Quote from: noisyturtle on Mon, 17 March 2025, 18:48:57

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?

I believe practically everyone in Finland speaks English though, like they do here in Sweden.
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.

Finnish could be difficult to learn though. I'll give you that.
Most closely related to Estonian, Sapmi, Hungarian and some indigenous languages in Siberia that are probably extinct now.

Quote from: iri on Sat, 15 March 2025, 05:36:39

for the most part, has hot summers

I am constantly surprised about that kind of thing. I used to live in the Atlanta, Georgia area {~34N), and watching weather maps that often showed places like Fargo, North Dakota (~47N) with higher summer temperatures.

I used to live in Fargo. It sucks. We would get a week of -20f to -0 temps in the winter (never getting above 0f), not including wind chill and then in the summer we can see high 90s into the 100s with humidity.

Not sure how the color combination = city pop. feels like future funk was closer to the city pop palette
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I thought every day was a bit much, but I met someone today who tries to get in at least 2 workouts A DAY!
At first I thought I misheard him say twice a week, but no, shoots for 3hrs a day 6 days a week. He wasn't even jacked so I do not understand what he's doing and why so often.
And with a full-time job, 2 kids, and a wife. I cannot comprehend how this man is living his life, it makes no sense.


Oh, and I finally got to try every Barbell flavor and the winner is...
Creamy Crisp
By a country mile, it is not even close in terms of taste for me personally. Creamy Crisp flavor straight up tastes like a delicious candy bar. Kinda like a marshmellow coconut, although there is no coconut flavor in it.

Thanks for the Barebells recommendation btw, they are indeed very good. they don't have creamy crisp in my supermarket but the ones with nuts in them are really good.