LIFE IN FINLAND | 9 Things that shocked me living in Finland
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after so many comments
1. Im LATIN american, not USA american...its different
2. the shower thing wasn't about the curtain, it was a bout the fact that the design is meant to be able to wet the whole bathroom and there are drains for that and not like a concrete thing separating it from the rest of the bathroom...
Anywhere new we go we notice differences from our home countries, cities or whatever in customs, food, habits,well anything really. In this video i share just a few that were really surprising to me that i have noticed in the few months living here in Oulu Finland.
If there is anything you have noticed as well, go ahead and leave a comment, maybe i haven't noticed a hidden gem or something :D
Music provided by my one and only T.Vaisanen
Fun fact about Finnish water quality. The Coca-Cola company set up a beverage factory in Kerava about 20 km outside of Helsinki, and they wanted a raw water sample just to know what kind of filtration equipment was needed. So the guys over here sent a bottle of regular tap water to the Coca-Cola company's lab to be analyzed. A week later they responded with an angry e-mail that they wanted regular tap water and not super filtered production-quality distilled water, and the guys setting up the factory over here were baffled because that was it, just the same stuff we flush our toilets with.
Nice story, maybe not a fact. And yes, the tap water is pretty clean in Finland.
@@onearthonelegion This happened in 1998 or 1999 as told by the factory's Chief Brewmaster in a recent interview by Helsingin Sanomat. Water quality is still the same as then.
@@yorkaturr No kyllähän tuossa värikynä vähän haisee, ei Suomen vesijohtovesi nyt sentään laboratoriotesteissä tislatulle ja filtteröidylle pärjää.
@@yorkaturr It's probably true that they were surprised at the level of cleanliness, americans put like sick amounts of flouride and shit in their tap water to erase bacteria instead of filtering it properly. Friends of mine who has been there say that their water STINKS of chemicals, especially flouride. /A fellow swede
www.hs.fi/kaupunki/kerava/art-2000006263321.html
Bottled water is expensive because it's taxed heavily. It's taxed heavily because bottled water is horrible for the environment, and as Finlands tap water is of higher quality than your average bottled water, it makes sense to encourage people to drink the tap water by making bottled water expensive. Bottled water is more to use in emergencies, not something you should be buying regularly. In Finland, I have not bought bottled water in my life, though I have when travelling in countries where the quality of the tap water is questionable.
That makes sense, to tax it high since its not necessary to have bottled water. the water in Finland is really nice. unfortunately, cant really say th same for A LOT of other countries, where tap water isnt drink safe or filtered th same way as drinking water. Where i grew up its safe to drink in one side of the city, but the rest of th city is quite horrible... and in th countryside, it needs to be boiled to avoid bacterial infections :o ...
@@cat_rivers "its safe to drink in one side of the city, but the rest of th city is quite horrible... and in th countryside, it needs to be boiled to avoid bacterial infections"
Sounds like Estonia in the late 90's. Possibly even now, still.
Yes, I don't know why they are allowed to sell bottled water at all in countries were it's perfectly safe to drink tap water. It's time for politicians to rethink if it's really a good idea. It's not a product, it's a scam.
@@dennislindqvist8443 It's a convenience you have to pay a tax on. The tax money gained, if used smart, can be a very positive thing. Whats the issue again?
@@Megalomaniakaal You mean the tax money can be used for research on how we get rid of plastic waste, carbon dioxide, air pollution, etc...?
Finns don't care but silently judge
Very true
Yes
*Silently judging*
Personal space is like a law that affects the whole country expect the sauna's
Thats the most true shit ive heard today
Someone has stolen your shower curtains.
:o
Yeah, the rack is still there.
@@cat_rivers Yeah you need to buy shower cutrains, then the water won't go everywhere. hehe and some places do have shower closet type shower also, like my mum's place has.
I don't think they are stolen. If the previous residents bought their own, from a nicer brand and wanted to take them with them or the curtains were old and they didn't want to leave a nasty old shower curtain for the next resident to deal with.
according to my understanding the shower curtains aren't actually part of the apartment anymore - and yes, they used to be. but today they are considered similar to toothbrushes, so they shouldn't be used from one user to the other... so yeah; you should just buy a shower curtain... silly Americans with their dirty habits :D
Go to any public bathroom and fill your waterbottle from the tap. Water is expensive because nobody buys it bottled. :)
yeah now i know that, but as a visitor the first time, i didnt know if that would be ok... thats moe like a first impression type shock :D . Especially because i was flying in from spain and there YOU CANNOT DRINK tap water...
Yeah in like football practice or shit ppl just go to the bathroom to fill theyre water bottles its great
@@cat_rivers everyone in spain drinks tap water.....
In the Netherlands, where I’m from, the water quality is great too. In some places you can make tea or instant coffee with hot water straight from the (kitchen) tap, if the water gets hot enough.
@@peadar-o You shouldn't do that because there are potentially dangerous bacteria in the hot water tubes. Well, that's at least what I've been told.
Don't buy bottled water unless it's necessary. Just drink tab water. It's clean no matter where you drink it (except trains)
Also in Espoo some areas tap water tastes too bad to drink. But in Helsinki it tastes good
The people in Flint, Michigan were poisoned by their tap water which was filled with Lead. Now their poor kids have to live with the consequences of Lead poisoning and it’s effects on the growing brain.
@@lisaeischens2352😐
@@jxclxc8830 Espoo is just is like that. Don´t go there.
@@ninixinya I buy water from shop when going there : D
One thing you didn't mention about the seasons: in the winter, there's no day-time, in the summer, there's no night-time.
Ah but i knew that be#ore coming soeit didnt take me by surprise :D this was more abodt the stuff that you dont even consider. Like, the other day my sisterein lawestopped the car and threweSNOW ah the window to clean the glass, because the car had no water left and im still dumbfounded by that. Like wtf hahaha
@@cat_rivers I suppose it's because I'm Canadian, and I'm still surprised by the length of the days and nights when I'm working in the North.
Is it true? Im excited to go there
@@vtv4052 well depends where im from ye in summers there isn't really night time but there is day time in winter tho im more southern finland if you live far in the north live Lappi yes i've heard there the sun doesn't rise.
@@vtv4052 I've lived most of my life in Lapland. It's true, it's bright 24/7 in the summer (midnight sun is honestly my favourite, very pretty, and as a night owl the brightness doesn't really affect my sleep but I can understand if some don't like it :D) and there is a period in the winter when the sun doesn't rise at all (kaamos). November, december and january tend to be the most depressive. Many people actually get 'polar night depression' during that time. You wake up and go to work - It's dark. You come home from work - it's dark. Repeat. If you're lucky you might get a few hours of sunlight during the darker months, but the sun is already setting around 2pm so good luck getting out of school/work before that haha.
I love that people see the value of what you have to offer as a person rather than your appearance. That's def a positive culture shock! I love it.
I lived with my parents until I turned 22 and moved away to study. People thought that it was unusual to live at home that ”old” 😂 While my spanish friend is now 28 and just recently moved away from home. Totally normal there but in Finland people would think you have serious problems or something. It’s kinda sad actually 😂
Meanwhile in India whole families live together with grandparents and moving away alone while living in same city would be seen as very weird or not understandable (imho)
@@karolinasvobodova5278 That's true for most Asian countries.
@@karolinasvobodova5278 are you indian cause your name doesn't sound indian
@@A7xeno I think except japan south korea and Taiwan everywhere in Asia people live with parents
It's an affordability issue. In countries where housing prices and rents have gone way up, affording a down payment is nearly impossible unless you stay with your parents into your 20s to save up. Even harder if you have student debts to pay off as well. So it just makes sense to wait and save.
Also, today's corporate culture of not hiring full time workers means less money and security, less chance of benefits, etc. It's really cheated the younger generations of having financial stability and consequently the ability to invest in home ownership. It wasn't always this way. Back a few generations, people had stable full time jobs with benefits, and were able to save enough for a house. Now, even a two income couple can hardly afford to rent, let alone purchase a home. Oh, and you can pretty much kiss retirement good-bye too.
So much for the capitalist way...
Water: Finns usually carry a water bottle in the backpack, especially sommertime. So: tap water - which you pay in your rent, or alongside according to consumption, depending on the house.
I was honestly surprised about the water quality in Finland. I was there several years ago and went to get a gallon of water from a supermarket. The people there gave us weird stares and told us we could just drink tap water 😅
I love this. My great grandparents migrated to America (Minnesota) from Finland. My grandmother is very proud of her Finnish heritage. I am 50% Finn since both of my parents are 50% Finn. Learning about the culture makes me feel closer to my grandmother.
About that shower thing...
That is what we have "suihkuverho" (showercurtain?) for. It stops the water frow going all over the bathroom :))
we finnish people dont have a place to hang a showercurtain
@@og_rubens9748 well I do :0
Back in the 80's,when I grew up,most apartments had one main bathrooms(sink,shelves, mirror,bathtub,washing mashine & a"dry clothes faster"closet:)Then the toilet had a sink & a mirror.Some ppl.had their own room just for eating/drinking tea/coffee)The hallway included a closet for clothes,a full mirror & most likely a telephone bench lol.I partly grew up in Western Europe/Scandinavia, but things have really changed over the yrs.We all had carpets literally glued to the floor.Still see it in England/Belgium but Scandinavia don't use them anymore.Finland seem pretty simular from where I went to school and live as of today(Norway)except Finns seem a lot better at recircling things,also,at least in Oslo,you can usually tell if ppl.are wealthy or not by their clothing.This video made me want to go to Finland so I can figure out things om my own,but thanks for sharing✌🏼
There is one but it doesnt prevent water from going everywhere in the bathroom :( In Canada/America we have a wall or a bath and it keeps the water in this area and the rest of the floor stays dry
Finnish people do judge, but quietly. They may say "you know what I saw at the supermarket today!?" at home later about someone, but most sensible young adults and older are careful about hurting others with their words or actions. I think we strike a good balance between freedom to think and feel what you want, and courtesy towards other people and minding your own business. Having an out of the norm personality and some behavior to go with it, I have plenty of experience with this, and I can tell Finland is a good place to avoid "public prosecution". Nobody cares (enough to show it).
Thats a good way to put. At the end of the day there is no such thing as zero judgement. But not actually taking them to hurtful actions seems like a great step or compromise :)
I'm surprised I didn't see anyone else mention shower curtains. In the picture, you can see a curtain rod where you're supposed to hang a shower curtain.
The shower curtain is plastic. People don't usually leave their old shower curtain when they move. It's considered unhygienic to do so. Bigger houses with bigger bathrooms have different arrangements. Shower curtain is common in more budget friendly housing.
Finland actually sounds pretty amazing. I am currently in Barcelona and the water is cheap but the amount of plastic flying around is shocking.
Having that kind of shower you usually use a shower curtain :D
Also a really nice video! :)
aaahh hahaha , i do but its not the same as having actual wall or doors, the floor still gets wet, which i dont mind, its just completely new to me :p
@@cat_rivers You need to dry the floor after the shower with similar kind of tool when you wash the windows. Then the floor will dry relatively quickly.
What is it with americans and practicality :D If your floor gets wet, your shower curtain is too short. It's as simple as that. Buy a longer one, trim it with scissors to correct length. And yes, there are also apartments with walls or glass doors in the shower. In the smaller bathrooms I prefer the curtain, because it allows me to put the curtain away on the side if needed and use the free floor space to wash small rugs or my children's plastic tub, balcony chairs and other bigger items.
@@lucone2937 i have that :) it was just surprising to see these type of showers..
@@Darxxxyde well i dont know in the usa for sure, but in Panama showers are usually this concrete square and theres a little ledge on the floor, so the separation on the floor is what was different ... just reminded me maybe of japanese bathrooms ive seen in movies, where you are allowed to wet th whole bathroom floor if you want. Not really a thing here though :o
The milk drinking is a trait that traces back thousands of years: Finnish soil and nature (subarctic) is pretty harsh for getting food: 1 crop comes in a year, harvested in August. If the night frost bites that year, there's a smaller crop than usually. It's rare, rare in August, but not unheard of - just not much recorded after the 19th century, except in Lapland, which is arctic.
Also, the cold climate means no natural fruits, except apple has adapted here. The berries 'do all the work' of fruits in these levels. Blueberry is even classified as super food. And cloudberry tastes quite close to mango. Not the same of course, but its golden (orange) colour is really deserved for that royal berry. Many natural food plants are quite sour: I think it's needed in the cold climates.
So, those who could consume milk as adults, survived better. That's why there's low percentage of lactose-intolerant people in the indigenous Finns, and I think Scandinavians too. But I think the percentage of these people is rising now, since the ever increasing availability of food sources around the globe, starting since the 19th century, and accessible mostly after WWII.
It might not be that clear cut. Here's a peer reviewed paper about the topic:
"The main carbohydrate in milk is lactose, which must be hydrolyzed to glucose and galactose before the sugars can be digested. While 65% or more of the total human population are lactose intolerant, in some human populations lactase activity commonly persists into adulthood. Lactose tolerance is exceptionally widespread in Northern European countries such as Sweden and Finland, with tolerance levels of 74% and 82%, respectively. Theoretically, this may result either from a strong local selection pressure for lactose tolerance, or from immigration of lactose tolerant people to Northern Europe. We provide several lines of archaeological and historical evidence suggesting that the high lactose tolerance in North Europeans cannot be explained by selection from in situ milk consumption. First, fresh cow milk has not belonged to the traditional diet of Swedes or Finns until recent times. Second, not enough milk has been available for adult consumption. Cattle herding has been neither widespread nor productive enough in Northern Europe to have provided constant access to fresh milk. We suggest that the high prevalence of lactose tolerance in Finland in particular may be explained by immigration of people representing so-called Corded Ware Culture, an early culture representing agricultural development in Europe."
muse.jhu.edu/article/476465
Unfortunately it seems it's not possible to access the paper for free, what a bummer. It would've made a very interesting read. Then again the summary is probably enough for us laymen.
@@tiihtu2507 Yeah - should have been a bit careful in that: sounds more logical the trait needed longer time period to develope than merely during the Finnsih and Scandinavian period. Sounds logical what you shared: it started already in the population(s) which were their predecessors.
Which I kind of meant and hinted, just this was still in a quite popular level. The denominations of ethnic groups have changed many times since the Corded Ware culture, yet the genetic and ethnic lines have been quite consistant, and linguistic developement. I mean even 1000 years ago, the word Finn (native suomalainen) meant someone of the tribe of the South-West Finland only.
And the Corded Ware likely didn't cover only one genetic, linguistic population - cultural traits are often borrowed too. Comb-Ceramic was likely a more unified culture, but the Corded Ware seems to have overlapped the forfathers of Baltic, Finno-Ugric, Slavic and Germanic people - at least partially.
If lactose tolerance is that old, I wonder how it goes along with the fact that Finns are genetically the 2nd furthest away from other European ethnic groups, (Sami people are 1st) and western and eastern Finns are further away from each other genetically than Brits are from Germans. The ethnic and genetic cut between western ancient Finns and eastern Savonians and Karelians is pretty clear. If this is taken into consideration, I wonder how lactose tolerance distributes within the country. Are eastern Finns more lactose tolerant, because they are less related to Scandinavians? Or the other way around?
@@raapyna8544 Some populations are almost all lactose intolerant. It's more normal, that adults can't drink milk anymore. The lactose tolerance (like the Nordic and some east Africans, plus some others) is a later developement.
Yeah, I know this Eastern and Western divide, genetic and linguistic. Haven't seen a more specified data of the Finnish tribes.
Love your way of talking and sharing! really interesting video on Finland, which makes me want to know more about it!
Also when you buy bottled water in Finland 100% of those bottles you get some money back when turning them in so you basically rent the bottle and buy the thing inside. Doesn't matter if it's glass or plastic bottle either and the sizes are valued differently. Last time I checked few years back the recycling rate of the bottles was north of 95% and the rest are propably used to do some dyi solutions requiring thin plastic or waste liquids of sorts...
When you buy a bottle of water, you pay also a pant for the bottle. You get that part back when you return the bottle.
Yeah thats true. Its still a bit expensive for water though, probably mostly shocking from th contrast since i wa arriving from having lived in Spain for 2 years, and the 2liter bubbly water bottle there was between 0.40 to 1.50 :D
@@cat_rivers Go to Lidl and get Siti-brand water or Rainbow-brand water in Prisma (or S-Market) in 1,5 L bottles. You will find that the price is not that different from the Spanish prices after you take in to account the 0,40 e deposit.
@@joojoojeejee6058 i have been but it still seems a lot more expensive, maybe its here in oulu, at least groceries are more expensive here than helsinki, but ill double check when i come back
@@cat_rivers I was wondering if you live in Oulu! The recycling poster and bike lanes and everything seemed so familiar. I'm from Oulu too.
Oulu is the town of crazy stubborn winter bikers. Watch out, some may not have lights. (Which in my opinion is a suicide.) And remember to wear a reflector, lights and helmet yourself, especially now and during the winter time.
@@raapyna8544 yes , yes i do. :)
This cheered my up from my depressed mood today. Thank you! Greetings from a finnish student.
Your channel is exactly what I've been looking for! Thank you for making this!
Finland is such a good and beautiful country!
Joo!
This was all true even twenty years ago, including being able to admin, banking, etc. online. About recycling, most drinks bottles and cans have a deposit (pant) which is refunded when returned, and you need to pay for plastic bags as the shop, so people reuse them many times. Also, the recycling shed is a great place to meet the neighbours. Finland is a really wonderful place to live, and the people are lovely. A Finnish friend is a friend for life.
actually i think the recycling thing is pretty much like this all over europe. watching north americans especially people from the states who find this shocking is ... well shocking. a refund system with reusable containers seems to be something from outter space. the majority seems to live in their own bubble, watch local news, maybe from canada and mexico but have no clue and/or doesn't care what is going on in the world.
@@ccat342 Not in the UK, where there is no deposit scheme on cans and bottles, and there is a chaotic muddle of different recycling schemes depending on the local authority. People throw their cans and bottles anywhere because they are not worth anything, and many people don't bother at all to sort out their recyclable rubbish into their respective categories because they can't be bothered, or they don't understand the instructions so put everything together in the non-recyclable waste.
Is it right, that Finns are very silent and shy?
@@dingenshier Although Finnish people have the reputation of being quiet and shy, I have not seen much evidence of this myself. I have found them to be funny, friendly, and quite outgoing. Swedes are generally a bit quieter and shyer, in my experience, but still very good people, nevertheless.
@@ccat342 UK and southern Europe seem to be slacking a bit, but still do it much better than US. Germany, Netherlands and the Nordics take it serious.
Fun to hear about your reactions to Finnish/Finland’s ways, quirks and oddities. It’s not easy to see the weird things in one’s own culture. Thank you for sharing 👍
Thanks for the video. Every bathroom is different. A lot of people have a shower cubicle in the bathroom. Some have shower walls made of glass.
thanks for commenting :D i like my wall-less and doorless shower. the cubicle now feels to constraining.
Shower curtains and boxes are ubiquitous in Finland
Thats why streets and forest is clean!!!.
Recycling..
Some people must to clean it also
It's fun to see what other people think of our lifestyle and culture
I've watched a few of these "shocking things in Finland"-videos, but I have never thought about 'moving out from your parents house' being something unusual. Thank you for pointing out that :)
Well now you know ;p
XD
I left home at 16. But that is unheard of here in USA. What are the barriers or lack of barriers that make it so easy to move out at a young age?
The location of Napapiirin Energia ja Vesi (NEVE) in the heart of Finnish Lapland allows them the access to the purest drinking water in the world.
The water pumped from the ground is so clean that it needs hardly any processing or added chemicals, making it exceptionally pure and tasty. Being able to provide the cleanest drinking water in the world to the local customers and millions of international visitors every year is a matter of great pride to NEVE. In Rovaniemi, the tap water is so pure that it does not only taste great, but it is actually cleaner than the bottled water in the stores
You can ask almost any restaurant or other facility for water for free btw :) Some chains like McDonalds or other fastfood restaurants might charge for the cup though
In a shower room like that, you're supposed to install a shower curtain, then use the floor swiper to get the left over water into the drain
3 jackets is the basic need. Winter/spring jacket needs to be waterproof then. Winter jacket needs to have space inside, so you can add layers of clothing if needed. Many layers of thinner shirts is warmer than one thick shirt- which is sweaty inside, and thus when wet - cold outside.
Summer jacket is thin - likely your Panamese 'spring jacket' for 16-30 degrees :)
But congrats on surviving in the cold, for you come almost the opposite climate. Except Finland is pretty moist, rainy country: but not like Panama. Siberia highlands are the coldest places where people live, and northern Canada, Greenland - and some of them dry too.
Store brand bottled water can be pretty cheap. In Lidl Siti-brand carbonated water is as cheap as 20-30 cents for 1,5 L (or 60-70 cents including the 40 cent deposit - yes the bottle is worth more than the contents...). In Prisma store brand water is about 1 euro for 1,5 L (incl. 40c deposit).
Smaller bottles are proportionally more expensive. Buy 1,5 L bottles unless you really need a small one.
If you drink a lot of carbonated water you could also consider getting a SodaStream machine.
Yes we encourage our children when they become adults to go and live their own lives and create future for themselves. We have this idea behind tha we parents don't live forever and sooner or later our kids have to survive their own and sooner than never.
The type of bathroom/shower depends totally on the price of the house/apartment. (Yes, I'm a Finn. Growing up we didn't even have a shower... only SAUNA.)
So how did you bathe? Was there a tub?
@@bernadettedevereaux8694 By pouring water from bucket over yourself. Sure there were bathtubs too, but not usually in saunas. Modern saunas have showers.
I remember when I met spanish tourists for the first time I was in shock and awe how talkative and friendly they were right from the start. They were excitedly asking and telling me about stuff while I kinda stood there overwhelmed like 'woah these people seem really nice but what the hell :D'
I felt like I couldn't match their energy especially since I'm a finn with SAD and I felt so bad lmao
I suppose you are living in the center of Helsinki or some other main city in Finland. Elsewere we need cars more than you can imagine. This is a country long enough to deploy almost two days and nights to get from the south to the north end by car. Usually people living outside a city center has more than 5 kilometers to closest store and on top of that all other services as well. For example I work in Helsinki center, but I live in Hyvinkää. Distance is 60km. It takes me +/-1hour to get there with own car. Using common transportation (bus and railway) it takes + 1hour and 30 minutes. Fortunately I don´t need to work onsite every day. Saves me some money and the environment as well. Anyway, if you want really get to know Finland I recommend to go to the countryside. Not the main cities, just the villages and places in middle of nowhere.
water is super expensive, because it is really rare that anyone buys them. You can get it free fills almost anywhere. If you need water you usually bring your own tap water.
3:55 Lmao, when this came up, I was taking a sip from my pint sized beer mug filled with milk :D
It's kinda like a sin to buy bottle water here. You know there's tapwater awailable everywhere so it really is your own fault if you had to buy bottle water. I think Finns just accept the high price as a punishment for the damage they caused to the nature by buying that bottle :D also, you just don't throw the bottle away after you drank tje water, but try and use it as many times as possible before returning it to a bottle recycling machine (that will also reuse the bottle) to get remission.
Meanwhile, people buy soda and juice on plastic bottles every day and there's no sense of sin in that...
I bought the bottled water as a souvenir tho oops
@@passingby1350 you sinful person ;D
But I do see purchases of Bonaqua Mansikka & Kiivi HIILIHAPOLLINEN coca-cola product which is basically the sparkled water with strawberry and kiwi
@@ESponge2000 yea but that's not the type of water you get straight from the tap so it must be a little less sinful ;)
i have a feeling that the fins dont really pollute the world with their bbottles after drinking water it is mostly asian countries and some african nations that have no serious infrastructure or means to recycle complex items so the fins should not be taxed as they are doing nothing wrong. i myself do not like to pay for water as it is free in many places through a drinking fountain and i carry a aluminum bottle around to use for water. if i buy a plastic bottle it is usually soda/pop
Hey Cat thanks for this video. I’m researching a trip to Finland and found this helpful
How much to fly there? Not cheap right?
The toilet thing really depends on the apartment. If you live in a really small apartment, there's no room for walls but usually you have hooks for shower curtains (but I don't, which sucks).
the shower part, that is only in apartments, in like "normal houses" you usually have a different room for the shower
It's so weird hearing that completely normal things to me and almost all other finns are weird to americans😂
Both of my big sisters left to go to an academic track (lukio) that was in another city at the age of 16. So yeah, we become independent very quickly.
She referenced affordability. Is that part of being independent easily? As in college is free, rent is cheap, etc? Does overall safety and overall size of the country also play a role?
Your video is really entertaining. Love it. In student inviroment showers are minimaliced. We who live outside cities must have car or two. We finnish are shy and personal, sometimes its hard to say what makes us to act the way we do. You have had very good experiens of us and our land. Come again. ( :
The milk would surprise me as well. I live in Poland and noticed a lady friend of mine also drinking milk (about 60 years old) and it surprised me when I saw her drinking milk. Overall, in Poland they consume a lot more dairy products than I ever saw people do in the USA - with all the different types of yogurts, cheese, kefir, creams, etc. Just way more of a proportion of their grocery store refrigerated aisles were dairy than I was used to in the states.
This is my first video of yours I've seen. You speak like a US citizen - so congrats on such good English if it is a second language for you!
Nice - so what does People of that age - drink in Poland ?
5:38 There is a Swedish saying from a bit further North than I am from (and some months even from there): "det finns inget fel väder, bara fel kläder".
No such things as wrong weather, just a question of wrong clothes.
I suspect Finlanders (Finns and Finland Swedes and Lapps) go to similar lengths for having the right clothes for the weather.
Welcome to Finland❤
1.Showercurtains..i hate those. They are supposed to instal in that level in shower. Buy something thick and good fabric..becouse when they stick in your skin, it feels so slimy and mean 😂❤ and dry the floor after❤
Like I said. I'm Finn and I love you! :D We finns love when foreign says some thing about us. :D
xD
yes we are like Torille Perkele :DD
Agriculture's been the backbone of Finland up until the last couple of decades and almost everyone's grandparents had cows, so plenty of people got used to drinking milk when they were kids, specially as it's served in schools and kindergartens. I hail from a dairy farm and drink milk straight from the cooler, sometimes just a few hours after it's been milked out. We never even bought it from stores. Science says it's unhealthy, but in real life it's really not. Now drinking TEA with your lunch, that sounds weird as hell! Clean tap water is a blessing and it's allright, but it gets boring after a while. That's why milk rules. Personally I think recycling has gone over the top in here. Regular life is complicated and confusing enough as it is, I really can't be bothered to recycle properly. Cool vlog!
I've lived in two states in the US with very easy, comprehensive recycling. Was weird and frustrating to move somewhere with no provided recycling bins.
Well that´s the reason we use shower curtains that water does not sprinkle everywhere.
Oulu is one of the biggest cities in Finland so the transportation in there with public transportation works and is good. If you go 200 km south to smaller city of Kokkola (about 50k people), there the public transportation sucks and is expencive. It is my home city so i can tell this for sure. Mainly i live now in Tampere becouse i work here and the transportation is good and much cheaper.
Yes, we take recycling seriously. We like to keep the country clean. We have had most of these recycling habbits from early 90´s. Before that we were recycling only paper. Then came recycling bins for metal, glass and plactics as well. Biowaste is propably the newest thing (some people had them own composts even earlier) thing in recycle. It also has been little bit different in different cities and areas how it has developed by the years.
Well independence is in young age suitable if you want to have serious relationship whit the other gender. If you are over 20 and you live with your parents it´s harder to get "lucky" and pick up someone with you. I couldn´t even tought that iwould bring home some woman and have sex with her in same apartment while my mom was sleeping in another room. Just not ok to do that. Things changed quite alot after i got my first apartment before i was 19.
Not sure if you knew, but such showers were very common in the American South prior to WW2, and still not uncommon for older folks to have in their basement (particularly if it jutted out into lower ground level). People would come in from the outside (below) and go right into the shower, next to the washer/dryer.
I don't get it, what's weird about drinking milk at dinner?
Cause it's more common to drink it only for breakfast and it's filling too, so you can eat less. In my opinion it does not fit for lunch or dinner. I am German :)
I live with milk! But I don't use it in breakfast or anything like that.
@@dingenshier Well, as a neutral Swede, I would say it's not so much about "filling" or the time of the day (breakfast, lunch or dinner). It is more about the character of the food itself. Some dishes goes well with a glass of milk (or even demands it) although most reallt don't :)
@@herrbonk3635 that's right. For example with very spicy food!
@@dingenshier Yes, but also at the opposite end of the fashion spectrum :) Ordinary old style pannkakor for instance. Many Swedes tend to have milk to that, although some prefer a light beer. Either the thin pancakes with rasperry jam and sometimes whipped cream (almost a dessert) or the thicker heartier ones baked in oven with pieces of apples and/or bacon, served with lingonberry jam and vegetables.
I went on a trip to Scandinavia in 2016. I travelled through Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland and I spent some time in Oulu where I had the best meal I've ever eaten. I had a kind of mushroom soup and a dish with Elk.
Finland is not a part of Scandinavia though
@@houndofculann1793 Yes I know but I wrote it that way so I could include all the countries I visited. Thanks for your interest.
I am quite sure that IT was REINDEER ? Those Look pretty same on the plate !
Thank you for your interest and comment. You may be right but I'm pretty sure it said elk on the menu. I'm from Australia so I'm not sure I could tell the difference.
@@holoholopainen1627
Whats weird here at all besides that you should buy a shower curtain. Welcome to Europe :P yep we use public transports, we do recycle and yep some ppl drink milk, or water, or beer, or wine, or coke etc. Whatever you buy at airports is expensive. Usually 1 Liter of water cost you less then 50 Cents. Water is a nature Ressource so yep pay for it if you use it to keep the Environment clean :) Scandinavia is a bit colder and different then the rest of Europe you should see more I suggest :D
This is super helpful and insightful, thanks ^-^
I have been living on my own since i was 16 years old. Its not because i had bad family or anything like that, i love my family but i just wanted to live on my own. Here in Finland its weird if you live with your parents when you are like 20+y/o, above that age might even be embarassing for people that lives with their parents. Its like you are doing nothing for living, your parents pay you many things, make food for you etc. Of course you can pay to your parents to do that stuff if you have a job and get paid but still, here many people think that you ''use your parents house for your own good''
I turned 18yo 31st August 2019, I moved to live in UK with my friend 1st September 2019. Yes I guess we are kinda independent.
You can bring an empty bottle to the airport and fill it after the security check. You do not need to buy expensive water. It is free.
Tap water in Finland is always good, somewhere excellent.
Hi, I’m new to your Chanel and love how nonchalant you are 👏🏻 have a question though, just for my curiosity, you said that recycling made you feel better about things you consume, would you also say it encourages you to consume more and care less about the packaging type? Just for my understanding
No walls in the shower, typically americans :P
Milk drinking is pretty big in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.
Ofcourse we doesnt live with our parents the whole life, we get independent and move out when we study or have a job.
Ah ok, see when i went to stockholmei didnt see anyone drinking milk at any restaurant or canteen, but in finland i see it almost everywhere :p
But i wast in stockholm long enough probably to notice :o
@@cat_rivers Milk is a mundane drink, probably Stockholm is too fancy for it. :p
We drink milk - thanks to it has no alcohol ! - or KALJA " Home brewed light beer - type " - or water ! Nobody drinks pop or soda - thanks to the price !
When I went to uni one of my school mates came in wearing just pyjamas, in the middle of winter. I was like "huh interesting." and gave it no other look.
My clothes right now are somewhat " chic hobo" :D
You should see my fellow high school seniors and me. It's super amusing to me cause half dress in a very simple but almost kind of business casual (especially during winter) way and half of us including me pretty much wear pyjamas or just big sweatpants and hoodies looking like we just woke up. I used to dress nicely to school and put on makeup everyday but when winter started a year ago I was just too exhausted to get up early enough to do so and since have stopped giving a damn and I love it. So comfortable all day.
There was a frame up around the shower area for a shower curtain, did you put that up? The plumbing is on the outside of the wall too. I just have 2 jackets, a light weight one and a heavy winter jacket which rarely gets worn even in the winter. I did give you a thumbs up just to help you out on your channel.
M finnish living in Canada for last 20 years and you are spot on on all the things u talked about, lol . Miss my home country ❤
Awww. But Canada is sortof like the Finland of America haha no, just kidding. Thanks for watching :)
lissu tuu takasin ;(
Hi, I just found your channel and I really enjoy it. May I ask what you are doing for work to be able to live in Finland? I would love to move to Finland in the next couple of years, but I’ve heard finding a job there can be a nightmare. Thanks for any help!
Hei, im not working, i was living on some savings and stuff in Spain, and fronted a lot of costs there when my partner was there too , and now he basically is frontng costs for me while i find something :p .
Getting a job can be a nightmare, depends on the industry you are in. If you are in tech, its fairly easy, but getting th work visa can be quick or slow, no way to know how it will go. If you getinto a PHD research project, thats a good bet.
In the Helsinki region the service sector has plenty of free jobs and the Finnish language not always required. But yes, getting the work visa can be a slow process. Just read how a big Finnish restaurant chain couldn't find enough cooks in Finland, so they have been hiring people all the way from the Phillippines. Even the local airline Finnair only requires English language nowadays (cabin crew), "Finnish language is considered as an advantage" as they put it.
I want to go to Finland to try pulled oats, eat lots of my favorite vegan items from Fazer candy brand, check out the nature, and the architecture. Seems like a very nice country.
I love being vegan here. Back in my home country i ha zero inclusion anywhere haha but its pretty affordable and easy here :D
consumption of milk and sour cream is so common in many countries. that makes one wonder that anyone wonders about it. Do I list these countries?
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, etc. Yes, countries where there are no natural pastures and there are few dairy cows, it can be different. Also, in countries with warm climates, the storage of natural milk is a problem. In these places, there are a lot of packaged milk with long-term exposure, which are produced from milk powder. For example, Spain.
Wow ... Panama to Finland. I can't imagine. Been in Panama 10 years now and just can't do cold anymore. I lived in Buffalo NY for 13 years. Nice video.
I actually love the winter :) except when it rains, but snowww yaazz
In Scandinavia we wouldnt have survive the long cold winters of the pasts without milk I think. We are not lactose intolorant most of us like rest of adult humans.
Finland is not Scandinavia it's a part of the Soviet Union Jose Guillen is the president all the girls film Natasha and all the boys for the name Vladimir
Shalom Malca If you really are a peace queen, as your name implies, You would never say Finland is part of the Soviet Union. What an insult!
In Finland you will need a car if you don’t live in a big city or town.
Thats probably true in most places. But for me, the access to bublic transport was amazing :o since i didnt have that back home
@@cat_rivers also not in cities?
@@dingenshier in my country? Yes. Its sthit transport
Shower curtains are sold in every supermarket. Use them.
The horizontal curved bar "thing" near the roof is for attaching those.
If you rent an apartment you are supposed to get your own, because who would want to use somebody elses dirty old shower curtains.
I'm a simple man, I see my homeland on the title, I click the video, subbed :)
I do the same. But with Finland, not Panama :D
@@cat_rivers finland is my homeland 😀 or did you mean to say it the other way around?
@@codplayer1978 as in i also watch videos with finland in the title :D
@@cat_rivers oh cool :)
When i turned 16yo i moved out from home to live by myself, paid rent just fine and went to work too.
in america we have many laws that would stop that on several different levels unless you go to a court/judge and get emancipated from your parents. you are stll legally considered a child until 18 here.even for buying ciggarettes and booze you cant legally do that until 21 so we have a lot of stupid laws and many that contradict each other.
I moved out at 16 from Maryland to California. I opted not to be emancipated so that I could stay on my parents insurance.
Enjoyed this! I once considered moving to Panama -- do you like Finland better?
On the recycling, in the Veneto region, Padua (Italy) we have the same type of recycling structure.
I'm watching this video with a glass full of milk now in the morning... no joke LOL. Welcome to Finland!
R u from Finland?
Reshma Balakrishnan I’m Brazilian, but living in Finland at the moment
@@ViniciusRodriguesdosSantos great...I'm from India
@@ViniciusRodriguesdosSantos happy to meet you..have a nice day
@@reshmabalakrishnan3869 Thank you, you too!
About milk drinking in the USA,it depends on the person
The recycling system is very much similar to Japan, it’s really good!
Thanks for your information, because I'm trying to come there.
Everything is more expensive at the airport. At the regular finnish store a bottled water costs around 40 cents.
Still expensive for water, kinda. But hey, bottling costs, I guess.
@@Megalomaniakaal yeah in UK 2l bottle of water costs 60-80pens so about an 1€. Drinking tap water here is like drinking from a swimming pool. / A guy from Finland, now living in Leeds
Mistä noin halval löytyy
"At the regular finnish store a bottled water costs around 40 cents."
What amount of water? Surely not at least 1.5 l. You get 40 for returning 1.5 l plastic bottles.
After You are Done with Your bottle - You get 0.20 - 0.40 Cents for returning it ! This is called KIERRÄTYS - to avoid EMPTY BOTTLES - Ending up in Oceas / Seas ! Cans give You 0.15c each !
IIRC the large scale milk drinking is a result of heavy campaigning years ago for Finns to drink milk with their meals, to help with a national problem of Vitamin D deficiency. As Vitamin D needs sunlight to be formed in your body naturally, and Finland has a lack of proper sunlight for half of the year, we started adding Vitamin D to milk to serve as a replacement source. As calcium is also needed for the vitamin to be absorbed, drinking Finnish milk ticks off both requirements.
Thank you! that was intresting :D
Being from Minnesota, everything you said was a bit silly. You are in a cold-weather climate then you are going to wear coats/parkas. Living in a farming community milk is a staple maybe not n the cities though. Also people are looked down upon if they still live at home. They don't usually broadcast it. Though I do admit rent is quite ridiculous in certain areas of the states.
In Finland you dont buy water. Only bottles
You’te expected to buy shower curtains if there are no walls etc.
But what shall you do about that there are no borders on the floor? the water will flood everything, or does it not?
@@your-alter-ego7895 The floor is pitched to direct water to the drain.
There is no where to hang the curtains... which isnt an accident.
@@GhostRaiter You didn't look closely, there is a bar horizontal to the floor at the height above one's head that is for the shower curtain, blind and stupid!
Showers here *always* have either see-through walls or such, or then you need to put up your own shower curtain, so no, one never showers with just "open" shower like shown here ;) As for drinking milk, I never drink it except in coffee, so I agree with you 100% on that one, but I guess I'm in the minority of Finns :) As for jackets, one surely needs hell of a lot of jackets just since it's so freaking cold here most of the time 😅Though I don't go for those "waterproof" jackets, ie. tuulipuku, I just find them really ugly & uncomfortable. And yeah, I left my parents house at age 18 (though that was ages ago), and recommend that, why wait longer? ;)
The curtain rod for the missing shower curtain is visible in the picture. Previous tenant had taken their curtain when they left.
I buy bottled water like once in two years if even that 😂 if I'm out I just drink something else and at home or other indoors places I can drink as much water as I want to for free.
yeah, definitely always have my own bottle with :D and only buy jaffa when out
So many times, i have wondered why anybody buy water from markets, thats so rigilious.
Just fill your bottle with tab water anywhere. Usually fee, but when you calculate the price is about 1cent per 100 litre.
@@user-vj4dp4xr8k maybe install a filter on ur tap? I dunno
What's so surprising about drinking milk with your meals......my family really needed a cow in the back garden to keep up with the quantity consumed.....still do.....Love from Scotland✨🐄💞
He estado en Finlandia y en los otros países escandinavos, más que nada en Suecia y Noruega, y el tema del reciclaje y el de independizarse de manera tan temprana, es así. Todo lo que has dicho en sí. Tienen culturas muy muy parecidas los países nórdicos. Pero con respecto al reciclaje: yo soy de Uruguay, y acá en ese aspecto, entre otras cosas, estamos años luz de Finlandia. En calidad educativa por sobre todo. Pero en el reciclaje: ¡es tan fácil reciclar! Es casi intuitivo. Pero es educación. Y también tener instalados los elementos, tecnologías, el sistema para poder reciclar.
Hay una brecha educativa muy grande que separa a Latinoamérica de los países escandinavos. Hay que seguir trabajando para mejorar. Invertir en más y mejor educación. Excelente video. Kitos!
Totalmente de acuerdo :) gracias por ver
no car needed, that's wonderful!!! that's a place for me :) milk is very healthy, actually 1 glass of milk in the evening helps sleep :) sounds like Finns have a great and healthy lifestyle :) water, in those countries, tap water is super good, no need to buy bottled water, water expert will tell you that their tap water is BETTER than bottled water, seriously.
We drink a lot of milk since we have a mutation that allows us to drink lactose milk even as adults without any problems. 75% of World's population are lactose intolerant, but lactose intolerant are very rare in Finland in comparison
Oh cool :o
I think the real reason is healthy milk industry and harhs promoting of drinking it. Every child gets told to drink milk at almost every meal so your bones will get strong. It grows a habit on you and as an adult you still consume it even if less needed.
@@moonchant That is part of the reason, but the reason I mentioned is the main reason
@@Songfugel No, it is not. There is no mandatory reason to drink milk as an adult, it is just cultural habit nowadays.
@@ahmo2 You must not know what mandatory means, I presume
Perhaps time to visit other homes and see how they live, do they have shower curtains, or shower cabins, yes they do ! I think it is weird to not have shower curtain because we all have it. Get one !
Drinking milk?! is that worse than drinking cola or beer on every meal?
Which online app did u check your home a bit difficult to find a home there
Jaja q bueno.Tu video me dio mucha risa. Por aqui algo parecido. Saludos desde Noruega.
P.S.
Tampoco tienen cortinas en las ventanas ?
Wee saludos
Ah the bottled water thing, I understand now. Here in the states, bottled water is just as expensive if not more expensive than soda!
Is soda expensive?
@@cat_rivers NO! It's maybe $1.50 (USD) for a 16liter of soda or of bottled water in a supermarket. AND this depends on where you are in the US.Small towns may be more like $1 and in NYC or San Francisco may be $2.25 . And there's a wide variety of bottled waters so the more expensive ones may be like $1.50 to 2.50 each depending on where you are in the US)
@@elizabethbennet4791 Did you write that correctly, 16 liters? As in, the metric system? The biggest bottle of soda you can buy in Finland is 1,5 liters.
Rääpynä Joskus oli kai kahen litran Coca-Cola pulloja, vanhemmat sanonu ton mulle muistaakseni.
@@raapyna8544 Anteeksi! No, I mean 16 ounces!!