It's been years (still connected with a few) but working for multiple Norden companies and living in Finland for a time. I found technical discussions and conn

It's been years (still connected with a few) but working for multiple Norden companies and living in Finland for a time. I found technical discussions and connections initiated there were generally quite genuine and consider a few Finns and Swedes friends and we take semiregularly. Born and raised in the Bay Area, for honest and useful tech discussions, especially early in career, maker spaces, super happy dev house, and some other events (I won't mention since I'm not sure they still go on) were better than YC meetups, etc. in terms of what you mention - honesty, etc.