Quote from LFSn00b :

Don't forget Toni Ruokonen, a guy who drove in BTCC series

EDIT: Not maybe BTCC, National car champin crap though :P

ETCC?

Well, apart from the costs of living I don't think there is anything to worry about when going to live in Finland. The Winter can be cold and long I guess, but it's up to your personality if you can 'handle' it and not get depressed.

Heck, I just arrived home from my 4 month study in Finland (today), and I miss it already

Well, when you mention how cold it is, it's been below freezing up here all damn day, so it probarly wouldn't be as bad as you imagine if you get used to some of this freezing'ness.

+1C, no snow, looks like that this will be first black Christmas on this heights, when I was bit younger there was 1 meter of snow at this time of year, no it is not _that_ long ago

Quote from JTbo :

What town it was again where you were about to settle?

Kerava.

Worst thing? You will lose against Sweden in Ice Hockey

Quote from LFSn00b :

Ah, my cousin lives there. Nice place in his opinion:P

Oh the horror, do you think he still is ready to go near Kerava Niko?

Quote from JTbo :

Begging answered

hahah! thanks so much

...why didn't I think of that?

btw (on-topic) Finland has always sounded like a wonderful place and I would love to visit sometime. I have always thought the colder, the darker, the wetter the better. Yes, it is ironic that I live in SoCal...

Quote from wark :

btw (on-topic) Finland has always sounded like a wonderful place and I would love to visit sometime. I have always thought the colder, the darker, the wetter the better. Yes, it is ironic that I live in SoCal...

Bring me a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier head and you can crash at my place. It's comfy here!

Quote from spankmeyer :

Bring me a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier head and you can crash at my place. It's comfy here!

Spanky saying comfy, is that really comfy or spanky like comfy

I guess one bad thing, or good, is that many finns are bit crazy

Quote from EmilO :

Worst thing? You will lose against Sweden in Ice Hockey

Thanks for reopening the wounds

Actually, Kerava is one of the worst things in Finland. I come as a close second.

Just be thankful:

I haven't moved to Finland...

Yet!

Muhahaaaa!!!

Quote from Batterypark :

Actually, Kerava is one of the worst things in Finland. I come as a close second.

Nooooo! I've bought an apartment already. The wife's family are already settled there, I can't ask them to move! What's so bad about Kerava? It has Prisma, Kahveri, Anttila and McDonald's as well as Hesburger

Quote from Doorman :

What's so bad about Kerava? It has Prisma, Kahveri, Anttila and McDonald's as well as Hesburger

If that's the sole criteria you rank your abodes by I worry for you

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Finland

Theres all you need to know about finland.

Quote from JTbo :

That is Veli-Matti Lindström

Yes it is, that's true - but I was just transcripting, as I couldn't be bothered to find out the alt code

flower-hat-ladies




mika saukkonen

Quote from JamesF1 :

What about Janne Happonen, Jussi Hautamaeki, Tami Kiuru and Veli-Matti Lindstroem?

(Sorry, I am a bit of a ski-jumping buff)

Yeah, that's the whole team then.

Apparently, there isn't a finnish name that doesn't sound funny.

Quote from zeugnimod :

Apparently, there isn't a finnish name that doesn't sound funny.

The funny part is when you start to translate some of them....

freely translated...

Juha Kankkunen... John Hangover
Mikko Hirvonen... Michael Little Moose
...
The -nen ending can often be translated as the German -chen i.e. bit like small/little something or just a 'soft' version. For example Kankkunen -> Katerchen(ger)/Hangover(eng).

I thought I'd make a contribution... Here it is:

RaceAbout !

Stay away if you see one, or you might get run over by an unsuspecting driver caught by surprise by a sudden oversteer-understeer-oversteer-understeer(repeat 3 times) situation

Quote from NotAnIllusion :

If that's the sole criteria you rank your abodes by I worry for you

You don't do irony do you?

Visit Kerava: http://www.virtuaalikerava.net/framet.html

Quote from maczo :

I thought I'd make a contribution... Here it is:

RaceAbout !

Stay away if you see one, or you might get run over by an unsuspecting driver caught by surprise by a sudden oversteer-understeer-oversteer-understeer(repeat 3 times) situation

One of the best things really is the safety. You can pass out in the middle of Helsinki at night, and still have your wallet and cellphone untouched when you wake up in the morning. It took 2,5 years of daily ignorance to get rid of my unlocked bicycle in this little native village of 5000 peeps. Bulglary doesn't exist here - except in summer cottages which are at danger while they're empty in the middle of nowhere after summer season.

Social security is top notch - you can have quite a good standard for living without having to even work. Health care and education is almost free, until you remember how much you pay taxes.

If you nevertheless want to work, I'd recommend a traditional workclass job like building or metalcraft, those guys are making sick amounts of money compared to nerds and academic people which we have produced too much lately.

Double morale in our justice system is something you might be surprised at. You can get severly punished of self defense if someone attacks you, but murderers walk free after 4 years and are able to murder again! Grow 4 big beautiful plants of hemp and you can get a conditional jail sentence! So you should probably consider outrageus repeatative drunk driving, tax frauds, raping or dealing loads of dangerous drugs instead.