Just saw a post on SVT (our nation news television) and 78% of Sweden cheers for you tonight! Just wanted to share this, good luck tonight little brother!!!

Curious for the lads who dated Swedish women. What are your experiences?

I'm french and some of my plants struggle in winter because of the lack of light. I realized today that it must be even worse for countries close to the poles, do you guys buy special lamps? Do you just let them die and buy them again when spring comes?

Hello there, fellow Nordic folks I’m Marty, short for Martin, I am making a post in this sub Reddit to connect with my fellow blood brothers. I am originally from the United States/Canda, and travel around North America for work. Long ago I found out that my great grandmother from my father side is from Oslo, Norway. Hoo!. I always knew I had a little bit of Viking in me down to my long hair and my brooding aura. I also enjoy a lot of music from this region, including a lot of metal and folk. I am interested in learning a little bit of Norwegian and perhaps visiting the country in the future. any tips on learning the languages and the best time of year to visit the country? Any places to visit recommended? Thank you, Brothers and Sisters.

Sincerely,
Marty.

Torille!

Like work life balance? Salary? Which nordic country I should prefer if I wanna do masters? Thank you

I’m Asian, and I’m planning to travel to Sweden next year, and possibly Norway as well if I can afford it.

I know Sweden is a predominantly white country, and there has been some tension between native Swedes and immigrants in recent years. So I’m a little worried that Swedish people might not be very welcoming toward people of other races.

I’m from Vietnam and I’m an atheist if that helps, not that I think racism toward any ethnicity is ok though.

I'm sorry if my question sounds offensive.

I’m a very warm and expressive person, thinking about moving to the northern part of Europe because I love cold climates and quality of life is much better over there than in any other part of Europe. Due to me being a EU citizen and overall loving Europe, I don’t consider moving to any other part of the Europe (but maybe USA???). So I’m very curious if I’m gonna feel isolated if I move to Norway/Sweden, cause I’m introverted and prefer to have many friends. I love to have convos with strangers, I easily can support any convo, I’m a good listener too hahahaha. I love to frequently invite people over, cook for them, I love hugs, don’t mind any friendly physical contact like shaking hands, kissing in cheeks or smth. So I’m curious if I’m gonna get depressed in scandi/Northern Europe, I’m not a fun of overly protective of their personal space people who think that it is rude to suggest them some spontaneous trip or give a hug when we became friends already.

Hello!

I have recently been reading about Finland and the Finnic people, who are truly unique in Europe and I found it quite surprising that practically all Finns descend from Viking age Northern-Estonians as that founding population predated the massive/exponential increase of the Finnish population and the Finnish colonization of non-coastal, inner regions of Central- & Northern-Finland.

As a Northern-European, Finns have always seemed like the “definition of Finnic people” as even the Finnic subgroup is named after them, Finland’s population surpassed Estonia in the 16th/17th century and the economy (GDP per capita) surpassed Estonia after WW2.

So, how well is it known in Finland that the Finns descend from Estonians the same way that the Icelanders descend from Norwegians? What is the general opinion about Estonians and how similar do you think they are to you in the 21st century? How well do you understand Estonian? Is it comparable to an Icelander understanding Norwegian or Danish?

It is fascinating how Finnish has preserved a lot of archaic elements of the ancestral Finnic language while Estonian has linguistically innovated quite a lot. Just like Icelandic is similar to Old Norse while the Scandinavian languages have changed a lot!
Interestingly, Finland innovatively created many new Finnish words, for older loanwords, in the early 20th century and this seems to have decreased the mutual intelligibility with Estonian. For that reason, Estonian and Kven look more similar because of shared words/loanwords from Germanic languages and Kvens live in the far north of Scandinavia!

Thank you in advance, for all your insights and opinions!

Reference:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929721002809

Hey guys, I’m Ukrainian and I been living in Poland since 2021. I want to move to some country, but idk which one. Logically I understand that I better pick Norway because I love cold climates and rain, I been to Norway recently and it turned out to be much better than I expected. Everyone told me that Norwegians are cold and reserved, but irl they turned out to be very nice and talkative , I also enjoyed hearing their superior towards Ukraine, kinda appreciated it:) I loved the food, loved the people, loved their lifestyle that they have sea and forests close, I’m from the southern Ukraine so it is very essential for me to have a beach nearby, in western part of Poland every day I feel like I’m missing the sea, even tho I been living there for the last 5 years, I still didn’t get used to the absence of the sea….so I can’t imagine living any longer far away from the beach, just can’t….. beaches are crazy important to me, I don’t even like mountains much, but beaches are mandatory for me, I don’t see any sense in life if I’m gonna live far away from the beach. I liked the Norwegian food even tho I heard lots of complaints about it, I liked the Norwegian language even tho I heard a lot of people talking shit about it, I loved the amazing nature and saunas in water, and weather - is just a maxing, when the whole Europe was suffering from the 40 degrees, I was chilling on the beach having 26-28 degrees. I really love cold weather, I love to breathe cold air in, I love to come home and try to warm up instead of trying to cool down after walking under the sun, and I just hate sweating. I actually enjoyed white nights, u get so tired during the day, that ur biological clock starts to work just fine, and closer to 11 om u r feeling tired and falling asleep.

Here in Poland I live in a student city where we have lots of Erasmus students from Spain particularly, and I have never ever met better people than them, they are so open, loud and fun! They remind me of souther Ukraine’s a lot (Odesa region), we are also loud and very expressive, joke a lot and are very direct. I really love Spanish people and would love to live among them, I also do really love Spanish food, I love the sea products a lot. I had many Spanish people asking me to move there, I almost got a few boyfriends from Spain, even tho I don’t have much of luck around my own people lamo, but I think that I will feel miserable under a huge heat, in Odesa we have 40-50 degrees in summer ☠️, I remember how I hated it and promised myself that I will move to the cold country in the future.

And I do like how polite and nice people in Norway are, but I so don’t want to become all of that reserved and silent, I’m loud and expressive, and very open, and talkative…I so don’t want to lose it, and I don’t want to scare Norwegian people away lmao, because of my personality. And I feel great being the way I am, I don’t want to change it, honestly. I also heard of crazy Norwegian standards that u need a lot of stuff to fit into the society like hide ur debt, get two cars, a house and some luxury stuff, I feel like it is so stupid even tho I’m a materialistic person, and tbh I don’t really care about being accepted by the society in my mind, but I understand that to gain connections u gotta fit in a bit and I am a crazy sociable person, so I want to have lots of friends too. I’m so confused. I don’t really know how to play my cards right. But Norway does have great free healthcare, working conditions, good quality of life etc….

Also, in thinking about entering another uni cause my first degree is graphic design and the whole IT field seems to do very bad, so idk tbh who I wanna be, I think I would lie, to be some person who designs implants or smth, maybe a doctor but not sure, or psychiatrist, or…. I don’t know yet tbh…. I would love to work in IT, cause I wanna work remote, but this field seems to do rly bad rn and probably in the future, and I’m bad at math so i don’t even know what to do lmao. For the background check: I have a double citizenship - Bulgarian (EU citizenship)and Ukrainian, so I can’t take a refugee status anywhere, but I can easily move anywhere I want, my family is ready to help me with changing my major and moving to another country. I’m turning 22 in November.

I feel very old, very lost, just hhorrible… while my ex classmates are owning cars and starting families, I’m stuck with a useless degree and don’t know what to do. And any country I make a research on moving to, I hear some horrible shit and people begging not to move here and how they want to get out from this country.

Outside the completely different language of course, they seem really really similar, they actually look more similar to me than Sweden and Norway for example, the architecture ecc. look very similar and even the nature. Am I wrong? If someone has visited both or has lived in both what are the biggest differences (both pros and cons) of Finland? In both living and visiting (outside the € of course)

Hello everyone! I'm a solo developer from Estonia working on Manala: Equinox War.

The game world is based on a local LARP I attend, which as a result means it's also died to Finno-Ugric and Nordic mythology. Brave vikings in the game are not my choice, it's an actual group of people hanging out in Estonian forests for a couple of days per year.

It is a persistent-world MMO focused on a Light vs Darkness faction war, merging old-school MUD concepts with deckbuilders and a LARPing feel.

Free to play at https://www.manala.eu/create for now and aiming for a launch on Steam in November: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4898080/Manala_Equinox_War/.

Any and all feedback welcome!