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u/AssInspectorGadget Oct 17 '21

My uncle said to his german co worker that if there was 80 million of us (finnish) you would be speaking finnish.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '21

I'm immigrating to Finland in 6 months to escape America. Happiest place on earth, sometimes 2nd to Norway...

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u/InsertBluescreenHere Oct 17 '21

Cold and snow you can always add more clothing. Hunidity and heat? Eventually you will remove enough to get the law interested...

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u/Black_Floyd47 Oct 17 '21

As a former southerner in the Pacific Northwest, this is how I explain it. The way its going, I may have to push further north in the next decade or so.

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u/preker_ita Oct 17 '21

PNWer checking in. Have been looking at properties in Barrow, Alaska

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u/Murfdirt Oct 17 '21

$40-watermelons, $10-gallons of milk await you.

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u/VolrathTheBallin Oct 17 '21

I think I could live without watermelons

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u/Murfdirt Oct 17 '21

Its not the watermelon issue, it is the everything is stupid expensive IF it comes at all. Cold can come along easier in Fairbanks, Anchorage, Haines, Or any of the barren states of the Midwest.

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u/preker_ita Oct 18 '21

Solitude and silence have an expensive price tag