AHEM...
Please pass the lutefisk.
For one thing there are no Chicagos, New Yorks, San Francicos etc in Finnland.
What are the 7 steps? Why isn’t the full article posted?
One, leave Finland and live somewhere where winter does not last six months and there is more than four hours of daylight in Dec - Jan - Feb....
Nokia is a great company and there are some beautiful women. OTOH, why do you think they drink all that vodka?!
Does Finland have liberal grinches running around spreading their unique brand of strife and gloom? Does their government mind its own business? What’s the muslime-to-human ratio?
All factors that play into an overall sense of contentment ...
Does Finland have liberal grinches running around spreading their unique brand of strife and gloom? Does their government mind its own business? What’s the muslime-to-human ratio?
All factors that play into an overall sense of contentment ...
Few muzzies. That leads to happiness! Let’s follow the Finnish model!
The population of Finland is 5.5 million. US is the happiest country with a population over 100 million
Step 1: change your first name to Mickey.
Disclaimers: This ranking is a UN thing, so you know it rewards the socialist-oriented.
Finland has a relatively high suicide rate — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate — and the long winters of course are tough. Also, alcohol consumption is pretty high: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption_per_capita
But the 7 “steps” (derived from anecdotal observation):
1) Spend time in nature
2) Slow your pace of life
3) Saunas and heat (or heat and cold)
4) Respect the old ways
5) Respect the laws of the land and abide by them (got to by the stretch of noting how ethnically and culturally united they are with less third-world immigration, especially, and less crime, than almost anywhere else)
6) “Sisu(sp?)”, a Finnish word for stoic determination that let them fight off the Soviet Union
7) Following God’s law—got to in a real twist from Finland, particularly considering that Finland is among the most irreligious countries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_irreligion)
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Does anyone remember a Sixty Minutes segment probably in the 70’s, maybe early 80’s that was about Finland and the Finnish people? It was an absolute riot. The person with the mic couldn’t get a reaction or emotion from one single person who was interviewed. I remember just a bit about someone sitting next to someone on a bus and trying to strike up a conversation - it could have been a bus bench - and no recognition at all that there was anyone within miles of them. Cold, stand-offish people...We had quite a few Finnish families where I was raised in upstate NY and they were as normal as the rest of us - HA! EXCEPT for the steam baths and something to do with snow that I don’t recall. They rolled in it or something?
It should be on the internet. Maybe they were afraid of the mic and camera but that didn’t seem to be part of it as it wasn’t explained as such.
Also, Finns do tend to love themselves some Death Metal, it’s probably the Death Metal Capital of the World.
Kinky ...