Moving to Nordic countries - Which country is best? 🇬🇱 🇮🇸 🇫🇴 🇩🇰 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🇫🇮

Moving to Scandinavia! But which country is best? In this video we'll compare the countries of Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. The metrics that we are going to take a look at are climate, language, cost of living, wages, quality of life, human development and security.

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0:00 - Start
1:15 - Climate
3:02 - Language
4:49 - Cost of living
6:19 - Wages
7:19 - Quality of life
8:23 - Human development
8:52 - Security
9:52 - Conclusion

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[MovingAbroad]

Sorry for mixing up Scandinavian and Nordic countries

[jepst]

As a finn if I had to move to a another country, I would move to Norway. People are great and the nature is very beautiful.

[yvindhildonenteigland]

I live in Norway, and one thing I really appreciate is the nature. I love the mountains and fjords here.

[bjrnheinfelt]

Born in Denmark, lived in many years in Norway, have been a lot in Sweden. Travlhed from north to south in Finland. All of them are fantastic.

[XxkarlcoolxX]

I can just say, in the Faroe Islands, people leave their car running while the go to buy food or something. So that should be a good example that there is not much crime here

[Cook]

I love how you give countries 0 for coming last here when the differences between them in things like Quality of Life and Development Index are probably negligible at best and they all rank amongst the top in the world. In reality, they should probably all get close full marks on most of these categories. I don't think any of these categories other than language and climate should have any bearing at all on which choice of country to make.

Costs and Wages mostly cancel each other out, they all have great quality of life, security and development, most of the languages are similar and the climate is mostly similar as well.

What you should consider is where you geographically want to live, what culture you want to engage in, and most of all where you will actually be able to make a living using your skills or which has the best education program available to you.

[frntend]

As a Norwegian and had to move this is the order I'd move to:
1. Denmark, nice country, nice climate, security, immigration policies and nicely located near europe.
2. Sweden, mostly due to similar language and culture. Would be easy to integrate
3. Finland, learning the language is a pain, but the location is better than the other two options
4. Iceland, I really dont want to live on an island away from Europe.

[fatimah]

I live in Sweden and if you live there you can just drive to Denmark, Norway or Finland🇸🇪🇫🇮🇳🇴🇩🇰

[Reidar]

Costs and wages should be put together with purchasing power which should also include taxes, so what's left when the government is done with you and what you can buy for that. Also it is interesting to know the debt levels, state, business and private, as that has an impact of future projections of how life will be.

[timoterava]

Just to summarise the correct definitions of the terms:

FENNOSCANDIA
- Norway, Sweden, Finland, East Karelia, the Kola Peninsula
- a geographic term only

THE SCANDINAVIAN PENINSULA
- part of Fennoscandia
- Norway, Sweden, small part of the Northwestern Finland
- a geographic term only

SCANDINAVIA(N COUNTRIES)
- Norway, Sweden, Denmark

THE NORDIC COUNTRIES (THE NORDICS)
- Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland
- also the Åland Islands, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Svalbard (edit. Jan Mayen Island, being just another Norwegian island, was removed from this list)
- they share common religion, culture (mostly), history (mostly), customs (mostly) and values
- this is what the people outside of the Nordic countries usually mean, when they speak about "Scandinavia"

THE SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES
- Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese
- a subgroup of the Germanic languages, which is a subgroup of the Indo-European languages
- a linguistic term only

THE (BALTIC) FINNIC LANGUAGES
- e.g. Finnish, Meänkieli (in Sweden, in reality a Finnish dialect), Kven (in Norway, in reality a Finnish dialect), Karelian language(s), Estonian, Ludic, Veps etc.
- a subgroup of the Finno-Ugric languages, which is a subgroup of the Uralic languages
- a linguistic term only

THE SÁMI LANGUAGES
- a subgroup of the Finno-Ugric languages, which is a subgroup of the Uralic languages
- a linguistic term only

[michaelbarros]

I support Finland 🇫🇮

From Brazil 🇧🇷

I love the finish nature and it’s people. Btw, Finland is the happiest country on earth.

[EspenFrafalne]

One of the things i love the most about Norway is that wild camping is allowed almost anywhere that is not too close to peoples homes (no more than 2 nights in the same place before you move to another location). Wild camping is also legal in Sweden and Finland, but not in Denmark and Iceland...

Sognefjorden has some spectacular views, but from what i can find online, the average water temperatures there are only 15.2°C on average during the hottest month in summer - which is not ideal for people who like to go to the beach... I live in southern Norway, and the ocean temperatures close to where i live gets up to 20°C, and my local lake/river gets up to 21°C. All these temps are the average for the month of August, and i measured 24°C in my local lake/river last summer. I live on the country side, surrounded by forests and 150-500 meter tall mountains and valleys as far as the eye can see. Great place for hiking, bikepacking, and wildcamping - and the 10km river/lake gives a nice opportunity for a daytrip or overnighter with my kayak 😊

[TravelingisFREEDOM]

This seems to be a very charming region, I hope I can visit sometime in the future when all this is over. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much! And please keep up the great job!

[ivanvikalo]

I am Danish and Swedish and I grew up in both Denmark and Sweden and I love both countries. I can absolutely recommend both of them. They are a bit different but overall, you get a really good when choosing either of them. Culturally alike but still their own. I would just add that the salaries are a bit higher in Denmark, but then Sweden has more tax breaks with an amazing investment climate and less overall taxes. Sweden is on the other somewhat less safe, but as long you dont live in 'no go' areas, it is really safe. Basically all crime occurs between criminal gangs in bad areas. In any case, love from a Dane and Swede 🇩🇰🇸🇪

[elugelab]

The average sunlight a day is a bit deceiving, since the winters are long and dark (if there's no snow), while the summers are quite short, but with lots sunlight. You can also manage just fine with english, if you live in a city in Finland. I'm sure it's the same with the other Nordic countries too.

[alle]

As a Swede i would absolutely LOVE to move to Norway when i am old enough and get a job. Norway is such a gem in the north!

[Meowmeter]

Iceland is def. on my bucket list to visit.... I think it has absolutely stunning scenery, but I have no ideia which I would choose if I had to move permanently... greetings from Portugal to all my nordic neighbours.💝🇵🇹

[aquajuwel]

Norway has a nature that is so beautiful it actually can burn your eyeballs out. Good pay if you get a job, secure, fresh air(I remember walking of the plane in Gardermoen and just being hit by this amazing air, so clean and pure, it was almost religious, but i came from London……so…), green everywhere, wonderful people (a little introvert and shy, but they get warm really quickly if you don’t push yourself on them, talk about the weather and nature, thats a great way to get to now Norwegians and get involved in a choir, volunteer or something like that), i don’t have one bad thing to say about norway, except maybe it’s expensive there, but so are many other places! And learn the language! They speak perfect English, but it’s respectful to do an effort and it also opens up so many more opportunities! Good luck..norway is paradise on earth….

[wiljn]

I'm from Denmark and i love my country.
But i really enjoy Faroe Islands and Norway. So beautiful countrys. Stunning nature. And nice friendly people.

[MagnusMoerkoereJohannesen]

Finnish more difficult to learn than Greenlandic? I get that this is a subjective ranking, but I'd be willing to bet it's a lot easier to get tuition and find Finnish material, than it is Greenlandic.