LIFE IN FINLAND | 9 Things that shocked me living in Finland

Hi good luck with the tomato Ikey just kidding my name is Kat Rivers and welcome to my channel this is your first time here don't be shy go ahead and hit the subscribe button. I make videos about my

life

in Finland and my cultural

life

. differences with the United States, in this video today I am going to share 10 good, bad, strange

things

that surprised me and the time I have been

living

here, well, let's get to it, so the first thing that surprised me and I'm going to put this in a very good but also strange category is showers so showers here in Finland are surprisingly you only have one shower head and then there are no walls separating the shower from the rest of the bathroom so once you get in to the bathroom. you might have your toilet, your washing machine, you know that space where you walk in the bathroom, which is all connected to the shower, so if you're taking a shower, the water is going to go everywhere, so the second thing that was quite shocking and surprising is the fact that I have not needed to have a car here, so I am very used in America to using a car every day to do everything, go to work, go to the supermarket or do any errand, like the simple idea of ​​having to take a bike.

Nowhere, where I'm from Panama, I don't think that's possible, like we don't have bike lanes, so you know, okay. The third thing that was a little shocking and surprising at the same time is that people here literally don't have them. give me how you dress if you're a doctor, nurse, teacher or you know whatever, it doesn't really matter what industry you're in, unless you're a politician, like I've seen people in all kinds of

things

. profession with super colorful hair, piercings, even face tattoos, whatever and no one cares and that's amazing because who cares, you know if you want to wear your pajamas to work, sure why not, so another interesting thing What I learned, discovered or noticed here in Finland has been like any kind of bureaucratic process, whatever you need to do, you can basically do 80% of anything online.

I got my apartment online, we never had to meet with anyone from the agency, they just said this house is available, go see it. I want to see it without anyone and then we said online yes we wanted to, we paid money into an account and then we went to pick up the keys at some collection point and like that, next is recycling. I guess most people who watch YouTube probably know about the existence of recycling and maybe have tried at some point in their life to recycle things, but here, oh my goodness, it's next level.

I've got my recycling game as advanced as if you knew you had the cardboard. I have the cans and then we also have the plastic bottles that are separate from the bottles and then you have the bio and then you know the type of combustible waste, there are so many different types of categories and it just makes me feel so much better about what I'm consuming. . I don't know, and it's very, very easy to recycle here. So next number seven is. I know it's just a very small thing, but it seems very strange to me here.

People from Finland drink so much milk, okay, first of all for me personally, I don't know, maybe this is an American thing, but I didn't see it in Spain either, it was a bit strange, people generally, especially adults, don't drink . milk like a glass of milk, maybe I have seen people who like to drink milk in the morning, maybe once in a blue moon, but here they drink milk at lunch and dinner with their food instead of water, juice or tea like cow's milk. milk and it's super strange oh number eight and this is more like realizing the level of my ignorance so Panama just to paint a picture is always 30 between 30 and 32 degrees Celsius and very high humidity the sun rises at 6:00 it sets the sun out there around 6:30 every day you know it's a very stable climate and it's very hot, it's not hot, it's hot, so for me a hoodie was already like a jacket, I would put it on the jacket category, but when I got here after going through winter, autumn, spring and summer.

I've liked knowing that there are so many different types of jackets and for so many different types of purposes and types of weather, and you know, that's something I had never imagined. I thought about I thought, Okay, if it's winter, you just put on like a big jacket and that's it, no, no, and I like to be like a windproof, waterproof, tacky jacket and winter jackets, super a cigar, do you know that they say what is known when certain things differ? of the Joy Snow winter jacket because you already know the news. I don't make your cycling and your destination different if you just walk in my it doesn't matter so next, almost last, a second to last, is the price of water water is very expensive here so you don't really need to buy water because tap water is completely safe and tastes wonderful, but if you're out and about and you don't have access to a tap, then you have to buy a bottle of water it's about the same price as soda, which I didn't understand, that was quite shocking for companies, like when I entered through the airport and went to the first shot like the store closest to the house for the first time. just to buy some things I was thirsty and I said I want to buy a bottle of water, I said what what but it's almost the same price at the airport, which was already a little expensive because it cost like three euros for a bottle of water, but then the supermarket has it too and I'm like what, but you know, that actually forces you to always think about bringing your own water anyway, so you know that helps too, so last but not least, this one.

It was a pretty big shock to me because no one lives with their parents, I mean, it's so easy to become independent from your parents here, it's ridiculous that people go to university and already have their own student apartment or whatever since so. They are 18 or 19 years old in Panama and in many Central American countries and I think now in the United States. It's becoming more and more common because of rent and housing prices and things like that, you just stay with your parents as long as you can, as long as it's physically possible, so it's a very big difference.

I think my partner is him. and he has five other brothers, one of whom lives with his parents and all the others are away, so you know, it's okay. I think those were ten different things that surprised or surprised me in the last few months that I've been

living

here in Finland. Of course I have noticed many other things like small and big things but I didn't want to make this video like three thousand hours long I think this is the end of this video just as a little reminder if you haven't subscribed remember To press the subscribe button subscribe and like this video, also if there is anything else you would like to comment on the things I have said, you think are not true if you live here in Finland and have a different perspective. about what I said go ahead and leave a comment okay so I think that's it for today man.