City life vs Countryside life in Finland | First time in HELSINKI!
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I'm from Turku originally and always thought of myself as a city person. However, when growing older and living in Sweden for 10 years there isn't any way I'd live in a city again so I moved to southern Ostrobothnia where I don't even know anyone. So far it's been great!
Awesome! 🤟🏻
I am from KUOPIO / Savo region originally and live in RIGA Latvia last 10 years - and I literally did not know anyone and almost still to this day do not know - and I love and hate it - Finnish alien in Latvia who does not speak language - love to all expats!
@@mikakettunen7939 i have this strange fascination with Latvia, I love it, and I have no idea why. My only experience of it has been a few days here and there as I've driven back and forth to Central Europe.
@@aguafria9565 i relate to this deep asf - are you actually now atm visiting here in Latvia - Riga perhaps? I live here anyway
My girlfriend and I moved to Turku last year and all I can say is how pleasant it is, it really does feel like an oasis here in regards to other cities I’ve been used to across Europe. If you ever come visit it, we’d be happy to have a cup of coffee (or a glass of milk!) together and enjoy walking along Aurajoki :) !
Welcome to Stadi. I've been in many places but love my hometown most. Helsinki Oi Hel...
Skyrim tavern music in the background to a video about Finland? Instantly earned yourself a subscriber.
At least take a boat and see the Suomenlinna fortress island on a summer day, and have a hefty picnic there near the southern shore. Of course there's the nightlife, but I reckon that's not a priority to you.
Lake Lappajärvi is actually a meteorite crater.
It is!
Just here to say thanks for your videos, your thoughts on things are always interesting to hear. Keep up the good work!
Thanks, will do!
I've lived (I'm British by birth) in Helsinki for nearly a decade now so let me detonate a myth: that Helsinki people are snotty and hard to get to know. This is propaganda aimed to divide; provincial folk in the UK also say that about London. We don't just mince about art galleries reading Genet and listening to John Cage. It is a cliche, and it is, frankly, bollocks (incidentally I don't infer that this video really set out to do that--it's more inclusive--thank goodness--than that).
With the new lean to the right in Finnish government, it's clear that Finland is in danger of getting bogged down in the culture wars that are plaguing my native country, and many other nations, especially the U.S. The Helsinki folk I've come into contact with (that's a lot) are thoughtful, fun, and smart. The Oulu folks (I lived there for a year) are kind and fun, and again, smart. The Karelians I know are incredibly welcoming, creative, and smart.
The overblown rural/urban schism is an attempted coup on common sense and inclusiveness. Please be awake to this, everyone.
I really don't think that this particular video--I always watch your stuff, and it's great!--is part of that. There. That's all I wanted to say.
After 19 years in Helsinki I just love rural Ireland 🇮🇪
I once lived in Helsinki for five years or so and it really wasn't the place for me. I'm from eastern Finland and used to speaking with people everywhere. So the culture shock was really something there. I'm not saying it's a bad place I'm just saying it really wasn't for me.
Lappajärvi is great place and it's history is even better.Drop Stone.
@@timosivula I've never visited Lappajärvi. That needs to change. I think Kotipelto is from there, brilliant!
@@Kyosti5000 Yes he is from there.
I'm actually from rural side of Finland. We didn't have lifestock but we did farm a little piece of field, you know potatoes, carrots and such. Nowadays I live in middle sized city and I'm quite happy that way. Sure the freedom of countryside really draws me but on the other hand you need to open your own roads and winter time etc so it's not only fun time. Everything has their pros and cons I guess.
i absolutely love helsinki! maybe the best place in the world :)
i have seen miami, i have seen la & ny.
i've been spending LOTS of time in spain &5 the canary islands. i've visited turkey and drove through germany. berlin might be close to what helsinki is to me and i LOVE italy in the whole.
but helsinki. like berlin it's chill enough and stuff happens enough. every day you can do something that is really actually cool.
helsinki is just a smaller berlin with all of the quirks and new york without ANY of the hazards
it's big enough to have ANYYHING you could ever want. small enough to have practically NONE of the bad side of bigger cities. speaking from 45 years of going down HARD on alternative cultures and underground anything.
but then you can do absolutely ANYTHING without any fear at all
Well Turku used to be the capital before Helsinki and it is also the oldest city in Finland, so I would argue that it has the most history in Finland! 😁 Hope you can make it to Turku sometime!
110% I'll be visiting Turku before this year ends 😎🤟🏻
As always, love your video, Aaron.
Myself and my daughter were in Helsinki a number of times for about five days at a time and really enjoyed it. A great city. Will definitely go again.
Also, I must go against the grain as we are from the west of Ireland and truly love Dublin city!!
It has been said to me that Helsinki is a relatively Big City with small-town vibes.
How so?
@@infinity-1834 It was some time ago, so I may have forgotten some points, but I remember he said that everything worth seeing is within walking-distance and the sense of community has not left
@@ilesalmo7724 I'd certainly agree with that. 👍
@@infinity-1834 And also when you visit the massive city centre is all classic looking low and mid rises. There are very few skyscrapers in Helsinki and you need to leave the peninsula to find them.
Having lived in Helsinki and the much larger Toronto, there's definitely something to that. At least in many ways, one of the most glaring differences is how anonymous you get to be in Helsinki compared to actual small town living where everyone knows your shoe size and what you had for dinner on Tuesday evening. European cities in general feel much more human scale and comfortable because of that. And there's always the fact that Finland is almost ridiculously safe, which also plays into it.
lived in oulu like 10 years hated it. lived in helsinki 7 years hated it. now i live in my cabin in the woods and loving it!
Turku is wonderful. Especially during summers ❤ you can find the earliest discovered "cities" of Finland there (Aboa vetus & ars nova -museum, it's been built around the ruins of that)
I'm from Karttula. 2000 people village from a 3500 people municipality. I lived there 1984-2003 until I finished high school. 2011 Karttula joined the city of Kuopio. I realized I was living in a sort of time machine since the farm had a work horse until 1997. Those were very rare in the 90s. My Playstation 1 and a work horse co-existed. I guess it was peaceful and idyllic growing up on a small 6 cow farm. A teenager doesn't see it that way and wants citylife for the rest of whole life. Village shops were only 3km away and city of Kuopio only 47km away so on the finnish scale I was pretty close to civilization still. After Karttula I have lived in the cities of Kuopio,Kotka,Hämeenlinna and Jyväskylä. Also few months in villages of Saarijärvi and Haapamäki (Keuruu). Also almost a year in the middle of forest in Sahloinen (Jämsä) 10km to a small shop and 20km to a regular one and 40km to a big one. I have worked years in a warehouse in Jyväskylä so moving to countryside isn't happening. If I ever played the lottery and won ,I honestly don't know if I would move to the countryside or not. Sort of been there already even if I left 20 years ago.
Helsinki is a wonderful city
It has taken me 3 days to watch this because I wasn’t ready to listen to another negative vibe (I didn’t comment on the one where I think you said that you hadn’t been to Helsinki yet because you weren’t interested, which btw, completely shocked me because you have lived there for ‘x’ amount of years) but I am very glad to hear you liked the place and wish to revisit! 🎉🎉 That coming from a person of 100% Finnish Karelian heritage but born and raised all the way in Australia, who has spent time in Finland’s country side and Helsinki and Turku.
Yesterday on a traveller’s post visiting Porvoo, I read a comment by a Finn saying he was born in Porvoo and lived in Helsinki for the last 36 years and had not been back and said that their post had inspired him to visit. This also blew my mind when the towns are less than an hour apart! What are people doing?! I work full time and yet drive up to the Blue Mountains from my home in Sydney several times a year just to go for a bush walk or stroll the antique stores. And if you don’t drive, there are trains going there. When I have visited Finland, I use your trains and buses…..They are excellent!
I like the green spaces of the countryside but definitely prefer the cities because of the combination of old buildings, trees, gardens and waterways…. be they rivers, lakes or the ocean. Anyway, I very glad you finally visited Helsinki and really did like it. I don’t think it’s a healthy attitude to think of any place in a negative way, especially if you have not experienced it yourself or in a long while. Places change, people change, you yourself change.
Helsinki is life❤ there are so many peaceful neighbourghoods and diversity in terms of architecture and overall vibes of the different areas
I live in capitol area. I don't have needs to go to Helsinki. My city provides me all I want; livings, foods, entertainments. That's interesting because if you live here in capitol area (but not in Helsinki) you are still automatically considered to like Helsinki. At least that's my impression. I don't like or hate it. I just don't have any needs to go there. Will I live at countryside at some point, probably not. I like public transportation. It would be too expensive to cruise the roads with taxis at countryside you see. Most likely I would choose another city like Turku. I like that olde capitol city of Finland before some random dude with fancy clothes arrived to Helsinki area and said: "This is the capitol now, suckers. End of story" :-)
As a native Helsinkian I’m glad you liked Helsinki! I love these comments about Helsinki being hectic, when it’s the place I return to relax and for some peace and quiet. Countryside Finns, really despise us and the city, to the point when we go visit relatives even kids have to change their normal accent not to get hate from the locals.
Ha! That’ll be Ilta Sanomat at it again!😂
You should visit Rauma because Helsinki dialect is just Rauma with some changes 😂
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@@LustWaffel not interested and no reason to go, but thanks 😂
@@MrSpritzmeister Please see my previous comment. Sorry--bit random!
And, another thing, I forgot! If you enjoy history, you definitely should take a weekend trip to Savonlinna with your wife! It's such a small place you can walk everywhere. Just avoid August with the Opera festival. Kuopio is also gorgeous during summer :)
If you sometime go to Turku, come in middle of summer at the time of "middle age festifal" and visit 'Tuomion kirkko', at 'Puutori' you can find a plate on ground from where almost whole Turku was burned down. "Täl puol jokkee" and "Tois puol jokkee" try to find that out, took me 10 years.
DONT READ THIS: "Täl puol jokkee" (this side of river) is the opposite side of market. Täl puol jokkee" (this side of river) is from whre Turkus fire started.
After 15 years of living in Vantaa, i moved alone at 16 years old i moved to karelian small city. Best decision ever.
Yes, please do focus fully on the places you visit and not vlogging! Glad to hear that you wish to explore Helsinki more. You would enjoy Suomenlinna, The National Museum, Helsinkin City Museum (perhaps joining their walking tours), Ateneum Art Museum, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Amos Rex, public saunas like Löyly or Allas Sea Pool, Linnanmäki amusement park, restaurants, pubs, taking the tram to see the different areas of Helsinki... So much to discover! Welcome!
In finland we have only 4 big city area here. Helsinki area 1 milj, tampere area 0.5 milj, Turku 0.35 milj, Oulu 0.3 milj. People. But whats its great thing of those, still lots of Green nature inside them. And if there aint no sea, theres lakes and rivers. Faws!!!
Im interested in Finnish history myself.. I love your channel... have family there Tarkka, Manninen, Anttila ect.. but there's supposed to be a museum that my 3rd great grandfather built from stone and apparently he was the bear hunter there and he was a Manninen, and apparently he used Spears and pitfalls to kill the bear 😮
My wife and I spent 8 or 9 days in Finland on our honeymoon - most of it in Helsinki and a day and a half in Turku. I loved both cities.Dying to go back. Despite the cold I imagine Helsinki will be beautiful during Christmas. Really want to get further North too.
Early 2000 I lived and worked in Swords, then moved to Drumcondra, next to the Croke park and then ended up to Wolfe tone street in Dublin city centre. If I have to choose from those places now, I would choose Swords. In Finland I would choose somewhere near Tampere area.
I think mid sized city is the best option to live in finland, you get the countryside and everything is within walkign distance + theres plenty of public transit availble if you absolutely need something not available in your city.
30 to 60k people i think is the sweet spot
Helsinki is that middle sized city in finland. Easy access to nature and pretty much everything is within bike ride away
@@smiauu It really isnt though.
No offence towards Helsinki
oh but it is. No offence taken@@ItsAweeb
I also live in Oulu, always have been. Now I live quite close to the city center but earlier I lived about 7km from the city center and even if we had terraced houses and such it didn't feel too urban. Large part of Oulu's population lives outside the main city and you can get quite a rural feeling just 20-30 min ride away from the city. I personally like urban living (not city center) but it is always nice to visit countryside from time to time
Tampere is number one! You should take your time in here.
Love Tampere. One of my fave spots in Finland 😊
Tampere indeed is superb! The Manchester of Finland and a super music scene!
Helsinki > tre easily. And this is coming from a former tampere guy
Finnish countryside is the authentic Finland . Finnish soul has a connection with his local nature and traditions.
Always Sauna , food traditions and legends from their past. Compare Lapland , Karelia , Ostrobothnia and Tavastland ?
Each have their own bread , food traditions and linguistic odds.
Finland is different. Kalevala , Russian revolution and Fenno-ugric nationalism united us .
Count how many type of breads we have ???
I live in the countryside in Sweden and don't have a car. But I have a bike and I have survived for over ten years here. People have lived here for thousands of years and survived without cars.
I was born in Helsinki but my family moved when I was little to a small village near a small town in the south east of Finland. Helsinki still was like a second home to me but I did grow up in small town and feel like I'm from there but just a couple years ago I moved back to Helsinki. The public transportation is so convenient and there are other perks too like 24h grocery stores but the city is loud and packed with people. So I guess I do miss the sleepy small town atmosphere and I want to be closer to nature and have a lake next to the house where I can take a swim whenever I like to.
I think you'd like Turku, it's the Cork of Finland 😂
I'm from Turku, I'd say it's more like the Kingdom of Kerry with its history.
I visited Helsinki just recently with my friend from Germany and we just roamed around and visited the national museum. It was fun!
Before that I hadn't been there except during some school trip or visiting my relatives, which wasn't much to get to know the city.
I could visit there again, but I wouldn't move there.
But I do prefer Tampere better, or the countryside here. I'm from Akaa, which isn't big but peaceful and wit nature.
I'm a fifth generation Tamperean. It's a nice city but nothing beats the countryside and the nature. I've always lived around the far edge of the city where it's almost dead silent at night so I'm not complaining. Lots of animals and trees also.
Very interesting and informative video. Thank you for sharing it.
You are not wrong, about people hating (maybe just too strong word) capitals.
Before my 30s I lived in Tampere area and Turku area, and while looking for job in 97, I got few really interesting job offers from Helsinki, but I did take one offer that was in near Vaasa, and my biggest reason for my choice was that job was NOT in Helsinki.
I had this image in my mind, that Helsinki is just too dense, there is too much people, people are rude, etc...
But, 20 years ago, again I had to look for new job, and this time I did get one in Espoo. (Yes, Espoo is NOT Helsinki, but anyway, it is inside of Kehä III). After 20 years here, I would say that I just like to be here, maybe I should have come here sooner?
Of course "pääkaupunkiseutu" (mainly includes area inside of Kehä III) has some issues. But there is so many different areas in here. I don't think I would be like to live in center of Helsinki, but there is so many nice places all over here. And usually it takes about 25 minutes with car, to get almost everywhere inside of Kehä III... Unless if it is rush hour, and you go in 'wrong' direction.
Looking from almost any other city, outside of Uusimaa, everything inside of Kehä III is "Helsinki", but I would say it differs a lot. Like Espoo, it is so big place that I didn't even figured it out before... I can remember when I did came to here and I was looking "Center of Espoo", like every city has some 'center' that has all shops and all other places are just for houses.... But not in Espoo.
There is 'Espoon keskus' (center of Espoo), but it was mainly city offices only, nothing to do with shopping (well, that has changed a little).
Espoo has several 'centers' (Tapiola, Leppävaara, Kivenlahti, etc..) thas has big malls and shops to visit, and many other places that has dense shopping concentration.
First off, I like the genuine, kind take you give. Cheers to that!
For myself, I recently counted I've had 15 homes in the course of my (cognizant) life, and most of them have been in cities or rural urban centres. However, I grew up in the countryside and that remains my go-to. Both literally and figuratively. I love visiting my childhood home in the Southern Savonian backwoods, and I would also love to live there one day. For the time being, work does not permit it. That said, I have hate neither towards city-dwellers in general nor Helsinki-natives in particular. We all have a home, and we all have reasons to why it feels like a home - there's no reason to shit on anyone's roof.
I'm originally from small village in lapland. I've lived many years in the city in Oulu, and will never going back in the city, even this location now from 40km to the city is a bit too busy and we are looking for even more countryside place.
Since you asked. from a small town in Northern Ontario, lived in large cities, currently in another Northern Ontario city.... I prefer a third way, Small towns and cities with plenty of surrounding countryside in more remote regions. All the convenience of city living minus the crowds, and easy access to forests, lakes, hiking trails and so on.
I totally know what you mean by sense of calm and the vibe the countryside gives you Aaron, that's one of the things I miss the most back home. I'm originally from Porvoo but we moved to Southern Savonia when I was just a few years old. The town I lived in had only a few thousand people. The best thing are the forest and the lakes, how nice people are to each other and theres a lot of trust. I did live in multiple cities all around the country before moving abroad. I do want to move back to countryside or atleast to the outer suburbs of a city. Kinda done with city living. Don't know what country or city that will be tho. 😂 Who knows, maybe some day I'll return home.
That's one thing I forgot to mention actually! How nice and friendly people are in Lappajärvi!
@IrishinFinland When it comes to recommendations for place for you to visit, I have to agree with people in the comments. Definitely Tampere and Savonlinna, and I'm gonna throw Porvoo there as well. A lot of old buildings and the second oldest town in Finland. :) BTW Tampere ppl are super nice. You're gonna love it. And Savonlinna for the beautiful castle and opera.
i live near espoo centre and it's nice, because i get to have all the nice things you can only have in a big city while also having forests within walking distance. I like going to the countryside sometimes but i don't think i could live there. It's also a short train ride to helsinki centre and i go there maybe once a week but i think i would go insane living there.
If I stay 2 days in Helsinki I need 7 days in my cottage in the forest to calm my mind
Still good place to visit.
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Would love to hear your thoughts about Tornio valley and Kukkolankoski. The language and the money of their own back in days. I totally agree w your thoughts about the place to live.... its up to you what you are seeking.
I lived in Ireland for a bit, & my last months were in Dublin City. I actually liked it a surprisingly lot, a lot more than Cork City! 🤣 Ex from Drogheda hated it tho. Or so he claimed. Anyways I'm currently writing about those times & missing the place a lot. 😅 Passed by Swords a few times too, beautiful there! Currently living in Jyväskylä again (before Ireland lived here for like 10 years), was getting too difficult to find a place to live in near Dublin where I had plenty of job opportunities.... here there's less opportunities for me, but at least I don't have to worry about not having a roof over my head 🫠😅
Yup lived in leixlip, santry, dublin just a place to get connection to somewhere else or christmas, live on the edge of belfast only go in if you have to, issues parking beggers junkies tourist prices , done visit to helsinki from Tallin was amazed at the contrast to dublin /Belfast hope to explore more soon
I'm from capital of metal- Lemi, little countryside municipality next to Lappeeranta. I have lived cities around Finland but I rather be here and enjoy living in rural area's peace, if I want to go city I can always go there - in here I have my own space and nice neighbors and community what I love. Anyway, if you ever travel in SE area of Finland, do visit Lappeenranta and maybe enter capital of metal as well ;)
I was born in urban Yorkshire
and have usually lived
in small towns
near urban centres
Though at the moment I am
in the city in Germany.
I no longer have a car
and rely on public transport.
Basically I am more an urbanish person
but like to live near the countryside for walks
Kunnioitusta herättävä parta! ^^
Very nice video! Is it hard to rent a house in the rural area near Helsinki? I got a work offer in Helsinki but it has been hard to find homes. Why is your suggestion. Hope don’t mind asking those questions. Maybe you voila and do a video like that. Thanks and keep doing those nice videos.
I am from the far out rural originally, but now living in a City. And in a City I don't wanna stop at suburbs, but try to live as City center as possible. But then again, on holidays I head to the rural area as far from everyone as possible... So I'm kind of split-minded about CIty vs. Countryside.
there's TONS of culture going on ! not history only. actual city stuff!
I am from an unusual combination of rural and urban; a farm 2km from the market square of a mid sized town. Moved to Helsinki to study and then work, lived in the downtown area for over 30 years. The more I travel abroad the more I appreciate Helsinki; it is actually a very fine place. It is especially a summer city by the sea, but if you live and raise your kids there, you'll appreciate the possibilities Helsinki offers that a smaller Finnish town cannot. Turku is also really nice, and again for a short visit summer is the right time. And why not even Tampere; these three towns all have a different character and each of them have some nice features that the others are lacking. Still I would say Helsinki is #1 by a fairly large margin. A comment to leaving Helsinki as the best thing to do in Helsinki: It is also said that the best thing about Helsinki is that it is so conveniently close to Stockholm. Which is true, Stockholm is also a superb city on a world scale.
If you and your wife wish to go to Helsinki for a longer weekend, my recommendation (as a one living in Helsinki, originally I'm literally from a forest) for a hotel is the Sokos Hotel in Tripla Mall, Pasila. It's high in quality for its price, everything is nearby, a direct train to airport from the hotel, it's peaceful and breakfast is wonderful. If you wish history, in Katajanokka, there's an old prison which has been transformed into a hotel. It's a tram trip away from central.
Excellent thank you!
Yes that hotel Sokos Hotel in Tripla Mall is amazing.
Stayed there... not planned but bc missed the last bus to my final destination and was too tired to look for another place or cheaper place (like hostel) Loved it. Although it was kind of by "accident" I had to stay there.
Will definitely go there other time. But then not by "accident".
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As a Helsinki native, for some reason everyone seems to hate us for some reason, even though we don't look down upon anyone living somewhere else in Finland, be it the countryside or some other city. People in rural areas have always hated the big cities since time immemorial, and I guess it's just prejudice or jealousy of some sort. Besides, most of Helsinki is outside the old inner city, and it's all the same sort of 60s and 70s suburbia that you see in every city in Finland.
💞Helsinki💞
I'm from the area in between urban and rural: I live in Vantaa, 30 minutes away from the center of Helsinki, on the north side of the "wolf border" aka Kehä III, almost on the borderline between Vantaa and Espoo. We live here by a forest, surrounded by both agricultural area and different conservation areas, almost like the countryside but not quite. I like it here where I can just walk out of the door, go straight to the forest and spend hours picking berries and mushrooms, or go straight to the bus stop 100 meters from our door and be soon in Helsinki, whether for choir practice, museums, shops or a picnic day in Suomenlinna.
I don't know if you've ever come across literal tribalism in Finland. There are lots of people who know from which old "tribes" they descend and sometimes that causes some bickering for fun (me and my husband had a "tribe war" going on when we were dating because he is mostly Karelian, I mostly Tavastian, and Karelians and Tavastians used to raid each other every now and then in the prehistoric era) and sometimes even actual bitterness (some Karelians for example claim that Kalevala shouldn't be called a Finnish national epic since so much of it was gathered from Karelia, and I as partly Ingrian find what Finland did to Ingrians in the end of WWII infuriating) and sometimes simply proudness for descending from such illustrious people.
In Ireland Dublin is the only place I've ever been to. We travelled there for the Worldcon 2019 and of course took some time to see the city as well. Of the history perhaps the most memorable was the visit under the castle area. The guide, an Italian archeologist, in an underground hall where dark water seeped from under a medieval wall, asked us especially to look at the water and in reverent tones told us it was what was left of the original Duibhlinn, the Dark Pool, by which the city had been founded. The pool had been covered up long ago, but the river bringing water to it still ran underground and that specific underground area thus still had that tiny Dark Pool.
As a Fin and being from Helsinki... I dream of moving out of Helsinki when I retire. ^^ So I completely understand. I have lived my whole life in Helsinki and it isn't bad, but dream about a calmer living environment. Perhaps closer to nature. X3
you been around tampere much? im an oulu native who just recently moved here. it feels like civilization in comparison. oulu still the place to be though, i swear.
Come visit Turku
Always lived nearly at nowhere. Middle forest, this is bow second most nowhere where i am now. I dont hate stadi, neither love it, but same is with middle of forest.
I've always liked Helsinki (central, not Malmi), ever since I was a kid and went there for a visit. But I just can't bring myself to pay those Helsinki rents, so I live some 30minutes away (and rarely visit).
I have been once in Helsinki and I got sick. What else you could expect when coyntrygirl is in big city 🤣
I live in Helsinki, Käpylä.. pretty nice place to live. 5th gen urbanite. I dont have passions where ppl live.. nobody chooses where they are born into and life just takes ppls places. I do however love the banter between towns and places 🤔
I can only relate to country living.
Very lucky! 💪🏻
better not say something bad about helsinki! :D
Dirty old town. Born and bred in Helsinki fifty years ago and still live here. Helsinki nowdays is very empty. There used to be like twice more people walking on the downtown streets, it was crowded and hectic. Now it's sleepy and quiet. I have never been in Oulu:) Raahe is closest.
Yes, I am your age and this is true. The center has become very quiet. Maybe it's because of all the mega-malls where people now go shopping.
Fun fact, and off point, but the famous Irish song "dirty old town" is actually about Manchester!
I am a finn from Saint-Petersbourg, I really live my home-city, love how a human, but I knew, that I don't want to live there all my life, I knew, that I want to country side, s specially to historical Patrie, to Finland. And I had taken chance to leave Russia after star of war. Well, now I am in the road, it's big road to Finland, to kotimaa, but I believe, that I'll done this way.
After really big city of Saint-Petersbourg all cities and towns or Suomi are small for my opinion, but I also know, that I also want to live in city or town, but on oldhood I want to relocate to country side.
I am from India. You are a great person.
is this background music from ESV: Skyrim?
Yessss
Living in Kuopio, not a country side, however i cannot imagine living in country side without any car, especially with a big family. IMO it's quite easy to live in Helsinki without any vehicle.
Is that Ultima Online music? I know it but can't recall where it's from 😅
I like this video of yours but when you claim it's all about what you like you forget what you like is mostly what you grew up with.
In Finland we city people mostly spend the summer in the country side. It's much the same in Sweden but I don't think it's all that normal in most countries.
I know the Germans very often have a small plot of land outside of town with a garden.
School and winter in Helsinki and 3 months of summer in the archipelago as a kid and these days even more time by the sea.
I like Helsinki, surprise surprise, I am also born in Helsinki. I still like it (living in an old house in the suburbs), but what makes me sad is that my childhoods Helsinki is gone as owning a flat in the center has become too expensive for anybody but companies and such, of course.
This has lead to a rather dead center in comparison to the one I lived in.
There is also on other thing regarding Finland to mention, and it is that the state has actively tried to keep the countryside alive and inhabited. You don't see that many dead villages around Finland. In fact there has also been a military reason for that too.
Helsinki is a great place, i really got it after living there for a while. The hustle and bustle, the amount of options, and how you can be anonymous for so long.. I do miss it, would love to move back but it is just priced itself way, way out of my league.. And i really am not the kind of person who works their ass off just to be able to afford to live there. I'm much better here in the God's lap in Ostrobothnia.
Helsinki is suitable as a city. But for me, that is too big. Probably a higher tolerable border of people amount is 200k for me. But it's better if that is 100k. If that's lower than 50k, it's decreasing as a comfortable city. If we are going for tiny places and real countryside, and setting up for a small place, that's also fine.
A curious thing: pick any country in the world and ask people about their capital city.. Theh all hate the people in the capitals. The French dislike the Parisians, the English don't like the londoners, the Spaniards hate the peoe of Madrid, etc. So yeah, if you live in Oulu, you'll get a warped picture of Helsinki.
Oulu? Countryside :D? I live in Joensuu, and love Oulu and Lappeenranta, but don't want to be in Helsinki for one second. I'm from a small town and these big regional cities are charming and livable, while the countryside around them withers but is still beautiful.
Nope, didn't say oulu was, said "I visit the Finnish countryside every summer" actually
Do you know one capital city that I DO actually love? Budapest... What an amazing place. Helsinki? No, it just sucks. It just feels soulless, but then again, to me, the whole of Finland feels that way. The only redeeming part of Finland is the nature, to me, there is absolutely no reason to live in a Finnish city, you don't move to Finland to experience 'city life', you know how people say Brussels is just a huge disappointment, it's hyped up so much as the 'centre' of the EU, but it's at best a third tier city. I feel that the capital of Finland is sort of the same, third, hell, even fourth tier city status, it's sort of like eating 10 piece of white bread, you'll still hungry afterwards.
Budapest is actually my 2nd favourite! Behind Florence, loved Budapest so much that I ended up making a weekend trip there into a 5 day trip 😅
Many Finns I know who live in Helsinki often say that they live in Helsinki only because they have to, even if they don't want to and that they would rather live elsewhere in Finland. I don't know what it's like to live in Helsinki and I prefer smaller and more relaxed cities like Jyväskylä, Tampere, Mikkeli and Lahti, but what my friends say about living in Helsinki sounds sad to me.
And as for the question of where I would rather live, I would still rather live in the small city than in the country because I spent my childhood in the countryside and what I hated most then was loneliness, boredom and isolation, because I only saw other kids of the same age at school and I wasn't allowed to visit the neighbor alone because it was several kilometers away, so after school I was always at home alone with my parents.
so Sword is not countryside?
or is that getting to middle age to crave peace and quiet, serenity
Helsinki broke my legs. Helsinki is good to visit, bad to live in.
Just be yourself, no need for vlogs (or hotel reviews)
if your are in the city arrea in countryside you dont see all and thats not country area
Don't know what part of the video you are responding to but yeah, sure
Helsinki is so much better than Turku and I've been in both many times (living myself in Tampere). Turku is widely advertised as the oldest town in Finland and yeah, it is on paper... but you don't get that feeling at all. They totally ruined the city centre of Turku in the 60's and 70's by bringing down the historical architecture and replacing it with ugly funcionalist multi-storey blocks. There's not much of historical Turku left (it's still nice in some places though). Helsinki is the real deal when it comes to history thanks to a lot of well-preserved districts (Eira, Punavuori, Puu-Vallila, Puu-Käpylä, Katajanokka, Kruununhaka to name a few).
Ohhhhh interesting stuff! Cheers for the info, maybe I have been brainwashed by the Turku advertisements 😆🤦🏼♂️
@@IrishinFinland Oh yeah, good you know now, because you might be up for a disappointment. Best thing to do in Turku is to go to Naantali... it's a small town 30 minutes away by bus from Turku and it's an absolutely charming place with a nicely preserved wooden old town. Highly recommended. :)
Nah, dont listen the haters. Turku is a great city and you should most definitely visit.
@@IrishinFinland For tourists Helsinki offers easily observable coherent art noveau style architecture and other styles which dates back to 19th century at oldest. If you want to take deeper dive in history Turku is a must visit destination. Most of historical Turku was lost in 1827, but not all and those parts that still remain outshines anything that Helsinki has to offer except Suomenlinna which is cool destination. If you visit Turku I strongly recommend to check out Luostarinmäki handicrafts museum and Aboa Vetus. All in all both have their strengths and weaknesses but can't go wrong with either as a destination but learn to disregard OPs trash talk. -Vibe from living in both places for over seven years.
@@IrishinFinlandyeah Tampere is famous for being Turku haters you shouldn't listen to them just go past the buss station and you'll see more historic buildings 😂
I just dont get why ppl hate helsinki
Been from the capital Dublin and experiencing why other Irish people hate Dublin, it can be literally boiled down to the fact that it's the capital why they hate it, and I'm sure it's the same with Helsinki
Years ago had to deside between Helsinki and Tampere (after studying in Lappland). Helsinki is a great city (to visit), its the people there who i dont like. They are trying to act like metropolitians in a small (500 000) town. Most of them have moved from countryside and suddenly are Newyorkers :D
Aboriginal "Stadi people" i love
You juas became to feel the stocism... and being of us.... sorry and welcome 😅
Sorry about mispelling...
There is no reason to spend time in Helsinki. Exept some concert etc.
Helsinki region is not really Finland anymore.
Ugh, here comes the wannabe jolly heretic, let me guess? You think helsinki is "tHe nEw cApiTaL Of tHe LEftists"
Huh?
@@tableandchairs9699 Helsinki is international, not Finnish.
I have lived in Helsinki since 1997 and in my opinion things have gone worse, bad diversity as in every city in western Europe. In rural areas life is generally peaceful, houses are much cheaper but like you said a car or maybe a van is nesessery.
I would love to do an interview with long time residents about the city when I go again, would you be up for doing this with me?
@@IrishinFinland Well, I have bought and already paid for my dream house in the countryside 350 kilometers north of Helsinki and as soon as I can I will move. Now I'm clearing my old house and next door empty plot because I'm trying to sell them, selling might take some time because market is practically dead. I guess some kind of online interview could be possible but I have some very controversial opinions, so it would be like playing with fire.
But Dublin *is* a kip. 😂
What part of the video are you referring to here? Did I say it wasn't or......? 🤔
@@IrishinFinland Haha I could totally relate after nearly 15 years in D15, you just don't go to city centre. I've never been a fan of Helsinki, but there's loads of hidden gems if you're into history. Great vid as usual.
There is no urban life in Finland. Suburban perhaps, but urban - not really.
I think you are nit picking here for some odd reason....
@@tableandchairs9699 As a Finn I'm just stating the obvious. It's okay for some and irking for others.
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@@viljanov you really had to use the "as a finn" card? I'm a finn aswell 😂
@@tableandchairs9699 Chill. It's just some humour.
I dont hate any place in Finland but i dislike people from Helsinki/Vantaa/Tampere 😅
Wow wow Sir! The numero Uno In Finland is Tampere, no competition!! 😍 Helsinki is a Village but The People there think they are living In a big city😂😂😂cause they all are originally from "beyond The Wolf-line" or from Savo😂😂😂😮😢. And suddenly they all Forget how To speak Finnish😂Before Helsinki it was only "Savvoo hilijaa tai kovvoo😮😢😢🙈 🤩😍👍
Need to get to Tampere soon
Good to see vid again my friend, your comments are very recognizable, comming fro the Netherlands myself and living & working in Finland myself.
Been here a while (Ruka/Kuusamo) and the vibe here about cities is funky, nevertheless i had a blast on Hailuoto island on the shores of your city and we had a blast.
I will drop you a line on yer Instagram, if you ever need help making a vid about north eastern Finland, we would be happy to help you out⚓️🦟🇫🇮