Brit Reacts to 25 Weird Things about Life in Finland (American POV)

Do Finns really do all of these? Are they weird? Let me know in the comments section below.

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[wmbdshrmp]

The two doors are because it prevents the heat from escaping when you open the outside door in the winter. Appartment buildings usually have these too, and in that case it brings privacy and dampens the sounds from the hall and vice versa :)

[AHVENAN]

If everything stopped because it snowed here in Finland, our economy would crash and burn so hard every single winter, it's just not pheasible, we have to keep everything running no matter the weather

[maestrobash]

The wind closet, the area between the font door and the actual house, is about thermodynamics. When its cold outside and warm inside, you're gonna have a higher air pressure inside your home than out in the cold. If all you have is a single door between indoors and outside, and you open the front door, all the warm air inside is gonna rush out, getting replaced with cold air, which you now how to heat up again. But with a wind closet, only the air within the wind closet will rush out when you open the front door. Extremely useful in energy saving.

[naniyodesu]

You can definitely get stuff like regular bandaids and contact solution from ordinary grocery stores in Finland. Vitamins and other supplements as well. However, it's true that the pharmacies will have a much wider variety of these products.

The only thing you cannot get anywhere but from pharmacies is actual medicine, because of safety reasons. The people working in the grocery store aren't trained in instructing you about medicine use, so they legally cannot sell it, only pharmacies with actual pharmacists can. It prevents people from misusing medication and unintentionally hurting themselves with it by, for example, overdosing or mixing medications.

I think she just doesn't know where to search for them in the store, or she mostly goes to small shops. Those small local corner shops may have bandaids but definitely won't have anything more specific, such as contact solution. You'll need to go to a bigger store for those.

[MrTachi]

The pharmacy info was a bit off. You can get bandages and some other items from regular stores. Mostly things that need an licence to distribute are sold only at pharmacy like painkillers and stronger. Basically almost anything medication that could be miss used are sold from pharmacy. With some tiny exceptions like melatonin you can get from regular stores but they are weaker strength than the once you can get from pharmacy.

[mattilindstrom]

Many Finnish shower enclosures have a raised perimeter to direct most of the water to the floor drain. All the bathrooms with a shower have to be waterproofed by the building code. One neat thing about whole room floor drains and waterproof floors is that cleaning the bathroom is easy, use some cleaning product if necessary, take the shower and rinse it all down.

[toniheikkila]

Again the common error, private property is also included into everyones rights, just not peoples actual yards or cultivated fields.
So youre completely free to roam privately owned forests.
To Americans this is understandably a completely alien, unthinkable thing.

[ykalon]

Cheese slicer is very common in the Nordic countries, and in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany

[pikkupinja]

you are so right about small talk, if i don't have anything to talk about, i won't force it😅 i'll happily go 1h car drives in silence if there's nothing meaningful to talk about

[cynic]

Alko (Finland), Systembolaget (Sweden) and Vinmonopolet (Norway) it is Denmark that is the odd one out.

[evawettergren]

I love wet rooms. My bathroom is fully tiled, floors and walls, and it was one of the reasons I bought the place. I do have a showercurtain though, so not EVERYTHING gets splashed when I take a shower. And generally the floor is made so that water will run back towards the outlet. I don't need to scrape the water back at any rate. Bonus is that cleaning the bathroom is super easy, you just remove any towels and then spray the whole room and let dry. Done.

[hypnotherapy]

I was so suprized to hear cheese slicers weren´t a thing every where, its such a good kitchen tool, and it´s great if you want to make cucumber slices to.

[AHVENAN]

The US even has drive through ATMs, they are so ridiculously car-centric and if they could, they'd probably never get out of their cars ever besides when they got back to their house 😅

[tonikaihola]

Ventoniemi is a distinctly Finnish surname so yeah she’s married to a Finn

[kessu]

Doupledoors. Keep cold outside in winter and heat in summer. And in apartments, THE NOICE! 😠😂

[gunlindblad]

Oooo, the most practical is a bathroom is a wetroom. Imagine how much you have to clean with kids, in a wetroom with a heated floor you just spray the whole thing toilett everything with the shower and just leave while it dry. And about the brands, it is because in the nordic counties we rather buy quality stuff and keep it for a long time. The names, arabia, ittala, finlayson is quality stuff with good design. We have that in sweden too, kosta, orrefors, rörstrand…
Refills on soda???? That is a recipe for obesity.

[engfoinroblox]

you can add showerwalls in a wet room, wet room in Europe is just a way of building rooms to be safe for water leaks, how you do the walls and floors

[LasseEklof]

Another reason why it's not common with drive through coffee shops is that in Scandinavia you usually sit still in peace at the table when you drink coffee, never when you are on the go, it has to do with "fika". So I don't think such coffee shops would work in Scandinavia, it's simply not our culture to drink coffee that way, and also not something I would like to change it to.

[jonilakso]

I think its "weird" for US person but in Finland, when eating home dinner it is a typical rule that families with children only drink water or milk with food. No soda or juices with dinner.

[matshjalmarsson]

I think that the "fika" culture is all over the Nordics, it's not just having your quick fix of caffeine, it's more of a sit down and relax situation