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Off Topic / Re: Americans, if you could live in any country where would you want to live?
« Last post by iri on Wed, 19 March 2025, 16:33:59 »My Linkedin feed has a daily digest on the pain that immigrants to Finland feel because speaking Finnish is required by almost every employer.I believe practically everyone in Finland speaks English though, like they do here in Sweden.The more I research, the more I'm thinking, "Finland seems like a very nice place to spend my life."Finland is cold and extremely boring. High CoL, high taxes. And how the **** do you think you'll get employed there when you can't find a decent job in a country that speaks your native language and not a non-Indoeuropean one with 15 cases?
As long as you're in a line of work where English is accepted, you'll do fine.
Here in Sweden, in IT, English is just as common as Swedish, and I've worked with people with many nationalities using English as our shared language for work.
Also, not everyone in Finland speaks English (surprisingly, even in Helsinki). Once we rented a cottage in South Finland and had to communicate with the owners using gestures (the online booking process was managed by their son who lived in the capital and spoke English).
