3rd WORLD PEOPLE REACT: 9 THINGS THAT SHOCKED ME LIVING IN FINLAND | FINLAND REACTION

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[hazeman]

- Apparently nobody told her that you're supposed to buy a shower curtain that prevents water from splashing everywhere. But yes, I think it's more practical and easier to keep clean if you don't have a shower cubicle.
- If you have big tattoos, face tattoos or face piercings, it can affect your chances to get a job in some professions, especially some type of customer service, but in general we are quite liberal. In most jobs it doesn't really matter what you wear to work. I've seen CEOs wear a t-shirt and jeans.
- Almost everything is either recycled, reused or burned for energy in Finland. Soon we will have almost no need for landfills. A statistic from 2 years ago said that only 0.5% of all community waste goes to landfills.

[mickeyfromhendon]

I don't understand where this young lady's been buying her water... You can buy a bottle of Spring Water for 0, 55€ in any store in Finland! Even the big Jug of Spring Water (5, 15 l.) only costs 1, 57€.
The tap water in Finland is far better than any bottled water! So there's no need to buy it!

[Format]

Usually people buy their own shower curtains for their apartments because who wants to use a dirty used one of a previous tenant. Water you don't need to buy or carry around. You get fresh pure tap water from anywhere.
There was some points I realized as a Finn, I've taken for granted. Certainly makes me feel grateful for them. Love your channel and I respect your open mindedness. What we could learn from your culture would be the more relaxed way of living and enjoying more of the life. We do enjoy our nature and the quiet but we also are a bit overachievers. Taking it more chill might be a good skill to learn.

[ilaril]

Water costs the same as the soda because we don't really want to people to buy water in plastic bottles, even if those are recycled. If you buy 10 liters it's way cheaper, but since tapwater is great quality anywhere (mine is literally spring water!), one has a bottle with them if need be. Also love it here at the lapland that when I go out during the summer/fall, I don't need to carry water with me, as there's so many springs all around here that one can take the sip. Best was few years ago when American tourists were aghast that I was filling my water bottle from the nature itself. Like it's spring water. The cleanest water they'd ever seen.

[StPaul]

We have about every possible type of shower up here.. Full closets like I used to have, half closet with curtain like my mom has.. Or a bath tub with a shower and a curtain.. etc.etc.

[Jonah]

I think one of the reasons why we drink lot of milk here it contains added vitamin D, cause most of the year we dont have much sunlight which the main source of vitamin D ! And it's good for your bones as well :)

[blechtic]

It's a common misconception but just because metal music is popular in Finland it doesn't mean it's mainstream. I remember CoB being very happy about reaching #1 in the charts because it meant people who had said they'd never play their music on the radio actually had to. Pop music still outsells metal and eclipses it in popularity and radio play and people aren't okay casually hearing metal if their ears aren't used to it. Using the Stetson-Harrison method, it's at least 10 to 1 against metal and I'm fairly certain all figures will back it up.
I'm just glad the new generation seems to have finally found Tuska festival, because that does seem to indicate metal is not dying and we can continue enjoying it.

Pajamas to work? No. This is not the nation of Walmart.
It's about professionalism and what is okay depends on the job. In some jobs, a suit may not be required but wearing one may positively affect your respectability and thus success. The job of a real estate agent comes to mind. Would you buy a house from someone wearing a sweatsuit or trust such banker? There's a lot of money at stake to be trusted with someone who doesn't seem to care at all. But if you're not there to interact with customers, where the metric of success depends on other factors, who cares what you wear as long as it's neat and clean, showing basic consideration to fellow workers and respect at the work you're doing.

*Bottled* water can be expensive. Tap water, very much potable, is cents per cubic meter and, as it has not sat still on the store shelf, it is probably cleaner than the bottled water. With bottled water, you are paying for the privilege of not carrying a bottle, or some other container, of water you filled at home. You don't even have to buy a cool, expensive bottle, you can re-use one you bought from the store and return it for the deposit when you're done. That said, bottled water *may* be 3€ per 0.5l bottle but, if you go to a normal grocery store that's not at the airport or some other touristy area, it's probably less than 1€/bottle for store brand and likely even less per litre if they sell 10l or larger jugs (for summer cottages, etc.).

The independence thing is likely due to affordable student housing and, for the a bit out-of-the-way municipalities, you have cheaper property prices all around. If you actually have a job anywhere you also have money to put into housing yourself and the government has a program for youth savings accounts for buying an apartment (or a house).

[kvuf]

It is crazy to think that in Rio Janeiro people don't recycle household waste. In Finland, if I put wrong type of metal or plastic or garden waste in the appropriate recycling bin, my neighbors would yell at me for ruining their recycling. Sorting bio, glass, cardboard, paper and combustible is a must, it is not possible to get that wrong.

[marilonnqvist]

Hello. Im from Finland. I like watch your videos. i dont even realize that those things is unique or something special, because i just live it and its just my life. I always thinking that we (finns) people are strange 😊

[tommi]

Milk is good for bones for calsium and it contains added vitamins etc.

[kaisahelve]

🇫🇮 I justed learning Portuguese, and I find your topics and words easy to understand. Kiitos😊.

[Jantzku]

Put the tap water in to a bottle. Problem solved.

[squidcaps]

I have four jackets, one for summer, one for rain, one for autumn&spring and one for the winter.

[sakarikulo]

I love your reactions. You two are always so positive. World needs more people like you two. Keep up the fantastic work 👍 Greetings from Finland.

[katriarjava]

There is a free tap for filling your bottle at the airport.

[protoni]

Brazil has so interesting language. i have listen you guys many videos by now. but i don't think i have separated a single word. don't get me wrong don't try to be rude or anything. it's just interesting to hear 😇👍 Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮 btw. always pleasure to watch these and see how people react our ways 💙

[ralfbauerfeind]

3:20 Don't forget about the Finnish Tango culture!

[lassekankila]

We have this old proverb "there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing" meaning that there is clothing for any weather so if you get wet or sick, it's your fault, not the weathers.

[juhalampola]

You guys are precious ❤ Be sure to give me a holler, below a comment or something, if you ever find yourselves with tickets for a flight to Finland in hand. There might be, uh, arrangements to be made :D

On that note, should you be coming here between November and May, be sure to pack or loan some very warm clothes - think São Joaquim on the coldest night ever, and you're stuck with your foot under a log. Then double that. With wind.

Between June - October, normal clothes should suffice in southern Finland at least. Unless it's Juhannus day (falls around 24th June). There can be, and has been, snow. Yes, it's a running joke, but sadly a very real one.

(Seriously, it can get moderately warm here. The high this summer was a bit over 31 C, and while this might seem mellow, it can linger for a month or more with nightly lows in the 20 C - 23 C range. Nothing to scoff at when the homes are built to withstand 40 degrees below freezing, with no air conditioning within earshot! Picnicking is nice though, especially with the Right to Roam, so you can enjoy your snack wherever...)

[SK-nwig]

With the milk thing one has to understand the geographical location and history. Only very few things were available here in the North untill fairl recently. Milk was super important: it had kalcium and protein for example. Cheese and viili was made out of it. Milk industry was big after entering the industrial era and milk is still widely used here as she said. We also eat SO much ice cream, and what is it made out of? Yes, that's right, milk. And since very many finns are lactose intolerant, we have so much dairy products that are lactose free :) I dont think we have any products that are not? Hmm.