Why Helsinki? Why do I live here? 

About that Kalevala but with Scrooge. The people translating/writing the Donald Duck comics in Finnish pride themselves for intentionally using complex, difficult and older vocabulary for it. They want to preserve the richness of the language. So don't worry, it's far from the easiest literature to read!

I love seeing people come from elsewhere in the world to experience what I’ve learned to appreciate so much in life. Anyone who wishes to come to Finland and wants to contribute and make this place ever better is welcome with open arms. Warms my heart to see people who genuinely want to build a life here specifically and then feel at home and be treated well.

I’m Japanese and I was living in Helsinki for a year. I’m currently back to Tokyo but I’m thinking to going back there in the future. I agree with your opinions 100% :)

i’m considering to move to helsinki and a few points he mentioned were: 1)it is very safe 2)it’s a metropol but not overwhelming 3)public transportation is on point. no need for a car 4)the artsy side of the buildings in the city 5)winter being snowy and cosy yet summer being so vibrant and radiant 6)it’s situated by the sea and you can enjoy the nature and the forests omg and people respect nature & city isn’t built around subways and stuff 7)the food & various options for different types of diets 8)buying fresh food. not needing to buy in bulk. 9)coffee! 10)the languaga-although it’s really very hard to learn finnish you don’t have to learn it bc you can have access to everything-tax/immigration office etc in english too 11)many opportunities thank you for the video! helped us a lot!

It's amazing how opinions change trough life. When I was a teenager, I felt home (Finland) always as boring place and also in my early and late twenties. 20 years ago as I felt like I was trapped and there was nothing for me. I was a restless soul and did spend about 20 years going all around. 46 countries. I used to joke, that I have been more often in New York than in Lauttasaari (district of Helsinki). It's amazing how 20 years younger version of me loved the US so much. But I think I have lost some of that blue shade from my eyes as somehow I don't find myself comfy in the US anymore. I even planned to spend my fourties in New York with my family but switched to Austria and ended to postpone it to Norway after Covid will ease. But anyway, matured version of me have found Finland actually pretty good country to live. I have not been so happy with Covid and some attitudes in society and freedoms to express your opinions. There has been rapid change in couple years with cancel and woke cultures awaking here and things like that. But generally life is good and someway careless. I have found Finland again, probably better than ever before. Nowadays I think that I just did live in wrong places and it takes time to find the city or town that you really like. But it is also error in us: We just get so blind to our surrounds. Those special things can easy be unnoted as you have seem them so many times and they are so ordinary to you. Like couple days ago there was as someone foreigner would say, spectacular show of Northern Lights/Aurora Borealis. But I just watched TV even I knew those were visible. Sometimes I find myself dreaming of moving to southern France, but then I wake and doubt would it really work for me? (Most propably not) I even think, that my american dream also was actually just a love to those beautiful New England houses that blossoms in east coast and to have similar one here in Finland. One your fellow countryman, Phil Schwarzmann, who moved from the US to Finland, wrote some decade ago a book "How to marry a Finnish woman". It summs pretty well everything what is good and what is bad here. I can even agree with most of his findings. The good things in everyday life are those, which ones are the hardest to beat. The older you get, the more you need and depend of your country and its services for you and your family. When society runs that way, that you don't have to worry everyday how kids get safely home from school and will the visit to doctor force you take another mortage, then life is quite good. Honestly speaking, it's actually quite luxurious. I had to live in other countires before I could see the light. You don't notices those daily life benefits before you loose them. By the way, isn't amazing, how fast time flies. And as you have found in your video, clear differences between seasons someway gives a healthy rythm for the life. I remembered when I lived a year in Malaysia, there was the same tropical climate all year around. No colours of autumn, beautiful white christmas, those refreshing first sunny spring days after dark cold winter and nights ful of light.Mesmerising I would say.

I visited Helsinki in June 2001, and fell in love with it immediately. Classic buildings, lakes, forests, and food, all deeply attracted me. The first night in hotel, I waited until 10pm and it was still bright outside. I was scared for a moment and then realised that I had learned this in primary school geography.😀 It was also amazing to see nobody talk on the platform waiting for trains in a main station.

I find so great that Helsinki values five key things in life> Public transportation, grocery stores, health care, coffee and English language. I really love coffee and I know that helps people to move forward. Amsterdam and Helsinki are the ONLY two cities out of the English speaking world, where English is nearly official and wide spread.

This warms my heart and i feel the same towards Helsinki my grandmas mom was finnish so we ended up moving here when i was 4 after that i traveled for 5 years with my parents across europe (they are sircus artists) and came back to finland when i was 11. and so far from seing alot of countries i would say finland feels the closest to my heart and feels like home. i cant imagine living anywhere else..

I love Helsinki too. I live in Mäntsälä 55 km away from Helsinki, but I like to visit Helsinki and my friends who live there. I love your energy and your positive attitude .

I am a Canadian currently living in Almaty Kazakhstan with my wife a three kids. We have been pondering the idea of moving to Helsinki in the future and THIS video sold us. Thanks, dude. It looks and sounds like a beautiful place to live. Wish us luck 🍀

Freaking happy that you are uploading again! Typing this while on the floor because I am trying to be spontaneous as well lol

I can relate to a lot of what you say. I grew up in subrubia, USA, then spent many years in another wrong place (Spain) before finally landing in Copenhagen, Denmark. Where my reaction was "Ahhhhh, I belong here." And so this is where I will stay. ❤️ From one Nord-American to another ✌️

You could make a vlog about those coffeeshops! Apart from being fun to watch, it could motivate you to actually visit more coffeeshops

I am from Western Sahara 🇪🇭, I was an exchange student in Finland, it was one of the best experience of my life. God bless Finland ❤️

I was in Helsinki 10 years ago. There was a little bar called the Champagne bar. And there was a huge bookstore. I loved the 3 days that I was there.

Thanks a lot once again!

Thank you for your videos!

awesome vlog! this was the first one I watched. inspired me to travel to Helsinki. DWF to HEL tomorrow. Excited. love to travel and experience different cultures. expands my awareness of the world beyond what I've always known. keep posting.

The way he says Helsinki got me. 👀

Welcome home❤️ when u realize that this is home is the best feeling ever ❤️❤️

Nice and positive, thankyou. I am a finn from Helsinki.

You are explaining my experience in many European cities (easy transportation, small shops and grocers,access to nature, etc.)

Thanks, pal. Great story❤

I am much more motivated now to visit Helsinki and i kinda like to live there soon. Thanks for your videos.

I guess I'm considering to move there too ... Thanks for talking your experience...

Hi, Tyler! Nice to see you again! I'm glad that you like my hometown, Helsinki/Helsingfors! It's not the most beautiful city in Europe, but it has its advantages. One being that you can just be yourself and people will accept you just the way you are. We've all read or heard about the things that made Finland the happiest country in the world for the fifth time in a row. And yes, those things give us freedoms and rights on which we can then build our lives. But when all is said and done, the most important thing in anybody's life is to have good and loyal friends, who - as I said before - accept and like you as you are. They themselves are genuine people, which you would notice even more if you ventured out into the countryside, to the smaller towns, the archipelago, the inland areas, the Big North and the Åland islands, for instance. Finland has changed quite a bit during these last few years, not all of it good but mostly for the better. Your video even showed a glimpse of the building where I worked in the seventies and eighties, as well as of the area of Munkkivuori/Munkshöjden, where I live smack dab in the middle of a "puistometsä", a park forest. You've got it! The four seasons give life a certain variety and rhythm, and when it gets dark at around 4 p.m. in midwinter time, it's a good excuse for just staying indoors, lighting a few candles, making it cosy around oneself, slowing down, unwinding, and enjoying whatever one likes: music, books, movies, videos, good food and drink, or the company of good friends...all without feeling guilty for not being more 'active" and doing something "useful".

I am so glad to hear how much you love Helsinki.being from there(5th generations).growing up there I always saw the beauty in our city...........its raw ,simple but at same time so homey......so much history........I could just walk hours and truly marvel everything about it.....and we did........NOW been gone from Helsinki for so long I truly appreciate it even more.here people ask me all the time”what should I do in Finland “??????and my answer always is”well,I just love Helsinki..........so I am wrong person to ask,since I love historical,architecture part of that city

Be careful with thinking that comics are easy! The puns in Fingerpori often defeat also native speakers. But of course it is good to pick a reading material that is inherently interesting.

Awesome video!!!!!

Nice video, it pretty much sums up why I like to live here. Now I can just send this video when people ask me why I moved to Finland :) One question, where is that coffee shop you showed with the strange coffee maker contraption? I have to visit it!

God bless Finland and the Finns, Love and Respect to this amazing and Great country 🇫🇮💫💙

great video!! your spirit is very energizing! :)

When you told honest people I felt happy.Where honesty exists all goodness.

In fact I would very much like to see vlogs about the cosy cafes in Helsinki 😉💚

Hi Tyler! Thank you for an awesome video! Helsinki is just 1 hr away by plane from my country and just wonder why the heck I haven’t been there yet! (Maybe I was scared of finish :) good luck and maybe I’ll meet you one day

And you are most welcome 😊

tässähän tuli paljon kivoja juttuja mainittua Helsingistä! olis muuten kiva kuulla enempi kun puhut suomea näis videoissa :)

Wow what a nice pillow :D

Helsinki is one of the most livable cities in the world.

Hi Tyler . Thank you for loving my home town Helsinki ❤ I'm not living there anymore,because it's too expensive to buy a single family house . And the plots in Helsinki are too small.. But I really miss Helsinki always... If I could I would live in city center in Helsinki. ❤ I'm so happy,that you live in Helsinki. 😊 All the best for you Tyler ❤

As much as I really don't do very well with the cold at all, it will be nice to experience proper seasons with real springtimes and winters. In Scotland it just rains and that's it. It's always so grey and miserable.

I wouldn't feel too bad if you found that a special edition of Aku Ankka is a complex read. The people working on it often use puns and other jokes that don't really translate, but are extremely idiomatic, and I've heard they pride themselves on enriching the Finnish language in the process. I was born in the Helsinki area, so that's why I live here, and my British husband lives here because I wanted to come home a few years after we met (while I was scratching my travel itch by studying in the UK). It helps that most of my family live here, as well.

I loved Helsinki when we visited in 2014. It’s the country of my heritage. My parents were both Finnish. Parker is my ordinary married name. I was a Hänninen before I married.

You should really come to Tampere an explore our city a bit. I think you will love it too! We have two huge lakes and those have forced Tampere to be shaped in very interesting way. By the way, only about 2 hours from HKI with train so problems there :) If you need some special recommendations for Tampere just hit me up!

So when the hot weather actually starts ? This year for example in Poland nice warm temperature starts from May.

The long dark winters is 100% one of the reason we have some of the best gamers on the planet here in Finland 😆

is there some homelessness or alot like hear in Seattle? Im lookin into places to move without the despair and poverty and I really like the sound of Finland. Also is ok not to speak finish can you still have a good time or is learning the language important?? Thanks for the video

Inner turmoil? Im here for you, dude. Just talk to me!

lokakuu is October - Loka translates as mud :)

Those are all great points. I love Helsinki too. ☃️ Also, dont remember you ever said you are vegan!💪😼I wouldnt mind a video of you showing us those cafes/places you can get nice coffee or even vegan food. 🥰

So glad you've uploaded more videos! And I didn't know you were vegan! One of my favorite restaurants in Hki is Sen Chay (in Siltasaari, right after you cross the bridge), they have amazing vietnamese, all vegan! And affordable! How long have you been vegan?

kiitos

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Did you make it to st Petersburg?

Make a short about that painting

Im happy that you like Finland/Helsinki that much so not going to say anything negative about pks now 😁

How were you able to get work in Helsinki as an expat? I have a friend with a phd in classic studies and is married to a Finnish woman who is also very highly educated and struggled to find work.

Hi, could you please make a video about Rauma city and also about students apartments. Thanks

Actually looking forward to moving there next year from Thessaloniki, Greece. I am 33 now. Am I too old to try starting anew in a new city and country?

I would love to have a coffee with you one day, you would be an awesome conversation partner. I used to live in Helsinki years ago (before you moved there in 2015). Perhaps one day I might move back again.

Can you do a video about the cost of living in Helsinki?

You are aging like wine 😍

When do you make a video in Finnish?

I was manufactured in Töölöö Mehiläinen. But I have lived in Manhattan Beach (Los Angeles) most of my life. I have a place on Katajanokka, great view. And I would like to move back to Helsinki as California is no longer what she was in the 1970's. But how easy would it be to move to Helsinki? I am just a software developer. For seven years I was in Helsinki May through September as I had a girlfriend there and worked remotely to California. She was here in the winter. Now those clients are not what they used to be and I mostly have clients who want my physical presence. So, I speak Helsinki Finnish and Stockholm Swedish, Los Angeles English and used to get by in Kyoto Japanese. And I have done anything pretty much between Assembly and Python, including. But would I be able to get a job in Helsinki with that?

I have to say Finland might not have many Bazinga known Meals but the Quality of Food is the greatest I know.. Lived in the Uk, Us, Spain and Finland and by Miles even the Ham, Meat, Dairy Products Taste the best in Finland.. Even Soda Tastes better xD Every country has there good points but for the things I personally Value Finland is the best place I know.. Ofc it also helps my life in Finland as I talk fluent Finnish, something what does not get told enough. Some people get lucky and more opportunities are rising in Uusimaa region for none finnish talkers.. but I'd still Highly recommend learning the language and well before moving there.

Is the food organic there? I'm from Washington DC and I eat USDA organic products. I want to move to Helsinki after I get my first software developer job.

Love watching this ♥️🌹🌟

i love how many times you pronounce Helsinki. Anyway your so cute 🌹

Now subscribed to you :)

Wonder if you people who have moved to Helsinki / Finland from abroad have meetings or other methods of keeping up with each other. 🤔

In my 13th year in Helsinki, I would say that you don't need to learn Finnish (or speak it well) *unless you want to do a job that Finns want to do too*. In which case you are at an immediate disadvantage, as they all speak English too, but also Finnish and/or Swedish. In the job market, 'excellent Finnish' tends to mean 'native Finnish equivalent', whilst 'excellent English' is nowhere near the same level. However, if you want to do a job that Finns aren't keen on or can't do, English works.

I hope you have found real friends In Finland. No need To be alone In Helsinki.

Life is so much better away from Helsinki, like outside of Kehä III, or fev hundred km furter away. They speaks English also in other towns in Finland.

Thank you Tyler for making a video about living Helsinki. I also eat plant based vegan and it's good to hear your experience. Would you please make a video about cost of living and applying for residence permit?

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subscribing because you're vegan :). Would love a vegan helsinki tour.

I live in Lapland please when you come here you can make good videos.

worst part about learning Finnish there is written and spoken written seems robotic and Formal, spoken is more casual and 'normal'

Hi there , hope you doing well , Im from iran and as you may know the situation is getting so hard here ,therefore im planning to apply for a phd program abroad , and one of my alternatives is helsinki and aalto university. I really liked the vibe of the city and the way you described it for growing a family there , cause you know i have no hope to have children in iran ... but as far as i know Finland is a great place to meet healthy people who are wishing for a normal life , not toxic as we face in iran and other nations... by the way , maybe one day i come to you and say hey. Your video really changed my life ! And i applied to that position.. and im here in Helsinki , lets meet up ⬆️💓 take care😊

Is 🇫🇮 Nordic?

HESA O YGONE

Everyone should have a friend like Tyler. He gets more powdered sugar on his arm than on his fried Tippaleipä.

But Helsinki is... Too big! 😅

What happened to your amish beard?

When the Swedes ruled and perhaps still rule, they barely spoke any Finnish. In that sense, you seem like an archetypal resident, not an alien. I am more of an Eastern Finn, but that how we imagine southern Finns.

What?!! Ofcourse you need to learn finnish in Finland

You look like Jensen Ackles. xD

You had superior experience, Helsinki is really much worse

1. Tyler, Tyler, Tyler. What are we gonna do with you? If you want to present Key Points, you need to have a PowerPoint presentation and some kind of...pointer to point out those points. And you're supposed to be a business graduate! 2. I see that you, too, haven't found the solution to lenses fogging up when wearing a mask. Apparently you need to breathe in some kind of special Zen master fashion. I haven't that kind of patience. 3. I think it's equally surprising for Finns when they realise that in many countries children are guarded by parents pretty much 24/7. Finnish kids are practically feral. Which is how it should be. 4. Yes, Helsinki is great.

It's like Japan but for white people. (I'm white and lived in Japan)

you are cute

Hey, do you face challenge in communicating with people? Given English is not people's native language

Hy I am vegan too! I suddenly discover you, and really love your channel. Stay vegan. Go vegan.

Glasses and face masks,... sucks. Oh and I've lived in Finland all my life (born here 43 years, swedish speaking). I still can't speak Finnish. Finnish is impossible, unless you grew up with finnish friends you're screwed. I live in a mostly swedish speaking area.

You're so handsome! :)

Oh shit, we have the same name, and live in the same country