Why Lappeenranta Sucks for Most Internationals

Just saw your talk about Finland and found your perspective really fascinating and hit close to home, and now you’re sharing information on Lappeenranta!

I personally love the small town vibe and it’s easier for me as a local but having only moved to Finland to join the army, and very much a stereotypical engineer, it also took me a long time to make friendships. Now in a much better place as well, still not that easy in Finland but for me the best part about Finland as a person with an engineering mindset is the ability to be open and honest with people and it being socially acceptable to not be dishonestly polite, as I’ve seen in some other cultures.

I'm not sure I get the point of this video. Finland is a very sparsely populated country. Lappeenranta is not the capital of Finland or even in top 5 of the biggest cities. If people find sparsely populated places "depressing", maybe coming to LUT to study isn't the best choice? If LUT offers something that no other place in the World can offer then maybe it is just necessory to take the bad with the good. Lappeenrante hardly is a perfect place and has its problems, but I don't believe people living in Lappeenranta think the place sucks. If Internationals think it sucks, perhaps they should have chosen more wisely? So, does Lappeenranta really suck or have internationals come to the wrong place for themselves? Both? I don't know...

In my opinion most foreign students, especially those who originate from third world countries shouldn't have any right to come to Europe.

It seems like the cost of living in the US is unbearable, well at least in some places.

Summary of cost of living in New York, NY, United States:

A family of four estimated monthly costs are 5,770.2€ (6,179.1$) without rent (using our estimator).
A single person estimated monthly costs are 1,559.2€ (1,669.6$) without rent.
New York is 51.7% more expensive than Helsinki (without rent, see our cost of living index).
Rent in New York is, on average, 294.9% higher than in Helsinki.

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Summary of cost of living in Los Angeles, CA, United States:

A family of four estimated monthly costs are 4,491.7€ (4,809.9$) without rent (using our estimator).
A single person estimated monthly costs are 1,240.3€ (1,328.2$) without rent.
Los Angeles is 17.1% more expensive than Helsinki (without rent, see our cost of living index).
Rent in Los Angeles is, on average, 150.3% higher than in Helsinki.

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Summary of cost of living in San Francisco, CA, United States:

A family of four estimated monthly costs are 5,254.3€ (5,626.6$) without rent (using our estimator).
A single person estimated monthly costs are 1,453.3€ (1,556.3$) without rent.
San Francisco is 37.7% more expensive than Helsinki (without rent, see our cost of living index).
Rent in San Francisco is, on average, 204.1% higher than in Helsinki.

What can I say ? I’m a 71 year old ex Pat Brit retired in South of Portugal. All the U.S. peeps I meet here are checking it out to see if they would be able to live here cos they just can’t stay in the US anymore. Now that’s a big problem, not like your situation really. You said an awful lot in your lovely diatribe, good, heartfelt stuff, but honestly which problem are you trying to solve ? You’re young, fit, healthy, pretty. I’d be really chuffed if you were my daughter taking the World by the scruff of the neck and squeezing it mercilessly to get all the goodness out of it. wow, you can talk ! And it’s good talk, too. Honest, down to earth Engineer stuff ? No, not really. But it doesn’t matter what you do, just keep on living the truth and be you. God bless ❤ you’ll be fine 🎉

The Helsinki Metropolitan Area (Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen) has about 1,26 million inhabitants. TBH living in Lpr is way more chill, the logistics and cost of pretty much every form of recreational activitiy imaginable are in favour of lappeenRanta :)

🥡🥧🍦 a non emity! crunch time came, then went! thanks! 😁😎👍👍💪🙃👾