It's been good so far but luckily my partner is Finnish so that helps quite a bit. I'm also taking classes and trying to use the language when I can. I've learn

It's been good so far but luckily my partner is Finnish so that helps quite a bit. I'm also taking classes and trying to use the language when I can. I've learned French and Dutch to conversational level in the past, but I've found Finnish to be much much harder. In terms of life, generally in Helsinki or maybe the other big cities you could get by just fine with english only. I know a few folks at work who've been here a long time and have survived ok! In terms of written information everything is in Finnish or Swedish but occasionally (and from what I gather, increasingly) in English. I've found pretty much everyone in a customer/client facing position speaks very good English too. The one situation that comes to mind where it's genuinely quite difficult is grocery shopping and following cooking instructions. Since I like to cook I enjoy trying new things but Google translate is totally hopeless. Thankfully I've found translating the Swedish to English seems to work OK.