There was a bar over the shower where you're supposed to hang a shower curtain using plastic loops. Usually removed by the previous tenants, because who wants someones old dirty shower curtain.

Pajamas to work? Hell, no. Finland isn't Walmart, people. The outfits may be more casual and less strict or formal, but they are still *appropriate.*

It is really weird that you wash your dirty underwear in the same place you make food. In Finland the washing machine is always in the toilet or in a specific laundry room.

I am Finnish and I have never seen a Finnish apartment without a glass wall or curtain in the shower. Maybe that CR's picture was of her apartment when she moved in and she still hadn't thought to buy a shower curtain.

finnish tap water is so damn good, super neutral and fresh.

Bathroom is waterproof, that's why washing machine is kept in there. In case of a malfunction it doesn't flood your apartment. Personally I don't like to have the toilet in the same room as the shower and the washing machine. But it's much cheaper to build just one waterproof room. In older apartments, there often is a separate WC.

Finland is a land of long distances. Sure you don't need a car in bigger cities, but it 's still necessary in many areas of the country.

The water does not go everywhere, ever heard of shover curtains?? You can hook it up to divide the space, EVERY BATHROOM IN FINLAND HAS THAT OPTION!!!!! Even that one has a rail for shower curtains, look up and be amazed.

Water is "expensive", cause it has a so called "do not be stupid"- tax added to the price.😮😢😅. You can refill your plastic bottle almosr anywhere and everywhere for free,

Honestly I don’t think I’ve ever bought still water in Finland. If I’m on the go and need water, I’ll just fill up my empty bottle with tap water from the nearest bathroom. Buying water is very rare in Finland so it’s also somewhat costly

In the nordic countries the whole bathroom is a wetroom, easy to clean, use the shower to wash the whole room and just let it dry. Do not spray the washingmachine though.. The only thing that is bad about that is that it cost a fortune to redo a bathroom (but it last forever)

There is reason why washing machines are in bathroom, if the pipes brokes the water dont ruin the house.

Finnish here. You are supposed to hang a shower curtain, to prevent everything around you getting wet.

Usually people have shower curtains to prevent the water from going everywhere.

One thing I've heard shocks people is how we call all our teachers and even professors by first name ^^ With teachers we really like we'll also use nicknames (when talking about them and with them). I thought this might pop up in this video, but it would depend on the person doing the video being in school I guess. Personally I think calling someone by their title and surname would be like creating awkward distance between the people talking. Like saying "I don't wanna get close to you".

As for shower in bathroom, usually you would buy shower curtain which then keeps the water from going all over the place.

there in the ceiling of the shower is a rod for the shower curtain, which the resident buys himself. the washing machine is in the toilet because in case of water damage, your living room is not dependent on water, but the water leaves the drains.

Almost all those things can be explained by common sense and practicality. Finns are practical people with high level of common sense, individualism and self-sufficient. We respect our nature, other individuals, quality of things and agreements.

Nice example with the water at the airport... You cannot find a more expensive location than the airport!

People don't often consider all the costs that go into prizes and how product prizes influence each other. It's not the same when water comes from a tab and when it's bought from a store in a bottle. If you buy 1 L bottle of water, the recycling pant alone can be 0,40 € of the prize.

I'm native Finn and want to clarify few things, and her experience is possible Finland but it's not entire truth. Sometimes there's shower walls' sometimes there's a rail where you can put shower curtains and sometimes there's nothing. Finland has plenty of rural areas and small cities where car is needed, but most foreigners will come to major cities where you don't need a car. But the smaller cities often are very spread out which means large distances and very spotty public transport and winter means ICE on pathways that are for both pedestrians and cyclists. (With combining those two makes sense with low pedestrian traffic.). Oh. Pajamas is quite a bit too far, on what to wear at job. There's larger range of what's acceptable to wear at job, but there's still limits. Shorter growing season means more cattle thus more milk farms and then we used to have huge ad campaign for decades to make people drink more milk thus it became even more ingrained in the culture. About the jackets, the weather is so much more varied that you really need true winter clothing and something fall and spring and something for the summer. Of course depending on where you live inside Finland different balance between those. Oh. Living without parents is because government supports low income people including students and that includes 80% of a reasonable rent thus deciding to live alone should be possible for everyone. (Not necessarily where you want but in a cheaper neighborhood or in a student apartment.)

Thank you very much for your channel that offers interesting perspectives. Your approach is respectful, warm-hearted and analytical. As a Finn, I get new insights myself. I love your present reaction to different phenomena. ❤️ And yes, the bathrooms usually have either shower walls or shower curtains, although the bathrooms are also fully waterproof.

Waching machines use to be in bathroom or on some houses utility room. On kitchen there is dish waching machines

Washing machine definately in bathroom. It takes too much space from kitchen and it's too loud. When it's in bathroom you don't hear it. If you have enough space in your bathroom that is. If I didn't have enough space in my bathroom for washing machine, then I'd just wash my all laundry in our condominium's laundry room. That milk drinking thing is weird. I don't drink milk at all, not even with coffee, and none of my friends do. My parents drink milk tho. I always carry a water bottle with me. When it's empty I can fill it anywhere: in coffee shop, library, supermarket (if there's a tap beside of bottle recycling machines) etc. It doesn't cost a thing.

She just has to buy a shower curtain, because there is clearly a rail going with a smooth round corner around the shower hanging from the ceiling, if I am not totally blind that is. ^^

Tap water is good and safe, bottled water is a luxury product😄 Milk was traditionally drunk as sour milk or butter milk, kinda kefir because fresh milk is not easy to keep fresh. So later when the cooling came simplier with gas/elecrtic refridgerators, fresh milk became common. Agricultural tradition, milk was always available and good nutricious drink when the water from a well was only for the thirst.

Milk was a very important source of nutrients and vitamins. Finns are traditionally used to drinking it. "Piimä" - soured milk - has even more vitamins (A, K, B1, iodine and folate) and it was drunk at wintertime.

It's a practicality thing with the showers. Most bathrooms are entirely waterproof, with one or more floor drains. This means you can wash everything with the shower head. A long squeegee is quickly used to push excess water into a drain. Keeps the floor a lot cleaner. Folks moving to Finland often seem to have a real problem getting their heads around it. Finland has the cleanest tap water. Anyone buying bottled water deserves to pay a lot for the plastic wastage. TBH, most of these 'culture shocks' come across as naively.

Most apartment blocks have had communal laundry rooms, along with drying rooms with a fan that has a heat exchanger tapped to the central heating. Later on people have acquired their own washing machines and just installed them in their bathrooms. The kitchens in the smallest apartments don't always have enough space even for a dishwasher. Also there are many detached houses that were built in the age of manual laundering and hang-drying outside. Newer detached houses, as well as row-house apartments, especially larger ones, tend to have dedicated "household care" rooms with space for the washer and dryer, but many finns still prefer to hang their clothes to dry, especially now that energy prices have skyrocketed. Also in many cases the household care room doubles as the dressing room for the sauna. Some people even hang-dry clothes in the sauna, and there have been multiple occasions of a less than optimal outcome from that.

Shower cubicles are in fact very common in Finnish bathrooms.

I was in Finland in the summer, and it was very warm. I was drinking water like no man’s business.

Germany: 1,5 litres of water is 19 Cents +25 Cents deposit, which you get back at returning of the bottle at any supermarket or beverages shop. Tap water is in most cases fresh and clean, but not everywhere.

If you go buy a half a liter bottle of water, especially in places where people need to grab one quickly (near airports, at stations etc) it can be outrageously expensive, you'll pay 10x the price. If you need more water and have time to go to a bigger store you can have a 5 liter bottle for less money.

And yes we have 4 season in year so u need options in what to wear😂

Almost everything she explains you will found very similar in the Netherlands. Only last point, children used to move out from their parents just a generation ago, only the last 10 years getting an affordable home or vacant rooms has become more difficult because of long going building restrictions which have resulted in a shortage.

About us Finns drinking milk. That was most common in the 70's to 90's. Not anymore. Most Finns drink water to lunch. In rural areas they still might rely on milk, but not in the cities. It has definitely changed.

our bathrooms are..weird??? O.o and yes i think it's normal that washing machine is in the bathroom, we usually have the clothing hanger there too if the room is on the bigger side. dishwasher is in the kitchen tho lol

I'm 68 and I drink one liter of milk every day with my meals. There's no better drink to have with your meal.

As far as milk drinking goes: I was born and raised in the US, with a fully Finnish heritage and we drank milk with every meal. But then again, we lived on a farm and had our own milk cow. The city where I live in the US has a pretty good recycling program. We have curbside pick-up for Glass, Mixed recycling (cans/paper/cardboard and some plastic containers), Yard debris/compost, and even used motor oil.

I was 17 when I moved to my own apartment,and yeah,I'm from Finland 😊

As a Finnish guy I never really understood people way in their 20's still living at home, like what are you a fucking child and mom still makes you dinner? I left home and got my own apartment when I was 17 :D

I'm from Finland and yes, people move to their own apartments pretty early. Usually when they hit age of 20, some even before that. I remember being 19 or 20 back in the day when my father told me "son, you should really move to your own apartment soon". People very rarely live with their parent after they are 25 and parents often want them to move too. I think it's good thing. Having to deal with your own bills and other adult stuff early make you more independent and resourceful.

That milk over promotion is because of big company Valio propaganda on the "benefits" of milk, instead of telling people that milk increases osteoporosis, unless coupled with enough vegetables.

1. Our showers are not separate rooms in bathroom, but even in her example picture it had Plexiglas wall on one side and there was a rail for shower curtain to be put in place. 2. Car is not anywhere near as important to have here as in USA, but if you don't live somewhat close to the city, you would usually want/need one because public transport can be a real hassle if you have to use it for everything. It's good to have some shops within reasonable walking or biking distance. 7. Different kind of jackets are a must. The temperature can easily differ from -30C to +30C around the year Also you wan't different kinds of jackets that you use on rainy days and different jackets when it's really windy. 8. That's why you use your own water bottle that you can usually fill freely on basically anywhere they have a tap. Bottled water is mostly just waste of resources when the tap water is so good.

The economy certainly has an impact on how easy it is to move out once you come of age. I actually lived with my parents for a good while because we had a severe economic depression for several years after I turned 18. I'd have been in trouble with paying rent (and not eligible for a bank loan to buy my own place) due to jobs suddenly being very hard to get.

A ridiculous complaint about the shower not having walls. For sure there is a rack where you are supposed to attach a shower curtain. They are sold in any decent shop for interior items. When you rent a flat, you don't have bed sheets or tootbrushes waiting for you either. These are considered personal items that a tenant would bring in herself into the flat. It is also extremely narrow-minded to complain about people drinking milk in a northern country. It is like being chocked that people eat rice in an Asian, tropical country, or being chocked that people eat fish in Grönland.

Showers without walls are becoming more common in England too- called wet rooms

In shower we have in Finland a shower curtain, a cloth wich gives some privacy. We place the waching machine for your cloths in bathroom.

You have to purchase a shower curtain and hang it to your shower place.

Here's a simple life hack if you need to carry your own water bottle at all times: buy one and then just fill it from the tap whenever you can. What was that thing about upping your recycling game, hmmm? Recycling isn't just about throwing stuff away.

Hey! A curtain is must in a bathroom. An electric gadget MUST be separated from the water from shower. The shower curtain is mandatory.

You can use shower curtains. But sure if smaller apartments you just have toilet, washing mashine and shower in one place. IF you have bigger place you have toilet (or multiple ones), shower(s), Sauna, utility room (where you have your washer and dry your clothes) all in different rooms.

Showers here *always* have either see-through walls or such, or then you need to put up your own shower curtain, so no, one never showers with just "open" shower like shown here ;) As for drinking milk, I never drink it except in coffee, so I agree with her :) As for jackets, one surely needs hell of a lot of jackets just since it's so freaking cold most of the time 😅Though I don't go for those "waterproof" jackets, ie. tuulipuku, I just find them really ugly & uncomfortable ;) And yeah, I left my parents house at age 18, and recommend that, why wait longer? ;)

In Finland, it is seen as very embarrassing to be living with your parents after 18years old. (Age restriction for becoming an adult, license to drive & drink (not at the same time)).

I glue the hem of the shower curtain against the side of the bathtub by wetting the hem. Stays put. In a plain shower room I put a plastic tube inside the hem of the curtain. The tube doesn't have to be long in order to work perfectly. Or you can attach some small weights to the hem of the curtain to prevent it from "attacking" you😂

washing machine is often in bathroom, because floor and walls there are waterprotected(under those tiles there is waterisolation layer), so incase input or output hose get broken and water is spilled everywhere. water does not damage structures and all water stays in bathroom and exits thru drain in floor. often bathroom doorway has small lip at bottom so it at least little prevents water to exits to other rooms.

I have a wall in my shower in Finland. Always had one and lived like in 20 apartments…😂

great vid, thx

The shower thing is incorrect: We use either curtains or screens. The bathroom is a wet area that has a floor drain and that's also one of the reasons the laundry machine is in there; in case there's ever a leak or the machine malfunctions and you have to take out the wet laundry the water won't damage the floor. Most of the time it's also where you hang out your laundry to dry. You might also run a clotheswire inside the sauna (that's usually connected to the bathroom and shares the wet area) to dry your clothes when it's not being used. I can't imagine why in the world anyone would do laundry in the kitchen! Kitchen is for food, not clothes!🤣

42 year in Finland never had buy water here except restaurants but normally it's free there..

I have shocked, when I have travel abroad, west, east and south. I have seen garbage yard on the sea shore. There are three high walls due the land and sea side is open. They are carrying all of their garbage on that yard. Wind and tide keeps yard empty.

We have here in Finland most cleanist tab water in the world.

2:29 Yes, if you own one, and you can fit it in your bathroom (in some apartments, bathrooms are really small). But if you don't own one and you live in an apartment building, those has most times laundry room, where you can was your laundry, but that is not free (washing machine in laundry room most times has coin slot), and you have to use your own laundry detergent + fabric softener.

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You can get an appartment as early as 15 to live in during your 2nd degree studies depending on how far away you live from the school otherwise.

The shower thing is just her apartment's landlord being a cheapskate, most apartments or homes where shower is in the WC have the movable/solid walls to stop water. Regarding that, most detached houses I've seen have "WC room" where toilet and washing machine are and a separate room for shower and sauna Bottled water is indeed expensive due low demand

When you live in a smaller apartment, you have the washing machine in the bathroom, we don't have a floor drain..that is not okey for the insurement for the home. In showers like that you use a shower curtain ofcourse, so water isn't everywhere. When we had a bigger house, we had a room for the laundry and dryer etc..

Washing machine in the kitchen is only a uk think almost. The reason for that is that uk have ring circuiut, typically a uk home will have two rings, one in the kitchen, on for the reast of the house. Something that takes a lot of power like a washingmashine need to be in the kitchen. In rest of northern europe use 3 phase seperated phases. This allow to pull full power from pretty much any room and to a degree simultanius. So washingmaschine is put in what ever room is the best. Its just conected with a common europlug

It's common to drink cow milk to your meals as adult in Finland. It was very common here in Sweden to until the 1980s.

Water price is actually artificially inflated. You can get 5L water bottle for about the same price as 0.5L bottle. It's basically just there to incentivise people to not buy water in bottles. Since clean water is readily available. On other hand, if you are buying huge bottle of water, you probably actually need water for something and you don't have convenient access to clean water.

A few points at video, 1 shower without walls, we have so high quality waterproofing and building materials (also expensive) so you dont need showercabinet. But sometimes you see showercabinet in toilet if the shower is installed after there. 2 bikes wel you dont need car if you live in big city, but small towns or countryside you die without car or get bankrupty to using a taxi to daily moving because there is long distances and no public transport. 3 casuan wearing that is true casuan wearing college trousers etc etc is so comfortable to use 😁. 4 recycling that is came a common thing about at 20 years period, before that we have a just 1 bin and we put all trashes in to it. 5 bottlewater is expensive because tabwater is bit cheap and refreshing that is reason to price, if i am thirsty at town i buy a soda instead of water cause they almost same price 😅. GREETINGS FROM FINLAND Imatra 🙂🇫🇮

we here in finland LOVE milk and coffee. Milk is good for the bones.

New to the channel, curious of why you are learning about Finland being a Scot lad living in Malaysia? :)

I live in Helsinki and I've four Alko liquier stores inside 10 minutes walk. Inside half an hour walk there are about twenty. It's magnifient.

In finland there is a lot spota where you can drink straight from "ditch"... and i know many spots and done that many many times. Tap water is actually even less clean!

And Water.spare some plastic bottle etc and fill it with water. Tap water is safe everywhere.and its free.

How the shower is blocked off from the rest of the bathroom really depends. In my current flat, there's a railing around the shower, and I have a shower curtain hanging from it, but in most of the other Finnish flats I've lived in in the last 25 years have had a shower cubicle of some description within the bathroom. ETA: my mother-in-law lives in the north of England and her washing machine is in her downstairs loo.

In the airports at least in sweden, they have taps for filling water bottles after you go throw security. So you take like 3 empty bottles, thek them throw security and jusr fill them

A bottle of water is 1 euro so i don´t know where she shops. Alsp 1,5l carbonized water is like 1,35 euros

The milk thing comes from the fact that we're far up north, where there is less sources of foods and a short growing period, which has caused the past generations favor cows that can feed on grass that will grow in harsh conditions. And since cows produce milk, it has been an advantage to be able to consume it. There actually still is a clear-ish line between regions of people with lactose intolerance (south) / tolerance (north) in Finland.

i have a habit of sometimes just drinking milk straight from the carton, nothing better than that.

as a general rule.. you buy nothing from airport shops

I moved out of my dads place when I was 15. Lived with my brother, who is a year older, in our apartment. Of course we got financial help and such from our parents, but we lived by ourselves and went to school etc. After that time I've spent maybe 2 months living with my dad while I was looking for a new apartment. Some people may prefer to live with their folks, but I just wanted to get out and live on my own.

It depend's which water and where you're buying it. You can have the 0.5 litre spring water for 0.50€.

Use a showercurtain , maybe. That's what we use 😊. Don't need to wet the whole bathroom.

Having the washing machine in the kitchen is very weird in Sweden also.

Waahing macine bathroom of course or utillyty room(aurs house) Showers with out walls normal,but showers cupiles can found some Finish bathrooms,usally they "wet rooms"no walls need itt,and it will take space too. Americans seen us "uusi avuton"

Shower in finland is walls many homes,showercurtain is usually in cheaper home decorations.many home also have wc and bathroom in different location and sauna is also many homes.that picture shower was really basicversion on washroom.

***Finnish Reacts*** 1. Oh, but we have shower curtains and glass walls. you can see the glass wall in the picture and also the bar where you should hang the curtain. :) And she clearly lives in a high rise building, where space is expensive :) Washing machine is almost always in the bathroom in high rise buildings, except some very old urban wooden houses or a modern house where it usually is in the utility room. 2. Finnish fittnes is not higher, we are very fat people and diabetes is a common disease. The bike lanes and public transport only works in Helsinki/capital area or any other city centrum. Living 15km apart from centrum and/or having some kind of odd work hours, a car is a must. 4. Finnish online bureau and especially online banking is out of the box. You can receive and pay all your bills online in your own banks site and even negotiate a mortage to your new home online. All the taxes are handled by the employer, you really do not have to worrie about those things unless you are an entrepenour. 5. Finnish recycling is top tier in the world. Normal high rise or apartment house have a bin for all the different materials. So unlike many other countries, we recycle there where the waste is produced, aka. on-site. Burnable, biowaste, plastic packaging, metal, glass, cardboard and paper are separated in different bins. And then we have a return-package system that EU tries to put under demolition. In that system if you buy a can or a bottle from store, it has a pawn payment that you pay when purhasing but you get it back when you bring that an or bottle to any of the stores that are in Finland. So say, you can purhace a coke bottle from Helsinki, and return it in Turku and get the pawn back. 6.But we are very proud of our milk and "worlds purest" agriculture :D There are also reasons for this; milk contains a good amount of calsium that is good for your bones, and here in Finland they have added vitamin D to milk, so by drinking it we will overcome the sept-march darkness and lack of sun :D 8. The water. Where ever you go in Finland, the tap water is totally drinkable, and actually the and some fluorine to it in some citys, so it is refreshing but also good on your teeth. Finnish normally buy water when they go to seaside cabins or some place that do not have a tap available. I think the most normal thing is to buy a botlle of some kind of juice or soft drink and then afterwards just fill the same bottle under you own tab if going somewhere out. :) 9. Yeah, we get empty boxes as a gift when we turn 18.. Just kidding :D :D But yes we do move out alot quicker then "normal" european. Goverment has this housing allowance, student allowance, and living allowance that helps greatly when moving out from your parents to study or seek a job..

Bottled water in Finland is more expensive than soda in the same size and type of a bottle. Never made sense to me but probably it's just because of demand. If you're going to buy something then why buy bottled water when you can buy mineral water for example.

Consuming dairy products is more common historically in northern countries because of winter, nothing grows during the winter so you are dependent on animal products

The no wall thing for showers is the same in asia.

If bathroom is build like that, there is waterproof sealant under tiles. I dont remember buildings codex said about that excatly but waterproof needed.

better drink more than less milk, osteoropose etc, body need more calsuim when come old, bones keep strong if drink milk include lot calsium.

4:00 Funny she'd say it, since the US is widely known as people wearing the craziest things found anywhere without shame. Finns are actually extremely conscious and neurotic about their wear, but mostly about "not over-dressing for the occasion", under-dressing is usually much more socially acceptable. Ofc no one will be stopping you if you over-dress, but they will take note and you might even get some nasty remarks about it (this has happened to me so often). However, the biggest difference by far is in school- and work-life. Unlike in the US, UK and Japan (where I have lived) we have very strict anti-discrimination laws and general opinions which also include indirect discrimination via clothing/piercings/tattoos unless it is an uniform, safety issue or a widely accepted business standard in a field that requires trust (like bankers and chartered accountants for example) but even then, the restriction they can impose (or even want to) are very limited and more of general guidelines. We used to have a LOT of that BS as well only a couple of decades ago, but we realized it is just so stupid/discriminative/classist and got rid of most of it. People work much better and act more naturally when they are comfortable and allowed to be themselves. However, after having lived in Japan for years and studied to culture extensively, I personally would love if Finland would implement school uniforms and work uniforms as an OPTION starting from middle school and up. It should not be enforced, but having a safe and uniform fallback options for people (like me) who are bad at fashion/buying clothes to fall into on those days when you feel you have nothing to wear to school/work without looking like an buffoon could be very helpful. I really loved the all the jobs I've had that offered uniforms, work clothing (especially winter clothing

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9:26 I think water is mostly so expensive because you can use the same bottle for filling it again with tap water and it would not be profitable to sell if it was cheaper because people buy one bottle until they lose it. edit: It is also a lot more ecofriendly to use the same bottle many times or buy better one from sports store and you can use the same bottle for the rest of your life:D

Waching machine is in bathroom (in Finland) because if it startes to leak, the water goes to the drain in the floor, and doesnt ruin the whole room like it would do if you have it in kitchen like in the UK.

Milk is good and healthy, as an opposite I can't understand americans drinking sodas everywhere, everyday and crazy amounts.

Goin solo as fresh adult is a thing in Finland yes. But you can still give some of your bills to your parents as friendly support. Electricity has gone way up now, its ridiculous.