5 Reasons why Helsinki is amazing

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[@ReijoMustikka]

I'm so glad that you have found this country your home. We need positive people like you.

[@actuallyfinland]

and like me 🎉

[@jackquinnes]

What a good vibes video - and person! Amazing! Calming. Relaxing. Exhilarating! You have the charisma, charm and shine on you! Helsinki must be that much richer having you among its dwellers.

[@AmazingDudeBody]

Such a beautiful video! Thanks for reminding me of how good we have it here. I get the same feeling whenever I return from abroad. It's like 'everything' works here. Granted, the cost of living in Helsinki can be quite high, but you get a lot for that price. Also, the cinematography in this video was really good! The soundtrack was pleasant as well, very good balance.

[@omiq7761]

Good points well articulated, visually nice editing and soundwise music is on point. Hope you get plenty of views for this!

[@kv6uf]

So true, whatever you focus on will grow, no point in complaining. Although there are bad things in the world, don't make it your business, give energy and power to good things instead. There is so much to be grateful for and so many reasons to feel good. Thank you for such a beautiful video of our capital city.

[@jrunt7436]

Great video and awesome attitude! We're blessed to have citizens like yourself here!

[@Aenea-de9vy]

Good points! The public transportation is so good, that I loose my nerve if the bus or train is even five minutes late. Which is nothing, but just shows how used I am to the fact that they’re almost always on time, and they’re running so frequently.

[@LauraCharles1985]

The value of safety and security and having eyes in the back of one’s head is relatable. Thanks for sharing! 😊🇫🇮

[@lordoverflow]

Great video again! Hyvää kesää!

[@kimmikke_]

Beautifully narrated, especially the last thoughts/words of the approach to Life, simply Beautiful!

[@khizzkazul7450]

Great video! I'm happy that you have found your home here. 😊

[@spiritofviolence]

Man, you're giving off such a warm vibe. Thank you for your beautifully put perspective on this city that's lately become my home as well.

[@Leijona15]

This almost made me cry. Such a beautiful video of my home town! I hope you enjoy your life here :)

[@Fortuna88828]

Thanks for the uplifting, happy vibes, Chico Muya! ❤

[@DNA350ppm]

From me, too!

[@ahtosooaru8041]

Awesome insights and great video! Thank You! I can say that I agree with all of the points brought out. I lived in Helsinki for couple of years on and off before finally moving back to Estonia. One of the things I miss the most from that time is the "Helsinki Football" Facebook group of random people coming together every Sunday morning for 2hrs to play. It was a great amount of random people (men and sometimes women) from all over the world coming together to share the love to the sport and mutual respect. Sometimes there was ambulance involved :D (for sport injuries), but it was awesome to play sports, talk and share the expat experience with somebody else also. These mornings brought me many positive moments and belief in human society as general, as have brought your videos that I have watched so far. Following You now!

[@JUMALATION1]

I feel very spoiled now, growing up in Helsinki (now living in Vantaa) with all of these perks and not even actively questioning the fact that other places can be worse off when it comes to infrastructure. Great video, highlighting things that might not be obvious for us but that someone with a broader perspective reacts to!

[@SamiPaju]

It’s so easy to start to take these things for granted. One needs to be reminded every now and then that having clean drinking water, or being able to walk outside and feeling safe no matter where and what time of the day it is, or having access to nature, are something to be grateful for and not something that is self-evident. Thanks for making the video :)

[@userchooser]

As a Black American, I appreciate your perspective on Finland. It's been on my radar ever since it came up on my mom's DNA test as part of her geographical origins (just a small percentage). You remind me of my friend David, who is an avid traveller; it's your laid back vibe and optimism that I'm sure would help you survive anywhere in the world. So nice to see you thriving in Finland!

[@Pappa_66]

❤🎉😊Just great, thank you! Exactly what we need to hear more often. You are so right about the attitude and positive thinking. Usually people do not realize how good things are if you do not have any experience of living somewhere else or travelling on your own and dealing with different issues. Glad to have you❤😊. Have a nice midsommer fest😅

[@dmgreduction]

Good video! Happy, you're enjoying living here in Helsinki. Glad to have you here.

[@WealthyExpat]

Awesome video

[@LEIFanevret]

Good honest man! Much appreciated! 🙋🙋🤗🇫🇮💖

[@jaymalamute5730]

I'm nearly 40 years old myself. Never driven a car in my life as I haven't needed one, thanks to the public transport of my home city!

[@charlieliverbk]

I loved Helsinki so much last year, I decided to spend Summer 2024 here too! 😅 I agree with everything you've listed (especially security). This is what good quality of life looks like.

[@FilipWinter]

Thank you for reminding us all of how great Helsinki is ❤

[@tiima_1111]

And Finland❤

[@ilari90]

There is a bottle recycling machine in every shop which sells bottled beverages, it's mandatory for shops to accept them (not kiosks though)

[@29markeys]

Went to Helsinki last May and absolutely loved it. I knew I would though, I was obsessed with it for so long before visiting. I’d definitely live there too!

[@jedimaxwell14]

Awesome video man. Well done

[@Eerriizzoonn]

You're awesome and your videos are awesome! Keep it up!

[@mmustikkam]

The public libraries! ☺️

[@MoreLaterDude]

Agree with everything you said! Finland is a gift in so many ways.

[@nipaimmonen1244]

Good final words! attitude matters!

[@caprifolia1]

Thank you for your inspiring words. It is true, we do have so much to be grateful for.

[@luapnomis21]

Helsinki Happiness comes from within

[@harrikuusjarvi3795]

Bottle water has 100-1000 times more microbics than tabwater in Finland. Thats pretty good.

[@henriikkak2091]

Part of the cleaning up after a house party or a gathering at the summer cabin is collecting the bottles and cans and giving them to the student of the group to cash. Or anyone feeling the pinch financially. It's not the finest party favor but it is practical 😅

[@Sipu79]

I liked the mood you were able to build in this video, as a finnish person. I grew up in a smaller place 45 minute drive from helsinki and i've been living in this city now for 20+ years. I enjoy living in Helsinki more than pretty much anywhere else. You get the best of both worlds, culture, good food and things to do while enjoying the anonymity of a city denizen and having a safe environment. Having spent time in many large cities in asia and america, the tap water is the first thing you notice going abroad for sure. Going on adventures abroad is fun, but it always feels great to come home to a fresh glass of clean water :)

[@Iksu_kalastaa]

You should make a trips outside of Helsinki 🙏 Glad you like it here. Me, i could never live in Helsinki 😂

[@jonikallio6581]

Everytime i Come back To Finland from travels i respect how clean this place is. Other countrys there is shit everywhere...

[@Thirdcrystal]

"..Making the city feel natural and organic, as though the buildings themselves grew out of the ground.." It's no wonder why J. R. R. Tolkien himself was impressed by their culture and way of living, so much so that he pictured Finnish people as forest living elves, and invented Elvish language which was influenced by the phonology and structure of Finnish.

[@carl-johanfougstedt199]

Beautiful video!

[@randomnumbers84269]

There are thousands of lakes and unending sea of forests. . To me that sounded poetic.

[@alhajibanda5210]

That is amazing bruh .....thanks for de effort

[@Kuuj12]

Our lovely finland

[@terveysjakuntoilu2465]

Helsinki

[@The_Real_Money]

Sometimes the weather and taxes make me question living here. Then i just start thinking about these basic things for me in bali or thailand for example. We finns are so spoiled 😂 Epic video btw

[@DNA350ppm]

If not spoiled, but not aware of many diffrences for the worse in other countries. Finland is just so normal to Finns - and that's as it should be of course. Greetings from southern Sweden - watching this with nostalgia (koti-ikävää) as a native Finn.

[@juholaitakari1305]

Great video. The visual side of it is very good! I was thinking maybe you could make a video that is less generic? You talk about going to clubs and stuff. Maybe touch on the other side of Helsinki a little bit?

[@ChicoMuya]

Thanks for the reply! Yeah, this is very much a bread and butter video. Its purpose is for people to come back to it or learn something about the city 😊 Thanks for the suggestion! I do have a couple ideas I’m working on that are little more out there. We’ll see how they do!

[@colrathfuriae]

Dude, this could actually be an AD for Finland! LOL Thank you for reviewing Finland so honestly. And to be honest, for a village dude like myself, you are teaching Finland to a Finnish person also. 🤣I hope that the immigrants also see this!

[@mennawaris144]

So lovely video again, thanks Chico! I might know where you live, based on the views you show us, and since you like parks have you ever been to Alppuisto? It's next to Linnanmäki, a beautiful place. Also I have not seen footage from Linnunlaulu which is very close to the place you usually seem to hang out. Please go and check them out, I'm sure you would like them.

[@petrirantanen8132]

Nice video, thanks man! But most of those points apply to all of Finland, not just Helsinki. I live in the countryside near Helsinki but if I had to choose a city to live in it would probably be Tampere.

[@Kerppu68]

The people make the safety

[@jattikuukunen]

And the safety makes the people

[@uniqueflowsnake]

Bro, don't you worry. If we ever meet on the streets of Helsinki. I'll be friendly. No need for more eyes. lol.

[@terolah]

May I just comment that almost all of your points are applicable to ANY Finnish city. Helsinki has propably the best public transport system of them all, but it doesn’t mean it’s bad in other cities either. Otherwise, you could have described just about any other city in Finland. 😊

[@sharktoothy]

These types of videos and experiences are important since many Finnish people tend to complain because of too many first world problems without realizing how good they have it. Grass is greener on the other side 😛 Of course there's always problems to fix no matter what but sometimes a reality check is nice so you stop wasting energy on things that don't really matter

[@Sephiroth391]

I'm glad you are enjoying in here, Helsinki is tad too large for my liking, but I will stand by Turku. Finland is a good country

[@infernalstormrider]

I totally agree . Born and lived in Helsinki 53 years it's good place to live😅

[@seppoanterostenroos794]

Damn you, how can you always have such a positive attitude? Otherwise; when are you going to learn Finnish?

[@MissHmusicK]

Finnish tapwater is cleanest In the world.

[@tiima_1111]

The best.

[@pyroslavia9499]

helsinki is nice to visit once in 5 years or so. too much people and traffic is horror to someone who is from small town where bad traffic jam is when waiting 2min in traffic lights :D

[@Gibbetoo]

what traffic lights? :D in ABC car wash?

[@DanielosVK]

Helsinki is incredibly smooth when it comes to traffic compared with any other European capital

[@eikkajormanainen5355]

chico the sage, boi is all grown up.

[@johannesniskanen7370]

Once you drink from your own groundwater well, youll never want to drink tap water again, i bring my own drinking water when i visit helsinki, i dont mean to be dick but its that much better, i use glass bottles to keep the good taste.

[@tiima_1111]

?

[@jattikuukunen]

The taste of tap water varies quite a bit depending on where you are in Finland. Some municipalities run real or faux groundwater in the taps. Whenever I'm at those places for a while and come back to the bigger city I live in, it takes some time to get used to the taste of water. Storing the water in a can in fridge helps a great deal as well.

[@mike.ying.personal]

same benefits in Tallinn

[@terveysjakuntoilu2465]

No. Helsinki many times better.

[@riku3716]

Sorawling metropolices are easy to make public transit for. Sprawling car dependent suburbs with only low density single family houses like in usa are problem for public transit.

[@prafulstha2471]

Great video man, I live in Vaasa and thinking of moving to Helsinki 🤔

[@ChicoMuya]

Thank you!! Yes, Helsinki is awesome!!

[@Kookosbanaani94]

Wait, Stockholm? I'd imagine public transportation there is just as efficient as in Helsinki, both being Nordic countries after all. But I haven't been there since I was a preschooler.

[@MaximSupernov]

I'm glad that no Islamists would choose to move to a cold country like Finland, as it makes the country safer and cleaner.

[@______charlz]

@chico, my brother. Im honestly trying to relocate to helsinki. Could you help a brother out?

[@agul6287]

thanks for background music

[@mattilindstrom]

One would have to be either in desperate need for immediate car transport for e.g. a designer piece of furniture in a downtown shop, just barking mad, or so filthy rich to afford the parking fees in the center of Helsinki to even approach the area with a car. The public transport rocks, and home delivery is a good choice. And the drinkinkig water, I can attest to its clean and refreshing qualities. The main contributor is the Päijänne tunnel , a 120 km underground water tunnel from the bottom of lake Päijänne, originating in Asikkala. In Espoo (just west of Helsinki) we have much of the same goodness, but in the summer time some local surface waters (filtered through kilometers long gravel beds) are are added, and that portion is not as good, but good nevertheless.

[@jattikuukunen]

The water in Helsinki tastes horrible to me whenever I'm away for a while, but it doesn't take too long until I get used to it. Storing it in a can helps quite a bit.

[@kayblue8975]

Do you speak Finnish? Or do the Finns all speak English? Is it easy to make friends with Finns?

[@jattikuukunen]

Most of us Finns speak good English except for the older population. I wouldn't say making friends is easy but it depends on who you are and what activities you take part in.

[@moonliteX]

Might be a surprise but we finns value exactly the same things than you :)

[@Noksus]

I hope the current government's changes aren't going to increase crime because they are drastically worsening the social security people can expect here while at the same time making alcohol and gambling more accessible...

[@KimmoJaskari]

This is true of all of Finland, really; well, public transit can be a bit shakier out in the boonies, it does exist but since the need is lesser, the service is also. Helsinki is great and all but honestly I think things just get better as you move to smaller cities in many ways.

[@terveysjakuntoilu2465]

No, Helsinki is the best.

[@seppoanterostenroos794]

Oletko koskaan juonut norjalaista olutta?... Silkkaa hartsia....

[@RioRav]

Well don't worry, crime is gonna be up in Finland because the government are making cuts to the social security that is the sole reason why it's so low in the first place. Water is cheap and fresh which is great but we do have hunger with the lines to food aid getting longer by the day and the price of rent and food being higher which is why there are more and more ppl collecting bottles to try and survive. People who need aid are largely elderly, students, families and disabled, many of which can't access the medical system anymore due to cuts and running down of the public system after investments in hospital buildings but not the staff. We have the highest amounts of drug deaths of youth in the EU, also one of the highest in violence towards women (though its often done between four walls so you cant see it) and the longer you live here you will learn about systemic racism in job seeking, apartment seeking and in medical settings that makes life very hard and isolates expats which is why most who have a choice choose to leave. The government has put profits over people here too, it's inescapable for things to go through the enshittening process under the capitalist system that squeezes people for its juice.

[@digitalspecter]

They use only salt because they want to taste the natural flavor of the food? Umm, most of the spices are just plants.. I'd say salt is one of the most "unnatural" flavors.

[@seppoanterostenroos794]

Kuten sanottu: Lasihan on melkein täynnä!

[@qipu5440]

This is a good video but, the video could have been titlet "5 reasons why Finland is amazing” because these things happen in any other city

[@JuliusDaily]

1. is kinda funny to me being from the lake country. Whenever im pissing off the dock into Päijänne, im sending my warmest regards to the Helsinkians. Koff is made from the same water too.

[@mega_jonne1546]

my actual brother is scared of tap water here in finland so he puts it through a filter....

[@ihmesekoilua]

ironically, originally being from the Finnish countryside, Helsinki feels hustling and bustling :P you'll find people in the countryside who are worried about going to the "big city" since there are so many reports of crime and drugs and shit. There isn't, not by any standard, but since the average finnish village has... no... crime...

[@terveysjakuntoilu2465]

Not true. Lots of crimes in those weird villages.

[@actuallyfinland]

Good video, but Helsinki is never the best city of the World 😅

[@thefourthone]

CITY BOYYYYYYYYYYYY!!! (insult, derogative)

[@mikkohapponen5728]

Helsingin vesi maistuu paskalle ku itäsuomessa asunu. Pohjosessa parasta

[@OjStudios]

On kyllä totta että eri alueilla Suomessa vesi maistuu erilaiselta. Hämeenlinnan kovan veden jälkeen Helsingin pehmeempi vesi maistu aika erikoiselta.

[@eikkajormanainen5355]

Joo parempi ettet hirveesti matkustele, jos helsingin vesi tuottaa maajussille ongelmia.

[@jattikuukunen]

Aika nopeasti siihen tottuu niin että maistuu ihan vedeltä. Jossain Tampereella on enemmänkin kloori haissut.

[@backtoback3697]

Tampere > Helsinki. Ask any Finn.

[@suomenpresidentti]

Worst city in Finland. Greetings From a 53 year old Pori native.

[@emilretee6932]

Juntti

[@eikkajormanainen5355]

nice bait old fart, move to real city and pay your taxes.

[@Tiax776]

It's not. It's way too cold.

[@peketee2278]

in Finland people live in heated houses...

[@Tiax776]

@@peketee2278 And you freeze when you go outside.

[@peketee2278]

@@Tiax776 I'm 59 years old, and I'm not frozen yet, but in winter I wear clothes, and not just a fig leaf... there's no bad weather, just bad clothing.

[@markopalosuo4293]

I rather take that ,than crazy heatwaves many countries are facing.

[@peketee2278]

@@markopalosuo4293 so do I... You can always add more clothes, but when you're naked and sweating like a horse, there aren't many options...

[@jiikor]

In my humble opinion Finland is at its best outside of Helsinki

[@MrBanaanipommi]

i rather stay away from helsinki at any cost. regards central finnish guy who drives 70's soviet car daily already for almost 10 years straight.

[@cinderellaandstepsisters]

Finland was never a part of the Soviet Union. Never under communism and never an eastern bloc country.

[@Kivikesku]

@@cinderellaandstepsisters Yes, but some people have an attraction to crappy things. This being said, in my opinion, Helsinki area is large enough to have many negative sides of a big city, but too small to have certain positive sides of an actual world class city. Depending on your tastes, other parts of Finland can be significantly better.

[@eikkajormanainen5355]

You can visit even with your soviet car, everybody is too busy with their instagram reels to notice you.

[@MrBanaanipommi]

@@eikkajormanainen5355 lol, still no need to go there

[@Matias-dr3ys]

Kouvola better