AMERICA VS FINLAND | things i miss most about finland🇫🇮 

Welcome back any time. Finland misses anyone that misses her. Getting to know different cultures and traditions makes you rich. You're a millionaire already

There's now a little finn living inside you. 😀

Agreed...with all of it! I just checked the weather in Salo, Finland...currently 58F....highs in the 60s all week...can't wait to visit again in September...and to move there in 2024!

Hello, I just found your nice channel. I have been living abroad aswell. I moved to Sweden, Stockholm, from Helsinki with my family when I was at the age of 4. I didn't speak the Swedish language, I was bullied in the kindergarden because of my background and because not speaking the language. But after 2 months I learned the language and by that started to get new friends. After 3 years we moved back to Helsinki because I needed to start my 1st grade at school. I don't recall that I missed the life in Stockholm after we moved back, we enjoyed our life there and our family got integrated into the Swedish society. Although, I have always felt connected to Stockholm and especially to the area we lived. It was one happy period in our lives. I learned to ride the bicycle in Stockholm without the support/training wheels, by the help from a older guy who watched me struggle with the wheels 😅. He just throwed me to deep side of the pool, so to speak, by telling that lets take the stupid wheels off and start riding. After "few" falls I found the balance. Be safe out there 😊

I was an exchange student in the US almost 40 years ago, and I still keep contact with my host families and a handful of school friends 👍 It is possible to maintain the friendships even though we have met only few times afterwards 😊🇫🇮

It's funny how blind I've become to the obvious things I live with that are awesome.. I guess you learn to appreciate them more when you're long detached from them.. Thanks for your videos!

Finnish friends are for life. It is not easy to get a finn as a friend, but if you do it is for life. So dont worry, they'l be here.

I used to live in Stockholm Sweden when i was a toddler. I lived the two years with my mom and then we moved back to Finland. It+s about 40 years now and every time when i go with cruise to Stockholm and the vessel is getting closet to the city harbour i have this feeling that i´m returning home and it is so deep that it actually makes me weep. I always have some sort of positive intece vibe in me as i go around there and i´m happy.

Finland needs awesome people like you! So... you have to come back soon.... :)

i am also a cold weather gal haha! i just get so tired when it's hot. just give me a nice 20-25C weather in summer with a bit of wind and i will thrive.

As a Finn I'm glad to hear that you miss so many things from our country. My friend invented a funny word for the people who don't like hot weather and love the cold: a penguinist. He calls himself with that word :D :D

I watched now a couple of Your videos about US/FIN (I´m a Finn.) and I think You should continue making videos. I mean, like from anything. I´m a bit of a YT "heavy-user". You have a good speech tone & tempo and Your speed & clarity is IMO very easy-to-listen as a non-native speaker. Relaxed, not "forced" or a straight read-from-the-script stuff. I think it is a very valuable but sometimes underrated skill for talk/explainer type of channels. Ofcourse content means also a lot but the speech makes the base of it. Best of luck with channel!! About gluten: I have no idea in scientific terms but what I do know is, that grain breeds are certainly different here (type of land, amount of bug resilience/pesticide resilience, amount of rain, light etc. They are all made for specific environments).

it has conveyed Finland' s love to me

I can totally relate! I lived and worked in Ireland in my late 20's. I'm now over 50yrs, but I still keep a connection to that lovely, lovely country...

How about some practical differences? In Finland you don't have to give any tips to a waitress when you eat at restaurant. In Finnish grocery stores the prices include automatically value added taxes and you see the real prices on the shelf before you have to pay to the cashier. Plus the whole metric system: Celsius/Fahrenheit, litre/gallona, kilograms/pounds, etc. As you know Nashville, Tennessee has been a big music centre for decades, and they have even the Taylor Swift Museum there. Surely there should be lots of good music artists to see and hear.

I am from Finland. I lived in the American South East (Greenville, SC) for 13 years. Now I live in Poland. The thing I least liked about the South is the weather :D Even in Poland the summers are too hot :D I prefer cold. Very cold. I HATE sweating.

You have to move back some day! ❤ and experience the finnish summer in whole. Don't know anything better than june-august time in Finland ❤

Accurate observations. I take the best of wherever I am, but yes, Finland has many good sides, too. Been to 45 countries, I also miss many places, it is hard to see what is actually here. Hearing you say those particular things also makes me appreciate them.

I used to be good at making places feel like my home. Sometimes the places that had the feeling were quite small in size. One time I slept on a ledge under the window in a old school in Russia. It felt like home for the night. Today I have a similar kind of windows in my apartment. I don't know if I have that skill anymore - to be at home pretty much anywhere but sometimes a completely new place just feels right in way that cannot be explained. (I've heard somewhere that finnish word pyhä (holy, saint) comes from piha (yard) which, in turn, used to mean specifically a home yard or the safe area around the homestead. There's also theories that pyhä meant untouchable or unreachable in ancient finnish. Either of way, there's a connection between holy, land and home in finnish language. For me that tells a lot how important home - or the sense of it - is for the Finns.) Anyways.. I wish you a luck for the journey of finding (a sense of) home.

Since you miss the sauna, I'll tell you what I do as a Finn living abroad to simulate the experience as best as possible with a tub at home. Make the water as hot as you can possibly stand lowering yourself into (this is the most important part) and add a generous amount of epsom salt. Dim (or turn off the lights) and light up a couple of candles instead. I'll often play some music too. Add a couple drops of fir (or birch if you can find it) essential oil in the water. Sit in the tub instead of immersing yourself until you are absolutely pouring with sweat, then lie down in the bath until you can't take it anymore. Then finish off with a cool or cold shower and the feeling after is nearly identical to having been to the sauna. The road there isn't as nice, obviously, but it's better than nothing.

Come back!☺🌼🌻🌞

Thank you for saying sauna as sauna and not SOONA

I was born, raised in a first generation Finnish family and had my own family in Toronto. I'm now in my 24th year of living in a small Finnish town. It's pleasant enough, I suppose but, Toronto will always be home for me.

I found it funny that you miss the weather in Finland as we finns complain about it all the time 😊. But when I think about it more I do realize that the only time/weather that I do not like in Finland is on october-november.. rain and darkness, but when it starts to snow, everything is well again. You would make a great finn, you even look like one of us. I have enjoyed watching your videos a lot. Thank you for making them for us to see 🌻

Tule vaan takaisin suomeen❤

As a Finn, having a hot bath was a revelation, like "ah, this is how the rest of the world deals with lack of sauna". Would recommend to any Finns reading this.

The investment put into traveling can never be taken away from you.

You are not wrong about the ice cream and candy 🤤

Friends stay forever. 😊 Seas and oceans are therapeutic. To me most therapeutic will always be the Atlantic Ocean though most of the time I need to settle with the Baltic Sea. Not sure how much you spent time in Suomenlinna while in Helsinki but going there to dip in the Baltic Sea is the savior. 😊

FYI, what I said about the purity of Canadian tap water is as true as it can be.

Btw, in Toronto and most of the rest of Canada, the tap water is purer than bottled water. You have no worries about it and Flint isn't even a nightmare. The fact that in the USA you have to even think about the water, now that IS a nightmare.

Every week? You can go to sauna every day in Finland. Plenty of public saunas even if you don’t have one in your home.

I remember one thing that you don't probably miss.. the darkness in the winter.😄 It's a shame that you had to leave and could not enjoy the whole of the summer.

Greetings from Oulu Finland. Stay healthy and safe 👍

I can totally relate to feeling like "home" is in some other country than the one you've spent most of your life in. I'm from Finland and spent about 9 months in England during my studies. Back then I really fell in love with the country, culture and the people. There were few things I missed from Finland during my stay, but nothing I could not have lived without. For the longest time my goal was to move to England permanently, but then brexit went through just as me and my British fiance were deciding whether to settle in Finland or England. We live in Finland now and I still think I would feel more at home in England, but I keep hearing that the attitude towards immigrants has been turning really bad there since all the problems brexit brought with it... I've never been to the US so far, but I'd like to go some day. I have a friend who moved there from Finland and I really want to go visit her and see where she lives some day.

on the weather: didn't you find Finnish apartments way too warm? And I'm talking when it's not even that hot outside, because I find that as soon as the temperature outside gets close to 20 degrees celsius, my apartment becomes like an oven for three months. I've never been to the US but I've heard that most places have air conditioning going almost all the time so that provides some relief from the heat. I feel like I would prefer that to the milder heatwaves we get here since we can't really escape it than the cold section in a supermarket. :D

How is finnish candy different compared to candy in the states?

Have you already found a sauna somewhere near there in Nashville to frequent?

Hej, om du skaffar en postbox kan du säkert få en hel del godis och andra saker som du saknar skickat till dig 😊.

Finland misses u sweet angel 😘

Is that a single glazed window behind you? I mean it always baffles me that American houses seem to have very low energy efficiency and even in the south it isn't uncommon that a cold spell hits during the winter.

"Polar opposite" about temperature ... was it an intended pun, or did everyone miss it?

Maybe you should start a company that imports Finnish candy 😁 You could start e.g. with Christmas Calendars.

next time some moore,than Helsinki

What was your favorite candys?

The Finnish candy has so much less sugar that it actually tastes what it is supposed to taste like, instead of just sweet. I have had the opposite effect when my US friend has sent US candies to me. They are so overly sweet, you only taste the sugar.

Does Pooh like America?

Did you leave that long bit of silence in at the end because you missed how quiet it was in Finland, but didn't want to say it?

Thanks to the author of the channel for this fascinating video! It is interesting to see how people live in other countries! It is very important to know foreign languages on such trips. I would like to recommend to all travelers a practical guide to learning foreign languages by Yuriy Ivantsiv "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages". This book contains a lot of useful tips on how to learn a foreign language for tourists, students, entrepreneurs and anyone who needs a foreign language in life. There are a lot of good tips on how to solve problems with the language from beginner to advanced level of language learning. It turns out that the traveler only needs to know a few dialogues and you can easily travel around the world! You don't have to spend a lot of time to fully learn a foreign language, you just need to learn what you can use when you travel. I wish everyone exciting travels!

Missing the Finnish weather 😂

I'm so sorry you had to move back to America. It's a terrible place.

You really don't sound as a common USA citizen. You really ponder things. Which doesn't seem to be common in your country, sorry not to be rude. I like how you see things. And also, wanted to mention having a non-diagnosed lactose intolerance I somehow can drink milk products ouside of Finland, but someting in made of this coutry causes me symptomps. I don't know with celiac disease how it goes with. But I liked your video and keep going!

You may well know this already but the Finns are the world's largest consumers of ice cream and coffee.

My ex from California hated Finland.