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I hope you know Finnish already or are really good with languages because it's completely unrecognizable to people who speak most other European languages. My dad went to Helsinki in the 90s and said the only signs he could recognize were ones which had international logos like McDonald's.
This is (according to a search) "I love you" in Finnish: minä rakastan sinua.
But yes, it sounds like a very nice place to live.
I'm familiar with the language, I just don't know it. But Finland is bilingual, as there is also a lot of ~~Norwegian~~ Swedish spoken and many signs are in ~~Norwegian~~ Swedish too. I have less issues understanding ~~Norwegian~~ Swedish. Myself I'm Dutch, I've been to Finland several times. I'm not even going to try to learn the language, it's really hard. But in major cities they speak English.
Edit: I didn't remember correctly the second language
A finnish person here. Our second language is swedish not norwegian :-). Aside from that, it is true that many signs etc. are written in both finnish and swedish. People working in public sector are also supposed to know swedish.
Outside of few swedish speaking areas you are better off using english as it's more widely spoken by the general population.
Ah thanks for the correction. It has been a while since I've been there, I clearly didn't remember correctly.
I just remembered that my dad said that about the same trip. That he was able to get around the city because pretty much everyone spoke English, so they could just help him out. The signage was the issue for him.
This was back in 1989 and, just by coincidence, this morning I found a postcard he sent me from Leningrad, because he got permission to take the train there from Helsinki. He wrote that he hoped one day I would learn about Peter the Great and visit the beautiful city he founded. Always the professor. Zero for two, unfortunately. I know basically nothing about Peter the Great and, even though the name St. Petersburg/Petrograd should be a clue, I didn't even know he founded it.
Is it not Swedish, rather than Norwegian?
Yes it is swedish that is the second official language in finland :)
I fixed it, my bad :)
It gets a bit cold in the winter.
I just looked at the temperatures and honestly, it doesn't get much colder than it gets here in Indiana and it doesn't get as horribly hot either.
Besides, give it 10 years and climate change will make the Baltic coast feel like the French Riviera.
Winter is the nice season in Finland, the other one is swamp season.
Cold is fine, you just wear more clothes. The darkness from November to February is worse. Nothing really fixes that.