Do they speak Swedish in parts of Finland?

Yess you can.

The Swedish speaking minority is about 300 000 souls.

What's wrong with Bulgaria?

Look, Bulgaria:

The weather here sucks, winter is 7 months long.
There's no sun in the sky in December.
The food is bland.
Finns are introvert, quiet and difficult to approach.

The "Swedish" you imagine is nothing like the King's
Swedish. It's a collection of unlearnable, very intricate
collocial dialects, that differ wildly from village to
village.

Regardless what they tell you, average people over here
are rather tired of foreigners and their drama.

I think you would like Swedistan a whole lot more.

Just saying.

Yes you can!

Why are Turku and Vaasa good places for you but not Helsinki?

- A gangster for prime minister.
- Nepotism/corruption.
- Too close to Turkey physically and culturally.
- Summers are too hot (I hate anything above 25 C, even 25 is too hot for me, I have hyerthyroidism).
- Musicians and artists are more appreciated in Scandinavia. We only have call centers here.
- More blond people.
- Food is better than in Germany or Austria.
- Sure, the winters are bad but Krakow in Poland has the same amounts of sunshine during winter so I bet Finland has more clear days without clouds even in winter. Finland is sunnier in summer than Central Europe except Hungary. I haven't seen such bright sunlight anywhere in Southern Europe.

Also: - Less Muslims and Negros than Sweden.

I suggest u speak english. If you plan to stay here learn finnish. Getting a job with only swedish skills is kinda hard.

Sure, Finish actually looks easier for me to decipher/read than German. I get a mind block from German long words and Finish at least uses more vowels. F Germany.

Pardon me, but I speak Chef.

"Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue,
Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn.
bork! bork! bork!"

You should come to Sweden. All your wonderful gypsies are here, begging and stealing.
You'll feel at home.

Roma (actually from Pakistan originally). The real ones anyway.

how's the fishing?

Learn Finnish. An outsider to any country should make an effort and learn the language.

For vacation should learn a few basic words.

For long term it is rude and horrible not to learn the language.

You are putting yourself at a severe disadvantage and....did I mention........it is rude.

Favorite meal ever was assembled from Lidl weekly specials and standard weekly Finnish staple buys, in Juvaskula, Finland.
it definitely gets more Swedish ,culturally, as you move west across Finland from there.

Swedish, German and English are all Germanic languages and so related to each other, Finnish is no even an Indo-European language like all the other languages in Europe, besides Basque, and of course Estonian which is a "Fenno-Ugric" language ...

the Finnish language -- grammar, syntax, morphology -- is ridiculously complex, there supposedly was a book by an English professor, "Learn Finnish on Your Own in 50 years" ... although, couple of years ago I had two very nice Mormon missionary guys who paid me visits and tried to convert me ... they spoke kind of rudimentary Finnish, I can't understand how they do it, learn foreign languages in few months ...

the written Finnish is a recent artificial creation and it's totally different than the spoken Finnish; the one good part is th ortography, there is an almost perfect correspondence between letters and sounds, so if you hear a word you know how to spell it and conversely there is no difficulties trying to pronounce a written word ...

so learning to read and write is easy for the kids, and therefore Finland use to have good "PISA" scores ...

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