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| ⭐️ Overall score | 218 reviews |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
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| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
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| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Europe |
| 🚩 Country | Finland |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 34 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 20°C 67°F + 😊 Comfy (59%) = feels 21°C 70°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 19 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 19 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Sonera |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Arnolds |
| 🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 270,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $43,339 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Ambiguous |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Verkkokauppa |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Oikotie |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Ryanair |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Finair |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Jorvi Hospital |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | €4,380 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | €1,898 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | €3,975 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | €1,136 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | €848 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | €198 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €3,704 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €173 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | €9 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | €2 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | €5 |
| ☕️ Coffee | €3 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $12,376 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $34,930 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $110,589 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Hospitals are not that great
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 21-6° freezing | 28-2° freezing | 0° freezing | 489° cold | 5412° cool | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 5412° cool | 436° cold | 362° cold | 0° freezing |
| Real | 27-3° freezing | 352° very cold | 362° very cold | 4910° cold | 5412° cool | 6820° mild | 6820° mild | 6820° mild | 5513° cool | 457° cold | 394° very cold | 373° very cold |
| Humidity | nice 70% | damp 74% | damp 72% | nice 56% | nice 62% | nice 66% | nice 68% | nice 77% | damp 81% | damp 83% | damp 81% | damp 84% |
| Rain | dry 32mm | dry 26mm | dry 38mm | dry 4mm | dry 36mm | rainy 101mm | dry 41mm | dry 30mm | dry 37mm | rainy 73mm | dry 38mm | dry 50mm |
| Cloud | overcast 92% | cloudy 82% | cloudy 76% | pockets 44% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 52% | cloudy 65% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 89% | overcast 98% | overcast 93% |
| Air quality | clean 18 US AQI | clean 24 US AQI | clean 18 US AQI | clean 21 US AQI | clean 21 US AQI | clean 20 US AQI | clean 21 US AQI | clean 20 US AQI | clean 17 US AQI | clean 14 US AQI | clean 19 US AQI | clean 16 US AQI |
| Sun | safe 0 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 0 UVI | safe 0 UVI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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