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> Hey, I live there! Emigrated from the good old US of A two years ago. Welcome to the club. I am another of the historically very few foreigners in Finland (i
by usr1106 3y ago
> Hey, I live there! Emigrated from the good old US of A two years ago.
Welcome to the club. I am another of the historically very few foreigners in Finland (it's going up a bit recently, but still low compared to many other countries.)
So please watch out for the changes announced by the new far-right government: You might be expelled if you happen to lose your job and do not find a new one within 3 months. And finding a new job without being fluent in Finnish can be tough (although slightly easier in the high-tech sector). If you want to pass the citizenship language test consider doing it in Swedish. Unless your mother tongue is Estonian the learning effort will only be a little fraction of that for Finnish. Of course knowing Swedish in daily life has only very limited benefit.
Well, nobody knows. Maybe the government has fallen on its racism scandals before they manage to get anything changed. But the signs are not positive.