Hi Dean, hope all is well! I don't think it's all that bad here. Most employers offer private healthcare and even if you buy the insurance yourself its inexpen

Hi Dean, hope all is well! I don't think it's all that bad here. Most employers offer private healthcare and even if you buy the insurance yourself its inexpensive. I also disagree that difficult cases aren't dealt with properly on the public side, in my experience it's been the opposite: simple cases are ignored, but serious ones are taken care of properly. There's plenty of English language daycares and plenty of non IT jobs for non-Finnish speakers in both smaller companies and medium sized ones as well. IT consultancies are a different story. Winter is no worse than in mainland Europe or Britain and if you go a bit inland, you see a lot more snow. If you use a big bank like Nordea then you get great English service, at least in my experience, same goes for other services. I grew up in Finland and wanted desperately to get away when I finished high school, but having lived in the UK, Germany and Russia and spent some time in the US, my views have changed. An aside, if anyone reading this is interested in relocating here as a developer, we at Toughbyte can help. Here's a blog post we wrote on the topic: https://www.toughbyte.com/blog/relocating-to-finland-as-a-developer-22 https://www.toughbyte.com/blog/relocating-to-finland-as-a-de... Finally all our open positions in Helsinki can be found here: https://www.toughbyte.com/positions?location=Helsinki%2C+Finland https://www.toughbyte.com/positions?location=Helsinki%2C+Fin...