. Cheers ... and keep the videos coming.
The ibuprofen being 400mg is actually really inconvenient for me as I regularly need to take 600mg which in the UK is easy just 3 200mg tables but when I go to the Netherlands I can’t really do it easily
I am finnish living at England. Opening account can be hard in UK. Gas bill is the best way to show that you have a address. Opening a business account was also really hard. One point for UK for vineger chips.
In most stores, you can actually choose to get the package delivered to your door during the ordering phase, it's just a bit more expensive. While normal postage can be as low as 3 euros depending on the size and weight (smartpost usually cheaper, where you take the package from the locker), it might cost 12 euros or more when delivered to your door. Not sure if this depends on the stores, but bigger things like TV's over 40" will be delivered to the door directly. That's at least what happened when I ordered mine.
So i lived 9 years in London and rest of my 20years in finland, theres few things i'd like to add to your list. In England you pay mobile internet usage for example 19.99 for 20gb data per month with (x amount speed), where as in finland you would pay 19.99 for unlimited data at 20mbit/s. Which is soo much better. Point to Finland. Fast food. No discussion. Point to England. Housing looks dull in england street after street looks similar, i like that every house comes with backyard but its too dull for my taste. Point to Finland. Night life in England is top class, there are clubs and pubs everywhere and most of them are full every weekend. In Finland we only have handful of nightclubs to choose from. Point to England. Full streets and dirty sidewalks are a turn off in England i really appreciate the calmness and cleanliness we have here in Finland. Point to Finland
*Point for Finland* : Dish racks in the kitchen cabinets. I hate having a huge pile of dishes and a soggy towel underneath. *Point for England* : Everything is open as normal on Sundays, In Finland everything stops functioning on Sundays. Also could have been just tampere but I am pretty sure you cannot get pain killers from normal super markets so you have to go to Apteekki, which often closes super early. I once had the largest headache and couldn't do anything about it. Another point while we're at it: meal deal and cheap food in general :) even water is 2 euros usually whereas here you can get it anywhere from 40p to a pound
Oona Tukia In Tampere, you can find a branch of Yliopiston Apteekki pharmacy that is open 7-24 every day. It is right in the centre, on Hämeenkatu, opposite to Sokos, so it is easy to get to by public transport from anywhere in Tampere.
Hey, thanks for the video! Could you explain what made you move to Finland? Was it something a bit out of your control or was it a conscious decision for a better quality of life etc? Really interested to hear! Thanks and keep it up!
Some companies who rent apartments, don't take deposits at all or they are at most one month rent, usually less. If you rent from private landlords, the deposits are usually those, one to two months rent.
Only thing I would say about drugs is that in England u can get paracetamol, ibuprofen and/or antihistamines from all corner shops and supermarkets. In Finland, only licensed pharmacies sell them. So it's easier to find painkillers quickly in the UK.
Yes finland is better than england but it's not suprise because finland is one of the most best country in the world. I think only iceland, norway, switcherland, new zealand and australia is about same level than finland.
I'm a Finn who has lived in Australia. Australia is extremely backwards compared to these modern European countries. It's like they're collectively 30 years behind of thinking.
Talking about painkillers, paracetamol (Panadol) costs like 3,50€-4,50€ here in Finland whereas same size package in the UK costs like 50p or even less. And in Finland you can get paracetamol only from pharmacies whereas in the UK you can buy it anywhere. :D
Recycle, don't flush ;-) There are rental companies in Helsinki you only need to pay a basic deposit (e.g. €250 with Lumo, plus being able to move to other Lumo apartments and continuing your rental contract). Shoes in the house in the UK is DISGUSTING. Especially with most house having carpet. All sorts of shite on shoes walked into carpets. *hurl* Seriously? You're complaining about paying for banking in Finland? Have you compared the two? The cost itself is is more than covered by the Netbank verification system which is used for EVERYTHING to verify your identity. Britain? Two utility bills.... Try proving your identity to somewhere in the UK when living in Finland (which 99% does electronic bills)....bwahahahahahahaha! Also, UK banks get there money other ways, like the interest they make to spend three days clearing payments. And charging £25-30 to send money abroad (€6 here), etc., etc. And you missed the oversink drying cabinet. And district heating... :-)
In UK there are also lock boxes to pick up your Amazon orders. They are at supermarkets so you can pick your package with groceries: it's great if you are not at home and your package is too big to fit through a letter box: much safer than a delivery man trying to find a place to hide it or find an honest, non-nosy neighbour who happens to be in. Also, you can get 400 mg and even 800 mg ibuprofen in England from pharmacies. I cannot get 1000 mg ibuprofen tablets though. I cannot comment about mobile phone Internet speeds - I guess most likely worse than in Finland - but making your phone into a hotspot depends on your phone technology. If your phone supports it you can make it into a hotspot in any country. However, old Victorian houses have thick walls where WiFi doesn't penetrate well. It was the problem at my work and also in my current flat as well; in my friend's house there is no connection two floors down without those plug-in signal boosters. It's the same problem as being in a valley, where the tower is on the other side.
Keeping score for myself here in America & was happy to see the final points were 9 to 3 with Finland winning by a landslide :D England scored points for the lower move in costs (most places here in the US expect first, last & a deposit), the lesser bank fees & the door-to-door deliveries, both of which I've become accustomed to (but could work around haha). That was fun. Kiitos! :D
If you order something delivered to your door in Finland, then it should most definitely always be delievered to your door. Only reason it wouldn't be is if you specifically asked it to be delivered somewhere else, or if it was some super specific, unusual package. You only have to go pick it up at the post office if you weren't home/didn't open the door when they brought it to you. If they just dropped the little note that asks you to go pick it up without even ringing the doorbell first, I think it's a problem specifically with whoever was personally delivering your package to you. That's not too uncommon to happen, but definitely something that shouldn't.
I just had some friends over from UK and they liked the way we fins recycle our bottles and cans. In the UK they apparently just throw everything in the thrash. 1point for Finland :)
Outch! :'D Interesting to hear quite many same points i found out between finland and uk when i was there last year in exchange (and started to watch your videos during that time!). The people's crazy crossing, tabs, internet, drugs... Have to mention that even tho the drugs were not so strong in uk, it was so much easier to buy some from normal store if you got to get something fast for normal headache or flu. Eating out and taxis were a lot cheaper in uk. But the data for phone was terribly expensive and I got sick of the moist room and carpet flooring after the wet winter, bad isolation in the apartments (temperature and noises), no hand shower (or "pidee") in any toilets etc. just to mention few unfortunate points, mostly small things that actually effect your life a lot! It was after all a great experience and surely will value it more and more during years but still it also opened my eyes to realise how true the saying "to be born in finland is like winning in a lottery" sometimes is! Still love UK as a tourist and actually im gonna visit London at "juhannusviikko": Harry Potter studio tour, here I come for the second time! XD But thanks for your videos, keep up the good work and stay as that positive person you are! :)
No, that's a point to England (UK). EU is making Finland bankrupt at the moment. As it is making the whole Europe (excluding Germany of course, it is the puppetmaster at the moment and collects).
I lived in UK for 2 years. One thing that I liked better than in Finland was the amount of ATMs, it was super easy to find ATM if you needed cash. One thing I did not like in England were bathrooms. For some reason it felt like they don't know how to build proper wet rooms in England. So many homes I went to had carpet or panel floor in bathroom and ventilation was either missing or was really bad
We ALL ALLWAYS wait strictly for the green light before crossing in finland, not just Helsinki. Everytime i see someone going against red light i instinctively give them the stink eye. I can't help it. You just don't go against it.
Maybe in Helsinki where the traffic is plenty it is practical to wait for green light. However in a place like Kuopio there is quite often very little traffic at certain hours where waiting for the green light is stupid as there are no cars coming from any direction and you are the only pedestrian on that crossing. Dear God they at least turn the traffic light off on later hours so you do not have to wait on the lights when the place looks more deserted than present day Chernobyl.
The only thing is that over the counter meds cost an arm and a leg in Finland compared to UK... And you can't pick them up from the shops either (there is 400mg Ibuprofen in the pharmacy counter, hubby got me some). And don't you worry, when you are a millionaire you'll have some sort of customer deal with the bank to get bonuses to match the payments for the card and Internet banking....
Alko is a big player in European scale (like Swedish Systembolaget and Norwegian Vinmonopolet) so they have an advantige negotiating with Spanish wine producers etc. or whoever. Also Alko has rather low margin of wins so surprisingly you can buy quality wine or vodkas, whiskys, 25 year old cognac at reasonable prices in Finland. If those would be sold in private shops and supermarkets the prices would be at least 50% higher and supermarkets would introduce battlery acid- quality wines and such which can give you diarrhea. Hope those stay out of our country, I do not want right-wing extremists/libertalists to win this battle (kokoomus). My step-mother who lived in Germany for 25 years ('75-'00) said that there even the biggest supermarket chains did not have such a selection as Alko(like she was astonished you get Portuguese 'Vinho Verde' here, in Germany they asked people to bring it with them if travelled there as it was not available in Germany anywhere). And Germany has a pop. about 84 million peole contra Finnish 5.6 SO MAYBE it is not a bad thing on selected fields of business to have a monopoly. I paid 40 euros for a bottle of Bollinger in Alko and in Belgium it would have cost me twice as much. And Finlandia vodka worth 15 euros in tax-free cost 35 euros in London night-shop
In Helsinki the rent is very expensive but in smaller cities like Oulu (about 200 000 people living) its like a half of the prize or less than its in Helsinki
I'm moving from Ireland to Tampere in a few weeks. Things that interest me are education, women(yes I'm single), gyms, rental costs, saunas, and general fun. I think the fun has been sucked out of the UK and Ireland, it's gone so expensive to live and stressful.
Hello. Great vids dave. Im also dating a finnish lady. I have noticed a few different things between countries thats have blown mine or her mind. Taps was a big 1 with her. I stayed in muonio and travelled north and always had 4g which was awesome, im from norfolk in england and some places we dont even have 3g..... 1 thing that confused me in finland was when i done the washing up and put the plates etc in a cupboard above the sink to dry.. you need to do a snowmobile vid come winter.thabks for the decent vids soo far.
I don't use those flush-able toilet paper rolls, because I heard they are not good for the pipes. They don't dissolve completely, and since it's thicker than paper, it CAN cause some trouble over time. I have no proof, though.
pev The paper mash builds up in size over time and eventually clogs the pipes and then you have to unclog them manually. There are loads of videos about this on yt
id imagine next time you take a dump the toilet paper is gonna flush away what might be sticking onto the sides of the pipes, even so I doubt its actually gonna clot anything and we would have higher change of the minerals in the water filling the pipes up with solid stone. which is actually what has happened in some areas in finland with very old pipes.
I love Finnish internet! In our flat, you just plug the cable in and the internet works super well throughout our home. And the best part? We don’t pay any extra for it! It’s included in our rent, and has unlimited data. It’s the best!
I don't trust the toilet roll things. If toilet paper alone can end up needing to be sorted out as solid waste in the water cleaning facilities there's no way a big thing like that can fully disintegrate enough to not be a nuisance for the people working at wastewater treatment. But that's just how I feel about it, at least they're way more flushable than pads and tampons which are NOT safe to flush (and contain all sorts on non-degradable stuff) but people still do it every day.
Spiralobsession Those toilet roll things are made the same material as the paper itself. If you put the roll into water and shake it a bit the roll will get into small paper pieces.
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One thing in Finland which is quite neat is how we handle the snow. It's like well organized chaos during every blizzard.
eyup, last winter the hill I reside on ..it just felt like they were waiting for that 3rd or 4th call about someone with broken wrist or leg BEFORE they actually come and hastily work it to somewhat walkable x. x
(got lucky enough for not to fall over last winter myself, or am just getting used to it.. -shrugs-)
Last winter HEL in total chaos because too much of snow. 6 months before that they actually bragged about the good handling. Surprise? No. Even Oulu had trouble.
You obviously have never visited Forssa in the wintertime :D
nucleardestruction11 Forssa on ihan paska paikka.
Fucking love to listen chidlren of bodom downfall and do some snow on my tractor.
As a Finn living in the UK, I actually prefer the way parcels are delivered in Finland. What if I'm not home in the first place? What if my neighbours take the package and I will never get it back (hasn't happened but you never know haha)? Whereas in Finland I know where it is and when I can pick it up in my own time. Although I have to say I will miss Amazon a lot when I move back :D
I so agree with you! I'm never home when they try to deliver something. Sometimes they call and ask in advance when you want your parcel to be delivered but sometimes they don't, they just leave a note that you weren't here, call and set a date. If I know they gonna come at 4pm I'm there waiting, and waiting, and waiting... and the parcel arrives at 7pm and I've just wasted 3 hours of my life for waiting. A Posti parcel point is on the opposite side of the street where I live and I can get the parcel from there when ever I want.
And you know, you can still get them delivered to your home even in Finland...
yeah, the delivering hours they are willing to deliver usually suck, but some companies are willing to deliver your package to your workplace which is great.
Amazon.de delivers to Finland. I have used it a lot
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Ah, don't worry:
As some have already said, the Amazon-service indeed has and still allows deliveries to Finland
(and this goes with the all Amazon "pages";
I've made orders from the Japanese-localised / language-edition Amazon also).
But just like say with "eBay", it all depends on the store / person selling the item(s).
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With my latest Amazon-order, it was "DHL Express" that drove my package to the designed address (within this past month).
And the courier even allows changes to be made to the delivery methods also.
For example I was first meant to receive my package at home (the delivery time was uncertain). And when i got the call, I was few kilometres away from home. So I asked if they could have brought the parcel there. And they said yes, and then they drove there.
Best thing was that they made the phone-call well before even leaving to my home, so in reality their delivery-distance actually was much shorter than originally.
So there is quite a lot of flexibility when it comes to Amazon-delivery-service.
Also yes: "Express Delivery"-service functions also, even if there might be some mix-ups with the communication between the couriers and Amazon
( E.G. Amazon tells me that delivery is on Wednesday; Courier sends message delivery is on Friday
-> I'll get a message on Wednesday that my delivery is arriving ).
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The fees vary from bank to bank. You might want to switch banks.
One thing great about Finland (or being Finn) is that the Finns can go to any country and if they want to have a private conversation they can speak in their own language and there will be high chances of no one will understanding them (unless their Finn or maybe Estonian?) at the same time being multilingual (the majority)
and Brits have the disadvantage of having many people understanding English (generalising here) so private conversations are not as possible. This is also an obvious advantage as English is commonly known throughout the world.
The reason I bring this up is that growing up in Australia, whenever I wanted to say something I didn't want other people to understand, I would speak in Japanese to be more private. I didn't notice this was an advantage until I was in Poland where even if I'm speaking English I know that many of the people will understand what I'm saying.
In Summary, the Finnish language is like Morse Code in other countries :)
I love it, its like having your own secret language with your friends.
Well.. when I was a kid in a foreign country with parents I noticed a guy with a broken leg and a leg brace. I told my mom to look at his him and then the guy turned around! He was Finnish and explained to me what happened to his leg..
Once I was on holiday trip with my family in Canari Island and we spoke Finnish. Then some random old guy heard us and said ”Suomi...ihana!” Meaning ”Finland...wonderful!” And he said ihana like he was Italian 😂
I was like 10 years old and in Slovenia. This old dude startet speaking French to me and i panicked and said something to my brother in finnish. That old guy knew how to speak finnish as well. Never ran so fast before that nor after that. Mum thought it was fun though 😂
True and false at the same time. I've noticed so many times that at least Finns are everywhere in most common tourist places so have to be careful what you say generally. For example, you don't say something really bad and loudly in Finnish of someone's outfit etc..
Once sat down to same breakfast table in Bulgaria at the first morning with Finns who were even from the same hometown. Have turned around so many times in UK to realise someone next to me was a Finn. And also once whilst shoping in Germany I heard two older lady speaking basically their whole list of medical problems quite loudly to each other at the store so I didn't bother to reveal I was a Finn too. I was there with my British friends so in other hand none of the Finns really realised it cos I was speaking English all the time... XD
Delivery to the door is terrible! I'm not home during the day and if I am, I dont want to sit at home waiting al day!
I think it's DHL (certainly not UPS who say "on Tuesday") that send you a text message offering 4 hour slots for the delivery and you send them a text message back (A, B...). As one of those slots is in the evening, that system caters for you as well as for me (pensioner!). It is though *usually* no problem to collect from the nearest post office / post delivery point / automatic box but recently I had a 20 kg box from England that was impossible to carry from the post delivery point (a supermarket) so I had to unpack it in the supermarket and divide it into four 5 kg bags in full view of other customers. In that case I would really have welcomed not having to collect it. [They said they always deliver to a collection point if its less than 25 kgs!]
Yeah, I much prefer a delivery to the nearest post office, so I can go and pick it up on my own time.
Thats why i take it from the post station lel
Niinpä.
Yep, totally try to avoid home delivery if I can for those reasons. But it is option to have home delivery if you want it 🙂
Do you have time to talk about the miracle of Elisa Saunalahti internet prices XD
What about it?
Lege Lege *29,99
you can use Telia Dot for 20€ a month
FinNinja28 or moi mobiili with 6€
In Finland we have this thing called Saunalahti Huoleton 4G
I have to disagree on the Amazon one.
As a normal working citizen in Finland, I'd rather order the packages to those stations in supermarkets. More often than not the deliveries are on office hours and it's not always possible to be home to receive the delivery. And it's way cheaper too.
p.s. Ouch. That hurt
Yeah, you should not flush those. The people on water treatment plants have said they clog up the filters and end up costing money with the repair costs and stuff.
A very good marketing campaign on the company's side though
Ah interesting! I thought that it's probably better to recycle them too!
They seem to disintegrate so well in the water though, much like basic loo paper. Are they really that much of a problem, or are people just flushing some unflushable ones down the toilet?
Not surprised to hear this! I always have put mine in the recycling bin!
@@davecad to your fortune we now have tubeless rolls.. :)
Pick another bank (I guess you chose Nordea?)
Yep. It's worth it though because from what I could see, it's the only bank in Finland with all of their services offered in English
And even there i think its free for most of the customers, like me. But i thinl example S-pankki is giving card and ebank accounts for free?
Jami Susijärvi yeah. S-Pankki is really great.
OP seems to be in english
Use crypto
I hope you understand that Alko is like the only reason why you can get fancy wines and forgein booze everywhere in Finland. Without Alko, Finland’s most popular wine would be Pirkka-viini.
I know it can be hard to walk few kilometres or take a buss but without alko it would be a lot longer way to get decent alcohol for a big part of Finland. (e.g. for me probably about 200km?)
Send Help Monopoli paskaa. Kyllä viiniä pitäis ruokakaupasta saada niinku muissakin maissa.
Juu näinhän se on.
Mietoja viinejä on jo ruokakaupoissa
Julia Paljakka On toki.
Alko also has way bigger assortment of wines than most liquor stores or regular stores overseas. Edit : And oh the staff is way way better trained too, so you can actually ask wine recommendations (and you should because that makes them happy). I know finns rarely ask recommendations but yeah maybe we should.
Delivery to home, possible in finland but cost extra ;)
Jami Susijärvi if u order from aliexpress you can get free delivery to home
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Well it all depends on the store.
Heck, some of these stores won't mentioned anything about home-delivery so you might get s sudden phone-call if you're at home (now or around some time of clock).
And depending the area where you live, you might encounter some post-delivery-individuals in person who recognises you and simply hands out the parcel to you once you have shown the ID-cards for the "beeper" and signed the parcel-card.
And in case you aren't home in the end when they deliver the parcel, they'll take it to the closest post-office or "parcel-box" as mentioned.
Most annoying delivery-"choice" in my opinion is the one in which they only, and only deliver to either closest "R-Kioski" or like in case with "Post Nord", they only (and only) deliver to closest "K-Market"
(or whichever building used to be a "Siwa"-store several years ago).
Well, hey, both of these "closest" things are only +25-kilometres away from me...but in all honestly it's a inconvenience to everyone
(especially when the store /+ courier won't even consider home-deliveries, or they're offering one for like at least triple the amount in comparison to "+25-kilometres-self-induced-travel"...).
(( On a random "joke":
if I could choose between "Post Nord" and related couriers or delivery-services; and the home or post-office-delivery by "UPS"...
I would go all the way with the "ups"; at least then I would not need to beg for a lift and in the "worst-case", I could ask for a refund or "another print"
("begging" since there is no busses going to town during this (summer) time of year plus the bus-ticket costs ~7€ one direction here). ))
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7moonwalker7, depends. Sometimes free delivery home, sometimes not. I have been using aliexpress for 7-8 years and few thousand orders.
Yeah
True
Amazon problem is definitely first world problem!
Pfff, who needs Amazon when we have this Verkkokauppa.com?
Tori.fi
I personally prefer picking mine up rather than them leaving my package in the hallway of our apartment complex 😂
iamtimchung just order on Amazon.de!
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In Finland you can usually choose how to receive your order from places like amazon. You can order it via the post so that they'll keep the package safe for 2 weeks in their nearest office or in a supermarket etc, but you can also have them delivered straight to your door. It's simply a matter of convenience, as people aren't always home when the package arrives, so it's smarter to just have it kept safe until you have time to pick it up.
Having different store for both high % drinks and low % drinks prevents under aged people from stealing strong drinks from store when go to Alko most likely they ask Ids right away when go there if you look young
I spent a week in Scotland a few years ago and the only thing that really irritated me, was the fact that every single store (in Edinburgh) was closed on Saturday and Sunday AND they closed at 7pm on normal weekdays :o whyyy?! I spent whole saturday eating hard candy 'cos i didn't know about this beforehand :D
Were the restaurants also closed?
WP yes, every restaurant except for one hamburger joint
Must have been some kind of holiday because I lived in Edinburgh for several years and never experienced this! Restaurants are open every day of the week usually, major shops too
I spent 6 weeks in Scotland recently and I have to say that the biggest thing that stuck to me was the amount of litter I saw around when I was there. Especially bottles and cans. In Finland we recycle those and get some money back when we return them to the stores. I really wish other countries would implement that same strategy to make the environment cleaner.
The rent deposit really varies a lot in Helsinki, from zero to 2 months, a large company called Lumo has a standard 250e deposit. One very Finnish (and practical) thing: In a bathroom there usually is an extra shower head next to the toilet seat, for your private parts :)
Yeah internet works great in Helsinki, I only have shared mobile wifi at home too. Actually Finns use more mobile data more per head than any other nation, good networks and relatively cheap.
Also you get your rent deposit BACK when you move out (if its in acceptable condition). So it is not just throwing money.
Yeah, Lumo and SATO are awesome. We moved into our first home in Finland and didn't need to pay any deposit, or first month rent until 2 weeks after we moved in. It was awesome.
Also, if you go to the movie theater in Helsinki called "Tennispalatsi", they have all kinds of different snacks there, sweet and salty. Give it a try.
totally true!
Regarding packages - I would NOT want some random person knocking on my door with a package at a time that I don't specifically know beforehand. Maybe that's because I'm a night worker, and sleep during the day, but I think most Finns tend to want their private space to be theirs, and aren't very happy with random people showing up uninvited. Even if I kept normal hours like a regular person, I think I would prefer to get my package from the local supermarket's post lockbox.
id hate it if the package would be delivered o my door. the drop out spots are usually at a convenient place anyway so i dont feel its any sort of extra burden
A great video!! I’m glad you’re enjoying it in Finland with your toilet paper rolls and coffee refills! 😊
England is better, like traveling country. But Finland is better living place. Just on my opinion.
- m u s t i k k a - As a Finn, i cannot imagine myself living outside Finland. "Finland is a fine country. It's the best country for us Finns. It's a country worth defending and it's only defender is the Finnish nation." -General of infantry, Adolf Ehrnrooth
Jussi Eronen That’s true, thanks for that reply.
Finland 🇫🇮 is The Happiest Country in the world. I'm so proud of my country. 😀
They say so but I don't feel like it's true.
Ouch. That hurt!
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Internet connections here in Finland are so good and cheap compared to other countries. Still people complain about them. We should live a couple years like in England or USA...
Omg nothing infuriates me more than the separate taps 😤 but THANK GOD we now live in new built flat and it has the mixed taps 🙏🙏 and even such a rarety as a dishwasher. 😂 when you live in England, you need to appreciate the little things! 😅
Winland!
I like that!
The perfect name!
We should change the name. I just think that rest of the world would be quite disgusted and jealous :D
The video should be called Helsinki VS London
The quality is amazing and so is the editing!! Good work
the rent deposit thing is only for Helsinki center etc. One month is normal :)
Im a delivery guy at the finnish postal office, and we definetely do home deliveries (since i would have work if we didn't) its a different story if the site you are ordering from has it available.
its also quite customer friendly i drive from 13:00 to 21:00 and with every single package the customer has been called and asked when the delivery is possible and we give them a 2 hour window in which we deliver the package.
The alko thing is mostly for safety purposes cuz teens steal alcohol but they can't go to alko so they are at a lower risk of alcohol poisoning and such
Thirsty ? Doesn’t really work tbh, I’m 17 myself and they never ask me for an ID as I have a sexy neckbeard
This was fun. When I was young, I worked in England as an au pair. It's very interesting hear your feelings about Finland.
"Hohhoh" 😂😂
tyä ukko
Oh man you aren't kidding about people in the UK (or London at least) not giving a shit about pedestrian traffic lights. The first time I was over my coworkers accidentally left me pretty far behind because I stopped and waited, while they were just weaving through lines of cars waiting on intersections etc.
It KINDA worked there, because there were just so many cars that they queued up everywhere, and people are used to random pedestrians darting about, but in Finland you'll promptly get yourself killed if you try to behave the same way.
You could also get paracetamol as 1 gram tablets without a prescription.
The eighth point and most important is Finnish accommodation, all houses are well insulated and very warm in winter. You can wear just underwear indoors and will be fine. When I lived in the U.K., houses were crap and cold
And damp ruclips.net/video/g5-xLvQ9KHg/видео.html
Your English accent is my favorite!
Dunno if you have dishwasher or wash your dishes by hand, but the dish drying cabinet is something I've missed in UK & Ireland and pretty much everywhere I lived outside of Finland. No mess or fuss just put your dishes up into cabinet and the water will usually drop down to sink. No hand drying or anything required, the stand you have in the UK is decent but in my opinion not the best solution
Pubs. England-Finland 6-7 😀 Toilets in pubs, 6-8 to FIN. In England there is always one or more toilets broken. Every. Single. Time. AND toilet doors! Why do they always open inside the toilet?! It makes no sense!
Haha that's so true. It's almost like there's a law saying that 'one or more toilets must be broken at any one time'
Dave Cad I heard that is exactly why toilet doors open inside in England. Because lock will get broken anyway you can hold door closed with yor feet while doing your business. In Finland we would just fix that lock but each is own...
I feel that I go for Luxury holiday when I visit Finland from Ireland. Mixer taps, hot water on the tap on demand, warm houses (no coal openfire as a heating system) and everything works! Great customer service everywhere and just SO MUCH EASIER life!!! Often I miss my amazon baggage as Postman knocks on the door too quietly or I'm in the work when he comes around so I end up going to the post-office to pick up my baggage anyway....(But sometimes because this is a village in rural Ireland if the postman knows where I work he brings it to my work if he did find me from home :D )
First: Video was nice like always! But i have to say something about that rent / deposit thing. For example i had 1 month deposit and actually i have heard that usually it is 1 month, so you just had bad luck with that i guess :D Or if the apartment is new / just renovated then i think landlord may ask 2 months just to secure themselves.
I keep reading (and hearing) about Finns waiting for green lights before they cross the road. My own experience is that this, as you say, applies in *Central Helsinki* and also in the countryside towns (where life to someone from the Helsinki area seems to go at half-speed anyway) but that it doesn't apply quite so much in the areas around Helsinki such as Espoo, Kauniainen or Vantaa, nor indeed in areas of Helsinki a fair way from the centre. Yes, some people wait, but many don't *provided the road is clear and you can just stroll across (rather than needing to run)*.
Last time I was in London, I'd adopted the London way and was crossing the street on a red light when I noticed 2 cops across the street walking towards me. Of course being a typical (normally) law-abiding Finn, I almost pissed myself cos I thought that they'd give me a fine, like they would here in FIN, but nah, they just crossed the same road on the same red light and didn't even look towards me. :D I do question the point of the red lights here in FIN when its late at night and I see someone standing at the lights when there's literally no one else around except us two.. Just cross the bloody street, you're not endangering anyone.
alko is there because of high steal rate of strong alcohol, it prevides young people stealing strong stuff like koskenkorva or vodka and getting rushed to hospitals because of alcohol poisoning and i think it's actually pretty great that it's a thing. basic beers that have 5,2% alcohol percentage or lower are still one of the most stolen things in shops in finland
What bank in Finland makes you pay for your Debit card and Online banking?!?
Online banking costs 2,70 EUR in the OP
WP Ok... Well S-Pankki doesn't make you pay for neither of them. (Debit or online banking) so I guess some make you pay, some don't...
I bet it's Nordea, rich people's bank
I think Nordea charges if you're over 26, and employed. Students don't pay fees at least. I'm a student and a Nordea member and they don't charge me anything.
Op charges fees for everything. And is also trying to push expensive insurance.
In Russia, banks pays you, (cashback etc) here its vice versa
FINLAND IS BETTER !!! I live in the uk.finland is the best country on earth !! The only thing that takes it down a slight notch is the over taxation but that keeps most undesirables away so definitely a plus
Please I’m moving to neither Finland 🇫🇮 or England 🏴 which country should i choose
I remember when I was volunteering in Africa and heard my fellow British vols complaining how they were craving for sweet popcorn. I couldn't then nor can I now understand that. Sweet popcorn??? Oh hell nahhh! 🙅😂
This was such a good and interesting video! More of these pleeease 💪🏻
There's plenty more where this came from! :D
I don't like popcorn or drink alcohol so those points are kinda "whatever" for me. I lived in Glasgow for a little while myself and was genuinely puzzled that separate hot and cold water faucets are actually still a thing (this was six years ago). As for having to pay for internet banking and debit cards - I think this is solely because of Finland's small population. The banks simply can't make a profit with people having normal bank accounts so they have to charge for these services.
Yeah, that's a really good point. I didn't even think about the population.
Peopple in finland likes to own there stuff so almost everybody takes loans
Banks can make a profit without charging depositors. In fact, historically it's been the standard model, they actually pay you interest for holding on to your money.
This is because banks lend out the money they hold, and charge borrowers for those loans. That's how banks make money, enough to cover their own costs and the interest offered to depositors.
Does offering internet banking cost money? Sure, but they can save a load by sacking all the staff who used to man bank branches, and selling (or just not renting) the sites for branches they shut.
Ultimately, banks will get away with charging you to use your money if you let them. They don't have to.
I can't stand how in UK coffee shops the majority of the the time you have to buy your water. It is getting better with more places offering a jug at the side, but on the continent you get your coffee and a glass of water.
For a rent of 1000€ in a month you really have to live in the citycentre. I know Helsinki is expensive but come on man don't make it look so bad :D
This is so informative. Thank you for this info. I fell in love with Finland through Finnish movies, but you don’t get all the little details in a movie. I’ve been to England (which I love) and hope to visit Finland on my next trip across the pond. Cheers ... and keep the videos coming.
The ibuprofen being 400mg is actually really inconvenient for me as I regularly need to take 600mg which in the UK is easy just 3 200mg tables but when I go to the Netherlands I can’t really do it easily
UK better
I am finnish living at England. Opening account can be hard in UK. Gas bill is the best way to show that you have a address. Opening a business account was also really hard.
One point for UK for vineger chips.
I very rarely comment anything to your videos, but I have to say I liked this video. 😀 (not only cos Finland won)
Thanks for commenting today! I'm glad you enjoyed it
In most stores, you can actually choose to get the package delivered to your door during the ordering phase, it's just a bit more expensive. While normal postage can be as low as 3 euros depending on the size and weight (smartpost usually cheaper, where you take the package from the locker), it might cost 12 euros or more when delivered to your door.
Not sure if this depends on the stores, but bigger things like TV's over 40" will be delivered to the door directly. That's at least what happened when I ordered mine.
So i lived 9 years in London and rest of my 20years in finland, theres few things i'd like to add to your list.
In England you pay mobile internet usage for example 19.99 for 20gb data per month with (x amount speed), where as in finland you would pay 19.99 for unlimited data at 20mbit/s. Which is soo much better. Point to Finland.
Fast food. No discussion. Point to England.
Housing looks dull in england street after street looks similar, i like that every house comes with backyard but its too dull for my taste. Point to Finland.
Night life in England is top class, there are clubs and pubs everywhere and most of them are full every weekend. In Finland we only have handful of nightclubs to choose from. Point to England.
Full streets and dirty sidewalks are a turn off in England i really appreciate the calmness and cleanliness we have here in Finland. Point to Finland
Please between Finland 🇫🇮 and England 🏴 which country is better
*Point for Finland* : Dish racks in the kitchen cabinets. I hate having a huge pile of dishes and a soggy towel underneath.
*Point for England* : Everything is open as normal on Sundays, In Finland everything stops functioning on Sundays.
Also could have been just tampere but I am pretty sure you cannot get pain killers from normal super markets so you have to go to Apteekki, which often closes super early. I once had the largest headache and couldn't do anything about it. Another point while we're at it: meal deal and cheap food in general :) even water is 2 euros usually whereas here you can get it anywhere from 40p to a pound
Oona Tukia In Tampere, you can find a branch of Yliopiston Apteekki pharmacy that is open 7-24 every day. It is right in the centre, on Hämeenkatu, opposite to Sokos, so it is easy to get to by public transport from anywhere in Tampere.
Hey, thanks for the video! Could you explain what made you move to Finland? Was it something a bit out of your control or was it a conscious decision for a better quality of life etc?
Really interested to hear! Thanks and keep it up!
Some companies who rent apartments, don't take deposits at all or they are at most one month rent, usually less. If you rent from private landlords, the deposits are usually those, one to two months rent.
You didn’t mention which city you were talking about when comparing to apartment rental in Helsinki.
Only thing I would say about drugs is that in England u can get paracetamol, ibuprofen and/or antihistamines from all corner shops and supermarkets. In Finland, only licensed pharmacies sell them. So it's easier to find painkillers quickly in the UK.
There are less people in all of Finland than in London.
Having lived in the UK my whole life...it's a little bit shit. Finland has public transport that actually works and far less corruption.
Yes finland is better than england but it's not suprise because finland is one of the most best country in the world. I think only iceland, norway, switcherland, new zealand and australia is about same level than finland.
Australia? Might want to rethink that one.
You dont like?
They've got some pretty backwards laws.
You mean upside down?
I'm a Finn who has lived in Australia. Australia is extremely backwards compared to these modern European countries. It's like they're collectively 30 years behind of thinking.
Talking about painkillers, paracetamol (Panadol) costs like 3,50€-4,50€ here in Finland whereas same size package in the UK costs like 50p or even less. And in Finland you can get paracetamol only from pharmacies whereas in the UK you can buy it anywhere. :D
Recycle, don't flush ;-)
There are rental companies in Helsinki you only need to pay a basic deposit (e.g. €250 with Lumo, plus being able to move to other Lumo apartments and continuing your rental contract).
Shoes in the house in the UK is DISGUSTING. Especially with most house having carpet. All sorts of shite on shoes walked into carpets. *hurl*
Seriously? You're complaining about paying for banking in Finland? Have you compared the two? The cost itself is is more than covered by the Netbank verification system which is used for EVERYTHING to verify your identity. Britain? Two utility bills.... Try proving your identity to somewhere in the UK when living in Finland (which 99% does electronic bills)....bwahahahahahahaha! Also, UK banks get there money other ways, like the interest they make to spend three days clearing payments. And charging £25-30 to send money abroad (€6 here), etc., etc.
And you missed the oversink drying cabinet. And district heating... :-)
I love the awesome friendly, educated and helpful staff in Alko!
Ouch. That hurt.
Dave im waiting 4 u even if I watched this video 2 hours l8
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Dave Cad 😂
In UK there are also lock boxes to pick up your Amazon orders. They are at supermarkets so you can pick your package with groceries: it's great if you are not at home and your package is too big to fit through a letter box: much safer than a delivery man trying to find a place to hide it or find an honest, non-nosy neighbour who happens to be in.
Also, you can get 400 mg and even 800 mg ibuprofen in England from pharmacies. I cannot get 1000 mg ibuprofen tablets though.
I cannot comment about mobile phone Internet speeds - I guess most likely worse than in Finland - but making your phone into a hotspot depends on your phone technology. If your phone supports it you can make it into a hotspot in any country. However, old Victorian houses have thick walls where WiFi doesn't penetrate well. It was the problem at my work and also in my current flat as well; in my friend's house there is no connection two floors down without those plug-in signal boosters. It's the same problem as being in a valley, where the tower is on the other side.
I think that you can now get 1000mg (1g) painkillers in Finland
Really enjoyed this video Dave ! You should do a part 3 !
Hmm I have a Nordea debit card and it’s FOC....
Could be an age thing? I think most of the banks provide free service for people under 26-29, varying depending on the bank.
That is correct Ellen
Yeah I was working in Spain for around 2 months and that made me miss Finland's internet connection so bad
2:08 ouch that hurt :(
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Keeping score for myself here in America & was happy to see the final points were 9 to 3 with Finland winning by a landslide :D England scored points for the lower move in costs (most places here in the US expect first, last & a deposit), the lesser bank fees & the door-to-door deliveries, both of which I've become accustomed to (but could work around haha). That was fun. Kiitos! :D
Go to S-pankki there you wont pay no monthly fees from your debit card or online banking :)
If you order something delivered to your door in Finland, then it should most definitely always be delievered to your door. Only reason it wouldn't be is if you specifically asked it to be delivered somewhere else, or if it was some super specific, unusual package. You only have to go pick it up at the post office if you weren't home/didn't open the door when they brought it to you. If they just dropped the little note that asks you to go pick it up without even ringing the doorbell first, I think it's a problem specifically with whoever was personally delivering your package to you. That's not too uncommon to happen, but definitely something that shouldn't.
I just had some friends over from UK and they liked the way we fins recycle our bottles and cans. In the UK they apparently just throw everything in the thrash.
1point for Finland :)
Ouch. That hurt
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Outch! :'D Interesting to hear quite many same points i found out between finland and uk when i was there last year in exchange (and started to watch your videos during that time!). The people's crazy crossing, tabs, internet, drugs...
Have to mention that even tho the drugs were not so strong in uk, it was so much easier to buy some from normal store if you got to get something fast for normal headache or flu. Eating out and taxis were a lot cheaper in uk. But the data for phone was terribly expensive and I got sick of the moist room and carpet flooring after the wet winter, bad isolation in the apartments (temperature and noises), no hand shower (or "pidee") in any toilets etc. just to mention few unfortunate points, mostly small things that actually effect your life a lot!
It was after all a great experience and surely will value it more and more during years but still it also opened my eyes to realise how true the saying "to be born in finland is like winning in a lottery" sometimes is! Still love UK as a tourist and actually im gonna visit London at "juhannusviikko": Harry Potter studio tour, here I come for the second time! XD
But thanks for your videos, keep up the good work and stay as that positive person you are! :)
Also Finland doesn’t have Brexit lol. So another point to Finland.
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No, that's a point to England (UK). EU is making Finland bankrupt at the moment. As it is making the whole Europe (excluding Germany of course, it is the puppetmaster at the moment and collects).
@@jj981293486 germany is run by jews so is england so is finland usa russia poland etc. all what happend is mad eby zionist.
I lived in UK for 2 years. One thing that I liked better than in Finland was the amount of ATMs, it was super easy to find ATM if you needed cash.
One thing I did not like in England were bathrooms. For some reason it felt like they don't know how to build proper wet rooms in England. So many homes I went to had carpet or panel floor in bathroom and ventilation was either missing or was really bad
We ALL ALLWAYS wait strictly for the green light before crossing in finland, not just Helsinki. Everytime i see someone going against red light i instinctively give them the stink eye. I can't help it. You just don't go against it.
The rules that are respected by everyone will work the best. Besides to be honest I love an excuse to catch my breath a bit.
Maybe in Helsinki where the traffic is plenty it is practical to wait for green light. However in a place like Kuopio there is quite often very little traffic at certain hours where waiting for the green light is stupid as there are no cars coming from any direction and you are the only pedestrian on that crossing.
Dear God they at least turn the traffic light off on later hours so you do not have to wait on the lights when the place looks more deserted than present day Chernobyl.
The only thing is that over the counter meds cost an arm and a leg in Finland compared to UK... And you can't pick them up from the shops either (there is 400mg Ibuprofen in the pharmacy counter, hubby got me some). And don't you worry, when you are a millionaire you'll have some sort of customer deal with the bank to get bonuses to match the payments for the card and Internet banking....
Alko is a big player in European scale (like Swedish Systembolaget and Norwegian Vinmonopolet) so they have an advantige negotiating with Spanish wine producers etc. or whoever. Also Alko has rather low margin of wins so surprisingly you can buy quality wine or vodkas, whiskys, 25 year old cognac at reasonable prices in Finland. If those would be sold in private shops and supermarkets the prices would be at least 50% higher and supermarkets would introduce battlery acid- quality wines and such which can give you diarrhea. Hope those stay out of our country, I do not want right-wing extremists/libertalists to win this battle (kokoomus). My step-mother who lived in Germany for 25 years ('75-'00) said that there even the biggest supermarket chains did not have such a selection as Alko(like she was astonished you get Portuguese 'Vinho Verde' here, in Germany they asked people to bring it with them if travelled there as it was not available in Germany anywhere). And Germany has a pop. about 84 million peole contra Finnish 5.6 SO MAYBE it is not a bad thing on selected fields of business to have a monopoly. I paid 40 euros for a bottle of Bollinger in Alko and in Belgium it would have cost me twice as much. And Finlandia vodka worth 15 euros in tax-free cost 35 euros in London night-shop
In Helsinki the rent is very expensive but in smaller cities like Oulu (about 200 000 people living) its like a half of the prize or less than its in Helsinki
Ouch. Tuo sattui ;)
I'm moving from Ireland to Tampere in a few weeks. Things that interest me are education, women(yes I'm single), gyms, rental costs, saunas, and general fun. I think the fun has been sucked out of the UK and Ireland, it's gone so expensive to live and stressful.
the country has been on a general decline in prosperity and livelihood since 2018
If you are good looking, you will be hunted down here - Finnish women can be very assertive; they will come to you
God save the Queen! 🇬🇧🇬🇧
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Hello. Great vids dave. Im also dating a finnish lady. I have noticed a few different things between countries thats have blown mine or her mind. Taps was a big 1 with her. I stayed in muonio and travelled north and always had 4g which was awesome, im from norfolk in england and some places we dont even have 3g.....
1 thing that confused me in finland was when i done the washing up and put the plates etc in a cupboard above the sink to dry.. you need to do a snowmobile vid come winter.thabks for the decent vids soo far.
I think you should add Finland one more point for maksalaatikko. ;-)
YES. Jari. Very good point!
Dave Cad...Liver casserole? That’s awful food. U should take away one point cause that shitty food.🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤒🤒🤒😣
Dave Cad Have u ever tasted it?
Ive lived in Finland for 8 years now and you are so right!
I don't use those flush-able toilet paper rolls, because I heard they are not good for the pipes. They don't dissolve completely, and since it's thicker than paper, it CAN cause some trouble over time. I have no proof, though.
I think that's BS. Just put one of those rolls in a glass of water and see how well it turns into paper mash.
Ville Lepoaho riippuu täysin putkien kunnosta. Töölön alueella esim tosi vanhat putket niin eivät pysty vetämään noita rullia kunnolla 😀
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The paper mash builds up in size over time and eventually clogs the pipes and then you have to unclog them manually. There are loads of videos about this on yt
Yeah, and i heard the earth is flat
id imagine next time you take a dump the toilet paper is gonna flush away what might be sticking onto the sides of the pipes, even so I doubt its actually gonna clot anything and we would have higher change of the minerals in the water filling the pipes up with solid stone. which is actually what has happened in some areas in finland with very old pipes.
I love Finnish internet!
In our flat, you just plug the cable in and the internet works super well throughout our home.
And the best part? We don’t pay any extra for it!
It’s included in our rent, and has unlimited data.
It’s the best!
I don't trust the toilet roll things. If toilet paper alone can end up needing to be sorted out as solid waste in the water cleaning facilities there's no way a big thing like that can fully disintegrate enough to not be a nuisance for the people working at wastewater treatment. But that's just how I feel about it, at least they're way more flushable than pads and tampons which are NOT safe to flush (and contain all sorts on non-degradable stuff) but people still do it every day.
Spiralobsession Those toilet roll things are made the same material as the paper itself. If you put the roll into water and shake it a bit the roll will get into small paper pieces.
How do you feel about the royal family? It seems like majority of people in England love their Queen and fair enough since she is awesome!
Suomalaisille jotka ei tajuu: suomi voitti
Pyry Väisänen jos joku ei osaa sen vertaa englantia ehkä se ei kato tätä
Täh, mitä häh. Voitti vai?! Otetaas taas.
Keep up the great work, funny stuff! GO FINLAND! From Sweeeeden