Why We Moved to Finland | Q&A - Life, Making Money, Kids?

[@lifebyolia]

Timestamps are in the description so you can skip to the question you're most interested in! This video wouldn't have been possible without you, and I truly enjoyed creating it. Thank you all for your amazing questions! I hope you can enjoy this chat - maybe also with a nice cup of tea. Sending you warm wishes! ☕❤

[@cristiangirbea]

Uuh, what an afternoon treat. Just got home from work. Making myself a tea and settling down to watch this one

[@lifebyolia]

Yaay 🙌 Hope my endless talking in this q&a keeps you interested, or at least makes some good background noise 😁 Thank you so much for watching, and enjoy your tea!

[@thomasprince4992]

you will make great parents

[@Kennyarrow]

We watched the whole episode, loved it ❤

[@lifebyolia]

@@thomasprince4992 thank you 🤗❤

[@experimentally6348]

You have a rare ability to speak a foreign language so clearly and logically without pauses

[@lifebyolia]

I try my best, thank you so much 😊

[@rainymanish]

Tack!

[@lifebyolia]

Oh wow, this is so unexpected. Thank you so much! I really appreciate it. Tack! 💛😊

[@puhistagram]

I liked your cultural takes so much, comparisons were spot on and very clarifying to hear. You are so Ukrainian Ambassador of Finland. Thank you for your excellent work Olia, дякую 🇫🇮🙏🏻🇺🇦

[@lifebyolia]

Thank you so much! So happy to hear that you think my cultural takes were accurate. Kiitos paljon! 😊🙏🏻

[@lynxtavastiae3425]

Thoughtful and sincere comments. This always strikes me in your videos. Hyvää syksyä.

[@lifebyolia]

Thank you so much for your kind words - they mean a lot to me ❤️ Ihanaa loppusyksyä sinullekin!

[@Outdoorliving2957]

Thank you so much for answering the questions about photography, stock photography and equipment and all the links. Really interesting and useful for an amateur photographer like myself. 😀. I admire your knowledge and your photography. I also really enjoy your channel. Thanks!

[@lifebyolia]

So happy it was helpful. Wishing you lots of inspiration and success on your journey as a photographer 😊📸 Thank you so much for this message and for your kind words 🤗

[@mikkomalinen2641]

Interesting video! Wish all the best for you and your husband!

[@lifebyolia]

Thank you so much! Wishing you and yours all the best as well!

[@cristiangirbea]

Amazing storytelling skills, not sure if you had a script or you improvised on the "Why Finland" part, but it did feel like a good story. You never gave away the answer until probably half way, after I was already hooked. Love to see this! You are also brave, yes! This 40 minutes duration is not really algorithm friendly :))

[@parsifal102]

Great and honest video as usual, Olia, with perfect picture quality (e.g. the tea-mint section) accompanying your message. You are soo good at what you do (YT-video, cooking food, creating shelves) it is truly astounding. Keep them coming! 😅

[@lifebyolia]

Thank you so much 😊 I really appreciate your kind words about my videos - it means a lot to me. Thank you for following along and for being so supportive 🤗

[@bertillassenius8604]

Many thanks for a very interesting video🌹👍🏽

[@lifebyolia]

Thank you ❤

[@tobiassandqvist6970]

Thank you so much for answering our questions with such honesty. Very interesting topics, winter greetings from Sweden to you and your husband. 🤩

[@lifebyolia]

Thank you so much for your kind words and for your questions too! It was a pleasure to answer them and share a bit more. Sending cozy winter greetings to Sweden from both of us! 😊❄️

[@kimpekkanen3099]

You made a beautiful video.Don't even think about the limits, hope your family can visit soon

[@lifebyolia]

Thank you so much for watching and for your kind words of support ❤

[@TheGuilty11]

What a wonderful video. I'm so glad that our country has been nice to you and you enjoy your life in here. And i hope that your family is safe in Ukraine and i really hope that in one day you can go back there and visit them in safe and secure home country :) I know you will...world will help on that.

[@lifebyolia]

Thank you so much for your beautiful message. I feel so welcomed here thanks to people like you, and I’m truly grateful for that. Your kind wishes mean so much to me, that’s what we’re all hoping for 🙏 Thank you so much for your kindness and support - it really touches my heart ❤

[@Kennyarrow]

Hello beautiful Olia ❤🤗 we are busy watching your video, very impressive as always, you are such a sincere sweatheart 🌸, may you and your husband only have happiness and everything good for the future. Love and well wishes, Kenny and Michelle, South Africa 🌸🌸🌸🤗🤗🤗❤❤❤

[@Luontohaahuilija]

You Olia truly are such a beautiful soul, that I don't wonder, that you have friends all over the world! ❤🌿❤️🤗 I wish you and your husband, as well as for both of your families and friends back in Ukraine many peaceful moments with happiness and love! 😘🇺🇦❤🇫🇮 We Finnish people, who have family or e.g. work related connection to all that, what war causes to families, communities, to peoples mental and physical health, understand totally your nations need for a stable and peaceful enviroment, where the serene moments with your loved ones and peaceful moments in nature are worth so much more than anything else! 🌿🐦🦢🐿🍁🫶 Nature with its' small wonders is such a treasure for me, too! Now, eventhough it is the dullest time of the year, I get happy about just watching a beautiful trunk of a tree or a rare ray of sunlight visiting the skies. Lets hope soon (again) for freezing temperatures and snow! ❤❄️🫶

[@monikah4964]

Thank you for answering my question ❤. Best wishes!

[@mr.silver7651]

Hi Olia😊😊😊😊 again ....a really nice Video and you are complete right about the foto/picture stuff 🫶🫶🫶The most of the time ....less is more🫶🫶🫶all the best 4 you and your husband 💪💪💪🫶🫶🫶🫶greets, tom😊😊

[@lifebyolia]

Hi Tom 😊😊 Thank you so much! Hope you and your family have a wonderful December. Today (December 6) it’s Finland's Independence Day - a very special day here. It also snowed yesterday evening and night. So it finally feels like a true winter here 😀❄️ Thank you for your comment! Wishing you and your family all the best 😊😊

[@mr.silver7651]

@@lifebyolia yyyyyeah you celebrate the split from russia, the Company where i work for is closed today 🥳 because we celebrate it too 😊😊😊😊

[@lifebyolia]

@@mr.silver7651 That's so great that you celebrate it too 😊🥳 and a day off is always a nice bonus 😊

[@mr.silver7651]

@lifebyolia oh yeah🥳🥳today we got a little Party at the Company for all that had the 25th anniversary with a speech ,food and ....i hope with a dance 😁,my wife is invited ,too.....maybe 50/60 people....🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@MohammadHadiJafari]

I really love your videos and it makes me more in love with Finland. However, I still can't decide to live there or not, mainly because of the language and the weather. I wish to see more videos about these problems. Thank you!

[@lifebyolia]

Thank you so much for your kind words about my videos! I totally understand your hesitation about the language and weather - these are common concerns for many foreigners thinking about moving to Finland. I’ll be sure to share more of my experience and thoughts on these topics in my future videos. Thank you for your message!

[@paarvaticaelus647]

I love long videos! Thank u ❤

[@lifebyolia]

I’m so glad to hear that! Thank you ❤

[@krishna_pandey24]

Happy Diwali Olia🙏❣️🤗what a auspicious day

[@mattikeskinen4663]

❤❤❤

[@T.K.P.]

I like uncutted video better, so thank you for that :)

[@lifebyolia]

Happy to hear that! Thank you too :)

[@krishna_pandey24]

Today is the most auspicious day in hinduism diwali(festival of light) i hope it drives away all the darkness from ur life and bring peace,prosperity and freedom to your nation🙏❣️🤗

[@Luontohaahuilija]

❤🙏😘🫶

[@menkaur]

Привіт привіт. Ми з тих ж причин переїхали в Чілі (за виклбченням пошуку роботи)

[@lifebyolia]

Привіт 🤗 Ох, дуже розумію. Всього найкращого вам на новому місці в Чилі ❤️

[@Suominoinen]

hello :)))) amazing video

[@lifebyolia]

Thank you!! ☺️🙌

[@RuebenNomura]

Morning from Hawaii that was a good question and answer on this video and have a safe Halloween too

[@Luontohaahuilija]

🧡🤗 In Finland especially families with children as well as kindergartens and schools have started to celebrate also Halloween, but actually straight after that on last Saturday we spent a more traditional Pyhäinpäivä, Day of the Holy, when we in Finland visit graves of our loved ones and remember them by lighting a candle. 🕯❤ Eventhough Finnish people are not nowadays very religious, we keep up this tradition of remembering all those, who have been here dear to us and now passed away. ❤

[@travling_IN_MOROCCO2640]

Nice video 👍

[@lifebyolia]

Thank you :)

[@husslingbeauty]

I got rejected yesterday after applying to a vocational school in Finland I felt it to my bone marrow But not giving up

[@Luontohaahuilija]

Sorry for that.😑 But, NEVER give up! 💪 Keep up the sparkle and spirit! 🎉 That is what the people in Ukraine and Finland are truly made of, we push through a rock, if needed! We never surrender and give up to hardship. It will bring you also success, you find a different route, if that first one does not work.. That is SISU! ❤🇫🇮🥰

[@thomasprince4992]

Finland is luck to have you both

[@kumarkranthi762]

Civil engineering job opportunities in Finland

[@jsigur157]

You come from Europe which means you are used to cold weather. Then you moved to Finland which is probably 5 degrees colder than Ukraine. The States has half it's territory or quite a lot of territory further south. I live in Ga in the South East. We grew up with it rarely having any kind of accumulation of snow that lasted more than a couple of days and some years not even that. 3 or 4 degrees below zero is normally registered a couple times a year . I did live in Toronto for fives years, Canada. I was looking at Helsinki and I believe I determined it was 1000 miles north of Toronto which is about 1000 miles north of Atlanta Ga. All that to say that it's my opinion that criminals don't think of going to Finland to live so much and this helps for the functionality and safe feel that I have heard exists in Finland. Though I see lots of video channels with 3rd worlders talking about how great Finland is, I suspect that the refugee crisis did not hit Finland like much of Europe and the US. I think it does help when almost all within a culture have similar ways of living which causes less conflict You mentioned WWIII. What I am fairly certain of is that the international Deep State has had plans to weaken Nationalism and strengthen internationalism. I personally don't like people that represent me not considering my and US people's needs ahead of some international project the rich guys want to push. As far as I can tell Finland politicians are onboard with much of the Deep State agenda but does seem to be governing the home folks efficiently. Again I think the Northern Climate probably helps to keep things simple and therefore easier to please both constituents, national and international. One bad thing about progress as conceived by the leaders, they always have to promote expansion for expansion's sake. I moved out of the city to get away from that as well as lower my cost of living. As far as the kid stuff goes. I stumbled into raising a kid as a single parent and because my childhood wasn't that great, I looked forward to having the family thru raising her that I had always wanted myself. Obviously it's a long time project. Now that she has moved out and gone on her own, I have very good things to say about it as well as some cautionaries. Initially, it turned me into a better person. I ended up scaling my work back to assure that I wouldn't look back and say to myself that it was sad I wasn't around more. As time has gone on, and she left for college, she abruptly moved out and now she's living on the other side of the country. I see her once, maybe twice a year. Our chemistry was never perfect and many things I imagined would exist between me and her, has turned out not to be the case. So I would say results for me were "mixed" and many illusions i had about how things would go had little substance in reality. I will say the first ten years were quite good. You continue doing a great job and I always look forwarded to seeing what you are up to. PS - my dad was born in Croatia but sadly, he divorced my mom when I was 5 under trying circumstances which meant his side of the family I did not grow up around and I have never even been to Europe not to mention Croatia. I assume my grandma went to America cause of all the communist revolutions occurring in that area and I believe all country boundaries were drawn up by WWI winners so likely that had a lot to do with her moving to America in around 1925 as well. I have heard a lot of good things about Croatia which your video only accents more and I can only imagine why they left. The family lore went that my grandfather went first and no one heard from him after that and she, my grandmother, went to look for him. Didn't find him, married somebody for security sake and had my three year old dad in toe while the two older brothers all came over a good bit later I did become acquainted with all of them, my father's family, for they helped me, as a draft dodger, since they lived on the US side of the Canadian border, get legalized in Canada, at the crossing station cause dodging the draft was illegal and I was therefore a wanted criminal in 1970. They were always good for a pit stop on my youthful travels between Toronto Canada and Atlanta, GA. over the next five years. I would usually show up quite broke and the "power of blood" had them treating me quite wonderfully every time I came around. Why my parents broke apart is a story unto itself and finding out as a young adult, what I fine family they all were made it sad to think about what might have been........ chow!

[@Luontohaahuilija]

Love to you and thank you for sharing your story and thoughts! ❤🫶 We enjoy and appriciate this peaceful country and society we have here up north! The weather is not always, what we would prefer it to be..😂 Just right at this moment it is the dullest time and greyest days of the year. But on the other hand we truly have learned here in Finland to treasure all this safety and peace we have. 🇫🇮🤗 We know it did not come easy for us and that is why we truly appriciate all the earlier generations, who made all this possible for us to enjoy! ❤🕯🇫🇮🙏 And we also have learned to recognize easily even the tiniest things that give us delight and make us feel happy about our life in Finland! I admire my fellow Finns who also noticed for example, that the sun showed itself for us today for 1,5 hours and it made with clouds very beautiful pink stripes on the sky, when the sun was going down! 🌅🧡❤️

[@jsigur157]

@@Luontohaahuilija Thankyou sooo much for reading my long comment! Finland is my dreamland but I am 75 and not enough in the bank to make the transition at this stage. You know, what got me in love with the far north? A book few people know about. I picked it up in paperback for, like, a quarter in 1973, in Toronto during my draft dodger banishment days. It was called "Burning Daylight" by Jack London. His whole catalogue is easily found, available for free, in PDF form. You know, "Call of the Wild", "Sea wolf", "Martin Eden", that sort of thing. Again, thanks for the lovely comment and enjoy your good luck!

[@Chris-pf8by]

The biggest difference between Ukrainians, Finns and Russians is that the big majority in Finland and Ukraine would never accept to have "a wise leader" to rule over us for life, enabling(forcing to be exact) the people to be subordinates to the ruler and his friends. Having freedom and democracy is more important than material things. Also look at the Taiwanese. A war with China would not end well for Taiwan but they have made it clear that they would simply not be subjugate but fight for their society. All of this is indicative of a high maturity democracy.

[@tomsilven]

Tervetuloa Suomeen.

[@lifebyolia]

Kiitos paljon 😊

[@krishna_pandey24]

I guess im first here

[@Luontohaahuilija]

❤ Someone always is! You were on a right moment on a blessed site.. 🥰🤗

[@krishna_pandey24]

@@Luontohaahuilijahi dude do you wanna talk do you have an email

[@alexanderscharf2806]

you have a very strong Russian accent. I assume you speak Russian too.

[@lifebyolia]

Your assumption is wrong.

[@Ninaninani716]

Why i moved and i ll move away fron Finland: Money

[@Luontohaahuilija]

You have your needs, we totally understand that many people don't have the luxury of choosing a simpler life over income, or as you say money. 🙏 Many people have to support their family back in their homeland - and they truly need all the extra income, what they can get. I am anyway so happy, that Finnish people as a nation has passed already that terrible poverty (Finland and Finnish people were still after WWII long time VERY POOR) . And happily it feels nowadays, that we have passed already also the next period, when we were able to earn money and it felt for some time, that only if you had a great working place or career and made a nice salary, the society approved you as a succesful individual.. Resent years more and more Finnish people have realized, that it is enough, if you get along with the money you earn..and don't wear yourself out by just working long hours to make lots of money. We give a lot more value nowadays not for beautiful houses or expensive cars, but for free time, that you can use for enjoying your LIFE = loved ones and nature! ❤🤗