Re comparison between Helsinki and other nordic cities, I was curious and looked up some numbers: For Helsinki I think the closest peer is Stockholm. Here are

Re comparison between Helsinki and other nordic cities, I was curious and looked up some numbers: For Helsinki I think the closest peer is Stockholm. Here are comparisons of CoL and PPP GDP between Helsinki/stockholm and finland/sweden (spoiler: helsinki wins on CoL, sweden as a whole has higher average ppp gdp, probably accounted by higher urbanization on the country level). Both differences are small. https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Sweden&city1=Stockholm&country2=Finland&city2=Helsinki https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou... https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locations=FI-SE https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locat...