Im finnish but lived abroad for all my teenage years. Coming back here when i was around 18 made me realise how good things really are here. Some finns complain about Finland not being that great but i think its just a lack of experience of the world outside of Finland. Been very lucky to have two kids here and find my own life. I would definitely be missing out if i hadnt come back
Completely agree. I live in France, but am from Finland. I also spent a year in the US. We still have a lot of stuff the right way around and that should be held on to. Even the actual meaning of equality as it originally started where it comes to feminism. And that independence of the Finnish kids - I understand that in huge cities and places with a lot more people, a lot more crime and shady shit happening - then people can't really let their kids out and feel safe about it. But at the same time - where that is still possible, it most certainly prepares people better for young adult time and further in life. A lot less issues in figuring out how to handle the part about being adults, or so I do think. No need a constant hand holding from parents or others. On one hand we Finns kinda lack stuff to do in smaller places for teenagers - but honestly - it is a lot better for those kids being able to be safe out there even if they have to invent their entertainment on their own. Able to go on their own to school and back just to give another an example. As a parent - imagine having to find someone to watch after your kid on that route every day just because you can't trust the folk in the city which has many towns grown right into each other seamlessly - such that you get an area with equally many people living in than there are in entirety of Finland. That short of areal density of people simply increase the changes of something bad happening - so we are in fact blessed by our space too. The benefits of having people NOT living in an area like sardines in a can.
Besides Finland I lived a few years in the US and over a decade in other EU countries and have almost 0 wish to return to FInland. Sure many things are ok there, but so are in many other places that are interesting to see and live in. The nature in Finland is beautiful but the climate is horrible for anyone that doesn't like to live in a dark or cold place most of the year. Looking at news from Finland where hospitals are packed because old people don't have enough places in care homes, that sort of stuff doesn't exactly make me think I really want to return.
@@cyberfunk3793 Thats a good point. I lived for 10 years in a third world country in Africa so my experience may be a bit unique. I wouldnt mind moving a few countries towards the south just for the climate. Healthcare is definitely something that has people a bit worried for the future but for now ive been able to get all the treatment that i need through my emplyers healthcare plan
A finn here, I cannot stress this enough, Finland is not a socialist country. We have a free economy. What some peple are mistaking for socialism is social programs, and that is a rather tragic mistake, since it ends up painting planned economies in an unduely good light. And I am sure we can all agree that planned economies were a rather tragic mistake of the past that we need only look at the USSR to realize.
China is doing fine with central planned economic. And free market economy does not always working out. Looking at the average American for the past 20 years, thing became worse.
@@yezih2694 From what I understand, there is quite a bit of free market in China, which is why they've managed to lift so many people out of poverty over the last decades. Of course the social and political freedom is not there, but it seems they've let businesses compete and operate relatively freely..
@@MrKalleJC Yes, the Chinese Government introduced market system and opened up for the foreign investment in the early 80s, thanks to this reform, China had a 40 year consecutive high rate economic grow. But the government also played a big role in this growth. There are still big critical sectors not opened for private and foreign capital like the petroleum industry, energy, telecommunication. And there are some sector which did allow private capital in developed huge inequality and monopoly, like education, health care and IT E-commerce, the government start to cracking down this issue last year which gained them a lot popularity from the public. So my point is that to have a harmony society, we need both good governing (meritocracy) and market force. Motivate everyone to work hard and be responsible for themselves. And make the capital work for the society, in the same time making a profit rather than against the interest of the public and society and making unreasonable high profit.
Love your honesty and free speech in this vid. My wife is Finnish and love visiting as much as we can. Great point about kids having freedom to roam around to and from school. I've never felt so at peace anywhere else as I do in Finland.
I've always loved my country and it's inhabitants deeply so it's so heartwarming to hear such loving words about us and what we have accomplished so far. Thank you sir.
@@nigelwatson2750 ill take that as a compliment. Mary Harrington wrote an intetesting piece in Unherd, not that I agree entirely. I dislike this them and us situation, I don't think most men hate women, and I don't think most women decide based on revenue. Youngsters find this really difficult to believe, but I know 2 women that got divorced and took nothing from the marriage including their shared ofvthe house. Both offered the same reason, that their exes would struggle more. For clarity these were early divorces and I doubt there would be much equity to sit anyway. FWIW I think decent people attract decent people and vacuous people that value only looks and/or money, attract other vacuous people. Plus Northern women are just better😁
@@hilarygibson3150 Many independent girls schools push 3rd way feminism to the point where girls are taught to view the opposite sex as their enemy. In Finland, all schools are mixed, so boys and girls tend to get on better. Cultural Marxists masquerading as teachers struggle to infect young people with their divide and rule, gender stereotype lies, because girls KNOW what boys are really like, and vice-versa, because they grew up alongside the opposite sex, so the propaganda doesn't stick.
@@hilarygibson3150 The young get their 'values' from TOWIE, Made in Chelsea, Love Island etc. As I'm sure you know, nowadays the couples' pension rights are shared when they divorce. All my female colleagues were very much in favour of that ... until one of them got divorced and found that her accrued pension was more than her husbands and she'd have to give up part of her pension for him. Be careful what you wish for, it might come true as the saying goes.
What in the world did I just find😂 Thank you so much for this video. The emphasis on Finnishness in the choice of background is brilliant. Thanks also for the new phrases like helicopter parenting and the gender-equal lawn mowing Surrey style.
Porilainen :P I married a Finnish man back in 2019 and just in time we moved back to Finland from Australia, quite a stroke of luck in hindsight! I had a whiff of trouble in Auz before so we thought Finland would be a better option but we had no idea how lucky our timing was to leave. Definitely stay out of Helsinki though, absolutely agree about that.
What's up in Australia though? Ik the restrictions are a tad mad rn but the people there seem pretty like-minded to what I'd see here. Like to drink, swear like sailors, life's not taken more seriously than it has to be, and they're relatively social; seems pretty good?
Spot on comment about how the quality of food has plummeted in the UK since the late 90s. Fresh lamb mince for example has disappeared from most UK supermarkets for a long time. Now with inflation the quality is becoming even more dire as they cut production costs. I miss the much better food I could get from independent bakeries and butchers on the high street that the competition authorities allowed to be destroyed by the big corporates. If the farmer protests fail vee vill have to eat zee bugs 🐛🐜🪲
You are very welcome to live in our beatyfull country, Finns might be little reserved first to people who they don't know, that includes other Finns too😂but when you get to know us and get finish friends they are friends for life👍
Nigel, these are very interesting, positive, observations, thanks for sharing! I have studied or worked in 9 different countries (Finland, Switzerland, France, Thailand, Belgium, USA, Mexico, Georgia, Ukraine) and find cultural differences intriguing, and avoid stereotyping people. Some foreigners are more Finnish than I am (values, behavior…). There have been positives and negatives in the places I lived and in general the negatives tend to appear later (acculturation stress) after which your feelings tend to slowly turn positive again. Regarding stereotypes, my French friend visited our place in Eastern Finland thinking ”Finnish people are quiet and shy” and she was surprised how the people behaved (they may come to your doorstep unannounced Saturday morning even when they have nothing on the agenda except to spend time with you, extrovert, talkative, warm…). Worked with a British researcher before and he said that Britain used to have the most powerful ship building industry in the world but Finland took over the industry because of what he believed their punctuality. Finnish people, in general, tend to be very punctual, and of course in many industries time management is highly important. When you are building a big ship, there may be as many as 2000 different suppliers, and if one is late, the whole process may delay, as the next phase of the project cannot be continued.
So funny 😹... I have a friend there she keeps telling me to come over!.. I'm planning to go for a holiday to visit her.. as soon as I can I will go.. thanks for the video
Imagine all of Canada and Australia moving to New Zealand, That's the UK population density currently it's absolutely fecked as a decent country can't wait to be able to escape what the UK has become.
Water meters have just been forced upon us "because of climate change", nothing to do with net immigration of over 200,000 people a year plus an unknown number arriving illegally. That means we need to build a city the size of Birmingham every ten years. Where?
Very informative, thank you. If Finland is similar to Sweden (I have lived in Sweden), then the country has high level of social cohesion, often mistaken for "socialism". BTW. the Finns have the most fabulous language on the planet. I love the sound of it.
You've nailed it Pat. I love Finnish, I have done a video about my experiences learning it ruclips.net/video/yBv94YymMRw/видео.html. So many people say it's a hard language, but if you have that negative mindset you're beaten before you have started. Personally, I think Finnish is super-logical, and I love it as a language.
@@nigelwatson2750 I live in Gothenburg, I totally agree with you, the trust and independent of the people in Nordic courtesies is incredible. People taking responsibility of themselves, but don't go too extreme. The work life balance is much better here and much less office politics.
I was in the middle of moving to Finland when the Brexit vote hit. It trashed the Pound and the house purchase I was processing was no longer viable. I regrouped and built up some resources to counter the currency drop and then the fear of what-if's built - primarily what-if I buy property there but then the fallout of Brexit means I can't stay? It turns out I should have gone for it and hoped for the best! And I bet property on the Russian border is quite cheap right now :chuckles:.
Currencies go up and down. You seem to be obsessed with Brexit. As far as I can see, Brexit has changed very little. On property, there's probably a greater chance of being violently attacked in Guildford than in Lieksa.
I see you did this video in a forest. What are your thoughts about the finnish so called "every man's rights"? For a native finn it's a no brainer but as I've understood, it's not the case in U.K.
About parenting. When i was about 12 and my cousing was 9, we swam around Teisko. Kämmenniemi all around. Our parents were never worried, because they knew, i would take care of my cousin. Afterwards we talked about this with my cousin. These days the adults would't allow it. It's a different world.
I’m an American 🇺🇸 of Italian and Norwegian descent …I think the healthcare and educational benefits there are GREAT!!!! Me personally I wouldn’t be able to take the winters …I live in NY (not the City) live to go to Florida soon near the warmth
I have a pension & assets. Fully intend to work again for kicks, but not until COVID Nazism has been smashed & freedom restored. On an Ayn Rand style strike at the moment: do one, PC parasites!
It is a beautiful place, no doubt about that: it's so calm and peaceful. The Helsinki region is not like the rest of the country - the real Finland is the countryside and the other cities beyond that.
@@nigelwatson2750 I'm mexican with celtic roots but want to experience real European life and not have ppl cater to me the way they do with Africans I dislike how it's being over run amd over taken by globalist jews amd African Muslims
Great stuff Nigel, I largely agree with all you're saying, have you been to Helsinki though? I live right next to it, and I wouldn't be as gloomy and doomy as you seem to be about it, it's quite nice here! But sure, definitely more woke and what have you. Best regards.
Damn, I forgot to mention the Finns relaxed attitude to nudity - at the local swimming pool, the female cleaners think nothing of coming into the blokes dressing room & shower area, whilst you're cleaning your knob
I'm a US citizen and really want to move. So much about Finland drives me to it. I imagine some aspects moving from the UK to Finland is the same as moving from US to Finland. Whats the language like? Hows the healthcare? Whats the moving process like? I have other countries in mind however Finland is in my tops.
Thank you for your video, Nigel! Glad to hear you've enjoyed your time in Finland mate! 😀One thing makes me wonder though: what's with all the Helsinki bashing on this comment section? Yes, born and lived all my life in Helsinki I might be a little biased... But surely there's no need to paint a picture of some dystopian metropolis? Come on, people...
@@kallepohtila6717 I wouldn't want to be in Uusimaa when the power goes off this winter - that region of Finland ceased to be Finnish about a decade ago.
Based! It's quite likely I'll move to Finland with my girlfriend in the next two years. QQ's: how was it finding work there as a non-native speaker and was it hard to move your tax residency? And were you eligible to receive public services such as healthcare ? Thanks!
1. I retired, and I get a teachers pension. 2. It's easy to change tax residency. You notify HMRC and Vero (Finnish equivalent). What's also important is that Finland and the UK have a dual taxation agreement, so you only pay tax in either Finland or the UK, but not both. www.gov.uk/government/publications/finland-tax-treaties 3. Getting a residents permit might be harder, you may need to get married. 4. I'm not interested in claiming welfare or 'services' in Finland. I pay my own way. I would never dream of moving to another country and then asking the taxpayers of that country to pay for 'services' that I want. I have used and paid for private dentistry and had a mole cut out of my back - it wasn't too expensive. Most Finns also pay for private health/dentistry. Contrary to what the BBC and the Guardian says, Finland is NOT a socialist country. You can buy me a pint - because it's taken me 15 minutes to do this!!!
@@nigelwatson2750 Thanks vm mate, and I'll buy you that pint with pleasure. Not looking to stinge off of them either, just interested to know the situation or in case of emergency. We will probably get married but I can get an Irish passport as well though so there wouldn't be any 90 day schengen limit I'd need to adhere to. Would be looking for the permit anyway though.
@@london_TC The Irish passport would be the way to go - 100%, guaranteed. I'd get that first, and then move. Do that and it would be plain sailing for you.
Thank you very much Sir! Somehow I have missed this great channel of yours totally! I hope this is not one of those "hostage" videos where they make you read some statement at gun point cause this is too good to be true. It is a deal, I am in! Well done!
Im glad that you have enjoyed your time in Finland. I hope you make your life and future in the Finland! And you had similar opinions as me about those feminism and woke things. -18yr old finnish teen :D
Earn a living??? I'm nearly 57, I know I don't look it! Throughout my working life, every month, I spent less than I earned, which enabled me to buy income generating assets. I also have a teachers pension, which I took early, so, in money terms, I've never been better off than I am now. Spending money on expensive status symbols to impress others has never been my No1 priority. Top tip: money & buying consumer durables doesn't bring happiness. You should know that having lived in Guildford! I like teaching, and will go back to it, but only after the COVID Nazism has ended, which shouldn't be too long now. The reckoning could get ugly, especially in the UK, so maybe I'll work in a Finnish school. I've done that before, and I enjoyed it - less repressive atmosphere & there's also far more autonomy afford to teachers in Finland. My Finnish is really good! Do you speak any other languages apart from English? Never mind Brexit, non-existent language skills confines 99.9% of Brits to the Anglo-Saxon world
@@nigelwatson2750 sounds like we're in the very much the same mindset.... I do plumbing , heating and electrical etc but I did an English teaching course in Taiwan... but I had to come back because of the Convid 1984 bullshit! im now in rural Dorset and have a boat to play on...im far away from the maddening crowd but yes we are living in communistic/ socoaliatic times and things globally are getting worse...im prepped fpr 5 years with food ect and I have a faith in Jesus! 😊❤👍
Loved this. WOKE is rampant in the US and UK. And I hate it....even though I'm a liberal! Finland sounds so interesting to me, but I'm afraid that adapting to a new culture and way of life at age 63 might not be doable. On the other hand, I am fed up with life here in the US. Too much dysfunction in politics, society, and culture. Consumerism and the levels of waste here are grotesque, as well.
@@Kerppu68 Yes & still no end of people fail to see what's happening. It really is unbelievable. At this stage of the game you'd have thought that those that are still under mass hypnosis would have at least started questioning things. A 4 year old would have sussed that there was something very wrong months ago.
@@DotSimLtd I feel for you I really do because when it does filter through to your neck of the woods it's going to have such an impact on your every day life.
Your experience of Pizza is Pizza Express and your experience of tomatoes is clearly nonsensical. Fins don't depend on the state.... The reason the fins are so conformist is that they love the state....
Great observations. Nice to hear a foreigner's take on Finland. Haven't been to the UK in over twenty years. As for Helsinki, the rest of Finland considers it a hellhole and many would prefer to build a wall around it to keep all the sh*te from oozing out. 😜
Live here too, and even though there's some bullshit here, there's even more good people (at least where I live and the surrounding areas). People in big cities are always gonna be more liberal than people in the countryside/smaller cities & towns. Some parts of liberalism are great, some less great, but I do believe common sense will eventually balance it out.
And the mandatory military service (or civil services for a minority) does make sure that even the 'woke' people (men in this case) have to eat shit and learn real life discipline at some point.
I guess the only bad thing in Finland or one of them are the people. We are quite welcoming towards others who comes from abroad, but between the finns there is a lot a agruments and seems like everyone pretends to be the one who knows everything even they wouldnt know nothing about the subject they are arguing with really. I see this in comment sections all over the press or facebook etc. I think people are not so happy as they say, that Finns are the most happy people. I do not think so. The taxes makes things easy for the most, so thats the happiness i guess to get services for free.
Visiting next summer provided travel isn't restricted. I hope I don't come across too many soy boys while I'm in Helsinki! LOL Will be visiting some folks in Ilmajoki after that! Thanks for the information!
There are other ways to serve. During the last wars, women and girls (youngest being barely preschoolers) kept the country running. The girls sewed mittens etc. for the soldiers,; the women did everything from baking bread for the army to washing the laundry to keeping the factories running. Some of them operated on huge spot lights (to confuse enemy planes) at night time, some kept a look out for planes near the border. When the next war breaks out, women are required to stay put in order to be administered jobs.
'Soy boy men" syndrome, yes, hard to define. I can't define it fully but here's my angle: men who can't fix anything, can't do any repairs and lack the emotional skills to try. Yes, repair work requires doing hard things that test your patience and endurance, and this requires emotional skills.
As an American …wouldn’t like to be bordering RUSSIA lol ….ohhhhh I sooooo agree …these kids need to learn how to deal with others …not have the helicopter parents or school jump in 😳🙄🙄🙄 when I was a kid my father would say …kick their ass lol
True. But, the globalist politicians will try to change that. It would take them a good 30 years or so to do it. Demographically, Finland is like the UK was back in the 80s. The other factor is the climate. Many of the new Brits living in the UK can wear their PJs, sandals and no socks on the streets of the UK in December with no problems. You can't do that in -25C in a Finnish winter. The other issue is the Finnish language, which is harder for new comers to learn, compared to English.
@@1watsonwatson Helsinki in particular is really diverse in many ways. Landscape, people, opportunities. Simply best place to live in here in Finland. And this is coming from someone born and raised in Turku so it's saying a lot!
If In was living in the Finland, one of the main things that would concern me is its extensive land border with RUSSIA. Not something that can be ignored.
Well the good thing about Russia is that they brought us finns orthodoxy 1000 years ago. West just brought us bad things just like that heretical lutherism.
Im finnish but lived abroad for all my teenage years. Coming back here when i was around 18 made me realise how good things really are here. Some finns complain about Finland not being that great but i think its just a lack of experience of the world outside of Finland. Been very lucky to have two kids here and find my own life. I would definitely be missing out if i hadnt come back
Completely agree. I live in France, but am from Finland. I also spent a year in the US. We still have a lot of stuff the right way around and that should be held on to. Even the actual meaning of equality as it originally started where it comes to feminism. And that independence of the Finnish kids - I understand that in huge cities and places with a lot more people, a lot more crime and shady shit happening - then people can't really let their kids out and feel safe about it. But at the same time - where that is still possible, it most certainly prepares people better for young adult time and further in life. A lot less issues in figuring out how to handle the part about being adults, or so I do think. No need a constant hand holding from parents or others. On one hand we Finns kinda lack stuff to do in smaller places for teenagers - but honestly - it is a lot better for those kids being able to be safe out there even if they have to invent their entertainment on their own. Able to go on their own to school and back just to give another an example. As a parent - imagine having to find someone to watch after your kid on that route every day just because you can't trust the folk in the city which has many towns grown right into each other seamlessly - such that you get an area with equally many people living in than there are in entirety of Finland. That short of areal density of people simply increase the changes of something bad happening - so we are in fact blessed by our space too. The benefits of having people NOT living in an area like sardines in a can.
Besides Finland I lived a few years in the US and over a decade in other EU countries and have almost 0 wish to return to FInland. Sure many things are ok there, but so are in many other places that are interesting to see and live in. The nature in Finland is beautiful but the climate is horrible for anyone that doesn't like to live in a dark or cold place most of the year. Looking at news from Finland where hospitals are packed because old people don't have enough places in care homes, that sort of stuff doesn't exactly make me think I really want to return.
@@cyberfunk3793 Thats a good point. I lived for 10 years in a third world country in Africa so my experience may be a bit unique. I wouldnt mind moving a few countries towards the south just for the climate. Healthcare is definitely something that has people a bit worried for the future but for now ive been able to get all the treatment that i need through my emplyers healthcare plan
A finn here, I cannot stress this enough, Finland is not a socialist country. We have a free economy. What some peple are mistaking for socialism is social programs, and that is a rather tragic mistake, since it ends up painting planned economies in an unduely good light. And I am sure we can all agree that planned economies were a rather tragic mistake of the past that we need only look at the USSR to realize.
And for example you could say that someone is social person, it's really not the same as socialist person...
And don't forget that fascists operate a centrally planned technocratic economy too
China is doing fine with central planned economic. And free market economy does not always working out. Looking at the average American for the past 20 years, thing became worse.
@@yezih2694 From what I understand, there is quite a bit of free market in China, which is why they've managed to lift so many people out of poverty over the last decades. Of course the social and political freedom is not there, but it seems they've let businesses compete and operate relatively freely..
@@MrKalleJC Yes, the Chinese Government introduced market system and opened up for the foreign investment in the early 80s, thanks to this reform, China had a 40 year consecutive high rate economic grow. But the government also played a big role in this growth. There are still big critical sectors not opened for private and foreign capital like the petroleum industry, energy, telecommunication. And there are some sector which did allow private capital in developed huge inequality and monopoly, like education, health care and IT E-commerce, the government start to cracking down this issue last year which gained them a lot popularity from the public. So my point is that to have a harmony society, we need both good governing (meritocracy) and market force. Motivate everyone to work hard and be responsible for themselves. And make the capital work for the society, in the same time making a profit rather than against the interest of the public and society and making unreasonable high profit.
Love your honesty and free speech in this vid. My wife is Finnish and love visiting as much as we can. Great point about kids having freedom to roam around to and from school. I've never felt so at peace anywhere else as I do in Finland.
Where are you now? Finland is great if you stay away from Helsinki, Turku and Tampere.
@@nigelwatson2750 Western Australia at the moment.
I've always loved my country and it's inhabitants deeply so it's so heartwarming to hear such loving words about us and what we have accomplished so far. Thank you sir.
Kiitos paljon. Suomi on kaunis maa, ja suomalainen on kaunis
@@nigelwatson2750 Well said chap and I 100% agree.
Great to see you here!
Well I'm female, been a forklift driver, container stuffer, trucker and ran my own haulage company. Maybe I'm really finnish🤣
In Britain, you are about as rare as rocking-horse poo
@@nigelwatson2750 ill take that as a compliment. Mary Harrington wrote an intetesting piece in Unherd, not that I agree entirely. I dislike this them and us situation, I don't think most men hate women, and I don't think most women decide based on revenue. Youngsters find this really difficult to believe, but I know 2 women that got divorced and took nothing from the marriage including their shared ofvthe house. Both offered the same reason, that their exes would struggle more. For clarity these were early divorces and I doubt there would be much equity to sit anyway.
FWIW I think decent people attract decent people and vacuous people that value only looks and/or money, attract other vacuous people. Plus Northern women are just better😁
@@hilarygibson3150 Many independent girls schools push 3rd way feminism to the point where girls are taught to view the opposite sex as their enemy. In Finland, all schools are mixed, so boys and girls tend to get on better. Cultural Marxists masquerading as teachers struggle to infect young people with their divide and rule, gender stereotype lies, because girls KNOW what boys are really like, and vice-versa, because they grew up alongside the opposite sex, so the propaganda doesn't stick.
@@hilarygibson3150 The young get their 'values' from TOWIE, Made in Chelsea, Love Island etc.
As I'm sure you know, nowadays the couples' pension rights are shared when they divorce. All my female colleagues were very much in favour of that ... until one of them got divorced and found that her accrued pension was more than her husbands and she'd have to give up part of her pension for him. Be careful what you wish for, it might come true as the saying goes.
What in the world did I just find😂
Thank you so much for this video. The emphasis on Finnishness in the choice of background is brilliant. Thanks also for the new phrases like helicopter parenting and the gender-equal lawn mowing Surrey style.
Porilainen :P I married a Finnish man back in 2019 and just in time we moved back to Finland from Australia, quite a stroke of luck in hindsight! I had a whiff of trouble in Auz before so we thought Finland would be a better option but we had no idea how lucky our timing was to leave. Definitely stay out of Helsinki though, absolutely agree about that.
Helsinki getting too much flak bruv life is good here 🤦🏼♂️😂 I guess I live in a decent area with a 'non-woke' social circle but still lmao
What's up in Australia though? Ik the restrictions are a tad mad rn but the people there seem pretty like-minded to what I'd see here. Like to drink, swear like sailors, life's not taken more seriously than it has to be, and they're relatively social; seems pretty good?
@@laurikotivuori1585 The people are good, the government isn't.
Spot on comment about how the quality of food has plummeted in the UK since the late 90s. Fresh lamb mince for example has disappeared from most UK supermarkets for a long time. Now with inflation the quality is becoming even more dire as they cut production costs. I miss the much better food I could get from independent bakeries and butchers on the high street that the competition authorities allowed to be destroyed by the big corporates. If the farmer protests fail vee vill have to eat zee bugs 🐛🐜🪲
planning to move Finland soon thanks for sharing
You are very welcome to live in our beatyfull country, Finns might be little reserved first to people who they don't know, that includes other Finns too😂but when you get to know us and get finish friends they are friends for life👍
Nigel, these are very interesting, positive, observations, thanks for sharing! I have studied or worked in 9 different countries (Finland, Switzerland, France, Thailand, Belgium, USA, Mexico, Georgia, Ukraine) and find cultural differences intriguing, and avoid stereotyping people. Some foreigners are more Finnish than I am (values, behavior…). There have been positives and negatives in the places I lived and in general the negatives tend to appear later (acculturation stress) after which your feelings tend to slowly turn positive again. Regarding stereotypes, my French friend visited our place in Eastern Finland thinking ”Finnish people are quiet and shy” and she was surprised how the people behaved (they may come to your doorstep unannounced Saturday morning even when they have nothing on the agenda except to spend time with you, extrovert, talkative, warm…).
Worked with a British researcher before and he said that Britain used to have the most powerful ship building industry in the world but Finland took over the industry because of what he believed their punctuality. Finnish people, in general, tend to be very punctual, and of course in many industries time management is highly important. When you are building a big ship, there may be as many as 2000 different suppliers, and if one is late, the whole process may delay, as the next phase of the project cannot be continued.
Britain no longer exists. It has changed so much it's unrecognisable
Neil Oliver had an excellent insight into ship buildind in the British isles.
brilliant summary,best of luck mate.
It's too cold in Finland. Sometimes.
So funny 😹... I have a friend there she keeps telling me to come over!.. I'm planning to go for a holiday to visit her.. as soon as I can I will go.. thanks for the video
Imagine all of Canada and Australia moving to New Zealand, That's the UK population density currently it's absolutely fecked as a decent country can't wait to be able to escape what the UK has become.
Water meters have just been forced upon us "because of climate change", nothing to do with net immigration of over 200,000 people a year plus an unknown number arriving illegally. That means we need to build a city the size of Birmingham every ten years. Where?
Very informative, thank you. If Finland is similar to Sweden (I have lived in Sweden), then the country has high level of social cohesion, often mistaken for "socialism".
BTW. the Finns have the most fabulous language on the planet. I love the sound of it.
You've nailed it Pat. I love Finnish, I have done a video about my experiences learning it ruclips.net/video/yBv94YymMRw/видео.html. So many people say it's a hard language, but if you have that negative mindset you're beaten before you have started. Personally, I think Finnish is super-logical, and I love it as a language.
The reason we love pizza so much is because its good hangover food 😂😂
Thanks Nigel! This was hilarious! 😂😂 You didn't mention that we Finns are quiet and reserved.
Well i disagree. Finns are awesome people. Once u get to know them then they are loudest 🤣
@@vinodbanjara8085 Me too. No one that I know is quiet and reserved. Quite opposite.
@@hextatik_sound but finns are amazing people tho. Are you finn too?
@@vinodbanjara8085 Yes I am.
@@hextatik_sound nice talking to you. That a finn agrees to my comment🤣
Good stuff i wish everywhere was like this
Yes so do I.
Thank you for those beautiful words on behalf of Finns. :D
You're most welcome - just get rid of SDP and Kokoomus and their Nazi great reset!
@@nigelwatson2750 :D
A great video Nigel. Subscribed. I think you nailed everything with Helsinki and the capital area. Wokeism central.
I often considered Finland myself, but how do you just move there...?
Do you have to apply for residency?
Get a Finnish wife, that's what I did. No regrets there at all!
I just moved from England to Sweden, best choice made in my life!
Where about in Sweden?
@@nigelwatson2750 I live in Gothenburg, I totally agree with you, the trust and independent of the people in Nordic courtesies is incredible. People taking responsibility of themselves, but don't go too extreme. The work life balance is much better here and much less office politics.
@@yezih2694 If you'd gone to Malmo, you'd be on the next plane back home.
@@peterc.1618 why is that?😂
@@yezih2694 It has a reputation for being so over-enriched that even the police fear to tread into some parts.
Finland is heaven for extremely introverted and asocial people but literally hell for any ''normal'' humans
They both get along just fine here, there’s need for both.
I was in the middle of moving to Finland when the Brexit vote hit. It trashed the Pound and the house purchase I was processing was no longer viable. I regrouped and built up some resources to counter the currency drop and then the fear of what-if's built - primarily what-if I buy property there but then the fallout of Brexit means I can't stay? It turns out I should have gone for it and hoped for the best! And I bet property on the Russian border is quite cheap right now :chuckles:.
Currencies go up and down. You seem to be obsessed with Brexit. As far as I can see, Brexit has changed very little. On property, there's probably a greater chance of being violently attacked in Guildford than in Lieksa.
I see you did this video in a forest. What are your thoughts about the finnish so called "every man's rights"? For a native finn it's a no brainer but as I've understood, it's not the case in U.K.
Hey Vic do you miss Bob Mortimer since you moved to Finland?
About parenting. When i was about 12 and my cousing was 9, we swam around Teisko. Kämmenniemi all around. Our parents were never worried, because they knew, i would take care of my cousin. Afterwards we talked about this with my cousin. These days the adults would't allow it. It's a different world.
Correct.
I’m an American 🇺🇸 of Italian and Norwegian descent …I think the healthcare and educational benefits there are GREAT!!!! Me personally I wouldn’t be able to take the winters …I live in NY (not the City) live to go to Florida soon near the warmth
Make finnish supermarket review video!
Pori? My condolences!
May I ask why the move to Finland? I'm a new subscriber,I'm looking looking to move from the UK,I was thinking thinking g Italy as I like the new PM
A number of people have asked about that, so I'll do a video next week.
@@nigelwatson2750 thanks!!,trying to find an non WEF puppet govt!!!!!!
Responded to your link on Neil Mccoy-Ward.
Pretty trees
Just curious what you are doing for employment? Teacher or ?
I have a pension & assets. Fully intend to work again for kicks, but not until COVID Nazism has been smashed & freedom restored. On an Ayn Rand style strike at the moment: do one, PC parasites!
I would love to visit Finland so much
It is a beautiful place, no doubt about that: it's so calm and peaceful. The Helsinki region is not like the rest of the country - the real Finland is the countryside and the other cities beyond that.
@@nigelwatson2750 wow very interesting would you say Helsinki is more globalist and less authentic ?
@@nigelwatson2750 I'm mexican with celtic roots but want to experience real European life and not have ppl cater to me the way they do with Africans I dislike how it's being over run amd over taken by globalist jews amd African Muslims
@@roflswamp6 Yes, definitely more virtue-signalling, PC authoritarian, and generally less peaceful
@@nigelwatson2750 sounds like a dream come true may God bless you and your family and preserve Europe and America
Great stuff Nigel, I largely agree with all you're saying, have you been to Helsinki though? I live right next to it, and I wouldn't be as gloomy and doomy as you seem to be about it, it's quite nice here! But sure, definitely more woke and what have you. Best regards.
Damn, I forgot to mention the Finns relaxed attitude to nudity - at the local swimming pool, the female cleaners think nothing of coming into the blokes dressing room & shower area, whilst you're cleaning your knob
Maybe they'd be open to cleaning that too.
Seriously??
@@veselinivanov7208 No, I am not joking
@@veselinivanov7208 Yes, seriously. Nobody bats an eye-lid
I'm a US citizen and really want to move. So much about Finland drives me to it. I imagine some aspects moving from the UK to Finland is the same as moving from US to Finland. Whats the language like? Hows the healthcare? Whats the moving process like? I have other countries in mind however Finland is in my tops.
Go on Duolingo and have a got at learning some Finnish.
visit nepal ..sir you will find neppal amazing with highest peaks , mountains in world , actually nepal has 8 highest peaks in world
I'd like to one day, once the Satanic forces behind the anti-human, 'Great Reset', have been defeated.
Living in Finland is living in Heaven☺
Nah, it’s like living somewhere you want to live at best
Thank you for your video, Nigel! Glad to hear you've enjoyed your time in Finland mate! 😀One thing makes me wonder though: what's with all the Helsinki bashing on this comment section? Yes, born and lived all my life in Helsinki I might be a little biased... But surely there's no need to paint a picture of some dystopian metropolis? Come on, people...
Uusimaa, Tampere, and Turku are extremely different from the rest of Finland, and not in a good way! Just my opinion. Each to their own.
...i know some one from Vantaa.. now Been living at Rovaniemi for 10 years... I think it does change, where ever you will Be watching...
@@kallepohtila6717 I wouldn't want to be in Uusimaa when the power goes off this winter - that region of Finland ceased to be Finnish about a decade ago.
Based!
It's quite likely I'll move to Finland with my girlfriend in the next two years. QQ's: how was it finding work there as a non-native speaker and was it hard to move your tax residency? And were you eligible to receive public services such as healthcare ?
Thanks!
1. I retired, and I get a teachers pension. 2. It's easy to change tax residency. You notify HMRC and Vero (Finnish equivalent). What's also important is that Finland and the UK have a dual taxation agreement, so you only pay tax in either Finland or the UK, but not both. www.gov.uk/government/publications/finland-tax-treaties 3. Getting a residents permit might be harder, you may need to get married. 4. I'm not interested in claiming welfare or 'services' in Finland. I pay my own way. I would never dream of moving to another country and then asking the taxpayers of that country to pay for 'services' that I want. I have used and paid for private dentistry and had a mole cut out of my back - it wasn't too expensive. Most Finns also pay for private health/dentistry. Contrary to what the BBC and the Guardian says, Finland is NOT a socialist country. You can buy me a pint - because it's taken me 15 minutes to do this!!!
@@nigelwatson2750 Thanks vm mate, and I'll buy you that pint with pleasure.
Not looking to stinge off of them either, just interested to know the situation or in case of emergency.
We will probably get married but I can get an Irish passport as well though so there wouldn't be any 90 day schengen limit I'd need to adhere to. Would be looking for the permit anyway though.
@@london_TC The Irish passport would be the way to go - 100%, guaranteed. I'd get that first, and then move. Do that and it would be plain sailing for you.
@@nigelwatson2750 thanks again
Thank you very much Sir! Somehow I have missed this great channel of yours totally! I hope this is not one of those "hostage" videos where they make you read some statement at gun point cause this is too good to be true. It is a deal, I am in! Well done!
Loll...Finnish women aren't afraid to get their hands dirty....they can be very "tom-boyish".....
The weather is heavily controlled in Britain
Yes, this is self-evident.
Im glad that you have enjoyed your time in Finland. I hope you make your life and future in the Finland! And you had similar opinions as me about those feminism and woke things. -18yr old finnish teen :D
Kiitos paljon. Mielestäni meidän velvollisuutemme on jatkaa totuuden puhumista näistä asioista.
🙂👍
10:00 You painted quite the picture there Nigel :D - Kiitos!
How do you earn a living there can you speak Finnish and I used to live in Guildford very nice place😊👍
Earn a living??? I'm nearly 57, I know I don't look it!
Throughout my working life, every month, I spent less than I earned, which enabled me to buy income generating assets. I also have a teachers pension, which I took early, so, in money terms, I've never been better off than I am now. Spending money on expensive status symbols to impress others has never been my No1 priority. Top tip: money & buying consumer durables doesn't bring happiness. You should know that having lived in Guildford!
I like teaching, and will go back to it, but only after the COVID Nazism has ended, which shouldn't be too long now. The reckoning could get ugly, especially in the UK, so maybe I'll work in a Finnish school. I've done that before, and I enjoyed it - less repressive atmosphere & there's also far more autonomy afford to teachers in Finland. My Finnish is really good! Do you speak any other languages apart from English? Never mind Brexit, non-existent language skills confines 99.9% of Brits to the Anglo-Saxon world
@@nigelwatson2750 sounds like we're in the very much the same mindset.... I do plumbing , heating and electrical etc but I did an English teaching course in Taiwan... but I had to come back because of the Convid 1984 bullshit! im now in rural Dorset and have a boat to play on...im far away from the maddening crowd but yes we are living in communistic/ socoaliatic times and things globally are getting worse...im prepped fpr 5 years with food ect and I have a faith in Jesus! 😊❤👍
@@versatec1 Jesus Christ is my Lord and saviour #TeamJesus
Loved this. WOKE is rampant in the US and UK. And I hate it....even though I'm a liberal! Finland sounds so interesting to me, but I'm afraid that adapting to a new culture and way of life at age 63 might not be doable. On the other hand, I am fed up with life here in the US. Too much dysfunction in politics, society, and culture. Consumerism and the levels of waste here are grotesque, as well.
Don't put up with things you shouldn't put up with
My daughter has a good friend in Pori. Sometimes i take her to meet her. I would love to have a cup of coffee with you Sir!
Oletko suomalainen?
@@nigelwatson2750 Kyllä vain.
@@nigelwatson2750 Olisin laittanut privaattiviestin, mutta olen täysin onneton näissä tietoliikennejutuissa.
Jos ei sovi, sekin sopii. Niin tai näin, arvostan älykkään miehen videoita. I do love your content!!
@@kimanthoni6377 Give me a shout the next time you're in Pori
It really does sound sheer bliss were you are living. The UK's had it and I can't see things getting any better particularly with this plandemic.
True, plandemic it really is
The scamdemic will come here to Finland no doubt
@@Kerppu68 Yes & still no end of people fail to see what's happening. It really is unbelievable. At this stage of the game you'd have thought that those that are still under mass hypnosis would have at least started questioning things. A 4 year old would have sussed that there was something very wrong months ago.
@@DotSimLtd I feel for you I really do because when it does filter through to your neck of the woods it's going to have such an impact on your every day life.
@@vanessahenderson1850 I already experienced in Australia. I fled Australia for Finland 3 months ago.
Your experience of Pizza is Pizza Express and your experience of tomatoes is clearly nonsensical. Fins don't depend on the state.... The reason the fins are so conformist is that they love the state....
Brexit is racist, stop Brexit now!
Or something
Great observations. Nice to hear a foreigner's take on Finland. Haven't been to the UK in over twenty years.
As for Helsinki, the rest of Finland considers it a hellhole and many would prefer to build a wall around it to keep all the sh*te from oozing out. 😜
A bit like London then :)
So true about Helsinki. I've been here twenty odd years. Seen a big change with woke idiots. Not so much sisu left!
Live here too, and even though there's some bullshit here, there's even more good people (at least where I live and the surrounding areas).
People in big cities are always gonna be more liberal than people in the countryside/smaller cities & towns. Some parts of liberalism are great, some less great, but I do believe common sense will eventually balance it out.
And the mandatory military service (or civil services for a minority) does make sure that even the 'woke' people (men in this case) have to eat shit and learn real life discipline at some point.
There's lots of SISU still here in Finland💪
I guess the only bad thing in Finland or one of them are the people. We are quite welcoming towards others who comes from abroad, but between the finns there is a lot a agruments and seems like everyone pretends to be the one who knows everything even they wouldnt know nothing about the subject they are arguing with really. I see this in comment sections all over the press or facebook etc.
I think people are not so happy as they say, that Finns are the most happy people. I do not think so. The taxes makes things easy for the most, so thats the happiness i guess to get services for free.
Trust me, taxes in Finland are low compared to the UK!
I’d LOVE a 🧖♀️ 😊 SAUANA 🇺🇸
Visiting next summer provided travel isn't restricted. I hope I don't come across too many soy boys while I'm in Helsinki! LOL Will be visiting some folks in Ilmajoki after that! Thanks for the information!
Why would it be restricted?
How much is property prices outside Helsinki now for a 2 bedroom house is it in line with U.K. house prices now .
It depends where.
The equality ends at conscription
There are other ways to serve. During the last wars, women and girls (youngest being barely preschoolers) kept the country running. The girls sewed mittens etc. for the soldiers,; the women did everything from baking bread for the army to washing the laundry to keeping the factories running. Some of them operated on huge spot lights (to confuse enemy planes) at night time, some kept a look out for planes near the border. When the next war breaks out, women are required to stay put in order to be administered jobs.
Sounded good until you mentioned Helsinki. How about the language barrier?
Don't live in the Helsinki region - plenty of other GREAT places in Finland. Problem solved!
@@nigelwatson2750 Language barrier?
Helsinki is not real finland
Pizza 🍕 I must say NY has great pizza
Romano or Neapolitan?
lol hilarious 😆 quite hc social criticism 😆 you should do stand up!
'Soy boy men" syndrome, yes, hard to define. I can't define it fully but here's my angle: men who can't fix anything, can't do any repairs and lack the emotional skills to try. Yes, repair work requires doing hard things that test your patience and endurance, and this requires emotional skills.
It was a fun video untill the ”old man yelling at clouds” bit.
Is Finland really a good place to live?
@@vinodbanjara8085 Yeah easily the best in the world along new zealand and norway.
@@prod-Sane are you from Finland?
Hej ju bin in sauna..kommaa
As an American …wouldn’t like to be bordering RUSSIA lol ….ohhhhh I sooooo agree …these kids need to learn how to deal with others …not have the helicopter parents or school jump in 😳🙄🙄🙄 when I was a kid my father would say …kick their ass lol
Food SHOULD be expensive.
Good quality food, yes. And it already is.
Finland is like the UK before it got destroyed by the wrong kind of immigration and the huge wealth gap.
True. But, the globalist politicians will try to change that. It would take them a good 30 years or so to do it. Demographically, Finland is like the UK was back in the 80s. The other factor is the climate. Many of the new Brits living in the UK can wear their PJs, sandals and no socks on the streets of the UK in December with no problems. You can't do that in -25C in a Finnish winter. The other issue is the Finnish language, which is harder for new comers to learn, compared to English.
You’re wrong about Helsinki though.
No, Helsinki region is a sh1t-hole
@@1watsonwatson You know nothing.
@@juholaitakari1305 I know plenty about Uusimaa! Espoo, in particular is a sh1thole
@@1watsonwatson I think you're being disrespectful.
@@1watsonwatson Helsinki in particular is really diverse in many ways. Landscape, people, opportunities. Simply best place to live in here in Finland. And this is coming from someone born and raised in Turku so it's saying a lot!
Trans rights are human rights
Oh, right, whatever you say, pal
@@nigelwatson2750 Black Lives Matter
@@mildlydispleased3221 According to an Ancestry DNA test, I'm 1% South Sea Islander, so technically, I'm a person of colour, surely??
@@nigelwatson2750 Imagine hating those who are different to you just because of their gender identity/sexuality/race.
@@nigelwatson2750
BLM pysop in my humble opinion Obama had picture of G Floyd 10 days before event & BLM said Jesus is racist.
please don't message me i only live in africa live for yourself and enjoy your life
If In was living in the Finland, one of the main things that would concern me is its extensive land border with RUSSIA. Not something that can be ignored.
Switch off the BBC: PROBLEM SOLVED
@@nigelwatson2750 Abolish the licence fee and watch it die of natural causes.
Well the good thing about Russia is that they brought us finns orthodoxy 1000 years ago. West just brought us bad things just like that heretical lutherism.
@@nigelwatson2750 Bang on Nigel. Well said.
Finland has been preparing war with russia since 2nd world war. Finland is safe unless nukes do fly.