Winter is like semi-hibernation mode. The rest of the year is hustle and bustle but winter is like let's chill and have some me-time. I also love to cross-country ski and play icehockey. Winter camping is also the best and sauna + snow + chilling with friends.
Marriage brought me to Finland. I've seen plenty of winters but man you've jumped in the deep end!(Lapland). I knew from early on that I'd never want to leave the south. Down here we have probably the mildest weather of Finland.....and sometimes that is toooo much. We live too remote to ride a bike everywhere but I anyway ride around our island often. You might agree with me that Finland is one of the safest places to live. This also changes outlook and allows for a more relaxed life. (even moreso if there are children involved).
I admire you for moving to the far north when the weather and culture couldn't be more different than what you are used to. Few within the southern parts would be prepared to do so. Nothing against the north, though.
@@juri_xiii9977 He didn't mention cabins and no, I don't think it was a too wide of a generalization. I'm from Jyväskylä area which is in the middle of the southern part of Finland for those who didn't know and I don't think I could ever move into the Lapland. I think Oulu would be the absolute maximum north I could even consider living but I wouldn't want to live north from here, although I wouldn't want to live anywhere else, period. This isn't the richest place but the people are just the best. Nothing against any other places but I think I just was born right into my right place and I love it.
I'm pretty sure that Canada has similar winter to us considering that the upper part of it is also on artic circle. They will also lose sun in there for the winter months. Could also be colder since they have sea border on there too. And then there is a lot of mountain areas next to the Canada/US border so that will also create difference with the weather. The mountains can be really snowy during winter.
Hah. Just like every event in Sweden there is meatballs. Finnish sausages and beer (and of course mustard) are such a classic combination at summertime. It is also so easy to warm sausages at the grill or bonfire and grilled sausages are always good. It doesent matter is it summer or winter but hot sausage is the thing over here. To day is saunaday for me and about 30 mins and i´ll go to sauna ❤.
Finland and Germany = sausages, but are different from each other Denmark and Sweden = meatballs, but are different from each other all 4 countries are connected, so u could make a sausage and meatball trip...
@@spyro257 very different indeed. Just like beer. Well those are still important in both countries. I don´t know what is so special in swedish meatballs. I think those are about average from the taste. I rather make better at myself 😄.
@@ArchieArpeggio to be fair, i'm Danish, so i ALSO dont get the hype, around Swedish meatballs, as i think ours, are WAAAY better... there IS a difference tho, and to see/taste it, u have to go there... get an old school sausage in Germany, and then a new age one, to see/taste the difference, then do the same for Finland, and then do the same with meatballs, from Denmark, and Sweden... about the beer, both Germany and Denmark make good beers, but i DO think Germany, is a bit ahead of Denmark... i say THINK, coz i'm not a beer drinker, but that's just what i hear, from both Danes and Germans...
@@spyro257 I don´t have much of experinces of german beers. Only few that are sold in Lidl, some better some worse. Same thing with sausages. What comes to danish beers i´ve drinked at least Tuborg, Faxe and Elephant beer. All of those have been sold in ferries that goes from here to Sweden (well Tuborg is propably sold in all bigger markets here too). But if i could choose what ever i´d like to drink i propably would drink some dutch beers like Heineken, Oranjeboom or Bavaria. Those are quite close to finnish beers. Maybe some day i got ebough money to do small vlog and travel in Nordic/European countries and trye different beers and sausages all around 😄.
Most roofs have these iron tube things at the edge that hold the snow from falling off and blocking your windows/killing someone that happens to walk by the house.
As a Finn I used to ride a bike to school every day since 4th grade or something. After I moved to Helsinki I've never done that in more than 20 years. To me it's just a crazy idea to have to mingle with cars on the same road, since you don't really stand a chance against a 2 ton hunk of metal. Works great in the smaller cities though.
Nice to hear about your experiences in Northern Finland 😅 It's exactly the same where i live, in Tornevalley in northern Sweden, on the border to Finland and i love it
I enjoy the snow alot, but the darknes of winter is so depressing. We get only few hours of daylight and it can really affect your mental constitution.
Even tho winter is really dark, Snow reflects light so (at least for me) it feels less dark and depressive than late autumn when leaves have fallen and its brown and dark.
I have followed you for some time, maybe I saw some of your videos before you even moved to Finland. I have huge respect for you. I dont actually know how big town/city you move from, but even in finnish perspective if you move to Sodankylä, you are moving to smaller place, no matter where from. I know you know what I mean. I live in the Helsinki area and only place I would move from here is Lapland. I am a extrovert/introvert. I feel comfortable with the people, no matter how many, but I also enjoy not seeing anyone in days or weeks. Also money spending life here in Helsinki would be much more in Lapland, except skiing centers of course. I have dreamed to throw my phone to lake and move to Lapland to dig gold but unfortunately and probably good for me that they have banned it. Or at least banned it in big scale. But anyway you are a bad ass living in Sodankylä. Not everyone can do it and you have been there for quite long time. I enjoy watching your videos to see your perspective of life in here and in general.
I don't know how far away your grocery store is but I'd recommend buying a bicycle "trunk" and a basket for it, a lot more comfortable than carrying groceries with a backpack.
I own so much outdoor gear since moving to Finland. Back in the UK, I had like one leather jacket that I could wear almost all year, and then a winter coat. Here, I need so many different items for the extremes of the weather.
if the snow that falls from the roof is wet and is packed really tight and it is a lot you should use metal shovel first to get it loose and then use snow shovel or snow scoop it is easier that way
As a Finn I agree. But. It is not impossible to do outside things i wintertime. It is nt impossible, it is just different. You can make trips to forest and, if you want to, make camp and stay day or two in wilderness without too much difficulties (of course you need some experience and some proper equipment). You can try to catch a fish, not in midwinter but springtime. Ice fishing, pilkkiminen, is free for everyone. If you want to kill furry animals with big eyes, it is possible (not very easy if I'm honest, and I am). You can swim, of course you need to get chainsaw, but many finns like to swim in cold water, I don't understand why but this is true. I think that just making love and fighting are little bit difficult hobbies in winter (outside) because you need to have so much clothes.
I have a fatbike that I ride both summer and winter, that's one thing you can do all year. Although it's not as fun during winter, and the places you can ride your bike is a bit more limited during winter. I like to ride in the forest, you can even do that in the winter somtimes if someone has packed down the snow with a snowmobile or something.
8:10 I'd say that is partly true. Most people move their activities indoors when the Winter is coming. However, this is usually not an option in the smaller towns, like the one you live in Great picks, those 4 def. seem likely things for foreigners to do in Finland if they stay even a bit longer
other words for all the things finns call "sausage" could also be: bolony, spam (lauantaimakkara is near), pepperoni, frankfurters, hotdogs, weiners (though we call the thin ones "nakki" but also "nakkimakkara"), salami, bratwurst, chorizo, banger ....
so, how was the summer then? compared to the us? luckily the overcast and rain don't come every summer like it has this summer. many/most summers are more or less ONLY sunshine ❤
This is out of the point about your news, but maybe you have not heard, that in Sodankylä is something happening cause of the airport! Greetings Airi S.
ohhh that rear mud-guard will do nothing useful like that :D the purpose usually is to protect your ass and back from getting wet. that will do nothing about that :D
Hello.bro Please i am a chef, from congo working in cyprus. I wish to relocate in finland, could you please tell me what is the hourly wage in finland? Is it difficult to get a job if i only speak English?
@@GIOBOZZ Water is life, ergo fire must be death, or represents Hell, right ? They used socialism to push this sauna behaviour, makes no sense to kill your water energies with that, other than it be s a t a n i s m origins. I am newly born into creationism, so basic steps, it feels bad, it be bad.
Another sacrilegious Finn here. I don't hate sauna, I just don't care for it much. Only go to the sauna when I'm visiting my childhood home. I use the sauna in my apartment as a storage :D
What are you on about? You can even play soccer in Finland during the winter. Except you'd be playing it on ice. And by that I mean upside-down on the ..bottom side of the ice. IN the freezing lake. Look it up. :D
Great video! Cool shots of you riding your bike in the forest. Don't eat sausages often, bro, cause they are unhealthy. Too much salt, fat and nitrite, and too little protein.
Funny that you said bloody sausage because in Finland there is also verimakkara, a blood sausage 😂
My tought exactly 😆 he needs to taste it! With the traditional puolukkahillo!
I guess is similar to the english black pudding, or the french boudin noir, or the italian sanguinaccio, or...
@@ferruccioveglio8090black pudding is basically the same thing in diff form. I don't really rock with them bcuz of the saltiness
Winter is like semi-hibernation mode. The rest of the year is hustle and bustle but winter is like let's chill and have some me-time. I also love to cross-country ski and play icehockey. Winter camping is also the best and sauna + snow + chilling with friends.
Winter, cottage, sauna, friends and ice fishing gear is perfect
Marriage brought me to Finland. I've seen plenty of winters but man you've jumped in the deep end!(Lapland). I knew from early on that I'd never want to leave the south. Down here we have probably the mildest weather of Finland.....and sometimes that is toooo much. We live too remote to ride a bike everywhere but I anyway ride around our island often. You might agree with me that Finland is one of the safest places to live. This also changes outlook and allows for a more relaxed life. (even moreso if there are children involved).
Nice to see a "brother" doing the snowjob properly! Respect from southern Finland. You have adapted well and i wish you all the best, bro 🤘🫵
I admire you for moving to the far north when the weather and culture couldn't be more different than what you are used to. Few within the southern parts would be prepared to do so. Nothing against the north, though.
Oh,please.. You think we don't have cabins just like the Northeners, and often in Lapland..?
That's a bit too wide of a generalization..
@@juri_xiii9977 He didn't mention cabins and no, I don't think it was a too wide of a generalization. I'm from Jyväskylä area which is in the middle of the southern part of Finland for those who didn't know and I don't think I could ever move into the Lapland.
I think Oulu would be the absolute maximum north I could even consider living but I wouldn't want to live north from here, although I wouldn't want to live anywhere else, period. This isn't the richest place but the people are just the best. Nothing against any other places but I think I just was born right into my right place and I love it.
I'm pretty sure that Canada has similar winter to us considering that the upper part of it is also on artic circle. They will also lose sun in there for the winter months. Could also be colder since they have sea border on there too. And then there is a lot of mountain areas next to the Canada/US border so that will also create difference with the weather. The mountains can be really snowy during winter.
I love snow work and combination of cold winter day and hot sauna. So winter is best
Hah. Just like every event in Sweden there is meatballs. Finnish sausages and beer (and of course mustard) are such a classic combination at summertime. It is also so easy to warm sausages at the grill or bonfire and grilled sausages are always good. It doesent matter is it summer or winter but hot sausage is the thing over here.
To day is saunaday for me and about 30 mins and i´ll go to sauna ❤.
Finland and Germany = sausages, but are different from each other
Denmark and Sweden = meatballs, but are different from each other
all 4 countries are connected, so u could make a sausage and meatball trip...
@@spyro257 very different indeed. Just like beer.
Well those are still important in both countries.
I don´t know what is so special in swedish meatballs. I think those are about average from the taste. I rather make better at myself 😄.
@@ArchieArpeggio to be fair, i'm Danish, so i ALSO dont get the hype, around Swedish meatballs, as i think ours, are WAAAY better... there IS a difference tho, and to see/taste it, u have to go there... get an old school sausage in Germany, and then a new age one, to see/taste the difference, then do the same for Finland, and then do the same with meatballs, from Denmark, and Sweden... about the beer, both Germany and Denmark make good beers, but i DO think Germany, is a bit ahead of Denmark... i say THINK, coz i'm not a beer drinker, but that's just what i hear, from both Danes and Germans...
@@spyro257 I don´t have much of experinces of german beers. Only few that are sold in Lidl, some better some worse. Same thing with sausages. What comes to danish beers i´ve drinked at least Tuborg, Faxe and Elephant beer. All of those have been sold in ferries that goes from here to Sweden (well Tuborg is propably sold in all bigger markets here too).
But if i could choose what ever i´d like to drink i propably would drink some dutch beers like Heineken, Oranjeboom or Bavaria. Those are quite close to finnish beers.
Maybe some day i got ebough money to do small vlog and travel in Nordic/European countries and trye different beers and sausages all around 😄.
@@ArchieArpeggio iirc, the most international Danish beer, is Carlsberg... that trip would be a nice one!
Most roofs have these iron tube things at the edge that hold the snow from falling off and blocking your windows/killing someone that happens to walk by the house.
As a Finn I used to ride a bike to school every day since 4th grade or something. After I moved to Helsinki I've never done that in more than 20 years. To me it's just a crazy idea to have to mingle with cars on the same road, since you don't really stand a chance against a 2 ton hunk of metal. Works great in the smaller cities though.
Nice video 👍
also some of us from southern Finland who think Lapland winter is too tough for us. last time i visited Lapland was year 1995 :D
This is very accurate! I love your content man
Nice to hear about your experiences in Northern Finland 😅 It's exactly the same where i live, in Tornevalley in northern Sweden, on the border to Finland and i love it
Tornionjokilaaksossa on the Swedish side,aye..?
@@juri_xiii9977 kyllä
Alaska has similar winters
Nice video! Makes sense. 👍
I enjoy the snow alot, but the darknes of winter is so depressing. We get only few hours of daylight and it can really affect your mental constitution.
Great Video!
Even tho winter is really dark, Snow reflects light so (at least for me) it feels less dark and depressive than late autumn when leaves have fallen and its brown and dark.
I have followed you for some time, maybe I saw some of your videos before you even moved to Finland. I have huge respect for you. I dont actually know how big town/city you move from, but even in finnish perspective if you move to Sodankylä, you are moving to smaller place, no matter where from. I know you know what I mean. I live in the Helsinki area and only place I would move from here is Lapland. I am a extrovert/introvert. I feel comfortable with the people, no matter how many, but I also enjoy not seeing anyone in days or weeks. Also money spending life here in Helsinki would be much more in Lapland, except skiing centers of course. I have dreamed to throw my phone to lake and move to Lapland to dig gold but unfortunately and probably good for me that they have banned it. Or at least banned it in big scale. But anyway you are a bad ass living in Sodankylä. Not everyone can do it and you have been there for quite long time. I enjoy watching your videos to see your perspective of life in here and in general.
loving the doo-rag & shorts in the snow 😂
All You need is Sauna and cold beer (with Sauna sausages) 😂
I don't know how far away your grocery store is but I'd recommend buying a bicycle "trunk" and a basket for it, a lot more comfortable than carrying groceries with a backpack.
I own so much outdoor gear since moving to Finland. Back in the UK, I had like one leather jacket that I could wear almost all year, and then a winter coat. Here, I need so many different items for the extremes of the weather.
if the snow that falls from the roof is wet and is packed really tight and it is a lot you should use metal shovel first to get it loose and then use snow shovel or snow scoop it is easier that way
As a Finn I agree. But. It is not impossible to do outside things i wintertime. It is nt impossible, it is just different. You can make trips to forest and, if you want to, make camp and stay day or two in wilderness without too much difficulties (of course you need some experience and some proper equipment). You can try to catch a fish, not in midwinter but springtime. Ice fishing, pilkkiminen, is free for everyone. If you want to kill furry animals with big eyes, it is possible (not very easy if I'm honest, and I am). You can swim, of course you need to get chainsaw, but many finns like to swim in cold water, I don't understand why but this is true. I think that just making love and fighting are little bit difficult hobbies in winter (outside) because you need to have so much clothes.
as a swede, this was the most finish comment i ever read. helpful, humours and honest, i love it!
I have a fatbike that I ride both summer and winter, that's one thing you can do all year. Although it's not as fun during winter, and the places you can ride your bike is a bit more limited during winter. I like to ride in the forest, you can even do that in the winter somtimes if someone has packed down the snow with a snowmobile or something.
8:10 I'd say that is partly true. Most people move their activities indoors when the Winter is coming. However, this is usually not an option in the smaller towns, like the one you live in
Great picks, those 4 def. seem likely things for foreigners to do in Finland if they stay even a bit longer
I agree imho
It hurted to see how low your seatpost was in your bike :D, way way too low
If a person sits indoors 24/7 they might not notice any weather lol. Just order in pizza and your good.
👍!
Sausage :D That one got me. But there lays a seed of truth in that one. It surely is the go to outdoors food in Finland :D
Are you live in lapland i live in veikkola good video
other words for all the things finns call "sausage" could also be: bolony, spam (lauantaimakkara is near), pepperoni, frankfurters, hotdogs, weiners (though we call the thin ones "nakki" but also "nakkimakkara"), salami, bratwurst, chorizo, banger ....
Now you know why we travel south alot from the nordic countries. We never know when we might get some sun, better safe than sorry 😀
so, how was the summer then? compared to the us?
luckily the overcast and rain don't come every summer like it has this summer. many/most summers are more or less ONLY sunshine ❤
They might from now on, since there's this thing called global warming you know
@@Absoluuttinen_Totuus luckily that has meant 30c days in helsinki for ... at least what it feels like, months. i really need to get a/c
This is out of the point about your news, but maybe you have not heard, that in Sodankylä is something happening cause of the airport! Greetings Airi S.
ohhh that rear mud-guard will do nothing useful like that :D
the purpose usually is to protect your ass and back from getting wet. that will do nothing about that :D
ok the first one i guess. havent watched the whole vid yet
Hello.bro
Please i am a chef, from congo working in cyprus.
I wish to relocate in finland, could you please tell me what is the hourly wage in finland? Is it difficult to get a job if i only speak English?
You need to go to a campsite fire and grill some sausages on a stick bro
bike is the way to go. if you need to make it easier, get an electric bike.
if you get really lazy like me, get a moped!
we go sauna naked even with neightbour girl. come hurry finland so cool xD
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I am Finnish and i hate the sauna, i prefer hot tubs. You need to go shower anyways after :7
I am the 1 error in the Matrix.
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@@GIOBOZZ
Water is life, ergo fire must be death, or represents Hell, right ?
They used socialism to push this sauna behaviour, makes no sense to kill your water energies with that, other than it be s a t a n i s m origins.
I am newly born into creationism, so basic steps, it feels bad, it be bad.
Another sacrilegious Finn here. I don't hate sauna, I just don't care for it much. Only go to the sauna when I'm visiting my childhood home. I use the sauna in my apartment as a storage :D
What are you on about? You can even play soccer in Finland during the winter. Except you'd be playing it on ice. And by that I mean upside-down on the ..bottom side of the ice. IN the freezing lake. Look it up. :D
Great video! Cool shots of you riding your bike in the forest. Don't eat sausages often, bro, cause they are unhealthy. Too much salt, fat and nitrite, and too little protein.
Can u get free housing as a foreigner