Finland Makes You Face Your Fears (Why Foreigners Run Away From Finland Part #2) 

I heartily recommend Koli region, I am biased because I was born there :D but I advice to insist on finding an original North Karelian meal with Karelian stew and hand-made Karelian pies and all that. I have travelled the world, but I'm still amazed at their love for music and their food and nature, it is just one of those indigenous things still left to be found in this world.

Yeah, Finland is very different. In all kinds of way. It’s easy to hate it and it’s easy to love it 😂

Yeah, Finns have a very difficult past. It will change and not be passed on to children that much in the future as Finland is becoming more heterogeneous. You already can meet enough Finns who are more open to the idea of a bigger world. But it’s still hard for the newcomers.

If you are hardworking and are curious about the country - definitely ;)

Depends. But learning Finnish will definitely help a lot!

Kiitos@@loweffortedward

Hmm. Do you really think that Finns don't know how to date? Here in Finland, there are DIFFERENT ways of dating than, for example, in the USA. It's quite arrogant to think that Finns don't know how to date, when in fact it's that YOU don't understand Finns' ways of socializing, dating and getting to know each other. It is true that Finns could learn to express their feelings a little more freely, but our way is, in general, to avoid empty and unnecessary chatter. Let's talk when it's necessary, a person shouldn't talk about all the possible things that come to his mind. It only wastes other people's time and very often only reveals one's own stupidity. Also, according to a well-known theory, people who talk about everything and express every movement and feeling of their mind are afraid that their brain will start working. Then you may have to face yourself and THAT is a scary situation for many.

@@Beorninki if Finns knew how to date then dating wouldn't be so difficult and people wouldn't be so lonely there

@@Beorninki also your comment shows that you don't have enough empathy to understand why people talk and don't understand the importance of communication which basically proves my point

@@sanher20 Are people lonely here in Finland? If they are I wonder if dating is solution to this problem. Different cultures have different ways of dating. Especially here in Finland, where gender equality has progressed quite far, we don't miss the dating ways of conservative cultures where the man pays for meals and is an active party and the woman has to be attracted to the relationship. Childish games that adults don't need nowadays. Romance is a happy and wonderful thing, but maybe it doesn't need a lot of external decorations besides itself. It may be that people from different cultures miss games and rituals because they don't know how to express their will directly, but I guess most Finns know what they are looking for.

@@Beorninki if you were to visit other countries you'll notice immediately how lonely people in Finland are, and I mean, going out with someone is obviously one way of solving that problem but you didn't know that. If you think Finland has more gender equality than other countries you're delusional, and that has absolutely nothing to do with dating, bro nobody cares who pays for the meal, that is irrelevant, men pay because they want to do it, because they want to offer it as a present in good faith, if you have ever given a birthday present to someone or you have received one then you should know what it means but you do not understand that concept. Also I don't know what are you based off to conclude that people in Finland are more direct, I've dated in Finland and in fact they're not direct are all because they don't talk, I don't know how can you be straightforward without talking and communicating properly. Dating is different in every country and has pros and cons everywhere, is up to you to identify the strengths and weaknesses of dating in Finland and decide what you want to do, it's very easy to compare how dating in Finland works to the other countries and if you do that you'll notice that dating is significantly worse and that there are a lot of single people in Finland