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Backstory: I moved to a pretty rural area a few months ago. After spending a few days with Cellmapper. I realised that Telia had by far the best coverage in the area, much better and more consistent coverage of 4G+ than DNA or Elisa.

So I grabbed a post-paid SIM plan from Telia. Details in the picture

Speeds are tested on a 450/150mbps 4G+ router.

About a month into the plan (late-ish last year) I started noticing horrible speed fluctuations. My average was about 90-120mbps but I was seeing as low as just 10-15mbps in the afternoon on week days. Evening speeds were also bad, but still better.

Towards the end of the year speeds were all over the place and I could only get 100mbps after midnight. This caused me to have to modify the way I used the net and how I downloaded and set up scheduling.

I don't know why it took so long for me to change but lately I've been seeing constant speeds around 10-15mbps and I got fed up so I called DNA and asked them for a deal. They gave me their 300mbps plan for 22 euros a month (29 if you get it off a contract). But I plan to get off the contract when I move to Sweden later in the year (will have to take Telia again for the unlimited data but that's okay I guess).

Speeds on DNA were instantly almost 3 times higher. I did these tests one after the other, within about a minute. This was the average of 5 tests on each ISP.

tl;dr - DNA gives me a consistent almost 3 times faster speed on download and about 25% faster on the upload, despite having only a single cell tower in my area, and Telia having 3 within my location.

P.S. Telia might be suffering such bad speeds because they allow portforwarding from pretty much any port, so I assume a lot of people host websites and other services publicly which will make speeds vary a lot.

>Many companies do not sell their products to Kärkkäinen. The cooperation was broken off by Finlayson in 2015. Others include at least Fiskars (brands: Iittala, Arabia and Hackman), Makia, Moomin products, Otava and the Bonnier Group (Tammi, WSOY). Separately, the author Sofi Oksanen has banned the sale of all her books in J. Kärkkäinen's shops. She justifies this by saying that she does not want her books to be placed next to Nazi books. Wiki/DeepL

The retail chain itself sounds like a magnet for controversy.

Hi, we here at F-Secure are running a VPN service called Freedome. We've got a fast Finnish server, as you'd expect, and over 20 other servers.

You can try it out for free for 14 days, no credit card nor registration needed:

If you have a VPN that provides an endpoint in Finland (eg. F-Secure Freedome), you can watch everything from Yle Areena. Also MTV3 can be watched for free online but requires registration.

In case someone is looking for more entertaining opportunities to do in Helsinki area, I've made a free Android app for you, based on open data APIs:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alesalv.inhelsinki

it covers concerts, library events, outdoors with family and kids, poetry, exhibitions, museums, and so on. There are tons of events every single day!

https://www.slideshare.net/saastopankki/nin-suomi-sst-2016-esitysmateriaali-67934627

Don't know how reliable these numbers are, but they kinda sound about right to me. Slide 11, so most save for the rainy day, then to increase their wealth and lastly for retirement. The "to own apartment/cottage" option sounds weird to me, since they're two very different things and bundling them together probably lowers the score overall.

Older people still believe that they'll get to benefit from the pension pyramid, but people in their 30's have mostly accepted that they won't be seeing any of the money they pay in, so they'll work on making that happen themselves. However personally I don't feel like retirement would ever be a thing no matter my financial situation anyways, so I would probably never answer that I'm saving for retirement, once again twisting the numbers somewhat.

Cycling roundtrip around Åland is definately a classic.

E. The first link seems to have more cycling stuff, shoulh have some good info for you.

You'll probably need to call yourself if it's so crucial. If you have Skype, you should be able to use that to call regular phones pretty cheaply. The Venezuelan embassy seems to have a normal Finnish landline so it's just €0.04/min.

edit: Apparently there's even a free trial for a month!

Oh how I wish the US would use normal units. Trying to quickly find out what the situation is, like this weather.com video, and it's useless.

Doesn't look that bad, -3 in New England, what's the big deal? Turns out it's -20 in Celsius.

> If this is the case anyone asking for donations anywhere on the internet could theoreticaly be brought up in a Finnish court no matter where they were based.

Well, perhaps. I think the authorities are basing their actions on if the attention is clearly directed towards Finns, like by using the Finnish language or talking about Finland somehow. There was a highly-publicised case on Kickstarter that generated a lot of questions about this.

Note that I'm not disagreeing with you; I'm just explaining why they are doing what they are doing. I believe this concept isn't unique to Finland, but it probably isn't enforced much.

A couple of additions to what other people have already told you of what to expect:

• Before hooking up any devices to an electric socket via an adapter (you can get those really cheap from Amazon), check that they can take the higher voltage. You don't want to fry a laptop!
• Prices in general are somewhat more expensive than in the States, but the taxes are included in the prices. Car rental and gas are a lot more expensive — gas is about twice the price than in the US (mostly because of heavy taxation). The public transport works pretty well and using it is usually a better option than renting a car, especially since most of the traffic signs and some of the laws are different than in America (for example, you're not allowed to turn right on red in Finland). If you decide to rent a car anyway, it's a good idea to get the international driver's license from AAA before the trip (you may or may not need it).
• You might also be surprised to see some ads in English, and familiar brands like McDonalds, Subway or Coca-Cola here and there. Have fun spotting all the small similarities and differences to home :)
• I'm amazed no one mentioned this yet: If you're offered a chance to experience the Finnish sauna, go for it — Even if it turns out not to be your thing, it'll make a great story to tell back in the States.
• See also the Wikitravel page. Lots of practical travel information there.

All in all, you'll be all right. Have fun on your first adventure abroad! Who knows, it might give you a spark to see more of the world in the future :)

Ranked #19 of 239

• http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g189948-d776811-Reviews-Thai_Laos-Tampere_Western_Finland.html

Ranked #53 of 239

• http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g189948-d776295-Reviews-Thai_Na_Khon-Tampere_Western_Finland.html

I recommend getting a Finnish vpn from Freedome/F Secure then you can watch a bunch of children's programs on areena. I have young kids myself and this is one of the ways that we have all learned a lot of the language. I had been watching programs without a finnish vpn but it limited what I could watch and I had to do a lot more searching on my own from various sites...which I don't have much time for

This link about is one show on the areena website that is very simple, takes one word at a time and shows the concept of the word in various ways. Maybe it's fun for a 2.5 year old and also you.

What software are you using to watch? As /u/Jourei said, there are plenty of free-to-air channels. If you've got good signal strength, you should have no problem viewing them. If you are on Windows, give DVB viewer a try. It's not free, but there's a demo you can try, and it's really good software, so if you can't get your tuner to work with it, something else is wrong.

It is written somewhere in light. Can be in glass or somewhere visible only when you open the bonnet. Here is picture of some volvo headlight where that number is (barely visible) at bottom of the glass.

XC70 likely has different lamps (led, xenon, halogen) and they can have different ref values so keep that in mind if you look for it online.

They probably should. Not necessarily in a bragging matter, which is common sense not to do, but rather in effort to spread awareness and let some talented people know that they might be underpaid.

I'm a big proponent of salary transparency. Places such as StackExchange, Buffer, and many other cool IT companies already share that philosophy https://stackoverflow.com/company/salary/calculator https://buffer.com/salary

So many people in their first couple of years of their career lives don't know their value because they have no sense of the "market rate", specifically because people don't want to talk about it.

Also amazon sells a book made by Beatrice Ojakangas that has traditional Finnish recipes for American ingredients.

I don't know about a solution for the DNA problem, but I have some solution for you: Use an app called Valkopilkku to order taxis and pizza-online.fi to order pizza.

That's Vuorilampi, part of Kangasvuori hiking trail.

https://www.alltrails.com/explore/trail/finland/central-finland/kangasvuori-nature-trail

I think it's not worth to write length FAQs, since we already have Wikitravel, Wikivoyage and bunch of commercial guides.

Sticky post to old threads with "introduction" would be probably very helpful. And reoccurring questions are not bad, as long as it goes beyond basic "what I should do?".

Also, this is /r/Finland/ so it would be good to have nationwide focus, even when most of queries are about Helsinki area.

If you don't want spend much money & time, an easiest sauna experience:

Yrjönkatu swimming hall.

Another option: Itäkeskus underground swimming hall, easily reachable by metro.

Other ones I've found useful are !yt (YouTube) !w (English Wikipedia) and !wa (Wolfram Alpha). I distantly recall using !r (guess what site it searches) It also respects site: the same way as Google does.

List of !bang commands.

That restaurant Serai seems a bit strange, since they've blocked their eat.fi reviews, and their website still has a "we will be closed for renovation" message from last October. There's a Tripadvisor review from last December, so it seems they have re-opened after the renovation.

There's a Malesian restaurant in Tampere: ravintola Borneo... whose website is "under construction", sigh.

August and early September can be pretty warm (20+ C). End of September is probably somewhere between 5-15C. It can be pretty rainy, or not.

AccuWeather has somekind of forecast for whole September. Don't count too much on this on daily basis: https://www.accuweather.com/fi/fi/helsinki/133328/september-weather/133328

If you are ready to pay 100 dollars you can do 23andMe test to see what you are made of.

I've heard it's quite easy to do because you just need to post them your saliva sample.

SUBTITLES

I know it might be a bit late, but when I tried to search for good subtitles for this movie, this thread still popped up as one of the first as well and although somewhat helpful, without any actual good subs to download.

But after quite some time searching through various subtitling sites, I've found some very well made, amateur subtitles, so feel free check to them out!

It's Fazer. I don't remember seeing those diamond shaped ones by Fazer sold separarely.

Halva, a Finnish candy brand known for its licorice and salmiakki does have similar diamond shaped salmiakki though, you can apparently get 170 g bags from Amazon.

Haven't found one that is good enough for me (tried Tunnelbear' NordVPN and couole more). I've gotten a Hedman letter which had one movie in it (Liam Neeson movie "A Walk Among Tombstones") and they sent it 3 or 4 times over 4 years. Never paid, never happened a thing.

I was told about the war by the teachers in my school, which happened to be located next to the site of the Östermyra gun powder factory (in present-day Seinäjoki). The factory provided large amounts of gun powder for the Russian side of the conflict, including in Crimea. The regional museum (Etelä-Pohjanmaan maakuntamuseo) is right next to my old school and it has a small building dedicated to the history of the gun powder factory. The Törnävä church was originally built in the 1820s as the gun powder storage building and converted into a church in the 1860s after the war. The bell tower and other parts were added, but the building still didn't really conform too closely to any style of church architecture. As kids, we were frequently reminded of the strange history of the church building (Lutheran religion classes & end-of-spring-term church services imposed on a young atheist like me).

>but after Redmond hugs Nokia out of Keilaniemi we need to start selling software shit to you people instead of high quality electronic devices.

Fortunately you guys manufactured a chap named Linus Torvalds who started pumping out quality software back in the 90's. Thanks to him, I'm employed as a nix sysadmin, so thanks Finland!

>I've always wanted to visit NZ. The country looks damn amazing, but I've heard they have a high homicide rate and are terrible to their women.

I'm not sure if you're being serious or joking, if serious:

Homicide rates are slightly below Finland's

An example of how we treat our women (note: actually 1893 and still 13 years better than Finland)

Any other questions about NZ? :)

I haven't tested it on potatoes, but DeepL is often much better than Google Translate, especially if you want to understand longer sentences, not just individual words.

Still not completely reliable, but it seems less likely to spit out random nonsense or the opposite of the actual meaning.

Single entry bookkepping is what is the easiest one to do if you're not looking for an accountant. There are ready-made Excel-spreadsheets for that, for example this.

Especially if you're not paying VAT and without EU-VAT transactions bookkeeping should be fairly simple. If those come in play, it's another world, but not that hard. Finnish tax fascists have good guides at least in Finnish, hopefully in English, too.

People at tax offices often have no idea what they are talking about, so unless you're talking to a specialist, you should take the answers with a grain of salt. But I see you have reserved a time, so you should be ok... ;)

And in any case, Finnish tax authority is kinda nice at the end. If you're making less than high-5 digits a year, understandable mistakes are rewarded with a tough-worded notification letter to fix your shit and maybe a small extra payment.

What speed do you get? E.g. https://fast.com/

What type of internet connection do you have? Wireless or cable?

What's your device? PC? Mobile? Is it equally bad on both?

What type of receiver do you have? USB dongle? Router? Does it share wifi in your apartment?

Use the usual sites like Linkedin. https://www.linkedin.com/job/automotive-jobs/?country=fi Then make an inquiry to some of those that provide e-mails for further info. They will be interested in recruiting not only for that job but later on. So prob they will answer your brief questions about their near term needs. Valmet Automotive is the biggest employer in the automotive sector in Finland. Then there's those forestry machine makers Ponsse & John Deere. Trucks Sisu Auto. Some tractor manufacturers like Valtra, Sampo-Rosenlew. Make some searches in Finnish job search portals with simply Engineer or embedded. There should be plenty of embedded systems jobs. It's a matter of presenting yourself. Use that Nissan experience as far as it goes.

Flying is probably cheapest, and absolutely fastest. Use eg Google Flights to find good options, this is now 189€ (Lyon-Helsinki-Lyon): https://www.google.com/flights#flt=/m/0dprg.HEL.2019-05-10.LYSMUC0LH2249~MUCHEL0LH2466*HEL./m/0dprg.2019-05-11.HELMUC0LH2467~MUCLYS0LH2250;c:EUR;e:1;sd:1;t:b;sp:2.EUR.18856*2.EUR.18856

Rovaniemi, Kittilä and Ivalo are the main airports. Use flight search to find cheapest ways to fly there.

Eg Munich-Kittilä seems to be 299€ round-trip with one stop in the January according to the Google.

Depends mostly on what your requirements are, but you can start by checking these guys out: http://www.hostingservice.fi/

UpCloud has a datacentre in Helsinki as well; perhaps they can help: https://www.upcloud.com/

They are all pretty similar, there may be some bad spots for each operator, but it's hard to say without testing.

Moto E4 will probably work, but but connections are limited because of different 4G bands. Moto E4 supports bands 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17, 25, 26, 38, 41 and 66. Bands 3, 7 and 20 are in use in Finland and in Europe generally.

More about bands in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_frequency_bands

That's pretty cool, actually. It is too bad they rely so heavily on Wikipedia but supposedly they will add more sources. I wonder if things like Google's Scholar or Ngram could work with this.

Maybe Porvoo's old town as well? It's only one hour away from Helsinki and it's a good mix of all that OP seems to be looking for. More info:
http://www.porvoo.fi/en/about_porvoo
http://wikitravel.org/en/Porvoo

I don't live in Helsinki (Tampere, rather), so I can't vouch for this list, but it seems reasonable enough. It seems there are some possibly affordable 'traditional Finnish' restaurants in there. You might check out this restaurant review website to narrow the selection down.

https://aralbalkan.com/notes/ello-goodbye/

I'd be happier to see Diaspora* or something else decentralized take off... Diaspora had rather disappointing start security-wise, dunno how they're doing these days, but apparently as a project it's still active.

/u/every_other_freackle you would need to create a group, promote it to supergroup and then make it public to gain a shareable link to let others join without a direct invite.

https://telegram.org/blog/supergroups5k

I think door hinge security pins / saranatapit are pretty common in newer doors at least, and those kits allow you to install them in older ones. At least our apartment door has them built-in.

If the lock is engaged and those exist on the hinged side, the door can't just be pried open: there's essentially a bolt going from the door to the frame on both sides. Of course angle grinders can cut through those, or you can just break the frame and/or wall too. But at that point it's going to take a while and/or make a lot more noise.

Buses: Nysse, also works in most other major cities.

Postal service: the Posti app, althought it doesn't have anything specific to Kuopio. If you specify what kind of info you're after about the postal service, someone may be able to help more.

A quick search said that SaferVPN works with YLE Areena as tested last month.

I have used NordVPN and HMA, but it seems they do not work anymore.. at least with Ruutu and some others..

Im trying this one other one that is supposedly dedicated? I dont really get what that all means but hopefully that works..

And when actually on the move, I recommend using this on your phone: Andropas (Android)

Or just Google Maps, the public transport data there is also accurate.

OP could look for second-hand ones on Tori maybe? I'm in Poland and was lucky to get an original Crock Pot (Union Jack edition) for about 8-9€ on an auction a few years ago. Cooking with it is really fun and easy.

Apart from everything mentioned here, I'd like to recommend heated clothing (like this). It's used a lot by people doing outdoor work, but it's applicable in general life. The idea is that you buy clothes that use batteries to power heating wire embedded within clothes. Most batteries are small and unobtrusive, but tool makers (e.g., Bosch, Makita) also make adapters for their power tool batteries to output 12V. They are quite heavy, you want to attach them to your belt probably, but they provide a lot of power.

I find that the two parts of the body that suffer most are the hands and feet, and when you try to wear appropriate gloves and shoes, those become non-functional and rather heavy. Not much can be done about this. If you ride a bicycle in winter (btw in Finland the government does not de-ice footpaths) you can get heated grips for your bike. They only heat one side of your hand though, so gloves are still a good idea.

Thank you very much. We also have them here in Austria, we use it when there is snow outside to play with it (around 0-5 degrees). They are water proof but not made for a colder climate. I think I won't run into anything colder than -15 degrees. I am not on a budget, I was thinking of ordering some on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07T314TVG/ref=ox_sc_act_image_2?smid=A21HOR9NNET97&psc=1

Candy or drink?

Either way, I've ordered some food grade ammonium chloride from Ebay and used it.

Or you can just get this from Amazon.

Just get your basics in spell-singing, Words of Origin and drumming, and you can propably power up on the job.

Here are couple of useful manuals:

https://www.amazon.com/Finnish-Magic-Llewellyns-Religion-Magick/dp/1567184898

https://www.adlibris.com/fi/kirja/kalevala-finnish-9781909669109

It’s fine. Right holders have been trying to go after people sharing movies and TV-shows, but not games to my knowledge. They have been very small scale efforts as well.

I wouldn’t worry about downloading in Finland. If you want extra security use a non-Finnish VPN like PIA, NordVPN etc. If you can download from a private invite only torrent site there is 0% chance to worry about anything. Agencies scan the public swarms only like Pirate Bay.

I was about to suggest the same. Not sure it qualifies as a primary source, but like you said, it *is* written by an actual Continuation War vet.
It's great book and I recommend it not just for the research.

Here's a link for the book in English (Amazon):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0141393653/ref=cm\_sw\_r\_tw\_dp\_VJZT05XC2STFXWKMEXF9

Unfortunately, MTV3 Katsomo via Freedome or NordVPN is now being blocked, within the past week or so.

We just wanted to watch Kotoisa, Suomen Kaunein Koti, and Remonttipiiskuri.

I'm wondering if I should just build a raspberry pi VPN server and send it/bring it to the in-laws at this point.

This map has "everything" for campers: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1mPsDUfkO4bYQJiGg2J63OtatlvM&ll=61.050350222769445%2C26.700412350771824&z=9

Select "Kemsan tyhjennys" for dirty waste water / toilet emptying.

Gas prices are not same everywhere, but the differences are not big. There is this app for fuel price tracking: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fi.creosys.fuelfellow&hl=en&gl=US

Bring a good quality canister, fill it up where it's still cheap and try to make it to at least Muonio / Kittilä / Sodankylä depending on your route. Make sure that the canister is upright, fastened securely and that the cork does not spill. Some canisters will spill if the cork is at the bottom. Your vacation will be ruined if even a drop escapes.

Install Porokello; the app is in Finnish, but that doesn't matter. It will give an audio alarm when you enter a zone where reindeers have been spotted, or where a significant amount of crashes with reindeer have occurred. Remember to be alert even when the app doesn't ring.
It's customary to flash lights at other travellers when you spot reindeers, please do the same.

In case you are not familiar with them; they are docile, dumb and do not perceive a car as a threat. Honking doesn't do anything, don't even bother. Always try to pass them from the rear side.

Is it possible to get something like Mio Energy here? https://www.amazon.com/Mio-Energy-Black-Cherry-Bottle/dp/B08LFSGKBD/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=PDS5POI3SC0F&keywords=mio+energy&qid=1654944891&sprefix=mio+ene%2Caps%2C207&sr=8-3

I have had trouble finding any equivalent product in Finland but I may just be looking in the wrong places.

Oh I saw this one pop by, but I am not sure if I should get that one or this one. I love visual stuff so the added illustrations are also nice. The poems are more abbreviated in this one I think.

While not having any experience with English translations, I read that Eino Friberg's translation is supposed to be the best one. It's been published by Penguin Classics and here is an Amazon link. I'm sure it can be found in bookstores as well.

My wife got me some of these.

She says they were from citymarket, one pair cost around 17€ but hers were cheaper because she has smaller feet. I didnt have any problems walking around whatsoever.. though walking on stuff that wasnt covered in ice was kinda uncomfortable and you could slip very easily on polished floors.

Her pair broke quite easily. I asume that shoes with grip were causing some rubbing on certain parts, meanwhile I used normal shoes for the most part and so my snow grips are in excellent condition. Try them out next winter. :)

You might want to take a look at Arto Paasilinna's book A Business Man's Guide to Finnish Sauna. https://www.amazon.com/Businessmans-Guide-Finnish-Sauna/dp/9518850097 If anything, it's fun, and has a similar certificate in the book.

I just remembered... I've heard you might get better results with DeepL, but I guess it's still healthy to have some caution in translations.

Luckily the products themselves are pretty much the same as in mainland europe (^citation needed) so there isn't need to translate product names or labels themselves.

Vpn isn't difficult to use, believe me. Try ProtonVpn for example. It's free but legit. You just create an account using your email and then you just set your location to USA. The only issue is that it sometimes cuts the connection but so does CyberGhost which I prefer

I think OP might mean this. I drink it in the US regularly but haven’t seen it in Finland ever.

Guayaki Yerba Mate, Organic Traditional Single Serve, 7.9 Ounces (75 Tea Bags), 40mg Caffeine per Serving, Alternative to Tea, Coffee and Energy Drinks https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0027CNY7U/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_NZPBF3ZADQQJS0CRXN9E

Actor Esko Salminen – for example, Hymyilevä Apollo (which is a beautiful poem by Eino Leino)

I also really like Carla Rindell's voice – she's most familiar as the voice of Helsinki metro but has also done a lot of audio books and dubbing. (I recently saw a play where she did the voiceover for a more poetic metro announcement which was wonderful.)

Hi all,

we're (a couple from Israel!) travelling to your beautiful country in a few weeks. We want to spend 2 nights at a lakeside cabin, and found this place: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/12045057

My only concern that it's too far from any "main attractions" and we might get bored ... thought about Tampere and Turku, but that's too far for a day trip from this cottage.

Should I change cottages? Or are there enough nice things to see in that area as well?

Thanks!!!

I'm a bit late to the party, but if you'd like to learn more about history and characteristics of sahti you should check out this paper. I was a co-author on that article (although I just did some of the analyses, I'm not really a sahti expert) but I can try to answer any questions you have!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4iFfPLpBaerRThqMFlNMW1xZ1E/edit?usp=sharing

And it's JAMK ... it's confusing cause we usually have one university in town and it consists of more smaller pieces.. ::) Those from "Fakulta riadenia a informatiky" from 1-39

I could make a huge paragraph about everything I'm aiming to do, but I've made a pretty good "CV-like" post on a local subreddit here about the sorts of things I get up to voluntarily already in my local area, and I've compiled a bullet-point list of activities I would like to get involved in/try out before I die here (although, reading through them now, many seem quite irrelevant, and/or very idealistic).

No worries. The atmosphere closely resembles those pictures of open lakes with clear waters. There are no race/religion etc. based conflicts. The town mentioned e.g. is the home of the Orthodox Church of Finland. The relations between immigrants and natives are markedly more laid back than near the capital. Even there things could be classified as "cute" compared to actual troubles outside of Finland. I think Israelis fall among the western people, with close to zero trouble in integrating to Finnish society.

Some finns are just annoyed when an outsider is interested about them :D They don't want to accept the fact that someone could be. It's like a meme between the Finnish media and the audience. They dig up everything where Finland is mentioned and we reply with "torilla tavataan" (as in let's meet at the market square, where the ice hockey world championship wins are famously celebrated).

In this case those specific islands weren't anything special to a Finn because Kuopio alone has 4760km of waterline and 2nd most summer cabins in the whole country. But now they are interesting to talk about because no-one besides Russians has invested in islands. Some people expect that nothing will happen like with the most Russian projects, but they have a slight sense feeling that this could be something different.

Here's more pictures that might tell you more than just my words: http://pinterest.com/kuopio

https://www.amazon.com/Soldier-Aero-Aho/dp/B07NLKBQYP this seems to be the original 3h long version.

There is also 2 h long international version but I couldn't find a link. It might be that the 3 h version has taken over.

Miniseries https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/84706-tuntematon-sotilas/watch

I would personally say either the 1955 or 2017 version. I think you will find the newest to be the best one since you don't have emotional attachment to the black and white version :)

Don't watch with children. A lot of blood, people dying and even people getting burned alive.

At least amazon seems to have it: https://www.amazon.com/Soldier-Aero-Aho/dp/B07NLKBQYP

How do we know if the duty and tax are paid when purchasing from a 3rd party seller?

For example, I just purchased this one: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07BXDN3HH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

The price increased around 1€ so I guess it might be the duty and tax. Though I am not sure if I have to pay the customs myself.

An all-region bluray at the UK Amazon, pretty expensive though.

Discshop.fi might carry this too, not sure whether they ship abroad though.

There is zero chance you can find a Finnish site, but this listing on Amazon.de doesn't immediately cry foul when you change the delivery address to USA, but I didn't try past the passport age verification stage. I think you can use your US Amazon account also on the .de, and you can switch the language to English.

Same here. I don't think I've ordered anything from Amazon since they removed the free supersaver.

Luckily there's still Book Depository who apparently are glad to receive a steady flow of my money.

Hello, new friends! I'm currently living in the United States and wanting to move to Finland for its progressive culture. I visited Helsinki for a couple weeks last year in February, so I'm not afraid of some cold -- especially when there's so much time to be spent in the sauna!

I work as a freelancer through Upwork.com. That site allows me to bid for positions, some short-term projects, and some are on-going hourly positions. I have a bit saved up to show that I can support myself and am making about €3,000/month, pre-tax.

My issue with trying to move to Finland is that I don't need a new employer as I already have an income that I can take with me, and I'm not finding a defined way to apply for residence as a freelancer through all my googling. I am more than happy to pay my share of taxes to Finland, I just need to figure out how I'm supposed to go about applying for residence with my situation.

If anyone has any insight, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Ah right, the OP mentioned Tallinn. Von Krahli Aed is a superb restaurant (recommendation courtesy of my Estonian friends who work for Viking Line).

Also, if you're into Karaoke, get that "singing on a cruise ship" checked off your bucket list: ask for a Karaoke book in English (probably marked "ulkomalaiset") and belt out a winner!

OH YEAH: be at the cruise line office at the time they say (if they recommend getting there 90 minutes early, DO IT). Same for flights out, while we're talking about this topic. (If you have extra time, you can buy a bottle of salmari at duty free to impress/horrify your friends with.)

The dish I ate there, YUM: http://i.imgur.com/c2Q7QsW.jpg

If you haven't found yet, this one is perfect. Took me a while to find as well.

https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/7353144/tuntematon-sotilas-en

> a : the act, practice, or an instance of discriminating categorically rather than individually

>b : prejudiced or prejudicial outlook, action, or treatment <racial discrimination>

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/discrimination

perse /pɜːs/

a dark greyish-blue colour (as adjective): perse cloth

Etymology: 14th Century: from Old French, from Medieval Latin persus, perhaps changed from Latin Persicus Persian

http://www.wordreference.com/definition/perse

Because I was interested, and someone else might be too.

Try this:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/vgnj1c

It's a song titled Kirskainen hyvätyinen from the album Sisäinen solarium by Ismo Alanko, released in 2000. Lyrics on the artist's home page:

http://www.ismoalanko.com/julkaisut/ismo+alanko+saatio/kirskainen+hyvatyinen/

My mate did little treatment on this one after i posted it on my social media: https://hearthis.at/djdarth/mikko-saarela-krpsten-juhlat-dj-darth-2019-edit/

Anytime! Also you can sign up for their newsletter and get 5€ or 10€ off you cruise. And legit you don't even need to use a real email address, you can use this website it will provide you a temporary email address, sign up with that email and wait like 10 minutes and they send you the discount code. I personally just got 5€ off of a 12€ round trip ferry for the first Saturday in October.

Heads up tho, the discounted 10€ ferry offer apparently ends mid October, but even after the prices for the day trip are only 19€, and if you do the email subscribe thing you can it cheaper. I do recommend tho, spending more than a day in Tallinn if it's your first time visiting.

Tartu is another cool small city, it's about a 2-3 hr bus ride for like 8€ each way on Lux Express, which is a good bus line with personal TV screens at every seat and there's a hostel in Tartu, the Terviseks B&B I've stayed at that I would highly recommend.

If you're a good programmer you won't need Finnish, if you're a bad programmer speaking Finnish won't get you hired.

Your picture of Finland also seems a little unrealistic. Here's a documentary you should maybe watch: https://www.amazon.es/Joutilaat-Origen-Finland%C3%A9s-Ningun-Espanol/dp/B00S4L9FKS/

Hmm, come to think of it, it might have a use case here. And you are right, with training it's possible to find the right combo. I would still err on the side of simplicity, but that's me.

OP: some books you might want to read: The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becke, and ConCom: Conflict Communication by Rory Miller. If you need to pick one, choose The Gift of Fear.

I'm also trying to come up with something to check out that you wouldn't find with a basic search, but it's hard. I bet someone's already written "take the morning ferry to Tallinn and the evening ferry back," too.

Maybe these will inspire you, even though they aren't set in Helsinki:

• https://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Trip-Johannes-Holopainen/dp/B07JN1KBH1 (set in Taivalkoski)
• https://www.amazon.com/Sing-No-Evil-JP-Ahonen/dp/1419713604/ (set in Tampere)

If the pandemic is over (don't count on it), penkkarit, the high school ending parade (not the graduation but the end of teaching and the start of ~~boozing~~ independent study), will be celebrated in Helsinki on Thursday February 10th.

Did a quick google, apparently they are called ”ice cleats”. Here is a link to amazon to show what i mean, but once november hits you will find these in most outdoor shops in finland!

Use this app that I made (supports English). It will calculate net salary after all reductions. It's based on tax averages so no need to input complex data.

Net salary calculator

Very few Finnish books have been translated into English. Even fewer fantasy/science fiction novels.

Maybe The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi?

If you really want it you can get pearl sugar off Amazon, this should be the same stuff as we use in Finland. Same brand, at least, and I think it's essentially identical across the Nordic countries (the Dansukker brand is used in the Nordic and Baltic countries). My understanding is that others like the Belgian, German, or French versions are slightly different (e.g. the Belgian pearl sugar is slightly larger), but would still be better substitutes than regular sugar.

Or just searching for "pearl sugar" on Google brought up a surprising number of links to hacks to make it yourself from other kinds of sugar: either by smashing some sugar cubes in a ziplock bag with a meat mallet, or by melting sugar with a bit of water in a saucepan and letting it cool into small clumps, from a couple of links I checked.

Glad to hear.

That's at least easy to use. I have now 12 days left from my 30 days trial. I have had some issues sometimes where F-Secure Freedome has limited my bandwidth to 1 Mbps and stopping it from running has instantly put me on 95 Mbps. So it can sometimes have some major problems with bandwidth. Now I am getting 92 Mbps without it and 83 Mbps with it.

You can try taking for example F-secure free trial for a month, download the F-Secure Freedome that they offer and you can just select where you want to appear.

Probably also many other VPN-services have free trials.

Super Salmiakki is my personal favourite. Very chewy. Semi salty. I always thought it's almost like a basic "every day" kind of salmiakki. If you want to become a real connoisseur this could be a good benchmark to which compare others.

Like others have said, South Finland it's unlikely. You have a better chance up north and in the winter because a) longer time dark during the day/night and b) the usually cold weather means a better chance the sky stays clear.

My friend had good luck by renting a cabin for a week in Saariselkä in January and then following the forecasts using the Aurora app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrustonapps.myauroraforecast). And then be prepared to run out the door anytime the forecast KP Index goes high enough :)

I've seen the Auroras several times over the years, but always in Lapland...

When the period on your card is about to end, the ticket reading machines will warn you with a yellow light when you scan your card. But if you have a new period on the card starting immediately after the current one, the light won't appear.

If your phone has NFC, you can use an app to read your card and see all the information at any time.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bonwal.omamatkakortti

I use TomTom Speed Cameras (recently upgraded and rebranded as TomTom AmiGO) and it's worked well for everywhere I've driven, from Uusimaa to Vaasa and all around south and central Finland. There seems to be an active community because it often also warns that a mobile unit was spotted here (X minutes ago, reported by Y users).

Seriously though, just drive within the limits. You're more likely to be pulled over by a motorbike or unmarked police vehicle and you shouldn't be speeding in any case.

Aurora made by jRustonApps B.V. (gplay store) (apple store)