Non-natives talking about our country is really quality content for me. Thank you and thanks to algorithms to recommend this vid 😁 I think everyone should listen to what foreigners are saying about their homecountry!
There is one snake in Finland which is poisonous, very rarely deadly though (would almost require some pre-condition). Quite a few deadly mushrooms though, so if you go out and about exercising your "joka-miehen oikeus" picking mushrooms (I recommend a lot), know what you pick.
There is wasp in Finland that kill 1 person a year on average. Wasps can be deadly for people with allergy but not for normal healthy person. It is same with the venomous snake Kyy or Adder in English. When it comes to mushrooms, you can pick boletes without fearing any major health issues. Some of them are really tasty but some taste terrible and you might give you bellyache. Neverthless, you won't get any dangerous or permanent health issues from them. Regardless to this I do advice the same not to pick and eat any mushrooms you are not 100% sure to what species it is. Same with the berries and some plants. There are some extremely dangerous and poisonous berries, plants and mushrooms in Finland. Myrkkykeiso or cowbane is for example lethally poisonous and it looks a lot like parsley and some have mistakenly though it's root to be a celery. There is known cases in which cows or children have died after eating myrkkykeiso. Also, correction to the same part of the video. There is two very common species of cockroaches in Finland (Ectobius sylvestris and Ectobius lapponicus) and they look the same as those you can see for example in warmer countries. However, those things live outside, are much smaller - usually around 1cm long - and doesn't cause any harm to humans. Therefore, people notice them rarely and even Finns don't necessarily know that there are native cockroaches in Finland if they are not interested about biology or insects. However, you can find other not so nice insects from Finnish apartments. One that is not necessarily a harmful but a bit disgusting one is called silverfish. Silverfish are usually few cm long and live in sewers but roam your apartment when it is dark. You won't find it from all household but they are common in bigger cities and towns where there is a common sewerage that silverfish can use to spread. Best time to see them is when you lit lights on early morning in toilet or kitchen as they move during the night but haven't gone back to sewer yet. If there is lots of them, you can see one even in the middle of the day. Lived once in an apartment where there was 5-10 silverfishes roaming around every morning and some even in the middle of the day. Last bit was one running on a dinner table while I was having a breakfast. I moved away after couple months.
Also one spider, but it need to bite thin part of skin, like near eyes, and poison level is something like honeybee so you need practically be allergic to those poisons to make it lethal for full grown person. And we also have antidote for all those called kyypakkaus ''viper package'' If you are seriously allergic, also epipen or/and other medical equipment you need and basicaly you can do anything that others can do.
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
@@DAIKIFinlandLife I Think Lidl, the third option is the best and the cheapest, their grocery bills tend to be 20-30 percent lower than in K or S marts. The selection can be so and so though.
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!
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!
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.
@@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
I think this applies to public spaces more than living. You go anywhere in Finland in the summer, you can find a store or an establishment to cool off, most places have AC and even public transport has it. If you've traveled anywhere else in Europe, this is not the case and as someone who now lives in Vienna, this truly is one of those things I took for granted.
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.
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.
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).
Most Finns live for their whole life without ever experiencing an earthquake. And those that experience it celeberate the occasion because earthquakes in Finland are more like "Wow! I noticed that." instead of "This is scary." There was 2.6-magnitude earthquake in Mäntsälä in 2011 which is huge by Finnish standards but nonexistant for many other countries.
I remember that Mäntsälä earthquake. I was visiting my mother in Hyvinkää then and we felt the quake. It caused a mild tremor but nothing serious. And as you said, we weren't scared. We were impressed, like "Wow! An actual earthquake!" 😂😂
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..
A perspective of a Finn who stayed abroad for a few semesters: I mostly missed salmiakki and saunas. It's funny, I rarely buy salmiakki here, but when I was out there it was one of the best things to get in packages from home. And also ruisleipä. Now that I'm back here, though, I miss the English pub culture. You could just get a pot of tea and some snacks and hang out with friends in a really pretty old building. We don't really have similar public spaces here.
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.
Tasty water?? Water's supposed to taste like water right? RIGHT? 🤨 Remember reading somewhere, that Finnish tapwater is more clean&pure, than bottled water in the U.S
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
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.
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. 😅
We do have wasps (venomous) and they can be deadly to some people (allergic), though only for one person per year according to statistics. Moose, horse and dog are far more deadlier beasts in Finland.
@@66hss well, if we count every insect and spiders, then yes, we have many venomous animals. Every spiders bite is venomous, but because we don't have the most dangerous ones, the venom does not normally affect people.
It’s interesting to hear that Lithuania is still faithfully following old USSR tradition to turn on heating by dates and not by actual temperature outside 😂 I have been living in Swden some time and heating here is also turned on whenever it’s actually required. Usually it happens in September or October. Depends of weather.
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.
Education is technically free here, but if you go to University to get a degree or for a vocational school, unless you have your parents covering it or work part time, you have to get a student loan to cover your living expenses, which can go to as high as 850 euros per month now. That means that gaining that max rate, 3 years of education, which is a normal time for a normal degree, could rack up a massive 25 500 euro debt + intrests, considering you come out on time.
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.
Winters like in Finland would be considered natural disasters in most countries, but we are prepared to them. In the history, though, there have been some colder winters (and even summers), which have taken their toll.
I previously lived in Japan (Hokuriku area) and they had very efficient winter maintenance with running water outlets in the road. Compared with the small town in Finland where I live now, it was better. Sometimes I have been pushing my child in the stroller and I have to go a very long way around because the footpaths are blocked. My Finnish town also doesn't have great public transport. I think Finland and Japan's public transport is roughly equal - I have had problems with both, but it's quite rare in both cases.
The bedrock in Finland is two billion years old. It's extremely stable. Natural disasters exists but they're puny as in small tornados that can destroy a few buildings or a hectare of forest. They can occur in any part of the country nearly always in the tail end of the summer in August. Extreme cold spells with the temperature around -45 C or -40 C can occur in the northern part of the country in the dead of the winter. They may indirectly cause fires in older buildings due to high power consumption if the electrical systems are nearing the end of their life. Perhaps the only real natural disasters are the spring floods in the northwestern flat regions. Even our forest fires tend to be quite tame.
Olen suomalainen joka on matkustellut sen verran että myönnän nämä kaikki. Kiitos muistutuksesta. Usein syksyisin mietin vain että täällä on liian pimeää, muuten nautin kyllä kotimaastani. Hyvä näkökulma koulutukseen.Itselläni on samanlaisia ajatuksia. Toivottavasti koulutus säilyisi ilmaisena. virhetietoa oli että täällä ei olisi myrkyllisiä eläimiä. Kyy on ainut myrkyllinen käärmeemme ja sekin on kohta uhanalainen. Kiinassa asuessani todellakin kaipasin villiä luontoa, jota ei käytännössä ollut ollenkaan pekingin lähistöllä. jopa kaupungin puistoissa oli pääsymaksu. vähän niinkuin Hämeenpuistoon mennessä joutuisi maksamaan 10 senttiä tai kiertämään sen.Puita ja kasvillisuutta viljelmiä ja pihoja kyllä oli, mutta ei luonto-alueita johon olisi vaikka voinut mennä lukemaan kirjaa. Uimisesta jäi outo kokemus kun olisi ollut jossain sardiini marinadissa. Veden väri oli vihreää ja ihmiset niin tiheässä että joku kosketti minua noin 3 min välein. Tämä kokemus siis kiinan matkalta. En enää ihmettele miksi ulkomaalaiset eivät osaa uida.
Just to be clear jokamiehenoikeudet/everyman's right DO apply also on privately owned land. Where you are not free to go is actual private yards arround people's houses, pastures or farmed fields during growing season, but if the farmer owns forest next to the field you can absolutely go there. You don't need permission and owner can't forbid you.
The public toilet thing varies massively inside Finland. Near Helsinki there are a lot of public toilets that require payment and are generally extremely dirty. However, in the rest of the country that is very rare and they are in very good condition Japan however, would easily be the number one with public toilets and their availability, even in some combini. If only they were all of the modern type of toilet and not the washiki toilets which most people refuse to use, unless there is no other option Japan would get 95/100 from me for public toilets and especially for their availability and cleanliness. Finland would get 90/100 if Helsinki Metropolitan was excluded, Helsinki would get 60/100 Also, Finnish homes always has air conditioning, just usually not air cooling. The air conditioning includes way more than just cooling. It includes air filtering, air pressure control, air circulation, moisture control, co2 removal, air flow design and similar things Because we build so tightly insulated buiödings and build so much underground, Finland might be one of the most air conditioned countries in the World, but just not for cooling, which everyone always immediately thinks that AC means Finns don't usually consider going to Estonia, Sweden or Norway as going abroad. If a Finn would say he went abroad, and he went to Tallinn or Haaparanta, people would laugh you out of the room 😂 Also, Japan easily has the World's best public transport, so thinking Finland's public transport is pretty meh is only natural 😂
Mainitsit tuosta että kolikoilla maksaminen ärsyttää, korjaa toki jos olen väärässä mutta eikö japani ole aika vahvasti myös käteisyhteiskunta jossa et pysty maksamaan kortilla monessakaan paikassa? Niin mistä nyt sitten tuo että kolikot ärsyttää?
There are lots of forests but you cant go there because you'll be eaten alive by mosquitos. Everyman's right is a curse, we used to have a detached house with garden without walls, like is often the case in Finland, and we constantly had people walking inside the property.We had to sell and moved to a flat.I really miss living in a normal country with big high walls and barbed wire and CCTVs and possibly landmines around your property.
Friendly behaviour is luxury in Finland. Shop-workers are usually rude. What comes to public toilets ; not all of them are free. In fact, it is difficult to find public toilets here, free or not.
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 would rather pay a small toilet fee and visit clean restroom than use some broken down messy cabin with pee all over the place you often find in Finland. Some pay-to-poop toilets in Germany and France have been very nice for my mildly upset traveller stomach and I've never found even something relatively similar from Finland. Paid toilets could still be free for people with intestinal problems.
Fun video, but since the headline was “compared to some other countries” I find it kind of unfair comparison on public transportation . Japan is so technologically advanced and has a huge population, it’s no wonder public transportation is amazing there. But it really isn’t in many other countries. And it’s not even good in some places in Finland.
What sucks about toilets in Finland is that yes, public toilets are free, and that's great of course. But (for example) a shopping mall might not have a PUBLIC toilet in every floor. In one shopping mall I regularly went to at one point, there was one public toilet, in the third floor, and another toilet in the bottom floor. There is a store in the bottom floor, which is important to note because: At one point that toilet was public, and therefore free and openly accessible. But then some brainiacs had the incredible idea of making this public toilet the store's toilet! Which means it's only available to customers. Now you have to ask for a store employee to open the toilet for you so you can use it. :D What the hell? Anyway now the only free toilet is in the third floor, and by the way that's the only public toilet for about a square mile. Yeah, just go up three floors of stairs, even if you need to go RIGHT NOW. But alternatively you can use the nearby bars toilets. The employees PROBABLY wont mind. (And once a restaurant clerk let me use the toilet for free, which was very kind of her, since that wasn't the restaurant policy.)
@@AlcesteGray In the wild there are forest cockroaches and dusky cockroaches. German cockroaches (russakka) are most commonly found among human habitats, but there are some other species as well. You can even find some news articles from google.
@@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 .
Please stop lumping the Baltic countries into one pile. We are not the same. Not you personally but i mean this for youtubers in general. People see something in one of the Baltic countries. And they talk about it as if it was a Baltic thing. But we are three different countries. And if you see sth in one of us, it does not mean that it is the same in other Baltic countries. We have huge solidarity between use. But we are very different. In Estonia, everything is perfectly warm in winter. Yes, November and April can be problematic. It can not be the season yet or anymore, but the weather can be quite cold. But then you can turn on electric radiators. Most of those points of luxury we have in Estonia as well. We do have problems with air conditioning though. But it is quite annoying. In so many videos people talk about things in Finland that they say are only characteristic of Finland. And most of those things are characteristic of Estonia just as much. It is as if we do not exist. Like the thing about accessibility of nature. Same thing in Estonia Etc, etc. etc. All accessible, everyone's right, no poisonous or dangerous animal, people picking berries and mushrooms, nature for free (can it actually be any other way?) Cockroaches are not insects, buy the way. They are in the same group with spiders Education is free in most of Europe, as well as medicine. Also, we have great dairy products in Estonia. I think that Scandinavian and Estonian dairy products are the best in the world
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.
In libraries there are free toilets, but they have varying opening hours depending on when's the library open, mostly on sundays closed and saturdays mostly open before 4 pm. Libraries seem to often be build relatively near train-, bus-, or metrostations or shopping malls. So please find a library if you're in a pinch😅🙂
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Non-natives talking about our country is really quality content for me. Thank you and thanks to algorithms to recommend this vid 😁
I think everyone should listen to what foreigners are saying about their homecountry!
Thanks for watching and your open-minded opinion :)
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!
There is one snake in Finland which is poisonous, very rarely deadly though (would almost require some pre-condition). Quite a few deadly mushrooms though, so if you go out and about exercising your "joka-miehen oikeus" picking mushrooms (I recommend a lot), know what you pick.
There is wasp in Finland that kill 1 person a year on average. Wasps can be deadly for people with allergy but not for normal healthy person. It is same with the venomous snake Kyy or Adder in English. When it comes to mushrooms, you can pick boletes without fearing any major health issues. Some of them are really tasty but some taste terrible and you might give you bellyache. Neverthless, you won't get any dangerous or permanent health issues from them. Regardless to this I do advice the same not to pick and eat any mushrooms you are not 100% sure to what species it is.
Same with the berries and some plants. There are some extremely dangerous and poisonous berries, plants and mushrooms in Finland. Myrkkykeiso or cowbane is for example lethally poisonous and it looks a lot like parsley and some have mistakenly though it's root to be a celery. There is known cases in which cows or children have died after eating myrkkykeiso.
Also, correction to the same part of the video. There is two very common species of cockroaches in Finland (Ectobius sylvestris and Ectobius lapponicus) and they look the same as those you can see for example in warmer countries. However, those things live outside, are much smaller - usually around 1cm long - and doesn't cause any harm to humans. Therefore, people notice them rarely and even Finns don't necessarily know that there are native cockroaches in Finland if they are not interested about biology or insects.
However, you can find other not so nice insects from Finnish apartments. One that is not necessarily a harmful but a bit disgusting one is called silverfish. Silverfish are usually few cm long and live in sewers but roam your apartment when it is dark. You won't find it from all household but they are common in bigger cities and towns where there is a common sewerage that silverfish can use to spread. Best time to see them is when you lit lights on early morning in toilet or kitchen as they move during the night but haven't gone back to sewer yet. If there is lots of them, you can see one even in the middle of the day. Lived once in an apartment where there was 5-10 silverfishes roaming around every morning and some even in the middle of the day. Last bit was one running on a dinner table while I was having a breakfast. I moved away after couple months.
some really good one mushrooms, ones what make you tourist for rest of day
Also one spider, but it need to bite thin part of skin, like near eyes, and poison level is something like honeybee so you need practically be allergic to those poisons to make it lethal for full grown person. And we also have antidote for all those called kyypakkaus ''viper package'' If you are seriously allergic, also epipen or/and other medical equipment you need and basicaly you can do anything that others can do.
Venomous. 😎 In the same way as you don't say that snakes "sting".
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.
@@DAIKIFinlandLife I Think Lidl, the third option is the best and the cheapest, their grocery bills tend to be 20-30 percent lower than in K or S marts. The selection can be so and so though.
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!
Thank you Daiki-san! After 15years of living in Japan Kobe, I miss eating battera-sushi here in Finland
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!
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.
Libraries and museums usually have free toilets.
There’s extremely clean and overall pleasant free public toilet in for example Makkaratalo (City Centre Mall) in Helsinki
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
I think this applies to public spaces more than living. You go anywhere in Finland in the summer, you can find a store or an establishment to cool off, most places have AC and even public transport has it. If you've traveled anywhere else in Europe, this is not the case and as someone who now lives in Vienna, this truly is one of those things I took for granted.
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.
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.
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!
@@NiiloPaasivirtadepends where you live.
Banja on sauna venäjällä ja niitä on melkein joka paikassa Venäjällä
@@mnbvcxzlkjhgfdsapoiuytre-pm9wl There is a huge difference. A private sauna is indeed a luxury in Russia.
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!
Most Finns live for their whole life without ever experiencing an earthquake. And those that experience it celeberate the occasion because earthquakes in Finland are more like "Wow! I noticed that." instead of "This is scary."
There was 2.6-magnitude earthquake in Mäntsälä in 2011 which is huge by Finnish standards but nonexistant for many other countries.
I see, that's interesting.
I remember that Mäntsälä earthquake. I was visiting my mother in Hyvinkää then and we felt the quake. It caused a mild tremor but nothing serious. And as you said, we weren't scared. We were impressed, like "Wow! An actual earthquake!" 😂😂
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..
Privately owned land, but not next to anyone's home or business. Sometimes some foreigners misunderstand this.
1-2 days camping is written in the books😊
A perspective of a Finn who stayed abroad for a few semesters: I mostly missed salmiakki and saunas. It's funny, I rarely buy salmiakki here, but when I was out there it was one of the best things to get in packages from home. And also ruisleipä.
Now that I'm back here, though, I miss the English pub culture. You could just get a pot of tea and some snacks and hang out with friends in a really pretty old building. We don't really have similar public spaces here.
I see, interesting to hear about the pub culture.
This was actually quite pleaseant video to watch. I liked that your accent is qutie similar to finnish. Very easy to follow.
Thank you!
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.
Tasty water?? Water's supposed to taste like water right? RIGHT? 🤨
Remember reading somewhere, that Finnish tapwater is more clean&pure,
than bottled water in the U.S
True about the tourism i go to sweden and norway 5times atleast a year and its so easy it dosent even feel like going to another country
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
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。
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.
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 😄
We do have wasps (venomous) and they can be deadly to some people (allergic), though only for one person per year according to statistics. Moose, horse and dog are far more deadlier beasts in Finland.
@@66hss well, if we count every insect and spiders, then yes, we have many venomous animals. Every spiders bite is venomous, but because we don't have the most dangerous ones, the venom does not normally affect people.
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It’s interesting to hear that Lithuania is still faithfully following old USSR tradition to turn on heating by dates and not by actual temperature outside 😂 I have been living in Swden some time and heating here is also turned on whenever it’s actually required. Usually it happens in September or October. Depends of weather.
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!
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.
Education is technically free here, but if you go to University to get a degree or for a vocational school, unless you have your parents covering it or work part time, you have to get a student loan to cover your living expenses, which can go to as high as 850 euros per month now. That means that gaining that max rate, 3 years of education, which is a normal time for a normal degree, could rack up a massive 25 500 euro debt + intrests, considering you come out on time.
Yes true, but still tuition fee is free...which is soooo luxury for many students abroad.
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
Public transport in Japan is probably the best in the whole world so in whole world scale, it's an everyday thing that's luxury in most countries.
Winters like in Finland would be considered natural disasters in most countries, but we are prepared to them. In the history, though, there have been some colder winters (and even summers), which have taken their toll.
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！👍
I previously lived in Japan (Hokuriku area) and they had very efficient winter maintenance with running water outlets in the road. Compared with the small town in Finland where I live now, it was better. Sometimes I have been pushing my child in the stroller and I have to go a very long way around because the footpaths are blocked. My Finnish town also doesn't have great public transport. I think Finland and Japan's public transport is roughly equal - I have had problems with both, but it's quite rare in both cases.
Thanks for sharing your experience!
The bedrock in Finland is two billion years old. It's extremely stable. Natural disasters exists but they're puny as in small tornados that can destroy a few buildings or a hectare of forest. They can occur in any part of the country nearly always in the tail end of the summer in August. Extreme cold spells with the temperature around -45 C or -40 C can occur in the northern part of the country in the dead of the winter. They may indirectly cause fires in older buildings due to high power consumption if the electrical systems are nearing the end of their life. Perhaps the only real natural disasters are the spring floods in the northwestern flat regions. Even our forest fires tend to be quite tame.
Olen suomalainen joka on matkustellut sen verran että myönnän nämä kaikki. Kiitos muistutuksesta. Usein syksyisin mietin vain että täällä on liian pimeää, muuten nautin kyllä kotimaastani. Hyvä näkökulma koulutukseen.Itselläni on samanlaisia ajatuksia. Toivottavasti koulutus säilyisi ilmaisena. virhetietoa oli että täällä ei olisi myrkyllisiä eläimiä. Kyy on ainut myrkyllinen käärmeemme ja sekin on kohta uhanalainen.
Kiinassa asuessani todellakin kaipasin villiä luontoa, jota ei käytännössä ollut ollenkaan pekingin lähistöllä. jopa kaupungin puistoissa oli pääsymaksu. vähän niinkuin Hämeenpuistoon mennessä joutuisi maksamaan 10 senttiä tai kiertämään sen.Puita ja kasvillisuutta viljelmiä ja pihoja kyllä oli, mutta ei luonto-alueita johon olisi vaikka voinut mennä lukemaan kirjaa. Uimisesta jäi outo kokemus kun olisi ollut jossain sardiini marinadissa. Veden väri oli vihreää ja ihmiset niin tiheässä että joku kosketti minua noin 3 min välein. Tämä kokemus siis kiinan matkalta. En enää ihmettele miksi ulkomaalaiset eivät osaa uida.
Just to be clear jokamiehenoikeudet/everyman's right DO apply also on privately owned land.
Where you are not free to go is actual private yards arround people's houses, pastures or farmed fields during growing season, but if the farmer owns forest next to the field you can absolutely go there. You don't need permission and owner can't forbid you.
My apartment is too warm year round. 25 celsius and in the summertime even hotter.
Only earthquakes you get here are the neighbours nuke tests, not during my life time though.
The public toilet thing varies massively inside Finland. Near Helsinki there are a lot of public toilets that require payment and are generally extremely dirty. However, in the rest of the country that is very rare and they are in very good condition
Japan however, would easily be the number one with public toilets and their availability, even in some combini. If only they were all of the modern type of toilet and not the washiki toilets which most people refuse to use, unless there is no other option
Japan would get 95/100 from me for public toilets and especially for their availability and cleanliness.
Finland would get 90/100 if Helsinki Metropolitan was excluded, Helsinki would get 60/100
Also, Finnish homes always has air conditioning, just usually not air cooling. The air conditioning includes way more than just cooling. It includes air filtering, air pressure control, air circulation, moisture control, co2 removal, air flow design and similar things
Because we build so tightly insulated buiödings and build so much underground, Finland might be one of the most air conditioned countries in the World, but just not for cooling, which everyone always immediately thinks that AC means
Finns don't usually consider going to Estonia, Sweden or Norway as going abroad. If a Finn would say he went abroad, and he went to Tallinn or Haaparanta, people would laugh you out of the room 😂
Also, Japan easily has the World's best public transport, so thinking Finland's public transport is pretty meh is only natural 😂
Mainitsit tuosta että kolikoilla maksaminen ärsyttää, korjaa toki jos olen väärässä mutta eikö japani ole aika vahvasti myös käteisyhteiskunta jossa et pysty maksamaan kortilla monessakaan paikassa? Niin mistä nyt sitten tuo että kolikot ärsyttää?
There are lots of forests but you cant go there because you'll be eaten alive by mosquitos. Everyman's right is a curse, we used to have a detached house with garden without walls, like is often the case in Finland, and we constantly had people walking inside the property.We had to sell and moved to a flat.I really miss living in a normal country with big high walls and barbed wire and CCTVs and possibly landmines around your property.
Friendly behaviour is luxury in Finland. Shop-workers are usually rude. What comes to public toilets ; not all of them are free. In fact, it is difficult to find public toilets here, free or not.
I don't think shop workers are that rude here though.
😅 a finnish tip for anyone eating wings, us the pro`s eat them with one hand , you don`t want to get that beer hand into to the sauce
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.
Finland is quite car centric even with high car taxes. The public transit isn't good at all.
Nyt tulee kylmä ilma pitää laittaa uuni päälle koska minun asumis paikassa on paska lämmitys
I would rather pay a small toilet fee and visit clean restroom than use some broken down messy cabin with pee all over the place you often find in Finland. Some pay-to-poop toilets in Germany and France have been very nice for my mildly upset traveller stomach and I've never found even something relatively similar from Finland. Paid toilets could still be free for people with intestinal problems.
Poisonous animals in Finland : kyykäärme, a poisonous snake. And punkki , a tick
Kyykäärme = viper in english.
@@saturahman7510 Punkki isnt actually poisonous, it may carry borreliosis what make it dangerous.
Fun video, but since the headline was “compared to some other countries” I find it kind of unfair comparison on public transportation . Japan is so technologically advanced and has a huge population, it’s no wonder public transportation is amazing there. But it really isn’t in many other countries. And it’s not even good in some places in Finland.
What sucks about toilets in Finland is that yes, public toilets are free, and that's great of course.
But (for example) a shopping mall might not have a PUBLIC toilet in every floor. In one shopping mall I regularly went to at one point, there was one public toilet, in the third floor, and another toilet in the bottom floor.
There is a store in the bottom floor, which is important to note because:
At one point that toilet was public, and therefore free and openly accessible. But then some brainiacs had the incredible idea of making this public toilet the store's toilet! Which means it's only available to customers.
Now you have to ask for a store employee to open the toilet for you so you can use it. :D What the hell?
Anyway now the only free toilet is in the third floor, and by the way that's the only public toilet for about a square mile. Yeah, just go up three floors of stairs, even if you need to go RIGHT NOW.
But alternatively you can use the nearby bars toilets. The employees PROBABLY wont mind. (And once a restaurant clerk let me use the toilet for free, which was very kind of her, since that wasn't the restaurant policy.)
I hope I would not need to go to work if it snows a lot.
"Free public toilets"? I had to hold in a turd today for half an hour, because I didn't have change!
Iltasanomat is a fake media?😮
Omoshiroi kansatsu dayo ne =w=
Also, obligatory "Torille"
Kiitos :D
Go and check public toilets in Philippines. 😃
There are venomous snakes, but they aren't too common. Also there are cockroaches in Finland, but they aren't common either.
Mitä vittua? Missä meillä torakoita on?
@@AlcesteGray In the wild there are forest cockroaches and dusky cockroaches. German cockroaches (russakka) are most commonly found among human habitats, but there are some other species as well. You can even find some news articles from google.
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 .
Please stop lumping the Baltic countries into one pile. We are not the same. Not you personally but i mean this for youtubers in general. People see something in one of the Baltic countries. And they talk about it as if it was a Baltic thing. But we are three different countries. And if you see sth in one of us, it does not mean that it is the same in other Baltic countries. We have huge solidarity between use. But we are very different.
In Estonia, everything is perfectly warm in winter. Yes, November and April can be problematic. It can not be the season yet or anymore, but the weather can be quite cold. But then you can turn on electric radiators.
Most of those points of luxury we have in Estonia as well. We do have problems with air conditioning though.
But it is quite annoying. In so many videos people talk about things in Finland that they say are only characteristic of Finland. And most of those things are characteristic of Estonia just as much. It is as if we do not exist. Like the thing about accessibility of nature. Same thing in Estonia Etc, etc. etc. All accessible, everyone's right, no poisonous or dangerous animal, people picking berries and mushrooms, nature for free (can it actually be any other way?)
Cockroaches are not insects, buy the way. They are in the same group with spiders
Education is free in most of Europe, as well as medicine.
Also, we have great dairy products in Estonia. I think that Scandinavian and Estonian dairy products are the best in the world
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.
In libraries there are free toilets, but they have varying opening hours depending on when's the library open, mostly on sundays closed and saturdays mostly open before 4 pm. Libraries seem to often be build relatively near train-, bus-, or metrostations or shopping malls. So please find a library if you're in a pinch😅🙂