Best Scandanavian country for me?

[Bulldawg82]

Originally Posted by cmptrwlt

Yes, Oslo is a very dangerous city

Finland is not a Scandinavian country.

In the strictest sense: Only Denmark, Norway and Sweden are classified as Scandinavian. However, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands (and a lesser extent - Greenland) are commonly referred to as being Scandinavian due to Viking colonization, linguistic similarities and people-stock.

[danilsk]

Originally Posted by Bulldawg82

In the strictest sense: Only Denmark, Norway and Sweden are classified as Scandinavian. However, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands (and a lesser extent - Greenland) are commonly referred to as being Scandinavian due to Viking colonization, linguistic similarities and people-stock.

Finnish and Greenlandic languages have very little similarity to the scandinavian languages

[Sweden]

Originally Posted by Bulldawg82

In the strictest sense: Only Denmark, Norway and Sweden are classified as Scandinavian. However, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands (and a lesser extent - Greenland) are commonly referred to as being Scandinavian due to Viking colonization, linguistic similarities and people-stock.

Only in the US and other English-speaking countries.
True, since English-speaking don't seem to want to take on the correct term "Nordic countries", the 5 Nordic countries are often called simply "Scandinavia".
But the term is incorrectly used, and since we in "Scandinavia" know the correct meaning of both terms, we take offence when it is used incorrectly and when the user refuses to correct him-/herself when corrected.
It's like saying Russia should be part of North America. Just consider how "Russian" parts of Alaska are...

Scandinavia: Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

However, there is a union between the NORDIC countries: Sweden, Norway, Denmark AND Finland and Iceland.

Finland and Iceland are Nordic, but not Scandinavian.
(Finland - apart from the Swedish speaking population - does not share any lingvistic similarities with the Scandinavian languages any more than it does with English. It's a Finnish-urgic language, not a German language.)

[Mr_Jonas]

Originally Posted by Seany Boy

I think Bergen, Norway would be the best for you. Norway has the most scenery like Colorado, like Mountains and lakes and forests, Norway has a good culture with the Viking spirit Problem will be the sun as it is in Northern Europe and Bergen is quite rainy if thats a problem. You should avoid Oslo it has a higher crime rate than New York!!! Mainly because of Muslim immigrants.

Yup....Oslo is soooooooooooooooooooooo dangerous

[BigSwede]

The norhtern part of Sweden (Norrbotten and Lappland) has mountains and vast forests.
It also has lots of sun during the summer months due to the fact a large part of the area is above the arctic circle.
There is daylight 24/7 because of the midnight sun.
On the other hand there is no sun (but not always complete darkness) during the winter months.
The best place up here for sun is the Torne River Valley close to the finnish border.
Also there is half a dozen cities in the area with a population between 20000 and 70000 each.
There are eight other cities with between 6000-20000 citizens each.
In all we are 260000 people in an area as big as Belgium,Switzerland and the Netherlands put together.
And there isn't many days at all with arctic temperatures because of the Gulf stream,but it shouldn't be a problem for somebody from Colorado.
If sun is the most important thing for you the best places of all is the swedish west coast and the island of Gotland on the east coast.
And maybe southern Denmark.