What’s wrong with Tampere? I like it. And I lived in Turku for 10 years.

I have friends in Porvoo. It really does take 30 minutes from the Helsinki city limits to the Porvoo city limits. I have counted. Now from my place in Helsinki to their place in Porvoo, it takes a little longer then 30 minutes.

What’s wrong with Tampere?

I’m just trying to pick a fight

I’m just trying to pick a fight

Right. *eyeroll*
How… lame and generic of you.

I don’t think we have liars in Finland. Just those with different versions of the truth.

All I’m saying is, that Turku is just a much nicer city than Tampere, in every way shape or form.

All I’m saying is, that Turku is just a much nicer city than Tampere, in every way shape or form.
I know a lot of people that agree with you.

I’m still not getting the point of all of this. Trying to stir up shit by quoting some lame stereotypes that everyone understands are a joke anyway? Seriously, Phil, Turku-jokes? What next? You’re going to dazzle us with your wide repertoire of knock knock -humor?

heh… you gotta come to Vaasa to get properly serviced in Swedish. (ja se on jättekiva det)

I’m still not getting the point of all of this.

Forget the whole Turku Tampere thing. The point here is: Residents of Lohja and Porvoo are liars!!

Forget the whole Turku Tampere thing. The point here is: Residents of Lohja and Porvoo are liars!!

Well, OK then. Good to know.

Helsinki is a city. A very LIE!

Helsinki is an idiot-magnet. (let’s throw some truth in here as well)

Anzi, You really have a pleasant disposition!!

Well, it takes 30 minutes from “Porvoo city border” as its now halfway on the highway to the “Helsinki City Border” – it’ll become faster if Helsinki gets to gobble up Sipoo… Then trying to navigate past Ring III – thats another question.

So, with no congested traffic I can get door-door from home to office in some 15 minutes. And thats a short distance. I can get in some 25 minutes to the cottage… and thats a wee bit longer distance. In the summer “getting to town” takes the 15 minutes. “getting from town to highway” ten or twenty depending of the traffic and as the office is on the highway its about 20 minutes. So yeah, it depends on the position of the planets. But do I count the “getting to town” bit?

Anzi, You really have a pleasant disposition!!

Thank you! I think so too.

Another lier – Any Finn on the phone who tells you in English ‘I will call you back.’ It’s not going to happen.

At leasr in Tampere you can find a bank machine. Good luck finding them in Turku. Also, why is Turku deserted in the summer? The movie ‘RESTLESS’ was the best marketing tool for that city, ever.

“Helsinki is a city. A very LIE!”

Heck, I agree with european. Deep down Helsinki is ‘Stadi’. Some dubious middle-Finland types (who can’t go to Oulu, because they don’t cope here) move there and think they live in a big time world metropolis and act accordingly.

But for the real helsinkians Helsinki is rough, pocket-warm Stadi.

Fuck you all, Kuopio is far nicer than both Turku and Tampere. Jyvaskylä aint that bad either

…and then, how about all those Hesburger fast food joints all over Turku..?!? – Not a phreakin’ traditional Ostrobothnian Kotipizza in sight…

Hey Anzi, shoot me an e-mail if you get a chance, I’ve been meaning to ask you something: phil@finlandforthought.net

I live in Porvoo (not in the town, slightly to it’s south). I’ve never heard anyone here claim it takes only 20 minutes to get to Helsinki. If anything, people exaggerate it in the other direction. Perhaps it’s because I’ve always lived here though and most the people I know are “native” Porvoo people, rather than our more recent influx. I think amongst us, we’d prefer to think of Helsinki as being further away than it actually is rather than nearer!!

In any case, it takes me a good hour to reach Helsinki centrum. It takes a good 20 minutes for me to get into the town and out over the bridge.

But yes, I agree. I prefer Turku to Tampere. Really quite nice to sit on one of the boats on the Aura in the summer with a beer. And of course, Turku has her archipelago.

“Hey Anzi, shoot me an e-mail if you get a chance, I’ve been meaning to ask you something: phil@finlandforthought.net”

He’s asking you out!

with all the respect, porvoo folks are not liars and it takes just that ten and some minutes to drive this short distance. please, go find somebody else to pick on. and markus, it takes that same time to drive to that freaking espoonlahti.

He’s asking you out!

Uh-huh.

I live near Lohja and its 10 mins from Helsinki not 20. but then again I drive a real car not a barbie mobile. But now i’m paying thru the ass coz the fuel prices are now insane!! So much for the cheap livin??

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Dave

Dammit Phil Espoo IS a city!!

“Dammit Phil Espoo IS a city!!”

Another Finn in denial…

C’mon Phil, Espoo is a city. These days there is even a Lutheran bishop of Espoo, and religious leaders of such high stature do not dwell outside of cities.

NR 27. Don’t tell the RKP fanatics that as already they have delusions of grandeur in Jakobstad region since they have a Bishop or somesuch.

NR 27. Don’t tell the RKP fanatics that as already they have delusions of grandeur in Jakobstad region since they have a Bishop or somesuch.
Huh? They have no bishop. The bishop is in the liars’ hometown – BorgÃ¥/Porvoo. All Swedish-speaking parishes come under that “bishop district” (stift/hiippakunta – don’t know the English word if there is one).

@15 Any Finn on the phone who tells you in English ‘I will call you back.’ It’s not going to happen.

Ah, its these empty phrases you learn in school. Like “How do you do” and “pleased to meet you” and so forth. You know, what the foreign people say instead of meaning what they say… was it “small talk”

Ha, the way they talk then Jakobstad is Porvoo.. Reading Jakobstadstidning.fi is good for the blood pressure if low

If you want to see some people from Pampas who are prob suffering from a high blood pressure you should read the blog of Peter Albäck who is the sole Centre party member in Kronoby’s council. I think the polite way to describe him would be “opinionated”. I like to go in sometimes when I need a laugh. http://www.bloggen.fi/riksdagskandidater

In summer it takes me 30 min from Porvoo (south-east) to Helsinki Valimo but it might get slightly expensive… In winter 50min up to an hour, occassionally more. In Germany same distance between Cologne-Dortmund might be up to 9 hours with a bit of snow and 35 km of traffic jam.

Nobody told me it takes 20 minutes to commute: I just live in nicer surroundings than this grey blocks of flats in Helsinki. If needed, a bit of a city (thus, Helsinki) is not too far away, mainly the airport to escape from this boring country, so why complain And even the prices for housing are getting higher, you would not get a kaksio for the same price in Helsinki as our house with garden in Porvoo. Porvoo rulez.

Well, I’ve lived in Tampere and Helsinki and I’ve got my thoughts on those (Tampere for sure; it’s got all the facilities of a city but it’s not so crowded – more like a large home town) but six months ago moved to Porvoo, and now I have no friends it’s easy to meet people in Helsinki, particularly as a foreigner, but in Porvoo it’s been almost impossible. I’m so lonely!

the biggest liars in finland are lea vartiala,hameenpuist,39,a,16,33200 tampere,20,who is 96 years old says singer tapani kansa is a very close cousin.leena and markku pajula,also from tampere ,pattiniemenkatu,could not tell the truth to save their lives;helga alho from karhula,also another big liar.terttu ala laurila,anna liisa haukilahti and seija tahtinen are also great finnish liars.they all areas good liars as tom p.epper,liar who was sent back from hell for being too big a liar….

also satu and juhani hiljanen,hameenpuist,39.a,33200,tampere,20,are very big liars,they think everyone else is AS STUPID AS THEM………

i knew a finn who lived in a bin,there he would eat,sleep and shit,if he wanted some sex,he would take of his specs,listen to t.rex and masturbate all over the police station steps,the finn would get chased by a fat finnish pig,who would pull out his gun ,the fat finnish cop would them ram his dick up the finns arse,and thats the way finns get their sex.the dirty smelly queer fuckers…i know a finn who likes the smell of shit,so he walks all day long with his finger up his arse,and all night with his finger up his nose.in summer he does not get to smell much shit and in winter his arse barely feels his finger

Is the football team from Tampere known as Tamponese?