Why I Moved To Finland

Why I Moved To Finland | MY STORY

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Many people ask me why I moved to Finland from Japan so I decided to make this video that tells the whole story. I wanted to be honest and genuine about the reasons that brought me here.
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*The information I'm talking in this video, such as tuition fee, is from before 2016. Please note that some of them have been changed.
Thanks for watching this video! I'm Daiki, originally from Japan. I moved to Finland for my masters degree in business in 2016 and now I'm working in the capital area, Helsinki.
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@GenTakagi 3 жыл бұрын

Tosi hyvä video! On mielenkiintoista kuulla muiden ihmisten Suomeen muuttoon liittyviä tarinoita.😆 めっちゃいいビデオ！移住の理由を聞くのは面白いね！😆

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Kiitos kun katsoit sen ja tosi kiva kuulla! そういや昨日、ゲンさんのタンペレ町歩きの動画見てましたが、ご飯食べながらとか洗濯物畳みながらほんのりリアルな様子が見られて良いなと思いました😀

@GenTakagi 3 жыл бұрын

@@DAIKIFinlandLife わ！😆ありがとう！そうね、長い映像だからそんな風して見てくれるのがベストだね！😎

@maximilianokingston7304 3 жыл бұрын

You probably dont care but if you're stoned like me during the covid times then you can watch all of the new series on instaflixxer. Been streaming with my gf for the last couple of days xD

@brunoaugust9102 3 жыл бұрын

@Maximiliano Kingston yup, have been using InstaFlixxer for months myself =)

@darrenyehuda2583 3 жыл бұрын

@Maximiliano Kingston Yup, I've been watching on InstaFlixxer for months myself =)

@Lyrah89 3 жыл бұрын

Going with the flow often result in the most exciting outcome 😊

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! I totally agree with you!

@lexluthor6497 3 жыл бұрын

They say Finland is europes Japan because we are so different.I have always wanted to go to Japan.Maybe one day.

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Yes some people day so, and there are actually some similarities (I'm actually making a video about it now) 😂 I hope you get a chance to visit Japan in the near future :)

@TuijaKartaslammi 3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the country of the ice and the sun mixed to miracles ❤️ That is what Finland is to me as native .

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I like how you describe Finland😁

@softwarearchitect9171 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your video. My family and I we miss Finland. We miss the calmness, the nature, the clean air and the Finish way of doing things. Finland is by far less bureaucratic than the countries we lived in. We plan to move back to Finland. Best luck with your life in Finland

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your comment. Yes I agree with you. Those points you mentioned are something I like about living in Finland. Hope the current situation gets better and you can come back to Finland in the near future :)

@KnockOnWood-sw3iu Жыл бұрын

Which are the other countries you lived in which day said are bureaucratic ?

@Artbyerikaa 3 жыл бұрын

Finland is the best. Very calming country. can’t wait to go back soon

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Yes :) Hope you can come back in the near future.

@Artbyerikaa 3 жыл бұрын

@@DAIKIFinlandLife yes hopefully so 😭

@fortuna7469 3 жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful video! Very calm, like Finnish nature. Good luck to you!

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Nice to hear as that's the atmosphere I wanted to make in this video :) Thank you!

@aiwangerjennifer7366 Жыл бұрын

I've lived in Finland 🇫🇮 for 5 years with my family. It's a beautiful country, but during winter it's really freezing. Best of luck to you on your studies in Finland! Thanks for sharing!

@itzMike7 3 жыл бұрын

very interesting video! I hope you still are enjoying your move here, you seem like a genuinely great guy!

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yes I've been here for almost 5 years now and still enjoying life here! :)

@llssneN 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! We're happy to have you :)

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Finland has been treating me nicely for 5 yrs :)

@takayukiyamada7749 Жыл бұрын

This video is so inspirational. I'm aloso thinking over styduding at graduate school in Finland. Kittos paljon!!!

@DAIKIFinlandLife Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

@pikapika4240 3 жыл бұрын

This was very fascinating to watch, and inspired me to think if I should study abroad, like I dreamed when I was younger. Thank you so much ✨

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Happy to hear you liked this video :)

@annukkakoskela616 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful story! 💜 Kaunis tarina!

@marlenaeva3813 Жыл бұрын

I understand you, Daiki. Coming to Finland for a Master's Degree was also one of the best decisions I've ever made. Finland truly changes you for the better. I wish I could live again there at least for 6 months but we'll see. Anyway, best of luck.

@nonsense3455 Жыл бұрын

You have a fascinating story, I was amused while listening to it :)

@DAIKIFinlandLife Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!! :)

@B1gLupu 2 жыл бұрын

We are not bad for Finland not being your first choice :D It's cold and dark half of the year, and manicly bright the other half. You are truly brave for comming here!

@DAIKIFinlandLife 2 жыл бұрын

I'm happy about my choice overall :) Thanks!

@Tontto 2 жыл бұрын

So happy you came to Finland ^_^

@jaeger233 3 жыл бұрын

welcome daiki

@saragr93 2 жыл бұрын

Cool story!😄😄😄

@DAIKIFinlandLife 2 жыл бұрын

Gracias!😁

@rikaonishi445 3 жыл бұрын

今日友達にVLOGの話を聞いて、好きなフィンランドを検索してみたらこの動画に辿り着きました😆コロナで予定していたフィンランド旅行が行けなくてショックだったんですが、ダイキさんのVLOGで励まされました！いつか行ってみたい！フィンランドの日常の動画楽しみにしています。

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

動画を見ていただきありがとうございます😀そう言っていただけると、今後のモチベーションにもなりますし、嬉しいです！今の状況が良くなり旅行に行けるようになった際には、ぜひフィンランドへお越しください。

@gambit_toys6554 Жыл бұрын

I'm in American living in Finland ☺️. Visited Vancouver twice

@samspencer582 3 жыл бұрын

Nice that you choose Finland. I hope you will love to live in Finland and keep on living there. I´m a Finn living in Sweden and I miss my Finland and I love your wonderful Japan.

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment! Happy to hear that you like my mother country :) I've been here in Finland for almost 5 years and life here is easy and livable, so I'll probably keep on living here.

@samspencer582 3 жыл бұрын

@@DAIKIFinlandLife Nice to hear that Daiki san.

@kpt002 Жыл бұрын

How funny.. KZfaq recommended this video for me now and the thought of how you ended up coming to Finland by following your intuition is really accurate for me too. I am a Finn, born and raised in Finland, but I have lived in different parts of the world during my adult life (Europe/Middle East/East Africa). I always had an interest and then I let the intuition to lead me where to go. My next destinations will be Korea and Japan, just if I get things working financially. I would like to live in both of the countries for a while. But for me, following my intuition has always taken me to the right places and I have never regretted following it.

@DAIKIFinlandLife Жыл бұрын

That's nice to hear. Yes I agree with you! Hope your plan works out just like it always did! :)

@erwinkumadjawa9497 3 жыл бұрын

I wish success for your study there.... And please make videos of Spring and Summer in Helsinki...... Sunshine whole day in the megapolitan city, it must be WONDERFUL time ☀

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Actually I already finished my study here and now I'm working in Helsinki :) I posted some spring videos about Helsinki but will make more!

@erwinkumadjawa9497 3 жыл бұрын

@@DAIKIFinlandLife Helsinki is so wonderful, it is also called The White City of The North.... During Summer, sunshine day can last until 23 hours while the dark remains only one hour... Has Sibelius Academy been open again? The Glass House at the city center.......

@erwinkumadjawa9497 3 жыл бұрын

@@DAIKIFinlandLife but those spring videos are still in transformation time, with some leftovers of the snow on the street.... I want the real spring time, sunshine in the city and plants - flowers grow.... No snow at all.... Hahaha... Thank you....

@Yuri-yx1uz 3 жыл бұрын

私も学部時代にイギリスに交換留学し、日本で卒業して数年働いて、今年の夏からフィンランドの大学院に進学予定です！とても似たような道筋で先を歩いているDaikiさんのお話が聞けて良かったです。もうすぐ始まるフィンランドでの生活が益々楽しみになりました！

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

無事フィンランドへ到着されて、良い時間を過ごされることを願ってます！

@kiyanzanevlogs 3 жыл бұрын

Be safe and enjoy life there...

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@mosaicpaint3223 Жыл бұрын

thats so true of barcelona, but if you look carefully you can find one

@wanderlustwernweh5313 Жыл бұрын

Surprisingly your story looks much like mine... I dearly wanted to go to Vancouver but could not then while I was working at my home country I searched for affordable but high quality destinations in Europe... Got rejected in Norway but accepted from 2 universities in Finland... I 'm probably the same age as the period u mentioned about football was the same for me... Also I just followed my intuition when coming to Finland and have no idea wot to do next... I' m trying to enjoy every moment of it... I don't know why we are so similar and why did I find you only one month after coming to Finland... Sounds really canny

@DAIKIFinlandLife Жыл бұрын

Wow....! What a coincidence. Very interesting indeed :)

@poppywidiastuti6178 Жыл бұрын

hope I can go there soon (Helsinki) 😊

@Latvian07 Жыл бұрын

I moved to Finland because a Finnish family offered me to baby sit their kids.. BUT i was always interested to go to Finland😊😊 i lived there for a year, then came back... I used to live in Helsinki, Munkkiniemi, i loved it

@BSC4PE 3 жыл бұрын

You're lucky that you managed to get free education here. That was changed just a few years ago. Now my Japanese SO has to pay thousands of euros per semester to attend a school that is free for EU citizens. Sometimes life isn't fair, but hopefully a working visa and a citizenship will fix this unfortunate situation for us.

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Yes it was the last year to get free eduction in Finland for foreigners from outside of EU. It's a bit sad that they changed a policy...but it feels like everything is about timing as well. Yes let's hope those will fix the situation :)

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

I think it highly depends on your professional area and if you get a lucky opportunity/situation to find a job. It might be easier if you have done education in Finland if you want to find a job and get a working visa but there are companies who hire people based on their skills and experience as long as they speak English. Job hunting is a tricky in Finland especially for international people but at the same time, this country is lack of IT people for example. I know some people who found a job without having lived in Finland so I would say nothing is impossible but it's nice to have some strategy. If you wanna study here, unfortunately it's not free anymore for foreigners but they have scholarship programs instead :)

@edwardsiswantosantoso8933 Жыл бұрын

@@DAIKIFinlandLife I love your videos and have subscribed it :) Even though all non EU/EEA students now have to pay tuition fees, the cost is still way lower than let's say Canada where you went to study before coming to Finland.

@Leonidae 3 жыл бұрын

Going with the flow is the reason why I ended up in Southern California for over 5 years.

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds good :) I'm sure you have interesting stories there!

@Leonidae 3 жыл бұрын

@@DAIKIFinlandLife indeed. But to be honest, both Finland and US have their pros and cons.

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Yes of course, all countries do.

@Bandara007 2 жыл бұрын

フィンランド🇫🇮のことを教えてくれてありがとう😃👏

@DAIKIFinlandLife 2 жыл бұрын

見ていただきありがとうございます！

@oskaritarvainen266 3 жыл бұрын

Kiva, että muutat tänne ☺️

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Kiitos! On mukava asua täällä😀

@HOusu88 2 жыл бұрын

Hi. An interesting story. I'm interested in the way you applied to the school. I have a Brazilian girlfriend and we're thinking if she would move here with me, and she could study in here. When you applied to the school, did you have to visit here for the interview to the school, or were you interviewed online? I'd very much appreciate a reply

@DAIKIFinlandLife 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, thanks for watching! The interview was online. I hope she gets to come to Finland :)

@HOusu88 2 жыл бұрын

@@DAIKIFinlandLife Okay! Thanks for the quick reply! Hopefully you'll enjoy living in Finland and may the viking gods shower you with pretty blonds 😁✌

@HOusu88 2 жыл бұрын

@@DAIKIFinlandLife Oh. By the way. I meant to ask you sooner about this, but we actually tried looking it up, and we found that the fee for a finnish university was 10,000€ per year if you live outside EU. Did you find a way around this or did you pay the fee?

@pahakasvivenuksesta2653 3 жыл бұрын

Video jäi jotenkin kesken ? Mut mä oon vaan töissä täällä, joten ei haittaa :)

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Se toimii normaalisti kun katson...hmm on outo :p

@reevesandigan8031 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, you’re current job now is related with you’re masters studies ?

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Yes it is related, international business area :)

@reevesandigan8031 3 жыл бұрын

@@DAIKIFinlandLife thank you so much for the reply:)

@reevesandigan8031 3 жыл бұрын

@@DAIKIFinlandLife I got admitted at Vaasa University of applied sciences but still thinking if want to push or delay my plan due to ongoing pandemic. Any insights?

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

@@reevesandigan8031 I think it depends on how long you will be in Finland. If it's not like a couple month exchange program but you stay for a couple years as a degree student, then I guess the situation will be better after we get vaccinated later this year, so if I was you, I would probably go :)

@reevesandigan8031 3 жыл бұрын

@@DAIKIFinlandLife really appreciate you’re reply:) one more question. Did you finished at Jyvaskyla university? Or University of applied sciences?

@walkwithfloraandfauna970 3 жыл бұрын

Ogenki desu ka. Asoko de taihen Samui desu ne. Watashi wa pronob paru to moshimasu.

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment in Japanese! Well-written :)

@user-nb1oo9dl7h Жыл бұрын

Rauhallinen ja turvallinen

@b1ackic3 3 жыл бұрын

Weird, why Finland? Of all places? Finland is just too cold. I don't mean the weather, the people. They're distance, very Japanese-like. If I was a Japanese I would move to a country with polar opposite society.

@DAIKIFinlandLife 3 жыл бұрын

Why Finland? The answer is in the video😙 And they are in general reliable, very Japanese-like.