Best Scandinavian country (POLL) (living in, garden, move to)

[Orchardcounty]

Difficult call, I have been to Finland, Sweden and Norway, and all are beautiful countries. If I have to choose, it would be Finland, because the Finns are such good fun and know how to party

[glenn72]

Immigrant friendly, that would be a negative in regards to Sweden. Assimilation has failed completely, and the unemployment rate for immigrants is like 95%. Malmo Sweden has real problems with crime now as a result. PS-please do not label me a racist for pointing out the failures of poorly thought out immigration policies. I do not want to hear it; it is intellectually dishonest. Oh yeah, Norway for sure.

[internat]

Originally Posted by glenn72

Immigrant friendly, that would be a negative in regards to Sweden. Assimilation has failed completely, and the unemployment rate for immigrants is like 95%. Malmo Sweden has real problems with crime now as a result. PS-please do not label me a racist for pointing out the failures of poorly thought out immigration policies. I do not want to hear it; it is intellectually dishonest. Oh yeah, Norway for sure.

It's intellectually dishonest to write the unemployment figure is "like 95 %" among immigrants in Sweden. It's not even that high among Somalians. Rosengård in Malmö has indeed turned into an ethnic enclave with social problems. It's not unique in Sweden or Europe.

Otherwise I've shared my experiences of the Scandinavian countries in http://www.city-data.com/forum/world...countries.html

[dkf747]

I went with Denmark, but I like all of them. I've been to 3 (Sweden, Norway, and Denmark) and I have been to the airport in Iceland (flying JFK-KEF-CPH-KEF-JFK one summer). I want to see Finland (I'm hlaf Finnish), but have not had the chance to go t here yet. I'm married to a Dane and have spent lots of time in Denmark. Naturally, I voted for Denmark.

[glenn72]

You are right, though it is not dishonest but ignorant because I was quoting a biased source. After some research I discovered that the unemployment rate is 65% among immigrants in Malmo. Either way that is untenable.

[moving123456]

Originally Posted by internat

It's not even that high among Somalians.

Somalis, not Somalians.

[internat]

The Icelandic and Faroese are at least partly related to Scandinavian people. The Finns don't even speak a Germanic language. They are definitely the coldest. Finns hardly speak without getting seriously drunk. The depression rate among Finno-Ugric people is very high.

[internat]

Originally Posted by moving123456

Somalis, not Somalians.

Thanks.

http://cnnc.uncg.edu/pdfs/somalians.pdf

somalians - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

I thought both can be used.

[LRUA]

I voted for Norway....it's the most beautiful country in scandinavia ...with awesome mountains and fjords ....besides my great-grandfather came from Bergen,Norway...(to Wisconsin about 1890)

[redwine]

Originally Posted by SnowFlakesInCentralPark

hey guys. im new here, and i happen to live in Bergen, Norway.

Ive never understood why americans and others seem to love sweden so much.. i mean, what does sweden have that norway does not have? we have higher living standars, and prettier and more unique nature (mountains, dales and fjors etc).. if you really like swedish nature (flat and not really pretty), we actually do have that in eastern norway, at the boarder to sweden (where oslo lies).

the only thing that i can find that sweden beats us at is having more people (is this even a plus?), bigger cities (if oslo, with its population of more than 500 000 people, isnt big enough for you) aaand its not quite as overprotective as norway (they dont even sell redbull here!).

sweden is like our.. inferior brother. thats what i think, anyways

oh, and they have more amusement parks :P

Don't be mad because you will always be the Little Brother. A Norwegian book of knowledge will always be full of blank pages.