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going to be doing a really interesting video this one is titled why you'll hate living
in finland seven reasons and uh the thumbnail shows day one dude smiling day 22 dude not so
happy so uh yeah i've been long past day 22 being here in finland and i'm still smiling but either
ways um we're gonna get right into this video so i do hope you guys are having a good day if not
hopefully this video makes it much better i think this is probably going to be a comedic
video so uh we're gonna get right into this video so uh smash that like button
and uh subscribe and uh let's get right into it guys so you have packed your bags and ready
to move to the happiest country in the world finland while finally it's a superb country
there are a number of things that just suck and i want to prepare and teach you those let's go
let's get right into it hey what's up my name is alexis what is your name
that ain't no problem bro that's not a problem i think i think you know finland is not for
everybody i'll always say that it's not for everybody i think the only thing in finland
that probably could affect me is how cold it might get because i don't know as yet
but everything else is fine people have been warning me about the winter how dark it gets
i'm like bro i love darkness bro i love it i i i get a headache when it's too bright all
these type of stuff i feel like i'm gonna diet you know stuff like that so yeah i don't even
know how you know click it clicks with finland so i'm gonna tell you all from the get-go if you are
not a person who cannot deal with anti-social people just leave finland out of the picture
like literally but if you're a person like me who is um you're capable of adjusting like my adjust
meter is like literally just i easily adjust like i'm not the most social person but i socialize on
youtube i socialize with you guys i talk to you guys you know so i can adjust but when it's you
know all said and done i can also adjust and not say a single word it's just how i go but this is
facts with finland things are not very inclined to meet strangers from the get-go and not very good
at breaking the ice either that is not because finns are dumb or boring this is because finns
value time and they don't want to waste their time or yours unless there is something very
meaningful to talk about like the 95 ice okay gold medal in addition the finnish social circles are
quite established from personal experience i can tell for example at home parties there
are this group of people who just hang out with themselves and sitting in their own group and it's
quite difficult to butt in and if a stranger approaches you in finland it's either drunk
gravely ill person asking for help
or someone who tries to sell you something what a boy again from personal experience i
can say that it's just somehow much easier to small talk with the foreigner in english than
with finns in finnish so even finnish people have trouble at this not only foreigners the
analogy i've used also on this channel is that finns are like coconuts hard shell on the outside
and empty inside just kidding delicious milk inside so if you manage to make a friend with
finn you most likely have a friend for life but the thing is that you need to be proactive
and take action yourself and a quick example my friend from albania he met his girlfriend
in a shopping center so he just approached her that was talking and now they've been together
for years so consider this a win-win situation if you want to make friends with friends you
need to learn to be outgoing social proactive and if you just want to be alone principal let you be
wait wait i've applied for 20 jobs in finland let's see what the replies are
i'm sorry to inform you that you have not been selected for an interview for this position
what we need a finnish speaker oh yeah yeah yeah yeah that's let me tell you
something i'm not against this i'm really for it in fact um this idea of moving to another
country and you're not going to engage in their language culture or whatever
i just don't see why you're going to move there in the first place doesn't make any sense i've
already told people i'm trying to learn finnish in one year one year hasn't even gotten close to
it i've been in finland for like two months right so um still ain't even close to it
i don't know if i can get to where i want to get to in one year but definitely i want to try
right but the point is don't go to a country you're not going to engage in the things that
they do don't expect that your language your mother tongue is what they're gonna you know
okay that's what you speak we gonna work with that no no no no that's not that's not how i go
so in 2021 oola reported that finnish companies are suffering and all-time assorted of skilled
workers despite this large number of companies say that they won't risk hiring employees from abroad
and there was a survey of 500 finnish companies so nearly 40 percent of this organization told
that they cannot use english as their working language this is very complicated because
either organization would have to change their working language entirely or they would have
to invest a lot of time and money to train a foreigner to speak good enough finish and
that is very unreasonable requirement because if you really want to work in a finnish company
in finnish only it would take at least a year or two to reach that level to add insult to injury in
2019 there was a university study conducted where five fake job applicants with equal
language skills and backgrounds applied for jobs in finland but their background was just different
in terms of nationality finnish english russian iraqi and so on they all spoke good finnish and
english and the results were shocking out of all of these white finns got the most job interviews
and i've also heard stories that many masters and even phd holders have ended up toilet cleaners and
food delivery people in favor i think finn's a little bit of conservative and living xenophobic
so if they're never had to work with the foreigner it can be quite high threshold to start working
with the foreign but that being said there are also many success stories of foreigners finding it
i mean like just be honest with yourself like would you rather work with your mom or would you
rather work with a stranger like just be honest with yourself like most of us will try to you
know depict it in a a negative light we won't try to see the positive throughout all of this
and we'll try to see the negative but it's just the truth like a fin that would rather
to work with somebody who's more similar to them not everybody is like me who you know i don't
two cents i just want qualifications i said male female chinese jubilee jaminish or whatever
it could be even ant i'll work with you as long as you're doing what i need you to do no talk just
get it done be good right but not everybody is like that but in fact majority people in my humble
opinion they're not going to associate themselves with people who looks different sound different
or act different when it comes to a work setting if you get what i'm trying to say top in finland
so it's definitely impossible but it's good to understand that they are challenged hey how do you
introduce yourself in finnish again you could say moon mion alex i thought it was nemenion alexis
no but that's written finnish you don't want to use that when you speak morning immunology
next let's talk about the notoriously hard finnish language first of all finnish is very different
from the major languages because finnish is a thin uberic language which is completely different from
the indo-european languages including english german french spanish italian and so on and yet
another insult to injury is the spoken finish in finnish we have kind of two versions of finnish
the written finnish and spoken finnish written finnish is used in written form
like books publications news and in very formal occasions and if you would use this in regular
dialogue you would come across stiff and very unnatural you would sound like a news reporter
so that's why it's important to also learn spoken finnish for example in written finnish i
is mina but in spoken affinity it's map and i am is all in but in spoken finnish we say
or yet another problem is that when you actually try to use finnish with finns they might reply in
english a quick workaround just tell them hey i'm learning finnish can we talk when you finish
problem solving hey i got my payslip let's check it out
church tax what the charge tax i had never heard of church tax before charge facts
wow
according to the finnish taxpayers association finland had the seventh highest total tax rate
among the oecd countries in 2020 total tax rate means the taxes and tax-like payments collected
relation to the gdp and as you may know finland has a progressive taxations the more you earn
the more you pay and the real challenge comes with the high marginal tax rates let me give
a few examples if your annual income would be 25 000 euros your tax rate would be around 15 but you
would have 37.1 marginal tax rate so the marginal tax rate means that if your income would increase
1 000 euros you would pay 371 euro taxes from that to make 50 000 euro a year your tax rate would be
around 33 but your marginal tax rate would be 48.2 so 1 000 euro increase would mean that you would
pay 482 euros taxes from that but it's also good to remember that we get quite a bit from the tax
money like inexpensive healthcare system good social security system so if life decides to
yeah i think i think i think it's worth it i'm i i'm gonna give that flat out like
um it's worth it like it's it's really worth it it's really really really really really worth it
if you're gonna pay taxes and you're gonna get all of these benefits because
obviously me being in finland i'm not gonna be you know able to use the resources like that right but
a finn growing up right now let's say they're like 17 they're looking forward to university
free you know so things like that it's really beneficial in my humble opinion so you're paying
back that money i guess when you you're older it's it's much much much much better besides i don't
think the cost of living in finland is as bad to be honest takes harass you're not completely
on your own and also free education system from basic school to master's level at the university
oh the winner okay so in finland we have four seasons spring summer autumn and winter aka
fight for your life while the climate is quite decent in finland winter is total bs first of
all because finland is located so far in the north we get barely any sunlight in winter
secondly in finnish we have back a locally skull weather literally translated this is the type of
weather condition where it's so icy that it's very high risk to sleep absolutely and hurt yourself
this is actually a real deal because every year there are these news articles that these deadly
weathers send people to hail station and they will require doctors work to heal this and you
also have to spend and invest your money in proper winter clothing because the temperatures can be
as low as minus 20 to minus 30 degrees celsius you're going to get your winter shoes
jackets scarves hats gloves and so on on the flip side again there are a number of fun winter
activities such as ice swimming cross-country skiing snowboarding or just something in the
snow hey check this out i have listed for the first time my monthly cost let's check it out
according to stat dot fi billion had the eight highest total price level of private consumption
in the eu in 2026 more expensive finland has also a relatively high value at the tax vat
which is 24 basic rating so this is the rate that consumers pay on services and goods so
if a product's real cost would be 100 euros the real final price for the consumer would be 124
euros taxed the v80 so the government takes the 24 euros in taxes now according to number.com
i had no idea finland was that expensive i'm sorry like i've been here for
i've been here for two months and i had no idea it was that expensive
that is crazy so you're telling me i've been paying that much money to taxes you know how much
things i bought in finland oh my gosh wow that is crazy i have spent so much money in finland
and you're telling me that 24 of everything that i've bought is tax wow i can show you this
today today i bought this thing right here it's just a little device to transfer things right
if you guys know what it what that is whatever right i paid 100 it was 119 for that so you're
telling me that 24 hours out of that wow wow 21st highest cost of living index in the world
just to give some comparison the rents are around 40 cheaper than in the us and
it always depends where you're comparing them finland can be more expensive or even cheaper
like measure fins tend to avoid every unnecessary conversation there's even a joke that small
talk equals [ __ ] it's not only difficult to approach things but the communication can be
also challenging instead of opening their mouths they might just keep it inside or sometimes write
it anonymously on the internet and i remember when i was back in the school when the teacher
asked somebody you could also always raise your hand if you wanted to show that you're an active
student but it was kind of awkward because you would have to speak up in front of the class in
finland's always been quite awkward luckily my parents always pushed me to be active and i'm
really glad that they did it thanks to this i've also heard complaints that the dating scene sucks
because no one does anything even if they're interested and also the dates themselves can be
quite awkward because of the silence and there can be also problems in the relationships when
either party is not opening about if there's something wrong but again we can find some good
things about this first of all because no one's approaching anyone there's no
competition but still we have lots of beautiful intelligent awesome people here in finland single
people always say that finns never smile and they're kind of grumpy looking and stuff but
i think that's not okay instead we just had to finish smile which looked like this
and if you're moving the villain i strongly recommend you to check
out my move to finland master class replay you will get tons of tips for
nah for sure hey finland is great i got i got to give it to family finland is great um they
do a lot of you know cool stuff over here yeah all the seven things that you talk about were actually
real facts 100 straight facts but it's nothing that should scare you away from finland finland
it's a pretty darn amazing country and i think finns are amazing as well and um no matter what
you go through in finland i can tell you that um it's not gonna be horrible uh compared to the good
that you're gonna experience it's not it's it's gonna be literally night and day i can promise you
that like literally i've had some experiences here that i've never had before and i'm like literally
i never expected that in finland like me being in the grocery store yeah finns don't talk and
all of that i've literally had fins literally over my shoulders in the grocery stores i'm like dang
they don't they don't bump me over it's like it's like i'm just a normal person they ain't they
they just living they ain't even paying no attention it's like i feel neutral here and i like
that's how i feel most of the time if i'm honest like it's rare where i feel like um you know i'm
being like the limelight like when i just came here that's what i thought but
it's it's it's it's a beautiful place man that's all i got be the least be out of here guys peace