Oulu Finland Amazed me || This was my first time in Oulu Finland

[@Irevoltnow]

Been living in Oulu over 40 years. Never in my wildest dreams have I thought that someone would call it mini New York. Eat your heart out Helsinki! Just kiddin...

[@Kardinaalilintu]

That water area you were asking about is part of the area, where the Oulujoki (Oulu river) meets the sea. Oulu is the most northern of the old seaside cities in finland and it used to be one of the most importand tar (for sail ships) producers in europe. The little stairs are likely for maintanance use but people also go swimming from there sometimes (not recomended tho...).

[@Dewkeeper]

They're also good for just being able to get out of the water if something happens.

[@nurkkakala5665]

it's like a bay area ig

[@manuhonkanen2111]

For what kind of ships was the tar used for?

[@freezedeve3119]

@@manuhonkanen2111 all wooden ships and even for some building roofs

[@manuhonkanen2111]

@@freezedeve3119 yes

[@ivylasangrienta6093]

Don't stand on the bike path! You WILL get run over lol. And the water is the gulf of bothnia, not a lake.

[@sakariostermalm3769]

The Baltic Sea, 😂😂

[@GreenFiro82]

those road signs is amazing idea, because it doesn't matter how much of snow there is. The road signs still will be visible

[@bluebonbon22]

I love that you talk while walking around. I enjoy your channel, and watch each new one. Thank you for giving me an insight about Finland

[@Pyllymysli]

The place you were asking from "What is this, I'm sure this is water." That's correct. What you are pointing at there is the Baltic sea. Gulf of bothnia. Oulu is build right next to the sea and used to be a very busy tar city and harbor before forming to what it is now. It's a great summer city and my hometown. :)

[@jussimustonen6829]

I live near Oulu and it has been snowing here like 2-3 weeks in a row now. It is actually crazy because usually it varies between snowing or cold temperature. Edit: 2:30 That is the sea, not a lake.

[@peketee2278]

joki...

[@triksu]

@@garlicboy5692 You mean estuary as in jokisuisto?

[@herrakaarme]

@@garlicboy5692 While technically correct, usually the Baltic Sea isn't referred to as an ocean, even though as a sea it belongs to the Atlantic Ocean. It's cut off from the bulk of the ocean with the tiny Danish straits. This results in the special characteristics of the Baltic sea, such as the very low salt content in much of it.

[@jussimustonen6829]

Jokisuisto or Delta would be the actual name for this. The river ends at the water power plant.

[@bambae7669]

The small stairs are probably for maintenance/water rescue purpose. If you feel like trying it out on your next visit, there's a public beach in Oulu (near the city center) which has winter maintenance, meaning that you can go ice swimming at any given time! Be warned though, you can't access the locker rooms without an electronic key, which is kind of expensive because it's sold as a seasonal pass (30€/year)

[@davidkasquare]

Really nice to see you enjoying our country 🇫🇮 Never been to Oulu, so it’s really cool to have you show me, thanks 😂 The 2nd time you pronounced Oulu it was correct, you pronounce both O and U individually. The basic rule for Finnish: all characters are pronounced individually. Greetings from Helsinki! Oulu looks like an AWESOME city, gotta come visit 😊

[@davidkasquare]

@@BlackInIsrael nice, and I hope you enjoy!

[@hextatik_sound]

at ~2:20. that's sea. 6:05 that's theater. Opposite of it is library.

[@AndyGrouch]

Severe thunderstorm destroyed the roof of that hotel few summers ago. It was intense. Oulu is actually rather big city for Finland (4th biggest in the country). It has a very big IT sector with thousands of employees. It has over 200 000 people(I guess more than all of Lapland). The downtown area is small but it's spread out all over the place. University campus(on of the largest in Finland) is some 6-7kilometers from the downtown. Winter these Finnish cities are pretty dead, but if you visit summer it's full of people and activity like music festivals and such.

[@mite339]

the thunderstorm was in 2021 I think

[@KanaKukk0]

oulu is the fifth biggest city

[@KanaKukk0]

helsinki vantaa espoo and tampere are bigger than oulu

[@villevalste1888]

@@KanaKukk0 The first two count as one, though. So Oulu is #4.

[@KanaKukk0]

@@villevalste1888 no they dont

[@matknox5954]

No idea why this came up on my youtube reccomendations…but glad it did! Brought back great memeories. Met a Finnish girl in London in 1989 and that Christmas found myself on my first trip abroad on a plane to Oulu!!! One memory is that there was a very strong smell that came from a factory there. Great time! Lovely people!

[@Cane78]

The pulp mill is still there and it still smells sometimes. Although not nearly as bad as it did in the 80s when I was living my childhood across the bay.

[@margit6521]

2.49. It's not a lake it's delta area of river Oulu and the sea. And the stairs to the water were there to enter your boat.

[@GIOBOZZ]

Was bout to be the stairs to my casket 🙏

[@antti-pekkavaisanen3473]

@@GIOBOZZ I live in Oulu, and I believe the stairs are for you to get out of the water, if you happen to drop or jump there while drunk. Done that sometimes.

[@just42tube]

@@GIOBOZZ There is also lake Oulu, that is where the river Oulu comes or flows downstream from. Streams like rivers with ice cover are always tricky and dangerous. Best not to try your luck without being prepared for falling through and having spikes at hand to climb back on ice.

[@OnniFinn_GCIM]

Ooooo I live in Oulu!! :D and I am from there, I’m glad that people who come here actually enjoy it so much it makes me feel so happy. 🇫🇮❤ Also if you wanted to see some other nice places in Europe I think Andorra La Paz in Andorra is beautiful if you haven’t been there before.

[@TessNyman]

I live in Oulu but am planning to move to Tampere sometime in the future.

[@mikkoh85]

Well, it’s the sea, you know 😂 Welcome to Oulu and the second way you say it is 100% correct.

[@Aquelll]

We need to take you to a cruise ship when you visit southern Finland. 😅

[@ismoouu]

I hope you make a vlog of you visit Helsinki and Turku. Other interesting cities in Finland to visit: Porvoo, Rauma and as a bonus, Hanko.

[@Pixel9Play]

Oulu city center still has some places where they keep the old architecture. I like this city because it's big (land size), and it's really calm and peaceful even tho it's a big city. Only minus and it's a big one it's the wind, because Oulu is on next to the sea. Leaving on the weekend and have to drive all the way to Utsjoki wish me luck lol ps. your hotel is in Tori, so if you have ever heard the Torilla tavataan meme so that's THE tori 🤣

[@nurkkakala5665]

there used to be a bank where the McDonalds is now, that's why it looks fancy

[@jierdanfirkraag3381]

I can't get over the closed captions interpreting Sodankylä as "The Doncula." I think that's what I'll call it from now on, and perhaps start a petition for an official name change.

[@Shannis75]

"I don't mess with the water" :D I'm not laughing at you. It's just... You said it so seriously, and I just found it adorable, because there A LOT of water in Finland. A LOT.

[@GIOBOZZ]

Facts

[@herrakaarme]

If you really want to get those old European vibes, you need to take one of those big boats to Stockholm or Tallinn. They have city districts straight from the medieval times. Turku should have been like that in Finland, but it burned to the ground too many times, so it's just some scattered genuinely old buildings. While Helsinki is decently sized on the Nordic scale, it was only founded in 1550, so you won't find anything medieval there, although it has lots of a bit younger, beautiful buildings. Oulu is from 1605, so it's even younger, in fact barely older than New York City. Plus Oulu was a tiny place until fairly recently; at the end of the 19th century Oulu only had some 15,000 people, which automatically means most of the building are very new. Still, I recall you saying you want to travel all over Europe, so you'll get your dose of the old world eventually.

[@hulimutteri9509]

Welcome to Rauma , from 1442

[@Settiis]

Stockholm is amazing. Also St. Petersburg, but going there is probably not an option right now.

[@anni8456]

Helsinki was built in the 1800s so it’s really new as well. When it was founded, it was just a little village but it grew as it became the capital. Ä

[@herrakaarme]

@@anni8456 Yeah, I probably worded it too ambiguously. Helsinki was allowed to grow naturally, which means slowly, until it became the capital rather late, so the building pool didn't grow that fast either. I merely wanted to point out that since it was founded as a town so late, it's more or less impossible for it to have anything from the Middle Ages. If I recall correctly, there were some farms and fisherman huts there already before Helsinki was officially founded, but obviously such wooden structures wouldn't exist anymore. Rauma is a beautiful and interesting town, definitely worth visiting, but it's also a very small town. Porvoo is likewise an old, small town. The atmosphere is different compared to the bigger cities out there.

[@fj972]

next summer you gotta go to south of Finland to Turku, There you really get the finnish summer vibe, also there is the Turku archipelago which is something just amazing

[@mary-janereallynotsarah684]

It's not ooloo. U got it on the second try! Oh-loo. Except make the oo short. I went to art school near Oulu. I had to go there through Oulu. It seemed so small lol. Ur videos make it seem bigger. I guess I didn't explore. 😂 But it's really pretty up there.

[@Top_One]

Nice to see you visiting us south here :D

[@joonatan782]

1:50 tori poliisi is nearby. And i live in oulu and it is water. In summer there is boats etc

[@Tanya_Maria]

Those stairs go into the sea because in the summer time there are huge amounts of drunken people spending time on the "boardwalk" and sometimes someone falls into the water and the stairs are the only way to get out. I've lived in Oulu my whole life. Im so happy you made a video from here :)

[@helli-marianiiranen7633]

Happy to hear that you liked my home city! You're always welcome again :)

[@GIOBOZZ]

Thank you

[@promealiens9659]

2:37 That part of the water is called hartaanselka, until 2011 it was the sea, but it became an official river. I know based on my work trips in that area you can see how high the sea is at any given time unless there is more water flowing through the dam than usual. Not lake, but backwater and the backwater turns into the sea after about half a kilometer.

[@promealiens9659]

According to international definitions, that point is the sea, but the city of Oulu has had to fiddle with definitions in order to get the fishing rules to their liking.

[@goyatruecrime6028]

Oulu mainittu! 🙌🏼 I lived in Oulu for 10 years 🤗 It is beautiful during winter but little bit annoying because of _that_ freezing wind. 🥶🥶🥶

[@Robustacap]

Just a tip, when saying "oulu", really say the O, as now you kinda say ulu. Finnish doesn't have pronounciation helps as all of the letter are said as they are. A is always the same sound etc.. ALso no feminines or masculines in Finnish, which should make it easier. . Though I know it must be hard! Keep at it, even if the ppl you meet speak decent English, I still think it worth to study the basics of the language. Keep up keepin' up!' I'm almost jealous as Turku at the moment is icy, wet and dark hell... We did have couple of weeks of nice and snowy before but right now....

[@mary-janereallynotsarah684]

How are u walking around without a hat? Dude a lot of body heat leaves through the head. Cover that head! Or is it warm up there too? It's getting icy in the south because of plus degrees and rain.

[@jode928]

I live in oulu allways have and my dad lives in there in the sentre of oulu i go rhere sooooo many times and allways have i know oulu and the centre of oulu where you were sooo well and my dad has a restaurant there you should visit it around 6-8 a clock the name is old lemoon the food tastes amazing and rhe place is so calm and beautiful!👍🥰

[@just42tube]

I remember your comment of Finland not being an island. While technically correct, there are many practical reasons to think it largely as an island. There are so many lakes, rivers and islands on lakes and sea that you're often somewhat like on an island: close to water and separated by water. But mostly people think about this when they say island in this context: About 90 percent of Finland's and Sweden's exports and imports go by sea. This part of the world is separated from the rest of Europe by the Baltic sea, which connects but also separates us. Since flying has become so inexpensive, people don't always think about how much importance seaways still have in moving goods. And the amount of passenger traffic on ferries between Finland, Estonia, Sweden and Germany is also large. Oulu is also on the seashore, as many other major towns are.

[@kiisseli1337]

Thanks for showing me where I live. Should visit it one day.

[@Pentti_Hilkuri]

It's nice you're exploring Finland starting from the top. On your way down to the bottom you can see the Finnishness slowly dissolving. =)

[@Settiis]

What a poor take, Finland looks the same no matter where you are, the only difference is the southern cities are more developed.

[@johanneskoskela384]

@@Settiis Poor take for sure, but i think more developed is also poor take. Oulu is actually bigger city than Turku, by population and population density. The difference is that Oulu is spread on a massive are of suburbs, instead of building the city centre larger. But the overall development is definitely on same scale everywhere in Finland.

[@Settiis]

@@johanneskoskela384 Development is good across Finland infrastructure wise, but southern cities like Turku, Tampere or Helsinki and the smaller cities surrounding them are definitely more developed than northern cities and the difference will be even more drastic in the future due to domestic immigration. Young people want to move to the large cities which drives investments to those areas, so the growing demand is met, which in turn attracts even more people, and so forth.

[@Redfizh]

You say Oulu right. Google subtitles say "Hulu" and "Hullu", means insane. Did you find our irish there?

[@GIOBOZZ]

Nah didn’t Didn’t knew he was there

[@jslfcs6655]

Oirish in Finland could have shown you some interesting places in "Hulu". Maybe next time , eh?

[@SK-nw4ig]

Glad you liked Oulu. Looks like winter time really becomes Oulu. Would be cool if you could point out on a map where you are, when you are visiting different places in Finland. I feel it would help the foreigners at least, In Summer, definately visit Tampere, Turku (Turun linna), Helsinki (Suomenlinna) and Savonlinna! :) The way you talk made me think about maybe react to Ismo Leikola - the hardest word in english language ^^

[@gigazette]

You just walked past the best coffee/tea boutique of perhaps whole country, Kofeiinikomppania. You might want to visit it next time 😅

[@albin2232]

Very interesting, Bro. Looks like a great place 👍

[@GIOBOZZ]

It’s great.

[@LordJashin]

6:05 thats the city theatre, not a museum.

[@TynaDii]

And the building next to theatre is a public library (now closed because renovation).

[@andywessel]

Nice video. All though i live relative close (Oslo Norway), this reminds me of northern norway if there where any city’s of that size there. Same vibe and kinda the same architecture. It seems a bit dead though, but this was probably on a sunday? I think its awsome that when you first came to Europe, you whent to the «outpost», the rough though beautiful most northern part and less populated region of this continent. Thanks for the posts and i hope you are enjoying your voyage :-)👍 i have just past by Helsinki once, and never really been to finland. You are making me want to check it out .

[@just42tube]

If you visit Sodankylä or Oulu regions you'll notice the big difference in geography. These areas don't have mountains or fjords like Norway. The climate is also different. The mountain ranges of Finland, which did exist a long time ago, have all been eroded away and only some roots or them can be seen in the current fairly flat landscape. Flat compared to Norway that is.

[@andywessel]

@@just42tube 👍. The city/town style seems quite sommular to northern norwegian towns though.

[@qksf1645]

@@andywessel oulu is way bigger than cities like Tromsø and other northern norwegian towns

[@josephmizzi2702]

What's the best way to get to Oulu from Tallinn or Stockholm please?

[@obzu7583]

Yo GIO! Cool to see you enjoy living in Finland. Your pronounciation of Sodankylä is still a bit off😅. Idk if you are trying to pronounce it correctly but the way you said it in the video sounded like Sudonkjyla😂. Keep it up with the videos tho! I'm watching almost every single one of them.

[@RabbitShirak]

I lived in Oulu for 4 years. Now I miss it. The centre is suprisingly small.

[@m.s.8927]

I am visiting Lappland (and also northern norway) in march. can not wait for that to happen. Any recommendations from Kolari upwards?

[@johku7638]

Your second try at Oulu is pretty good pronounciaton! Glad you liked our little city:) The story about mcDonald's is that the company actually tried to buy that building, but they were refused. At least at some point it was the only location in the world McDonald's were renting instead of owning.

[@GIOBOZZ]

😯

[@TessNyman]

Now I want to go to McDonald's after reading your story. I have been there a few times though. It would feel different after having a story attached to the visit 😃

[@Robustacap]

You MUST go and see the lakes! and go in!! After Sauna!!! ..though in the summer, I'm not that mad. But many are..

[@m33000W]

You need to take a train to southern Finland. Lapland and north of Finland is very different to south. Stop in Tampere, Turku and Helsinki. All worth of poking around and having different vibes. Turku is its best in the summer. In the summer you should also head to mid east of Finland, like Kuopio or Savonlinna, since the lake district is beautiful.

[@Geopardd]

So cool you came to visit Oulu!! I hope Oulu was good to you❤️

[@Jantzku]

Almost every store has Nike shoes etc.. Not that many Nike stores in Finland.

[@deanstewart933]

Nice to see a video from Oulu! Unfortunately the video is so shaky it's hard to watch.

[@kristiinaparkkisenniemi8680]

Liked this! ❤️

[@sammelikorhonen6065]

That boat "thing" is a restaurant/bar Bootti (My friend owns it). It is mostly a summer place but it might be open at winter on some occasions. You should take a visit again next summer.

[@braindisorder5043]

jätkä flexaa sillä että kaverillas on baari😂

[@sdabuat6213]

Thats my hometown, im also originally from lapland near Sodankylä. Finland is a good place to live, good you liked Oulu.:)

[@GIOBOZZ]

That’s cool

[@nuudelipoika1220]

Its Little lake next to the theater😅.those stairs were for boats😅

[@sisutanska]

U should have a visit in Helsinki

[@retepclips]

paska paikka

[@timosivula]

I was in the Army in Hiukkavaara Oulu 1985.

[@separaattori957]

Greetings from Oulu! Hope you liked your visit

[@jonnas1815]

The building you thought to be a museum is the city library! :)

[@Muovinen]

Didn't you make any research before going to Oulu? Also, hearing an American compare Oulu to New York is HILARIOUS 😅

[@JPPVESA]

Isn't that "Ancient ass building" still an open bar/restaurant Petrellin saluuna...??

[@tuha3314]

Nice video! I'm going to Oulu too in like two days

[@SOF-120]

I’m official moving to Finland! Soon

[@katritaipale4368]

Are you coming Jyväskylä soon?

[@pekauppi]

Oulu - place of eternal northwind

[@just42tube]

How about visiting Utsjoki, the most northern municipality in Finland. Who knows, perhaps you find some New York there too🤔😂 (sorry, I have visited only airports and Manhattan very briefly between flights in New York City. My last visit to Oulu was a long time ago too)

[@vandalfinnicus1507]

Never been to Oulu. Looks a lot nicer, than Lahti, where I lived a long time. Not shitting on Lahti, it's the best in the south (besides capital).

[@Sumpula]

When visiting Oulu you have to eat at Kauppuri 5 at Kauppurienkatu 5. It's definitely one of top 3 burger places in Finland.

[@sashasnowy]

The second pronounciation of Oulu (at the very start). Was fluent

[@ahhkaraj]

I love Oulu

[@elinahamalainen5867]

You had a great camouflage with your surroundings at the first 1 min! 😉🤣

[@GIOBOZZ]

😂

[@ellajuntunen3131]

Hey You should come to Vaasa as well

[@meanwhile1234]

Oh Lue = Oulu :)

[@sumi4210]

Hi, do you work in Finland?

[@Mestar1508]

The melted part of the "lake" isn't just frozen yet

[@GIOBOZZ]

Yeah it was The part that was dark wasn’t frozen Also when you walk further up there was something like a water fall

[@nuudelipoika1220]

Omg i live in Oulu i want you like the place😊🎉

[@pekkakalevi2718]

I am Oulu citzen on many gebnerations..

[@krom447]

I was in Oulu in summer 1991 while my first visit in Finland just before USSR ended up.

[@LordJashin]

That mcdonalds used to be a bar long time ago.

[@mahdirezaei5708]

Check Peppers bar dude, it's awesome

[@timovehkaoja]

If you wanna catch up with another content creator from Oulu, drop me a message! 👍🏻

[@nuudelipoika1220]

Thank you❤ 12:44

[@mik4546]

U should visit espoo or helsinki theres even more people

[@just42tube]

Isn't less dense population the major benefit of Finland. So why bother visiting more populated areas, which have been spoiled.

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

@@just42tube Espoo and Helsinki are not spoiled. They are small towns If you compare them to many other cities in the world.

[@just42tube]

@@blackcoffeebeans6100 When I moved to Helsinki about 40 years ago, it was already spoiled compared to the more rural areas where I have lived. People are trashy creatures always.

[@just42tube]

@@blackcoffeebeans6100 If you're saying that the Helsinki Capital area isn't completely spoiled, I agree. But you can't walk in a forest and hope to see no signs of human activity or trash. If nothing else, there is likely to be some traffic notices from a distance. Very little, almost none, of the area is in untouched natural state. There has just been too long and big habitation in the area that some form of agriculture, industry or habitation has effected almost every place. Some effects can n be seen also almost everywhere else since no part of the country has been without any effects. But outside towns and cities there used to be much more places, where you could go and not immediately notice signs of humanity. I had the privilege in my childhood to live in places, where I could experience something like it in only a walking distance from my home. Moving to more city like places was a big disappointment which has stayed with me.

[@a-mellila1520]

My hometown.

[@josepha8415]

How do you operate day to day without understanding Finnish

[@just42tube]

I have got the impression that he does know some English..😉 It could explain how a person without knowing Finnish sign language, local Saame language or Finnish might survive. Ps. He seems to be worried about bears. Those don't really care what language you speak. They are very democratic in that way. They also don't care about humans. So there is no real chance that you could take a walk in some residential neighborhood and meet one. Even in places where they exist, you need to take some special effort to see them. Most wild animals prefer to keep some distance from humans, unless they are desperately sick or hungry.

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

Very easily, cuz everyone in Finland can speak english.

[@just42tube]

@@blackcoffeebeans6100 Most Finn's can be silent in several languages. The fact that we can doesn't force us to speak.🤔😉

[@apinakapinastorba]

I wish Oulu would embrace the sea more. I guess it’s the short season.

[@Snofey1]

I used to work in that McDonalds 💗

[@GIOBOZZ]

🤯

[@Ka1zzU_]

I was born in Oulu!

[@jianlee4482]

That's river :)

[@Zenkka]

Oulu = New York confirmed!!

[@TessNyman]

Let's meet up and I teach you how to pronounce it 😅😅😅 Which part of Oulu are you?

[@just42tube]

At the beginning of the video your second attempt of pronouncing Oulu sounded right. But then you somehow lost it. On purpose perhaps? It isn't Ulu, which unfortunately you seem to prefer to use. It is Ou-lu, two syllables. The first syllable Ou is pronounced the same as you would say in OMG.

[@zoolkhan]

the only annoying background noise is the elevator music that you really need not to put in there. sometimes ambient noise is much more desireable. i already know how elevators sound :)

[@iija5238]

Your pronounciation is only a little off, you keep dropping the 'O' and only saying 'ulu' haha :D. I tell my english speaking friends to say it like they are suprised ("Oh! Lu") but idk if it is any help lmao

[@petee090]

Its Oulu not ulu

[@munkkipossu]

go to utsojoki or kilpisjärvi

[@fishyboioksanen2282]

Ye its water

[@arikotiranta2689]

oulu.

[@cool_cat007smoove3]

You are so far up North