THINGS WE LOVE AND HATE ABOUT FINLAND 🇫🇮 

The morning when every coffee maker stops to work, Finland will turn in to zombie land full of warlords who have their black coffee pots hanging top of the fire, and protecting it like a piece of treasury... :D Or at least that it feels when either power is out at the morning or worst - box storing coffee is empty... Filter papers ending can be remedied with some paper towel.

For Finns it would be considered sadistic/evil to offer AirBnBs without coffee maker/coffee.

A story about my military service: in moving an artillery weather station from one grouping to another (once every 36 hours or so) the order of operations was get the personnel tent up, get the the generator going, and get the coffee maker on. People who are working 16 hours a day with a remaing about 4 hours of sleep need their coffee.

I confirm this. I’m a Swede, and we drink a lot of coffee, but the Finns drink even more. A coffee maker is as essential as electricity, tap water and a bath room. How else would you be able to survive?

@@birchleaf yeah, its like hotel room without bed. Quite must to have equipment for pleasant life.

there are different types of rye bread suitable and optimal for different ways to eat them.

Yeah, those sort of rye bread need to be slathered with creamy butter and cheese +other toppings of choice to make them delicious. Also the texture, crispiness and level of dryness is insanely important. Unlike white bread, rye bread can often be even more delicious when it is has gained just the perfect amount of hardness, without going stale

@@tubelious 100%

@@tubelious You still eat bread? You don't know what it does to you? On top of that, no butter no cheese? Just... why?

@@mikkos8636 WTF? :D

Yea but midsummer is horrible for tourist IF they dont go to festivals or someones cottage. Nothing happening in the cities, stores are closed, empty, boring😅

@@zelarics There are public midsummer day activities. Most finns dont realize it because we usually celebrate the day with family or friends. Also steve and his wife could get invited to something possibly but who knows, thats not my point tho. summer is still the best time to visit :D

​@@zelarics Hello Good afternoon from this part of the world Am Ody Christopher from Nigeria Please I really need your advice please 🙏 My wife and i are currently planning on relocating to Europe this year and we have Finland and Sweden on our mind (list) Please from your travels experience which of this country will you advise someone to move to that has more job opportunities and are kind to Newcomers? I will be waiting for your response please 🙏

@@Alexandros.Mograine yea I agree that it is the best time :) thats why I said ”yea, but..” I have been in Tampere for ones in midsummer… never again😅

@@Alexandros.Mograine but yea! Definitely they could get invited to someones cottage, enjoy large group of people, see the kokko etc

Monessa maassa kaikkiin oviin on eri avaimet. Oon käyny yli 50 maassa, enkä muista, että esim. missään Airbnb-kämpässä alaoveen olis käyny sama avain kuin asunnon oveen. Lukot on myös usein sellasia, että avainta pitää kääntää monta kierrosta ympäri ja se avain pyörii molempiin suuntiin. Eri suunnista tulee joko takalukko tai sit normaali lukitus.

Olen asunut Ruotsissa, Belgiassa ja Irlannissa. Ruotsissa taisi olla samankaltaiset lukot kuin Suomessa, mutta Belgiassa ja Irlannissa oli eri avain kaikkiin oviin ja portteihin.

​@@Jappe132 Se johtuu siitä, että Assa-Abloy on suomalais-ruotsalainen firma. Maailman ensimmäinen lukko, jota ei voi avata tiirikoimalla, kuuluu sanonta 😊

@@cillamaria8 Olin vaihdossa Prahassa ja siel oli just tollaset lukot et sitä avainta piti kääntää ja vääntää siinä lukossa enkä millään meinannu oppia miten sen saa auki (pahimmillaan taisin tapella jonkun 10 minuuttia sen lukon kaa et sai oven auki)

@@henriikkak2091 semmosta lukkoa ei olekaan jota ei tiirikoimalla saa auki, mutta hyviä lukkoja ovat silti

Suomalainen small talk: "Hei, mitä äijä?" "Eipä tässä, Mites ite?" "No mitäs mitäs. Samoilla suksilla." "Jep jep." "..." "No joo!" "Joo, palaillaan" "Kyl. Ens kertaan." "Näillä mennään."

Yep, the sun

In general, visiting the archipelago is a must. It's such a different world and easily accessible by different ferries.

And that programmability is the main reason why it probably used on Air BnB appartments. How often visitor forgets the key to their pocket? Each time entire apartment building might need redoing all the keys and locks if they wants to ensure that there is no loose keys floating around that gives access to common parts of the building... With ILOQ it is just a klick of the mouse and key has no other function than being an nice looking piece of metal... :D

we use the mechanical ones in Germany. Your smart keys are next level. Excelent idea! Here we have to close an insurance because if you lose your key tey have to replace all and is very expensive.

@@madapro03 Only bad thing in those ILOQ smart keys, is that sometimes the lock can't read the key and you have to reinsert the key to the lock. This can happen 2-3 times before the lock opens.

@@jauho7483 The Ilog system is electromechanical. If the door has only a mechanical lock, then those grooves define whether the key opens the door. If the lock is electric then the access is programmable. To my understanding the door is not connected to any central access system however, but the access rules are in the lock. This means that the key starts up the key ID reading mechanism. This requires electricity, which is generated by the movement of the key. Now sometimes you insert the key in such way that it does not generate enough electricity for the key ID reading mechanism to get activated, then you need reinsert the key.

The lock/key is powered by the small strip of wire on the key bottom. If you insert the key too fast it won't power on so the lock wont read the key. We have these at where I work and there's quite a specific speed of insertion you must master.

Bro...just 5.5 million finlander

I was in a major operation couple of months ago, and spent three nights in the hospital. It was 54,60€ /night and it covered everything from the operation to medication, clothes, and food, which was actually very good. Lab work and things like x-rays, MRIs, and other tests are always free of charge in public healthcare. And there's a maximum of about 800€/year in the medical costs (+700€ for prescription medicine). After that, the care is free of charge (not including the long term care homes which is a separate thing).

I was diagnosed a tumor in my brain last september. I haven't even bothered to calculate, but from the first visit on healthcare center, thru general hospitals emergency next night and was sent to University hospital next morning in an ambulance, and was operated next morning, after that a day in intensive care + three days in ward... About ~350€ as a whole. Including CT and two MRI scans. Public healthcare isn't perfect here anymore, but still mostly good.

@@j3mixa having to pay 800€ before it becomes free is crazy when the taxes are already as high as they are.

@@lukezi3952 It's not as simple as that though. Taxes can be higher than somewhere else but the median income tax percentage is around 26%, so I don't think it's that high. VAT is pretty high, 10% for services and some others, 14% for food, and 24% for goods. Things like cars, petrol/gas, alcohol and cigarettes are very higly taxed though. Going to a regular doctor is maximum 46€/year, no matter how many times you need to go. Seeing a specialist is 46€/time, and like I said a hospital night is 54,60€, and that includes what ever operation you need. So the prices are more like office costs than actual medical costs. Most people will never get as high as the maximum price/year and they never ask money or credit card in the hospital, even if you haven't paid the last time. Most prescription medicines are 40% covered from the price that the government has already negotiated lower. Cancer medication has 100% cover (4,60€ fee to the pharmacy per three months of medicine), I don't know what other diseases have 100% cover but there're others. If you have very low income, then you can get your health care complitely covered by the social benefits. Some lower income people that are working, can get the health costs deducted from taxes. And of course you get benefits if you have to take medical leave, no matter how high your income is, it's a percentage of your wage. Also children get free care which includes dental. So there're many ways to lower the costs. It's not perfect but medical debt is not really a thing here.

@@lukezi3952 It's not that you have to pay 800€ before it becomes free. You pay a small amount for most services, but after 800€ it becomes totally free. The idea behind the small fee (covers just a small fraction of the cost) is to keep people from overusing services. In some areas certain types of care are also free, so in Helsinki you don't pay anything for a normal visit to a doctor. For a dentist you pay 14,60€ if you're over 18, so it's a very reasonable amount. Often actually sending out the invoice will cost almost as much as the fee itself, so it's not to make the health services money, but to prevent the "tragedy of the commons".

Need to be dipped into water to loosen up the mortar in the rye bread.

That part.

yeah and you have to lock them yourself :D i am too amazed how much better finnish keys and locks are

😂😂😂 Good lord yes this! I recently stayed in Italy for 2 months and let me tell you, my land lady looked at me like I was a crazy person since I had to ask how the friggin locks worked since I couldn't get them open. Come to find out when you locked it and clicked 1-5 times you had to click it same amount when opening. Front door had to be in excatly right place for it to work. I always feel like I'm an utter moron when traveling since it's usually a hassle to figure out the locks. 😅

topped with slice of salmon. best thing ever

also original style karelian karjalanpiirakka (karelian pie) with fresh munavoi (eggbutter)

@@Juhani96 exactly. Some moist fish like salmon or herring and a slice of cheese. Also if the bread is too hard, just put some butter on and into the microwave for a minute.

@@samijarvinen6599 no, dont put cheese and fish together 😂

@@Juhani96 let's just agree to disagree. This is like pineapple on pizza. We argue untill end of times🤣

People do dip rye bread into soups but I'm not sure if that counts as ''plain''

Yes! That was a bit unfortunate. Anyway, we didn't want to complain to much about the weather. It is what it is, we enjoyed our stay anyway :)

So does the finnish McDonalds.

used to have, it doesn't anymore

As a disabled person, I think what I'm usually billed for is the office costs. Had a ton of eye exams at HUS eye hospital, specialists at the upper floors, during the last 5 years. 46 € per visit.

Actually, ambulances ARE free, IF they need to hospitalise you. You only pay the 25€ if the ambulance doesn't take you to the hospital. Or, this is what I read just a few weeks ago.

I also eat rye bread ether when it's still sort of soft because it's fresh and once it loses the softness there is nothing better for it than toasting it.

Yep, but if it's really good rye bread, like with no wheat added, better eating dry and hard.

@@MusaFinderi True. That's why crispbread (näkkäri) is sometimes really good and you might crave for it.