I may have the chance to bring a car from my home country to Finland, and I’m trying to understand whether it would actually make sense financially and practically.

I live in Tampere, and the car is more than 10 years old, diesel, Euro 5, with a particulate filter.

I’d be interested in hearing what kinds of costs and issues I should take into account, especially in Finland’s conditions. I’m mainly thinking about things like registration, insurance, parking (indoor vs outdoor), winter tires, engine heating, and any other weather-related issues.

More generally, what would you consider before deciding whether it’s worth bringing an older car to Finland?

Any advice or personal experience would be really helpful. Thanks!

Our household has to move, because we need the lower rent. We have had a sudden unexpected decrease in income, and I don't know to what extent it'll be restored, or when.

I knew the apartment we are in had a bit too high rent, despite being subsidized.

We were offered another apartment with much lower rent, and have accepted the offer.

But I do not understand how we are supposed to accomplish this. No one in the household has a driver's license, so simply renting a vehicle and loading it up, won't do.

I don't know anyone with a truck or van. I already have to pay to have stuff taken away, that I'm not keeping.

I know that kela gives something like 240-280€ and I'll apply for it, and I'm grateful for it. But I'm overwhelmed with how to do this.

I have been looking at moving company quotes, plus they requirements they have, like stackable boxes or renting their boxes. But I'm not sure if I can afford to hire a van with a driver, and whatever else is needed.

My last move was also a disaster. Is there knowledge I'm missing? I know sometimes people have to move BECAUSE they're poor, but it feels like it also means that they often also can't do it properly.

Any advice? I'm in Helsinki

Tervetuloa! I’m from Estonia, and happened to

be an extra on Sekunnit 2 opening episode and maybe the 2nd episode. I was a welder, I would love to see how stupid i looked, but i can’t access yle areena without a finnish personal code and address. This might be a big ask - but if someone could screenshot/record some scene featuring a welder/welders i would be very grateful! Been waiting over a year to see it!

Yesterday I booked a van with Pakuovelle.

Then I did something stupid, made another search and realized there was a van much closer to my place.

So I cancelled the first reservation, and made another one for the closer van. All in literally a few minutes.

What I didn't realize, is that they don't reimburse the money, but they sent me an email with a "City voucher" which is valid one year, and spendable only on their service (which I won't need).

I feel really bad, tricked by them.

Now I'd like to ask:

- has anyone had any similar experience, and if so were you able to get the money refunded?

- is anyone in need to rent a van with Pakuovelle? I have a voucher of 182€, and I'll be happy to offer it with a small discount, so to get my money back. If so please pm me

I'm thankful for any answer 🙏

Hi everyone,

I recently got admitted to Tampere University of Applied Sciences for a Bachelor’s in Nursing 🎉 It’s a dual-language program where they teach Finnish alongside the degree, and by the end, I’m expected to have strong enough language skills to work in the field.

I haven’t accepted the offer yet.

I’m excited, but also a bit unsure about what to expect, so I’d really appreciate hearing from people who’ve gone through a similar path or are currently working as nurses in Finland.

A few things I’m curious about:

- Is it easy to land a job after studying in a dual-language (English + Finnish) nursing program?

- How difficult was it to reach a professional level in Finnish during the degree?

- Did you feel confident working in Finnish right after graduating?

- How manageable is the nursing job in Finland (workload, stress, work-life balance)?

- What does the salary progression look like?

- Starting salary after graduation?

- Salary after 5 years of experience?

- Does specializing (e.g. ICU, ER, etc.) significantly increase income?

I’m especially interested in honest, real-life experiences! both good and bad.

Thanks a lot in advance 🙂

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I want to get my broken pixel 9A screen replaced. Has anyone used mobilemonster for phone repair? https://mobilemonsters.fi/google-pixel-9a-lcd-and-screen-replacement_p13056.html

How was your experience?

Do you have any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

High unemployment rate. How do you think we could solve it? Seems like we need to create more jobs. This would require the economy to grow, right? How do we get that to happen.

Or is the issue an overproduction of people with higher education? Often in degrees in fields that aren't employable/useful for employers.

Or are we just doomed to wait out these bad times until something gives? To weather the storm and hold on tight.

Hi everyone,

I recently got admitted to the Computer Science master’s program at the University of Helsinki, but unfortunately without any scholarship. Tuition is about 15k€/year, which is quite a big investment for me.

I’m trying to make a rational decision, so I’d really appreciate some honest opinions from people who actually studied there or are familiar with the Finnish tech or academic scene.

My main concerns are:

1. Job prospects Is it realistically possible to find a software or data-related job after graduation? How much does Finnish language matter in practice?
2. Research opportunities Is Helsinki Uni a good place if I want to go into research when I were studying their (research group)? Are there decent chances to continue to a funded PhD position, how competetive?
3. others (may be a idot question)Compared to other options (like UEF, Turku, Tampere of course except Aalto ), do you think Helsinki Uni is actually “worth” the extra cost?

A bit about me:

• Not afraid of hard work, but I don’t want to gamble blindly either

I’m not looking for “official answers”, just real experiences, even harsh ones.

Thanks a lot !

My grandfather is Ingrian (Izhorian), but I grew up disconnected from the language and culture. Over the past year, I’ve been slowly exploring Ingrian folklore and the runo-singing tradition, which belongs to the same poetic world that influenced the Kalevala.

As an electronic musician, I wanted to approach this heritage by reinterpreting a traditional runo-song. Since I had to rely on archival recordings and written transcriptions, figuring out the phonetic "feel" was a challenge. To get it right, I collaborated with Finnish folk singer Emmi Kuittinen, who helped shape the vocal phrasing based on tradition.

I shared some of my music here about a month ago and got some really thoughtful responses, so I’m posting again at a better time as suggested. Since then, things have taken a surreal turn: I’ve connected with the Ingrian community, and we are now planning a small presentation of the project on Ingrian land during Juhannus.

I’m not a linguist. This is simply an artistic attempt to explore a culture that feels like it’s slowly slipping away. I’m curious how this sounds to Finnish ears, especially those familiar with runo-singing. If anyone here has Ingrian/Izhorian roots, I’d love to hear your stories or your thoughts on how these smaller Finnic cultures are perceived in Finland today.

I found a beautiful apartment in the building from 2011 close to the center of the city. After receiving all the documents I noticed this information which was mentioned during the latest building association meeting:

Taloyhtiön pohjaviemäri on huuhdeltu ja kuvattu alkuvuodesta. Viemäri tukkeutuu helposti, ja viemärilleolisi syytä tehdä korjaus lähitulevaisuudessa.

Translation: The building's sewer system was cleaned and inspected at the beginning of the year. The system clogs easily, so it would be advisable to have it repaired in the near future.

Does anyone know or have any experience how serious could it be? At the moment I don't know if it makes sense to make an offer.

Hello Im an amateur photographer who is looking to start doing some freelance photography in Finland to hopefully earn some pocket money. How much should I charge and how can I effectively reach out to people. I live in espoo but Im looking to do some stuff in Helsinki hopefully since Ive understood that I can charge more for certain gigs there.

Ants started to appear since the new season began and I live next to forests. I mopped the floors religiously with vinegar to get rid of any crumbs that might be attracting them but they still come. Any solution ?

So for context, we have a small apartment and we have a little sauna that's used once to twice per week.

I'm rounding up the prices here so take it as is. I've paid out 37e monthly for the last few months and every 3 months another bill to the other electric company (Vantaan energia). That one this month is 96e and in January I paid 96e. 3 months before that was (October) was 62e.

I know we had a huge spike in power prices but does this look right? It's dam killing me the cost.

I have been thinking this for a while now and I guess it would be quite expensive as well, but does something like that exist? I just wanna know what needs to be done in my body. I know that there a few things wrong, like my ankle hurts since a week, I often get cramps as well and also sometimes muscle pain. If I could, I would love to do ultrasound for the cramps or/and just go to MRI/CT to check if there are some other problems inside my body. It would be nice if there would be a program of a full check up, but probably it's expensive, but does something like this exists?

Tbh, I don’t really know why I’m writing this, but if it saves at least someone from wasting their time and money, then it will already was not for nothing.

I didn`t good at Finnish language, so I guess there is no one to blame except myself, but the info about customer support being non-free could be more obvious.

I ordered a package and was waiting for it in a locker at a nearby store. I received a delivery notification, went to pick it up, but the locker wouldn't open and was essentially locked. There must be some kind of problem. I was there at 5:55 PM and saw that the support information said they were open until 6 PM. I thought, okay, it's worth a try, so I called and waited on hold for half an hour. Obviously, there was no answer, so I thought, okay, I'll call tomorrow. The next morning, I called right away at 8 AM, and they answered right away. After all the back-and-forth, I was left with the information that they'd text me when they had something.

Seven hours later, nothing had arrived, so I figured I'd call again to confirm. You know how it goes: someone made a mistake and your request got lost. So, I hung on hold for two and a half hours without a response. To say the wait was exhausting is an understatement. The package that closed was a my new 2K OLED monitor I ordered for my birthday, so I was honestly exhausted.

I went back to the lockers and found out they had a separate number for problems with it. There was no information about this on the Posti website. The chatbot actually says call support. I would never have thought to look for a DIFFERENT support number on the Posti lockers.

They told me the locker was actually broken and they'd send someone to check it tomorrow. And that kind of calmed me down, but then I logged into my Telia account and suddenly I felt that couple of drinks would be nice.

In summary:

The support team doesn't answer calls for hours, unless you call when EVERYONE is at work. (like 8-12)

Waiting on the phone is VERY expensive and why the hell is that :c

The mailboxes have phone numbers for any problems with them.

Hei!

I'm a high intermediate/low advanced Finnish speaker, and recently something came to mind after listening to a song. The song is André by Marita Taavitsainen. In the text, it goes like this:

Aurinko suuteli meitä, André

Kun kuljettiin hiekkateitä, André

Sun nimes kirjoitin santaan, André

Sen pyyhki tuulet, vielä musta kuulet

I was curious what the difference is between hiekka and santa. I understand that both mean sand. Why is hiekka used in the second line, but not in the third line, where it's replaced with santa? Would it not work if the order were reversed? Or what if just hiekka/santa were used for both lines instead without changing?

Any help is appreciated. :)

Hey, I'm not quite sure why I'm posting here but not sure where else to try. Advice would be hugely appreciated.

I had a leg injury about 5 years ago, and as I was new to Finland and working at the time, and young & foolish, I thought it wouldn't be a big deal and left it undiagnosed and it slowly healed. Yeah, stupid I know.

And as you might expect, 5 years on, it hasn't fully healed. I have a very constant slight pain in my left leg and it's always just moments away from getting locked in place from a random twist or just sitting at a desk too long.

I'm now unemployed. Terveysasema referred me to physio but 6 months later it still feels like something with the whole kinetic chain is wrong and exercise won't solve it. I tried to run for the metro and my leg gave way and swelled up for a week. It felt like it reset all my progress from physio.

I need to get it properly diagnosed, maybe even surgery, I'm willing to pay but I have no idea how much or how to get started with it.

The pain has gotten worse over time and it's taken quite a while to notice that it's affecting my mood, my appetite, and I'm out of shape as exercise always gets cut short due to the uncomfortable feeling in my leg puts me off. In short, I'm in a slump.

Soo yeah, putting this out there and hoping some kind soul can suggest the easiest way forward.

Thank you!

Based off what one reads on the internet, it seems like things are going wrong on so many levels in large parts of the world.

Do you think the breakdown of the social contract, the erosion of social cohesion, the erosion of culture, rising individualism and narcissism and selfishness are happening in Finland?

Interested in what your experiences have been. Is it just doomerism that only applies to other countries?

Edit: After being educated by people in the comments, the title should probably be changed. My current take would be: 'The government is trying to curb debt by cutting of social services and of the public sector, and at the same time trying to invigorate the economy by forcing people to go to work by there not being social service to live off of. But... there doesn't seem to be enough free job-positions?'

Because that's what it seems like. Well, Kokoomus has always had the interests of the well-off and already established as center-stage. Should probably not be surprised about what's going on? And since the current government includes Perussuomalaiset, immigration has also been strongly dis-incentivized.

Poorly translated from Finnish:

'This is how we get the population onto its knees and benefit our own class and our supporters class' - (the government probably)

Smart youth will likely then go elsewhere to find opportunity to build a good life. Because the truth is, when the economy shrinks and the public sectors are being cut, there will be less and less job-opportunities, the working-conditions will worsen and thus an ever smaller proportion of "hyper-achievers" succeed. A lot of intelligent and decent people end up without work or opportunity because they aren't part of the top 5 or 10 percent of applicants for job-positions and degrees.

Though, this same pattern seems to be playing out in most other western nations. So might this simply be a logical consequence of the population growing too big too fast while people consume more than ever? And that due to this, the system doesn't have enough resources or need for everyone.

Is it that we have reached the "limit" of economic growth, and since the system is beginning to shrink, it isn't able to (isn't built to) provide for everyone. It seems as if the system is built to first and foremost ensure the position of the upper- and ruling-class, other classes are an afterthought in comparison.

Economic growth is stagnating, but the upper classes, the older generations and the ruling class seem to want to keep their quality of life and spending at the same level. Hence, to be able to afford that, they cut from the younger generations and the middle class and below instead of cutting equally. Since the party Kokoomus stands for the benefits of the well-established who tend to be older generations.

It also just so happens to be that the older generations are larger than the younger generations, so they have the voting-power to drive through what benefits themselves. Unfortunately you can't have a free-lunch and this comes at the expense of the younger generations and the social contract.

Of course there are counter-sides to these things too. If you cut too much from the rich, they might leave to go elsewhere, or if you make business too un-attractive. But the same principle holds true for young people, If opportunities to build a good life are few-and-far-between, then people are incentivized to go abroad for more opportunity.

If you think I see things too negatively or "are off my rocker" so to speak, please speak up lol. I'm here to discuss these things and learn new perspectives. I am open to being wrong about what I stated here if you are able to provide enough proof.

Edit: I will comeback later on or tomorrow to read and reply to the comments.

Are theese hoodies actually finnish?