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**Reddit**

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5 comments

  1. **Lapland: Short stay around Rovaniemi**
    Hi!

    I know it’s pretty late already to make plans for this, but I got 2 friends coming over for NYE.

    We were planning to move from Helsinki to Rovaniemi for few days in the first week of January.

    Do you have any tips? Some affordable places to stay (even outside the city)?

    I’ve already been in Lapland but more around Saariselka and never stayed in Rovaniemi area, but I believe it’s few days and some tourism stuff.

    Thanks everyone! 🙂

  2. Does anyone know how best to book a prenatal check up under the public system vs the private system? Is it all done through public here ?

  3. Is there anything to consider when applying for jobs in Finland? I want to apply as a tour guide from next spring as I speak multiple languages fluently + basic-to-intermediate Finnish and have done small gigs as a tour guide outside of Finland before. I can stay for the spring and then for the summer season (in case the residence permit needs to be respected, I can leave Finland in between for a few days, no problem). The big picture plan is to get my “foot in the door” on the Finnish job market and eventually move there permanently.

    I just worry that my spoken Finnish is too basic (ironically, I want to move to Finland to improve the language in the first place). I have heard that they don’t look very favourably at foreigners who apply for jobs who don’t speak and understand fluent Finnish yet. I fear that the job interview is gonna catch me off-guard and give me more than my still kinda wobbly Finnish skills can handle.

    (I learn every day but I have long reached a level when apps don’t cut it anymore, so I struggle to find proper materials. Therefore most of my learning routine nowadays consists of immersion / exposure to media + actively looking up and writing down everything that catches my attention that I don’t know yet.)

    Any ways I can boost my resume / things I should consider when applying?

    I’m a EU citizen, if that’s relevant.

  4. What are some nice or cute places to take my(25m) Finnish gf(22) while in Helsinki? We’ve been together online for bout 6 months now and we’re finally organizing a trip for me to come see her.

    We’re staying in Helsinki for the first few days in the beginning of January. Now I understand it’s her home country and she’ll be taking me places but I’d like to take her somewhere, I want to plan something for special her there and her home town but I don’t know much about Helsinki. So instead of googling this and finding articles and ads I’d come hear it for myself.

  5. This is just an excuse to gush. This will be my first time traveling outside of North America to see my fiancée. This will also be the first time I’ve seen snow since I was in single digits! I’m so beyond jazzed to being do this, and having joined this sub prior has really helped me. Thank you all so much 🙂 Let’s see how much touristy stuff I can fit in a month!

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