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zarrasara

Does Finland welcome or hire foreigners to work there? I am thinking of moving to Finland one day. Its something like an impossible dream for me but I've been thinking about it. Anyone with an idea? Advises?

Thank you!

Primadonna

Welcome on board  :cheers:

For a starter you can check out the Finland forum and read the threads of your interests.
If you still have questions you can ask them on that forum, you will get more responses then here on the Kuwait forum.

kenjee

Hello :)

@zarrasara : Your thread is now on the Finland forum to help you get more interactions.

For any job adverts you may have, please refer to the Jobs in Finland section of the forum.

Regards
Kenjee

Kean

In general the job market is quite though, and depends greatly on your education and language skills. There are several educated persons that have to do jobs that normally non educated people or students would do. There are jobs for you if you are in health care and it programming & BI.

Housing is somewhat expensive, i.e. a small studio goes for 600-900€/m, whereas a 1-2 bedroom flat is 900 - 1500 €/m. The salary tax should be calculated to 30% - 42%. As many of the jobs are paying 2500€/m - 4500 €/m, you can calculate what a gold mine Finland is :) - Im saying this with sarcasm ... examples,
- Wrong parking - 60€
- Expired ticket or Not paying bus ticket - 80€
- Speeding 11 km/h over the speed limit - 600 €
... kind of "socialist"

However, Finland is fantastic to stay for a limited time to experience the archipelago and the lakes, they are spectacular.

... but you can also ...

just marry someone, get an free apartment from the state + month social benefits + free education + almost free health care - I don't know though how long time that will last :)

Kean

An update to my last comment;

Next year, the government is slashing the education budget, the social benefit budget, pensions, increasing taxes ... So I think the "paradise" is somewhere else.

- Expired ticket or Not paying bus ticket - 80€ -> 100€

I guess this seems to be going on everywhere ?

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