The Nordic countries have a rather mild climate despite being so far north. To have a comparable temperature in the Americas, you'd usually need to be a couple

The Nordic countries have a rather mild climate despite being so far north. To have a comparable temperature in the Americas, you'd usually need to be a couple of thousand kilometers further south. (E.g. I guess the climates of Boston and Stockholm might be roughly comparable, but Boston is actually on the same latitude as Rome). So if you tell an American that something is almost at the Arctic circle, their intuition will tell them it's a very rough and almost uninhabited place. You tell it to a Finn, and they'll think that it's where the fourth largest metropolitan area of the country is, or where you go for a comfortable ski holiday.