Hi! My partner and I are thinking of renting an apartment in Espoo (I dont want to be super specific due to privacy reasons, it is a chill area but next to a metro stop around the end of the metro line. We love it, but the balcony/terrace/parveke is ground level, so anyone could jump in and try to break in. I have attached the kind of lock/door (similar) that it is.

We have lived in this area for a year with no problems, but we lived far from the metro/transport/stores, and no balcony like this so this is new for us. Thanks in advance!

by Rise-International

18 comments

  1. Don’t leave it open if you are away or sleeping. Other than that it is safe.

  2. Completely safe or as safe as ground floor gets. A local drunkard or narc won’t come through a window and professionals use front door, they don’t want attention by performing parkour. Biggest problem would be traffic emission and noise but judging from the picture it is not towards the road so no worries about that.

  3. Well this is Finland, probability of anything happening is extremely low. I wouldn’t worry personally.

    Getting through even a window takes a bit effort and anyone seeing that would call cops immediately.

  4. I used to live in an apartment with one of those. Nothing got stolen ever and nobody tried to get in. The neighbour’s cat would come sometimes, it was nice.

    I will warn you that asshole teenagers and neighbours might throw cigarette butts during winter and you won’t notice because the snow keeps covering it, so in spring you might have a mess waiting for you to clean up

  5. Glass is lockable too no? So climber would have to break it too first to even get to the balcony.

    That is standard lock in a balcony hard to break and easier to smash the window in the door than break the lock.

    I am more worried about insulation of the frontdoor because the door where you walk into an apartmenbuilding is open a lot.

    Does the apartment have double front doors?

    I am a locksmith and a construction worker by profession so i know a bit on the subject.

  6. The installation of that shutter is manic. Why isn’t it attached to the door? I demand answers from this potential landlord.

  8. In Espoo? Twenty years ago, extremely safe.

    Now? Not safe at all. 

  9. I can’t seem to find a way to edit the post but: the photos are not of the apartment!! They are random photos from the internet to show what the type of door looks like

  10. I think if you must ask it might have been a better choose not to buy/rent a ground floor apartment. Price difference is unlikely to be significant – especially if you have concerns about safety.

    Having said that times of domestic burglary and carrying out TV sets is mostly reserved for movies.

    Professionals will get in either way thought, and they will likely target detached large and very expensive houses. – no offence meant to you by the way

  11. Those terrace window glass thingies are already impossible to open from the inside let alone outside. I wouldn’t worry about it.

  12. Killer squarrels, damn, watch out for them. Other than that, you’re safe in Finland.

  13. Espoo is most vicious area in Finland. Its like Detroit or Baltimore. You should avoid it. If you travel few km to Helsinki, you dont need even doors in there

  15. Completely safe, on ground level your parveke has an almost 0% chance of collapsing

  16. Oh I’m so jealous. In Sweden we get robbed whatever floor we live on. Or if we walk or run

  17. In general the further from metro or railroad the safer it is. 

  18. Pretty safe, realistically thinking nobody would ever try to climb and break in through parveke simply because it would gather too much attention and risk.

    Just don’t place expensive items there and you are good to go.

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