I'm Portuguese and I am planning a trip to Helsinki! It's been more than 6 months that I'm saving money for that because definitely it's not cheap for my pockets 😅
@@pvahanen-dh5rt I was talking about my financial situation, not about criminality! I guess in Portugal, specially in big cities like Lisbon and Porto, it's much worse then in Helsinki, but I can not say that because I never been there!
My mom (born in the 1940s) has told me that cockroaches were actually very common in the countryside when she was young. And I’m from northern Finland. So it’s not about the climate. It’s more to do with modern housing.
The 12th is saunas. Three million saunas - considered a luxury almost everywhere else! (Northern Russia has their banjas which I wouldn't even call saunas, and Sweden has 1/10th of the amount).
S-group grocery stores all have pretty similiar selection and tend to be slightly cheaper but K-group has more leeway what to sell per individual store and often you can find more selection from local products, like meat pies from local bakeries where neighboring S-market has frozen meat pies from Fazers factory that they just heat onsite. It's down to differences in the Groups contracts. S-market have to sell certain selection that is decided by the group and the K-markets are more like individual stores with common pool to order selection but more autonomy to go outside of the pool
@@spugelo359 If you live at an appartment house you might not have one (because of the central heating system). But I live in an one-family-house and I had my first one like 20 years ago. Now I live in a third house (in a row) with an air heat pump. Couple of years ago there were also peaks with electricity prices and those people who didn't own one (and used electricity for heating their houses) ordered one. Waiting times were like half a year and there were many articles about it. Nowadays there are some old people and some with oil heating systems without it, but the others have quite often an air heat pump.
AC is pretty common in newer buildings. I live in an apartment building that was built in 2021 and we have AC in every apartment. Some of my friends who live in older buildings don't have AC, but out of the friends who live in buildings built in the 2010s or 2020s, most do have AC
Haha, that's why I don't travel to Lithuania during the shoulder season. They don’t turn on the heating in October! I think Finland is one of the first to turn on central heating. I went to the UK and Ireland in August, and it was a bit cold, but they turned on the heating for me in August!
Hi, nice video again. 😊 I don't mean to be rude or anything, but as a nature enthusiast I need to point out that poisonous animals mean like if you eat the animal, it can poison you and its flesh is poisonous, but venomous animals are like the viper, its bite can harm you. 😄 The only venomous animal in Finland is the viper (Vipera berus). But we do have many poisonous mushroom and plants. I'm glad too that we don't have those big cockroaches that many countries have. 😅
I agree with you. It's not easy to find a public free toilet in Finland in my opinion. There are several near me, if I want to drive to a Prisma or ABC. But in the city center, I don't know where to find one. Oh, and I have rented and lived in six flats or apartments. None had air condition (cooling) in the summer.
In city centers department stores such as Sokos often have free public toilets. Except in Helsinki. They don't want poor people to use toilets or something. And air cooling was all but unneccessary before the climate change. The summers and winters are nothing like they used to be.
At least in my case I have always found a free toilet in every Hesburger and most of the time in McDonald's. In Lahti I had to use a code in my receipt to get to the toilet in McD's but that has been the only one so far.
Tourism: Finland is a pretty big country (8th largest in Europe, just a little smaller than Japan), so unfortunately unless you live near Helsinki, it isn't all that easy to travel abroad. From many parts of the country you do need to allocate almost one full day mainly for travelling to the airport, being at the airport, and flying to your destination, even if it's a destination a short flight away. If you live north-west, you can go to Sweden easily. If you live along the eastern border, even when the border was open, you still would've needed a visa to go to russia (and frankly there isn't much there north of Viipuri). Natural disasters: I have experienced one (1) earthquake in Finland. It was just a loud bang and the house shook once. There are about a dozen earthquakes per year, but they are not strong in Finland. Most cannot be felt by people. There is one venomous snake in Finland, but it's unlikely to kill you even you get bitten. You should still seek medical attention if this happens. Public transport: 100% agree that Japanese public transport is better. I think in Finland we are limited in what we can get because of the small population. Grocery stores: I think it is common in Western and/or developed countries to have big supermarkets where you can buy pretty much anything. Maybe this is not as common in non-Western or developing countries.
It's quite easy to travel abroad by ship from Helsinki, Turku and Vaasa if you want to visit in Sweden or Estonia and even Germany across the Baltic Sea every day in 30 hours (Helsinki - Travemünde).
@@lucone2937 True, but to actually fly somewhere further you generally need to go to Helsinki-Vantaa. And the cruises are not quick trips like going to Tallinn from Helsinki.
Yeah, don't quote me on this, but I believe there are only some venomous spiders and one of our 2 snake species. All of them are small and far from a one way trip to the morgue unless you're a very small child when you're bitten
Not all countries have supermarkets where you can buy a bicycle, ceiling lamp, television and all the food at the same time. That's why the Kenyan lady is amazed that Prismas and K-Citymarkets offer all kind of house and living products.
You can collect berries, mushrooms and camp for 3 days on private land just like everywhere.. (exception to that rule are some military exercise areas and Russian boarder region) Just don't bother anyone and it's allright..
How long does it take to travel from center of Tokyo into the nearest forest and wilderness to take a hike? 10:29 Finland has Viper snakes, Finland has wasps and bees that can sting you. But avoid Ticks in the nature of Finland. Because some Ticks carry borreliosis and Tick-borne encephalitis.
I think that when it comes to public transit we have to take into consideration population and population density. The greater Kyoto metropolitan area for example has a population of 3.8 million people, Helsinki's metropolitan area has around 1.6 million people. So I'd say that Helsinki's public transit is impressive considering how small the population is that it serves. Especially considering that the metro although it's technically 2 lines is basically 1 line and at rush hour metro trains come like every 2 minutes. Also Finland has bus stops everywhere, even in the countryside with very low population density. Also I lived in Okayama for a while and the public transit there just wasn't nearly as good in my opinion compared to that of Helsinki.
I wish they'd turn on the central heating already, but I live in cheap student housing and they're skimping on everything😅granted I'm pretty sure basically everywhere else it's on already.
I'm not sure if it is something you would like to talk about but earthquakes are something that basically no Finns get to ever experience so I think that could be something you could make an intresting video for us Finns. And any any other watchers you may have in places where you don't get earthquakes.
@@Sayumi820 The quality of food is good. Do I need Kobe meat, caviar or truffles?- No There are only 3 major grocery store chains in Finland: "S-market", "K-kauppa" and Lidl. 1 or 2 more chains would improve the selection of goods and most likely it would help the prices reduce. - I would be so happy if a Japanese chain would enter Finland .
And there are very few toilets in Finland compared to Japan, for example. A good example is Japanese train stations, where you can always go to toilet after the ticket gate. In Finland that's impossible.
Thank you very much, it was very nice to listen to this, and you are a very good ambassador for Finland :) Nice work as always!
Thanks a lot!
Thank you Daiki-san! After 15years of living in Japan Kobe, I miss eating battera-sushi here in Finland
I'm Portuguese and I am planning a trip to Helsinki! It's been more than 6 months that I'm saving money for that because definitely it's not cheap for my pockets 😅
@@pvahanen-dh5rt I was talking about my financial situation, not about criminality! I guess in Portugal, specially in big cities like Lisbon and Porto, it's much worse then in Helsinki, but I can not say that because I never been there!
@@ritamoniz413Don't care about the comment above. He/she probably has a really bad day.... Just “fill you pockets“ and book a trip. Welcome! 😸
@@haneski8020 kiitos 😀
Warm welcome! Or cold, if you come in the winter... ;)
I hope you have a great trip in Helsinki!
My mom (born in the 1940s) has told me that cockroaches were actually very common in the countryside when she was young. And I’m from northern Finland. So it’s not about the climate. It’s more to do with modern housing.
The 12th is saunas. Three million saunas - considered a luxury almost everywhere else! (Northern Russia has their banjas which I wouldn't even call saunas, and Sweden has 1/10th of the amount).
Tap water is very hard (contains lots of minerals) in many countries, that's why it tastes bad. In Finland, water is almost always soft.
Good point!
S-group grocery stores all have pretty similiar selection and tend to be slightly cheaper but K-group has more leeway what to sell per individual store and often you can find more selection from local products, like meat pies from local bakeries where neighboring S-market has frozen meat pies from Fazers factory that they just heat onsite.
It's down to differences in the Groups contracts. S-market have to sell certain selection that is decided by the group and the K-markets are more like individual stores with common pool to order selection but more autonomy to go outside of the pool
I see, thanks for the good info! That's why some big K-markets have many Asian food selections.
Yeah, I do not think AC is common in Finland. We have mostly central heating in apartment buildings, but no AC.
Many houses have air heat pump nowadays: you can use it like ac during summer time.
@@haneski8020 How many is this many? I've yet to see one.
@@spugelo359 If you live at an appartment house you might not have one (because of the central heating system). But I live in an one-family-house and I had my first one like 20 years ago. Now I live in a third house (in a row) with an air heat pump. Couple of years ago there were also peaks with electricity prices and those people who didn't own one (and used electricity for heating their houses) ordered one. Waiting times were like half a year and there were many articles about it. Nowadays there are some old people and some with oil heating systems without it, but the others have quite often an air heat pump.
AC is pretty common in newer buildings. I live in an apartment building that was built in 2021 and we have AC in every apartment. Some of my friends who live in older buildings don't have AC, but out of the friends who live in buildings built in the 2010s or 2020s, most do have AC
Haha, that's why I don't travel to Lithuania during the shoulder season. They don’t turn on the heating in October! I think Finland is one of the first to turn on central heating. I went to the UK and Ireland in August, and it was a bit cold, but they turned on the heating for me in August!
Hi, nice video again. 😊
I don't mean to be rude or anything, but as a nature enthusiast I need to point out that poisonous animals mean like if you eat the animal, it can poison you and its flesh is poisonous, but venomous animals are like the viper, its bite can harm you. 😄 The only venomous animal in Finland is the viper (Vipera berus). But we do have many poisonous mushroom and plants.
I'm glad too that we don't have those big cockroaches that many countries have. 😅
I mixed them up :D
@@DAIKIFinlandLife it happens 😄
有益で楽しいビデオです。楽しい週末をお過ごしください。❤
ありがとうございます。
I am Finnish. Thank you for your analysis. I agree on everything, Daiki. I feel just the same as a native Finnish citizen.
Thanks for watching!
I agree with you. It's not easy to find a public free toilet in Finland in my opinion. There are several near me, if I want to drive to a Prisma or ABC. But in the city center, I don't know where to find one. Oh, and I have rented and lived in six flats or apartments. None had air condition (cooling) in the summer.
In city centers department stores such as Sokos often have free public toilets. Except in Helsinki. They don't want poor people to use toilets or something. And air cooling was all but unneccessary before the climate change. The summers and winters are nothing like they used to be.
there is free toilets in libraries which are usually in city center also in smaller cities
At least in my case I have always found a free toilet in every Hesburger and most of the time in McDonald's. In Lahti I had to use a code in my receipt to get to the toilet in McD's but that has been the only one so far.
Tourism: Finland is a pretty big country (8th largest in Europe, just a little smaller than Japan), so unfortunately unless you live near Helsinki, it isn't all that easy to travel abroad. From many parts of the country you do need to allocate almost one full day mainly for travelling to the airport, being at the airport, and flying to your destination, even if it's a destination a short flight away. If you live north-west, you can go to Sweden easily. If you live along the eastern border, even when the border was open, you still would've needed a visa to go to russia (and frankly there isn't much there north of Viipuri).
Natural disasters: I have experienced one (1) earthquake in Finland. It was just a loud bang and the house shook once. There are about a dozen earthquakes per year, but they are not strong in Finland. Most cannot be felt by people.
There is one venomous snake in Finland, but it's unlikely to kill you even you get bitten. You should still seek medical attention if this happens.
Public transport: 100% agree that Japanese public transport is better. I think in Finland we are limited in what we can get because of the small population.
Grocery stores: I think it is common in Western and/or developed countries to have big supermarkets where you can buy pretty much anything. Maybe this is not as common in non-Western or developing countries.
It's quite easy to travel abroad by ship from Helsinki, Turku and Vaasa if you want to visit in Sweden or Estonia and even Germany across the Baltic Sea every day in 30 hours (Helsinki - Travemünde).
@@lucone2937 True, but to actually fly somewhere further you generally need to go to Helsinki-Vantaa. And the cruises are not quick trips like going to Tallinn from Helsinki.
@@Silveirias I think there are, like, six international airports in Finland but I am too lazy to check, so I might be wrong.
@@lassesaikkonen501 And apart from Helsinki-Vantaa, the selection of destinations at each is pretty limited.
Poisonous is when you ingest something. Venomous is when they bite you. There are some venomous animals in Finland but they're pretty tame.
Yeah, Ex-wifes are probably the most toxic things you can find here..
Yeah, don't quote me on this, but I believe there are only some venomous spiders and one of our 2 snake species. All of them are small and far from a one way trip to the morgue unless you're a very small child when you're bitten
フィンランドに住んでいるなんて素晴らしいですね、とても良い経験ですね！👍
Not all countries have supermarkets where you can buy a bicycle, ceiling lamp, television and all the food at the same time. That's why the Kenyan lady is amazed that Prismas and K-Citymarkets offer all kind of house and living products.
I've heard so many Japanese people say they miss conbini when they are abroad. I can't wait to visit them when I finally get to Japan 😁
Haha yeah, I'm sure you'll like it!
You can collect berries, mushrooms and camp for 3 days on private land just like everywhere..
(exception to that rule are some military exercise areas and Russian boarder region)
Just don't bother anyone and it's allright..
How long does it take to travel from center of Tokyo into the nearest forest and wilderness to take a hike?
10:29 Finland has Viper snakes, Finland has wasps and bees that can sting you. But avoid Ticks in the nature of Finland. Because some Ticks carry borreliosis and Tick-borne encephalitis.
I think that when it comes to public transit we have to take into consideration population and population density. The greater Kyoto metropolitan area for example has a population of 3.8 million people, Helsinki's metropolitan area has around 1.6 million people. So I'd say that Helsinki's public transit is impressive considering how small the population is that it serves. Especially considering that the metro although it's technically 2 lines is basically 1 line and at rush hour metro trains come like every 2 minutes. Also Finland has bus stops everywhere, even in the countryside with very low population density. Also I lived in Okayama for a while and the public transit there just wasn't nearly as good in my opinion compared to that of Helsinki.
Also greater Kyoto is part of the even larger Keihanshin metropolitan area, which has a population multiple times that of Finland as a whole
I wish they'd turn on the central heating already, but I live in cheap student housing and they're skimping on everything😅granted I'm pretty sure basically everywhere else it's on already.
I'm not sure if it is something you would like to talk about but earthquakes are something that basically no Finns get to ever experience so I think that could be something you could make an intresting video for us Finns. And any any other watchers you may have in places where you don't get earthquakes.
I'm wondering what to talk about it.
@@DAIKIFinlandLifemaybe about which way japan has worked to make things earthquake safe or things to think before and for the occasion it happens.
Our earthquakes are tiny, in my half a century of living here I've felt one quite lightly - that was a big one by our standards.
List of 11 things? - kinda odd number. Maybe number 11 is just a joke from the person, who wrote the article? There should be more competition.
You mean competition so that there would be more high-quality articles?
@@Sayumi820 The quality of food is good. Do I need Kobe meat, caviar or truffles?- No There are only 3 major grocery store chains in Finland: "S-market", "K-kauppa" and Lidl. 1 or 2 more chains would improve the selection of goods and most likely it would help the prices reduce. - I would be so happy if a Japanese chain would enter Finland .
Unfortunately you can find free public toilet on the airport only (and maube bigger gastations as well)
Ans some big shopping malls.
And there are very few toilets in Finland compared to Japan, for example. A good example is Japanese train stations, where you can always go to toilet after the ticket gate. In Finland that's impossible.